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OCTOBER TDM

TEST DRIVE

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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DO THOSE APPLES HAVE ACTUAL FACES????

As per the food changes over here, some of them sure do!

[ workshop comment! hinata morisawa is 16 years old, does gymnastics, and is a member of the cooking club mostly to eat the finished products. he's the youngest of three siblings and has a very energetic best friend. also his eyes are brown and not ~~green~~ gray! everything else tracks physically though. ]

i. family fun

a. face-painting
[ while hinata isn't getting his face painted, he is in fact running the face-painting booth! hello. he does have a pink heart dashed on his left cheek, and he's weilding a paintbrush with casual competence as he sits on his stool and does face after face of anyone who comes by. he not only has the usual paints, but some little gems and some glitter?

he grins if you start to pass his station by. ]

Hey! Only like, ten tickets to get your face done. Or two dollars. Proceeds go to the cooking club, so please help us out, okay~?

[ ah, so he got pulled into this for that sort of reason...for the record, his hair is pulled back at the back of his neck with a pink hairtie he probably borrowed from his sister or a friend, to keep it out of his way as he works. ]

b. ring toss
[ or maybe you find hinata spinning a ring around one of his fingers in front of the witch-hat goal station. he grins brilliantly when he notices anyone else watching him. ]

Heeeeeey! Want to make a bet?

c. apple-bobbing
[ homestuck apples in the water with those happy little faces sure are a thing. ]

Do you think it counts as kissing them if you bob for them?

[ hinata why. ]

ii. haunted mansion

a. hall of mirrors
[ funhouse mirrors are amusing, okay. there's infinite hinatas reflected in infinite mirrors and he stops in front of one that makes him way too tall and laughs. ]
Woooow, I look kind of dashing when I'm tall, huh?

[ he's joking. ]

b. skeleton basement
Ouuuuuuch. [ that comes after being dropped through the slide and into this plastic skeletons-spiders-and-more room. hinata sits up, rubbing at his head and pouting a little. ] You know, I think maybe they went a little overboard this year! But, oh well! I still have to get out first to win a little game!

[ finally noticing someone else...was he just talking to himself? ]

Want to come along? I promise I'm good at getting out of things! Almost as good as I am at getting into them! ☆ [ that's probably not encouraging, actually. ]

iii. ghosts

Ah, waiiiiiit! That's important, you know!

[ or not important but still, there's definitely a ghost drifting by with a teenager in hot pursuit.

presumably it stole something from him. help him get it back? ]

bonus

a. phone games
[ while he doesn't really post to the network because lucy doesn't want to differentiate between network and action tags, hinata sure can be found hanging out on a bench playing...way too much candy crush. ]

They're really going all out for advertisement these days, aren't they?? Ah, out of lives again...

[ ...

clearly he will just pull up retrospec to try to get himself a candy crush level to get in, okay. ]

Gaming the system is a little fun~!

b. trick
[ look, hinata is a curious kid so of course he picks trick. which is unfortunate, because he definitely gets hit with effects immediately. ]

I didn't think a trick would be a dangerous thing to pick! Well, this sure did stick...

[ so apparently we're rhyming now. ]

wildcard

[ alternately, feel free to throw whatever at me and i will respond accordingly! you can hit me up at lucylovespluto or the workshop if you need to discuss anything. ]

I

[Setup with a pumpkin in front of her, she seems to have a little difficulty getting the knife into the top of the orange gourd. A look of determination she starts to wiggle the knife up and down until it finally puncture the pumpkin. Euphie claps her hands together looking proud of her success, she has never done this alone before but the idea of having a cute little carved pumpkin is too good to pass up.

Once the knife is in she looks at the other tools and then scrolls through her phone at pumpkin carving ideas. Any one that looks at the images will see most of them are cats, since they always look the cutest to her. With some work cut out for her she wouldn't mind some help.]

Hmmm, so you have to scoop out the guts out first...right?

II

II-A

[Long hair tied up in a ponytail, she waits her table looking around before she jumps up when her named is called. All too happy the young woman takes her drink from the barista. She saw pecan coffee and thought it sounded pretty amazing, though what she does to coffee might make some cry. Drink in hand she takes it to the station to add sugar and other items. Opening the lid she starts to pour cream in, perhaps too much, then even more sugar until it taste more like a cavity creation than coffee.

Grabbing a stir stick she begins to stir the drink, the coffee?]

