Test Drive Meme

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Throne of Shadows
TEST DRIVE MEME!!!

New to Throne of Shadows? Long time player thinking of apping a new character? Welcome to our test drive meme! Experiment with active and potential muses! Here is a place where you can test out characters for the setting and accrue samples for your applications! Roll on the scenarios provided below, or come up with your own!

Scenario Builder

You are...

1. Working in the lava lamp factory
2. Watching "The History of Twine" in the cinema
3. Admiring the fish in the barracks tunnel
4. Lost in a topiary maze
5. Riding the shuttle between buildings
6. Trying to sneak into the administrative offices

You’re feeling...

1. Inexplicably happy
2. Like you could fall asleep at any moment
3. Angry enough to punch someone
4. Nostalgic or sentimental
5. Like someone stabbed you—oh, hey, they did, fancy that
6. As if life really ought to be more like a Broadway musical

Somewhat unusually...

1. You can only speak in rhyme
2. The room is full of old-fashioned toys
3. A box covered in runes drops down from the sky and lands at your feet
4. You hear the voice of your worst enemy in the walls
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

[sexy_bluebox]

"Yes, that's him! The Doctor. My Doctor. All 13 of them." Sexy grins brightly.

"Not a person at all. More of...a box."

[solus_unus]

You're an artist, and artists generally have the same weaknesses, I've come to find. [He glances down at her hand before motioning to it.] No nicotine stains on your fingers, so it's not cigarettes. [His eyes travel up her arms to her face.] No track marks that I can see, or any other evidence that give away that you drink or use drugs, except maybe on a social level.

So, that leaves sex and caffeine.

[Sure, they may have sounded more like assumptions, but Caius hadn't spent as long as he had observing people to consider them as such.]

[solus_unus]

Probably, and that might work if they were grabbing whoever, but I think it's something specific they're looking for.

[leelaofthesevateem]

This was certainly intriguing to discover someone else who knew the Doctor and had traveled with him. Leela smiled, suddenly sitting upright now that her attention was grabbed by something that actually interested her.

"How did you meet the Doctor?" And thus would begin Leela asking questions. She tended to have questions a lot, but she liked to learn things she didn't know. Unless they related to technology, then it was just complicated and she'd rather not learn about it.

"What do you mean? You arrived at a Temple instead of this city?" Clearly things happened here and Leela hadn't heard about any of that.

Though as Sarah spoke about the Doctor, Leela grew confused, a look that feel across her face and deepened the more Sarah spoke. "I do not understand, how can he cheat death? I know he is a Time Lord, but he never mentioned anything about him cheating death by changing his body." That sounded like a headache and a half for her to understand, but Leela would attempt to because the Doctor was her friend. "Yes, he did have a scarf and offered jelly babies!" Leela was a bit excitable at this that Sarah seemed to have known the same version of the Doctor she had.

[artistwithasickness]

[She glances at her hand as he mentions it with a little flare of her fingers. The most she had was fading ink-stains. They might have sounded like assumptions, but Devi knew the difference between someone using their eyes and mind to make basic notes. Maybe he will prove her wrong.

She nodded with another lift of her eyebrows, impressed.]

Well, you're not wrong.

What other painfully astute observations can you make?

[solus_unus]

[A moment of silence.]

No laugh lines. You spend far too much time being serious and focused.

When was the last time you had fun?

[artistwithasickness]

[Her head tilted slightly to the side.]

The kind of fun that involved laughter? Really? Couple of years. But to be fair, the last place I was didn't leave a lot of room for that. Gebo's a bit better. With documentary titles like '100 ways to clean and love your cat', there's still a little humor to be found out and about.

I'm still holding out for a club to be put in, but I don't think they're taking architectural suggestions.

[solus_unus]

Shit.. that's a long time. [muttered which turns into a laugh] Hey, I gotta give it to the Nysgod's. At least they have a sense of humor.

[Nods] Yeah, that would be pretty sweet. Or, even just put in a PA system and crank some tunes.

Guess one just has to find ways to amuse themselves. Not that that's hard.

[artistwithasickness]

[Devi shrugged, with a smile at his laugh.]

Some of us were lucky enough to get music and stuff from the place they held us before.

But amusement isn't lacking if one's got imagination. [The smile quirks into a smirk, her head tilting down slightly with it.]

That's a double edged sword though, we've got a lot of.. Rambunctious people around.

Re: no problems at all!

[envy_the_sinners]

Scar looked back down to the kitten currently sitting in his lap. Name it... His frown deepened. That was what was done, wasn't it? But what to call him? her?

"I ought to..." He suspected that it would simply run away once he got off the train, but it was nice to think that it would stick around, even if just for a little while.

"Isaac," he finally muttered, lifting the kitten to eye level and watching it squirm as it tried to bat at his bangs.

[solus_unus]

[He looked ahead, rounding another corner. They were travelling along the edge now, freedom just on the other side of the maze it felt like.

But, he looked back at her, catching that attempt to hide her smirk.]

Exactly. Those people have nothing to worry about.

[A few more steps] Let me guess - the unimaginative ones, right?

[investigatetime]

I don't know! I just suddenly became very cold without an explanation! Did I change? Go anywhere?

[She squats down to the box, looking it over and then back to Clara.]

Suppose I try again...

[And she places her hands on different ruins this time and waits to see what happens.]

[investigatetime]

"Y-Your Doctor!?" Sarah pauses in her tracks and is about to give her a piece of her mind when she mentioned that she was a box.

