Test Drive Meme 010

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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, 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 at the Tower that spills out its 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 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. Wild Card: Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Comments

Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock (BBC)

[everybody_shutup]

[Arrival - Few days after]

Well. Sherlock Holmes was definitely lost in more ways than the very definition of the word itself. Obviously, there was trouble grasping how he could have ended up there when he was technically stuck in his own mind, and now none of it mattered. Not really. Not when there was no way out. That was a forced fact no matter who he talked to.

So, it was all a waiting game now. Wait for more answers. Wait for whatever called him here to send him back. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Waiting led to boredom.

By day 3, Sherlock was positively vibrating with restlessness. There was nothing to do at his new flat. No Mrs Hudson. No tea. No food. None of his personal effects. But everything paled in comparison to not having John Watson.

In fact, that was the scariest part in all this.

Evening came and, after walking about the City, Sherlock settled into a fairly comfortable chair at a cafe with an expression that betrayed how he really felt.


[Wild card]

[It's sometime in the afternoon when a text displays on the network.]

Is there someone in this unbearably boring place that has a gun for sale? A cheap one preferably.

[2 minutes later]

Nothing too big. But not one of those pocket.. things.

[2 more minutes later]

#distractionineedone

Wild Card

[imaginationswoes]

How exactly is a gun a good distraction? It sounds like a good way to get hurt.

[everybody_shutup]

That would depend on where you point it.

[imaginationswoes]

Okay... technically yes but I can't imagine a situation where that's a good idea.

Why not find another distraction?

[Airy spends most of her time trying to distract her thoughts so nothing catastrophic happens around her.]

[everybody_shutup]

I would say it's good if it's not pointed at a person.

[Sherlock holds off in the typing screen for about 3 minutes before the next message pops up]

Like what?

[imaginationswoes]

[She's going to start being more specific.]

Or animals...

Have you ever been bowling or something like lazer tag?

[everybody_shutup]

Fine. Are you an advocate for insects, too?

[Excuse him while he thinks about that. Nope.]

Boring.

[imaginationswoes]

Well it isn't very nice for the insect is it?

[Even though bugs give her the willies.]

Why is that boring? Okay, what about dancing or building something? Like a chair or book shelf.

[everybody_shutup]

[Rolls eyes.]

What an utterly predictable suggestion made by an incredibly dull sounding person.

Oh, but with a name like yours, I shouldn't be the least bit surprised.

[imaginationswoes]

[She can't see you rolling your eyes but that's rude.]

I like boring sometimes. I've had too much excitement in the last month. Would you rather I suggest that we sprout wings and fly?

If it's my last name then yes. Is my first name boring?

[She is being very sincere.]

[everybody_shutup]

[No..]

On the contrary. I find your first name quite telling.

Is it short for Airhead?

[That was rude.]

[imaginationswoes]

Nope. I assume it wasn't a serious guess. Could you guess?

Wild Card

[thegreatestproject]

The Coliseum District will have the largest variety of weapons. Might find something in the Shantytown pawn shops, if you're strapped for cash.

If you think this place is boring, though, you might be beyond hope already.

...that's not what you want the gun for, right?

[everybody_shutup]

Too fast. No thrill. Then again, jumping off a building..

[He pauses, the screen showing he's typing on the others end.]

I suppose that would be rather abrupt, too.

Do they deliver?

[thegreatestproject]

That, plus around here, there's no guarantee it'd stick.

There's always couriers. People willing to make a few bucks so long as you trust them to deliver.

[everybody_shutup]

No guarantee suggests you don't know for certain. So which is it? Does death stick, or not?

[Do go on, sir. You have just piqued his interest with something that sounds decidely un-boring.]

[thegreatestproject]

Not always. At least one of the Chosen has come back after biting it.

I figure the city wants to keep us around at any cost.

[everybody_shutup]

Only one? How does the police ever keep up? The lot must be nothing but driveling fat slobs.

Which isn't much different than London's.

Tell me, what's the crime like here?

[thegreatestproject]

[Eliot could point out that people coming back from the dead isn't exactly a mystery around here, but he's too amused by Sherlock taking a swipe at the police to bother.]

A few organized gangs. The occasional petty theft. As someone who spent time in New York, it's all pretty average for a town infested with actual demons.

Less drug-related crimes, but that's a factor of drug laws being real lax. You can get just about anything without trouble from the police.