RC Test Drive!

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I don't really have a fitting picture for this.

G'day, Ruby City! It's time for a meme for both testdrivers and denizens.

Been itching to test out some CR but haven't had the posts to do it? Thinking of apping a character but not sure they'll fit in the city walls?

Have no fear, a meme for you is here.

Directions:

• Post with your character with their name and canon on top!


• Choose a location and prompt or wait for someone else to tag.


• If you'd like, leave contact info for people to get in contact for plotting and other such shenans.


• Tag around! Make friends. Don't be afraid to chat OOC while tagging.

Locations:

1. Train Station: New arrival, or waiting to welcome people? Either way, the train comes in, but you still can't ride it out.


2. Cathedral: Looking for redemption? Just doing a little sight-seeing? Or just getting a little shelter?


3. The Clocktower: You can see the whole city from here!


4. The Black Stallion Saloon: You were told the burgers were great here-- but maybe you just came for the beer.


5. The Library: You came to do a little research, but it looks like all of the information's just out of your reach. Though, you can always find a way to pass the time here.


6. The Coffee Joint: Run by Lukas, a lovely place to have a chat and a bite to eat.


7. Le Cafe Anglais: A Parisian-British fusion that's as charming as it sounds and serves the best tea around.

Scenarios

1. Just walked in: You intended to get here, and you made your way in; but now someone's caught your eye and you'd like to have a chat.


2. Been here all day: You've been sitting around minding the time. Maybe you didn't notice them at first or maybe you were just working up the courage to talk-- either way, they know you're here and you know it too.


3. Inclement weather: You're here because you've gotten rained in. This wasn't your choice, but at least it's dry-- right?


4. Wild card: Got something better in mind? Well screw these prompts, try it out yourself!

Have fun, guys!

Comments

You have only yourself to blame for being so much fun to play with

[intheattic]

You wish.

[ Though the disgusted curl of his upper lip does imply that he's not feeling so much like having a snack any longer, at least not as long as the air is thick with the revolting smell of shapeshifter.

His voice is pitched low as well, with a slight scrape to it, as if he hasn't used it for a while. ]

*blushing forever*

[bitterwolf]

[...and there it is again, the trusty rage. It's everything coming together to conspire against her, from the fantastically shitty day she's been having to the vampire's stench sending every warning signal in her body into overdrive... and then the leech himself.]

Go to hell.

[She leaps up from her chair and all but runs for the entrance. She has to get out of here before she transforms amongst innocents and there's someone else running around with Emily's face... If they are lucky.]

[intheattic]

[ It's doubtful that the other patrons even see him move, that's how fast he runs past her to await her outside the door with a fierce glow in his eyes that isn't entirely in line with his usual strategy of staying away from trouble.

He doesn't do well with being trapped, not at all, and since he had precious little sanity left to begin with Ruby City is doing him no favors in that area whatsoever. ]

I am in Hell.

[bitterwolf]

[Leah falters for a moment when she is greeted outside by the sight of Alistair awaiting her.

The leech has beat her there.

Always bigger, better, faster, goddamn evil creatures with their marble skin and superpowers like something out of a Marvel comic and no imprinting to rule their lives...

Then her body is shifting and twisting in all kinds of unnatural ways, her clothes are bursting apart as the wolf's shape forces its way out.

Yes, she is in hell, too.]

[intheattic]

[ For almost seven hundred years he's avoided situations like these, continuously running away from fights and avoiding detection and staying alive even after the point where he couldn't even remember why he was doing it anymore.

What point and purpose is there in continuing his miserable existence and dragging his shattered self through the centuries with no end in sight, his body a walking tomb for the young man who died when the venom burned its way through his body and encased his shattered mind in glittering marble?

He will not run this time. Perhaps her teeth on his skin will make him feel something again. ]

[bitterwolf]

[She may be the smallest wolf of her pack, but Leah is still large enough to bite off a vampire's head with one clean snap of her jaw. If she can get him.

Brute force might not take a single, lonely shape-shifter far against an experienced vampire, but in her anger-driven mind Leah is determined to try. With the enemy's smell overwhelmingly strong to her wolf nose and no Alpha to restrain her or pack mind to ground her, there is nothing holding back all that unbridled rage.

She leaps straight for the vampire, determined to simply tear him apart where he stands. If he runs? All the better, she may not be the strongest wolf but she is the fastest.]

[intheattic]

[ As she comes for him, he quickly realises that this was a rather bad idea, and one he would never have considered under normal circumstances. He doesn't really know if he wants to live, but he is certain that he doesn't want to die so that sort of settles the debate in any case since there aren't all that many options that lie in between.

