A new Month, a new Test drive! Happy Early April.

[rubycitymods]

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: 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. Bad 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

Hanna Falk Cross || Hinabn

[falkeditupagain]

Out of curiousity, or perhaps to occupy time with something other than asking way too many questions that all seemed to have the same boring answers, Hanna found himself in the library. Maybe he'd catch some Dresden files or stumble upon a book of runes he could actually use? He had no idea, but regardless a little monotony might calm his brain down from the mile a minute that he was so used too but wasn't quite welcoming at the moment.

Still, he couldn't help but get sidetracked in his search for something relevant and interesting and had picked up something that really shouldn't have caught his interest.

Rampant lust was of course one of those god awful romance novels he sometimes saw ladies and gents reading in the book section of target on his way from picking through returns to bring back to the electronics section. Sometimes he wondered why anyone would want to read them, but in the stupid grin he was wearing now, he knew quite well one reason. He snorted as the line 'Here at last was a body with potentialities... that knew to the last degree what it had been designed to perform.' because apparently the chick he was having relations with was clearly designed for just that. Further down the page he described her as a cat with a python strength, which made him pause for a moment but, the more he read the more he thought of a certain friend reading something like this with a poker face.

A more subdued smile replaced his grin as he turned the page, surprisingly still reading after the initial novelty wore off. Perhaps just to count how many euphemisms for a dick the author could come up with. In any case, he's rather enraptured and won't be looking up unless stumbled upon.

[divampire]

Getting around in the daylight often meant resorting to bat-form, something Conrad could (luckily) do now, and mostly of his own free will.

It wasn't that he was following Hanna. Nor was it that he was checking up on him, even if it would be completely justified considering the stupid kid's gotten into fifty billion different close-to-death situations since the moment they met.

No, this meeting was honestly coincidental, and when Conrad, seated like a bean-bag on a nearby library table, noticed the title of the book Hanna was reading, he could give no other reaction than the most unamused face he could muster and a matching tone of voice.

"Really. Access to hundreds of books from other fucking dimensions and you pick up that two-bit Target sale-shelf piece of crap."

[missleadingquestions]

And be stumbled upon Hanna shall-- by one unforgivingly teasing medium. He might not be quite the Hanna she remembered (or rather, that remembered her), but Hanna was Hanna-- and that meant they were totally BFFs already, right?

Yeah, sure.

Frayed logic aside, the sneaky little medium wasted no time upon seeing Hanna to approach and lean curiously over his shoulder.

"So, you're into that kind of book, huh?" She asked, near-trademark smirk already slapped on her face. "Never thought you'd be the type."

If she were the math-y sort, she'd be calculating down the milliseconds to what she was sure would be a perfect freakout.

Tali'Zorah vas Normandy nar Rayya | Mass Effect

[rayya]

[ one second she's working maintenance in the Normandy's engineering, and the next she's... stepping off a shuttle? that's not like any shuttle she's seen before, for sure. it looks... ancient. oh, but more importantly - how the hell did she end up on a planet. this is very bad and very confusing. Tali pulls out her omni-tool and starts trying to establish a communications connection with the Normandy.

onlookers will see a young woman(???) with some kind of strange helmet - all you can see behind the opaque purple visor is a pair of glowing eyes - who seems to be typing into the yellow glowing thing her arm is sheathed in. when she speaks to it, her accent is some kind of unidentifiable Eastern European, with a metallic twang, and the metal attachment on her helmet flashes with every word. ]

Normandy, this is Tali'Zorah. Do you read me? Shepard, are you there? Joker? If anyone can hear me, I'm alright, but I'm on... a planet? It looks like some kind of human colony.

[ no response. no connection, even. crap. she shuts the omni-tool down, pulls out a pistol, and shakes her head. ]

Oh, Keelah. What kind of mess have I ended up in this time?

oh my god, hello, have this robot

[unit031]

[ It's the synthetic voice that draws Labrys in from her walk-- that metallic quality, that synthetic rasp, immediately perks her interest. It-- well. It kind of sounds like a robot. And Labrys, as a robot, can't help herself when it comes to meeting other people like herself; after all, she's got such limited experience. What could she learn this time? ]

Hello? [ Labrys calls from the darkness of the entrance, gently poking her head out into the light. The sound of her gears echo slightly in the corridor. ] Is someone out here?

