rubycity_ooc | [January] Test Drive

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[January] 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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Alright, alright. I'll quit trying to perform emergency surgery. If it's not humerus, then it's not fun.

[Okay, okay. Seriously, he'll stop. To prove this point, he takes a healthy chug of his gross cup of ketchup before continuing on a completely pun-free path.]

It's a sad state of affairs though, I gotta say. Why so serious, pal?

_{[Maurice feels his stomach turn at the sight of the ketchup drinking. Somehow it hadn't seemed horrible in theory but now he was seeing it and he wished he could unsee it.]}

I just don't like puns is all. It's like. It's like--

_{[Vague gestures.]}

--nnngggghh!

[If Sans had eyelids, he'd be blinking at you, Maurice. Sheesh, hadn't this guy ever seen someone drink a thick, red liquid/solid?]

Okay. Sure, I get it. No funnies. For now anyway. Sorry, I don't like makin' promises I can't keep.

_{[MAURICE ISN'T DONE, SANS. SIT YOUR BONY ASS DOWN AND SHUT THE DUNK UP.]}

People just--fling 'em around! Like shitty tag graffiti on a bridge! Puns are a delicate art like--like--a faberge egg.

[That's a pretty adverse reaction to the idea of puns. Normally Sans would carry on with his business but...that was a little less comical than his usual responses.

Which were mainly from Papyrus, and which he could deal with. This was different.

So...he deems to be slightly more serious.]

Look man. I agree, even if I don't know what the hell a faberge egg is. But you can't make anyone do what'cha want 'em to just 'cause you don't like something they do. Least of all me.

If you think I'm gonna be a problem, I can thank ya for the drink and be on my way.

_{[Maurice is still looking at that glass of ketchup.]}

It's th' kind of decoration you build a whole room around. I'm just sayin', if I'm gonna hear a pun it had better be the best. You don't have to go anywhere. I still have a lot to tell you about this place.

Yeah. That wouldn't work for me.

[Sans almost sighs. ALMOST. But instead he just tilts his glass from side to side. Maurice has the floor now.]

Alright man. Let's chat then. 20 questions, or you just wanna spill?

[He's not going to argue. He'll just stay chill.]

_{[The dead man shakes his head--and does that weird thing where he stares into nothing for a long, long moment like a cat.]}

This place, I think, is kind of alive. There are these people...sins and virtues...and the town's started changing a lot. Like it watches what we do. What we say. This isn't the first dimension I've been dumped headfirst into. Probably won't be the last either, but this one's the sneakiest for sure.

That's totally normal and not creepy. [/sarcasm]

How's the temporal flow here? You get much deja vu?

[He prefers to know whether this "game" resets itself, and is actually not trying to be a smart-aleck.]

I mean, I don't have a straight point of reference here, but, uh, if you say things are different, I'm probably going to assume the worst.

Not up until real recently. I've been here for years, like I said, but a few months ago something happened. Everyone's pasts got kinda...I don't know, shuffled? Like, according to folks I know, I became a kid again. And actually got into a fight with someone. But when it was all over and I was myself, I remembered it as if it had taken place when I was actually a kid. It wasn't like bad hangover memories.

I'll be honest with you, skeledude, until a few weeks ago, I spent most of my time blasted off my ass drunk but it was NEVER like that.

Well hey, everyone's got ways to deal. At least you know yourself, right? You know what's drunk, and what's not.

[Sans seems to be coming back into his chill-mode at this point, but honestly? What Maurice is saying sounds pretty disconcerting.]

I guess the temporal flow's gone to hell then. Or can if it wants to. That sounds like a bad time. Is that what you meant about this place changing up?

[Now the scientific part of Sans is at work. Thankfully no one he knows is here to see him using his brain. That would be laaaaame, they'd expect him to use it all the time.]

_{[The dead man nods.]}

Things just happen. Like, one day I woke up with my head on a lion's body. Which, all things considered, wasn't all that awful. I could fly and go in the sun. But another time my friends and I were trapped in this weird daydream world full of all the stuff I was specifically afraid of! And before that there was some kind of war over a wish-granting cup.

And the moon's not real.

Well, uh. The moon's a real travesty ain't it?

[Sans's grin widens slightly. Not that he's happy.]

For real though. I'm not so sure I'm glad to be signed up for this, but I'll take it as it comes.

Maybe we should change the subject. Like, uh. Where's a skeleton supposed to shack up, and how's the rent in this place?

It IS!

_{[He throws his hands in the air and looks really put-out about the fakeness of the moon.]}

Like, I'm a vampire! I can't go in the sun anymore without catching on fire and now the only heavenly body I can look at is like some bullshit cardboard cutout? Man!

_{[But he manages to rein himself in for the skeleton's sake, slowly lowering his arms back to the counter. He needs a drink. But he can't have one. He reaches behind the counter and pulls out one of the batteries he found in the hardware store and touches the tip to his tongue for a jolt.]}

There's plenty of available housing here, no worries about that. No rent either. Just knock on doors until nobody answers. I know th' place me and Morrigan live in has plenty of empty rooms.

I'm sorry about that, man. It's rough when you're limited like that. But hey, think of it this way, at least you still got the stars. They're cool.

[Maurice and Papyrus might just get along if only he was here.

...Damn, Papyrus wasn't on that train. That was probably for the best. So why didn't Sans like it? Because he couldn't keep an eye on his brother? Ehh.]

Really? Heh. I'll see about finding my own place or somethin'. It won't be as cozy as living with my brother but at least he won't bug me to go to work.

[Pause.]

Say. You, uh. Don't happen to know whether it'll be obvious I'm missing back home?

_{[Maurice carefully follows Sans's line of thought and is waiting there at teh end of it with what he hopes is a comforting answer.]}

Everybody says time stops back home when you leave, which is convenient. And when you manage to get out of here, you don't remember anything. Which I think is kinda sad.

Well. That's just peachy. Nothing to worry about. Why be sad? It'll be like nothin' ever happened once we go home.

[Sans' grip on his cup immediately tightens. SAVE. Lose. Reset. Clean slate.

Not that different after all is it?]

I guess...it's me being selfish. I met someone here--a real special someone. And now that he's home, he doesn't love me anymore. It just feels weird to suddenly not exist in someone's life. Y'know?

But you don't wanna hear about all that.

_{[He shakes himself.]}

I'm trying to develop a new spaghetti sauce. You seem to like tomatoes, wanna give it a try?

[Any response he might have had to try and inject some positivity died out before it left his metaphorical tongue.

Come on, man. He doesn't have enough jokes in the world for this bullshit.]

...Yeah sure. I like pasta. It's got that hometown taste.

Commin' up!

_{[He abandons the bar and starts rustling around in the back. He's still got to get used to this set-up and the icebox is kind of weird shaped. Soon enough he returns with a small pot and he ladles a helping of the red stuff into the skeleton's glass.]}

You can't have garlic when you're a vampire, but I'm working on somethin' to try and get that taste back.

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