Recollé Mods (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
recollecters) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
repeter2017-10-17 08:38 pm
recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-10-17 08:38 pm
Entry tags:
OCTOBER TDM
|
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! |
III
You may have met your match. I think you'll need more than vulgarity to take on a ghost.
no subject
[HUFF. HUFF. He is not in the mood, Byakuya. Section 4.2 sub-clause B of the Sanji handbook states everyone can go to hell until he's got nicotine in his system. He didn't make the rules.]
no subject
Byakuya shakes his head.]
If your resorted to that, then you'd have to share the glory of your victory with me. Is that really want you want?
no subject
[Which might be the nice version of conceding that point, seeing as Sanji turns and studies the ghost with a furrowed brow. It's just... hovering around, cackling and waving its newfound treasure in the air like a highschool girl's baton. Shameful.]
Just gimme a shitty second, I'll figure this out.
no subject
[Byakuya just folds his arms and smirks smugly as he watches the scene unfold before him.]
Instead, I'll be gripped with suspense as you come up with your plan! [Did he say 'shitty' second? Wow, this man's ability to work that adjective knows no bounds!]
no subject
Nnngh but this ghost business continues to be irritating. Truth be told, Sanji might've called it quits and gone home if not for Byakuya's interference. Now his pride won't allow it, and even he knows nothing good comes from it.
... AH WELL. Good thing he's got the perfect solution]
Oi, how about a trade? [he jerks him thumb... in Byakuya's direction]
My cig' for his glasses.
no subject
Byakuya listens to that proposition... and immediately gives a flabbergasted objection.]
What?! [He pushes a finger at his glasses protectively.] That is no legitimate trade. You can't just trade someone else's belongings. I have no part in this!
no subject
[This asshole. And perhaps worse is the ghost seems to be... considering the deal. It floats down with a curious squint between the two of them and mimics Byakuya's finger movement with a huehuehue.
... Behind it, Sanji meets the other's eyes and makes a vague gesture with his hand as saying "play along, dumbass."]
no subject
[The ghost's gesture repulses Byakuya, and so he looks towards Sanji with a friendly glare. He answers that gesture with a shrug of "Why should I?"]
no subject
He's not... wrong, per se. Ghostie is going through with the plan regardless of Sanji's goading, though it doesn't seem to realize how closely the student is following behind, hands casually stuffed into his pockets. In another few seconds, he and the ghost will be side by side.]
Oi, c'mon. Embrace your socialist roots. What's yours is mine, eh?
[BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THAT WORKS. Shit he's trying not to laugh.]
no subject
[But he sighs in response. He'd much prefer being left alone with his glasses, but now it seems he's been dragged into this mess. He might as well keep the ghost distracted, which seems to be his task.]
The deal needs to be sweetened. I would need something in exchange... something truly worthy of these glasses. [He takes his glasses off and holds them up tantalizingly.] Go on. Show me that lowly cigarette, and we'll see if it's worthy.
no subject
Once the glasses are within swiping distance, the ghost holds out the cigarette -- okay actually he's gonna cheat because what ghost cares about the moral constructs of the living? Bah. The plan is to take the glasses and the cigarette, leaving Sanji and Byakuya with nothing else but a blown raspberry in their faces, but the moment that cigarette is jutted out in the air--
Sanji will be taking that, thank you. +_+ And then grabs onto the squirming ghost for good measure.]
Oh please, no one cares. [Muttering] And the shithead would never stop giving me crap if I lost his glasses.
no subject
That's right. I wouldn't. [Byakuya's smug smile returns to his face, just as his glasses do to.
And he takes in the surreal nature of the scene facing him.]
You just grabbed a ghost. [Is that even possible]