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

Cold Call

[moderndayassassin]

You would think this much time in the cold would make Desmond more used to it, but nope, he still hated it. He hated it those long years he spent in New York City too, grumping on his way to work in the winter. He was dressed well for the winter now that he was used to it, although he thought the winter hat made him look stupid, but he saw Ezio from a distance. There were a few people Desmond knew on sight, even from a distance, and his ancestors were top of that list.

He wandered over to him, boots crunching on the snow, to see what abomination he was attempting to make out of snow. "Are you just making monsters or are these supposed to resemble something?"

[justblendin]

First of all, dearly beloved future grandson, how can you not tell this is clearly supposed to be snowman? Just because they usually have three sections of different sizes and not two lumpy ones of roughly the same size doesn't mean you should shame him.

But you should definitely judge the fact that he's used a cucumber for the nose. Please help him.

"It is supposed to be a snowman."

[moderndayassassin]

Desmond looked at it skeptically. "And you've only heard about them, obviously, not made one yourself before." He knows where you grew up, dearly beloved past grandfather. It only sounds like a criticism. He smiled faintly and patted him on the shoulder. It was cold, but whatever, he could spend a few moments getting colder.

"Okay, so normally, you need three sections, and the biggest one is the bottom, and then middle, and then smallest for the head." The gloves he had on would help, but it was still eventually going to seep into his fingers from the wet. He still leaned down to pick up snow and started putting together a head on the lopsided snowman. "Also the nose is supposed to be a carrot, but at least you tried."

[justblendin]

"I could not find one."

Okay, that was only partially true. In fact he hadn't looked all that hard to begin with and had simply grabbed the first long sort of vegetable he saw.

But he will at least set about gathering snow and packing it onto the already formed mounds, trying to make them look a little bit more even - especially now that he knows each one is supposed to be a different size. Soon, they're looking far more round and appropriate, like they may yet actually earn the term 'snowman'.

"I have never seen snow like this."

[moderndayassassin]

Between the two of them it is shaping up to be at least a reasonable snowman, although possibly mistaken for one of the teen's designs instead of two grown men. But neither of them had much artistic vision anyway. If Desmond thought there would ever be a time when he was making snowmen with Ezio or eating lunches with Altair, he'd think he'd truly lost his mind entirely. But this was just life for him now, somehow. It wasn't that terrible.

"Yeah, I actually have no idea what the climate here is, but it seems like a four seasons kind of place." Whatever that meant. "It sometimes snowed like this in New York, and that's a big city so it always ended up in these gross dirt and slush piles on the street." Desmond smiles though, at the memory. He really loved his time there. "But when it was falling, it was pretty."

[justblendin]

None at all. Normally he would have been happy to simply leave the inventing and creating to Leonardo. But their snowman at least had the usual three parts now, along with a couple of round stones that Ezio had dug up for the eyes, and some very skinny, uneven branches for the arms.

This thing was likely going to give some poor kid nightmares.

"There is sometimes snow like this in the mountains. But I do not go there often." Which, of course, Desmond already knew. Getting used to the idea that Desmond had technically seen every single part of his life was going to take some time.