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rubycity_ooc2014-11-02 12:32 am
rubycitymods) wrote in rubycity_ooc2014-11-02 12:32 am
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November Test Drive!
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:
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 Beach: You can almost forget you're trapped, in a place like this...
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. The Forest: Not a great place to be caught alone, but are you alone?
8. Wildcard: Pick anything from our list!
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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And... wow! That was a surprise. She hadn't seen Vriska in months, not since they got the treasure and went back to hang at Meenah's hive. And she hadn't seen her alive in even longer - but that was less of a surprise, given how trivially the city brought people back to life. The same thing had happened to Feferi. But something seemed off... she couldn't put her finger on it.
Whatever it was, she was sure she'd find out soon enough. So yeah, have a sparklebutt Maid of Time waving genially at you from one of the tables. "Hey! Fancy seeing you here."
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Vriska stomped inside, her long black hair hanging wet in her face. She'd screwed her eyes shut in aggravation (and to keep the water out of her eyes_, but at the sound of that voice--
That voice--
She opened her eyes.
And there she was, Aradia fucking Megido, in the actual living flesh.
Not a ghost, not a frog, not metal and wire, but flesh. And wings.
Vriska had half a beat to stare in disbelief, her mouth slightly ajar, before she finally blurted out "What are you doing here?!"
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... Wait.
Aradia's smile shrank away to nothing. Timeline shenanigans again? But how far off was she? All eight eyes and no metal arm, that narrowed it down, but...
"You were expecting someone else?" she asked, in a careful tone. The question itself was kind of dumb, true, but how Vriska responded would speak volumes. (Not that Vriska herself was ever reluctant to speak volumes.)
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Everybody knew the story of Wherein An Elderly Blue Blood Who Has Been Too Merciful To His Inferiors In Life Is Visited By The Ghost Of A Former Coconspirator On 12th Perigee's Eve And Refuses To Change Until A Trio Of Chronologically-Themed Ghosts Representing His Many Mistakes--etc. Obviously.
"Doomed timeline? Hilarious joke?" She flashed a pointed grin, but instead of cheer, it was sharp and full of menace. "C'mon, I'm dying to know."
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"Vriska, what's the last thing you remember before you got here?" she asked.
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Vriska crossed her arms over her chest impatiently, but resisted the urge to roll her eyes in favour of fixing Aradia with a more calculating look.
"Depends. Do you mean the last thing period or the last thing that was even remotely interesting?" She was being difficult on purpose and she didn't care how obvious it was. She didn't feel like dishing every detail of her last few hours to Aradia, and she didn't feel like giving Aradia the upper hand, either! Her pointed smile had hardly left, but it was back again.
"Tell you what, why don't we mix this up a bit! You tell me where you got those so-very-stylish rags of yours, and I'll tell you something interesting."
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"Not you, that's for sure!" Aradia had walked right into that one! Which didn't make it any less true. Though maybe the whole 'you're dead' thing was getting old? You could only bring that up so much, after all. It was hard to say, though--maybe if Aradia stopped dying so much, it'd be easier to tell when the joke was over.
The waterlogged hair thing was getting old, however. Not to mention the water in her shoes and soaking her jeans. Lucky for her, there was an easy fix for that!
And it just so happened to be a great way to rub things in Aradia's face.
Two can sport wings and pyjamas, Megido.
But only one of them could wear it this well.
"I'm feeling pretty good right now, though, so I'll be extra nice and tell you which way you died this time. Here's a hint: you left a great big crater behind... oh. Wait, I guess that's not very helpful, is it? Too bad!"
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She smiled innocently. "Oh, I've blown up more than once? Thank you. See, that wasn't so hard."
Okay, she couldn't resist a little snark that time. The timeframe between the botsplosion and Vriska's death was only a couple of hours, which she figured was an acceptable margin of error. But she'd keep to her end of the deal, and hopefully in time to keep Vriska from interrupting.
"You know how I didn't have a dream self, right?" she went on. "That turned out not to be true. She was just sleeping in the crypt, in Derse's moon. So I blew up, Jack Noir destroyed the moon, and I came back to life." Simple, really.
Trying not to bring up stuff Kanaya tells her in the other thread dkfaksd
No thanks to someone.
It was good that Aradia had plowed ahead. If she hadn't, Vriska would have had some words for her--she did manage to slip in a scowl before the red blood could open her mouth again.
Once she'd finished her explanation, however, Vriska paused, considering the logistics of what Aradia had just told her.
"....pretty convenient. Too bad more of us couldn't have gotten there the easy way, like you. Maybe I wouldn't have been the only one to accomplish anything!"
xDDD
Pfft, implying that Vriska isn't heavy to lift - I mean *cough cough*"It couldn't have turned out any other way," Aradia said matter-of-factly. "There are timelines where we weren't the only ones. They didn't last."
Nor did those where Vriska got too ambitious. There were upwards of one of those.
But that was all in the past. Funny to think of it that way, as the player to whom past, present, and future meant the least, but it was. If they were both going to be stuck in this dimension indefinitely, she didn't want to spend that time futilely sparring over things that happened forever ago.
"That was all a sweep and a half ago for me, though," she said. "As you might imagine, quite a bit has happened in the meantime."
Something tells me that you're not a reliable source, miss 'I could snap your neck with a twitch'
At length. With extra emphasis on how much everyone was dead. And how much older than her Kanaya was. And how dead she was supposed to be. She was getting really sick of that one.
"--hey, forget that for a second. You're the Time player and all, where does this city nonsense fit on your timeline junk?"
Because by all accounts, the answer was 'it didn't.' But most of those accounts came from people who didn't know a boondollar from a transportalizer, so frankly she didn't give a damn what they thought.
i just came out to make a fat vriska joke and i honestly am feeling so attacked right now 9u9
"It doesn't, as far as I can tell," she said. "We're in sort of a pocket dimension, cut off from the rest of paradox space. Supposedly, anybody who's sent home forgets they were ever here, so we aren't necessarily doomed, in theory... but even that's kind of unclear. If someone, for instance, lost a limb here, I don't know if that kind of thing would be preserved.
"So it might be creating a bunch of doomed timelines, or it might not. I don't have enough information to say."