August 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

[still_waiting]

"School is boring," she said.

"And I don't know why he had a police box. But he said it had a pool. In the library." She considered, then scowled. "He also said five minutes."

[bythewaves]

"Sometimes." He agrees. "And sometimes it is fun - it depends on your teachers, really."

"perhaps it used to be a police box?" Maglor offers. "It seems very silly to have a pool in the library. What if the books got wet?"

[still_waiting]

She nodded. "He was sopping when he came out. Climbed out on a rope."

[bythewaves]

"Very sily indeed." Maglor's eyebrow is hiked up high. "It must be a very large box."

[still_waiting]

"Well, there was a giant eyeball in my wall... so..." she shrugged.

[bythewaves]

"A giant eyeball?" Eyebrow climbing. "A very strange world indeed you live in."

[still_waiting]

She shrugged. "It said it was looking for someone. My psychiatrist says that I made up an eyeball because I made up someone looking for something."

She considered.

"Then I bit her."

[bythewaves]

"What is a psychiatrist?"

He tsks at her softly. "That was rude, little mistress, even if she did not believe you. A lady does not bite."

I did! Celegorm chips cheerfully in his ear

You are about the furtherest thing from a lady in existence Curufin snorts from his other side.

[still_waiting]

"She's an idiot woman who told me that the raggedy doctor isn't real," she said with a small sniff. "She told me I was lying. So I bit her."

[bythewaves]

"While she may have been wrong, your behaviour was hardly any better." Maglor points out. "If you wish to be believed you will have to behave like one who is believable. And sadly, biting only enforces the image of you as a child who does not know better."

[still_waiting]

OOOOOh did she look annoyed at that. "And how should I have handled it then?" she asked, ticked. She was one displeased little girl, and she had not ruled out biting HIM.

[bythewaves]

He crooks an eyebrow at her and points out. "Adults like to think they are logical, rational beings, who are in control of their emotions and go over all the facts before they make their decisions. Therefore, you need to appeal to that side of them. You would gain far more of those who speak to if you logically, calmly, laid out the facts, and refused to bend, making sure that all particulars of the event as you laid out were consistent. The more emotional you are, the more the adult listening will assume you are a child seeking attention, rather than a child reporting facts. They still might not listen, but they would not mock you, either."

...yes he has pulled this stunt on his parents before.

[still_waiting]

She blew out a breath, exasperated. "I tried. They didn't listen. Adults never listen."

[bythewaves]

"And the minute you succumb to your anger you lose any credibility they might have given you." Maglor points out. "Time will prove you right, or wrong. But the minute you lose your temper, you have already lost."

[still_waiting]

"He said it was a time machine..."

Yes, she was doing the little kid thing of deciding to only hear what she wants to hear.

[bythewaves]

"It still will not change what has already happened."

[still_waiting]

"If it's a time machine... why not?"

[bythewaves]

"Because if you changed it, you would not tell me you bit her, because it did not happen, true?"

[still_waiting]

"If I had the time machine, then everyone would see it was true and stop telling me it isn't," she said, as if that were obvious.

[bythewaves]

"And if you did, then you would not be here telling me that you wished you had it, no?"

He points out just as matter-of-factly.

[still_waiting]

Enter the ultimate retort and the culmination of all her child logic. "So?"

[bythewaves]

"So, why are you standing here arguing with me about it?" He ripostes.

[still_waiting]

"Because he hasn't come back for me yet. Duh."

[bythewaves]

"Then you should not be arguing but waiting, no?"

[still_waiting]

"I was waiting, then I wound up on the train, and now I'm here. So I might as well wait here."