Test Drive 18

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→ Holds and applications are always open. Holds are required for all applications.

→ Choose one of the scenarios below or make up your own. Feel free to try multiple scenarios.

→ Write LOGS or TEXT prompts, or both.

→ THERE ARE ONLY THREE RULES FOR THE TDM:

1. It has to take place in the 6I universe.
2. It cannot be the character's arrival into the game.
3. Please only test new characters who do not have a version in the game. Our cast list is here.

→ TDM threads cannot be used to meet AC, but if the character is accepted into the game and both players agree, you may keep the CR.

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Prompts

Summer is here, villagers! Sunny skies, warm weather and plenty of weirdness are on the horizon. Don't forget your sunscreen!

1. THE MILK FOR FREE - Somehow, someway, you have been wrangled into milking one of the GROFFLES recently rounded up by your fellow villagers. Maybe you felt guilty for not helping, or maybe you owe someone scary money. Point is, it's just you, a bucket, and your green milk-giving friend. Just a tip: Groffles are good-natured, but you probably shouldn't squeeze too hard.


2. LIGHTNING ROD - Earlier today, you made your way into the upper foothills — Were you hunting? Maybe just roaming? — and you came into contact with a BLUE LILY. Maybe you thought it was so pretty you've carried it back to the village with you. If your house didn't have electricity before, it definitely does now!


3. MEET CUTE - It's a classic: You've gone down into the 6I INN'S dirt-walled root cellar off the kitchen. Maybe you needed supplies or were dropping off some fresh produce. Whatever the case, someone's followed you down for a similar reason... and the door has jammed shut behind them. Seriously, it's not budging. Enjoy getting to know your new best friend in the cozy light of the furnace!


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Texts

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text messages to other villagers.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
- No usernames, everyone is listed by their name

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[getgabbin]

Genn knew well enough what he was doing though if he was honest, this was the first time he actually did any such menial tasks personally. Still, it wasn't all that hard for him to put what he knew into practice and the groffle wasn't all that different from the cows back home, save for in looks so far.

Fortunately he had been finishing his own business with the beast as he heard her approach, only turning partially to look up at her once she'd voiced her question. "I can." He moved to claim the bucket beneath his own animal and set it up out of the way so it couldn't be carelessly overturned by accident. He trusted it'd remain there until his return, or he'd end up having to find the thief and give them a valuable lesson in why one did not steal, especially from a Gilnean.

"Where is your groffle?"

[katerrifically]

"Thank you." Kate was grateful that someone would show her how. "It's not something that I ever had to do back home." She offered as a way of explaining why she didn't know how to do it herself. "I usually buy it in a carton." With the scrubs, Kate had no way of knowing that someone wasn't from Earth. She was running on that assumption and was running right towards making an ass out of herself.

"It's this way, the first stall."

[getgabbin]

One eyebrow rose briefly at the word carton in relation to milk, but he says nothing about it as he follows her toward the indicated stall. Upon reaching it, Genn gestured for her to seat herself on the stool with one hand since it appeared that she at least prepared for the lesson at hand.

"Sit. I'll walk you through it." Yes, he was going for the hands-on approach here, and if necessary, he'd try giving her an example to follow after her first attempt. "First off, relax. Animals pick up on far more than you realize. If you're nervous, you're apt to end up making the animal you're with nervous as well."

And no one wanted to be around a nervous cow or groffle.

[katerrifically]

Kate sat down. She opened her mouth the argue that she was not nervous but it would have been a lie. "I don't want to do it badly." She offered as yet another explanation, an explanation that happened to be true.

She exhaled and then inhaled a deep breath. Kate tried to relax a little more. No one wanted to be around a nervous animal capable of both shitting and trampling on a person. A person might not want to be around Genn after Kate's next question. "So, are you a farmer?" She was a City girl. People who grew food extensively on their own land or who raised livestock all fell under the generic moniker of farmer. "You seem to know what you're doing?"

[getgabbin]

Once she'd sat down, Genn had moved to kneel beside her. He kept his silence despite her silent protest and the following explanation. Waiting until she had managed to relax some, he'd been about to begin his own explanation about how to begin when she asked her question.

Despite knowing there was no way she could actually know whom she was talking to, and likely his name and title would mean little regardless, he gave her a quiet deadpan look for a brief moment before he answered in a flat tone. "No."

Turning away back toward the Groffle, he quietly continued to stamp down on the irrational ire caused by the silly question so it wouldn't be obvious in his tone and upset his makeshift student any more than his earlier look possibly had. "My people raise horses, sheep and hunt. One learns how to deal with them if only via observation when they're surrounded by it."

[katerrifically]

Kate knew she had asked the wrong question or had at least phrased it badly. It was in his look. It was in the flatness of his reply. Briefly, her mouth flapped open to apologize but she swiftly shut it again. He wasn't bringing it up to correct her. She didn't want to make it worse by continuing to bring it up and yet she wanted to apologize. What was she going to apologize for exactly?

Instead, she said nothing except to sit and listen to Genn speak. His people raised horses and sheep. He was surrounded by it. He watched his people raise them. Oh. "I see." What else could she say?

"Thank you again." There was a pause before she added, "My name is Kate, by the way."