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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
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?
thumbs up!
[ It takes a few seconds too late to register in her mind that she just snapped at her mother. Oh god, oh god, oh god. When she sits up onto her knees, all that remains of that defiance is a bit of a pout and white hair now stained with mud slapped across her forehead. ]
Who put that stupid root there?
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Well, anyway, there's more important matters. She pulls a hankerchief out from her coat and looks for any obvious injuries]
Are you hurt?
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[ Great choice of words there, Rin. Wiping the mud away with the sleeve of her shirt, she just glares at her through mud-dampened bangs. ]
Augh--this is just my rotten luck. You weren't supposed to see me.
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I'm... sorry?
[trying to sneak up on her? trying to sneak past her? Aoi is inclined to suspect the latter over the former]
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[ Even covered in mud, her own mother doesn't recognize her? Rin's relieved truly. What would she have said if she was? ]
What are you doing out here alone, anyway? It isn't safe--[ Not that she was alone, not with Rin there. ]--because monsters and the people, the people here are all the worst kinds!
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Still, a teenager covered in mud, apparently suffering some condition (by the veins on her face) and naturally avoiding people? HOW IS SHE NOT SUPPOSED TO MOTHER YOU.
The hankerchief offer is still open by the way.]
Well, you seem a good enough person yourself. My name is Aoi.
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[ Wait, that's not right. She's not thinking right now and who can blame her? The mother who she gave up years ago is here, the dead mother she's not meant to have anymore, and now she has to be kept safe from the monsters of this tower.
Herself included.
So why is she messing up when it matters most? Has it really been that long that she subconsciously craves the loving touch of a parental figure? Shaking her head, she resumes trying to wipe her face free of the grime. ]
Er, I keep track of the newbies.
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[ No, that's a bad anagram and she sheepishly looks away at that. ]
I don't have a name? [ Worth a shot. ]
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Mount wh-
...What do people call you then?
[being here apparently so long without picking up a name... that's...]
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[ Wait, that's probably not very good either, but Rin seems so proud that she came up with that nickname that it'll be hard to swallow rejection. ]
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[they treated her the same as the beasts that roamed the Tower?]
...That doesn't seem fair.
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[ Laughing nervously (all while damning her for causing her to lower her guard), she shakes her head. ]
That's a name I've chosen for myself. Doesn't it fit?
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You aren't some wild beast.
[dabbing off a bit of mud you missed]
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How do you know that? Everyone else usually... [ Assumes that she is because of the hair and eyes. ]
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You haven't acted like a monster yet.
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[ Stupid, stupid, stupid. ]
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[sorry Rin, but casually accepting the help / mothering of a complete stranger (orz) makes her doubt your monster status as a person... but the girl seems oddly convinced.]
Then, what makes you a monster?
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Isn't that what defines a monster?
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[ah.]
[yes, now thins make a little more sense. And she has absolutely no means to protect herself, she knows.]
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[ Shouldn't she teach her a lesson? That seems appropriate to do--that way this will never happen again. If she can make her live her life in fear, then maybe she'll gravitate towards the safer floors... ]
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You chose to be a monster then? Or is that why you kill?
[it's odd. She'd heard of the dangers and knew it had to happen eventually but this was... odd. Strange. Not what she'd expected.
Had the Tower turned this girl into someone who called themselves a monster? What a depressing though.]
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[ Mostly the other monsters, especially the mermaids. Those poor mermaids. ]
Anyway, why else does a monster kill? Survival, isn't it?
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Hoh, is that so?
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