Test Drive 007

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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 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 chruning 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, filing 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 at the Tower that spills out it's doors in welcome, by someone who calls themselves the Emperor. Obviously that's weird, 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 it's 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 choice of 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 it's 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. Wild Card: Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Comments

[takesallthestupid]

Bucky had been wandering past a balloon popping booth, when the woman currently playing started loudly protesting. If anything could get a native New Yorker's attention, it was someone nearby complaining, and especially if it was about something being unfair or rigged not to work.

Coming over to stand slightly behind her, Bucky was startled when the woman turned directly toward him, brandishing the dart in a very unsafe way toward him, asking his opinion. "Oh, uh..." he prevaricated slightly, stalling for time. He wasn't used to women being quite so... loud, honestly, or forthright. Not usually, anyway. But what did he know, in this new city with all the other strange things going on.

"...No?" he finally answered, before continuing "You know these types of games are always horrible to win anyway, right? The balloons aren't fully inflated, so the rubber's thicker, the dart slides right off, and the balloon can bounce around more because of it, too. It's not really rigged, it's just... the way they always set them up." He'd learned that as a teen, and always opted for ball-tosses or accuracy games instead, when he tried to win anything. Balloon-pops were just a good way to waste time, and your money.

[rainbow_road]

Bucky probably wasn't used to women with bright blue hair but the Narration digresses!

Tonks looked at Bucky as though she had just found a new best friend. For the record, she had (even if Bucky wouldn't agree to the sentiment. All ways were Tonks' ways.) She nodded her head. "That makes perfect sense. I've wasted so much money on this."

She put the dart down and turned back around to Bucky. "It sounds like you know a ton about this stuff. Care to help me find a game that I can win?" With Tonks, that was a very loaded question.

[takesallthestupid]

"Ah, I don' know that much," he demurred, but was still a little pleased that she seemed to think he was knowledgeable about something, even if it was just a silly carnival game. He'd been starting to feel irrelevant, and practically invisible in this place.

"Sure, I guess," he responded, nodding to indicate that they should start walking, to have a look at the other games. "You wanna look fer something that can't be set up in a way tha's impossible to win," he started explaining. He pointed to the ring toss game off to the side. "That kinda thing, if the posts are too close together, you can't get the ring around 'em hardly ever, so that's out. If yer not sure about one, it helps to ask the carnie fer a demonstration, but that doesn't always work, either. They got ways of fixin' it so it looks like you could win, but then changin' it."

Drawing to a stop a little ways back from a duck hunt-style shooting game, he nodded toward it. "Things like this, or arcade games, those are yer best bet. There's ball tosses too, but they can switch the balls out after a demonstration, so you get a bigger one that won't fit as easily into the basket, or it's weighted differently."

Bucky didn't know that most carnival games weren't rigged anymore, but he didn't realize he wasn't still in the 1940s, either, so a little slack could be given to his outdated knowledge.