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

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!

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"Look, I know sometimes people have to remind you, but you are Hanna Cross," Maya replies, grinning just as brightly as usual. "It was yours already. You just forgot."

Hands on her hips, Maya shakes her head, feigning a sigh of exasperation. "I get that you don't remember how it works. That's cool. But we're friends, whether you remember or not. And we're gonna be friends, and if I ever come back and forget all this stuff, you're kinda totally obligated to make friends with me again."

...She adds, then, as if suddenly remembering-- "Oh, and you're not gonna break it. Trust me. If I can't break mine, you can't break that. The cord's that kind that gets stronger the more you wear it, see?" She even tugs on hers to demonstrate.

"Are you REALLY IGNORING THE FACT THERE ARE OVER-POWERED KILLERS IN THIS PLACE FOR THE SAKE OF A FUCKING 8-BIT ITALIAN?!"

Conrad has every right to yell, okay.

And there aren't any librarians here.

My programming has its flaws, but my date ain't wrong. People get pulled from different points in time a lot. I got friends who are still from 2006 or even later than that. Some people don't even use that method of dating stuff, it's weird.

[ She huffs and leans back into a normal standing position, hands still on her hips. ]

I told ya, people come from different worlds. It's like an alternate dimension then, you feel me?

...also everything translates immediately due to magic mumbo jumbo. As far as I know, the only language I can speak is Japanese but everybody else speaks English or somethin'.

[ kanyeshrug. Jamjar's, what're y'gonna do? ]

Right. Like I'm going to believe that.

[ this is going nowhere. she can't just stand here arguing with an AI, she needs to find out where she is and how to get back to the ship. but she can't turn her back on this synthetic, because there's no way she can trust it not to stab her in the back. if an AI really does have emotions, a personality, humanity... can she really just shoot it in cold blood? ugh. why did things have to get complicated? ]

Look, it's pointless to argue about this. You have no proof, and I'm definitely not going to trust an AI. If you really are trying to help me, can you just tell me what planet this is? I'll restore communications myself.

--Uh. Well. That's a great question.

[ Really, it is. What planet is this? Well. It isn't one. That's a whole....thing. Really. Words; how does one describe the floating rock they're currently inhabiting? ]

We're not....on one.

[ Labrys looks a little perturbed by the idea herself. ]

It's complicated. If you walk out to the outer edge which is I guess a couple days hike from here it's just-- nothin'. Void, I guess.

[ behind her visor, Tali's expression is utterly unimpressed. she would cross her arms to emphasize it, if it weren't absolutely vital for her to have a ready weapon between herself and a sophisticated AI. ]

Well, if this isn't a planet, then it must be a space station. What system are we in? Surely you at least know that much.

[ It's Labrys's turn for an unimpressed look. ]

I don't know. Nobody knows. Things are weird here, okay? We all arrive on the train and then we can't leave and to make matters worse, we got basically nothin' in terms of technology. Do you know how hard it is to keep up with your maintenance when all you got is a screwdriver and hope? We don't even know where we are!

[ She looks frustrated. This has bothered her a lot and she's done everything in her power to figure it out, but the library has nothing on it. She should know, she read it all. ]

I'm sorry. You're stuck. We all are.

[ she shakes her head. ]

That can't be true. None of it can! No one has the technology to just take people from moving ships, not even the Reapers. I...

[ she doesn't believe it, doesn't want to believe it, but the panic is setting in anyway. she needs to go and look around, see everything for herself, because surely there is something for a quarian to salvage, something that could break through whatever signal jammer is interfering with her communications, but-- damn it. as reluctant as she is to take her pistol off Labrys for even a second, she starts fiddling with her omni-tool, trying to get a connection. the distress is starting to come through in her voice. ]

Normandy. Come in, Normandy! Damn it, Shepard, I have a situation here!

[ Labrys feels conflicted watching the display. Sure, the woman had been pointing a gun at her for the past few minutes and saying that she wasn't a person and all that but-- well. Labrys had dealt with that before. She couldn't help but wring her hands a little, despite the fact that she couldn't feel it. ]

Look, miss, I'm sorry. Maybe one of your friends will show up, y'never know. That happens! My friend showed up at the same time I did! [ She droops slightly. ] He disappeared though. Went back home, I guess.

[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.

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.

Disappeared?

[ there are two possibilities here. either the AI is lying through its teeth, in which case that will come to light soon and Tali will blow its head off with a shotgun if she has to - or the AI knows at least something about what is going on here, and it can be relied on for information if nothing else, at least until she can call the Normandy and ask Shepard for a decision.

cooperating with a full synthetic? after that big argument about the geth on the Rayya? the Fleet would have her head for this. ]

... I think I'm going to need a lot more information than that. [ she may have already made the decision to play nice(r) for now, but it's a lot harder to actually holster her pistol, and she does so with great reluctance. ] I'm not comfortable with letting you out of my sight just yet. But if I can get some proof that you are what you say you are - that this place is what you say - then I'll... stand down.

[ she points a finger at Labrys. ] But if you turn on me, then I won't hesitate to kill you.

