01. Test Drive Meme

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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!



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Comments

[iwasrussian]

Not her scene either, though she may have done her own investigating on the drug and all the rest that had been floating in and out of establishments by several different crime families before the newest iteration of the City came to be. Though it means she has to update her sources, there's a good chance not much has changed.

"Someone pays attention," she follows in, flashing him a set of green eyes and a slanted grin. "The Magistrates that ran this place before liked to play. But it seemed like some kind of inner power struggle that ended up with most of the original ones disappearing or turning up dead. The Emperor was one of the last before getting murdered by a Chosen, and another called the Empress, who most called Nina. She's been brought back. The rest are all new."

[bloodalwaystells]

"Hmm." Politics. Not what he wanted to hear, but not a surprise, either. Especially with such a self-contained place, he's starting to think.

"Do we know who exactly the Chosen are supposed to be? Why we're here?" The big question, because he might be dead and he might not and he's really not sure if there's anything he can do about it either way.

[iwasrussian]

It wasn't her favourite subject either.

"Not specifically. The last iteration consumed whatever Sin it happened to be influencing, which then had people believing it was sentient. Then there was the Tower and a rumour that there was something underneath it, guarded by demons. But that was before I got here."

[bloodalwaystells]

Jaeger makes a small, troubled noise. "That's rather alarming. I know a little bit about places of power, but a whole city is...pretty staggering."

He takes an absent sip of his wine, giving himself time to consider the enormity of that.

"I suppose it makes an awful sort of sense, though. The Tower is the center of the city..." He glances at her again, mild but appraising.

"Is this sort of thing anything like your world? If I'm not being rude for asking."