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towerofjamjars2013-06-20 03:13 am
conservative) wrote in towerofjamjars2013-06-20 03:13 am
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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:
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?
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A female...
[He trails off when the source of the sound actually speaks to him. It's then he straightens up to the best of his ability. A decent impression has to be made, after all, though this is certainly not the mansion he has adapted to.]
I'm fine, miss.
[Well, fine is putting it lightly. Fine in terms of how his physical self is doing. He doesn't feel too out of the ordinary when it comes to the body. But his mind is certainly somewhere else and it isn't serving as a reliable navigator.]
But there's a bit of an issue. I can't say I know where I am.
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That's understandable. No one really knows where they are, when they first get here.
[But how to explain where "here" is, Sheba wonders? She bites her lip as she thinks it over before nodding slowly to herself.]
You're in a place called the Tower of Animus. It's... not anywhere near where you're from. [Not that she knows where he's from, exactly, but this being an entirely separate world - well, they were far enough from anywhere that the "guests" of the Tower could call home.] Our hosts brought us here... they claim to have saved us in those letters. [She reaches over to touch the papers in his hand to indicate what she means. The tone of her voice makes it pretty clear that she doesn't think they've been saved, though.] Oh... I should introduce myself. I'm called Sheba. Who are you?
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That isn't...possible.
[It isn't as though he can be saved but he keeps that in, vocally, all the while his hand tightens on the railing once more. That's no good, though, he has to swallow that up. Emil lifts his head as he begins to fold up the letters to the best of his abilities.]
It's nice to meet you... [He lets go of the railing] But I don't remember any hosts. Or did they just... do this on their own?
[A pause follows. He can't go ignoring other people's questions like that even with both being important.]
I'm sorry, I'm Emil.
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[As much as she wishes it wasn't, she can't change what's happened. They're all here now and they're going to have to make the best of that.]
They did it on their own, I think. [There's a soft sigh - she has to question why they saved some people and not others. But it's an ongoing process, clearly - more people keep arriving every month - so there's still time.] I know I wasn't asked before I brought here... I just woke up here one day. Like you did, right?
...the circumstances aren't the best, but it's nice to meet you too, Emil.
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[He did wake up here as he certainly has no memory of traveling here on his own. It's always someone who feels the need that they can make choices for others and that is just--
No. He isn't going to say anything on the matter. He can't get upset in front of someone he had only just met. It wouldn't be appropriate especially since this person seems fairly kind.]
Have you seen a middle aged man, here? I mean, one called Nier.
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I haven't... I'm sorry. But there are a lot of people here, so it's possible that he's here and I just haven't met him yet. A friend of mine and I arrived here at the same time, and neither of us realized the other was here for more than a month.
[That friend was gone now, but she wasn't going to dwell on that if she could help it.]
And new people arrive all the time, just like you did... if he's not here now, that doesn't mean he won't ever be.
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I just can't accept that.
[There's mind to continue his way but it's not like it's going to do him any good or actually change anything. If Nier isn't here then he isn't. Maybe Nier can find a way to help their friend on his own but Nier had other problems, too, that can't just be all his responsibility.
Emil presses his lips together before he leans some weight against the railing.]
I'm... I'm sorry, I'm being stubborn. I can't just throw a tantrum.
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[She tries to smile, but she can't quite do it. No matter how much time passes and how many more people arrive here, explaining that their worlds have been destroyed and that they're stuck in the Tower for the foreseeable future never gets any easier.]
Honestly, it's fine if you throw a tantrum. It's not the most unhealthy way of coping with this that I've seen. And I've been here for... [She stops to think about it.] ...this is my sixth month, now. I've seen a lot of people come and go.
[At least he wasn't going on a murder spree, after all. And she definitely couldn't judge if he got upset - she certainly had. She still was upset, some days, when she didn't force herself to focus on the fact that they had less than a year to figure everything else out.
