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recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-10-17 08:38 pm
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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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[ clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth, he looks at Rindou with a gentle, sloping frown. not one out of anger or disappointment, but mostly contemplative. with thin lips, he bends a little lower. ]
Besides, I don't want to take a bite out of a lemon. Too sour.
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[ which just goes to show how long he's been here — sometimes dancing, smiling fruits just happen, sometimes colors disappear and come back... ]
Then, what about the apples? I could stab one with my sword and bring it up.
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though with a sheepish grin, he shrugs at the other guy and rolls his shoulders. ]
Anything that has a face that shouldn't is kind of creepy to begin with, so... I guess a sword will do.
[ guess it must be part of his costume? or something??? ]
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when he pulls his sword back, there's an apple impaled on the sharp end of it — which rindou holds out for him to take. ]
There! Now we can get a closer look at it.
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You're right. It... I guess apples don't have feelings, do they?
[ which in turn would make it creepier? ]
Are you still not worried?
[ as he holds it in both hands, it feels like it's... vibrating a little more. or maybe it's a trick of the light? ]
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[ rindou just shakes his head, giving him a curious look... until he notices the apple behaving Funkily. ]
I'll only be worried if it started to— wait, is it actually shaking?
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[ and he gives it a squeeze, mostly out of curiosity. not with the force of a thousand suns, but just enough to see how firm it might be.
instead, it swells up and pops like a water balloon, sending bits of apple all over him. ]
--- oh.
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rindou's standing pretty close by, so some of the apple bits land on his hand — which he promptly gives a lick. ]
It tastes like a regular apple, but... I've never seen one of them explode before. Maybe it didn't like you picking it up?
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[ but he also takes a taste of the apple bits, which amazingly enough tastes exactly how an apple should taste like? apple-y. ]
Maybe I have some kind of neat superpower, then? What if anything I pick up suddenly explodes!
[ and he gently laughs, wiping his hands off on his pants, staring down at the other fruits. ]
... think they know?
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[ an entire month of being able to go invisible was rad, except it was also a month of fighting monsters — and in the end, he never got to use it for pranks. ]
I'm not sure. They're still smiling, right? Or they could be sadists, and they found it exciting to watch their apple friend explode.
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[ with an awkward smile, he reaches down to pick up the lemon and gives it an exploratory squeeze, and is relieved that nothing bad happens. yet. ]
So, you carry a sword around for fun? Or what?
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but he simply shrugs his shoulders, unhooking the sword from his side and holding it out. ]
I got it in the mail one day, and I've kept it with me ever since. Want to take a look?
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[ at least, that's the simplest conclusion. never mind the fact a weapon could be shipped so easily, or that the way he used it seemed awfully smooth in comparison to how he feels holding it. even though he doesn't swing it around (and wouldn't) it feels... awkward, and he's not even holding it by the grip. ]
Haha, I don't think swords are for me. It looked natural in your hands.
[ he's almost happy to give it back, after a few seconds of holding it and weighing it in his hands. ]
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[ he's only 21, he promises... he points at his hair, a light shade of silver-white, before accepting his sword back. ]
If you say so! Some people are concerned with all of these weapons running around, but I think it's fine.
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[ for some reason, it just only registered as being pretty unique? especially when Rindou looks so young apart from it. ]
Weapons are only as dangerous as the people wielding them, right? And you don't seem particularly threatening...
[ though if he's wrong, he's prepared to book it--- covered in fruit or not! ]
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[ he's not a grandpa, he swears... his confidence is bolstered nonetheless. but that statement makes him laugh a little, because it's true — his lanky stature isn't very convincing. ]
Right? If you punched me right now, I'd just lay down and wouldn't get back up. You can try it, if you want!
[ on the off chance that he does want to try it, rindou will just use his New Professional Athlete speeds to dodge. ]
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Punch you? [ he bristles at the thought of violence against non-fruit based lifeforms, one corner of his mouth lifting in distaste. ]
But you don't deserve it. Also, I don't think I could ever hit someone, even if I wanted to.
[ nonviolence is very important to him, just like not wanting to... like, destroy the world or anything. ]
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I figured. You were probably thinking something like — what's this weirdo doing, asking me to punch him?
[ he doesn't sound disappointed, just mildly amused. but he doesn't understand what that means, considering he'd beat the living crap out of someone if they ran off with his sword... but maybe that's just him and his strange dislike of theft. ]
Why not? If they wronged you, wouldn't you want to go after them?
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I wouldn't call you weird. [ he doesn't even know his name! ] But I'd keep asking why you'd want to get punched so much. Unless, well... that's something you like.
[ which makes him laugh nervously. ]
Well. If someone did, I'd want to know why. No use going for revenge if you don't know what the revenge is for.
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[ that's weird, okay... ]
Do people usually go for revenge without knowing what it's for? I mean, that sort of ruins the entire point of revenge in the first place.
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Exactly. So there's no point in any violence, as long as nothing wrong has been done in the first place.
[ he's not sure if he's even convincing himself. either way. ]
... there's still some fruit left. Hm...
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but rindou glances at the remaining fruits bobbing in the water, deep in thought. ]
They're probably soggy, but do you think they'll yell if we bite into them?
[ these are genuine questions ]
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[ he now takes the orange out of the water, whose face looks to be a little smudged on the peel after being soaked the entire time. ]
I guess we'll hear soon enough.
[ because he's now digging his fingernails into the orange's flesh, so that he can remove the outer layer easier. no noise is made, even as he split some of the segments apart. ]
Want a piece?
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Sure!
[ he holds his hand out for a piece. ]
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They seem normal enough.
[ without the fear of eating any rind, he is quick to pop one in and chew. ]
... this is... really sour.
[ like a lemon. wait. ]
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