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TEST DRIVE MEME

You want to join the game with a (new) character? Maybe you’re simply curious about the premise? Or maybe you just need a sample. Well that’s the meme for you to try and test your character as if they were already in the tower! The meme is open to anyone!

• Reply to this entry with a character you consider apping! Put your character’s name and fandom- Your usual meme thing.
• Comment around with your pups. You can also post and tag with characters already in-game of course!
• Most importantly, have fun!!
• ~~Then feel free to go and reserve and app your character when those open.~~

Have a number of prompts to get you started:

[Floor 29]: This floor has seemed pretty peaceful so far, the maze isn't all that hard and the garden that lies beyond it is rather lovely. Still it seems best to head back now that the sun is about to set and nighttime is approaching fast. ...Is that just the leaves rustling in the wind behind you, or is it something more?

[Floor 56]: Oh this looks definitely like an useful floor - the room stretches into a hospital ward, dusty and old, a surgical suite surrounded by a maze of empty beds. The closer you look, the more you'll find that the first impression is quite deceiving - no medical supplies of any sort, unstable lights and what was that noise just now?! Clearly you are the only one on this floor. Or are you?

[Floor 25]: After all you have seen so far, this just might be the first truly innocent floor you see. But is it truly as trustworthy as it seems...? Many other people seem to think so at least! Come and see what they are up to?

[Elevators]: It's quite a long ride between the Dormitories and the Cafeteria - it probably doesn't help that the minutes and seconds seem to stretch out more and more towards eternity, what a hassle. Are well, maybe there is someone stuck with you and up to provide conversation... or entertainment~

[Anywhere]: Do you still have track of just where you are after spending your day exploring the Tower of Animus? If not, you might want to ask someone... or just start climbing the stairs regardless of where you are! Nighttime is approaching fast...

[Event]: Just earlier this day you have been called for (and/or brought in to) an unscheduled collar check-up, in which the color of your collar was changed. It takes a few hours, but soon you feel the effects of it, feel lightheaded and dizzy, feel all your power slip out of your control. Or maybe you heavy to the point of breaking down on the spot, while just none of your powers seem to work. Either way... hopefully you are at a safe place or in friendly company... That is, if either of these things exist in this tower.

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[Not a place anyone can handle alone, and yet...]

Have you... become closer to Luke, and Anise, and the two Ions, since you've been here?

[Asch seems reasonably well-adjusted, given that it's the tower and given that it's Asch. He had been so abrasive in his dealings with the rest of her friends that she feared they would never be able to see eye-to-eye, but perhaps having a common enemy in this environment had changed that.

She would like it very much if that did turn out to be the case, she decides as she turns to follow him when he changes direction.]

...Only the replica Ion, really.

[He and Anise are still awkward, but on good enough terms. Orion and Luke? He doesn't really give too much of a crap.]

It's not like it's just them around here.

[Backhandedly admitting that he sort of has friends from other worlds. Like the ladies down thread. Oops.]

But...

[He had said that those four were the only others from Auldrant in the tower. Natalia looks puzzled, but then it hits her and her eyes go wide.]

You've been making new acquaintances?

[The amount of surprise in her voice might be a little insulting.]

[Just a little]

Is it that surprising?

[Giving you the totally unimpressed look over his shoulder right now, princess, and then turning the corner.]

You seemed so unwilling to even speak with us most of the time. I thought perhaps you had decided you would rather be alone than suffer through having friends!

[She returns the unimpressed look as she follows him around the corner and to her shame there's a hint of hurt in her voice, though she had tried to state it as calmly as she possibly could.]

[...Ouch, that one stings.]

That's... complicated.

[Really complicated. Luke feelings and loss feelings and...

A lot of feelings, really. Truth be told, he's happier associating with people from other worlds just because of how much simpler it is without the baggage of seven years of replacement.]

Like I said, this isn't a place you can survive alone.

[Natalia's breath comes out in a heavy sigh. That hadn't been at all mature of her, now had it?]

...I apologize. It's unfair of me to take my frustrations out on you.

[And she is frustrated. There were some times when she felt as if her attempts to reach out to him on Auldrant had really meant something, and others when she was so discouraged that she wondered why she even bothered to try.

And now she's heard that there are people here with no prior connection to Asch at all, who have accomplished in a short amount of time what she hadn't been able to in much longer.]

I'm glad you haven't been alone, Asch. Really, I am.