[ she's surprised to get an answer to her failed transmission, but it's only a human, unarmed and without armour - she leaves her gun where it is. it's nice to see a human who doesn't decide to comment on her race before anything else. she knows they're still pretty new to the majority of the galaxy, but hey, she doesn't go around saying, a human! every time she sees one. it's obvious that she's a quarian, they don't need to point it out.

this guy might be easily recognisable as a human, but she starts up a scan on her omni-tool anyway, just to check for anything else. something wrong with him, or this planet, maybe. ]

Sorry, you're going to have to explain that a little more clearly. What do you mean, not a prison colony? If they didn't come here by choice, what else can it be? And how can you not know whether it's a planet or a space station?

[ her omni-tool blares an unhelpful error message - something about not being able to identify the man's species, even though he's clearly human. she cuts it off quickly. ] Oh, you stupid thing! Don't tell me it's broken. I really don't need this right now.

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.

[Someone who looks human, anyway. The omni-tool's scan, however, will turn up that he really isn't quite so human at all. For one thing, most humans have only the one heart and he very clearly has two. Other than that though, he looks to be perfectly healthy. In the prime of life, nearly, although there are other little oddities here and there.

Enough to suggest that the best he really is is humanoid, albeit a presumably-healthy individual of whatever species he happens to be.]

There's not entirely enough of it to be a planet, if that makes sense? And it's not nearly sterile enough to be a space station. Or even some sort of biodome on a space station. Besides, you saw the trains and I haven't seen a train yet that looks like that and can even get to a space station.

[Anything else on those lines, however, will have to wait. Even cut of as it is, the error message has caught his attention and he's following the attendant train of thought to the logical conclusion.]

What's it doing, if you don't mind me asking? I might not have seen anything quite like that before, but I might still be able to help.

If you want, I can find you somebody better with words? Or who might know more than me?

[ There were a few people she knew who could probably fit that bill. And...they weren't robots so Tali would probably...listen.... to them....

Okay that hurt.

But she had bigger fish to fry, she could be frustrated about it later. ]

Gotcha. Not that I was plannin' on doin' that anyway, but--

[ Labrys hoists her axe up, collapsing the handle and putting it back in its holster on her back. ]

--okay. You ready?

He wouldn't need to go that far because the girl just followed the aisle way between the pews, speaking out with a hoarse voice for anyone to hear.

"H-Hello? Is someone here?"

Like he wouldn't be able to tell who's voice that was, even if she wasn't more or less standing right in front of him..

"Yukiko..."

That voice...the one that she heard not too long ago called out to her. But the way it sounded to her, it was like he was expecting her to show up. Or maybe her mind was thinking too much on it, who knew either way. Yukiko turned around to reveal many different expressions: surprised to see her friend standing there because her expression clearly showed it, and cold and wet by the look of her body as she had her arms wrapped around her body, slightly shaking.

Also there was the beginning of a puddle forming at her feet but it was obvious with all the rain coming down.

"Yu-kun...?"

"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.

"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."

Hand halting mid-toss, Veser's green eyes narrow and he whirls around to face her with teeth bared in an annoyed scowl. Great, this is what I need right now. A freakin' critic. Even if she WAS pretty cute. But right now she was annoying!

"Aw, fuck off, girl! Think I care if anyone's in there," he shoots back in a huff, turning back to haphazardly toss another rock. When that one misses its intended target too, Veser adjusts the sleeves of his hoodie. He hadn't been sure how he'd woken up with his signature garment, considering he left it at Conrad's when he- A look of realization formed and gave way to seething. Conrad. And Hanna. And that fucking Frankenstein. They were behind this, weren't they!? Wherever they were, at that moment he decided he was going to break out and find them.

He turns once more to face her, having not so much cooled off, but redirected his anger to somewhere much more important... well if you were a teenage boy anyway. Besides, maybe he totally had a chance with her. Maybe she could help him with something a little more immediate. There was always later to figure everything out, right?

"The hell you want, anyway?" His angry tone had lessened, but was still prevalent.

Edited 2014-04-03 20:43 (UTC)

Wow, Veser, that was rude.

Rude, but not enough to distract Maya from those really sharp teeth. She'd usually have wanted to pretend to be offended-- but seriously.

That was cool.

"You've got teeth like a shark!" she exclaimed, approaching almost fearlessly. "What kind of world did you come from? I mean, that's why I'm here-- you're new, right? Where'd you come from?"

"Huh?"

Surprise paints his face and he's about to respond, but her onslaught of questions just brings more questions. Veser stares blankly at her for a moment.

Edited 2014-04-03 21:10 (UTC)

Houston we have interest.

Knocking himself out of the stare, he can only assume that by 'world' she means 'background', the way she follows it up. Must be ESL. Tucking his silvery hair behind his left ear then crossing his arms, Veser gives her the smuggest smile as he looks her up and down.

"Yea, jealous? Maybe I can letcha feel 'em up close if you want," he said with a wiggle of his eyebrows. "And I come from the U.S. You like, Chinese or something?"

Edited 2014-04-03 21:26 (UTC)

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eeeeeeee Tali

Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4

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omfg i'm glad people are happy to see her

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