II-B

[Not much on haunted things, Euphemia stands outside of the funhouse a ticket firm in her hand. She seems to be talking herself into going inside. She is dressed in a maid outfit, it is that time of the year after all. Though she didn't participate in the costume contest, instead just buying a ticket.]

Stop being a chicken...you can go inside, Euphie.

[She mutters under her breath but then looks around to see if anyone else might be going inside, that she could maybe go with. Is this was how you make new friends? Doing scary things, right? Someone nearby she finally reaches out and taps their shoulder.]

Excuse me...are you going inside too?

IV

[The hayride started fun enough and Euphemia loved the chocobos, enough that she had been giving them some love before being herded into the carts. As the stories went on she chuckles at some of the tales until there was the beginning of whispers. Jumping a little she looks around when she heard a soft voice saying her name. No one on the cart knew her yet but she knew it was her name. Trying to calm herself down she moves close to the person next to her, her eyes now straining to see into the fog that was rolling in. It was so strange she thought there was someone there? That seemed silly though, when she notices she is nearly clinging to the person next to her she moves away a little and waves her hands.]

Oh! I'm very sorry, I think the stories are getting to me...

[She hears her name again and looks around a little more frantic.]

((This is probably going to be her AU But her full workshop link is here))

Edited 2017-10-18 04:31 (UTC)

I.

[ It has been some time since Natsume carved a pumpkin with his mother. As a small child she had mustered up the energy to sit down with him and carve out the faces he'd doodled on the gourd in marker. Once he was old enough to use knives without (too much) worry, she'd slowly begun to back away from assisting him until she stopped altogether.

Pumpkin carving had lost some of its luster after that.

That's what makes it kind of surprising that Natsume is here now slowly working on his own jack-o-lantern creation right now. Boredom mixed with the fact that it was there and something to do managed to get the best of him.

He will borrow other people's carving tools without asking first. Art doesn't require permission to be made. ]

II.

[ When the walls had started to close in on him, Natsume had stopped moving completely. There wasn't a single second that he thought that they'd actually crush him. The lawsuit wouldn't be worth the moment of true horror that a dead college student would bring.

Unfortunately, he hadn't expected the floor to drop out under him, and there's a moment of genuine surprise as he goes sliding down into the skeleton pit. It takes him a good fifteen seconds to climb back onto his feet.

There's a huff that's somewhere between a laugh and a sound of disdain as he picks a plastic spider out of his hair, and tosses it blindly into the darkness around him.

Now how exactly is he supposed to get out of this? ]

IV.

[ The haunted hayride hadn't seemed like anything particularly interesting when he'd opted to go on it at first, but he thought that hearing some of the local ghost stories might be interesting. You never know when you want to branch out of your normal fields of study and attempt a seance.

But... not really. In all honestly, Natsume's not entirely sure he believes in ghosts. For all of the other topics he's fascinated by, he's never felt there has been strong, definitive evidence for the existence of spirits. Far be it from Natsume to be a complete non-believer, but he's certainly a skeptic.

He'd love to have something appear to prove him wrong that's more compelling than a man in a costume. So far he hasn't seen it, but there has been movement behind the cart for awhile now, and Natsume has lost interest in the stories. As everyone else in the cart seems to huddle closer to the front for warmth and safety, Natsume has been pushing his way to the back, until he's the closest to the the shadowy figure that moves through the thick fog.

It's still some ways off, but he's certain now it's not just a trick in the gloomy light. ]

Now that's unusual.

[ When he finally speaks up, his voice has a strange cadence too it, adding extra stress to the last syllable of his last word. He doesn't take his eyes off the figure to see if anyone else heard him. ]

Edited 2017-10-18 04:31 (UTC)

(brackets are fine if you'd like to switch to that! here is her workshop comment, Kairi's name in this AU is Marina and she's a senior in high school! you can contact me at

ahmsi if needed)

II.

Haunted houses? Spooky scares? Marina is so there. Having no one to go with isn't going to stop her from going through the haunted house on her own, always up for a challenge and loving the adrenaline rush of being spooked. The jump scares make her laugh and startle, and the foreboding atmosphere only serves to excite her more, enjoying the feeling of dread growing in the pit of her stomach as the haunted house seemed to go on far longer than it had any right to.

