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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

[firacrux]

If he was uncertain about her before it was impossible to argue that she certainly sounded like the Rinoa he remembered. Which begged the question of whether or not he should really go risk the snow, or her wrath, because neither prospect looked particularly appealing right now. Sorry Rinoa he'd love to come inside but you see there's all this baggage and it's really heavy. So he's just going to have to...

Be pulled inside anyway. All he managed to utter in protest was an undignified half-squawk when he found himself quite forcibly pulled along into the mercifully less windy building. Okay. Well. Since he was inside now he didn't see a lot of reason to go back out into the snow, at least immediately, so for the moment Rinoa had won her victory. Even if it came with an irritated looking Seifer scowling at her. "Are you nuts?" Because she'd have to be to bring him into her home. Just saying. That and he really wanted to know what was up with the weird bird-cat.

[alittlelonger]

"Am I nuts?" Rinoa whacked him on the arm lightly. "You were going to freeze out there!" She glared at him for a moment and then stuck out her tongue, a very Rinoa moment. Things were so complicated between them, and she had not forgotten. Not a minute of it. In some ways the urgency of the storm was what made it easer for her to act like herself and not keep things awkward. She wasn't going to leave him out in the snow because of everything that went wrong between them. Because she really didn't want to have that be it.

She pushed the door closed so he was stuck for now, so there. The peakitten looked up at him and didn't seem interested in greeting him just yet. She'd been sleeping peacefully until now, thank you very much. "Take off your boots, also don't touch Julia unless it's with your gloves. She's a native here and their touch makes you feel like you're drunk." Rinoa had only made that mistake once since getting her. Julia was her mother's name, so of course it was her first choice. It explained why Rinoa herself was wearing gloves even inside. It was something both she and Squall had to do, but it was worth it.

"Will you relax? I'm not afraid you're going to kidnap me or anything." Her smile was wry. "You wouldn't be able to get us anywhere ini this." She knew it might not be funny to joke about, but honestly, she preferred joking about it than making it stay out there in the open, awkward and raw.

[firacrux]

Fortunately he managed to bite back the first retort that sprung to mind, which was his certainty that delusions probably couldn't kill you. Instead settling on a vaguely amused huff at her sticking her tongue out at him. "Tch." Like nothing had happened between them. That there weren't several large elephants in the room all of which were leering at them both for attention. If Rinoa wanted to ignore it Seifer was perfectly content with playing along at something akin to normalcy for the moment. He'll go back out and freeze once the wind lets up some. Too much to unpack for one evening, none of it Seifer's quite willing to face.

Rather than address any of the things troubling him he settled instead on watching the strange creature with extreme suspicion. As if he expected it would somehow balloon into a towering monstrosity and try to eat him. With the creatures that roam their world, he wouldn't be terribly surprised by it doing that. "Why do you keep a monster in your house?" Obviously that looked as weird as that had to be related to monsters, right? Fear not, Rinoa, he was in no rush to try to pet the weird animal. Or move away from the door, much less take off his boots.

Her comment didn't exactly make him inclined to relax. Instead that wary glance just settled on her. For a brief moment there was grief there, a hint of apology before he hardened his features into the standard scowling mask he faced the world with. If things weren't so awkward he might have been able to join in on the joking. Right now he strongly considered running away. "I really shouldn't be here." Seriously, he'll take his chances with the snow.

[alittlelonger]

There was a considerable amount of time where Rinoa thought the two of them could be the real thing. They weren't in love, no, but there was attraction and more than that between them, but looking back on it there was no small amount of reality that she was doing the classic rich girl thing of getting back at her father. Seifer was everything her father would've hated. She did like him, a lot, and things going wrong between them wasn't even really about them. Or their fault. There were powers in play so far above what they could control. She wasn't the only victim of a sorceress' influence.

"She's not a monster, she's a baby. A pet." She wasn't offended though. They did live in a place with monsters and it wasn't like Julia was so drastically different from the kind they fought. Rinoa looked over at her little monster, who stretched out her belly requesting a scratch. Rinoa did just that with her gloved hand. "We found a whole litter in a mining expedition, Mr. Stark needed the materials to build weapons for all of us. And there they were. Several people in the village have her siblings. It sort of happened." And of course Rinoa with her bleeding heart was won over instantly.

Rinoa sighed at his reaction. "Listen, if you don't want me to be here, then I'll go to another room and you can stay here until the storm passes. There's no reason to go back outside if I'm the problem." She brushed her caramel streaked hair over her shoulder, glancing up at him. "There's food and water if you need it, and I brought you a blanket. So ... stay or I'll worry about you dying out there." She turned to leave the room just as she said she would.

[firacrux]

And Seifer had been doing the young military boy thing of fleeting, wild romance. They both knew in a realistic sense it was a doomed relationship. One that might have had better memories attached, however, then what they ended up with. No one could have anticipated the way things would end. Likewise he had real feelings for her, genuinely believed in her cause and in his own promises to make it happen for her. Still had feelings for her. Now tarnished with the guilt, jealousy, and hurt that had come thanks to those powers pulling their lives. He felt like he'd swallowed a lead weight.

"Oh," He considers the creature a little longer. The tone hadn't been scathing or accusatory, the term 'monster' carrying a much different and perhaps lighter connotation for him than it might others. They're a natural fact of life where they're from, after all. "You sure?" He considers a little longer. "Looks harmless enough." He's never seen a Geezard ask for belly scratches so maybe she's right.

Ah, now he did have the good graces to look ashamed, if stubborn about it. Curtly he shakes his head, folding his arms over his chest. "It's your house," She shouldn't have to leave her own home. "I'll leave as soon as the weather lets up." If it makes her feel better he won't stubbornly go brave the cold. It's the least he can do.