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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 NETWORK 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

1. SNOW BLIND - It's snowing, a lot, and pristine landscape though it might create, it also brings plenty of problems, especially when you live in an Edwardian-style village with a serious lack of snow shovels. It's currently blizzard conditions and visibility is nil — Maybe you gave in and ducked into the nearest house for temporary shelter, and discover someone else had the same idea (or just lives there, oops). Maybe you're stubborn enough to still be out in it, struggling against the wind and snow. Or maybe you've tromped into the South Village Inn like a human popsicle, and are just hoping you don't lose any fingers before you make it to the fireplace.


2. JUMPED-UP - Winter's here, which means it's the perfect time for an expedition to warmer, southern climes. You've joined a group following the river all the way down to the far southern beach, for fun and for science. On this latest break in your journey, you've spotted a large, jewel-colored feather and picked it up, maybe as a specimen to bring back or just a feather for your cap. Turns out it's an archaeopteryx feather, and you're now, well... let's call it a little gravity-challenged. Not a bad benefit once you figure out how to control it.


3. COLD CALL - The snow has slacked off, leaving behind a winter wonderland. Sure, there's plenty to do, but after being cooped up inside for days, most people won't blame you for a morale-booster — That is, unless your way of starting a snowball fight is to pop up and throw them at unsuspecting passers-by. Making a snow man or snow angels might come with a little less retribution, but you do you.


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

Network

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

- Text and/or video, any length
- 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

[womanofvalue]

There are certain faces she's come to anticipate seeing, typically the ones who have been in the village before. Then, there are those who are familiar, and then there's this one. The moment the door opens, she can't truly contain her shock, given that she's stuck herself here to warm up, still not feeling well.

"Daniel?" is her surprised remark, the blanket covering most of her up, including her mouth, which muffles his name. Pushing it down and struggling to dig out, her eyes widen. "You look freezing, how long were you out there?"

[ssrsousa]

He was not gonna laugh at the sight of Peggy buried in a blanket, buried so much so that he didn't even realize it was her until she poked her head out and talked to him. For one thing, he liked his blood on the inside. For another, she looked kind of pitiful and he was sympathetic to that. There'd been a real bad something going around lately.

"I'm not sure," he admitted. "I was walking around, just getting the lay of things, and then the storm blew in. Should have known that grey steel look to the clouds. I saw it often enough in the ETO."

[womanofvalue]

She goes quiet for a moment, not wanting to ever bring up that time unless Daniel wants to talk about it and even then, what is she meant to say? She wasn't in that situation, having been shipped back to New York for a brief mission at that very time.

"Well, get in here and warm up," she coaxes, opening the blanket. "There's plenty of room." And there is, without anyone needing to be improper or forward. The couch and blanket will certainly hold two people, without having to curl up. "Do you want a hand?"

[ssrsousa]

Sharing a blanket with Peggy might be something he'd wanna do, but it wasn't something he was gonna do. He did, however, sit down on the couch next to her. It was sort of stiff because he was still cold, but he tried to hide it. No reason to look like an invalid more than he had to.

"You feeling any better?"

[womanofvalue]

"I'm no longer feverish and feeling as if something has tried to crawl inside my throat to burst out," Peggy notes, though she does still feel weak, unfortunately. There's truly no avoiding that, she suspects. This isn't what she wants to talk about, though.

"And you," she points out. "What were you doing out there without any backup?" she insists. "It's not safe, especially if you're going to be unsteady."

[ssrsousa]

"That's good," he replied, and meant it. He didn't figure Peggy had any more patience with being sick than anyone else. Actually, she probably had less. If she could have stared the germs into leaving, she would have.

"When I started walking, there wasn't a storm," he repeated.

[womanofvalue]

"It would have better if I hadn't caught a plague," is her dry response, seeing as she would have much preferred to simply gone through that bout trying to help others instead of wondering when she would finally stop being sick.

She still can't believe that she's seeing him here, even as awkward as it occasionally is to think about being in the village with both Steve and Daniel, even though there's closure in the latter, at least. "What were you out there for? Before the storm," she clarifies.

[ssrsousa]

"Well, yeah, generally a plague's something you want to avoid. Any plague," he agreed. He had had to tone down his sarcasm a little at the SSR, but Peggy was someone it was a little safer to be sarcastic with, he thought. He didn't know her that well, but she'd reacted well to a few of his more pointed comments about their coworkers. She'd smiled, at least.

"Recon. I'm still trying to get the lay of things here, y'know?"

[womanofvalue]

She hides her smile in the blanket, having missed this familiarity. After all, she has plenty of it with the people from the future, but there's always something removed, something she can't participate in because it's so different.

"And so far?" she prods. She's been there for two years, she's sure she could answer some questions. "What have you found?"

[ssrsousa]

"This place is weird," he said plainly. "That's what I've found. And not just because of the plague, either. I nearly drowned in a fountain just getting here, and it's not getting less weird from there."

Weird was sort of the SSR's department, but he thought this place was weird even by SSR standards.

