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Save Our Earth Mods ([personal profile] ourearth) wrote in [community profile] saveournumbers2018-06-16 06:48 pm
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Second Test Drive Meme

Second Test Drive Meme




Welcome to the SoE TDM!

Due to the premise of the game, everyone on this testdrive must be the modern day reincarnation of the characters we all know and love. Please take a quick look at our navigation to familiarize yourself with the concept and setting of the game before you jump in.

If you have a relationship plotting post comment for your character (which is NOT mandatory to play in this tdm), please link to it when putting up a toplevel on the TDM. That way, other players can easily get an idea of what kind of character they will be tagging.

Other than that, you know the tdm drill - when commenting, please put your character's name and canon in the subject line, and write one or more threadstarters so others can tag you easily. Below, you'll find some prompts that you can use or discard at will to write those threadstarters.

1. A ghostly apparition

There are many places in Mossgate Council where one may spot ghosts, but the place that yields such sightings most frequently is the ruins at the top of the cliffs. So one beautiful night, you're up there - for a date? To smoke weed? To watch the stars with a bottle of whiskey? - as you suddenly notice something out of the corner of your eye. Perhaps it is a bearded man in a long cloak, or a woman in historical clothes, or something much more outlandish... What do you do?

2. Old ships

A new exhibit at the museum has opened! ...Or rather an old exhibit has reopened after some repairs and an overhaul of the presentation. So now the old pre-Roman-times ship that is the pride of the museum can be visited by the public again, and of course there are all kinds of advertisement around town, and a large sign in the entrance are of the building guiding visitors towards the correct room. The ship sits elevated on a platform in the middle of the room and other items and explanations are placed along the walls. A volunteer guide is always close by to explain more about the ship (if your character is the volunteer guide - just make something up!).

3. Moss Manor gathers

In Moss Manor, there is reason for curiosity, gossip and free drinking. Wait. No. Of course it's just that the village gathers to warmly welcome the new vicar of the local church, and since that church is so important locally, even those who aren't directly related to it show up to say hi.

But while they're there, why not take advantage of the free food and drink and the opportunity to talk to everyone else at the welcome festivity?

4. Water activities

In Folkton, summer has begun. People are boating on the little river, sitting near the water while studying or take an afternoon nap there, older relatives try to keep children from falling into the water or at least not going in without supervision, and occasionally someone is yelling at a dog that just took a leap into the cool waters and splashed them at everyone in the general surroundings. An ice cream van is parked near the river, and some kids play football near the river.

5. The wonderful everyday

Being people living in our regular, modern world, people need to work or study, eat and commute, shop and relax... Just that all those regular, normal tasks can hold unexpected difficulties if you were just sitting at the tills at Tesco's, and this noseless customer suddenly made you remember the day you lost your parents. Or maybe you were getting some exercise, and running down the street you developed superspeed and have no idea how to control it yet...

6. How many times will they have to tell you?

Twice a year, there are guided tours through the tunnels under the cliffs east of Mossgate. Those tunnels, dug into the chalk throughout centuries or perhaps millenia, were built without a general plan, so their layout is an absolute confusing mess. On top of that, there are cave-ins and unsafe areas. It is strictly advised to not stray from your group, as people have been harmed because they got lost in them before. But you just had to get distracted, or perhaps think that it would be more fun to explore on your own, and now you are lost without a blip of signal to call for help with...

7. Fun, fun fun!

At Mossgate's seaside, a Victorian pleasure pier extends about 40 metres into the sea. The platform at the end of the pier holds fairground rides such as a merry-go-round, a small rollercoaster and a helter skelter and along the pier kiosks sell candy floss, rock candy, roasted nuts and other goodies. A small distance down the street, a minigolf site can be found and on the street along the coast there are fish and chips shops, family-friendly arcades and souvenir shops. Maybe you are actually here for the fun, or maybe you just work here or are trying to track down a wayward friend...

8. Wildcard

And, of course, the obligatory do-what-you-want option.
fairfeste: (Feste [Don't peak])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2018-10-17 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Feste looks up, their very cheerful smile a little bit sheepish in this particular instance. "Hi Grandpa," they say, staying crouched but craning their neck to see him, "There were some things that kind of caught my eye..." They don't quite want to admit that what it was is rocks.
scarsolderthanyou: (patience)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't see anything," Sam says. "But maybe my eyesight's going. Only got one left, after all." He drops to a crouch beside him, to hopefully get a better look. ... still just the ground. Some pebbles. A bit of grass peeking through a crack in the asphalt.
fairfeste: (Feste [Lords and Ladies])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2018-10-17 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...Now they feel a bit bad for making Grandpa bend down. They pick up a couple of the smoother, shinier rocks. "...They're sparkly?" they say, meekly, aware that this is probably not a thing that should be fascinating them so much right now.
scarsolderthanyou: (skeptical)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-18 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam blinks, pauses, then says, "Yeah. I guess they are." He didn't expect his grandson to suddenly decide he likes rocks after twenty some-odd years of not caring about geology in the slightest. (He may not quite have reasoned out that it's just "shiny" that he cares about.) "Probably got washed up from the shore at some point and carried out this far during a storm, or in the wheels of somebody's car."
fairfeste: (Default)

[personal profile] fairfeste 2018-10-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
They cared about geology!! ...Briefly. In like, third grade. To be fair they mostly cared about whether or not the rocks were shiny then, too.

They'll just... pocket these ones, straightening up. "What are you doing around here, Grandpa?"
scarsolderthanyou: (amused)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-10-22 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Going to the grocery store," Sam answers, gesturing at the building this is the parking lot to as he stretches back up to full height, himself, trying not to groan at his knees protesting. "I'd ask you the same thing, except I can guess that the answer probably isn't that different from mine."
fairfeste: (Feste [Don't peak])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2018-10-22 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, pretty much. Needed to pick up some things for mum." And got... distracted. But really, that's just kind of to be expected with them.