[ Her scans are picking somethi-- oh! That is. Not a robot. But there is something highly technical happening with this woman, that's for darn sure. ]

eeeeeeee Tali

[calmbefore]

[Very ancient or not at all, depending a good deal on when one happens to be. In either case, it's a very strange arrival and has been ever seen he first showed up in this city. On the bright side, however, aliens are nothing new to him. He doesn't even really bat an eye at sight of her omni-tool. He might not really know what it is, but he can guess at one of the functions it serves.]

You know, I'm not sure I'd really call it a colony. Or at least, I don't think it was the intent to have colonized it. Most of the people didn't really come here by choice. And before you ask, no, it's not some sort of prison colony. Just a very strange sort of... well, it might not even be a planet.

But you're about it being a mess. Unfortunately, it's the kind no one's quite figured out yet.

Kokonoe Rin | Kodomo no Jikan

[ninefold]

((General warnings post here but on the whole she's likely to behave herself in strange surroundings. She'll assume anyone nonhuman is in a costume for the moment.))

---

Having grown up using public transport on a fairly frequent basis, Rin considers herself somewhat of an expert on the subject. As such, when she steps on a train one minute to head into the city for some shopping and steps off the next at the comparatively dingy station at Ruby City (the horror game fog really doesn't do much for it), she's quite perplexed. There's no way she fell asleep standing up, is there?

Well, it's not completely impossible.

While she could make use of the helpful posters, the abrupt change of environment has her more than a little shaken. She immediately reaches for her cellphone only to find it missing, triggering a fear response no matter how hard she tries to suppress it. Swallowing her panic, Rin heads straight for the first person she sees and puts on her best smile.

"Hey, can I borrow your phone for a minute? It won't take very long, I promise."

kyoko sakura | PMMM

[fullsteam]

Yeah, she stole some of those cookies that went along with the coffee. Stuffed 'em in the pockets of her hoodie, too. Who's gonna stop her? Nobody, that's who. The roof's a pretty solid camping spot, at least temporarily, and for now she watches people try and dodge the rain dropping on the street. 'Course, it's raining up here, too, but since when has a little fall of rain been any kind of problem? She should probably start looking for people soon, more specifically than just casing the joint, but she's not one for shoulds, and besides, either they're here or they're not, and it's not worth getting het up either way about it.

Not yet, anyhow.

"Better hurry the fuck up," she says around a mouthful of cookie crumbs.

Being alone sure would suck, though.

Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4

[gigglesnortpriestess]

It was like a blur.

One moment she was running along the train platform and saying goodbye to their friend, their leader and the next she was waking up on a train pulling into a station she didn't recognize. Unsure what to do, she found herself walking off in a daze and wandering out the station and into places unknown. Where she ended up...was some kind of church. It didn't help that it was raining and she had no umbrella which meant a very wet priestess. Not to mention cold.

Yukiko shivered and pushed the door open, hoping to try and warm up a bit. And maybe figure out where she was since when she checked herself that her cellphone was gone and replaced with some kind of watch.

[linefacingforever]

Yu muttered under his breath as he opened the door to the house they all shared next to the cathedral, having missed the sounds of the rain pouring like cats and dogs. He paused to reach toward the umbrella stand to take one, when he swore he caught a flash of red heading into the massive structure next door. His immediate thought was Mitsuru, but she was still in the house, wasn't she...?

Maybe...

Grabbing for the umbrella forgotten, Yu ran out into the rain, covering the short distance to the cathedral and following that flash of red inside.

[sealclubbingisnotcool]

"What the HELL is wrong with today," Veser snarled at the Cathedral, hurling another rock at it's beautiful stained glass windows and striking a chunk of wall instead. It was like everything was out for him today, from Hanna's crappy lead to waking up on that freaky fucking train. Getting kicked out of the Black Stallion for being underaged was just the shit cherry on his feces cake.

And that was why he was here throwing rocks at the Cathedral. Another haphazardly thrown stone misses the colorful target. Nothing about this place was familiar in the slightest. Maybe he'd find Lee's killer here, or that Ples asshole. Maybe not.

