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[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

[greenjacketed]

A handful of months. [ he sits back -- evaluates the woman across from him -- and makes a decision. ] The rhyme and reason of the visit makes a decent tale, if a lady had the time to hear it.

[makethembelieve]

Good sir, [she gives a soft laugh and her best smile] there is nothing I have more here than time, and I should be delighted to spend it in conversation so pleasant.

[greenjacketed]

Well, then. This, ma'am, is the tale of how I enlisted into the bloody army for the second bloody time.

[ a roguish grin. he's growing more comfortable. ]

[makethembelieve]

[She folds her hands together and rests her chin on her knuckles.]

And I am delighted to listen.

[charitylovehopefaith]

I've heard of the Riflemen before. [Mostly deprecations, but she knows now to take the source of the information into mind, and as her opinion on him has soured all the wat through and rotted, she's inclined to look very kindly on those men.] But never had the honour of meeting one of them.

It must have been a great trial, having no commanding officers. It would take quite the man to maintain order. [She does her best to sound as if she has no idea she is complimenting him, but her soft chuckle might give her away.]

[greenjacketed]

Myself, a pair of Captains, and my RSM were in London to follow up on a missing battalion of recruits. Horse Guards was getting us nowhere. [ in point of fact, horse guards had tried to get them killed. ]

But we knew recruiting parties were still marching, so we stowed our uniforms and took the shilling all over again. How else were we to find our missing men?

[ a gutsy move, for old snotties like them. who'd already survived their training. who knew what they were going into once again. ]

[greenjacketed]

[ quite the man. and sharpe had fought extra hard for the respect of his men, for they'd once seen him as nothing but a gilded version of themselves. and in some lights, that was true enough. ]

The South Essex carries muskets -- [ he explains. ] I was of the 95th, but the company I was with got cut off during a retreat to Corunna, miss. The rest of the rifles sailed home and we were snuck into the South Essex. [ rather than send them home, the duke had wanted to hoard as many rifles as he could. ]

But we still wear our green jackets, amongst the red. For it is a grand honour to be picked for the rifles -- [ an elite unit, they were. hand chosen from regular regiments. the scantest hope for social elevation a common soldier might normally wish for, aside from cases like sharpe's. ] and we clung to our colour and our motto even as we were shoved about.

First on the field, and the last off of it. That's us.

[friendshipfirst]

[ Oh, that's quite possible! ]

Does this mean I can come by anytime when I'm hungry?

Re: Jayne Cobb | Firefly

[aintwejust]

[Now there is a certain level of poetical vulgarity that Mal hadn't expected to hear in this strange a place, but know'n that someone from his crew was about has him check'n the shelves and spaces between with a wary eye. Sure enough there was one lumbering mass of misery and muscle glowering at the racks.]

Jayne. [Not quite as relieved as a man ought to be, but then. It's Jayne. Ain't no one really glad to see him right out the gate.] You miss'n something in particular?

[aintwejust]

[Of all the tea houses in all the verse, he had to go and walk into one with her. As soon as he catches that familiar set of curves and lines he's locked up and spooked. More than he had been just wandering around in this place with the gorram wings on his back. He could cut and run- but if she's here she's been displaced. And maybe she's just a might unsettled as well. He goes back and forth in his head for a long while before his boots make the choice for him- he finds them walking him right over to sit across from her without so much as a hello.]

Zuko | Avatar: The Last Airbender

[lordhotman]

Zuko hadn't exactly arrived gracefully, and it had been known all across the journals in an angry explosion of flaming temper. This was all a farse, it just had to be. Nevermind that there were a pair of wings on his back to prove that it wasn't. This was all just too strange and bizarre for him to process clearly and believe, even though deep down he couldn't really deny it... yet did anyway.

They had told him it was impossible to leave, but that wasn't about to stop him from trying. He was the Fire Lord dammit, and nobody could tell him that he couldn't leave. Someone had told about the barrier, and Zuko was stubborn and stupid enough to march out there and find out for himself just how impenetrable this thing was.

