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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

[medicalpunch]

I trust your observations.

But that said... [She pauses, tapping her lower lip thoughtfully.] Well, I suppose it's all academic really, but I'd be interested in some of the power comparisons.

[endgames]

Haa... [He folds his arms behind his head and looks at the clouds, aligning his thoughts.]

The comparisons are more notable in what you can't compare. Very few people here have the same skill-sets.

But put in terms more familiar to you and me, I suppose the best example would be Lee.

[medicalpunch]

Oh?

[She moves to sit next to him, curious about what he'll have to say.]

Because he doesn't mould his chakra, you mean? [That's an odd thought -- is Lee essentially unlimited, then?]

[endgames]

More or less. His strength and stamina isn't dependent on chakra. I've seen him run around as quickly here as he might have back home. If he's as effected as we are, I've yet to see evidence.

[It's not like he's had a reason to go all out in the enclosure yet, anyways.]

[medicalpunch]

Mm. [She turns that over thoughtfully.] Just one person is a small sample to work with. But it's a start, and the fact that it's Lee...

[Someone they know well, and who can be easily questioned about this. Lee wouldn't hold back revealing strengths to his friends.]

[endgames]

Ha. There's probably not much more special to it than him being himself.

[Because Lee is insane.]

But we could still learn from it.

[medicalpunch]

['Special' is definitely a word you can use in this instance.]

There's a lot to learn here. [And if Lee is part of that puzzle...]

[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

[medicalpunch]

[Her eyebrows shoot up at that.]

So the people who are keeping us in here... were in here themselves?

[It seems crazy to her. But then, people will perpetuate systems blindly, sometimes.]

[endgames]

Or other enclosures. There are many more apart from this one.

[medicalpunch]

[Which is not something she particularly likes to think about. How many...?]

If they're perpetuating this system, the people who come out of these enclosures...

[endgames]

Some join the MSF. I assume some are allowed to do other things, given I've seen civilians.

[medicalpunch]

Allowed.

[That's an irritating word.]

So these enclosures are just immigration centers, then? Involuntary ones.

[endgames]

That's one way to look at it. I think studying us remains the primary focus through that, but it's likely all connected.

[medicalpunch]

[She makes a small sound of acknowledgment, turning it all over in her head.]

[She hates it that they're this powerful, the Malnosso, that they can lock so many people away and damp their abilities. She hates that they have so much power. And the feeling of helplessness is worse, that there's nothing she can do to effectively rebel.]

What would happen if we stopped cooperating with them? All these missions, drafts... if we just stopped doing what they want?