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

[hearingvoices]

It wasn't that he was pull, it wasn't that intentional. She had no shields and his brain automatically heard what was being thought. It was like he was working with an additional frequency in his head.

"It is." His tone was curt. "It's why I stay away from everyone."

She wasn't doing anything so he moved, pushing just enough to step past her but not trying to hurt her. He was done with this and he's decided that he's leaving.

[diana_abel]

Diana was no physical force, to be certain. She was flexible and quick, but not terribly strong. In fact, at times she was downright delicate.

Needless to say, she was no match for Penny, so she didn't put up a fight. But she did turn to look after him.

"I can keep you safe," she said. "He can't hurt me. He tried and he failed. And you're much safer with someone than alone."

And even if that weren't true, who'd really ever want to die alone?

[hearingvoices]

Penny paused and looked back at her. She didn't realize it but if he really wanted to leave it'd be easy. He just had to picture himself anywhere else and he'd end up back in that god forsaken room. He hated that room.

"How? What can you do?"

His eyes looked at her sharply.

[diana_abel]

"A place to hide," she said, her mind reeling through every enchantment and sigil she'd seen in Bete Noire. Maybe her failed relationship with Sam hadn't been completely useless. All the things he'd taught her, all his paranoia and fear, were still in there. She could line a door with salt. She could draw a devil's trap.

And she was friends with the Doctor.

"Between me and my friends, we can make sure that you're not found, if you don't want to be. And if you are..."

I'm not as useless in a fight as I look. You can't say that, Diana. You'll sound like you're threatening him.

[hearingvoices]

"You'll hide me? Here?"

He gestured around them. He continued to hear her thoughts but he was done commenting on them.

[diana_abel]

"If you wanted," she said. "Jack's been hiding me here for months, since I arrived in the City."

But, of course, there were plenty more options.

Where is this urgency coming from? She couldn't help but ask herself. Of course, she already knew the answer. If you can save him, then maybe you still have a purpose in life. And there's still hope. However small. There's hope.

And, of course, anyone who was even remotely friendly with Eliot was a friend...

[hearingvoices]

Penny pinched his nose. "Fine but I need more to drink and for a point of clarification." He's tired of her thinking this.

"Eliot and I aren't friends. We have the same enemy and go to the same school. No other connection." He really didn't respect Eliot and the guys life choices. Yes, they had a similar drug problem but in Penny's eyes, Eliot could do a lot more than he does. He only got pulled into this because he was bored, or at least, that's what Penny believes.

[diana_abel]

"Okay," Diana said softly. "If it's that important to you, I won't call him your friend."

Gotta remember to try not to think that way.

But I've never seen someone so resistant to having friends before. And I'm thinking about it. Stop thinking about it, Abel.

"But please," she continued. "Let me try to help."

[hearingvoices]

"Imagine a wall in your mind. It's the first step to blocking out thoughts." He was getting a headache.

"Like I said. How?"

Penny was giving her a chance, he was staying but he didn't know what she might do to help or how she could.

[diana_abel]

Wall. Wall. Wally, wall, wall.

Diana walked back to Jack's desk, pulling over a pad of paper and a pen. She drew out a pentagram, then started to decorate each of the sides with a sigil. It was slow going. She was to pull up some memories best left forgotten. But Diana's mind was sharp and she eventually got it, before turning it to Penny, to let him see.

Wall, wall, wall...

"This is a devil's trap," she said. "You can use it to ward off most demons. As long as it's painted or drawn in one continuous line, a demon can't cross it."

[hearingvoices]

"What if the moth man is a man?" He knew things that took a person and fucked with them. There was nothing saying that he was a demon.

Penny stepped closer and lightly plucked the paper from her hand, leaning a little to close than was normal. He lowered his voice as he spoke.

"Imagine the wall. Don't just think of the word. A shield, form the imagine around your mind and set it in place. You don't have to keep thinking about it to keep it up."

[diana_abel]

Diana looked up at him, the effort she was putting into the wall plainly written across her face. It was always the last thing she wanted, to hurt another person. But after a lifetime of being told she was stupid, it was sometimes hard to use her mind for anything but worry.

Center yourself, Abel. Like you're meditating.

Although it was harder with the scent of man.

Still. After a few moments of adjusting, something began to form. Not exactly a wall. More like a...picket fence. But it was a start.

"If he's just a man, then he's susceptible to the same things a man is. Like Jack's security system."

[hearingvoices]

It was a start and he figured that she'll eventually ask Eliot about it. She seemed the type.

"Which is?"

Penny wasn't moving. He made it seem like he was making up his mind except that he remained there staring at her and waiting.

[diana_abel]

"A stainless steel door with padlock entry and alarm," she replied. It had kept her safe so far, not that she'd made a lot of enemies in the City. Maybe Matthew, but he was susceptible to the same daylight she was. And most of his groupies were her friends, so there was that.

She shrugged. "Also, and I don't mean this to offend, but you don't seem like the type of person who would just hang in a fire station. So you have the element of surprise going for you."

[hearingvoices]

"Yeah well whatever this thing is it can do magic."

That and he really didn't know if the moth monster could find him or not. Sometimes he wondered why he didn't kill him when he stepped through that fucking mirror. If it hadn't been for Kady he might have been killed then.

That fucker used him the whole time.

[diana_abel]

So could a lot of them. And Diana hadn't seen or heard from the murder-moth monster since the night of the party. She wasn't entirely sure it--or its magic--was real. But she couldn't put that into words. She knew how the multiverse was and could accept its little quirks. Newbies didn't do so well.

Especially ones who lacked a certain amount of blind faith.

"You seem to be looking for reasons not to accept our help," she observed. "Have I done something to offend you?"

[hearingvoices]

It wasn't her, it was others who've miss used his trust. Penny didn't want to trust anyone ever again. He didn't think it was worth it if they'd just stab him in the back.

What reason was there to trust anyone?

"I don't see why you'd help."

[diana_abel]

Her picket fence failed a little, mostly with surprise.

Because helping someone is the right thing to do.

She'd tried to explain that to Abe once. How, even after learning what he really was, she'd still rescued him from the Giovanni. Oh, to be sure, she'd left him in a ditch, wounded and weak, with her blood trickling down his chin. But she'd saved his life anyway.

Because it was the right thing to do.

She wouldn't make the mistake of trying to explain that again, though. Faith in humanity was all she had, most days. "You look like you could use a friend," she said instead.

[hearingvoices]

He probably did and somewhere deep inside of him Penny knew that. He exhaled and shook his head.

"I don't have very much luck with friends. I think you'd have it easier." She cared and people who cared made friends. It was one of the reason's he wasn't particularly worried about her. The number of people she knew, who'd look after her, she'd be fine.

[diana_abel]

"Nothing worth doing is ever easy," she said, feeling that somewhere out there, in the shimmering ether of the multiverse, her sister was laughing at her.

A lot.

She shrugged. "Anyway, he tried to kill me. He failed. I don't think the murder-moth monster--if he's still out there--is going to succeed."

It's not me he's trying to protect, is it? It's himself.

[hearingvoices]

Penny had to look out for himself first, no one else would but there was always that part of him that actually gave a fuck about other people.

He disliked that part of himself.

"Let's just hope you're right."

[diana_abel]

Diana gave him a thin smile. "I may not be smart," she said, "but I'm extremely stubborn. And when I make a promise, I keep it."

Nothing but sincerity radiated off of that statement.

If nothing else, Diana had her honor.

[hearingvoices]

"We'll see."

Which was his way of saying that he'd stick around long enough to see if she's right.