> 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!
→ Tag around!

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]

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."