Set ups with halls of mirrors were always disconcerting, and this time was certainly no exception. Seeing yourself going on infinitely in the corner of your eye was enough to give you a jolt, the slightest movement of your own causing an accidental reaction. However, any fears Marina feels is ramped up to an extreme as the walls begin to close in around her, causing her to take off as fast as she can towards the exit with a yelp of alarm. Who knew claustrophobia was such a fear of hers?

She knows logically that this was all playing pretend, but she allows herself to feel the adrenaline rush of fright as she runs along, huffing and regretting just how little she actually bothered to exercise. Not the fastest runner, this one. Thus, down the slide she goes with a yell of alarm at the sudden drop, sliding down into the pit with an "oomf".

Yeesh. Marina swats some fake spiders out of her hair and stands up, brushing herself off further and glancing around at her surroundings. Ah. Hm. She had absolutely no idea how to get out of here, with there being no obvious doors.

As her eyes adjust to the dark, she makes out another figure, heaving a sigh of relief and offering a slight wave.

"Hey. Stuck down here too, huh?"

III.

Incredulous, Marina stares across the street at the ghostly figure, blinking rapidly as if it might cause the sight to clear out of her vision. When it's obvious that she's actually seeing exactly what she thinks she's seeing, the immediate thought is to figure out how in the world someone was doing this trick, and where it was coming from.

She glances around at the nearby corners and street lamps, looking for any sort of camera or projector, eventually approaching and circling around the figure in confusion, causing quite a few confused looks from people wondering why she was walking circles around nothing in the middle of the sidewalk.

The first person to actually stop to also stare at the figure in the street will catch her attention, and she gestures towards them, voice low.

"You see this too, right? It's not just me?"

IV.

Okay, so hayrides weren't exactly on her list of things to do when she was alone, they were more fun with friends considering they weren't exactly that scary, so she wasn't planning on actually getting on the ride at all.

What was catching her attention were the birds attached to the hayrides, causing her to stare dumbstruck at them as her brain tried to process what she was looking at.

"Since when... what...?" She seems pretty stuck on this train of thought, mouth partly ajar and brow knit.

"Hey, uh..." She motions towards the nearest person, still staring at the Chocobo. "You see that too, right?"

[Red eyes look the other up and down before he smiles and tilts his head.]

A cooking club? So what type of things can you paint?

[ I'll throw Mafuyu at you this weekend, but for now, it's Minato who comes hurtling down the slide so fast he's thrown off the end and onto the ground where he lays flat on his back with the wind knocked out of him. He doesn't even bother getting up for a moment, content on lying here in the darkness, but the prospect of somebody else sliding down and kneeing his stomach to break their fall isn't a great one either, so.

He coughs dust out of his lungs and pushes himself off the ground, not saying anything but shrugging his acceptance of that offer to tag along. ]

[Workshop comment! Basically, Bruno's a wealthy nerd who's recently returned to public schooling.]

I

[As a sheltered rich kid unused to these sorts of festivities, Bruno's just. Staring uncertainly at the apple bobbing, as he pushes up his glasses.]

Are you truly meant to put your face down there? It seems rather... crude. Unhygienic, as well.

[ALSO THE APPLES HAVE FACES ON THEM AND THAT'S HORRIFYING.]

[He's kind of curious about why the haunted house is a big deal...

But, you know! It'd look lame for him to enter! (Also, he's kind of scared, but he'll never admit that.) So he's just standing around, eying the haunted house uncertainly.]

...

III

[Reading a book, Bruno navigates around people with the ease of someone who evidently does this on a frequent basis. By chance, he glances up—and gives a start.

Because wtf, ghost. It's not the first time he's seen one pop up by now, but it's?? starting to freak him out???]

J-Just a trick of the light. Just a trick of the light, or some sort of childish prank. Ghosts are nothing more than the result of electromagnetic fields and infrasound fooling the human mind, and potentially toxic hallucinations...

[Eeeeeexcept then a ghost yanks the book out of his hands and starts running off with it.]

Ah—!

[HELP HIM.]

BONUS

[Anyone passing by might notice Bruno on a bench, furiously writing something with one hand as he fiddles with his phone using the other.

... He's playing Candy Crush.

And writing down a comprehensive guide on how to beat it, because damn it, if he has to play this stupid game over and over again, he's going to be efficient about it!!]

How in the world do people find this entertaining...?

[He sort of looks like he wants to murder his phone, tbh.]

WILDCARD

[Hit me up if there's something else you'd rather do!]