In retrospect, running off with no actual lead probably hadn't his best idea ever.

[missleadingquestions]

"You know, you're probably not gonna win any points for throws like that," Maya remarked, standing a pace or two behind Veser.

A new face meant someone to be curious about, so an approach was just in the cards. She couldn't very well ignore someone throwing rocks at a church, after all. (This could be so much fun.)

Maya had crept up quietly as she watched, hands in the pockets of the kimono that was her uniform (where had those pockets come from, anyway?).

"There's not really anyone in there to bug, anyway."

Saionji Hiyoko | Super Dangan Ronpa 2

[konpeitoqueen]

[It's a beautiful day, we're looking something dumb to do-

So, why not approach the blonde girl stomping on the platform? That's definitely something stupid, because she seems to be fuming.]

What do you mean I can't go back home?! [LOOK, YOU GOT HER HOPES UP, OKAY. Her standards were lowered to 'anything not ~murderisland~', but that was wearing off quick. Currently, she's yelling pretty fucking loudly at one of the 'employees' at the station... or, rather, someone who looked official that just passed by.] I bet you're all loli pedos looking to traffic me away! When my grandma comes here, I'm going to crush all of you like antsies with stones!

[Welp. The person she's yelling out doesn't look too comfortable. And then the waterworks start.] WAAAAAH! How dare you! WAAAAAAAAH!

[pocketmobster]

[Kuzuryuu hears the yelling clear down the street and through the wall of his apartment. Granted, his apartment's not far from the train station so maybe it has more to do with proximity than shrillness, but. Y'know.

That screeching is way too fucking familiar to ignore, though. He throws on a coat, takes the stairs down carefully (depth perception is a bitch), and trots towards the source of the noise. He's Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko. He's always looking for something dumb to do.

Not that he was expecting to actually stumble on someone he knows. Not after something like a month of false alarms.

Also, he really didn't think about how he'd approach this particular someone-he-knows. Also, shouldn't she be in a coma?

Shit. This is awkward.]

...Saionji?

[He hangs back, not sure if the statute of limitations on their truce has timed out.]

since im still hacking away at my app,,,

[forgedinhisarms]

[Oh dear. Someone was carrying a box of supplies (ie look at all of that fruit she has my goodness) to the apartment when she heard a familiar shrill voice as she was passing by the train station.

A very. very. Very familiar. One.

Oh. Dear. Perhaps it was best if she didn't attempt to draw herself forward, maaaybe it was best to just go to the apartment.

Except as she was just a hair clumsy by almost dropping her box as she drew forward. Oh boy, there goes some apples, riiight on over to Saionji. Crap. She needs to get those back so here she comes.

MAYBE SAIONJI WONT NOTICE HER COMING CLOSER TO GRAB THE FRUIT...

MAYBE...........]

2; possible Winter Solider spoilers, be aware!

[zastyvshiy]

[ There is a ghost of a man inside the Cathedral. Masked, armed, and almost entirely unseen, he sits in shadows like they're clothes meant to keep him warm.

He's not sure how he got here, or where here even is; he doesn't like that. It bothers him in a way that makes his skin itch, his whole body seem uncomfortable and ill-fitting. He remembers little of where he was before, but he's used to remembering little. It's always been that way. He was chasing his target, that Captain, and then--

Here.

He doesn't understand it. For now, he sits in his dark corner and he waits. ]

/SLAMS INTO THIS

[captain_asthmatic]

[Steve has no idea his friend has arrived in the city. In fact, given the timepoint he was drawn from, he has no idea that Bucky is even alive. Checking out the interior of empty buildings is just a part of what he tries to do. With no direction, no SHIELD to give him orders, and no plan of escape - yet - he spends most of his days working hard on whatever he thinks might help, and patrolling is mostly what he's come up with.

Fighting monsters, saving people, learning as much as he can to try to formulate an escape plan.

He steps into the Cathedral and walks down the aisle, sensing this time that he's not alone in here. He looks around, frowning faintly. It could be anyone, and it could be nothing, but he'll just do a quick search to make sure everything is okay.

