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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.
2.
He'd be lying if he said it didn't hurt. In fact, the pain and massively miscalculated trajectory have him furious. He tears up from the pain and jumps up, tossing his sled angrily aside and communicating in rapid sign language:
How dare you?! Why don't you pay more attention to where you're going?!
Leith doesn't expect the stranger to understand. But hey, if he does, Leith can call him an idiot to his face... literally.
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"I'm so sorry! Are you hurt?"
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Leith finds himself kicking up snow and anything else nearby, continuing to rapidly sign in between about how stupid people are and even calling Jan a few ugly names in the mess of hands.
He eventually picks up Jan's sled and shoves it against Jan's chest.
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He watches Leith's gestures and tries to pick up any meaning he can find. Well, it's not hard to read anger in these signs!
He grabs hold of his sled when Leith shoves it against him. But he doesn't want it to end this way. "I'll buy you a cup of hot chocolate, if you'd like to come with me and find a shop or a restaurant that is open." He makes a gesture of lifting a cup to his lips, and then he raises his eyebrows questioningly, and then he makes a beckoning gesture that invites Leith to come with him.
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Yea, okay, it's not obvious that Leith is only mute and not deaf. At least Jan is trying. Leith's face drops from anger to mild frustration and he reaches for Jan's hands for just a moment. He signs:
Watch me
And then points to his eyes and then himself to try and emphasize his point. Then he slowly signs the proper way to say:
Would you like hot cocoa? I'll buy. Follow me.
He's trying to teach you, Jan. Pay attention.
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He nods and then tries signing the same thing with his hands, glancing up at Leith's face to see if he's got it right. Would you like hot cocoa? I'll buy. Follow me.
"Did I get it right?" he asks. He doesn't know whether Leith can hear or not, but maybe he can lip read, or maybe he can read Jan's body language when he speaks. Jan's facial expression and his manner ask for feedback.
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Good job, Jan, you passed your first lesson.
With that, Leith grabs his own sled and goes back to Jan, ready to follow him. He's almost completely forgotten his anger towards the crash from just moments ago. And now he has a cocoa to look forward to. This incident is starting to turn into a win.
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Nice to know his language skills extend to sign language!
Jan slings the strap of his sled over his shoulder as though the sled were any other kind of baggage and gestures to Leith to come with him. He, too, feels that this occurrence has become a win.
He leads Leith up the hill and along a path to a road, and finally they find a cafe that is open and serving. Curufin opens the door for his companion and walks in. He gestures to him to pick a table.