[ oops here's a WORKSHOP COMMENT for those interested ]

1a. these are some bad apples

[ He's been told time and time again that he really should think some of his decisions through more. Which. He does, he really does. Rowen is a very careful person. He studies intensely, always looks at things from different angles, just in case. When he's working in his chemical labs, he's sure to follow all the safety instructions to a T.

But then there's times like this, where he's laughed himself sick over the insanely jittering apples in the bucket.

Of course, he's encountered the Weird Fruit before, who hasn't in this city? But it's an altogether different thing to see them all vibrating around in the water like they've got batteries or too much sugar.

So, call him crazy, but this 15 year old idiot has his hands behind him, grin huge as he waits for the signal to start bobbing for the little weirdos. Maybe stop him? Who knows what those things have. ]

1b. pumpkin spice is life

[ His hair is still damp from his earlier adventure with bobbing for psychotic apples, but this doesn't deter Rowen from participating in other things, like pumpkin carving. At least these fruit-gourd-veggie-whatever the hell they are don't have crazy faces.

Er, at least not ones that people hadn't carved there on purpose.

He's carefully slicing off pieces of the rind, foot jittering under the table as he works. If you squint, maybe you can make sense of his design, which is still in its fledgling stages.

Either way, he's gonna lean over to whoever is closest and ask– ]

Hey, d'ya have one of those medium carver things?

3. it's a spook vs spook world out there

[ Rowen believes in ghosts. In spirits and the great beyond. For someone so science driven, it's kind of weird. But, it's there all the same. After all, there's nothing to say they don't exist. No solid proof. Never mind that there's no solid proof saying they do exist.

Still, he's not exactly afraid of the spirit world or the afterlife. Whatever it may bring. He's interested in ghosts purely from a scientific standpoint– like how do they exist on two different planes? Or are their planes closer together than people think? He just wants to know, wants to crack the case wide open.

He's not really expecting to get his chance as he's walking down the street. There's a crowd of people he's weaving through and when they part, there's a thing in the midst of them all. It's just hovering there, slightly transparent, looking creepy as hell. Rowen frowns at this, not-so-covertly looking around for signs of a projector or something. Some kind of childish prank someone is pulling because they can.

Nothing there. So, he concludes, either the projector is hidden well or this thing is the real deal. Quickly, he amends his initial theory when he sees someone get caught in its orbit, their sweater getting turned inside out and shoe laces tying together, the ghoul snickering in its weird way. ]

Hey! Pick on someone else! [ He doesn't hesitate to stride up closer. Someone save this idiot? Or maybe you're being saved? ]

WILDCARD

[ Got other ideas? Wanna drink copious pumpkin spice lattes in the cafe with this guy? Go for it! ]

Edited (stuff) 2017-10-18 04:46 (UTC)

[The house was laughable to say the least. It could use for some major improvements and Ritsu spent most of his time on his phone taking notes for a video later. Halloween was his time of the year and with his new change in eye color he made sure his costume would be great, being a vampire costume...because why not? Though as the walls close he watches at the guy in front of him seems unaffected too until, that is, there is no floor. Ritsu watches with some amusement as he falls into the floor but then seems to be doomed to the same end. As he tumbles into the pile of skeletons her sits up rather grumpy and throws a look to the other that's here.]

Did you step on something?

That's right! ♪ It's the club where you get to make things to snack on, so it's the best one I think??

[ but all right, what can he paint? ]

Hm! I can give pretty much whatever a go. It's pretty easy to pick up~! But I've been doing lots of designs...I can do the full face painting, too, but that takes a little longer, you know?

[ waits for mafuyu with baited breath

but no okay hi...minato...YOU SURE ARE A QUIET ONE AREN'T YOU.

obviously this calls for going over to minato and poking his cheek. ]

Hmmmmm? What was that?

[ To be fair, Minato had barely noticed how close she was getting because he's already half asleep despite the bumpy ride. But he blinks the exhaustion away when he's spoken to, looking over at Euphemia to shake his head and let her know that it's alright, though he might as well not have bothered because she turns away from him and looks about her instead. Without moving, Minato glaces towards the side of the road as well, but without knowing what he's to look for, that little act of solidarity is a bit pointless. ]

...They're just stories.

[ Also not very helpful. But something to keep in mind, in case she's worried about ghosts or monster or other sorts of fantastical things that do not exist. ]

★ OPTION I.

