Test Drive (December & January)

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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

[underachievement]

A teenager-y whine it certainly is, though it rings more like a nail in the coffin of Jess's resolve to be left alone. She's doing her best out here, without heat or electricity, staving off the temptation to move closer to the village first, and then hypothermia, malnutrition, seasonal affective disorder, and everything else after. It's going about as well as this girl's luck.

"It's not a lot better in here." Jess gets up from the only corner with any sentimental warmth, one side of a couch covered in blankets. She whips off the topmost blanket and crosses to the blue-haired girl that she's pretty sure she doesn't recognize, though how many can there be? At least two, apparently.

While she drags a chair from the kitchen table to directly in front of the wood burning stove, the sole source of heat in the house: "Did someone tell you the place was vacant?" It wouldn't surprise her. She's missed out on the last couple gatherings and screw the census.

[tagartist]

Chloe can't help but scoff slightly at the idea that being inside any place wouldn't be better than being outside, even if she's not exactly moving to pull off any layers while she's inside. Her forehead wrinkles slightly as she watches her come over, some sort of vague familiarity about the woman that she tries to place, wants to place, but isn't sure she can reach when she's still shivering. "There's not snow in my face every two seconds. That's kind of an improvement."

A small one. Maybe. Slightly.

She shakes her head at the question pretty quickly. "I didn't ask." Might as well be honest. She hasn't gone out of her way to speak to hardly anyone before now which included asking where to go.

[underachievement]

Jess nods to the chair, leaving the blanket hung over the back of it, so her intruder can sit down and warm up. Jess is getting used to the cold, she's convinced herself. There was a time she didn't feel it quite as sharply, no thanks to boosted super immunity, but now that she does, she's decided she's one of those people who runs cold. Ergo she doesn't need heat, much less taking anyone up on their offer to spend the season at their house, laden with luxuries like electricity. It almost works when there's not someone barging in her front door, complaining about freezing her tits off.

"Well it's not." Obviously. Surrendering to her new status as accomplice in this girl's predicament, Jess sighs and goes to the cupboard. She fishes out a glass and then ferrets a bottle of moonshine tucked into a corner of the counter. After pouring a finger, she brings it over to her guest and tells her, "To warm up. It'll burn your insides for five minutes straight." And tastes so godawful going down, she's not overly concerned about passing her drinking problem onto a minor.