🚕 TEST DRIVE 🍁 September

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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, 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!

Comments

[izzetthough]

"Not even a little."

He cocks his head slightly, lips twisting upwards into a faint grin. "And I'm willing to be you aren't either. Well. Less a bet than a hypothesis." Again his eyes sweep over the man, as though everything needing to be garnered was available right there for him to pursue, and he'd already seen fit to do so.

"How do peacocks feel about competition from other flocks, do you think?"

[macaire]

Magnus doesn't mind the look, doesn't mind the assumption that the man sees all, knows all. He can not. Neither can Magnus know anything of him. But observation, listening, it is all part of the Game. He intends to play here, just as he had at home.

"More importantly, do they fret more about the circling vultures, or the prowling tigers, Mr Zarek? That I think is a more ponitent question for our hosts."

Does he consider himself to be a tiger or a vulture? No, not at all. But there are worse things than direct competition, worse things than to have another group, the same but different, fighting over the same things. What is worse is the unknown.

[izzetthough]

"Most of them aren't going to be concerned about either. You don't need to be the fastest of the bunch to get away from a tiger. Just faster than the other guy. And, as we've established, these lot are all up each other's hindquarters regarding who the best of the bunch is. Their place here is assured."

He points a finger at himself, then at Magnus. "You, me? We're the ones on shaky ground, my friend. And if we became dinner, they'd sleep well tonight just the same."

[macaire]

Magnus is intrigued, that's certain. He has never considered his position unstable, not here or anywhere else. The possibility is a strange one, but of no real concern. Stability is all a matter of perspective.

"Do you believe that is likely, my dear Ral? What leads you to that assumption?"

What gives this complete stranger the impression that they in the same position, or for that matter that they are in danger? This place is like many others, better, in fact, than some Magnus has known.

He lifts his glass to his lips, takes a sip. Not his preferred tipple, but one does not order such things when the source is unknown. Much in the same way one does not take to heart the concerns of a stranger.

[izzetthough]

"I know people. Been watching them a while, same as you. And when problems arise -- and let's be real here, it's when and not if --"

He gestures broadly with both hands before letting them rest on the table once more.

"It's the outsiders who get the blame. Every one of them? They'll smile and nod, and treat you civil. If you know the steps to the dances and the right fork to use? They'll find you amusing. But to save their own hides and preserve their standing in their city? Oh. They won't know you, then. You're one of Those, not Them."

A shoulder rolls in a half-shrug. "Speaking as someone who stood on both sides of that fence."

[macaire]

"Ah, I see." Comes the murmured reply. "We will always be outsiders here, you believe? That is a possibility. But not certain. If we out live our usefulness, we may well be cast aside..."

He glances away from the man, back to the crowd, the little groups softly talking, laughing. This could be Paris, London, Rome or Milan. It could be Los Angeles or New York.

"The trick is to make them what to be friends with you, Mr Zarek."

It is easily said, of course. Not always so easily done. Create a stir, become a social player rather than the played. Decide that belonging is not enough- ownership is the only way forward.

"You are clearly capable. Set your goals higher."