> TEST DRIVE 015

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Test Drive Meme

Considering apping to the City of Sin, but unsure of who to bring or if they'll fit? Feel free to give the setting a test drive here! These are a perfect way of getting your playing sample done for the application.

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→ Comment with the character you'd like to test drive in the setting, with name and canon in the subject line
→ Choose a scenario or create your own!
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Possible Scenarios Please note that all characters will initially arrive in their assigned housing; they are free to explore the City to their heart's content after that! 01. A New Arrival: Hello, New Person! You seem to have found yourself on a sidewalk in the City of Sin with nothing but the clothes on your back and a stomach churning feeling of being displaced. Thankfully, the streets are full of people - Watch out that you don't get mugged! 02. Demonic Presences: You were just minding your own business, weren't you? But that's always when bad things seem to happen, and the City of Sin isn't really that friendly. Whatever bar or street you're hanging out in suddenly go dim, filling the area with an unnerving feeling as the shadows on the walls jump out into reality. We suggest you phone a friend for help, or maybe try running? 03. Party Hard: You've been invited to a massive, elegant party in the Tower District that spills out its doors in welcome. Obviously, this whole thing is weird and you don't know who your hosts are, but maybe you can get some free drinks and food out of it! This place might not be so bad. 04. Prominence: The City of Sin influences its population on a weekly basis. Too bad you came right smack dab in the middle of a heavy Prominence. Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, or Pride: choose your sin and be wicked. 05. Trouble: Not everyone is sunshine and roses here. Some people are violent and cruel, raised in the sludge of a sinful city. And they like to pick on people they think can't fight back. Are you that person? Or are you the Hero who can't stand to watch? Worse yet, could you be the person doing the instigating? Villian. 06. Carnival: The City has carnivals or festivals now and then; you're lucky to catch one! With its open booths filled with cork gun games and funnel cakes, how can someone not have any fun! Go win your darling a stuffed animal, or meet someone new on the spinning cup ride. You might even see someone you know being talked into sitting in the Dunk Tank. 07. Network: There's a network device in your pocket - or at least a familiar object that seems to work in mysterious ways. Perhaps you can take to that and ask for a bit of help? Or maybe you'd prefer to have a little fun with all of this. Surely someone will reply. 08. Wild Card:Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Comments

[bethebetterpath]

"Ten years ago?" Charles sunk to the ground where he stood. Burying his face in his hands, Charles let out a long sigh. Of course he'd gone through time. It was the one thing he hadn't really done yet. He'd heard the stories from Logan, but he'd never done it himself.

Now he could say he did. Sadly.

His shoulders slumped and he looked up at Peter. "I'm from that time. The last thing I remember is Paris. We were getting on the plane to come home and I woke up here."

[silversneakers]

"Not everyone comes from the same point in time." He doesn't know how that works. Don't ask him. Some people are from years later than the one he's from. "Erik's from earlier than that even." He couldn't say when, exactly, because he doesn't know what happened before he met any of them. He only knows that much because Erik hadn't recognized him when he arrived here.

[bethebetterpath]

"Okay. Different points..." He nodded his head and tried to let his mind understand what he was hearing. If he understood correctly, that meant that Peter came from a time in his future. He sighed, reaching up to gently rub at his temples. "So, Erik is here and he's from earlier than I. You're here and you're from my future," he murmured softly. He sighs. "Is there anyone else of our group here? Or anyone like us? Those with mutations?"

[silversneakers]

"Kurt." Charles won't know who he is yet, Peter knows that, but it might help to know that there are others here. And Charles had asked. "He's a different Kurt than the one I know though?"

Sorry to have to confuse you more, Charles, but he went through that confusion himself. "There are multiple versions of worlds with mutants in them. Wanda, my sister, she's from one of those worlds. So is Kurt. Some things are the same, and some things are different."

Welcome to the multiverse.

[bethebetterpath]

"Kurt." He nodded his head to Peter. "I can't say that I know that one," he said softly. "It doesn't surprise me though, multiverses." He sighed, reaching up to run a hand through his hair. "There was a paper I read once on multiple universes and the possibility of us all co-existing." He shrugged his shoulders. "I can see it."

He blinked. "A different Wanda. I'm sorry, Peter. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" He wasn't trying to be rude, just trying to get more information on it. "The idea is that the universe is the same, but the slightest things differ. Kennedy never became President. Things like that."

"At least you and I are from the same universe?"

[silversneakers]

"You will one day." That's not something he shouldn't tell Charles, right? Is there something he shouldn't tell Charles? "I don't know. It's kind of both, you know? But more good than bad." He hopes that wouldn't offend Wanda. He doesn't want it to. "The Wanda here can do the same things that my Wanda can, but she's from a different place, had a different childhood, a whole family." Two parents, apparently, but he doesn't say that. "And her brother can do the same stuff I can, but his name's Pietro. So it's like having my sister here, but not quite."

He nods at Charles' last statement. "Yeah. And you know who I am." So at least he doesn't have to explain that part.

[bethebetterpath]

The idea that he is from the same world as Peter is comforting to Charles. At least having someone that he knows makes him feel a little better. As terrible as things looked at that moment, he was not going through them alone. He had someone with him, someone that he could trust.

