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

1-5

[icediving]

Cold, so cold.

Cold like ice, like knives. Cold enough to numb even the very beat of your heart, to steal the breath from your lungs, to make limbs leaden, to make ears deaf to even the pleas of your most precious person.

Elenwë is so very, very cold. And so very, very tired. Turukano is calling but she cannot answer, voice stolen, and the darkness beckons (it's alright, it's fine - she saw them pull Itarildë from the water, her daughter is safe, it is well).

The ground beneath her is cold and hard, and does not feel like ice, but Elenwë is too cold to care. At the train station, collapsed on the platform, is an elven lady whose golden hair is water logged and heavy, in clothes soaking wet and crusted in ice, so cold she can no longer even shiver, lips already turning blue.

[hiddencrown]

He'd call again. And again - forever, if it would help or bring her back to him. It hadn't before, and in his dreams - when he dared let himself sleep - were even worse than the reality.

In short, Turgon believed he was hallucinating as he saw her laying there. But it hadn't mattered even in his dreams, he'd always kept trying to get to her - to reach her and keep her with him. He threw himself forward, crying her name, begging her to stay with him as he gently wrapped her up in the cloak he pulled off himself.

This...was more than anything had happened since they'd rescued her frozen, lifeless body. Heart thudding in his chest, he picked her up and held her to him, looking up and around frantically for any sign of where to take her. He was no healer, and it was a healer's hands that was needed.

...A literal sign finally caught his attention and he followed those directions to the first aid station, praying with all his might that Elenwe wouldn't die this time. He wouldn't survive it a second time.

[icediving]

So very cold, so very tired, but...

Turukano's arms, his voice, he's so close. Once more, just once, to see him before she goes?

"Turu..." the barest whisper from lips too blue, a flicker of movement as she tries to open her eyes.

[hiddencrown]

Turgon clutched her tighter at that weak voice and pressed a kiss to her forehead. Shoving the door open, he looked for a healer - and a bed to place her while the healer he saw started gathering what they deemed necessary. He cradled her head, thumbs rubbing circles on her cheeks as he pressed their foreheads together and kept close. Any heat he had could be taken by her. Everything he had he'd gladly give if it meant having her with him again.

"Stay with me." Commands hadn't had any effect before, but maybe now...now that she seemed so very real and alive (though how much longer?).

[icediving]

He's so warm, and she's so cold, so tired, but...

"Tired..."

He's calling and...

The Vanyar are weak Feanor sometimes said, eyes flashing at his step-mother, although he was always a little kinder to her, if only because he was so distant. And suddenly, Elenwe wants to live, wants to prove him wrong. The Vanyar are not weak, they are not the Valar's pets, and she did not follow Turukano onto the Ice for nothing!

The healers give a sigh of relief as she finally, finally starts to shiver.

"Turu..."

[hiddencrown]

Her death was one of the many reasons he regretted following Feanor that day. Hers, and all the rest who had passed on after suffering so dearly.

Turgon gave a fierce grin of relief at that sign of pure spirit, when he saw her decide to live. He kissed her forehead again with a half-mad little laugh and reached for her hand to start rubbing it for warmth.

"Yes. I am here, right with you."

Any who called his wife, his Elenwe weak was a fool.

[icediving]

Now that she shivers, everything hurts, and she whimpers, clinging to his head.

"Turu... where?" Where is our daughter? Where are we?

[hiddencrown]

The whimper shot straight through to his heart and he looked to the healers desperately for what to do to ease her shivering and pain. He'd climb into bed with her and hold her close if he needed to, and after a moment (where she was dried off and redressed in dry clothes) that was precisely what he did. He pulled her close again and tucked blankets around them both.

He doesn't need her to finish that sentence before he started to answer. "She was well, when last I saw her. I...do not know where we are, but this is not where either of us were minutes ago."

One of the healers piped up though, quietly explaining the situation and earned a small nod of appreciation from him.

[icediving]

She clings to him, too cold to care about propriety right now, and it seems to take hours before she starts to feel warm. She pays no heed to the voices of others, concentrating only on Turukano's heartbeat, his voice in her ear, his spirit bolstering hers.

Their daughter is safe this is all that matters.

Eventually, slowly, the shivers slow, and stop, and she drops into sleep, curled tight against his chest.

Re: 1-5

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Oh this was bad! Bad bad bad bad! Skuld wasn't Belldandy! She had no clue how to go about healing someone, and her magic... wasn't all that reliable yet. If she had her tools here, her parts, something... anything, she could build something but...

If she had Urd's Fire Element, she could warm the air, help this person. But what could a Water Element Goddess like Skuld do for...

Wait! Water! She is, of course, a genius. She might not be good on directing the water yet, but pulling it free? She could do that. Especially with a little help.

Scarlet came forth at her silent call, and the pair began to sing a quick spell. Some spells could be done just with will, with effort, the spell sung inside the head of the Goddess, simple things like levitation, or teleportation. But Skuld needed to be precise, and careful, and she needed help, so despite being a low power spell, Goddess and Angel sung it together.

She used the spell to lift all the water - frozen and solid - carefully away from the woman, without affecting the water that was part of her blood and skin. She carefully drew water and ice from hair and from clothes. And then tossed that water aside.