[ Mio, as she's called here in Recolle is always down for a little family fun, regardless of whether or not she's actually doing things with her family — like her cute little sister, Kotone (although she'd argue that she's the cuter sister, really) because she's here to have some fun! It's a little different than what she has to do on a day to day basis as the heir of the Sonozaki family, after all.

Without a care in the world, she opts to quickly grab the the first arm that she can find and ask a rather innocent question with the biggest, most innocent grin that she can muster up: ]

[ But if you're Kotone, you'll probably get a completely different set of lines - specifically "let's go boy hunting! ♥" because that's definitely A Thing - although she's still planning on dragging her around regardless if she does find her for good family fun. She's here for this, as the good older sister she is.

Don't trust her. Especially considering that she's hyper competitive and plays to win. ]

★ OPTION III.

[ Mio's not one for ghosts, so seeing that causes her to pause, but she doesn't exactly flinch; she was never overly religious, even when there were some who believed in the occult. But the fact that they're causing a little bit of mischief is not how she wanted things to turn out for her today, but she doesn't want to deal with doing something about it herself...

So she goes for the next best option: to seek out some help.

Of course, the way she's doing that isn't exactly the most conventional, as she screams out: ]

Someoooone

[ Surely someone is bound to come and rescue her if she acts like the cute and innocent girl that she is, right? In fact, she'll even double down on it as she plays up the act with crocodile tears, a clear and evident pout, and her hand near her lips, slightly trembling. ]

★ OPTION BONUS ( TRICK ).

strange

[ Mio can't help but stare at the application that's suddenly wormed its way into her phone, wondering what she should do with the new strange application she's got, and honestly? She doesn't think that picking trick will be that bad.

What's the worst that could happen?

Of course 'the worst' is proven soon enough as she eventually gets splashed with water, causing the nice white dress to get completely wet to the point where people might be able to see through it a little bit. Rest in pieces... ]

Gross

[ She manages to say that with quite a bit of disgust, shaking her fists in the air as her brows scrunch. ]

[ Mio sighs, a little self deprecating. ]

[ And that's when she realizes that she's rhyming. Ah. ]

[ She points at a random stranger - is it you? - looking at them with frantic eyes. ]

[ Good luck having to deal with all of this. ]

★ OPTION BONUS ( TREAT ).

[ Curiosity killed the cat, or so they say. If the 'trick' was bad, then clearly the option for 'treat' should be better, right?

The answer is no, of course. But what probably doesn't help is that somehow, you're stuck with her in a costume. That's happening now. You're welcome. ]

[ Her face is so red as she struggles to get the costume off and ultimately failing. ]

★ OPTION WILDCARD

[ Anything else you'd like to play? Feel free to hit me up here or at

endlesseight! Also, you can find her AU workshop information here if you'd like to establish any sort of CR beforehand, but I'm pretty cool with whatever, really. ]

Edited 2017-10-18 04:47 (UTC)

[ Minato has five years and one whole inch on you, boy. And yet all he offers is a blank look at first, surprise slowly seeping in as if he can't believe that somebody just poked his cheek, who even does that? If a shrug isn't a good enough answer, then...

Alright, he relents.

Have a nod, Hinata. A single up and down. Yes he'll come along. Is that clearer now? ]

[ workshop comment! fred here is a cop and an adoptive father to an emo teenager ]

i;

[ sure it's a family friendly event, but that doesn't mean that there isn't any security. as an officer of the law, it's frederick baudin's duty to ensure that every person in recolle remains safe. so he takes it upon himself to patrol around the square while mounted on his chocobo. he doesn't anticipate that there would be too many issues around here, so he's allowing some leeway when it comes to kids playing around, but he's still taking his role seriously.

but yet, he can't help his eyes wandering towards the pumpkin carving. he's paying attention to how families seem to be coming together, working as one to carve the pumpkins and he's absentmindedly wondering something out loud to himself ]

Hm, perhaps pumpkin carving could be something we do...

iii;

[ are ghosts considered citizens of recolle? if so, are they still subject to the laws like the living? while you ponder that, please enjoy the sight of this flustered man chasing down a ghost ]

Please return that at once! Stealing is a crime, you know!

[ either way, it doesn't look like the ghost cares ]

bonus;

[ frederick is glaring down at his phone. he's tapping at the screen, trying to get it to work for him. a cheery tune is playing from the phone and it just won't stop. ]

Do I need to play this game just to use my phone anyway?

