test drive meme deux

[lessor]

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! 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! IN GAME MEMBERS CAN PARTICIPATE IN TAGGING AS WELL!!

YOUR OPTIONS THE HOUSING GATE. Somehow, some way, some idiot has just run into your yard with their car. Or maybe you're the idiot behind the wheel? Did you wreck a mailbox? Maybe even, dare I say, run into someone? Stranger things have happened. THE SHOPPING GATE. For some reason the damned cashier NPC isn't anywhere in sight and you've got...well, whatever it is you've decided to buy. There's a line forming filled with people. No matter where you are, the register, the middle, or at the very end, you're surrounded by some pretty frustrated people. THE PLEASURE GATE. You happen to have wandered into one of the more...adult establishments. You might perhaps be underage and if so you need not be there at all. No one is going to cart you off, though. Maybe you enjoy your strip club/bar/peep show or maybe it's completely repulsive to you. Do you stick around or make a run for it? THE ALUMNI GATE. It's come time for the school festival! There are various booths, stands, activities, and all sorts of people milling about! What grade are you in? School? Are you sociable or withdrawn? Are you in charge of something? Crashing a party? You're full of youth and the world is yours for the taking! 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.

Comments

[wanders]

...[You, perhaps. He thought someone would have at least written by now...]

I'm not entirely sure of that. I've been unable to find a way to get out of the main gate yet.

[mr_fine]

[Apollo isn't one for drinking, generally. He considers it his duty to remain sober especially when he's left in charge of Trucy, and besides, a drunk attorney isn't exactly reassuring to his clients. But, well, despite that, he is a little intrigued by those barrels - even if the size of the barrels and the man drinking from them is kind of terrifying.]

Er, what's the 'almost wine' supposed to be?

[riskplayer]

[ Oh. Oh a paper and a pen! Is this supposed to be a gift of some sort? A peace offering? Take this pen and paper and don't invade our village please?

Of course not. Shizune knew as much.

But she's going to stuff that pen and paper in her pockets with a smile on her face as if it were. ]

[uncutefiancee]

[Poor Ryoga. He can't even walk out of a gate the right way even when he's at it. At least, this is what she thinks he means, anyway.] Is that all that's keeping people here? A gate?

[sikandar]

[a guest! he straightens as much as one can in a lounge chair and smiles. not that it isn't less terrifying because he's over 5' sitting. oops.]

The merchant informed me it was only finished three months ago, and thus, isn't quite fermented enough to be considered true wine. A suitable alternative for the younger subjects of my realm, don't you agree?

[sikandar]

[picking tavros up by the scruff of his neck and holding him up at eye level--ah, this feels nostalgic.]

Are you injured, horned one?

[fatebechanged]

[ ... Okay, that's the strangest greeting anyone's ever given her. DON'T YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS ??? ]

A'course it's red! Got it from me dad! You know - the king? Leader of Clan DunBroch! How'd'y'not know me just from lookin'?

this is a good place to be you should feel good.

[fatebechanged]

[ ... A+ you win the internet. ]

They're tellin' us we 'ave t'live together! That we're bein' forced to function like a family! [ :||||| ] I don't understand anything 'round here! There's no horses, no stables - no way t'go but on foot!

[alldestiny]

[ so southern did she really just say ain't ........ welp nbd buffy is moving on. ]

Holly Heights. Gated community full of hostages who wanna leave, can't, and suddenly find themselves either married or kids to people they've never met. [ YAY. BUFFY EXPLAINS IT ALL. ] Sounds fun, huh?

[cheeto]

Does the place make everyone so...[tries to find a way to describe it without outing what she's supposed to be just yet.] normal?

[burntviolet]

[ ...

Oh boy. Well, she didn't explain what they wanted, so she'll ask for another paper and pen- and then she writes something on it. She'll show it to Shizune afterwards.

"Please write on that paper about the problem you're having." ]

[mr_fine]

[Well, the smile does take the edge off the intimidating size and Apollo returns it, not feeling quite so nervous now.]

It's a good idea! And it'd probably be suitable for anyone else who doesn't want something too alcoholic. [Wait - did he say 'my realm'?] ...Oh, uh, is this your realm? I've only just gotten here. [It'd make as much sense as anything else.]

[riskplayer]

[ She frowns. There's a long pause before she pulls the pen and paper out of her pockets and starts writing.

"Everything's overpriced."

It could be taken as a neutral statement of fact, if one were to disregard how fast she wrote it and how forcefully she dotted her i's and that period. ]

[burntviolet]

[ ... Oh. Overpriced? Hanako didn't see any issue with this store ever since she started coming here, so she's confused for a moment.

But if Shizune is so unhappy with this, then it means an issue with it exists. So, after thinking twice- she writes something again.

"What were you buying?" ]

[riskplayer]

[ "Nothing."

Not when everything costs this much was what she wanted to follow up with but she writes this instead:

"I was merely doing a survey for future purposes."

i.e. a school festival. ]

[burntviolet]

[ ... well, that doesn't help things, but Hanako shows the paper to the shopkeeper. She's by no means good with words, but she could at least try to reach a compromise between the two of them. With some hesitation, she starts negotiating with the guy, hoping to get him to at least have a little discount. It's most likely destined to fail, but what else can she do? ]

[riskplayer]

...!

[ Too slow! Hanako's taking too long!

Shizune pulls a notepad from her pocket and starts scribbling a few prices. She pulls those pages off the pad and starts laying them on the shopkeeper's counter.

"If we buy 50 toys in one go, different animals and colors, for example:"]

...

[ "2 purple cats
7 red dogs
5 pink rabbits
5 orange chicks" ]

...

["Ikezawa, which one would you like?"]

[sikandar]

As have I, but it is my realm nonetheless! This mysterious lessor may own the land, but I shall conquer the hearts of its people, and from there, it shall be a short step to owning Holly Heights.

[burntviolet]

[ ... What does that have anything to do with the matter at hand? Hanako had to stop negotiating when Shizune started writing, and when she reads the content in the notebook, she blinks rapidly.

Regardless, it must be a big deal for the other girl- so she retrieves the paper and scribbles quickly below the stuff she'd already written.

"The pink rabbits...?" ]

[riskplayer]

[ She nods before pushing her glasses up. She grins mischievously.

"Then there shall only be one pink rabbit. The rest of them shall be in another color. Mint, maybe.

We shall be purchasing at least 50 toys in the future and it should only cost this much."

Shizune writes down her price and waits for an objection from the shopkeeper and possibly Hanako. ]

[mr_fine]

[...blink blink. Well, this stranger is certainly amibitious! His enthusiasm reminds Apollo of a certain young magician.] I'm sure you'd be pretty popular if all your barrels of wine are this huge, then. Owning the place seems like a lot of hard work though.

[alldestiny]

Yep. Normalcy's an epidemic here. Anybody who ever had powers is suddenly non-powery, as far as I know. Count me among the non-ability-afied.

[sikandar]

[iskander would look cute in tracy's costume, y/y?]

A town of this size is no challenge to the King of Conquerors!

[cheeto]

And there's no way to reverse that?

[alldestiny]

So far, I'm coming up blank. But I think the landlord's giving stuff back to people if they earn it by living weird little stepford-grade-happy lives here. It's all very Spielberg.