Test-Drive Meme!

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TEST-DRIVE MEME

Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

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[seamistress]

[She sucks in a breath.]

You're in Ruby City.

[hisinnerlight]

[Ruby City. That sounded promising.]

Does this land have magic?

[seamistress]

[She takes a moment before each time she types.]

I've not been here for long. I can't tell for sure.

[hisinnerlight]

[It's a long time before Bae replies. Partly because the watch was very new to him and partly because he didn't know what to say to whoever he was speaking to.]

Can you tell me what other people live here?

[seamistress]

A lot of people from a lot of different worlds. I've yet to meet them all.
Some of them aren't human.

[hisinnerlight]

This world connects to many others. [It was supposed to be a question but poor Bae couldn't find how to do that in text.]

[seamistress]

People are taken from their worlds and dropped here by magic. I don't know who's responsible.

[hisinnerlight]

[Bae thinks he knows someone who could do that, though he hopes he wouldn't go that far.]

I used a magic bean.

[seamistress]

[ He used a what?]

A magic bean?

[hisinnerlight]

Yes. I wanted to leave my world for one without magic so the Blue Fairy gave me the last magic bean.

[seamistress]

[Magic beans? The Blue Fairy? He-...he wanted to leave his world? These questions raise hell in her mind.]

Why would you want to leave your world?

[hisinnerlight]

My father. He was a powerful man in my world. So I wanted to leave to a land where he would be the man before he gained his power.

[seamistress]

[...oh no.]








Who was he?
[She has to play it off.]

[hisinnerlight]

His name was Rumplestiltskin. But some people called him The Dark One. Though none of that will mean anything to you if you're not from the same world.

[seamistress]

[ ...he...knows. How much does he know?
Rumpelstiltskin, how could you? How could you--she has no place to question him.
Bae. Precious Bae had left his world after his only parent became something he didn't want him to be.
And she simply doesn't know what to do.

She needs to set the watch down, setting a hand over her mouth. This is...this is too much. She can't tell him who she is. She can't bear the thought. Swallowing dryly, she picks up the watch again.]

I am. I know who he is.

[hisinnerlight]

I'm sorry. [It was the obvious thing to reply with. His father had touched so much lives in so many bad ways that it seemed easier to open with the apology.]

Whatever he did to you, I'm very sorry.

[seamistress]

[t hurts so much to have him apologize for something he didn't do.]

It's alright. You don't have to apologize.
It's not your fault.

[hisinnerlight]

Someone has to. He doesn't understand any more.

[seamistress]

What do you mean?

[hisinnerlight]

After he got his powers, he changed. He wasn't my father any more. He hurt people all the time and used me as the excuse.

[seamistress]

That sounds awful.
[What...happened to Rumpel? She had seen him. She knew he became the Dark One, but...to put Bae though this?
She was struggling to keep her texts seemingly calm.]

[hisinnerlight]

It was. That's why I got the magic bean. To leave.

[seamistress]

Well...you're safe here now.

[hisinnerlight]

But I'm without him. I'd rather be with him there than here without him.

[seamistress]

You'll be fine.
Trust me.