"A WHAT? Now you're just being ridiculous." She wanted to help her, but this woman must be crazy! "I'm afraid I don't understand at all."

[investigatetime]

That was a relief! Leela know her Doctor -- their Doctor. Sarah Jane never thought she'd find comfort in that, but surprisingly she did. "I'm not sure, when I met him first, at a scientist summit where scientists were disappearing, he was older with white hair. Then when he was trying to rescue me from some dreadful spiders that ruled some far off planet, he was killed.

"I thought that was the end of him, but then, he collapsed, his face glowed and then changed before my eyes into the man you and I know." She was far too animated as she spoke, and her voice had risen an octave, but this was the first time she had really talked to anyone about it.

"And now there's two of him here - a tall thin one with brown spikey hair, and one that's also tall but a bit of a klutz." She nodded with a small smile. It was the best way to describe him!

[ooc: Sarah Jane doesn't know the Metacrisis Doctor isn't the real Doctor]

[leelaofthesevateem]

Leela tried to picture the Doctor with white hair and being older. It was a bit difficult given the Doctor she knew was on the spry side. Though she listened to Sarah tell her tale with great interest.

"That is a noble way to die, saving another from harm. Though it is curious how he is able to cheat death in such a way." Of course, there was much to the Doctor that perplexed Leela. This was certainly not a new thing to try and understand. Though at least Sarah put it in plain terms. It wasn't some overly technical explanation Leela didn't understand. And it wasn't that Leela wasn't intelligent because she was, she just came from what many would call a primitive people. She had a more simplistic understanding of things. But her travels with the Doctor had opened her mind to new experiences to broaden her understanding of the universe.

"There are two? How can there be two of him here at once?" Again, Leela's brow furrowed in confusion. That didn't make any sense. It couldn't be a clone situation like when Leela and the Doctor had first met K-9 because the two Sarah described looked different.

[bitcheslovehypos]

Bones turned sharply at the sudden voice beside her. “Don’t you know it’s rude to surprise people like that?” she told the strange woman who’d popped up beside her. “You could have given me a heart attack!”

The question only made Bones all the more irritable. “No.” She wasn’t lost. Well, she was, in the ‘having been ripped out of her own damn universe’ sort of way. This was just a maze. Sooner or later she’d find her way out. “Not exactly.”

[bitcheslovehypos]

That voice – HER voice, brings Bones up short. “Damn it, kid, they got you too?” she says, swinging around to face Jane. The look on the captain’s face stops her. She knows Jane, knows her damn well. She was crying. IS crying. And the blinding smile doesn’t hide it. What the hell?

She’s pulling the other woman into a hug without hesitation (it worked, the gamble with Khan’s blood had worked), shifting the stupid cat out of the way so she can do it properly.

[resonatespeech]

[Wren grins briefly, playing a short two note agreement. Then her playing shifts into a more playful melody. Come and find her.]

[thelastmonster]

“I just meant it as an expression of sympathy,” Fire said with a small smile, his brusk tone did not make her pause, she felt no condescension from him. “You must have wanted to see a familiar face from home.” She knew she would like to see someone from home. “Though, I suppose that would mean they are in the same predicament, and that might not be much better.”

Spock was an interesting name, but didn’t translate as anything in Dellian. A unique name to this man’s culture.

“Have you been here long?” Knowing the duration of her stay might be beneficial.

[thelastmonster]

Fire couldn’t explain why she was hesitant to give this man her name, she just suddenly felt caution was the key, and she’d long since learned listening to her gut paid off. But now that he asked, she couldn’t see a reason not to tell him. “I’m named Fire.”

Despite her hesitancy, his explanations interest her, she liked politics and history even when presented in dry manuscripts that could put even the most studious scholars to sleep. “Where are the Iridonian from? And I’ve never heard of the Sith philosophy.”

[punch_it]

"Yeah. They got me too." Jane fell into that hug in greedy desperation, choking on a strangled laugh as she clawed at the collar of Bones' shirt, grasping and tugging it down as her body shuddered and quaked through each repressed sob until she was only trembling with silent tears tracing her cheeks and soaking into Bones skin.

She always was a tactile person, touching and teasing. Good for a pat on the back or a good solid short-lived hug. But since being here, she's grown more needy. Clinging to her people and her tightly held sanity as people she cared for kept coming and leaving and coming back a little more broken and she just-

She needed Bones. She had needed that cynicism and sarcasm and metaphorical grasp of reality to keep Jane grounded and in the present and not breaking into a thousand pieces that never quite fit back together the same way after.

She had needed her best friend.

And now she couldn't even articulate how much it meant to her that this universe finally stopped dicking around with her and gave her the grounding force she had been needing.

[sexy_bluebox]

"Well I'm not like you lot," She nods to Sarah Jane. "I'm not a stray. Not that I mind, of course, him bringing you all along. Sometimes it can be quite fun."

"Oh, come now. Big and blue and I go vworp, vworp?"

[streamed]

No, you were still here.

[Nervous, she fiddles with her necklace as Sarah Jane tries again. She's a pretty logical thinker, so she voices her worries aloud.]

Won't it just do the opposite and burn you instead?

[fivethreestrawberryblonde]

That doesn't really bode well.

[a pause. Because she has to know:] Does anyone have a history of hallucinating around here? Anyone at all?

There's something to be said for tailored suits. But the right guy can look good even without one.

[fivethreestrawberryblonde]

Like what?