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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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They got day jobs, probably why they're bored enough to keep playing, eh?
[ He can't imagine himself at any kind of desk job, he's been free range much too long at this point. ]
Maybe I'm just too simple for it.
[ He can make fun of himself with the best. ]
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[ Too simple for it, too? Because he'd rather give himself a little more credit, in spite of his utter lack of self-esteem. ]
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[ Too literal? Saif chuckles, taking another lazy drink from his beer. ]
I like pool, myself.
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Why would he jump to such an immediate conclusion? Because that's who his brother was, down to a T. ]
Sudoku.
[ Is he serious? Is he still showering this conversation with irony?! A mystery. ]
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The one with the numbers? Fun once or twice, I don't know about doing all of one of those little books though.
[ Still companionable even after getting called out... ]
And maybe I don't like playing by myself.
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[ But if that's an invitation, Hyperion's going to make him spit it out. By not doing anything. #logic ]
Could always get someone to do the book for you.
[ Since... you were looking to do it with Candy Crush, and all. ]
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No, no, you see... [ He picks up his phone, the game is still sitting there. ] It's locked me here until I beat it.
[ This isn't for fun, you fool! ]
I'd like to be able to take phone calls.
[ That was mainly how he got work, people called him up with their little tasks when they had no one else to get to it fast enough. ]
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[ That he's going for that one. It's not so great that Hyperion is willing to come over and play along, either, because that means the infection is at the tip of his fingers. That's okay, he can hate himself about it if and when it spreads. Sometimes you can't help but reminisce about when your dead, abusive piece of shit twin brother was less of a piece of shit. ]
Don't drink and call. You'll regret it.
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[ He thumbs his lower lip. Honestly, almost tempting to see if you can make this grumpy bastard crack a smile. ]
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[ No amount of Candy Crush could make him sweet!! ]
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[ Cheerful, as though that's why he does it. In its way, that was true. He met lots of construction workers and handymen who would call him in on their jobs when they needed. He met men and women who would have him over for a night, a comfortable place to sleep and maybe a shower... He picked up on their gossip and their fights, sold those to PIs as needed... ]
Anything in particular souring your mood today? Or is it just me?
[ That charming smile never turns off. ]
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You used to doing that to people? [ It's the most non-committal way he can think of telling the guy not to flatter himself, in any serious or joking capacity. That smile will work a lot better that way. ]
Not a fan of the celebrations.
[ Or maybe that's the best bullshit answer he can come up with. A lot of people hate celebrations of any kind, right? ]
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[ A lazy, deep chuckle. ]
So why come out? Could have holed up in your apartment with a six pack.
[ But here you are, frowning at good company, down on the holiday. Saif raises his eyebrows, giving Hyperion a knowing kind of look. Like maybe he's really full of shit. ]
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It is not the only thing, but I like to think it does no harm.
[ In his way, that was what he wanted most. Was to cause as little harm to others as possible. It had started all those years ago when his attempts to help his family had instead wounded his mother to the point that she threw him out before he was 18. She'd had such hopes for her two boys, and somehow each of them had spent their time getting arrested repeatedly. He's only seen her once or twice in the last twenty years. ]
How much do you need?
[ Azraq doesn't have a lot of money on him at any one point, but he would gladly hand it over all the same. ]
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You shouldn't ask that kinda question unless you're gonna hand over some cash. You'll get someone's hopes up. [ You know, like how people tell you to put on a jacket or you might catch a cold. ]
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[ He shifts up to take a very battered leather wallet out of his back pocket. He has about $75 in various denominations. ]
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Nah. He shows his hand, palm up. Hand it over, son, let's see who's calling whose bluff first. ]
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Be well.
[ And he's gonna leave now, just so you feel more comfortable counting your cash without wondering what the catch is. ]
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I wasn't being serious.
[ The money is replaced with his drink, looking ahead at the mirror behind the bar. Ugh, why do they put those there. ]
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