That would keep the woman from getting colder, but would not warm her. Skuld looked to Scarlet and both nodded, one mind, one soul. Skuld pulled off her outer shirt and draped it over the woman, then she and scarlet - their connection stretching over the woman and the shirt, lay down on either side of her, and Angel and a Goddess, sharing their body heat, because it was all they could think of to do.

What else would Belldandy do? She'd make tea. Skuld couldn't do that. She'd call Urd for help. Skuld really didn't want to have to do that. She'd sing. Skuld... when it wasn't the science and math of a spell, Skuld didn't think she sang all that well. Belldandy said she did, but... that was Belldandy. Still... if this woman would find the song comforting...

Skuld began to sing. No magic, but Bell was right, she had a voice that was, pun not entirely intended, divine. Even laying down, singing softly. Scarlet joined in, not with the words, but bringing the tune and bolstering it, as an Angel was known to do...

She could only hope it was enough.

[icediving]

She is so, so cold, so numb, and everything is dark, and it would be so easy to simply slip away. Elenwe doesn't even know why she fights, when she is so very tired, but (Turu will be sad, and Italrilde will cry) somehow, she still breathes (breathing? She should not breathe, to breathe is to draw ice down into her lungs, she should not... )

...

so cold.


But.


There is...something else there.



Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the woman starts to warm, until with a gasping, choking sound she starts to shiver, a low cry of pain escaping her lips.

I so wish she could take apart the train....

[manga_goddess_skuld]

OOOOOOOOh how she wished Belldandy was there... but Goddesses don't get wishes granted, they're the ones who do the granting. If she had Banpei she could send him for blankets or something, but all she has is herself and Scarlet and her ingenuity.

She needed to build something. She rolled over to see what was available without taking her warmth from the frozen woman. She was a genius, there had to be som.... oh.

"Scarlet, stay with her!" she ordered and then rolled to her feet. Her hammer appeared in her hands and grew. With a grin she set about destroying the wooden steps, pulling down the banister - she could use the metal later - and then grabbing up all the nails and other bits of metal support she could find.

She took the metal banister, and anything else she could find that was not flammable and made a base, but it wasn't wide enough. She looked for more that she could use and glanced back when Scarlet gave her a questioning look.

"Well, yes, I have more materials at home I could use," Skuld said, exasperated, "But if I water Teleport home, you come too, and then she's left alo....you come too! I am a genius! Help me!" That decided, she abandoned the destruction she caused and hauled the woman to her feet as best she could. Did she really have to be so tall? Scarlet took her other side, and together they headed for the nearest body of water.

"Here's hoping this works. Lady, if you can hear me, take a deep breath." Skuld gave her a second, just in case, and tried... well she tried to water teleport back to the temple where Belldandy was. She wound up in the bathtub in her new home here in Ruby city. Good enough.

She ran hot water into the bath after getting out if it, then cooled it to quite warm. She eased the woman back into the tub. The trick would be helping the woman without Urd finding out. Last thing this woman needed was one of Urd's odd medicines.

XD

[icediving]

Tall and slender, but she's a dead weight, and she cries in pain at the movement, the shivers almost violent in their force. She chokes on the water and coughs, whimpering softly in pain and confusion, the shivers still wracking her form.

She shows no signs of regaining coherence.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Skuld moved her to keep her head out of the water and kept running warm water into the tub, draining out the old, so that it would warm her. She didn't know what else to do and moved from foot to foot, fretting.

[icediving]

It takes a long, long time, but slowly, the shivers become less violent, the blue of her lips starting to blush back to normal, the dead white starting to pink back up.

She whimpers often, soft cries of pain as blood starts to flow to areas that have been cut off, white going to red, and her extremeties starting to blister, but fortunately, not badly. Eventually her eyes flicker and start to open.

"T...Turu? W-where?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She breathed out, relieved. "Oh good! You're alive!" She said, clapping her hands. "I knew I could heal you! After all, I am a genius!"

Welcome to your first impression of the young Goddess. Have fun with that.

[icediving]

"W-who? Turu? Where... where is... where is my husband?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I don't know! I found you alone at the station! Are you okay now?"

[icediving]

"Who... who are you?" Blue eyes struggle to focus, and Earwen still shivers. "Where am I?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I'm Skuld, Goddess second class, limited license. And you're in my bathroom. Well, the bathing chamber I share with my stupid sister Urd while we're here."

[icediving]

"Sk...skuld? I... I was... the ice... I fell... Itarildë! My d-daughter, where... where is my daughter?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"There was no ice where I found you. Once you're warmed up, I can show you. Do you want m to get you dry clothing? I could build a space heater." Maybe. If she found the parts.

[icediving]

Her brows furrow in exhausted confusion.

"No...ice? This... this is Mandos, then?" She is still shivering, though less the violent tremors of before and more an intermittent wracking movement.

"Dry... yes... please?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"This is Ruby City. I'll go get you clothing!" she dashed out of the room, ripped around hunting for stuff, finally ran out to the stores. She needed to trade for clothing. Not like anything Skuld could wear would fit her.

She came back with a long dress and flowing head scarf. The girl could regenerate her own underthings, right? Skuld sometimes forgot that non-Goddesses couldn't do all the things she could.

"Here!" she said, offering it. "If you get out of the tub, I can dry you."

[icediving]

"Ruby?" She blinks in confusion, still shivering. When Skuld comes back, however, she has recovered enough to sit, rather than lie, although she has her arms wrapped around herself and is still shivering.

"Out? Is... have you a towel?"