November 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. EVENTS - 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

[callbacks]

I literally couldn't exist without computers. Computers made me. I. How do people make food?

[digiorno]

[What. OH.]

Stoves. You have to make food on stoves. [LIKE IN THE OLDEN DAYS.]

[callbacks]

...

...

Is that what the stove is for.

[Christ, suddenly so much makes sense...]

[digiorno]

[Oh god.]

It is. Fire comes out of it.

. . . You might need help settling in, if that's news to you.

[callbacks]

[His voice drops for a moment to a mutinous mutter.]

Not my fault our kitchen was a nonfunctional puppet dick deathtrap.

[BUT ANYWAY.]

Can't we, like, reverse engineer some modern shit? I mean, you're from 2001 and I'm from 2012, there's gotta be other people that actually, like, know how to do stuff.

[digiorno]

[What - you know what, no. THAT IS HIS LIMIT. He holds up his hand. Cease.]

Puppet dick deathtrap.

[Explain your ass.]

[callbacks]

Nnrrrggnnffh.

[Could Dave look less enthusiastic to talk about this? Debatable.]

My bro collected puppets. And also assorted live weaponry. And mostly left it all lying around the house for my prepubescent past self to fall ass-first into.

[Or, you know. Deliberately set booby traps for his prepubescent past self to fall ass-first into.]

...

There were cherry bombs in the ice dispenser.

[digiorno]

[Bro . . .]

[He looks - confused for a moment, understandably so, but not for the normal reasons, because - well. Childhood homes do not necessarily make safe havens; that doesn't surprise him. But live weaponry.]

[He's abruptly very curious, wants to know - how old was he? Did he give a reason, or not? What was he like, angry or distant or just calm? And some of that curiosity is communicated in the slight tip of his head, the way his expression is just a little too sharp, but most of it stays buttoned up tight, as things usually do with Giorno.]

. . . You must have gotten very good at dodging.

[That seems to be all he has to say on the matter. Is that tact or politics?]

Reverse-engineering might be possible, but there's no electrical grid, so we'd have to start there. And I have to tell you I have no idea how to set up a direct current.

[callbacks]

[It could be tact or politics or a tap-dancing bear for all Dave cares, he bails on that topic like it's the Titanic and he's that asshole who pretended to be a little crying girl's father to get on the lifeboats. Good-bye, whichever character(s) might represent Bro's inescapable looming shadow over his life. Maybe the ship itself? Maybe the iceberg.

Whatever. He's just gonna move on.]

I mean, I don't know anything about that stuff either, but if it was that hard, like, people wouldn't've been able to do it in the first place. Doesn't it have something to do with kites?

[Dave, you are not Benjamin Franklin. Stop.]

[digiorno]

Um.

[Okay, but Giorno is not Benjamin Franklin either.]

I think there was a key on a kite. And an elephant?

[No, that was Thomas Edison. You're just confused now.]

[callbacks]

An elephant...

[Yeah, nope, Dave is just accepting this.]

Man, colonial Philadelphia must've been one hell of a trip.

[digiorno]

Maybe someone from colonial Philadelphia will show up to give us pointers. I really don't know where to start.

Unless you want to stand out in a thunderstorm with a kite. [#dubious]

[callbacks]

Surprisingly enough, that does not make my top ten list of moronic ways to die.

I mean, it'd be kind of ironic if you squint, but not enough to make the idiocy worth it. Or, you know. The being dead.

[digiorno]

. . . You know, I kind of want to know your top ten now.

[callbacks]

Number seven involves a combination skateboard and sword-rocket.

[digiorno]

Combination skateboard and rocket makes sense. How is a sword involved?

[callbacks]

I mean, if you've got a big enough sword, you could use it as the deck, right, so you just kinda hop on up there and hope for the best.

[digiorno]

Oh, like a broadsword. All right. Creative.

How would you die from it, though?

[callbacks]

Look, we're talking rocket-propelled skateboard sword, no questions about aerodynamic integrity, no blunted edges, no safeties. Do you think anyone's wearing a helmet in this scenario?

[The question is not "How would you die?" but "How awesomely?"]

[digiorno]

I wouldn't wear a helmet on a skateboard anyway.

[Which sounds like he's trying to be hardcore but no, he would actually just fix any injuries with his punchghost.]

So you're thinking an explosive crash or something?

[callbacks]

That or you catch a rail the wrong way and do some kind of acrobatic flip straight onto the skewer end of your board.

Or maybe the blade snaps and the rocket edge slices you straight up the middle.

Like, death by steel-shattering explosion's probably the most exciting way to go with this, but you got options.

[digiorno]

Options are good. The explosion's honestly a little predictable, even if it is the flashiest.

What are the other ones?

[callbacks]

You really that interested in Dave Strider's Unabridged Guide to Dying Like a Braindead Shithead? Wait around a while, dude, maybe I'll whip out an illustrated version.

[digiorno]

I'm very bored here. I'm used to running a city [country??] and there's not nearly enough to do.

[So yes, he is really that interested.]

[callbacks]

Yeah, this place is kind of dead, huh? I was wondering about that.

Aren't you kinda young to be running a city, though? I mean, like. I was kind of assuming you're about my age.