there is no place quite like this place if we get it on the go

[herotypical]

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. Oh. And don't forget to RESERVE your characters.

Comments

[medicalpunch]

[Sakura starts to grin at that familiar refrain...

Then her expression freezes into a poisonous glare. That was low, biffle.]

So maybe I have standards. That no one has managed to meet yet.

[floralogy]

Hey, I have standards too but some guys managed to meet them and one even went over the top that I couldn't resist.

[Translation: you're just terribly unlucky with guys.]

[descrier]

[ She nearly fidgets at the word experimental ― reminding her of far too many things she wishes she had forgotten amongst her trials ― but reprimands herself to save neutrality. The last time she spoke to him was when she was at her lowest, but he oddly seems to pay no mind of such things. Peculiar, yes, but not exactly relevant to the topic at hand. ]

Experimental tests of what nature?

[risingwinds]

Hey, you can't expect me to tell you everything.

[Huff.]

I know better than that.

[He can't automatically trust Vanitas. He doesn't remember a thing; that alone's a cause for alarm.]

[most_unwanted]

[From his timeline, he has yet to run into her and see what they'd done... but he is aware that she'd been taken, the last time they'd communicated. He won't bring it up until he's talked with her more to see when she's from.]

Sometimes it's physical- we might transform into other people, animals, you name it. Other times, our mental states are altered... For instance, once we were made to believe we'd lived our entire lives here, with no memories from home. There are alterations to the environment sometimes too, in fact this whole enclosure can be dramatically transformed.

It's a unique power called "shifting."

...and sometimes they abduct us from the village for a more... personalized visit.

[He grimaces. Scully was in their hands for that, not too long ago.]

[descrier]

[ If anything, she knows not to discount Mulder's beliefs; she herself has seen her fair share of strange, other-worldly things she would have otherwise thought impossible had she not been the Consortium's pawn. As she understands it, the nature of human beings are strange in their own ― why would it be so strange for something out of their element to be so natural in it's own surroundings? ]

Under what pretenses are these experiments for? If they are so seemingly random... what outcome are they attempting to gain in performing them?

[medicalpunch]

Maybe my standards are just higher.

[She would like to think that. Because she doesn't want to be Tsunade II in that department.]

[endgames]

Oh, you don't know the half of it. Sometimes I wonder if that's the key to getting out.

[medicalpunch]

Oh? What makes you think that?

[If there's some relationship between their powers and getting out of here... but she's unsure of that. Didn't she hear their powers were perfectly normal outside the barrier?]

[endgames]

[It'll be clear he meant something else in a second.]

There's a lot of people who live outside enclosures. I've worked with them, including a man in the Malnosso's military who may have been in this one.

There's a weird clash of what people do and don't know here. We're probably on the bottom tier of that

[moescot]

A different... world...?

[ Kyon, you may have to explain more than just that to her, especially since leaving her hanging like this, saying "This is just a different world" isn't going to cut it. ]

OKAY, fine.

[menial]

Right, uh, where do we start?

[He shivers.]

...How about we start by going inside?

oh my gosh i almost tagged to the other one, how dare you...

[moescot]

Y- yes.

[ Mikuru nods, an awkward smile on her face. It's unbelievably cold and if they don't go inside as soon as possible, her face might actually freeze that way. ]

That would be nice.

[moescot]

Ah, um, w- well...

[ The coat feels warm at least, though her legs are still shaking from the cold a little. Or make that a lot. ]

Suzumiya-san...

you never expect the second joke tag...

[menial]

['Even a frozen statue of Asahina-san is livelier than the expressions of a thousand other living girls.']

R-Right -- my place is just around the corner over there. And your room is still empty.

it's like the spanish inquisition

[moescot]

[ She blinks twice at the words of "your room is still empty", but she'll smile nonetheless, dusting her skirt off so that there's no longer snow on it. ]

Okay. I'll follow you, Kyon-kun.

precisely

[menial]

['That's all I need to hear to turn this walk into ten minutes of uninterrupted bliss!

And the walk only takes five minutes.']

Okay. So. You were just dragged into this world called Luceti. Doesn't really matter why, but we've got some evil overlords called the Malnosso who are fighting a war against some even crazier bastards. They're kind of more weird than evil though. They do the kind of thing you might expect Haruhi to unintentionally do. They say it's research.

Haruhi and I are here too. I've been here for a year, and - you came here once before. But sometimes they do that. Drag you here and back and mess with your memories the whole time--['... Ooops. Insensitive?']... well, anyway. You were here a little after I first came here, but you left after a couple months. People do leave all the time, apparently.

[moescot]

Evil overlords...?

[ This is already confusing, Kyon! At least your explanation make some sense. In a very unusual way, that is.

But at the words, "mess with your memories the whole time", Mikuru slightly panics, making her usual "Heeeeeeh?" noise before making a face.



Yeah, that face. She does believe him, but it's just very, very strange. ]

[gqueen]

[She glares at him for a few moments before and lets a huff of air out her nose.]

Then why are you telling me to take all the clothes I want? What does it matter to you?

[onearmedexmerc]

[Evan nods.] Pretty much. From what I've learned either time doesn't pass or it passes at such a rate it's like you never left. Maybe you flicker a bit? I'm not sure.

[Evan watches as Harry reaches up to touch the odd lightening shaped scar on his head. But he doesn't say anything about it, figuring everyone has those weird quirks and habits and maybe touching that scar was a comfort thing? Who knows.

He tilts the journal so Harry can see it better. At his comment, Evan makes a face before sighing.] Some have been here for years. [There is no real way around this fact. He had been shocked when he found out.] No one really know how we get here or how come some people leave and others stay. As far as I can tell it's all on the whim of the Malnosso.

[onearmedexmerc]

[Everyone notices the arm, or rather the lack of it, first. This is why he normally wears a prosthetic! At least in public. Also, it's the best surprise in a fight.

Evan returns the smirk.]

Knives or bare-handed preferred.

[gonna_shoot_it]

[Yeah, she doesn't buy that innocent look for an instant. But still, a slight smirk tugs at one corner of her mouth.]

Flattery won't float this boat, kid. What're you really out here for? Unless you're aiming to make the cut to join in on patrol.

[Oddly, she might actually trust the girl for it. She's already seen how much butt the glitch can kick if she puts her mind to it.]

[onearmedexmerc]

[Evan raises an eyebrow at the weird head twitch thing, wondering if the eagle was debating on going for his face.]

Oh. Alright then. [He tilts the journal so the eagle can read.

...Nothing in life could have prepared him for this. the fact he's doing this so calmly can only be chalked up to the fact this place is weird as hell and too many shocks to the system means he stops getting overly shocked.]

It's a bit long... But the basics are up at the top. You, uh, you should have gotten a journal too, if you're a new arrival. [Which the dress in your claw seems to point to.]

[menial]

['N-No! Not that face! Damn it. It's more important than ever to avoid that face...']

U-Um. Well, it's pretty straightforward, really, I mean. If you don't remember, then you don't remember anything. That's all.

But... yeah. They're scientists or something, and they say they're trying to find a way to release everyone, which is why they work with the Shifts. That.

...We're here. Come on, let's go up. I'm on the fifth floor.

[gonna_shoot_it]

[Yeah, no. She warned you, Logan. She said she'd go in there if he didn't, and she meant it.

And so she'll just go right ahead and try to shove him aside and punch the start button.]