After getting himself some suitable clothes and a hooded cloak to protect him from the cold, he sets out walking towards the barrier.

---

Zuko eventually returns like a dog with his tail tucked between his legs. The almighty Fire Lord had failed spectacularly at trying to get through the barrier. Cold, hungry, and angry, he drags himself back into town and finds a random bench to crash on. It's here that he begins to appropriately sulk.

(( Feel free to try and stop him from stupidly going out to the barrier, or you can run into him at the barrier, or find his pathetic self upon his return! ))

[notagirlsname]

[The big man didn't even bother turning around, waving a hand dismissively as he kept shifting through the shelves, digging through swords and other junk. He is not at all surprised to find Mal here, but he does reel in his tongue a might more than he would've.]

She's missin', Cap'n. Some kid said he reckoned I could find her here, but I ain't seein' anything. Just...swords...

[Of course he's looking in the wrong section. Cunning he might be, but when he's in a mood he's none too bright.]

[cilantro]

Of course you can--you're free to come by whenever you'd like!

[Heck you could camp out right outside our kitchen and we wouldn't raise that much of an objection to it. ^^;;]

[companionly]

[Inara's startled when someone sits across from her, just like that. Luceti's proven to be full of strangely personable, friendly people so far, but this was a little presumptuous in her opinion -

She looks up, ire carefully masked in curiosity and a question halfway formed in her lips, and suddenly recognizes the man sitting across her.]

Mal...!

[flameoroku]

[Roku was just heading on back home when the hooded figure walked passed him. He'd just let the guy be on his way except for the fact there was a scar on his face and it...was vaguely familiar.

...

Wait a minute.] Zuko?

[yan_oclock]

[ Ugh. Well, that's...about as much effort as he feels like putting into this right now. Sigh.

He tries to read for something behind Totsuka's stupid grin. Sincerity? Hmm. Whatever. Fushimi clicks his tongue and turns back towards the bar. ]

If you're still saying that kind of thing, you really are an idiot.

[ And he sips at his drink. Very deliberately. TOTSUKA THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE GO AWAY ]

[lordhotman]

[Hearing his name, Zuko stops in his tracks and turns to look at the person who uttered it. There's a notably sour look on the boy's face, but also a trace of surprise as he realizes he doesn't recognize this person.]

Who are you?

[And more importantly.]

How do you know my name?

[1145pm]

[ Sorry! That's just another conversation topic.

He focuses on the cup as he drinks it. ]

So what do you think? Which is tastier - Kusanagi-san's screwdrivers, or this one?

[flameoroku]

...You don't remember? [He doesn't remember Luceti, does he?]

Uh well, we got acquainted through some of your friends, Sokka and Katara. The name's Roku.

[lordhotman]

[Judging by the look on Zuko's face, he clearly doesn't.]

No, I don't remember ever meeting you.

[However, the fact that he knows Sokka and Katara is noteworthy and he faces Roku more appropriately. This giving him the chance to give the guy a better look over.]

You're Fire Nation.

[The clothes, hair, and name said it all. Although while the name did strike a certain chord, it wouldn't exactly be unheard of for someone to be named after the late Avatar.]

[yan_oclock]

[ Fushimi releases the straw and gazes at the cocktail critically. As if it offended him somehow.

Without looking into the camera, he shrugs. ] I don't particularly like either of them.

[1145pm]

The right answer is "Kusanagi-san's." [ Tatara chuckles. Interacting with him like this is weird, but not bad. ] You don't really change much, huh, Saru-kun?

[flameoroku]

Oh, well...we sort of met when you were here before, but I guess you don't remember that now.

[It's a real shame really...but at least he has some ideas of how to talk to Zuko now.]

And that's right, I am. What are you doing out here and when did you get here?

[lordhotman]

[Wait wat. Roku's question gets tuned out in favor of boggling over what he'd said before. Zuko giving him a stunned look.]

What are you talking about? I've been here before?!

[That's... news to him.]

[flameoroku]

Twice, since I've been here. Both times you forgot you were here before.