[ Meme ] August-September Test Drive Meme (TDM)

[st_aff]

It's that time again!

→ Comment with a new character you'd like to test out in the game's setting. (put character/canon in subject line pls!)
→ You don't have to be in the game to comment! HI NEW PEOPLE LET US ENABLE YOU.
→ Tag around with new and old characters.
→ App all those characters
→ ???
→ PROFIT!

Holds for current players are here. Current cast list is here. If you're a new player and you'd like to place a 2-week reserve, you can do so here.

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Here, have a few helpful scenarios for test-driving. Feel free to ignore them and make your own.

I.
Wherever you were, you aren't any longer. You took a turn, a step, blinked and you're somewhere else entirely. A long dusty road leads from nowhere to an oasis (or a nightmare, depending on your taste) of pink and bright light in the midst of the scrub desert and there's nothing and no one else in sight. If you linger long enough on the road, one of the Inn's residents will find you, but you feel noticeably drawn to come inside.

The pink and gold lobby looks like a bunny puked Easter everywhere, and the guy at the reservation desk looks a sort of silly putty shade of pinkish grey. He knows you by name and has a room reserved for you, but other than offering you fresh towels, that's all he has to say. Chances are, one of the residents will intercept you before you talk to Darryl the shade. They'll give you a guest basket with toiletries and chocolates and whatever else Caroline thinks a newcomer needs, and explain (nicely) that you're stuck here, but hey, it's not so bad. It's pretty safe, anyway. At least... so far.

II.
The red, gold and gaudy pink of the Copper Cafe overflows with residents. It's morning, the one and only time nearly everyone finds themselves in the same space for a short window before going about their day. The scent of fresh coffee laces the air, mingling with the buttery aroma of fresh baked pastry. The shade who serves as a cook, Kahni, awaits any orders that include chicken (chicken, not eggs), and Carlos has staffed one of the residents who can cook to make anything else you'd like. Kitty's pouring drinks -- no reason not to drink bloody maries or mimosas on your permanent holiday. Grab a spot at the counter or take a seat at an empty table, now that you're a resident too, there's no better way to start your day.

III. Network
[ooc: Our network is text-based and magic journal. No computers yet. You see this suspiciously well-painted image appear in your network-journal. Uh-oh. Someone taught Lillith to meme.]

Comments

Re: Steve Rogers | MCU

[st_evengrantrogers]

"I... I'm not sure." Steve answered quite honestly. He was still holding the key that the desk clerk had handed him, along with the keys to his motorcycle which was still parked outside.

"I'm a bit confused as to what just happened." How had the clerk known his name? It was as if he was expected here, though he hadn't even known himself that he was coming this way.

Heck, Steve still wasn't quite sure where he was.

Re: Steve Rogers | MCU

[st_andalone]

"I can't tell you how or why it happened, but I can tell you what happened. We were brought to a different reality that's from out of time. I believe they called it a pocket dimension."

Juliana motioned toward the hotel key card in his hand, "you use that to get into your room." Her smile turned wry, "that was hard for me to get used to, I only knew how to use a normal door key." She paused a beat, "do you know how to use one?"

Juliana was from 1962, Nazi and Japanese occupied America.

Re: Steve Rogers | MCU

[st_evengrantrogers]

Steve had never heard of a pocket dimension before, but he'd heard of some pretty strange and unusual things. So it wasn't too much of a stretch for him to understand what that might have meant. An alternate reality. His mind was trying to wrap around that when she motioned to the key card he was still holding. He glanced down at it, too.

"Uh... yes. Yes, I do." Steve had been using them since he'd woken up in the twenty-first century. Hotels used them, and he'd had one to get in and out of the Avengers building. "You seem to have some idea what's going on here," he added, turning his attention to her. "Can you tell me how they knew I was coming?"

Re: Steve Rogers | MCU

[st_andalone]

"I'm sorry, I can't." Juliana shook her head. She didn't know how they knew only that they did. "I believe there is someone that is bringing us here, but I don't know why. That's the common theory anyway. There are people that have been here for a few years, and they still don't know who or what is behind this."

That actually kept her up some nights worrying. She couldn't do anything about it. Unlike many here, Juliana didn't have any abilities. Sometimes she thought it was a mistake that she was there.