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!

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Trouble

[asksalotofquestions]

The man suddenly let go of the book as a big wad of his hair was tugged backwards with invisible force. It threw him off balance and when Julia let him go he fell backwards onto the pavement.

She wasn't intending to look like a badass, it just kind of came naturally at this point. Personal hygene hadn't been a big priority recently and cigarettes just make you look badass.

She put her two hands together and did another series of gestures, and the ground started to rumble and crack below the group accosting Quentin. When she was sure that they were getting the hint that she was causing it, she dropped the spell and gestured at them dismissively.

"Shoo."

She took a drag from her cigarette, not quite looking at Quentin. She didn't know exactly what to say to him.

[filloryfan]

"Whoa," said Quentin, eyes wide as he stared at Julia. She definitely was giving off the badass vibes. "Thanks, Jules."

And okay, maybe there was more to say than that, so after he was done being surprised, he pulled himself together. "So you made it here, too? How long have you been here? Did you make it-"

'to Fillory' was what he was going to say, but he realized the problem as soon as he thought about it. Julia clearly wasn't from the future, from the time when they had worked out at least some of their differences and were working together to find their childhood dream. This was going to be way more awkward than that.

He paused as he tried to think of a better question. He eventually settled on something far more general. "Are you- have you been okay?"

[asksalotofquestions]

Things fall apart so quickly. She'd had tunnel vision in that room. That was why she'd taken the dagger, she only had one thing in mind and everything else just fell away.

And she wasn't even sorry she'd taken the dagger, she'd do it again. But now she was here, and The Beast was gone and her plan ruined, and Quentin was here so she was confronted with the fallout of her decisions, again.

"You don't remember." Fuck time shit.

[filloryfan]

Quentin's eyes narrowed as he realized he didn't have it right, that Jules might be the one from the future, and what did that mean? He shook his head, trying to clear it.

"Okay," he said, raising one hand up, as if it would actually help him sort this out. "Okay- last thing I remember...we were about to use that Let's-Kill-Hitler time machine to take us to 1942, so we could sneak into Fillory after Jane. Is that...does any of that sound familiar to you?"

Fuck time shit, indeed.

[asksalotofquestions]

Fuck, this all seemed so small, now. Fillory, everything. Unimportant. She had no idea how much she should actually blame that stupid Satyr for taking the block away. She'd been happy moments before that, like really happy. She could be looking at Q right now and be excited to see him, explore this new place together without feeling like a complete failure.

But instead, she was faced with the concept of explaining to him how badly shit went down in the very near future for him, and how it was her doing. And she didn't have... whatever it was she needed to do that.

"Yeah. Everything goes just how we planned, Q."

[filloryfan]

Her statement didn't ring true. There was way too many warning signs for him to believe that it all went great and everything was fine. But there was something that pushed to the front of his mind before he really had the chance to pick it apart.

With wide eyes that made him look five years younger, he asked, "So we really made it? To Fillory? You saw it? What- what was it like?"

Just give him a second to geek out. He'd come around to the important stuff soon enough.

[asksalotofquestions]

Good old Quentin. Always had his priorities straight.

"You remember the Witch and the Fool, right?"

[filloryfan]

"The-" He looked to the side as he thought about it. "Right. The two travelling Magicians that helped Jane out of the snar-"

Realization hit and he tilted his head to the side, a questioning glance being thrown to Julia. The timing of all of it certainly was right. "That was us? Seriously?" He didn't realize he was already grinning.

[asksalotofquestions]

"Then we met the Watcherwoman, aka future Jane Chatwin, who got us to the right time."

Her grin was already diminishing as she got closer to where things went off the rails.

[filloryfan]

"The Watcherwoman was Jane? That's- wha-" He laughed in disbelief as the implications ran through his mind. It made sense, sort of- she'd been something of a threat, but she'd always been a good challenge for Jane. It was someone for Jane to rise up to, someone for her to try and be better than. It had made her stronger. It--

Okay, okay. He took a breath and focused and stopped asking dumb (but interesting!) questions. Julia was not entirely happy to be telling this story. "And things didn't go as well from there? I mean, I know we don't exactly have the best chance in the world here..." He wasn't expecting everything to be great as soon as they made it to Fillory, even if he did love the place.

[asksalotofquestions]

"What went wrong actually happened before Fillory," she said. "A mistake. You know, the kind I've been making since the test."

Mistakes that were kind of Jane's fault. But then if Julia being kicked out of Brakebills is the only thing stopping them all from having been murdered by The Beast...? No, that's all just passing the buck. Jane is why she was kicked out of Brakebills but everything that happened after that was her.

[filloryfan]

He didn't know what she was talking about. They'd talked everything over before they headed to Brakebills. Maybe it was something she did earlier that was coming back to haunt her?

With concerned, confused eyes, he shook his head. "What was it? If it has to do with all the hedge witch stuff, you know I'll help you if I can..." They hadn't really talked about it much, the time they'd been separated and hurting each other. But he did want to her to know he was here for her now.

[asksalotofquestions]

"Not hedge witch stuff, god stuff." She takes a long drag from her cigarette.

Wasn't explaining all this to Quentin once enough? She had to do it all over again? "If I'd known I was gonna be doing this a second time, I'd have recorded it."

Let's go with the Bandaid methodology.

"It wasn't the Mother, Q. It was a wolf demon. It killed everyone and it raped me. And then I called Marina to make me forget everything, but Ember 'fixed' that."

[filloryfan]

He murmured 'sorry' as soon as he realized she was having to tell him twice, and resolved to try to move past it quickly for her sake.

Unfortunately, that resolve was out the window once she started telling him. His expression went from concerned to horrified in a heartbeat. Hearing that apparently she met Ember was noticed and shoved down as unimportant. He rose a hand to his mouth, feeling like he was going to throw up. "Oh...Jesus. Jules, I'm- god, that's awful. I'm sorry." Tears were in his eyes as he stared at the ground, trying to clear the image. "Fuck."

[asksalotofquestions]

"Fuck is right," she said. "So would you get the fuck over here and hug me already?"

Her voice broke as she finished the sentence.

[filloryfan]

He didn't have to be asked twice, immediately closing the space between them to give her a tight hug. They'd been best friends for so long, but neither of them ever had to deal with anything like this. He shut his eyes and murmured apologies- for not knowing, for not being there for her. He hadn't ever wanted to be at odds with her, and every part of it during his time at Brakebills had felt unnatural and wrong. He was here for her now.

Even if she was the one that saved him from being mugged.

[asksalotofquestions]

"I'm alright now," she said, not in that she was in any way alright, but that at least she could talk and see again. She wipes tears and snot off of her face with her sweater sleeve, and leans back against the corner wall.

"And then I was here," she lied, conveniently leaving out the rest. "So see, you haven't missed much."

[filloryfan]

He didn't for a second think that she was 'alright now'. But he was hardly going to call her on it- that would be, he thought, the exact opposite of comforting. So he gave her his best attempt at a smile, which was really nothing more than a quirk of his lips, and he reached out for her hand. It was something she started, when he'd get too closed in on himself. She'd grab a hand and pull it away from where it was trapped at his side and pull it out to squeeze it while she talked.

He tried the same here, as he found a less heavy bit of conversation. "Except I apparently missed the part where Ember was a raging dickbag," he said, glancing to the side. "Oh, well. We already knew the books were bullshit, right?" After everything he'd learned about Plover, he'd never think of them the same way again.