...maybe she should tell him about that, but it seems unfair to spring that on him when he's just arrived and is trying to adjust to all of this.]
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[He isn't sure what that is though and she sounds kind of unsure as well. So he has to do somethings for himself and not be spoon fed. Something to do, something to do. He pushes the letters into his pocket for the time being.
It's then he opens his mouth to say something else, only to pause. He doesn't change direction of which he is facing, only closing his legs together as best as he can. This hasn't ever actually really occurred to him with all that fuss he had been making before.]
Um, where can I find a bathroom?
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[Sheba has to do a double-take at that. For something that started with wanting to do something worthwhile, they've strayed from the topic somewhat, she thinks. But hey, nature calls...
She takes a few steps up the stairs and then turns back.]
The bathrooms are on the dormitory floors, up near the top. Follow me - or, the sound of my voice, I guess... [She hesitates, then holds out her hand.] Or I could lead you.
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Once Sheba begins to move up the stairs, Emil is quick to follow. He only pauses when he is unable to hear the girl moving forward. Emil lifts his head slightly as something does feel pretty close but he doesn't make any move to extend his own hand.]
I can follow you just fine like this. Thank you.
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[She starts walking again. Thankfully, he hadn't come down too far from the dorms, so they probably wouldn't be running into any monsters. ...probably.
It's not too long before they arrive in the residential areas. Once they're off the stairs and in a hallway, Sheba makes her way towards the nearest men's bathroom.] It's right over here!
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With arriving to their landing, Emil moves somewhat closer to the wall to press his hand against it.]
Thank you, again, Sheba. I need to remember this for next time... I suppose with all the stairs I've been on I can't say I know which floor this is. But, sorry--
[He's going to have to go in there and do his business. That is, try to find his way in there and then do his business.]
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There are bathrooms on all of the residential floors - there's five of them, and they're all at the top of the Tower. But there's more than a hundred floors not including them, so... [It might be hard for him to keep track.
Anyway, while he heads in there to do his business, she'll just stand outside in the hall and wait. She's not going to just leave someone who can't see, after all. Once he's done his business, she'll be out there waiting for him.]
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He eventually does come back after washing his hands and feels a little more at eased. His brain does work better at this rate which allows the time to dwell on the whole being trapped in a Tower with bathrooms only at the top of the Tower.
...Wait.]
Sheba...?
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[She looks over when he emerges from the bathroom. It sounds like he has another question, which she's not surprised by. Most people are full of questions when they get here. She's just glad he's handling this well.
...better than most, even if he did have to be shown to the bathrooms.]
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Oh, you're still here.
[He pauses.]
I mean, not that I wouldn't want you to be. I just thought you would have went back to where you were staying by now. You didn't have to wait out here for me.
[And he realizes he only sounds ruder by the sentence. Ah, no, that--]
Thank you.
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[Sheba can't help but giggle. She's not laughing at him to be mean, but the amount of surprise in his voice when he realizes she hasn't run off is pretty entertaining. She pushes off from the wall and walks over to him.]
It's alright. I wasn't really doing a whole lot today, and staying here to help is better than just going back to my room.
[...which makes her wonder how he's going to find his room. The residents' names are written outside the doors, but with his blindfold, he's not going to be able to see them.]
Did you have any questions about other things in the Tower?
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Are there any sort of maps available, Sheba? I think you mentioned this place being very big. Or anything written, really.
[There are so many questions but he's feeling a little doubtful that he can actually receive answers to all of them. The big one is as to wonder why there are so many floors to begin with. To house all the people? This inter monologue isn't going to do any good, though.]
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I think someone was talking about making a map of this place... but I don't know if they ever actually finished it.
[She can understand why. It's a huge place - which means it would be a huge job. When he asks about things that are written, though, she brightens up.]
Oh! There's a network system. There are terminals for it on these floors and in the library down on the third floor - here, I'll show you! [And she takes off down the hall for the nearest terminal, which isn't that far, all things considered.] Over here!