rubycity_ooc | November Test Drive!

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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:

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!

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...Well, okay, Superman! I'm sorry I didn't recognize you without the big "S" on your chest!

[As sarcastic as that could've sounded, it actually emerges surprisingly genuine; the fact that she has to pause to laugh every third or fourth word goes a long way toward saving it, probably.]

[He snorts--it's sort of been a while since people had references he recognizes to throw back at him, even if she's laughing at him--and then, you know. Floats up into the air a bit. As one does.]

Look, the camera adds twenty pounds, it's not your fault you couldn't see it.

[Oh, well then. That earns a whistle of mild appreciation, as she likewise gets up to her feet.]

Mmhmm, sure. So is that what you were doing up there, leaping a tall building in a single bound?

Heh. Nah, not really.

[He settles on earth again and puts his hands in his pockets.]

I was just sort of trying to get my bearings. This doesn't look like any place I ever heard of before. It's like...

[He looks up at the buildings again.]

...Too normal.

...Oh. You just got here.

[And just like that, the general aura of lingering confusion that had seemed to be sticking with her up and disappears, and her expression shifts visibly in the direction of open, warm friendliness.]

I don't know that much about it, but I've been here a couple of weeks, so maybe I can help you out with some of that. I'm Reimi, and this is Arnold. And you said you were Dave, right? I mean, when you're not being Superman.

[What...is this friendliness you speak of? Oh my god, it's like a little bit of sun just came out all over his life.]

--Yeah, Dave. That's me.

[He looks down at the Arnold again, then offers him a hand to sniff.]

...Nice doggie.

It's okay. He only bites if you deserve it, and I'm pretty sure you don't.

[REIMI...

Arnold, though, is indeed a Very Good Dog Like You Wanted™, and wags his tail as he pushes his velvety nose against Dave's hand.]

So let's see. You got here on that train, right? Everybody does, I think. But this isn't the afterlife and it isn't...wherever you were going, if you were headed somewhere before this. It's sort of like limbo, I think; people get held over here instead of doing whatever it is they're supposed to be doing.

[REIMI PLEASE DON'T SAY THINGS LIKE THAT TO A GUY WHO'S UNDERSTANDABLY UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND THOSE OF THE CANINE PERSUASION.

But a nose in his hand is better than teeth in his leg (and also, better than swords in his anywhere) and for a second he almost misses what she's saying. His gaze twitches up from Arnold at 'afterlife,' though, and remains on her as she speaks.]

Oh.

[That's all he can think of to say about that, for the moment.]

Does that happen a lot...? I mean, are there a lot of us here.

I think so. Enough to fill a lot of apartments and houses, at least.

[She digs around in her pocket, eventually producing a box of chocolate pocky and taking a stick before offering the open end of the package to him.]

Want some? The way it breaks will tell your fortune, you know.

[The offer takes him so off-guard, his face doesn't know what to do with itself for a moment.]

Oh. Um, sure.

[He looks from the box to her face one second longer, then slides one stick out for himself.]

This is just a snack food though, right? People tell fortunes with these?

Mmhmm! You take a bite and see where it snaps off, and the way it breaks will say something about your future.

[Read: you bite into the pocky and she makes up some bullshit on the fly.]

You know, something like, "you're gonna get dumped by a girl", or "something good will happen next week".

[He huffs a voiceless little laugh.]

Okay. Well, can't hurt, knowing stuff about my future's never backfired on me in any way.

[He takes a timid bite off the end of the stick. It ends up breaking near the top. He shows Reimi and makes an interrogative noise.]

?

[She peers at it with feigned intensity, trying to give the impression of scrutinizing the end that remains from the way it broke.]

Hmmmmmmmm...

[DRAMATIC PAUSE]

Yup! You're definitely going to meet someone and save their day, Superman.

[He stops the way small animals stop, a complete cessation of movement no one was aware he was making. But then he just huffs a breath again and glances aside, takes another bite of his pocky.]

What, all this week? Not sure how I'm gonna find time to pencil that one in.

[...Well, that's...curious. Odd enough that she notices, certainly, but politely covers it up by glancing down at Arnold and pretending she didn't see it in time.]

I'd say by next Tuesday. Busy schedule?

You know, gotta check in with Aqualad, the Justice League, all that good stuff. Get cats down from trees. I don't actually know what Superman does, I grew up in more of a Batman household.

I've just seen the movies.

[...the ones that came out back in the eighties, starring Christopher Reeve, shhh.]

Where are you from, anyway? When you're mild-mannered Dave, not a guy saving the day in a cape.

I'm always a guy in a cape.

[Just not one necessarily saving the day.]

But I'm from Texas, originally. Currently slightly displaced, but it's whatever. You? I'm guessing Japan.

I'm always a girl in a dress.

[Or at least for the past fifteen years straight.]

Yup! This is pretty much the longest I've ever been away from my hometown. It's called Morioh — but I'm guessing that telling you the prefecture and stuff probably tells you about as much as saying "Texas" tells me, so. American, right? ...Hamburgers and cowboys?

[And he laughs again, quietly, but for real.]

Yes, that's exactly what Texas is. The hamburgers and cowboys prefecture of America.

[He finishes his pocky stick and dusts his hand off on his shirt.]

I could show you on a map, probably, but it's been a while.

Yeah? You moved somewhere else?

[That would seem to be the logical conclusion, given everything...]

Outer space.

[Because THAT'S normal.]

...

[Uh.]

Are you still doing the Superman joke, because that...sounded pretty serious to me.

Superman's from space? Huh. ...Dunno if I should sue for royalties or something.

So you can fly and you're from outer space, when you're not from Texas.

[...Well, uh. This seems like as good a time as any, then, on the "this cannot possibly get more awkward" front, so: ]

...I'm a ghost, nice to meet you.

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