nonotagain | 01. Test Drive Meme

TEST DRIVE MEME

Thinking about joining Iterum? Unsure of who to bring or if they'll even fit the setting? Posting here offers you the chance to find out how they'll do while getting the sample for done for their application.

→ Comment down below with the character you'd like to test drive in the setting. Don't forget to add their name and canon in the subject line.
→ Choose a scenario or create your own, and tag around!
→ Test drives will be posted regularly in the months of March, June, September, and December.
→ Threads in the test drive are NOT eligible to use for activity checks, however, you can make them game canon if you wish and both you and your scene partner agree.

Possible Scenarios
Please note that all characters will initially arrive in their assigned housing; they are free to explore the City to their heart's content after that!

01. Arriving: You're pretty sure you knew where you were before you closed your eyes. But somewhere between then and now, you discover that you're definitely not there. In fact, the setting is so unfamiliar to you that it's bordering on unnerving and questions start to stack. Have you been abducted? Did you get drunk and pass out somewhere and not remember? Whatever the case, you need some answers. Or maybe this is familiar and the only thing that doesn't make sense is the layer of dust on everything around you which obviously means some time has passed. How much? No one seems to know. What you do know is that sitting around and waiting for answers is likely not going to happen.

So, you set out and hope to run into someone in the City that looks like they may be in a similar situation. Or, at the very least a person that might be able to provide some explanation. Veteran Chosen, make sure you warn the new people about the Shadows and advise them to steer clear of dark alleys and things that go bump in the night.

02. Party, party!: Now that you've arrived and hopefully settled, it's time to unwind. Inside your welcome basket is an invitation from the Duchess, who has decided to celebrate the growing population of the City with a massive "Welcome to the City" party in the Tower District. Wine spills free, and drugs abound, this is the kinda party that caters to all! The wicked and debauched demons and the good and decent who, if not careful, might end up tainted and corrupted at some point, like everyone else. Even if it's only for one night, why not cut loose and forget about whatever is pressing on your mind?

Nothing to wear? Check your closet, we're sure you'll find something suitable to wear.

03. Prominence: Everyone knows that the City sometimes influences its population on a monthly basis. Unfortunately, you arrived right in the middle of a heavy Prominence. Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, or Pride: choose your sin and get wicked. You'll find it's hard to avoid being sinful, almost as if your basic instincts are taking over.

04. Run!: A lot can go wrong in the City; demon attacks, muggings or there's even danger of being plucked from the streets and forced to partake in the Coliseum's version of Fight Club (if you know, you know). There are plenty of unsavoury types that all Chosen must be aware of. They rule the night, and once the sun goes down it becomes the Sinning Hour. Demons and monsters and humans capable of inciting just as much fear, if not more, come out to play. Mind yourself. It's hardly a tea party out there.

05. Network: Broadcast a video, voice or text message to anyone in your phone's directory. All Chosen have a device that they can use to communicate. Those that are returning will find their phone as it was, though without any contact that was previously in the City that is not currently. For the newly Chosen, a device will be supplied in your welcome basket and will match the type of telecommunications that was being used at the time of their exit.

06. Wild Card: Choose your own adventure in the game's multiple settings!

n a v i g a t i o n

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There's a strange sort of understanding there, the big man recognizing something honed sharp in the flippant young woman. It's a strange experience, seeing those shifts and glimpses between the airy disregard, but Jaeger has some experience with strange minds.

He might be better prepared for this than most, even. There's that moment, then she moves on and he lets her.

"They gave me a key to a place in the Coliseum district," he acknowledges. "It's not what what I'd have chosen, but it's nice enough. For a kidnapping, particularly."

He watches her dig out the key, and dark eyebrows rise in question.

"Mm, Wrath," she comments from her stare down at the keychain. "Same district as you."

Her eyes flit up to him before she glances down to tuck the key back away. She'd have to investigate that later.

"How's that make you feel?"

He nods, as she tucks away the key again. "I've heard that Shantytown is the district that's better avoided. So, small mercies, I suppose."

As to how he actually feels about it? He's still deciding, he thinks.

"I'm not offended. I try to be aware of my faults, at least, though I might be a bit surprised that Pride wasn't my...ah...calling." He frowns thoughtfully.

"But at least Wrath feels familiar. I've been fighting for a long time, and I suppose it's reassuring in a way."

He looks at her, processing it all- what she's asked, what he's said. It feels far less naked talking in the streets than it might have, maybe because of that sharpness, that killer confidence he sees in her.

Like him, maybe, even if in a different way. On a different scale. But there's a sense there that she might actually understand the madness of his existence.

"You could say that." Or you could say it was a great place to have a little fun, flex a muscle or two. She knew it didn't look like she'd be the type but that was also part of the fun.

She doesn't offer any insight into why she's okay with where she's fallen just yet. Facades and masks and the light and show of it all were their own kinds of protection. She also wasn't looking to dance just yet.

"What is it that you're fighting?" There was no 'or am I allowed to ask' - if it was worth fighting for, it was worth saying out loud. Even if that was just survival.

Jaeger hasn't quite gotten to the 'fun' part of things yet. He's still locked in survival mode, with occasional forays into the sheer sense of surreal that comes with the whole thing.

Maybe he'll get there, maybe he won't. It's been sort of a while since "fun" has even occurred to him.

"I spent a long time with people who used magic for their own ends, and didn't care who they hurt," he says finally, bluntly in that rough rasp of a voice. Surprising himself a little with this moment of honesty but hey, who's going to believe hes not crazy anyway? "I broke free of them, but once you're in that sort of life, there's very little way out again. So...that's what I fight."

Survival. Penance. Whatever soul he's got left. Sometimes it seems like a lot and sometimes it's so painfully, trivially small.

Her story was long and full of it's own dramatic complications. She didn't look the gift horse of where she's ended up in its mouth. She also didn't look down on those that were still in the raw and primal survivalism of their stories. Survivalism was a sacrifice of situation that deserved to be honored.

Devi nods.

"Then you'll do just fine here." Her everything lightened oh so slightly. "Not many magicians and anyone who steps too far up into the echelons tend to get what's coming to them. One way or the other." And sometimes that way was Her but she wasn't that kind of person to boast.

"In the meantime, we've got some pretty decent food, some quiet time between the chaos and only the scraps of bullshit that roam in the night to worry about."

Devis demeanor lightens and so does Jaeger's. He feels a bit like he's passed a test, which maybe he has? He's not going to dwell on it but the feeling is there.

"It's an unfortunate aspect of power in many forms," he admits quietly. "It's just even more treacherous when the advantage is secret, unseen by most. Its hard to deal with forces you aren't even aware of." He grimaces, not particularly willing to add that it worked to his advantage, too, sometimes...and even more so in the past.

He liked to think he wasn't that sort of man anymore, but he was also a creature of grim necessities. At least he knew it.

He casts his gaze at the street around them, frowning slightly.

"I'll have to keep that in mind," he says absently. Then brings his thoughts into clearer focus. "I enjoy traveling but this is...not quite in my normal experience. I don't think I'm thinking about local color just yet, but..."

But. If there's no way back. If this is his life now, or Afterlife, or whatever it is.

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