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Test Drive Meme
✭ Reply to this entry with a character you're considering apping into the game. You can include the name of your character and the fandom in your subject line.
✭ Comment around to others on the meme, whether you're in the game already or not.
✭ Now you have a sample ready for your application!
✭ So go apply when apps are open.
✭ Seriously, do it.
✭ Interested in finding out what's happened so far? Check out the plot guide and recap post!

To get you started, here are a few optional prompts for you to use if you so wish:

Prompts
1. [Setting: Elevators] Did you know it takes a half hour to get from the top of the dorms down to the cafeteria by elevator? Well you're finding out now! Strike up a conversation with the others stuck in there with you! Maybe play I Spy or something.

2. [Setting: Floor Eighty-Six] What's with all the mushrooms? And why are they in circles? That's weird--but maybe the mushrooms are edible? On the other hand, maybe you know exactly what these are--and you should really stop that idiot who's going to jump right in the middle of one of the fairy rings before he gets everyone on the floor turned to jell-o or something.

3. [Setting: Floor Seventy-Nine] Fancy some deep-sea diving? Grab some scuba gear, hop off the staircase, and explore some ruins! Just be careful you don't run out of air or run into a shark (or run into a shark while you're running low on air). Of course, if you can breathe underwater or just don't need to breathe at all, then the sharks would be your only worry. Try and find some treasure!

4. [Setting: Floor Fifty-Nine] Is this a torture chamber? Yes it is. Maybe you want to get out of here as soon as possible or maybe this floor really speaks to you. Maybe you want to give that iron maiden try on the first person who happens to wander by! On the other hand, maybe you got a bit too close to something and are about to take a spin in the racks yourself. Hopefully someone will come help you.

5. [Setting: Floor Thirty-Three] There's farmland on this floating island, and anything you can grow yourself is bound to be more reliable quality-wise than the cafeteria food. Of course, the recent odd storms have made a mess of this floor. Get to cleaning it up and then get to growing something!

6. [Setting: Floor Two] It's time for your first collar checkup! Go wait in the waiting room for your turn--maybe strike up a conversation and find out what this is all about! Or try to fight the worker units when they call for you, not that fighting them ever ends well.

7. [Setting: Anywhere] Whoops, you've gotten distracted, or lost, or you're still climbing up the stairs when night falls. It's time for the monsters to start prowling--and one's got its eyes (or whatever sensory organs it may have) on you! Time to fight back, or time to run?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Enoch? [Tick tock tick tock- bing!] Oh! Him. Yeah, he's pretty decent for a human.

[And give him a minute to pick at his nail in silence, before just setting it down and staring at her directly. Snark and memories of hateful grins replaced with the serious stare she gets.]

You know I didn't do it deliberately, right?

[The only issue you have with the situation, yep.]

Yeah, he is. [There's a slight smile that disappears just as quickly as it came.] Unfortunately, he's stuck here too. I...did a bad job getting everyone to safety.

[She is 100 man, what do you expect?]

I think I'm starting to learn the difference between deliberate malice and accidents, yes. [She tilts her head slightly.]

Eh, don't be too hard on yourself. [Dismissive handwave.] The fact you got so many back to their right dimensions is impressive enough. One or two stragglers falling into the abyss is there own problems.

[Oh wait, there's the vicious smile you remember. It is objectively not as vicious as it comes off.] And you never touched any of us with that backlash of yours. Nice try though.

[Gone again at the last part, head tilting in the same direction hers does, gloved hands gripping the edge of the table.] 'Starting to'. Better late than never, I guess. ...But I figure if you died for such a stupid reason, you deserved a little bit of truth. Or something. Forget it, this is stupid. I'm stupid for talking about it. New subject.

Too bad. Ekiamiel's worse than my perception of you. And here, well - the abyss really would be kinder.

Yeah. This- I'm still figuring things out, you know. [This is literally the first time she's admitted that oh, hey, by horrorterror standards she is probably a babby.] And unlike some I know, I don't have eyes in the back of my head. I literally did not see it coming.

[Backstabs are awful man you should know this.]

Ah shit, someone got my vaulted position of Most Hated By Trees, I'll need to get my medal back.

[Deadpanned like a boss.]

And I don't have eyes on the back of my head, I'm just-- [Paranoid. Pessimistic. Probably insane.] Lucky. Good fortune and opportunity is my divine providence, remember?

[The slip is invisible. Totally. Move right past it.] What, are you fishing for compliments or some shit? You're a dumbass who still cares for humans too much and has a perfect personality for people with my level of power to eat you alive, but you're -- what? A century? Maybe less? At your age, you should be buried underground or staying under the graces of an elder. If you weren't a huge dumbass, you probably would've been pretty impressive.

Please don't. You'd have to be even madder than he is.

[Zeph's a jerk but she's pretty sure he's not THAT much of a jerk.]

And I would've been underground - been the ground, still - if it hadn't been for the explosion. That was when I was, well, when I started existing. [Le shrug.] It was very disorienting, and why I was....really, not thinking that well earlier. I wanted to be able to blame someone or something for forcing a self on the earth.

[Slightly crooked smile goes here.]

It doesn't work that way, I know that now.

[There's a look here that says he knows exactly how to make himself win the award back, but his mouth closes with an audible click of teeth a bit later.

Dumb idea. Dumbest idea. Let's not talk about the Sea Demon.]

What do you mean you-- [Wait.] ...You were an earth spirit?

[Earth spirit turned one of Them after explosion. One that nuked the city. Which means the one he did? But Old Ones don't just pop out of the ground like daisies. Not unless the land itself takes the power and turns senti--

oh

...

oh

......

oh what the fuck

Sola is gifted the rare sight of the normally eloquent Zeph suddenly pale two shades and stare at her blankly. Mouth opening and closing a few times. Then gaining control of his eloquence again in time to respond.]

Oh.

Yeah, I was. Er, well, it...became me, after the explosion. [She hangs her head and sighs a little.] Human terminology sure is weird.

[Wait.

Wait for it.

Waaait...

...

...

Okay done.]

I'm sorry.

Well, like you've been saying, it was an accident. It's freaky, but it isn't like it was on purpose. It was just a bunch of things happening and...something...resulting, I dunno.

[Humans experimenting + horrorterror radiation = UM OOPS OW WHY DO I HAVE A SELF.]

Yeah, but...

[Reproduction was literally the last thing on his mind for pretty much his whole life and then SURPRISE - the girl your faction was trying to kill is your daughter whoops. That would make them furious and--

Wait, that would make them furious.

Today is Christmas.]

Look, I have no idea what you went through before I showed up in person. I'm not going to pretend I do. But I can tell you from first-hand experience that being alone for it sucks.

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