He wondered if Erik was an Erik that would remember him. There was so much history between him and his old friend. "I... I guess I have to get settled now, perhaps? Find a place to stay, a job, things of consequence until I can find a way home," he murmured.

It wasn't something he wanted to do, but he would do what he needed to in order to survive.

[silversneakers]

"You woke up in an apartment? That's yours to live in, rent free." So that's one big hurdle out of the way. "You can live somewhere else if you want, but you have to pay rent." He's still in the place where he arrived. He doesn't mind it, and he likes not having to pay rent.

"There are plenty of options for finding a job. All you have to do is ask. Something will come up."

[bethebetterpath]

"I... I did?" He frowned. Well, at least this place, whatever it was, gave him a chance to get a head. Here, have a place to live and don't worry about rent because we kidnapped you, he thought to himself. His arms crossed over his chest and he stared up at Peter. The young man had seemed to acclimate himself so well.

He was kind of proud of Peter.

"I'm guessing there is no school teaching mutation and history," he teased.

[silversneakers]

"You should have. If you didn't, you have something somewhere that indicates which apartment is yours."

"No. There are some opportunities to teach though." Others would know more about that than Peter would, but all Charles has to do is ask and someone will help him figure it out.

[bethebetterpath]

"Oh, I did. I thought I would wander around and try to explore, to get my bearings on this new place and try to figure out where I am." He frowned. "Do we actually know where we are? Perhaps there is a boat or plane we can steal to get away?"

He was glad to hear that there were opportunities to teach, even if it wasn't like his school specifically. "What do you do for employment?"

[silversneakers]

He'd done the same thing when he arrived, since answers in the apartment itself were lacking. And he doesn't really want to stay inside all day anymore. "We're in a place called the City of Sin. Which isn't as fun as it sounds." It's really not fun at all.

"There's no way to get home."

[bethebetterpath]

"The city of sin..." He shakes his head. "Were we kidnapped and taken to Vegas?" He rolls his eyes. Logan would be okay with it here.

The more that Peter spoke, the more the words really sank in to Charles and hit close to home. There was no going back to the mansion. He was stuck here for the foreseeable future. "Shit."

[silversneakers]

"It is definitely not Vegas." He hasn't been to Vegas, but he knows that much anyway. He's seen pictures and videos of Vegas, for one thing, and is also pretty sure that Vegas doesn't have demons in it.

"There are a lot of people here all in the same situation. Not just mutants." So at least they're not alone.

[bethebetterpath]

Charles nodded his head. "I guess I'll learn more as I go. Since I'm not going anywhere," he muttered. He hated this, hated being stuck with no chance of escape. It was madness. "No, I presume not. I doubt there are showgirls wandering about," he murmured.

His head tilted. "And nobody has ever tried to riot or escape?"

[silversneakers]

"That's how I did. People here are helpful." He had no problems settling in, and people had been willing to help when they'd noticed him needing some assistance. "There is a red light district though. And a brothel." He quickly qualifies that statement. "I haven't been there. I have a friend who works at the bar attached to the brothel." That's an important distinction. He doesn't want anyone to get the wrong idea about someone.

"It's possible. I haven't heard about it, or asked what would happen if someone did."

[bethebetterpath]

Charles eyes widened. He smiled fondly at Peter. He wasn't Peter's father or guardian. It wasn't like he could tell Peter what to do. And yet, it amused him, the look on Peter's face. "That's an interesting thing to comment on first," he teased gently.

He nods his head. "If you haven't heard about it, either it didn't happen or someone made them disappear."

[silversneakers]

"It might not be Vegas showgirls, but I guess it's appropriate for the City of Sin." It had just been an attempt at making some kind of conversation.

"I don't think anyone made them disappear. But I guess that's possible. We assume that when people leave here, they go back home, but we don't really know."

[bethebetterpath]

Charles was grateful for the attempt. He smiled and nodded his head, hoping to be at least somewhat reassuring to Peter. "It reminds me of when Erik and I first started putting together the X-Men. There was a very nice mutant with wings dancing in a club that we saved her from," he said softly.

He sighed, looking up at Peter. "Whatever happens, at least for now, I am here. I will try my best to do what I can for you, Peter." The least he could do is try.

[silversneakers]

"Erik was part of the X-men?" He knows that they exist now, but Erik wasn't part of that. Erik might be part of it now. Peter knows that the option is out there, but doesn't know if Erik took it.

"I don't know what anyone can do for anyone, but I guess we can try."

[bethebetterpath]

Charles sighs softly. "He was when we started it. So long ago... Raven. Alex. Erik. We were all in it together. Before Cuba..." His voice trailed off and there was a very sad look in his eyes. There was a time when everyone had worked so hard together. They were a group willing to fight side by side, before Erik and Raven had left. Before things had changed so drastically.

His eyes narrowed and he frowned. "We can be here for each other. We can support each other. Isn't that a good start?"

[silversneakers]

Alex. The one he'd failed to save. The only one. Scott's brother. Which is something he can't think about right now. He keeps hearing references to Cuba, too, and he can't decide if he wants to know what happened there.

"Sure. There are no threats to mutants here though. Not because we're mutants, anyway. We're not the only ones who are different, and even to the ones who aren't different, we're not a threat. Pretty much it's the Chosen and the demons, and we're so worried about the demons that we don't have time to fight among ourselves."