Gather 'round, everyone, and have a candy.

[asea]

Test Drive Meme
Exactly what it says on the tin.
First brush up on some of the general rules outlined here first, then:

1) Labeling the subject with your character's name and canon is up to you, but would make recognition easier.
2) Do go ahead and tag out! The purpose of this mingle post is to get everyone cozy with the setting and the playerbase.
3) If you're up for it, make a reservation. Applications open next week!

Some prompts if you'd like a boost (the first chunk is lifted from the applications page, bless the mods):

A) A new curse has settled upon the city of Vatheon: Suddenly you character realizes they are unable to lie for the duration of a week.
B) What is this? Is that rain? How nice-- wait a minute, is it raining rubber duckies? Seriously?
C) Suddenly, by the force of Vatheon, an over zealous npc, or even your character's friends playing a joke, your character suddenly finds themselves wearing clothes they otherwise would never wear.
D) The city of Vatheon is under attack (again). Giant sea-creatures are wrecking the city (again). Time to prepare for battle.
E) A new plot development has happened and your character has decided to get some more information from one of the NPCs.

F) Whatever the heck your beautiful heart desires.

Comments

Botan | Yu Yu Hakusho

[shinigenki]

[Ah yes, going around and asking questions to gather information, that's what she's best at! What sort of detective's assistant would she be if she didn't?

First order of business--tapping a random on the shoulder!

Anybody unlucky enough to be subject to this might turn to see a girl with a very average appearance and a bright smile on her face.

Well, except the blue hair and the very pink kimono. And the ensuing British accent:]

Hello, excuse me! Sorry for the trouble, but where are we presently?

[triverse]

[Kongwai takes all of this in easy stride, turning quietly to the girl with a slight smile. He has no accent to speak of, himself, though his is a rather deep voice—deeper than might be expected from an effeminate face, anyway.]

This is Vatheon. You've never heard of it?

[shinigenki]

...I'm a new arrival!

[Straightforward enough.]

I should be in a little country called Japan right now, actually.

[Or perhaps the Spirit World, but telling a human that would be a big No-No.]

[triverse]

[Ah.]

It's unfortunate, but there's no place by that name here. Though this is a rather small nation, itself.

Kurloz Makara | Homestuck

[zipperlips]

[It does, in fact, appear to be raining rubber duckies.

This guy doesn't seem to be particularly affected by it. Sure, there's a duck impaled on one of his horns, but he's going about his business like it's no big thing.

... Did one of the ducks just disappear into his hair?]

[ex_stony914]

[ . . . okay, he can't ignore the fact that this bizarre looking guy had a duck disappear in his hair only to willfully ignore it, because, honestly, who does that.]

—Hey. That duck.

[zipperlips]

[Kurloz turns to him, and tilts his head curiously. What duck, bro?

The duck on his horn doesn't fall off. Nor does one fall out of his hair.]

[ex_stony914]

[The image is rather funny, in a way, but he finds himself assaulted by an irrational annoyance at this.]

There are ducks on your head. No, one of them is in it! Are you going to take them out or not?

[Are you blind, bro??]

[zipperlips]

[Kurloz adopts a look of mild surprise, and starts patting at his hair. He doubts one is in him, but his hair is pretty crazy. He might need to be told about the one on his horn, though.]

[ex_stony914]

[Tarras stares. He can feel the onset of a twitch in his eye.]

The other side. Don't forget the horn, either.

["Horn." There's always the first time to saying odd things.]

[zipperlips]

[Patting down his hair is abandoned for reaching up to the one on his horn. When Kurloz finds it impaled, he tugs it carelessly up and off the horn, then examines the hole poked in it for a moment with something of a grin.]

Cierra | Rivera: The Promised Land

[burntoashes]

[SQUEAK!

Cierra almost didn't feel the object bouncing off of her head with her hat obstructing her vision. She lifts the brim and looks up, eyes widening in surprise as she sees a veritable storm of duck-shaped objects raining down. She pulls her hat down tighter over her head and moves to seek shelter, worriedly leafing through her memories to see if she could recall a shield spell.

Then she finally stops, whipping her staff out and shouting something.]

Oh my, please stop raining!

[Silence.

Cierra lifts her hat up again, surveying the scene with some satisfaction.]

Thank goodness for magic.

[Never mind the sudden influx of new very yellow ducklings trip-tropping around the plaza, still quack-squeaking.]

[returnthefavor]

[Who likes dogs?

Because this girl comes along with a particularly protective white German Shepherd.

Not that she minds the protectiveness at all, especially not when they were leaving one awful place and then suddenly found themselves in another one. Although Fiona doesn't actually know if this place is truly awful yet...surely nothing can be as bad as her "grandfather" and his designs for her.

Speaking of designs...she is still in this outfit that was given to her upon her entrance to Belli Castle. Fiona directs Hewie to stay and approaches someone.]

Excuse me? Do you, ah, know where the nearest clothing store would be?

[evocate]

Hm?

[Here he is, minding his own business (truthfully, that never is the case)—and of course that leaves him open to interaction, and Lir doesn't look to hesitate, not even to ask a few questions out of formality, before he gestures to a store not that far away. This is all said and done very casually.]

Try there. Well, it's not much of a store when you don't have to pay, but it should suit your taste.

