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OCTOBER TDM
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OCTOBER TEST DRIVE The city of Recollé... When the crypt doors creak, and the tombstones quake, spooks come out for a singing wake. Happy haunts materialize and begin to vocalize...grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize... Every year during the Halloween season, the city of Recollé comes to life with plenty of fall activities for everyone. There's something to do in every district if one were to take a look. What will you do today? I. Family fun seems to be the theme today over in Tribunal Terrace. Several tables are set up and in a semi-circle near Recollé Square with stacks of pumpkins, carving tools, paint and anything else you may need to create your own jack o'lantern. Other stations are set up for face-painting and games to win mini-sized candy bars including a ring toss, bowling, and bobbing for apples. Be careful with the apples though. They like to wiggle and jiggle with their happy little faces staring up out of the water. ...so maybe apple-bobbing is for the brave at heart. Are you the artsy type to carve a beautiful pumpkin? Are you helping to run the games (or even cheating to get more candy)? It's time to relax and let your creativity flow. II. Pumpkin-carving not your speed? Never fear, horror is here. Over in Tisse there's plenty to do for those looking for a little more adventure. Several coffee shops have harvest specials made with pumpkin, maple, and pecan flavors. Over at Flix a monster movie marathon and costume contest are taking place (with a prize of two free passes for the best monster costumes.) But the highlight of this district is the annual haunted funhouse. Anyone daring enough will find the usual spooks and scares in a haunted house, jump scares and fog machines galore. But...the house certainly didn't look so big from the outside. How did you possibly get shuffled straight to the center? No worries. This hall of mirrors will guide you out safely...if the walls closing in don't crush you first. It's a race against time as the halls narrow, and if you're one of the lucky ones you'll escape and exit through the main doors. For those not quite so lucky, the walls will stop just inches from crushing you completely before the floor drops open and you find yourself on a slide, falling through the dark and tumbling into an underground room filled with plastic skeletons, rubber spiders and more. There must be a way out, right? Hopefully you aren't alone and you can navigate the lair with a friend or two. III. Meanwhile, the rest of the city's usual hustle and bustle continues. The shopping districts are busy, students wander the sidewalks after class, and that oddly-shaped ghost appears right in the middle of the crowd. Wait, what? You could have sworn that ghost wasn't there before. Maybe you don't even believe in ghosts. You may blink a few times to clear your vision, but the faint outline of the ghost remains as a few more of them pop up around the city. They won't speak, but they will cause some trouble for anyone who gets too close whether it's by playing pranks on passerbys, stealing items and running away, sitting on a person and applying a gravitational force so they can't move or other crafty, sneaky tactics. Are the ghosts messing with you? Or are you going to find a way to mess with the ghosts? IV. As the sun begins to set, a strange sort of fog rolls in. Several citizens of the city may not even think it's unusual and others seem to capitalize on the weather. The Churchhill Downs Stables are hosting their annual haunted hayrides through Recollé Woods as soon as the sun sets. There are plenty of carts and chocobos saddled up and ready to go. Once passengers are seated the chocobos begin to trot forward into the woods as a pre-recorded ghost tour of the city takes place. The stories range from silly ones about two ghost children who like to play hide and seek in these woods to scarier ones about a jilted lover chasing her husband off a cliff at the edge of ocean. For the most part they're a bit cheesy and in good fun, but something about this haunted ride seems a bit...off. Peering into the fog you may see something strange that follows you, be it a monster or a shadow or an object. You may hear things whispering your name and you may see your greatest fear manifest right out of the fog and chase your cart through the woods. Even worse, it seems to follow you right out of the woods and back into the city. No matter where you run or where you hide, the fears from the fog will track you down and they change for every single person in the city. Will you run or will you fight? You may wish to be careful since the creatures will fight back. BONUS. With only a few short weeks left until the end of October, Retrospec's Halloween Mode is in full swing and popping up on new users' devices. Retrospec users will find their application decked out in cheerful Halloween colors, and their userpics in a randomized (work safe) costume. However, there's always a trick to each treat and this time the seasonal mode can't be turned off for new users. Notifications chime with zombie groans, a rousing game of Candy Crush must be played and beaten before you can use your device again, and the new Trick or Treat function has a few upgrades. When a user enables this function, they will be met with the phrase "Trick or Treat?" Users who select "treat" will get one virtual candy! Yay! The catch though is that they will also find themselves in a costume representing that specific candy. Should a user pick "trick", however, they will find all sorts of harmless but unpleasant things happening to them including but not limited to pranks, being splashed by vehicles driving through puddles of water, being unable to speak in anything but rhymes and other such things. None of these effects last over ten minutes, but the game will show up periodically over and over again and even giving you the option to play the game with others. Welcome to the recolle test drive meme! All characters will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!
For current players, TDM threads will not count toward your Trick or Treat freebie! Additionally, please remember that TDM threads can only be used for bonus points, not regains. Please note: you will need a reserve to apply, and current characters must have full AC posted at the time of their reservation. Your October TDM directory is here, and your AU workshop is here! Our mod questions thread for this TDM is over here! |
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I've only been riding this thing every year since I was a kid, Mary. I know all about the axe murders that happened on this street!
[Spoken with a playful, if roguish wink.]
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[Mary leans back a little, looking down the street and blinking owlishly. That's disconcerting. Extremely so, in fact.]
You mean that's not just an urban legend? How on earth...?
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It was Halloween, after all.]
Yeah. It was so long ago that it doesn't come up often anymore, but talk to folks in the libraries and they'll tell you all about how that poor couple one time just welcomed the wrong person into town.
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[She's not scared. Not at all!
She...totally is.]
