🚕 TEST DRIVE 🍁 September

[sinfulmods]

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, and tag around!
→ If you're still tagging in the last TDM, you may continue to do so, or feel free to move your threads here. We have four test drives a year. New test drives are now posted sometime during the months of: March, June, September, December.
→ Threads in the test drive are NOT eligible to use for activity checks, however you can make them game canon if you wish — and only if both players are accepted in the game.
→ Prospective players are always welcome to contact the mod for any questions or clarifications regarding the game.

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!

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Harry Dresden CRAU | Dresden Files books | OTA

[iminthebook]

A New Arrival

After arriving in a new apartment and finding himself without enough information, he had spent some time reading the network, and checking out what he could learn that way. It had been revealing, and he was quite ready to curse his luck. Here he was again in a weird place and a weird set of rules, with no idea why, really.

How many worlds was this? At least he was in his right body now. Lumbering down the sidewalk, all 6'9" of him, he had his long coat on, his blasting rod and staff concealed inside as always. And he was very glad he had fallen asleep in the hospital cluthing his bundle of items. Otherwise, this would be awkward.

Still and all, he was glancing around and looking as confused as a new person might be.

***

02. Demonic Presences

And then there were demons. Harry had just been trying to check out the options in a communications store, where some of the different items were very cool, when three demons had chased a woman and her child into the store. He had been peering at the large tablet-like device in his hands when they came in and he swore as he dropped it into the hands of the storekeeper. "Hide."

Harry didn't so much react as explode into action, his coat billowing outward as his hands came up, blasting rod in one hand, staff in the other. words fell from his lips as he dashed forward, sliding into the space between demons and innocents, eyes blazing.

Cold flowed from him sudden-like, and as he spoke aloud, ice daggers leaped from his staff and slammed into the first-most oncoming threat.

Still, there were others. A little help would probably come in handy.

***

03. Party Hard: Harry was getting too used to hobnobbing with weird people and societies, and so he was dressed up. Which for him, meant his coat was pressed, and he wore a white mantle, one streaked with black and with stars on the shoulders. Under that, however, he was wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt that denounced 'The Man'. He had been invited to this suddenly announced party, and had come against his better judgment.

As he wandered, he kept his eyes open for those who looked both better and worse than the rest. He was wary, and confused, and waiting for the shoe to drop. Still, there was free ale and free fries, and he was indulging in some of each as he wandered.

***

07. Network:

[ Video ]

[ The video popped on and showed a man leaning on a staff that is wrapped in steel bands and carved with runes along its entire length. He stared at the camera and hmms, before speaking. ]

Hello, City. Is anyone able to recommend a good record store? And a good herb shop? This place is about as comfortable to find my way around as a minefield.

[ He offered a half-smile as he nodded. He was wary of this, and glad it was, so far, behaving with his powers. If it didn't that would be... unfortunate. ]

Also, why are there so many demons running around here? It seems like the kind of thing one would want to stop.

[ He waved a hand, then. ]

Still, seems like a peaceful place, otherwise. So what weird shit happens in this world? What's the catch of this damn place?