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!

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She turned on the stranger's voice like a tiger, ready to pounce. Fortunately, while Sam was a dick, she wasn't enough of a dick to just immediately rip the eyes out of the first person she encountered in the middle of a shitty situation.

Especially when that person was clearly not a Kindred.

Still, she eyed him a little warily, drawing her hands behind her back to keep her fingers busy, twisting up and around each other. "Uh, yeah," she said. A hearty, Midwestern accent. Kind of at odds with the way she was dressed: Like a Hot Topic had exploded on her. "You could say that."

A pause.

"Except. Where is here?"

He feels for her almost immediately, remembering the first time he'd arrived in Bete Noire and how overwhelmed he'd felt. The City of Sin was so much easier, for no other reason than he had both Draco and Theo and Erik. It was their familiar faces that made any place bearable. He wasn't a familiar face to her, but he could at least become one if she let him.

"It's called the City, formerly the City of Sin. Did you wake up in one of these suites?" Charles questions, gesturing at the Tower.

"The City of Sin," she repeated. "Are we talking Las Vegas, or the Quentin Tarantino movie?"

It was said mostly as a joke. She was very clear on the fact that the Quentin Tarantino movie was, in fact, a fucking movie.

On the other hand, while she knew Las Vegas was real...this didn't seem very Vegas-y to her. There were a few sparse neon lights, but nothing like what she remembered when Bob and Anne took her on vacation, when she was in junior high. The skyline was all wrong too. And it just didn't have that feel of being a desert.

Absently, her hand fluttered back, over her shoulder, at the building. "Yeah. Yeah."

Charles chuckles; however, his face maintains a sort of sympathetic expression because it would make things much easier if they were in Las Vegas. Still, he shakes his head.

"I'm afraid not," he replies. "But I've been a resident here for a number of years before being brought back again."

There's much to tell, so he gives her a soft smile and continues.

"I can try to answer whatever questions you may have. There's a cafe on the corner over there, would you like to sit?"

A small, petulant part of Sam wanted to immediately rebuke his offer. No, she did not want to sit. She wanted to scream. She wanted to rage. She wanted to find Avery and punch him in his Richie Cunningham face until his glasses fell off.

None of that was productive, though.

So the logical side of her brain won out.

"Okay," she said, folding her arms, the leather of her jacket squeaking. "Yeah. That's, uh. Sure. Let's do that."

He motions her along with a swing of his head but keeps himself out of her personal space. She didn't have to agree, and for a quick moment, he sensed that she was going to decline his offer. Yet, here they were.

"I'm Charles Xavier, by the way," he offers, giving her a warm smile.

Kindred didn't smile often. And not like that.

Tentatively, like she was totally out of practice, Sam gave him a smile in return. Or the best she could manage, under the circumstances. It didn't reach her eyes. But it was something, anyway.

If he wanted more, he was out of luck.

"Sam," she replied, deciding that he definitely seemed like a Charles. As opposed to a 'Charlie' or a 'Chuck' or something like that. Maybe it was the accent. That probably had something to do with it.

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