Test Drive 012

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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!
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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. 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

[parrishing]

The last thing Adam was expecting right then was a random call. Especially from a name he definitely didn't recognise. So it was with a frown that he picked up, uncertain of exactly what to expect.

A video call, naturally: "Hello?"

[alwaysathief]

"A library?" He shrugged a bit, having to put in some effort not to chuckle at that, "Well, there's actually this thing, you can get to it through the phone actually, it's basically like a bunch of books and knowledge all electronic. So, just click on this little icon and now type in what you wanna look up. So, you could do somethin' like 'how do cell phone batteries work?' and it'll give you all these results. But I'll let you read through those on your own. Should make for a real entertainin' evening."

He'd turned back to his own phone, scrolling through the list to see if he recognized any names when he heard the ringing coming from her speaker.

"Did you just call someone, petite?!" He asked with an incredulous, but very amused, grin and reached over to put it on speaker phone as someone picked up.

"Video, you see? So, he can see you... us," He said quietly to Elizabeth. In the video, Remy was only half a head peeking into the corner, "Bonsoir, m'sieu. How's your evening goin'?"

[oiseau_ou_cage]

The information about the Internet she filed away for later. Right now she had important business to attend to. She blinked in wonder when the screen showed her a handsome young man, close to her own age, though perhaps a little younger. She gave out a delighted squeal, then sobered, holding the phone up so the little reflection in the corner showed both her and Remy properly. "Are you Mr. Parrish? My name is Elizabeth and I've got your number in my phone. Do you know why?"

[parrishing]

"It's...uh. It's all right," he replied carefully, glancing to the head peeking in before sliding his eyes back to the unfamiliar woman who was clearly delighted she got someone. All the same, he was nervous, and that meant his Southern accent was out in full force.

Ah, there was the other head, now properly in view. Newbies? Probably.

"Adam Parrish, yeah. The phones have everyone's numbers in them. All the Chosen, anyway."

[alwaysathief]

When she moved the camera to get them both in the picture, Adam will clearly be able to see Remy attempting to stifle a good-natured smirk, obviously amused at how direct she is and how random and odd this must be for him.

"Chosen? You're talkin' about people not from the City, vrai?" Innnnteresting.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

"I think that's what they call us, yeah," Elizabeth said with a nod. "So everyone in my phone list is. . . from out of town?" She still didn't want to admit to strangers that she was from a different century and a floating city to boot.

"How long have you been here?" Her tone was more conversational. She was fascinated by people, and endlessly curious.

[parrishing]

Hey, as long as everyone was having fun.

So to Remy, a nod: "Yeah." And to Elizabeth, much of the same. "We're all from other dimensions, yeah. I've been here...a few months, I guess? Not long." Though a faint frown twitched to his brow again as he thought about it. It felt like longer. Bizarre.

Then again, he was used to time being weird.

"You guys just arrived?"

[alwaysathief]

"A few months ain't long?" That was... not great news. In fact, it ruffled his feathers enough to make him sit up a little straighter and pay attention. Maybe it'd been the party and the drinks that'd put him in such a good mood, or maybe it was meeting Elizabeth, who had an amazing innocence and charm about her, but this was a stark reminder that they were, in fact, trapped here.

"Any idea why we're here? Or who's behind all this?" Remy was, if nothing else, used to the bad guys gloating and rubbing their plans in the faces of anyone who would listen, so this silence was off putting.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

"I thought I came here on my own," Elizabeth mused. She frowned deeply and sighed. "Have people tried to leave?" Surely the Lutece device had been patented, so the plans for making it would be on record. It seemed unlikely that such a marvelous discovery as a window between other worlds would go unnoticed by the scientific community.

Unless none of that was true, or she was in a universe where the Luteces hadn't made their great discovery. Her head swam a little, reminding her not to think about what the Elizabeth native to this universe, if there was one, was doing.

"Maybe it's a natural phenomena?"