[womanofvalue]

"I'm sorry I wasn't there to fetch you out of it," she apologizes, since Peggy has been trying to do her best to be there, but between the illness and her recuperation, it's been a little difficult for her to maintain that hike out to the bunker. "I would have liked to be there to greet you."

She's smiling at him as she says it, because strange as all this is, having the familiar face of a friend would have been terribly good to see. "Have you met some of the others from the future yet?"

[ssrsousa]

He wasn't sorry about that. He was okay at swimming without his prosthetic, but with it he was just pitiful. It was like having a trash can stuck to the end of his leg and about as useful too. But he wasn't gonna say that. He was doing his best to seem completely normal and not in need of pity.

"Not yet. Is it weird to you that we're simultaneously in the past and the future, kind of?"

[womanofvalue]

"It's strange how comfortable it is, like going back to my childhood," she admits, which isn't something that she's gone around and noisily told a lot of people, but it's the truth. This is very much like going back to when she was little, though far simpler.

"Once you meet Tony, that's the strangest of all," she shares. "He looks and acts so much like his father, which is a touchy subject, from what I've gathered."

[ssrsousa]

Daniel hadn't had much interaction with Howard Stark. Everyone knew who he was and what he did since he made sure of that, but other than reading a few briefing notes on whether Stark might or might not be selling things to the Reds, Daniel didn't know the man.

"There are two of them? Oh good," he said dryly.

[womanofvalue]

"Did you honestly think the Stark name would die out so easily?" Peggy can't help but tease, given that with the number of women that Howard had slept with, it's genuinely more of an incredible thing that he hadn't sired more children along the way.

She gives Daniel a warm smile, enjoying the very thought of them interacting together. "Don't let him get to you and you'll be fine."

[ssrsousa]

"Well, that's just good advice for life in general," he agreed. There were rumors about Peggy and Stark, but there were rumors about any woman and any man. He knew that already, and she didn't talk about Stark like she was interested in him. He didn't know who she was interested in (if anyone, after Captain Rogers), but he didn't think it was Stark.

He was actually a little warmer now, and his cane didn't feel like a block of ice.

"You know if they've got any coffee or anything around here? I could get us both a cup, just like at the office."

Well, maybe better than at the SSR.

[womanofvalue]

"Normally, I'd tell you to get your own, but you did just come in from a storm." Pushing the blankets slowly away, Peggy rouses to her feet, heading for the kitchen to start working on fetching something for him. "Don't think this is going to be a habit," she calls in warning over her shoulder, as she collects all the items she needs.

"Milk? Honey?" she calls, because luckily, the local animals have at least provided them the bare necessities.

[ssrsousa]

He didn't laugh at her getting herself out of her blanket fort, and he thought for a second about fighting her on this since he'd just said he'd do it. She was already up, though, and he tried not to be so prideful he was stupid.

"If it's coffee, just black. If it's tea, little bit of honey. Thank you," he replied, and took the chance to kind of wiggle his prosthetic into a better spot while she wasn't looking.

[womanofvalue]

There's no coffee on hand, so tea it will have to be. She hates to dip into her own stores, but luckily this is the excess she gives to the inn (which also means that it's far from the best stuff, but it will do the trick).

Soon enough, she's back with a cup for him, setting it in front of him. "So, what would you like to know about this place or the people?" she asks, because there must be something, she's sure.

[ssrsousa]

"Thanks," he said, and then picked the cup up to hold his hands around it, warming them. A fire, a cup of something warm -- how many nights had he spent with those two things in France and Belgium?

"I've got more questions than I know how to explain. Everything from why are we all here to what's the story with the little thingies on our wrists."

[womanofvalue]

She works her way back under the blankets with a little work, balancing the cup of tea in her hand so that she doesn't spill any, careful not to make a mess as she gets back under. "The devices? They're new," she says. "When I got here, the first village, we didn't have them, then we all woke up in a bunker like place and they were there."

"I suspect they're to track us, but they also seem capable of messaging and other items," she admits, not sure what to make of that.

[ssrsousa]

He still wasn't gonna laugh, even when she reversed that whole burrowing thing so that she got back into her blanket fort.

"Huh. Just what I always wanted -- to be tracked everywhere I went," he replied sarcastically. "Too bad for them that I'm a real boring person."

[womanofvalue]

"For now, but you never know when they're going to equip you with powers," Peggy advises, because if she had to describe all the things that have happened to her since she's arrived here, she'd run out of breath.

Besides, he's wrong. "You're far from a boring person, you know," she says, with a roll of her eyes. "You're one of the most interesting men I've ever met."

[ssrsousa]

"Yeah, I'll skip that, thanks. Last thing I need is to suddenly, I don't know, start being able to see through walls."

Seeing in the dark would have been useful in France, but he'd skip seeing through walls. He didn't know quite what to say when Peggy said he was one of the most interesting men she'd met, so he didn't say anything.

[womanofvalue]

"It's more walk through walls," she points out, and it should be a joke, but she's deadly serious. She's seen the people wearing a certain colour be able to simply shift through as if it had been nothing.

She reaches over to lightly squeeze his hand, when he doesn't respond, because Peggy thinks it's crucial that he understands she means it. "You're not boring," she reiterates. "I've met boring. You're not it."