Test Drive Meme!

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Test Drive Meme

That's right! A test drive meme! This meme serves several purpsoes!

- Test drive a new muse! -- If you are considering apping a new character to Ruby City, you can comment with them here to try their voice out. Others (currently played characters and other potential characters) can respond. The same deal as usual. Post ICly. Your character can be newly arrived, or you can treat the thread as though they've been in the city for a long while. It's up to you!

- Test drive DreamWidth! -- We realize DreamWidth is new, so feel free to jump in, even with your current RC characters to start a thread and get accustomed to how DreamWidth feels to RP on. But please remember, any interaction from this meme will not count towards in-game CR. What happens in memes stays in memes.

- Stop the withdrawal! -- We anticipate that the move will slow down posting between our announcement of moving and the opening of the DreamWidth communities. So if you need your fix of your RC characters, toss 'em here for fun and games.

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[pureblooded_incest]

[ooc: Let's break this meme in, huh? This is Tracy <3]

Huh..? Kaname?

[Yuki looks around the train station, confused. Especially when she picks up the watch and looks between it and a small case she found laying with it.]

Blood tablets?

Sorry, changing accounts hadn't worked

[thatsmysausage]

Hello, miss! You look a bit lost. Do you need help?

[There is a cheerful young man in a winter coat, smiling, looking quite eager to help.]

It's okay~

[pureblooded_incest]

Um, yeah. Yeah, I do! Where am I? I was in the Night Class dorm and... now I'm here.

Where ever here is.

[renaissancerevenge]

[For most of the trip, Ezio was out cold, but on the last few miles of the journey, he had woken up, paranoid that this was some Templar trick, some sort of trap, and then almost panicked when he could not find a way off of whatever this device was. It didn't seem like anything Leonardo would invent (because he probably could, given the chance and design). Ezio practically leaped through the train's opening doors to get to something he knew - solid terra firma. Getting his footing and making certain his hood was up, the assassino kept his guard up as he observed his surroundings. Quiet, run down buildings. Possibly a town ransacked by the templars? The bastardi seemed rather ruthless on anyone they encountered when it came to trying to get what they wanted. It made Ezio both angry and sick.

After a moment and a few cautious steps, he finally decided to call out, voice heavy with the Italian accent.] Hello? Is there anyone there?

[broswagonist]

[The train station was probably one of the places Souji frequented the most in town whenever he wasn't either out scavenging or repairing the house he'd built for himself. He knew that he wouldn't be able to get onto the train, heck, never even really caught the thing in time, but still. There was just some strong connection to it and besides that, every now and then he came across a newcomer that was just as lost as he had been when he'd stepped off the train and really, he could sympathize with them so he didn't mind giving a helping hand.

And today was one of those days when he just so happened to come across someone new.] Yeah.

[It was a rather short answer in reply to the question, but it would do as he made his way toward the man, stopping a few feet away, tilting his head though his expression was nearly void of emotion as he observed him, and waited to see what else he would say- He'd rather let him come with a barrage of questions now rather than trying and failing to explain should he just go off without taking another's feelings on the situation into account.]

[renaissancerevenge]

[Hood up and looking to the side Souji came from, Ezio eyed him suspiciously. He was dressed in a manner Ezio wasn't accustomed to. He didn't look threatening for the most part, but that didn't mean he could be trusted. Everything Ezio had known growing up was different now.]

Where is this place? Are you the one who has brought me here? [Though he was in a completely different place than where he had been in Firenze didn't mean he had to sound unsure of himself.]

Late, but how could I have reisted a new arrival from the homeland? XD

[morethanpasta]

[Feliciano had found his way to the train station more by chance than anything else. He had been wandering around town, going wherever his flight of fancy took him and then... He had found himself here. He pouted. This place was no favorite of his.

Imagine his surprise when he didn't find abandoned and that voice... Feliciano tilted his head to the side, curious and becoming ever curioser as he took note of the man's clothing. Old clothing. Very, very old.]

Hello. I'm here! [He replied in Italian, trying to test his suspicion. His heart skipped in excitement. Another Italian, that would be wonderful!]

[imperialdecrescendo]

Yaya new journal name...I've never used DW with before so I'm dipping my toes into unknown waters here...~

I mat test drive a character here later.

