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the luceti test drive meme

Reserves have just opened and apps are right around the corner. But are you still on the fence about any of your would-be characters? Well -- here is your chance to take them out for a spin!

▣ TAG IN or reply to others with characters you would like to test drive for Luceti.
▣ ONLY add top-level comments for characters who are not yet in the game. You're free to reply to others with Luceti characters (because that's half the fun) but remember that the whole point of this meme is for potential characters.
▣ PLEASE do not post duplicates of characters already in Luceti.
▣ GO AHEAD and give us a brief description of your character in the top-level comment, along with one or two possible ways to run into your test-driven character around town.
▣ YOU MAY use these threads for your first person samples on your app -- just make sure that you link threads of a goodly length (i.e., threads with at least ten comments from your character).

Need a little help getting started? Remember, you needn't post here as though your character is still brand-spankin' new. It'll probably be more fun for all involved if this isn't a simple dress rehearsal for showing up. Here are a few scenario ideas:

o1. The grocery store is out of food. What do you do?
o2. Wing injury! Call for help or stagger your way to one of our fine clinics.
o3. It's a busy evening at Good Spirits, one of Luceti's local bars. Do you dare try the drink specials?
o4. Have a talent for playing music? Try Cloud Nine's open mic night!
o5. Beach party? Snow party? Leaf-raking party? Gardening party? YOU DECIDE.

Okay. So my examples are pretty non-exciting. But they're really just suggestions. I'm POSITIVE you kids can come up with more creative things.

Above all? HAVE FUN.

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And yet you are content to behave like a dog while you are a human.

I get that a lot. [Spidey jumps on down from his hammock to stand next to Billy. It's more polite, right?] Already starting to rethink it. It's way too quiet for a New York hero like me.

[Because, in the eyes of the church... He puts a weak smile on.] I am trying to work up into something better than myself.

Is there anything your teachings say about free will?

As Father Zina said in his 98th Sermon:

For those of us born human, we have been given a pivotal choice. We can move up or move down, what choices will you make- that will affect you and those around you? Do you move up or down, do you help others move up or down?

[Ah. Ginia sips at her milkshake while she thinks over what he's said. It is free will, the free to choose what one wishes to do with their life. That is sensible enough, and ultimately, what Luce chooses to do with his time here and in his life is ultimately his decision.

She simply finds it a shame he's unwilling to expand his knowledge, though she realizes it's a difference in thought and can't blame him much for that either.]

I see. The power to choose. I suppose I cannot argue with the decisions you choose to make as they are yours.

Yes, it is either choose to help yourself and the church or go against it.

But the church will help you get back on the right path. [Aka do what we say or we will make you.] After all, it is its duty.

But what if you were to find information and knowledge that could help you and the church elsewhere?

[...Huh. He's shorter than Billy remembers.]

Way too quiet for a New York citizen, too, so you're not alone there. Still, it's nice to have some local heroes around.

And are such absences normal?

[Here comes the Spanish Inquisition!]

Thats impossible, you see, the church has all the information needed. Keep it untainted.

You aren't even curious about other perspectives or viewpoints? Or different topics? Like farming?

Abel told me some about farming, it didn't interest me much.

As for other viewpoints, I am not supposed to have a viewpoint as the Judge.

How can you consider yourself a fair Judge if you cannot see things from another perspective? Where is the justice in that?

Because, the law of the church are simple to follow. Not following them is showing disrespect for the church.

[Ginia sighs and shakes her head.]

I feel we will continue to disagree due to our differences in ideology, but that is okay.

I am just trying to see what is so hard with understanding that if you do good, you get rewarded. If you don't you get punished.

Mmm - there are a lot of things like that here.

[It's a metaphor.

And, discerning that Asami seems to have her feet more under her...]

So about how far in my future are you from? [...] Or maybe a better way to ask would be: When did the war end?

["From the future" is still a bizarre thing to picture, and while she also finds herself taking some slight pride in it as well (evil or not, she's the daughter of an Indultrialist) the more academic phrasing of "when did the war end" is so much easier to grasp onto]

About seventy years ago.

Because life is not black and white. It's very, very grey.

Abel has said that, but it gets too complicated. It leads people more to black than white.

Really?

[She doesn't get that a lot. But she smiles at the younger girl.]

Who's that?

They happen, yeah. I had a friend who was gone for about the same time as you, but she came back and remembered being here before. No one really knows why some people remember and others forget, though. [Probably has to do with all that timey-wimey dimension-hopping stuff involved in people being taken to Luceti.]

[You know it's also more than a little weird to hear someone from the distant(?) past pointing out this vehicle's similarities to things from other worlds. She's not sure if she should be flattered or not (because, yes, she takes personal stake in satomobiles in spite of herself) so she just decides to focus on how she finally gets to drive it]

It's hard to imagine how you'd steer without the wheel. It's a little big to use handlebar turning.

[Ah here's a helmet]

But what if things the church say are black are not necessarily so?

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