Test Drive 20 (August & September)

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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.

→ Character want ads are here.

Prompts

Happy anniversary, villagers! Buckle up!

1. HEAT WAVE - Poor you. All you were trying to do was get yourself a little something to eat from the kitchen at the inn. Maybe you cooked it up yourself (The inn does, after all, have an electric stove — FANCY!), or maybe you just grabbed some leftovers. By accident or on purpose, you ended up with way more RED SALT in there than you maybe should have, and this is no ordinary seasoning. Whether you like things eye-wateringly spicy or not, it's August, you're sweating buckets, and it's only getting worse.


2. SKUNK DRUNK - Isn't that just the way? You're out and about, minding your own business, and you get sprayed by a BROWN SKUNK. The good news? It doesn't stink like a normal skunk. The also possibly good news, depending on who you ask? You're now in for about 5 hours of being very, very friendly. (Just remember to keep the test drive PG!)


3. BRAIN CANDY - Whether you made it to the anniversary party or not, you've gotten your hands on a piece of leftover candy from the big bash. Careful, though, these treats are more than meets the eye: Whatever COLOR it was, you've now taken on the associated personality traits. (Not the power, just the traits.) At least it only lasts 10 minutes.


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
- Display names may be changed by characters on the fly, but anyone can tap to see someone's real full name

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

Comments

[overfivethousand]

It's another very human gesture, offering his hand like that, and paired with the very normal name, 10K barely thinks about it before offering his own hand. Still no tingle from the danger sense, after all, and this guy's stuck here like the rest of them, judging by his scrubs. He should be friendly.

"I'm Ten Thousand," he says, shaking Alec's hand. "My friends call me 10K." It's the kind of name that implies a story behind it, not that it matters much, here. "Guess I can't blame you. People don't always do real well with different. I mean--I guess that's never bothered me too much. And you aren't trying to eat me, so that's always reassuring." It's only half a joke. The last guy he'd seen that looked anything at all like this one was trying to eat them all, starting with Murphy. That guy hadn't started out a plant, either, and the question pops out before he can quite stop it.

"I'm not trying to pry, Mr. Holland, but--I mean, that's a pretty normal name, and you talk pretty normal, too. Did you always look like that, or...?"

[houmaprotector]

"10k." It's not what he expected, the kid looks like a Tim or a Richard. Especially when the boy is being kind, "Don't worry. You're not a nice cool loamy soil. If you were we'd be-"

He's trying to be funny.

Then he asks and Alec stares at his hands.

"No. I didn't always look like this. I was born a human being. I was a scientist. Then I made a bunch of mistakes, met some nasty assholes and...here I am. A person trying to be the best plant they can be."

[overfivethousand]

He wasn't always 10K. He'd had a perfectly normal name, once, had been a perfectly normal boy. But that was when he'd had a normal world, and a normal dad, and a mostly normal life. Nowadays, that isn't a thing you take for granted. He tries not to think too much about it, it's easier to stay in the present, but maybe it's just always normal, when you live one way long enough. Maybe this'll be normal someday.

But for now, it's actually--if not normal, then not surprising, exactly, to hear Alec's answer. 10K takes a minute to choose his words, lifting a hand to his head and looking a bit like he's reaching for something that isn't there anymore, like a pair of glasses or a hat. "I guess that's--not all that weird for a scientist. I mean, most of the ones I've met are kinda...similar. At least you aren't blaming anyone else for what happened to you. For your mistakes, I mean. You could hate other people." He wouldn't exactly blame him, really. Especially if they treat Alec the way he thinks they do.

[houmaprotector]

He shrugs, "Why? Human beings can't help being the way they are." He's seen so much of humanity by now that he just gets sad, "People just...disappoint me."

He shrugs, "Were you looking for something out here? I could help you find it."