[ someone help him. he's never even realized his phone had games to begin with ]

wildcard;

[ feel free to come up with something else! hit me up on plurk at

lycanroc if you want to plot something out! ]

Edited 2017-10-18 04:51 (UTC)

I.
[ Family Fun isn’t what draws Amanda to the Terrace, but rather, the promise of games and candy. The competitive drive in her is strong, and she lines up several times for each game, regardless of whether she won or not. But that gets old fast, and she resorts to some other tactics to switch it up a little. Bowling? She hucks the fake, plastic bowling ball as hard as she can - she gets a strike, but is also kindly asked to leave. Ring ross? She hits the volunteer in the face with the ring - and honest accident - and is also kindly asked to leave. This is no longer Fun, and she’s huffing and puffing near the pumpkin carving station. ]

Geez, I didn’t even hit her that hard… Well, whatever, guess I’ll get a pumpkin and go home.

[ She may possibly be plotting on stealing pumpkins. ]

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A. [ This is more her speed - the engagement, the adrenaline, even if it’s some spooky props and moving parts. Even the company is somewhat nice, even if it means squealing together over jumpscares. Or, tolerating Amanda being back on her bullshit and literally trying to climb over a fake wall, just because. ]

Hey, come on, it’s faster this way!

B. [ Or maybe instead they’re in the hall of mirrors, and once they start to creep closer, she bolts, leaving her accompanying partner behind. ] Let’s go!

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[ The chocobo rides were more for chilling than anything, even with the “scary” ghost stories. It’s all in good fun, and even someone who’s going turbo 90% of the time needs to take a load of every once in awhile. Which is why, when there’s some vague, nebulous presence in the fog, Amanda ignores it. And ignores it. ]

Go away, I’m not interested.

[ But the feeling? Person? Doesn’t go away. It starts to irritate her. ]

Seriously, I said-- ! [ There’s no one there. Creepy, but tolerable.

It does not stay that way, however, and even at the end of the tour, Amanda is constantly looking over her shoulder or barking such demands like “Shut up!” or “Go away!” or even running from nothing. ]

WILDCARD.
[ Hit me with anything! Amanda’s workshop comment is here, and I can be reached at

pangoro ]

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[He had originally just intended to participate in one of the games. But then someone had needed to go get lunch... and then study... and then something else...Rean couldn't really help be feel like he was being taken advantage of, and yet here he is, manning one of the booths like a chump. At least he took a pumpkin and is working on it. He's not showing anyone though. He's actually in the middle of turning away someone who just finished playing, when they asked to see it. Very secrative.]

Ah, well. Y'know, it's not done yet. Maybe when it is.

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[Rean finally escaped his..."volunteer" work later in the day, and tried to go about his business. Then he encountered a ghost.

...At least, that has to be what happened. Cause at the moment Rean is standing firmly in the middle of the side walk, and behind him said ghost. He refuses to look at it. It keeps hovering around him, and he keeps looking away. It is a completely ridiculous and almost certainly pointless battle of attrition, yet it is one he seems absolutely intent on winning.

Please help.]

[ THIS TIME, HE POKES BOTH CHEEKS, AT THE SAME TIME, AND THEN PINCHES THEM.

what is personal space. ]

Heyyyyy, a little more energy! Third time's the charm!

[Sounds like a good club to be in then.]

I can agree with that~.

Why not surprise me? Something scary though.

[He puts a ten dollar bill down, he doesn't mind doing it right now.]

Hm?

[ majima's a little surprised to be grabbed by this girl out of the blue, but he nods all the same. he's pretty much down for whatever when it comes to Random Things In Recolle. like when they all played bingo over retrospec, which was great. but, also, generally, he's a helpful guy.

(#videogameprotagsproblems)

still there's something about the way she phrases it and he shakes his hand over that last bit ]

Don't put it like that, sounds fuckin' creepy. How old are ya? 12?

[ im not really sure whats worse - that he's so wildly wrong about her age, or that he'd be willing to say fuck even assuming she's 12. ]

[She does seem pretty on edge but for good reason, every time she looks into the fog it looks like something in moving. So when he looks with her and he doesn't seem to notice she feels more silly. Folding her hands onto her lap she laughs a little nervous.]

I know, it seems silly...I just, promise to not laugh?

[She pauses.] But I swore something said my name?

[Derek works in Tribunal Terrace, so he is not a surprise he sees the carnival games going on in the area. He is also not surprised when he sees Amanda there and hitting someone in the face. He walks up right behind her.]

Still as violent as ever I see.

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