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[She's bullshitting now-- not that anyone knows any different.]
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Yes...
[In a quiet voice, a little unsure. She does not do well with horror but she doesn't want to back down with Mattie. Or seem lame.]
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[Uncertainty and fear wasn't lame-- and Mattie wasn't going to just go torment someone who was genuinely afraid like that. Reaching out, she clapped Mary firmly on the shoulder and drew in close, as to let her in on a secret.]
It is an urban legend. Don't worry about it and enjoy the ride.
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You...faker! You had me going!
[There wasn't heat in it though.
And the cart jounced up and down as it hit a pothole, sending her tumbling into Mattie and making her laugh.]
They really need to fix this road!
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[She laughed, and smacked Mary's shoulder a few more times after the pothole set the two of them colliding into eachother in the bales of hay.]
Admit it, you had fun with it!
But yeah, you're right.... they really should fix these things some more.
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Sure, sure. You had me going again.
[God's gonna call you down one day gurl.]
I hope the wagon wheel is okay. Because it seems like we've stopped. You okay?
[That's not a good sign...]
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I'm fine, [Mattie said, brushing straw off of the sleeves of her jacket and her pants before looking warily at Mary. Somehow, it was starting to feel like they slipped into a horror movie...]
How're you holding up?
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[Finally straightening up, Mary slid towards the back of the wagon and undid the clasp, letting the bed swing open.]
I'm just fine. It looks like our driver's run off though. Just you, me, and the Chocobo.
[Hopping down, she walks over towards the wheel.]
Aaaand it looks broken.
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[Huffing irritably, Mattie hopped off the wagon to join Mary in getting an assessment of the damage. She was no wagon engineer, but....]
Yeeaaahh. That looks real broken.
[She heaved a sigh, and leaned back against the wagon.]
Guess we've no choice but to wait, unless you wanna walk back home from here.
[It was kind of a long walk, and it was dark.]
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We're a few miles out. And the fog is...pretty dense.
[She stands up, dusting off her hands.]
I can maybe fix it. You just have to promise not to freak out on me, okay?
[And before either one of them can say more, a low, echoing moan fills the air. A chest rattling, groaning noise...]
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I won't freak. Scout's honor.
[Not that she was a Scout, but--
That echoing, guttural noise that drifted up from the streets made her hair stand on end from the first vibration, and Mattie whirled around in alarm-- and to defend Mary if need be-- at the sound.]
--The fuck was that???
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Her hand tucks behind her back, and where Mattie can't see it, she makes a small knife almost by reflex.]
I don't know!
[Consternation hits her, and she grimaces at the fog around them.]
Really wish there wasn't all this fog laying about. Can you see anything?
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[Mattie said, lifting a hand as if to try to clear away some of the fog and aid in her vision as she spoke. Failing in her attempt, she Mary a disconcerted look-- it was plain from the jumpiness in her stance and the glimmmer in her eyes that she was as on edge as the other girl, but trying to put on a brave front.]
I don't like the idea of staying here. What say you we hitch a ride on the chocobo and look for the driver?
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[Mary hasn't, but she has ridden a horse so she thinks it cant be too different. And it's not like fixing the wagon is going to do much good, in the long run.]
If you can, then let's get out of here. I don't want to be out in the fog at all.
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[She said as she moved toward the frightened Chocobo, carefully unhitching it from the wagon so she could lead it closer to where Mary was. Truth was she was just antsy enough in this fog that she was going to attempt it one way or the other-- and she didn't know how to ride at all.]
We'll get outta here, Mary. [She said, trying to sound reassuring.] I'll get you back to your place before anything gets us.
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I trust you. It'll be fine.
[She steps closer to the bird and pulls her knife hand out, flipping the long bowie knife around and offering it to Mattie.]
I found this on the ground. Take it. You'll be better at using it than me.
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[That was some blade-- brows lifted in surprise when she laid eyes on the knife Mary offered, found God only knew where in this fog and the mess along the streets. Mattie looked up from studying the handle, the curve of it's blade, to cast Mary an inquiring look at this development.]
...You're sure 'bout this? Knives are no good if things get really bad out here.
['Really bad', in her definition in that moment, was 'horror movie bad.' Any number of things could happen, and the weight of Mary's trust on her shoulders suddenly felt heavier than she had realized.]
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[It wasn't bad to have a weapon, and Mary knew deep down that her other self didn't use knives. Though, that was something she could probably have done quite well. A thought for another time though.]
I don't know if anything will happen at all, but your hands are steadier than mine, that's for sure.
[Reaching out to pat Mattie's shoulder, she bobs her head with some certainty.]
Take it.
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--I won't let you down.
[She swore and, accepting the knife and everything it came with, carefully stuck it on the side of her waistband where it would be in easy reach if there were an emergency.
There was no arguing with Mary when she got like this.
With a nod, Mattie turned and faced the chocobo with determination in her eyes.]
Alright. I'm gonna get up there, you can ride behind me, and we'll get you back to your uncle's before it get's too late.
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That's fine. I'll hold her still while you hop on.
[She isn't all that worried about getting home. Matt would understand. He always did.
It helped that Mary wasn't Mattie. There was no wild child here.]
But we just need to get back to the fair. My car's there. I can drive us both home after that.
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[It was an easy to forget detail in Mattie's opinion, because she was so used to walking or taking public transport everywhere. Her family did have a car, but it was her mom's to use to go back and forth from work-- Mattie didn't dare touch it unless her mom asked her to do something important with it.]
Yeah. your uncle's house, the fair... either way, we'll get you there safely.
[Because there was no way in hell she planned on reenacting a horror movie that evening.]
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