[in_italia]

Let us test the waters together! *highfive*

...And that icon because the "choose random icon" button had a certain liking for it. It went back to it at least five out of seven times. Shiiiiny pretty "choose random icon" button! :3

Cesare Borgia/Borgia

[purgatoryismyhell]

[It had been the most unpleasant journey of Cesare's life, counting both the journey to surrender himself willingly to the Colonna's non-existant mercy and the journey to Sicily as the French king's hostage. He frowned in displeasure. He spent far more time as a hostage that he could have cared for, yet neither of these dreadful journeys could compare to the journey he had just had in the giant metal carriage.

He had obviously been kidnapped, he surmised as he wandered around the train station, cardinal's robes flapping around him. He was trying to make sense of the odd place and discern its function, yet he was no closer to an answer as he had been the moment he finally escaped the metal contraption. This was the strangest kidnapping he had ever heard of, a pointless tomfoolery of the likes he would have normally only thought Juan capable of.]

Let's try this xD

[michelotto]

[Chiaro had been quite confused himself. After he had killed Juan, he had tried to escape the scene on a horse. After all, he had been heavily wounded and that wound only would have made him suspicious - and the suspicion would have been even more on Cesare if his comrade had been wounded right after Juan's death.

He didn't remember a lot, though and he was quite sure he must have blacked out on his journey, but never would he have thought that he would end up in such a strange place in such a strange object.

It didn't take him long to see someone wearing a cardinal's rob. Did somebody of Cesare's enemies follow him? It might be safer not to appear as Michelotto in that case.]

Excuse me, do you know where this is?

Shao Jun | Assassin's Creed Embers

[concubine_made_assassin]

[The train ride had been both exciting and nerve wracking for the young assassin. More nerve wracking then anything and the shaking had made her sick. So when the train finally came to a stop, she stumbled out and to the far corner of the station and emptied the contents of her stomach. She suddenly regretted eating her fill when Sophia had asked her to stay in the villa.]

If I never have to ride that thing again, it will be too soon.

With how Embers played out, this should be interesting.

[renaissancerevenge]

[Ezio had gotten off of the mechanical marvel not long after Shao had, and stood a bit to the side as she emptied her stomach. He had not seen her on the train... Looking at the thing behind him, still smoking and steaming from the journey, he saw there were large containers that looked the same linked to the front engine. Maybe she had been in a different one? Nevermind that.]

Perdonatemi, but are you alright?

[ex_nohero520]

[It was only his hands moving out to catch the nearest thing that keeps Caleb from falling as he exits the train (or, rather, is forcefully ejected). He glowers after it as it chugs its way slowly away.

Laboriously the man straightens, rubbing a stubbly jaw and grumbling softly. His eyes rake the area around him as his eyebrows draw together in consternation. Where--is this...?] What now, [he sighs, more statement than question. As though that little 'seer' kid before with his ridiculous statements wasn't bad enough, here he winds up kidnapped.

Well, he wouldn't call this kidnapped. No kidnappers are in sight. But nevertheless. Caleb regards the station severely and wishes at once for a glass of scotch.]

I apologize in advance for this. |D;;

[in_italia]

[That nearest thing? That was a person. A now very annoyed person.]

Che! Watch where you're going, damnit! [Lovino happens to hate scotch, but he does have a nice bottle of wine on him. Good luck convincing him to share, though.]

[legendary_silver]

[Sorry but the nearest thing, or person rather, to him as he's forced off the train is a fifteen year old girl. And she screams as he's forced out and goes falling to the ground.]

Test Drive - The Great Warrior Calgara

[fireofshandora]

[[ooc: Let's see how many people are secretly One Piece fans~]]

[There is a sudden shattering of glass; the watch swings violently as the windows of the train are completely broken by the individual holding the device. Shards of glass scatter everywhere, but there is little other sound save for the soft fall of bare feet on the pavement and labored, incredibly furious breathing. A man swings into view, his tattooed face framed in masses of untamed crimson hair, and his dark eyes are wild with rage and confusion. He appears to be crouching, uncaring to the minor wounds in his skin from where the glass had bitten]

This is not my island... [His voice is barely a snarl as he looks around, wariness in every movement, but he moves with a surprising grace, aware of each movement of his body] I swear to my ancestors that who is responsible for my capture will not make it out of here alive!

[broswagonist]

[Having been out scavenging for supplies, it's completely by chance that Souji had decided to swing by the train station today only to stop and blink a few times as he notices the very much enraged newcomer. Well, he gets being angry about suddenly being somewhere you're not supposed to though. Never a fun experience.

