🚕 TEST DRIVE 018

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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? 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!

Comments

[mustact]

New, then.

"You are not the first. Welcome to the City of Sin."

It's not dishonest, as such, but his tone is dry because it's not as though any of them have asked to be here. Doesn't mean you can't be welcoming, regardless.

[his_majestys_navy]

"Ah,"

That's clearly not what he was hoping to hear. But if he has been moved from one place to another by the Powers That Be, clearly it must be for a purpose.

He was hoping to simply stay in Rome when their tasks were done. He was mistaken.

"My apologies, I did not mean where. I meant when."

Because this is certainly not any city of the past he has knowledge of. It's certainly not London, or Portsmouth or Bristol, or Bombay, the only city to the East he has visited.

[mustact]

He'd thought that's what he heard, but it's a strange question to ask when you are. Not to mention the answer for that isn't as clear cut as one might think it should be.

"That I cannot tell you. They only seem to go by dates, not years." A pause. "This has happened to you before?"

Suddenly finding yourself in an unfamiliar place, with no recollection of how you got there.

[his_majestys_navy]

James nods. He could press for more, but he believes the stranger to be telling him the truth, that he doesn't know the year. James is sure he is no longer in the early first century AD and he's clearly not home, and so... well. There is little he can do about the situation.

"Unfortunately yes, quite recently. I don't suppose... that this is a known phenomenon here?"

He can only hope it is, and like in Rome there is a group of other souls brought here for a purpose. Of course, he might just as equally end up being taken to some sort of asylum, but he could not blame anyone for thinking he was mad. He knows he sounds like a lunatic.

[mustact]

"You could call it that. There are quite a few of us here."

From his understanding, at least. To be fair, his knowledge is still limited, but considering there are enough of them for him to have run into several mostly by coincidence, he feels confident in estimating it as 'quite a few'.

[his_majestys_navy]

James nods. That is as he expected, if one is to extrapolate that the last place he found himself had brought strangers in from different times and places in order to fight a foe too great to be defeated otherwise.

"And whom are we fighting?"

[mustact]

That is not a question he expected, and his eyebrows shoot up in surprise and slight confusion. Was that the case where this man last was? Where someone needed to be fought?

Perhaps that's just always the way things go.

"No one that I know of."

[his_majestys_navy]

It's clear enough before the words are spoken that James is wrong. There is no reason for them to be fighting someone or to be dropped in the middle of a war. It's simply what he is expecting from what has passed before. But why else are they here? What purpose does he serve here if not to assist in some way?

He tries to relax and finds it impossible to do so.

"Forgive me. I was assuming this place was much like the last. What is the purpose of our being here?"

[mustact]

He shakes his head. The apology is unnecessary, but perhaps it's simply out of politeness.

"Most seem to think we are here to provide energy to the City. That it somehow ... feeds on us."

A little uncertain, more because of the wording than anything else. But that's basically what it comes down to in that case, isn't it? It feeds on their emotions - sins, perhaps - maybe souls, even? It's all very strange and he still isn't discounting that there's some First Civilization artifact involved in this.

[his_majestys_navy]

James frowns.

The man's English is extremely good, and there is only a slight hesitation when he says those words. Not in how to say them, but what he is about to say. He is thinking through his words before he says them, a trait James highly commends. But he still finds the words themselves extremely concerning.

He would repeat the words, but they were clear enough. They are simply... unbelievable.

"And in your experience, is that true?"

[mustact]

"I have not been here long enough to say," he says, sounding a little apologetic. "What I know is that there are many things in life that we may not be able to explain, but are no less real. I do not discount the possibility that it is true."

Truth be told, he's not entirely sure how to find proof of it. If the City powers itself on something inherent in them, on emotions or sins, something that cannot really be seen or touched, then he has to wonder. Which is all the more reason that he is willing to believe it. Sort of.