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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.

→ Character want ads are here.

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

Re: un: The Butler Did It

[bludhavenknight]

[Groans. Groaaaaaaaans.]

Maybe? [Hedges a little with it, because no, of course not, he did not think of working of all things to get the song out of his mind. But even if this isn't who he's used to, he can't lie to him.]

No, I didn't. [Sighs.] I don't think that'll work though. Just... might not work.

[themanbehind]

[And even without knowing him, Alfred knew when he was being lied to. He waited, expression stern, for the truth.]

[There is was.]

Shoveling all the pathways might keep you busy enough.

[bludhavenknight]

All the pathways? I don't think the song will last all the pathways.

[Utterly defeated sigh, though, because Alfred, any Alfred, can tell him to do something and he'll still go and do it. It's Alfred, after all. So even though he'll bitch and complain, he'll still shovel all the pathways.]

Ooooor you could tell me how you are and maybe stimulating conversation will make the song go away? [Grins.]

[themanbehind]

Exactly.

[His expression is still Alfred-blank, but at the boy’s wheedling, there is a twinkle of amusement in his eyes. He has a fondness for all this new Bat family, even when they drive him, well, batty.]

There is very little stimulating here for conversation. But I am doing well. Lunches at the inn continue to prove quite entertaining. Some things people say seem hardly real, but then I remember where I am.

[bludhavenknight]

You're a true taskmaster, you know that, right? [Still! He got the twinkle! It's always worth it just to get that in Alfred's eye, that little bit of look, even if this isn't the same one, it doesn't matter.]

It's good to hear you're doing well! You know, I keep having to remind myself of being in a completely different world, because sometimes some things seem so similar? Or maybe it's just people who seem similar, and then you get the ones who talk about things like magic, and I get way too excited about real magic. [He loves magic. Real magic.]

But then yeah, you get the ones who hardly seem real, and they talk about... creatures you've never heard of, or wars that never happened for you, and that's insane, right?

[themanbehind]

How else could I have raised Master Bruce? [Or at least he tried. Bruce is as stubborn as anyone else.]

Their lives are right out of fiction. There is a rather large gentleman with horns who has fought dragons. [Crazy. It's all crazy. He thought the Joker and Bane were crazy, and yet.] But it is a valuable learning experience, talking to them all. Never know what lessons we might pick up.

[bludhavenknight]

And raised-- [Cuts off, because Alfred helped raise him, too. But he just nods.] You did raise Bruce. And you did a pretty good job, if we're saying anything about it.

Some of the good kind of fiction, anyway. Can you imagine living your whole life as a dragon fighter, and then you're brought to a place like this? Not as bad as living in a city and suddenly being thrown into a world without certain things. Like superpowers and stuff like that.

[Sighs.] It makes me miss people, sometimes, hearing other people's stories, and knowing who would want to hear them.

[themanbehind]

[Alfred actually seems to think about that for a minute, seriously, because he doubts sometimes. The hard way of life Bruce chose was doubly hard on Alfred, who has put Bruce, and the memory of Martha and Thomas, first for years. And each time Bruce returns to the mansion half alive? It's hard. He knows now Bruce survived, but he can still see the tombstone.] Just doing my job, young sir. [Yeah, right.]

I have faith we will see them again. And perhaps we'll be able to tell them all about this. But if nothing else, we have our family here.

[bludhavenknight]

[he did the best he could with what he had. With what he was given. Dick understands how difficult Bruce can be. And he wishes he could say something, and he almost does; his mouth opens then closes. Not now. Not over the network. He had to cheer him up.] An excellent job, Alfred. Excellent. First class.

D'you ever... [Trails off, trying to find the right words for this.] Do you ever think about how it might be, if we met our counterparts? I mean, you're Alfred, I know, but you're not quite like the one I know. And Bruce.... Bruce isn't the same one that helped raise me. How weird would it be, to meet the other ones?

[themanbehind]

[Alfred gives a stiff upper lip. Bruce does enough brooding for them all.]. I look forward to my Christmas bonus, then.

Weird, for sure, but I think it would be interesting to meet another Alfred. I’d have good conversation, wouldn’t I?

[bludhavenknight]

[Bruce does do enough brooding, but man, are the rest of the Batfamily damn good at it. Dick grins.] I'll see what I can do.

You would have the greatest conversations! He's seen and done so much, you would not run out of stuff to talk about. It'd be... a lot of comparisons, probably. Oh, and he could tell you the story about the giant penny!