Taking a few more steps toward him, slow and hesitant so that he won't appear threatening, he stops at a reasonable distance.]

I don't think they're so easily found. [He'd heard of one of them, but that was about it... Nothing about their captors going out of their way to interact in person with people though...]

I love this so much. I just. I had to.

[in_italia]

[What in the everliving fu...

Lovino takes a few steps back, shivering as he watches the wild man tearing around. Does he even dare to snark at him? Nope, he's scared to even run away. That... thing... cannot possibly be human, and at that size, he stands no chance. Oh god.]

Ch-chigigigigigigigi...

Testing... CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow. Have a suitably derpy icon.

[parlay_vous]

[Pray silence! Your Captain has an announcement to make!]

[...eventually]

[There's quite a lot of undignified key-smashing while your Captain gets a hang of the communicator and precisely how it works. Occasionally, he yelps as bits of static and sound come out of it; or squeaks something about possession and hurls is across the room when video feeds come up. Eventually, though, he figures it out, sucks in a deep breath, and roars into the communicator]

WHERE, PRECISELY, DOES ONE FIND THE RUM IN THIS GODFORSAKEN HELL-HOLE?


((This is Kaoru-mun, by the way. Point of interest, Kaoru has a similarly derpy icon... one of my favourites))

[pureblooded_incest]

[From the video, it LOOKS like Yuuki is drinking a glass of wine. But she's not.]

I think there's a bar near the station.

Experience tells me these two should get along great. XD

[tipsywhorebible]

[Have some crazy giggling and occassional drunken "hic"s from Roxy's side of the line.]

Shit, man, that's like... totally how I'm like when I'm really smashed! [She's drunk enough as is, that it took her a few false starts to get the audio. Now she'll switch to video, so have a giggly 15-year-old wielding a vodka martini and holding the watch pretty haphazardly.] I dun' have rum, but there's some classy fuckin' vodka over here, Mr. Wart-ever. Wh.... pft! Whatever, Mr. Whatever!

Sophie Newman | "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series

[legendary_silver]

Josh??

[There's a girl. In the station. That's not so strange, Ruby City gets plenty of those but the strange thing is the smell of vanilla ice cream wafting through it only moments after she arrives and the silver armor that formed over her body.]

Josh, this isn't funny! Mom, dad-

[She cuts herself off. Can she really call those people mom and dad after they'd been lied to their whole lives? Aunt Agnes wasn't really Aunt Agnes, she was Tsagaglalal. And they were Isis and Osiris. They had been on Danu Talis... How cool was that though?? She'd been on Danu Talis! The lost city of Atlantis!

Aaand, then the reality of it hits her. There were ley gates nearby, where was she?!]

Anne Boleyn | The Tudors

[maple_happiness]

(OOC: Not the very next character I want to app, but I know him well enough that he doesn't need a test drive, and I've been wondering if she's feasible if I go for three. So...)

[She had expected to wake in her room in the Tower, on the last morning of her life. Instead, she wakes in a strange little room that seems to be moving. There's a window, and yes, she's moving. It's like a carriage, except... She can't explain it.]

This is some kind of dream, or delusion. Something to help me cope with what is about to happen to me. It cannot be real.

[So she treats it as a dream, leaving the strange conveyance and finding herself in what she knows is a city, but not like any real one she knows. But it's not real.]

Is this your last revenge on me, Henry? For not giving you the son we both longed for, for not being that little blonde wench you adore? You will drive me mad as well as have me executed, as well as bastardize our daughter?

[She laughs, a wild, broken sound, and falls to her knees. Dream or delusion, it does not ease her pain on this day. For it will fade, and she will still have to face the scaffold.]

I hope you don't mind a familiar face~

[imperialdecrescendo]

[Austria hadn't meant to be wandering the city, but on his outing to find food for the day's meal, he'd taken a wrong turn and had somehow found his way back around to the train station where this insane stay had all began. He is about to pass on by when a shift of movement catches his eye, and he turns, peering inside the train station. When he sees a woman on her knees on the platform, he has to suppress the gentlemanly urge to go to her side and ask her if she is well. She appears to be in a state of distress, and startling her might not be the most wise of decisions. He also noted her style of dress; he'd not seen garments like that in hundreds of years, though they clearly indicated that of a prisoner of sorts. Instead, he lingers in the doorway for a moment before speaking]

...Excuse me, Miss, but may I assist you in any way? [He attempts his best English, though he can't be for certain if she even speaks any language that he knows]