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repeter2017-10-17 08:38 pm
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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Better pass on anything with lemons, limes and oranges too. They got the same problem.
I'm a little surprised you've noticed though.
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Is that weird or something?
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Y-Yeah. Most people don't seem to notice. I mean...
[He'll gesture at the nearby bushes. Instead of green? Zack will notice that they're gray when they should be green. Even the sky, despite it being a perfectly clear day, is gray]
Blue and green's been missing since I moved here a few months ago.
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... However that works. The internet, probably. The internet is scary.]
When I woke up this morning I thought I was just lacking caffeine and was too tired when I looked in the mirror. But my eyes really are gray right now then...?
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[His own green eyes had the same problem. It was rather distressing to first notice]
T-They still look nice though!
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Zack laughs lightly though, moving to sling an arm around Elliot's shoulders.]
Ehhh, thanks for the vote of confidence, Elliot. But to tell you the truth I wasn't expecting such weird stuff like this to happen in the city.
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Ehehe, trust me. This is not normal city stuff. Even New York doesn't get this weird.
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How did this all start, anyway? Do you even know?
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[or had to fight off giant monsters- but he bites his tongue on that one for now]
Not really...just that it has something to do with a company called Retrospec. [!!] Oh! You should check your phone! Usually people who notice this stuff have a Retrospec app on their phone.
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My phone? That's the connection, here? [He's ... Somehow not really that surprised? If he can see weird stuff like apples with faces and a lack of blue and green it isn't that much more far-fetched that a phone app would be connected to it all... He guesses...
He pulls out his flip phone (yes) and opens it. There's the app!] Well then...
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Yeah, that's the app! I'm a little surprised it works on a flip phone....
[What an old phone]
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Hey, if it works why replace it?
[Please make him replace it, it's as old as the dinosaurs.]
I still don't get how an app makes all these weird things noticeable though...?
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Because you can do a lot more with smartphones...? Like apps! And games!
[He'll do his best. At least it's not a nokia brick phone. Not all hope is lost]
I don't really know either. It could be the company just knows who will start noticing things, so they send the app? That would make more sense...
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[He's hardly good at replying to texts and emails. He likes to call people. He's weird. But get him something addicting like Candy Crush and he'll be hooked he just doesn't know it yet.]
Well, I guess that makes some sort of sense. Do I keep it for now? Do you use it?
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[Yeah you're weird alright Zack. Elliot loves Zack but he wishes he'd text or email more. Elliot's the kind of guy that'd do just about anything to get out of using the phone function. Too nerve-wracking.]
Y-Yeah, there's no way to delete it, so you keep it. I do use it though, it's kinda handy.
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No way at all? Boy. Alright, what do you use the app for if it's handy? It looks like a bunch of people talking.
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Um...you talk to people? There's a lot of nice people on there! And sometimes you find people you already know.
Oh! And there's a cute little game on there right now for Halloween. Hold on- [He'll pull out his own phone, a smartphone with an unsurprising phone cover, and open up his own app. A few short button presses and-- Zack phone chimes! The options "Trick" or "Treat" appear on his screen.]
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Not at all surprised at the phone case but it does make him smirk. Then he looks at his screen to see the options.]
Huh! Guess I could try out a few games! [And he presses Trick right away. What's that do?]
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Oh, he hit trick. Now Elliot has to actually think up a trick. You can almost seem him get nervous as he tries to think something up, because Elliot is not at all the prankster type- before yep, just sending Zack a game of Candy Crush he has to clear.]
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[He pulls his arm away from Elliot's shoulders and holds his phone with both hands and starts trying to figure it out.]
Ahh! Wait- ... Shit- [Here he goes...] I think I get it!
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You have to match up the candies!