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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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[Ezio regarded his posture, wondering if he was hiding anything in that pocket with his unseen hand. Ruby City? There was no sense in asking where it was if this person didn't know either. The only thing Ezio seemed certain about it was that it wasn't in Italy.]

You were brought by that same contraption as well then? [He gestured to the train behind him before taking a couple of cautious steps towards the other man. If he indicated any sort of harm...There was a soft schnk of the mechanism, but Ezio froze. He couldn't feel the hidden blade. He knew Leonardo fixed it, but a glance down towards his wrist confirmed that the blade was indeed missing.]

Merda.

It's called a train. [He offered a tiny smile then. It was no mystery that this place had a tendency to haul people in from all times and worlds, so someone not knowing what it was didn't really strike him as strange.] And yes, I was. [And then a tiny nod, in further confirmation that he had indeed been brought here the same way.]

.... [Smile fading away then, he blinked a few times at that word he didn't understand, and the way the other glanced down toward his wrist.] .... Is something wrong?

A train. Forgive me, for I have never seen or heard of one before. [He wondered how people would react to such a device, which was faster than a carriage with foaming horses tied to her front!]

There is something I am missing. [He looked to the train, wondering if maybe it had...somehow come off on there? The train itself was strange, so maybe it had even stranger...talents that he didn't know about. Ezio looks like he's about to attempt to climb back on the vehicle, intending to search for his missing blade.]

[Something missing? Well, that certainly didn't sound good. He couldn't remember seeing anything about items going missing before, and he'd had all of his things when he arrived... Maybe he should make a note of asking the next time he decided to speak to people over the network.]

Do you think you could have just dropped it somewhere? [Of course, he wouldn't put it past this place to take things away from people... Considering how it was already taking people away from their normal lives and all.] I could help you look if you want.

[He glanced toward the train then... If whatever he'd lost was on there still... He wondered if it would even let them on to look or if it would just roll out the minute they took a step toward doing so...]

[He shakes his head, and then pulled at the door to try and get back on the train. ...The door didn't budge. Grunting with effort, Ezio pulled at it, teeth gritting in frustration. The train apparently wasn't going to allow him back onto it. He pounded the window with his hands once before trying to see in. It was dark, and he couldn't see anything.]

There is no way I could drop it, as it was attached mechanically to my arm. [He took a step away from the train, glaring at it from underneath the hood.]

[Souji couldn't really say he was surprised that the train was not letting him back on. When he had arrived the train had rolled out so fast that he'd barely even been aware of it before it was gone.] That would make it difficult.

[He tilted his head again then.]

... Is it something you really need? [He wasn't about to tell him to just give up on it. It might as well be something he really needed. If not though, he would suggest looking into if someone could remake it for him or at least create something similar.]

It was my father's blade. I had just gotten it back from a friend who had repaired it for me. [Nope, Ezio wasn't happy about this. This could be a nasty Templar trick, but how could they have found out about his hidden blade, let alone take it off of him without him knowing? He cursed something in Italian under his breath.]

My enemies could be waiting here for me. [He needed to get something to defend himself with because after a quick check, his dagger, sword and throwing knives were missing as well. What the hell kind of place was this?] I need to find a blacksmith so that I may rearm myself.

... Oh. [Important then. Things passed down in families usually were, or so he thought. Never having had anything passed down to him or much of a relationship with his father, he couldn't really understand.]

... I doubt that. [He couldn't be 100% certain considering how he didn't know who his enemies were, but...]

Most people here have been brought here against their will. [He figured he might as well try to explain that much.] So if your enemies would lie in wait in a place where they'd be trapped too.. [He pauses, thoughtfully and brings a hand to his chin.] Then you have very dedicated enemies.

[He smiles ever so slightly then, showing that that was indeed an attempt at humor even if he's not laughing or anything.]

The Templars are dedicated. [But the man had a point. They'd be trapped in this place too, just like him. Maybe they were unarmed as well? But that was something he really didn't want to take a chance at.]

I would still like to find a blacksmith, per favore. It is better to be safe, especially in a place I know nothing about.

[He supposed he could understand the need; he'd prefer to arm himself too, had he suspected any presence of shadows, Izanami or heck, even Adachi here. Thinking about it, lips drawn in a tight line, he sighs after a moment. He'd received a sword for Christmas but before that he'd just had a golf club laying around just in case, but honestly, he didn't think there even was a blacksmith here.]

I'm not entirely sure there is one... [Other than that the best bet was...]

You could possibly scavenge though. Anything in shops that aren't tended to is generally free for the taking.

[Well, he supposed he could do that. Nothing stopped him from looting the corspes of guards he fended off. The only difference was that there wasn't a dead body this time.]

You would not happen to have a map, would you? [He took a few steps off of the platform and towards Souji. He didn't exactly care if he came off as threatening or not - he couldn't efficiently kill anyone anyways without his hidden blade. He had gotten better at fighting - his skirmish with Vieri de'Pazzi and his gang a few weeks ago helped with that - and could probably still be pretty lethal in hand to hand combat.] If I am to be stuck here, I will need to better familiarize myself with my surroundings.

[Looking up, he scanned the higher buildings. No eagles in sight, but a few of the buildings would be tall enough for him to scale and get a better look maybe. There looked to be a church, and a clock tower of some kind. This definitely wasn't Italy anymore.]

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