As always, when patrolling, Captain America is in full gear. He likes to be visible - make himself a target and reassure the other captives that he's on the job. Every little bit helps. So he's wearing his cowl and shield, the full star-and-stripes designed by his fallen comrade Phil Coulson, though he's not holding the shield at the moment.]

Inspector Cabanela | Ghost Trick

[dancedancebaby]

Just arrived:

[ Few things are as stale as this train carriage, no room for any moves of any sort. The first thing the inspector thinks is that the opposing country has kidnapped him for whatever reason, but nonetheless dances his way off the train when the way outside opens. ]

Hate to say there aren't a lot of tackier ways to kidnap someone, buuuuut....

[ Kidnappings generally have a purpose, right? ]

It's generally considered common courtesy to at least say hi to your victims, baby!

[forgedinhisarms]

[Did that guy just dance off the train. Alright maybe she was just not catching that right since she was passing by. She WAS training, so maybe she just tired herself out this time.

Uhhh... Oh right he's talking.

Paying attention again, hell yeah.]

I haven't seen the people responsible for our landing here, if you're looking for those responsible.

[pause]

Welcome to Ruby City.

Re: Inspector Cabanela | Ghost Trick

[ghosttrick]

[A certain kitten happens to be standing rather close to the train station-- and sure, Cabanela might be a ways away, but...

That coat.

That scarf.

That dance.

Sissel can't help but approach, meowing at the inspector-- but not saying anything quite yet, for suspicion he won't be remembered.]

Soraka | League of Legends

[soraka]

[ train station ]

[ Some might find a curious character jumping out of the train, hooves clacking as she skips down from the last step. She's definitely confused, because while Piltover did have trains, she was pretty sure she was in Ionia. Had she been summoned? This didn't look like a battlefield, but then again, neither did Kalamanda. Unlike Kalamanda, however, this place didn't look abandoned. ]

Hello..?

[ It's silly, calling so gently into the air, but she can't help but at least try. Someone could be around, after all. The poster is helpful enough for her to realize there's a watch on her belt, but she's a bit skeptic about it, so for a couple of moments one can find Soraka standing by the exit, inspecting the watch. ]

Jinx | League of Legends

[cantbechased]

[ the clocktower ]

One might argue that shenanigans and vandalism should be done at night, but what fun is it if no one knows or sees? So Jinx is here to paint smileys and various symbols all over the top of the clocktower, making sure even people on the ground should be able to see. She's clearly standing there with the paint brush, and being caught red-handed is something she probably wants.

It's not like she has to be caught red-handed, she's of course signed her work. ]

Alice | Fate/Extra

[forestoftulgey]

[option a; the train station.]

This wasn't Wonderland, Alice knows that right away but still. She stays quietly around the train station for a while. She certainly can see other people but experience tells Alice that they probably don't notice her.

After all, who would approach a girl who is so quiet she's almost like a ghost? So she stays quiet and walks around the people she sees.]

[option b; the library]

[Certainly once she found out there was a library, nothing was stopping Alice to go investigate. She's not looking for information on the city or anything like that. She wants to see if the building has a copy of her favorite book. Maybe that other Alice would be there, waiting for a story.

The chances of that are so small but Alice can't help herself. Old habits are hard to let go.]

Seras Victoria || Hellsing

[died_a_virgin]

[Seras stood on the train platform, staring out into the city that she doesn't recognize. At least it was dark outside and she could move about freely. She stepped closer to the platform exit, her eyes a bit too wide. Shock was starting to set in and she was trying to figure out how tow get back to Hellsing. Sadly, the only thing that was going through her head was 'They're all going to die...they're all going to die...'

She had no clue where she was going, she just needed to get out and see if she could recognize where she was and get back to the Hellsing Manor. There was a zeppelin headed for the mansion and she was determined to take it down and get rid of the Nazi's that were going to attack.]

[fairbrook]

[What with the recent increase in monster attacks, Integra had taken to patrolling the city during the night -- almost aimlessly. She almost stops dead in her tracks once she spots a most familiar figure at the platform. No, it couldn't be:]

Seras--!

[This comes off as a weirdly confused, happy(?) chirp.]