[To be fair, Natalia, he kind of avoided your group as much as he could - there's no avoiding people in the Tower, when they've got it in their heads to find you. Sooner or later, one way or another, you do go back to your dorm room.

There's a faint smile on his face, though.]

I'm lucky to have them.

[He just kind of stumbled into friendship face-first and still doesn't really believe that it actually happened.]

And they're lucky to have you...

[Natalia wonders what might have happened had she come here sooner, before Asch had grown so close to these people that she's never met. She wonders how different things would have been.

She can't deny that he seems genuinely happy. That is, perhaps, the most wonderful and terrible thing about this, both at the same time: That it's someone else able to bring out that faint smile. She would give anything to be able to make him smile that way, but since she can't, since she hasn't had the chance to yet...

She's relieved that he's not miserable. She's happy that he's happy. She wishes it was her, but she is happy for him.]

I hope they know how lucky they are.

[It's a speech he's heard before, and he sighs slightly at it. You and Sheba should start an Asch Appreciation Club, Natalia.]

Hardly. I don't deserve them.

[They stick around anyway for some reason, though. He can't complain about that.]

I've thought for a long time that perhaps you don't see yourself as clearly as you ought to. I'm sure your new friends feel the same way.

[Her voice is firm. This, like many other things, is something she wholeheartedly believes in.]

They are lucky to have you, and they're fools if they don't realize it.

[...Yep, definitely Asch Appreciation Club in here. Cue tsunning.]

It's almost dark. Keep it moving.

[And he picks up the pace a bit himself, boots loud on the floor.]

I don't particularly want to see what happens on this floor once the sun sets.

[Natalia sighs. Some things never change, no matter how different everything else becomes.]

Yes, I don't want to see it either. If it's as bad as people say [And she's heard a lot of people saying things even though she hasn't spoken to them herself] then it would be much better to leave this floor immediately.

[Sorry, Natalia, tsunderes gonna tsun.]

The stairs shouldn't be much farther. Go around this way -

[There's a faint rustle that might be the breeze. Asch growls under his breath.]

[Natalia might have believed it to be a breeze, if it had been a breezy day. However, it hadn't been.

She looks over her shoulder and gulps. The plants surrounding them seem much more ominous all of a sudden, a towering labyrinth of hedges rather than a simple maze. She starts to reach for Asch's hand but then stops, opting instead to break into a run in the direction Asch has indicated.]

Hurry!

[Now he draws his sword, since there's a breath to do it in and he might not get the chance in a moment - and then he's running on her tail, even as the vines start creeping on his.]

Left!

[That's all the words he has time for - luckily, that turn puts the staircase in sight. Now if only they can clear the creeping vines along the path from here to there...]

[Relief surges through her once the staircase is in sight. It's just a little further now.

Looking back over her shoulder fills her with dread. The vines are close on Asch's heels and that isn't something she cares to see. She turns, though she does continue to run (backwards, in this case, still heading for the stairs) and notches a few arrows, which she lets fly at the vines trying to ensnare Asch.]

Don't shoot, just run!

[Arrows won't do terribly much against the vines, but Asch is able to jump or slash most of them well enough to keep up. There's plant juice on his blade now that looks uncannily like the blood still sticking to him.]

[She stops shooting and continues to run, this time with a sense of aggravation. The same old pattern is repeating again: Asch is saving her and she is powerless to help him.

Luckily it looks like they stand a good chance of making it to the staircase safely, as long as neither of them trips. Natalia is taking care to stay upright because she has a hunch that one misstep could get her killed.]

[One misstep would be a great way to get killed, yes. Asch is putting most of his psuedo-parkour special ops training to work jumping the lines after her - it's only a few more panting breaths to the exit, a few more steps...

He slashes through some vines as he catches up to her, glad that the glamour sword is real enough for this.]

[They reach the staircase in this manner, and Natalia would grip the handrail tightly and sink to her knees if she could be sure that the vines wouldn't reach the stairs. They don't thankfully and she is able to catch her breath for a few seconds as Asch comes up behind her.]

Thank goodness... we made it.

[One more slash, and the vines curl away from the stairs, giving up on their prey. Asch waits only a breath before dropping to a seat on the stairs and breathing heavily.

Another day, another death dodged.]

Looks like we got lucky today.

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I vote for mad race to the exit yy

y so we can avoid what happened in the thread below

gotta have a variety after all

variety is the spice of life

so are celtic dance parties

are you about to leave for one?

no my roommates are watching Much Ado About Nothing

oic

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