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saveournumbers2019-02-15 08:25 am
ourearth) wrote in saveournumbers2019-02-15 08:25 am
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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.
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"Two brothers and a sister. They're all older than me."
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Jasko has had only one Echo as yet. But that one was so important to him that he arranged employment at a particular ferry line so that he'd be docking a couple of times a week at Mosgate Harbour.
"Nice to have siblings. Even if you're stuck being the youngest. People to care about you, all of your days."
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He makes a face.
"People to tease you and baby you, too."
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He smiles a little when Jimmy makes a face. "I have a cousin who is the youngest in his family, and he says the same thing as you. It annoys the hell out of him. But your siblings are not here, are they? They're still in the States?" If so, then Jimmy gets to have his own adventure without the interference of his dear family.
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He nods. "I've always loved mysteries. That's one of my other reasons for picking England. The British mystery writers were always my favorites."
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Books.
"You're a reader. That is grand! It's becoming less common these days." And he makes a humorous gesture of flourishing an imaginary cellphone and then a game controller.
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But it had worked, so the actual reason didn't really matter.
"Always have been," he says cheerfully. "I never really got into video games or any of the other things everyone at school was into."
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He likes to think that children really can have this much influence.
"I'm a reader myself. We didn't have such complex gaming equipment when I was in school, but it was beginning to be a popular occupation amongst some of my classmates and their older siblings. I was a bit conflicted, because I was attracted to science and engineering, and I could see how a technical mind could be drawn by these devices. But the fields and the woods and the ocean were always calling to me, and the boats, and yes, the books. I couldn't see the point of giving up these things for a game score."
He gestured to the sleds. "Learned a lot more from getting out into the world, anyway."
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He frowns a little. "You like the outdoors, then?" Jimmy was a city boy, through and through. He'd never been quite sure what the appeal was.
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"Oh yes, I love the outdoors. Inishowen was a wonderful place to grow up. My family's business is in Greencastle, so I spent a lot of time by the ocean. And on it. But the whole peninsula is beautiful and still fairly undeveloped. Hills, low mountains, rivers, streams, steep valleys, woods, rocky shores. My parents both loved to trek around when they had time off from work, and my mom has relatives all over that area, and we went to visit often. So, I grew up in the natural environment, and I'm still attuned to the sights, sounds, and scents of such places."
Thinking about then versus now.
"I spend most of my time around nautical machinery now. But having an understanding of the natural world through interacting with it helped me when I was studying engineering. For example, I understand fluid dynamics because I swam in every body of water you can even imagine. And I understand things like centrifugal force because I climbed every tree in sight and swung on the branches, and I used to play on an old merry-go-round that you had to push with your feet to make it go. The connection between the experience of the physical world and the scientific, technical and mathematical concepts was very clear to me."
"But what about you, Jimmy? How did you grow up? Besides reading mysteries, and now, studying in Britain."
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Jimmy frowns a little as he thinks back. New York seemed so far away these days.
"I grew up in NYC. My dad works for the NYPD, and Mom is an attorney. I have three older siblings, but they're all away at college now." He grins a little. "I guess justice runs a little in the family."
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"It does sound like you have law enforcement and the law in your blood. Are your siblings going to be attorneys, too?"
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"One of them is thinking about it. But my sister is studying to be a psychologist and my other brother wants to follow Dad into the police force."
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He nods. "Then your sibs and you would be practicing a variety of professions -- an attorney, a psychologist, a police officer, and a mystery writer. A well-rounded family!"