Third Permanent Test Drive Meme

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Third Permanent 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. The mighty cat spawn

One of your fellow Numbered echoed the ability to spawn cats. They don't know how or why, and they have very little control over it. The problem is that all those cats are a little magic, and all of them like to escape directly after they spawned. So all Numbered have been recruited to find the cats and bring them back to their home.

Find a cat and bring it home really sounds a lot easier than it is... At least they are easily recognisable by the little gemstones set into their foreheads.


2. Winter Wonderland

This far to the south, in the very maritime climate of England, there rarely is snow. And if, it isn't much, and it doesn't stick for long. Not so this Christmas. Snow as thick as on Christmas postcards covers Mossgate Council. Public transport has shut down, the roads are impossible to drive on, stores have closed down, and electricity is down in many places.

In Folkton and Moss Manor, the church halls are heated and offer mingling spaces. In Mossgate, people go sledding on the Greens. And in Tarwich, whole roads are covered in giant snowmen. All corners of the council area are in a special state of existence, and to be missing it, you'd have to be in deep hibernation.


3. Halloween is a bit extra this year

As in, very extra. Not only does every household wake up to a bucket of water on their doorsteps in which scary apples are floating, complete with a sign attacked to the bucket that reads: Have fun bobbing!

No, the whole of the council area is also covered in cobwebs, and the graveyards are covered with the skeletons of those that should normally lie buried under their soil.


4. Summer summer SUMMER!

There is a summer fête and a Pride to enjoy during the summer months. But one can also just lie at the beach, wade through the rock pools at the bottom of the cliffs to catch starfish, tiny shrimp, tiny fish, shellfish, and anemones. Or you can take a ride on one of the attractions on the Pleasure Pier. Or enjoy a concert on the greens. ...Or return from a trip to Spain and suddenly have all echoes come back to one at once. That's also an option, but probably less pleasurable.


5. Past tdm prompts

Feel free to use a prompt from an earlier tdm!

6. Wildcard

And, of course, the obligatory do-what-you-want option.

Comments

3.

[faimommy]

"Oh, hang on, puppy. I've got you!"

Rini reaches into the bucket and grabs one of the apples for Gizmo, holding it out to him with a smile.

"There you go! I bet this is alot easier, right? Are you lost?"

He reaches out to pet the little dog while holding the apple for the little pup. Maybe he'll even find some tags. Apprehensively, a white cat peeks around Rini's legs at the dog.

[dreamtamer]

"Nope!" the puppy tells him. "This is Thom's house! It's the best house." He butts his head into Rini's hand in search of scratches as he carefully takes the apple in his mouth.

[faimommy]

Rini's eyes go wide for a moment, unsure if he should be more terrified or amazed over the dog talking.

Yea. Right. If dogs could talk, then faeries would be real. There's no way.

He laughs it off. It has to be a voice box programmed in his collar, right? He'll still try to find that collar while he gives some gentle scratches behind Gizmo's ears. He'll play along, too.

"Oh? Is Thom your owner? I'll bet he's close by, right?"

And most assuredly playing a trick on him, right?

[dreamtamer]

Gizmo drops the apple on the porch and peers curiously at the cat.

"Nope! Thom went away! He said 'back after school. Be good!'"

[faimommy]

Right. Sure. Okay. He's just going to pretend he's not concerned that this dog is talking. Though it's getting harder to insist this is just some trick. But what else is he supposed to make of it.

Rini's gaze follows Gizmo's to his cat. He smiles.

"That's Mocha. He's super friendly. Do you want to make friends?"

Mocha stretches his nose out to Gizmo, trying to cautiously, curiously sniff the puppy.

[dreamtamer]

"Friends? Friends are good! Thom said so."

Gizmo sniffs at the cat curiously and sneezes.

"Does Mocha like chasing squirrels?"

[faimommy]

Mocha twitches back from the sneeze, but slinks up to Gizmo anyway. Hello new friend.

"Hmm. Maybe. Sometimes Mocha chases spiders. He is super curious." Rini pets Mocha gently. "You do get into trouble sometimes, don't you, mister?"

A beat passes, and then Rini is curious.

"If Thom isn't here, why are you outside?"

[dreamtamer]

He sniffs curiously at Mocha one more time, then shakes his head and points his nose at the bucket of water.

"I'm bored. No one here to play with. And I wanted to see."