Strong hands reach out for the wolf to prevent her jaws from closing around his throat, and he tries to grab her and fling her aside so that perhaps he can get a bit of a head start. Running has suddenly become a much more appealing option once more.

What the hell had he been thinking?

Note to self, in moments of utter idiocy, stay away from giant wolves with the ability to bite through your sparklemarble skin. ]

Run, Alistair, run xD

[bitterwolf]

[That's a good plan, sparklepire. Too bad Leah sucks at notes to self, or else she might realize that taking on a vampire by her lonesome isn't the best way to maintain a glossy fur coat.

She smashes back first into a wall with the cracking sound of bones breaking. Leah howls in fury and pain. It takes her a moment to work through the blinding pain and get back onto her paws, just long enough for Alistair to get something of a head start.

Just enough to make it interesting.

The wolf throws back her head and howls, calling for a pack that isn't going to respond. Then she is off, bounding after her prey with surprising agility for a creature as large as her. But she isn't as fast as the fastest wolf of her pack should be, not with something broken, though she can't say exactly what. Her entire back explodes in agony with every step. This is why wolves don't hunt alone, crosses her mind before she shoves the thought away.

It is frustrated fury as much as duty that has her put all her strength into doggedly keeping moving, that has her snarling.]

That's the plan x)

[intheattic]

[ He heard that crack, he knows that he did some kind of damage back there and it is utterly frustrating that these damn wolves always have to be so bloody stubborn.

He's always preferred to be on the other end of this game, a hunter at heart even before he was turned into the ultimate predator.

Alistair isn't the fastest among vampires, but he is most definitely not the slowest either and it is quite a feat that Leah isn't being left in the dust considering the fact that she's injured.

Had he been a more honorable sort, Alistair might have respected her a little for that. As it is he mostly finds it annoying. ]

[bitterwolf]

[Now there's something making a grinding noise in what used to be her left shoulder with every powerful bounding step and she's losing grounds, ever so slightly.

Just enough that the vampire might gain that valuable split of a second to make his way into a tree or onto a roof, somewhere she can't follow in this shape and with the break, neither in her other.

That knowledge keeps her going through the pain, makes her use the pain to fuel her anger instead of mellowing it.

She's the fastest wolf. It's all she's good at. All she's good for.

If she can't even be fast enough anymore...

Well, it's all she's left.]

[intheattic]

[ He definitely needs to get his sparkly ass up in a tree because whatever urge he'd had to let her get a taste of him has evaporated now and he's his usual evasive self again.

He isn't entirely aware of it, but this chase has restored an amount of normalcy in his life again that his shattered mind sorely needed. This he knows. This he has a way to deal with.

Being stuck in a magical city and its surrounding area (even if said area is quite large) is just not very good for his sanity.

He's heading for the forest, and it won't be long until he reaches it now. Just a few more moments. ]

[bitterwolf]

[That's fine, she doesn't mind the forest, in fact, treading on soft earth jars her aching body less than running on hard concrete.

Mind muddled from pain as it is, she doesn't realize the problem until the vampire is already high in the trees where she can't follow in her wolf shape and is too slow to keep up in her human body.

She howls in fury before she changes back to her human shape.

There she stands, wincing at her injury and cursing the loss of her clothes. No way to return to town but on four paws...]

Show yourself, you goddamn coward!

[intheattic]

[ Here's his chance. He could just swoop down from the trees too fast for her to have time to phase and he could just end her, problem solved.

... But he doesn't.

Carlisle knows this girl, and for some reason that actually matters to him more now than it ever did back home.

She is a link to where he's from, to the only person who halfway means something to him. ]

Why would I want to make things easier for you, doggy?

[ His slightly raspy voice comes from some unspecified point up above, but he stays hidden and out of sight. ]

[bitterwolf]

[Leah freezes.

He did not...]

You did not...

[Quite impressive, really, how close she can come to an animalistic growl with human vocal cords.]

You didn't call me "doggy."

[She glares into the trees, downright quivering with fury. Not the fury that would have her phase, but the fury that makes her want to strangle the vile creature the old-fashioned human way.] Come down here and let me rip off your head!

[intheattic]

Touchy subject?

[ There's almost a hint of amusement in Alistair's voice, and that is an impressive reaction to get out of him because there isn't much in this big old world that amuses this vamp. ]

If it's all the same to you I think I'll stay up here. I prefer my head to stay attached to the rest of me.

[bitterwolf]

[Humor, leech? No, she can't say she's laughing.]

Funny, I think you'd look better as a pile of ash. I could help you achieve that desirable state.

[Leah sighs angrily. They are at an impasse.] If you try again to feed from humans I won't show mercy.