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Your New Landlord ([personal profile] lessor) wrote in [community profile] cocktailparty2012-04-22 08:38 pm
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test drive meme


Want to app, or maybe you've already got one written up? Maybe you want to try before you buy? This is the meme for that, in the official pre-opening test drive meme! Of course, it's unfair to throw you into a sea without some life vest, so some prompts for possible situations have been given to you, and are as follows. These can all be in either log style, text, voice, or video; it's up to you!

YOUR OPTIONS


THE HOUSING GATE. While your new home is extremely lovely with a well stocked fridge and french doors and a carpet you could probably sleep comfortably on, especially if you're married and don't want to deal with awkward bed sharing, it's nice to go out every once in a while and explore the area. You do have a new car you know. Maybe you're a kid, joy riding, or taking you family on a little trip through the rows of houses that all look suspiciously alike. Or, perhaps, you've brought a friend along on a trip to somewhere else (you are running out of that low-fat butter you bought recently), maybe it's even a hitch-hiker! The possibilities are endless, but one thing is certain no matter the scenario: you're going to be stuck in this car for a while.


THE SHOPPING GATE. You're at work. Yeah, you've got a job now, working the 9 to 5, making money to buy that expensive food you like so much. Where do you work? Who are you working with? Do you like your boss? The answers to those questions are up to you. You should really pay attention to that customer coming up to you though. Since that is what you're getting paid for and all.


THE PLEASURE GATE. There's a show going on, although as you watch, the NPCs performing it really aren't up to snuff. Their choppy legwork and monotonous musical numbers leave much to be desired. It's really quite boring to see La Favola d'Orfeo so brutally murdered by untalented, robotic, minions such as these. Maybe texting is in order. Maybe walking out and leaving, catching another show or taking a stroll is in order? They really ought to hire different people to put these things on.


THE ALUMNI GATE. That obnoxious ringing alerts you that school has started yet again. Why do they make you come to this place when all the stupid teachers do is yammer about random things that no one really cares about. Since when did the economy really matter, anyway? Are you going to sit here and take this? Or walk around the school? The boring lady up front isn't really going to notice. Maybe you should go to lunch or chat up some school chums? Your youth isn't going to last forever, you know.


WHATEVER YOU WANT, BRO. Use your imagination and get creative on your own terms! This doesn't count as being in game completely, so feel free to take some liberties with events that could have happened, people you could have met! Just remember to stick to game structure and the rules.
cons: (☢ well тнaт ѕeттleѕ ιт. ι wιn.)

[personal profile] cons 2012-05-21 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [deflates]

Well, I'd stock up for the long-haul, then. I mean, as far as anybody can tell, we're kinda trapped here forever.
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[personal profile] truncates 2012-05-21 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Not that he doesn't have a few things up his sleeve.]

I don't believe that, honestly. No matter what got us here, it can bring us back, too.

[Maybe a little pressure has to be applied first.]
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[personal profile] cons 2012-05-21 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It can, maybe, but that doesn't mean it will. Creeper McLandlord wants us here, for whatever reason, so I'd say that means we're stuck. Not that I'm into this whole thing, I'm not, just.. Yeah, feels like we're stuck for a while.

[ wichita shifts the bottle into the crook of her elbow, just so she can shove her free hand into the pocket of her coat. she actually kinda likes talking about this; feeling like maybe eventually some stroke of genius will hit her if she rolls it over in her mind with a different person every so often. who knows. ]

That's the thing, we've got it pretty good here but we were still kidnapped, so. It's probably not going to be easy, finding our way back.
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[personal profile] truncates 2012-05-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Dexter shrugs, shaking his head. There are flaws in everything, in people, in the world, and also, though he's never put much or any thought into it, magic.]

And if it is easy?
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[personal profile] cons 2012-05-21 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'd go back.

[ no hesitation at all, but then she's scrunching her nose a bit. ]

I can't tell if you're just incredibly optimistic, or incredibly determined. Why would a guy kidnap a hundred people, give them assigned homes and cars and new lives, and then make it easy for us to find our way back home? Doesn't make sense.
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[personal profile] truncates 2012-05-21 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[It made total sense to him, but he won't say a word about that.]

The answer might be right in front of us, that's what I'm saying.
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[personal profile] cons 2012-05-21 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
What, like we just have to ask nicely and he'll send us back?

[ very obvious kind of manipulation here, it's like saying 'do go on' without actually admitting she's interested in his ideas. heh. ]
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[personal profile] truncates 2012-05-21 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

[He pauses, taking a look at the drinks on the shelves.]

Or something else is right under our nose and we haven't found it yet.
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[personal profile] cons 2012-05-22 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Like what?

[ a true 'wtf' face follows. ]

This town is so clean its shine spots have shine spots. It's like we're living in a dollhouse world incased in glass. Anything dark and scary is buried deep, has to be.
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[personal profile] truncates 2012-05-23 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
In my line of work, nothing is ever too clean. There's always something.
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[personal profile] cons 2012-05-23 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing you're not a butler... So what is it you do, exactly?