[returnthefavor]

Thank you. [And she smiles, just slightly. Hewie, meanwhile, rumbles as he tilts his head at the stranger.]

What do you mean by not having to pay though? ...If you don't mind my asking, that is. [Actually what was she intending to pay with, all she had with her were items she alchemized upon leaving Belli Castle, but even then they weren't with her. What was the currency in this place even? So many new things to learn, how curious.]

[evocate]

[Good dog, nice dog.]

Haven't you heard? [More as a vocal observation than anything:] You don't look like you're from around here. For people like us, everything is free.

Grandpa Harley | Homestuck

[hihohalley_away]

[Well. He was dead. And now he's not. At least, he's pretty sure he's not. Who ever heard of an underwater afterlife?

Okay, maybe animals that make their home in the water, but besides that.

Grandpa Harley is a sorely confused man.]

What in blue blazes...?

1/3

[spacecase]

[Underwater, yes, afterlife, no not really. Not that Jade has been informed that there was any sort of possibility of a long dead guardian showing up.

Rather, she wasn't expecting it for herself, she shouldn't be expecting such things, she'd only be setting herself up for disappointment when there's so many other things to be thinking about.

So when she walks through the Plaza and happens to spy a man with a rather familiar stache, she stops. Then she turns to face him. Then she sloooowly tilts her head and sniffs at the air a bit to maybe catch the man's scent.]

[spacecase]

[...That cologne.

Washed off a bit by water, of course, but it's...

It's him. It's her grandpa, not a corpse, but alive and really here in Vatheon!

O-oh god...what does she do now? Would he even recognize her if she just ran up to him? It's been so long and--]

[spacecase]

[No, she can't stop it, before she can really think over what to do, Jade's running to him, crying out--]

Grandpa! Grandpa!

[And she's hugging him and oh god he's all wet and Grandpa-smelling and she's crying just stop, stop crying.]

[hihohalley_away]

Oof!

[Dang, Jade, when did you get such a grip? Still, he'd recognize Jade anywhere. Grandpa doesn't dwell on how old she's gotten, and instead hugs her back just as tightly.]

Hullo, Jade.

[That's all he can think to say, at least for now. He's just glad his granddaughter is here.]

[spacecase]

[She's the Iron Lass, it's her.]

[Sniff.] I don't believe this, I thought--

[That she'd never see him again.

Ahhh, what's the use in being negative?]

I missed you so much!

[hihohalley_away]

[Aww, it warms this old man's heart.]

I'm sorry I didn't get to see you grow up. But look at you!

[He grins and holds her a little away.]

You've grown into a charming young woman! Although, I'd like to know where on earth you got those ears. Did Becquerel do something?

[spacecase]

Uhh...sort of? You know how you taxidermied my dream self's corpse? I prototyped that into a sprite of Bec, then later on when I went god tier I merged with her and got the ears.

[amid other doggy instincts.]

[hihohalley_away]

Sounds complicated. Still, you came out on top and none the worse for wear?

[Otherwise, Grandpa will take his shotgun and show people why you don't mess with Harleys.]

[spacecase]

Yeah...it is really complicated, but it all worked out in the end!

[Or at least so far it's all worked out.]

But this isn't our world, Grandpa, this is a place called Vatheon. Have you gotten the pamphlet and stuff yet?

[hihohalley_away]

No, I think you were too fast for me to get handed that!

[That or he lost it already. Oops.]

[spacecase]

Well, it's like you always said, the early bird catches the worm.

Or the early Harley catches the elder Harley in this case.

[Dohohohoho.]

In any case, Vatheon is--well--this! [She gestures all around her, especially up towards the sky where if Grandpa looks he'll notice that there's a school of fish passing overhead.] It's the name of this city. We're brought here as foreigners because our energy give to that coral over there powers this barrier around us. In compensation, we're given free everything--as long as we show them the tattoo we're given--and we just live our lives here.

[shippingmath]

[oh no sexy grandpa Harley looks a lot like someone Dirk recognizes, certainly, which is why he stops and approaches.]

You just arrive?

[hihohalley_away]

[better believe it sonny Grandpa smiles a bit at him.]

Yep. Don't suppose this is a strange afterlife, is it?

[shippingmath]

[smiling isn't helping, Grandpa Harley...]

No, not an afterlife. Just Vatheon.

[hihohalley_away]

[But smiling is good for people, Dirk!]

Hmm, I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or not. Would you mind helping an old man get his bearings, then, lad?

[shippingmath]

[Lies.]

Would you rather be just dead? No? Good. [Dirk shrugs.] Sure, I figure I can help. What d'you need to know? You get the brochure?

[hihohalley_away]

[Some people might be offended by that. Grandpa Harley is not some people, though. He's positively amused by Dirk.]

Haha, blunt one, aren't you, kid?

Sure did, even gave it a quick read. I like to fact check sometimes, though.

[shippingmath]

[It's good for Grandpa Harley that he isn't offended, because Dirk probably wouldn't care if he were.]

Hell yes I am. The brochure's one hundred percent true, by the way.

Yui | Angel Beats! -> B

[suplexes]

[So this girl is trying to punch and kick the rubber duckies off of her.

She also has a mouth that can make a sailor blush.]

What the hell is this?! I'll kick your asses!!