March Test Drive!

[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:

• Use an RNG to choose a location and prompt, or wait for someone else to tag.


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


• 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 - The place where everyone gets dumped off at. Your first view of Ruby City, complete with informational posters telling you all about where you've ended up.
2. THE BEACH - Lovely year-round, though in the winter months, you're probably not likely to dip your toes in.
3. THE BLACK STALLION - A rather quaint bar. Supposedly, the burgers are great, but you don't see anyone immediately who's willing to serve you. Maybe you're meant to get it yourself.
4. THE OBELISK - The tall monolith in the center of the city marks the gathering place of many events, though right now it seems to be cold and dark.
5. THE CLOCKTOWER - Offering an impressive view of the city, several residents come here to clear their heads, if they don't mind braving the narrow staircase.
6. THE COFFEE JOINT - the front windows are warm and welcoming, and it seems there's always someone friendly enough to fix you a cup when you wander through.
7. THE CATACOMBS - Intrepid, aren't you? Those weird holes may beg exploring, but go too deep and you're going to be in a lot of trouble, considering the viciousness of the creatures held within.
8. THE CITY STREETS - All told, Ruby City is a lovely place, once you get past the fact that several of the buildings look derelict and on the verge of falling down. There's no harm in doing a little sightseeing.
9. THE PARK - You thought it'd be a lovely stroll, but the park is anything but friendly, if those approaching wolf-like creatures are any indication.
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like what we've come up with? Feel like picking your own place? There's a whole host of lovely locations to choose from in the City.


Scenarios


1. NEW ARRIVAL - Step off that train, walk down the street. People usually latch on to newcomers to try and help them out. Even if you look shy, the other residents probably won't be!
2. WATCH TALK - Feeling lost? Disoriented? Don't worry, everyone feels that way on their first day. Fortunately - if the signs at the station are to believed - the watch in your pocket can be used to talk to whoever else might be here.
3. BAD WEATHER - Aw, man. Whether it's snow, or rain, or just plain cold, today was definitely the wrong day to get dumped off in a City in the middle of nowhere.
4. A RUN-IN - Maybe you weren't watching. Maybe they weren't. Either way, you just bumped into someone. Perhaps apologies are in order?
5. HELP, IT HURTS - Clumsy, aren't you? Perhaps wherever the train brought you from wasn't so friendly, or you just tripped and twisted your ankle. Either way, you're in a bit of pain. Hopefully someone will notice your booboos and help patch you up.
6. HUNGRY - It isn't very obvious sometimes that restaurants are what they are, especially in a place like Ruby City. Where can a person go to get a bite to eat around here?
7. MISTAKEN IDENTITY - Hey, there's someone you know! --Or maybe not.
8. BEING FOLLOWED - Maybe you're just being paranoid, or maybe you've got a reason to be afraid. Whatever it is, it feels like there's eyes on you...
9. CURRENT EVENTS - None at the moment, but feel free to look through our event tag!
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like any of these ideas? Feel free to come up with your own!

Comments

8-1

[bythewaves]

[ There's a song he knows, a voice he remembers, for Maglor comes often to the station (he will not admit it, not even to himself, but probably, he is hoping that he might see his family one day). He has found some of them here, beyond all hope, and it makes the buried embers of his hope kindle, ever so slightly. He plays for fun, and not for room and board, and as wistful as the tunes are, there is hope to them now too, buried deep.

It has been a long, long time, even for one of the Eldar, but Maglor could never ever forget his brother, the first light he remembers who is not his parents, and the hand on the strings strikes wonder and his voice is hoarse ]

Maedhros?

[unking]

[That song, first, and then that voice, are what pull him up short. It can't-

but-]

Maglor? You're here?

[His face lights up.]

Tell me, do you have them still?

[He had been the one carrying them, after all, before he'd been pulled onto the train.]

[bythewaves]

[ Do you have them, Maedhros asks, and Maglor falters and looks down and away and in answer he carefully sets the harp down and turns his hands palms up, so that Maedhros can see the burns (right in the middle of his right, where a facet of the Silmaril once sat, the lines are burnt almost straight) ]

Forgive me

[unking]

[And, just like that, everything is different - 'Forgive me,' his brother says, the musician who holds out burned and twisted hands as though an admission of guilt. Maedhros almost goes white.]

Maglor, your-

Your hands. What happened, what....

[There's something almost familiar about the pattern, a kind of horror to it that he's deliberately ignoring.]

Why were they not seen to? Perhaps we can find a healer who might still be able to help.

[Your music, he's silently crying, how can you play like this, Maglor's music some days seems like all he has left, and it's been enough to keep the both of them sane - Maglor still has that which he loves, that's something to hold when nearly everything else that their entire family has tried to has crumbled to sand under their fingers. Unnumbered tears, says his memory, and all shall turn to an ill end, but no, not this, he wouldn't let it. Somehow, somehow, because it couldn't be left at this.]

[bythewaves]

Oh Nyelo, oh my brother. [ Maglor lifts a pale face to him, eyes dry but full of guilt and shame, hands still offered in supplication ]

Can you not guess? I am sorry Maedhros. I could not... hold It. They do not hurt any more, it is alright. Not unless I do something silly.