cityofsin_ooc | 🚕 TEST DRIVE 017

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? Villain.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

If he'd known exactly what Erik was capable of, he might not have agreed so easily. Or maybe he still would have; he'd been ten years younger at the time, and not always in possession of the best decision-making skills. Which doesn't mean he hadn't been horrified when he saw what Erik did. Had, in fact, been mad at him for it for a while here, even though this Erik knew nothing about it yet.

"Yeah, well, it hasn't always been that great." It still isn't, to be honest, even though it has been getting better lately. As long as Peter avoids certain topics.

"I just wanted to say hello, and I did that, so I guess I can let you go back to what you were doing."

Mystique nods sympathetically. She understood Peter's father better than most, Erik and Raven were survivors of terrible and cruel world, and would always respected his wish that certain topics would always be off the table for discussion. Some things were to memories scarred too deep, too painful to better said.

Then again, Mystique hadn't had the best of paternal experiences as her own parents had hated her mutated form enough to tried to kill her when she was a child. Charles and the Xaviers were the closest thing Raven ever had to a real family.

"It has been nice to meet you, Peter," Mystique answers with a soft smile, putting her hands into her leather jacket pockets before reconsidering walking off. The young man with the silver hair had proven himself to be trustworthy thus far, Mystique would take a chance. "Since you seem to be in the know: What am I doing here?"

He's a fellow mutant, if nothing else, and while he and Erik don't agree on everything, he does agree that mutants need to stick together. Just not to the extent that Erik wants to take it.

"I'm not, really. No one knows how we got here, why we're here, or how to get home." They don't know much, really, though not for lack of trying.

"So you're telling me everyone's stranded here for absolutely no reason? There's always a reason even if it's not evident," she said with the unflappable confidence and resolve of the leader a future Mystique would one day become.

What Peter reported simply didn't make sense, but then the master strategist hadn't had time to wrap her head around information. Mystique needed to investigate more before she could be make a determination. But bring people here from different times and places felt like in her learned experience a set-- by whom and for what purpose-- was troubling lingering question. She would need to know what game was being played before she would make a move.

"There anything else I should know about this place, Peter?"

"Okay. Then we're here for a reason that none of us know, because the City doesn't share its reasons with us." If they knew that, then maybe they'd be able to do something about it, which is probably what the City figures.

It's strange to be speaking of the City as if it were a person, but there's been plenty of evidence lately of the City's ability to look after itself despite the fact that it is not a person.

"Yeah. Stay away from the demons."

Again, Mystique momentarily furrows her brow. The way Peter was talking about this place was slightly unsettling, but she said nothing about it. Better to be mindful but not hindered by it in her quest for information about this city.

"Demons," she repeats with a note of skepticism and interest. After all, she and Azazel had been labeled that on more than one occasion and they'd used that to strike fear in their enemies. "What do you mean by demons?" Because things may appear one way, but was just an enemy with another face. She wanted to know what she might encounter before she would be traverse the city further.

It should be slightly unsettling, because this place is. It doesn't get better the longer one stays here, or at least it didn't for him. He might be getting the chance to know people he'd never meet back home, but that doesn't change the fact that this place isn't home, or his desire to return to something familiar, to what he knows.

"I mean demons. Some of them will leave us alone if we leave them alone, but some of them are more aggressive and have no qualms about coming after us."

Mystique would grant Quicksilver a longer sidelong look conferring that he wasn't joking in regards to this. "Where and in what circumstances might one encountered these demons?"

It was important intelligence to gain through first party witnesses so Mystique would simply not overlook an opportunity to educate herself a threat of the City.

"Is there a visible or significant behavioral difference between your civilian verses your hostile demons? What harms or heals them?"

"Anytime or anywhere. At least when you're outside. I haven't heard of any attacks happening when someone's inside." Which is the one thing that's helpful in this case. He doesn't know what would happen though if someone tried to get away from a demon by going inside. Would it follow them?

"There's really no good way to describe it. Some attack, some don't, and you'll learn how to tell them apart quick enough. It's more just the vibe they give off than anything."

Slowly Mystique was trying to internally map out of unwritten rules of these strange new land which she had found herself. She would cast a half amused sidelong glance at Peter, "That's a very good question." She was now deeply intrigue to see if for herself to learn if there was just more than a manner of common sense that demons didn't fight in close quarters or if there was any governance that forbid the the demons from entering a home to pursuit their target.

She begins to stroll ahead a little further before turning to look over her shoulder with an adventurous curl to her lips. "Come on, Peter. Let's see if we can go find an aggressive demon." She had a theory and enemy to test before Mystique would call it a night.

"Ummmm." For someone who moves as fast as he does, that suggestion sure gets him to slow down. There are some things he really doesn't care to know about demons, and that would be anything beyond what's the best way to run away from them.

"Provoking them is generally not seen as a good idea."

What kind of friends does Erik have?

"We're not going to provoke a demon. It's gathering reconnaissance." Mystique effortlessly reassures Peter with a small but easy smile. Never let it be said was pragmatic as she was methodical in gathering intelligence about the City in with she was to inhabit and the threats found within. She always wants to know her enemies rather than being ambushed by the experience.

Upon her youthful blonde pretty face, a small smirk curls her lips.

"Besides, you can run fast can't you?"

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