[parrishing]

"Not really. Not from what people have told me," he replied with a small shrug. So far as he was aware, a few months was standard; years were rare, but mere weeks also weren't really something that happened. It was interesting.

After a second, he canted his head to one side, thinking. "People have tried to figure all of this out, that's for sure. I'm not sure if they've actively tried to leave, but I'm sure someone made an attempt. No one, so far, knows how we got here or who brought us in, and I've heard bad things about those who try."

It begged the question of if it was worth it to try. Adam wasn't sold that it was a hopeless cause, but he was a bit more wary.

"It might be natural. But most of this doesn't seem like it. It seems like there's something going on."

[alwaysathief]

He glanced towards Elizabeth, tilting his head slightly in thought.

"A natural phenomena? Now that's a thought," And then back at their new friend, "Why not? It's real strange that if someone was behind bringin' us here, they haven't said anything, even anonymously. You wouldn't think you'd go through all that trouble and then just not tell the people you've gone and kidnapped what you want from 'em.

The apartment and gift basket are a little odd, but maybe someone in the city can tell when people are arrivin' or something."

He shrugged a little, far from able to explain away the innate weirdness of this place and their arrival there.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

Elizabeth considered the options that had been thrown out. "Does it truly matter if we're being manipulated by the universe or by a person? I mean, I want to know, because I want to know everything, but the important thing is getting home."

She paused, then added, "Well, for some people, probably." Not necessarily for her. Her head still ached where Atlas had tried to beat her to death. For all she knew he'd actually succeeded. Who knew what happened after a person died?

Booker would know, she thought. Thanks to her.

"Um, have you run into someone named Booker DeWitt? Light hair, green eyes, pretty tall? Probably shot someone when he got here?"

[parrishing]

"That's what I thought," he replied to Remy, on the topic of this unknown someone not making themselves obvious or known. That wasn't how kidnapping worked, last time he checked. That was just a waste of everyone's time. It was almost downright nonsensical.

"And yeah, I'm pretty sure it matters. We can't go home, so most people are on the lookout for who brought us in. Mostly so they can make their laundry list of demands to a face, rather than the network," Adam replied, tone a little dull. For him, the City itself was the mystery, not the kidnapping. The energy, the barrier, everything - that was much more interesting and actually proved capable of holding his attention. Everyone else seemed like they were spinning their wheels, sadly.

A pause. "No. Haven't heard of anyone with that name. Why?"

[alwaysathief]

"Agreed. It definitely matters, cherie. For one, it's a lot easier to convince a person to send us home than it is to convince the universe," He nodded in agreement to what Adam was saying. A person, or even a group of people, would definitely simplify things. You got things like motives and limitations. If they were here because of some kind of universal force, then they were really in trouble.

"I ain't been here long, but I ain't run into anyone by that name either. Actually, I ain't run into anyone I recognize yet. Kinda weird," Especially since he'd been with a team of people just like him. Usually these kidnapping, or displacement, situations happened to an entire team, not just an individual.

[oiseau_ou_cage]

Elizabeth nodded to concede the point. "It's harder to be alone," she noted. Plus that blew her afterlife theory out of the water. Unless there were multiples, like Comstock believed. If that was the case she considered herself lucky to get off so light on the torture aspect.

In an attempt to be useful she said, "Back home there was a machine that could open tears between universes. I'm not sure how I got here, exactly, did either of you two see something like that? Or anything at all?"

[parrishing]

He tipped his head, agreeing with Remy right back. Especially when the universe apparently couldn't even be communicated with - that threw a wrench in a lot of plans, quite frankly. Not Adam's, though - he didn't have actual plans just yet, mostly thoughts.

"It took me a while before I ran into anyone I knew," Adam offered by way of reassurance. Assuming, of course, that was reassuring. "And no, I didn't see anything like that. Last thing I saw before I woke up here was a bathroom underneath the theatre of my school. I was just leaving, then I was here."