Test Drive Meme

[shadow_npcs]

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 (find the setting information here)...

1. Trapped by a giant Venus fly trap! Oh no!
2. Watching the evening light show at the beach
3. Admiring the magical castle the candidates have created in the meadow
4. Lost the desert, near the pixie dust canyon
5. Freezing your buns off on the tundra
6. Up high in the mountains and unsure how to get back down

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 area 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 air
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

[notrosesshadow]

Martha smiled but shook her head. "Your country... kingdom must be far from where I live, for I've never heard of it. I'm sorry. And I'm not of noble birth... so I don't think Lady can be added to my name. And what do I call you? As for how I got here..." Well, that's a long and complicated story. "I was hiding in a closet. Hiding from invaders. One moment I was there, the next, I was here." Simplified but true.

Her smile turned to concern when his hand reached for his abdomen. "Are you injured?" She reaches up for the kitten and lets it down on the ground where it gambols about among the flowers. Martha opens up a carpet bag and begins pulling out bandages if needed.

[kingofthenorth]

"No, I'm fine, just... an ache of the heart." He had a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach and indeed his heart ached slightly. Without another word, he sat down.

"It's a bit hot." Perhaps on the beach, but it was cooler in the grass, being quiet for a moment. "Robb. You can call me Robb." It seemed formalities weren't a thing here, and her dress was one he had never seen, nor was elaborate. Perhaps royalty didn't matter here. Now that was something to think about.

[notrosesshadow]

When he said heartache, Martha assumed he meant his heart actually ached. She crouched next to him, looking concerned. "A heart ache? Tell me, Robb, is it actually an aching feel or more of a stabbing?" Not that they can handle serious heart trauma here. Furthermore, how does someone his age have heart trauma? He looked fit and hale.

[kingofthenorth]

He unhooked his cloak and let it fall around him, and then found the zipper to his tunic. "It's sharp." he commented as he pulled the zipper down.

Looking down at his chest, he didn't see any wounds or anything. "Just my imagination, I suppose." He felt rather ridiculous stripping in front of this polite woman.

[notrosesshadow]

Martha raised an eyebrow at the zipper. She hadn't expected that based off when this man seemed to be from. Perhaps he was one of those strange people that pretended to live in another time.

"There's no wound, but would you allow me to listen to your heartbeat and take your blood pressure?" Just because there was no wound didn't mean he was completely safe. But she couldn't imagine this man having heart issues unless he had a history of it in his family.

She's already reaching into her bag to pull out a stethoscope and a blood pressure cuff.

[kingofthenorth]

[ooc: jeez, I'm dumb. I'm sure they don't have zippers (but maybe the costume department does!) So pretend it was unbuttoned rather than unzipped. I don't know why I didn't change that because I spent a good 2 minutes thinking about it last night.]

"Blood... pressure?" His eyebrows are knitted looking at her in confusion and he sat up straight. "What are you going to do?" These concepts were foreign to him, especially when she pulled out bizarre looking items from her bag.

This whole ordeal was becoming stranger and stranger, "I've never seen such things." He held his tongue from saying anything more cruel.

[notrosesshadow]

[OOC: That's OK. Historical reenactor here. I hate all the freaking buttons I have to do up for my hobby.]

The light had been playing a trick on her. They really were buttons... That was comforting at least. Martha looked up calmly as he panicked.

"It seems my country is more advanced medically than yours is. This allows me to listen to your heart beat. I can put these things in my ears like this, and then I take this part and hold it against your chest." She demonstrates on herself first. "Would you like to try it on me first?"

She does unzip her jacket, and opens it slightly. Her tank top is low enough that the stethoscope would be no issue.

"And blood pressure is just making sure the blood runs through your veins at a healthy speed. It's really easy. I just clasp this around your arm..." She clasps it around her own, "and squeeze this thing until it gets tight. Then I let the pressure out."

[kingofthenorth]

He's studying her rather closely - intently - in assurance that she wouldn't be trying to trick him, although, she still could. "And what do you plan to use these measurements for?"

He was always the serious one, always calculating. Life circumstances tended to make him do that now. It wasn't a choice, he had to, not after the deaths of his family and his father...

It was rude to stare, and he looks away after her demonstration. So far, she had been very kind and full of information since he had been here. "Where are you from, Martha?" He'd rather attempt to change to subject.

[notrosesshadow]

"You said your heart ached," Martha replied. "I want to make sure it's just that and not a symptom of something more serious. I'm a physician Robb. A healer. I save people's lives." Because the word doctor clearly didn't have any effect on him.

But if he doesn't want the tests, she can't force them upon him. She lets the stethoscope hang around her neck.

"I come from a country called England." She wonders if he's ever heard of it.