trainingwings | the road's got me hypnotized

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Never really thought about it. It beats ration packs. Keeps me going. All I really care about.

[Is it really that bad? He has hunted before, when he's really had to, but it's always been easier to steal from shops.]

Cook it, salt it, dry it? Not too bad. The way they have it? I'll pass.

[Then again, she does kind of look like she walked out of a Ren Faire.

Her grip on the crosssbow is slowly relaxing. Not enough that she can't still attack if need be, but enough to show she's not considering him a current, overt threat.]

[He's going to assume time shenanigans. Or she comes from some place where supermarkets have yet to reach.]

Honestly, I'd rather just order take out. Not much good hunting when you spend most of your downtime in the middle of the city.

Damn, Luceti could use a decent Chinese take-out place.

[Definitely from before supermarkets.]

I haven't been to too many citiess. The ones I have seen haven't impressed me.

Obviously never been to the good ones. You can get pretty much anything in New York, day or night.

[Gretel shrugs her shoulders.]

Never been. Never heard of it, actually.

...o-okay, I'll take it you're from some other reality where it doesn't exist or something.

[Got that should not be as easy to say as it is.]</small? So where are you from?

[That... makes her think awhile. Finally, she shrugs again.]

Nowhere, really.

[She doesn't identify with the town of her childhood or any of the places they visited, living for a few months at a time when they were young enough to inspire men and women who thought they needed new parents.

They've always just wandered, she and Hansel.

They've crossed borders of five small kingdoms and back, coming and going as they please. They aren't... from anywhere.]

[His expression softens a little at that.]

I know how that is. I have an apartment in New York, but I don't spend more than a few weeks a year there at the best of times.

I travel a lot.

Hansel -- my brother -- and I travel a lot.

[She lowers the crossbow a bit. A show of faith to go with the conversation.]

Different town or village almost every week.

[In return, Clint lowers his bow, enough to give them both some breathing room.]

Yeah, I've been there too. Never sticking in one place long enough for people to wise up and try to kill you.

It's the other way around for us, kind of. Get done in one place and it's on to the next kill.

...well, in all fairness, that was usually why people were trying to kill me in the first place.

They don't usually come after us. Things got... interesting... when they tried it last.

Some people hold grudges. You take out a few warlords and people act like you ran over their dog. Overreaction honestly.

Oh? I'm always happy to hear interesting stories.

Warlords? Sounds interesting. A few warring cousins in one kingdom tried to pull us into all that. Didn't realiize we don't do politics..

And. Well. Should preface any stories with: my brother and I hunt and kill witches.

I was in the Middle East for a while. Plenty of warring factions in need of my services.

Not to say that Europe and the US are free of all that.

[He only wished he could avoid politics.

He looks at her for a long moment and before Luceti he wouldn't have believed her but... alien gods and zombies.]

Okay. Fair enough. Family business?

[Countries? Probably. Not that she's quite sure. It's certainly something to ask about in a bit, she decides.]

Sort of.

It's just Hansel and me, but that's family. We usually hear about the trouble first. Sometimes the city writes to us, but usually we hear about children going missing or something else that indicates witch activity, and we offer to solve the problem for a modest [ly expensive] fee.

Sounds reasonable enough. [Hey, he'd killed a lot of people for money before; his perspective was skewed.]

You get a lot of business?

More than we like. Really? I'd love to see the day we can retire.

Won't happen, but I can hope.

I can sympathise. My world just got a whole lot stranger and I'm gonna be busy for a long time. And it wasn't exactly quiet before.

Sounds like you're in the same thing we are-- some jobs just don't let you retire.

Yeah, seems like that. Only way out is in a body bag.

If you even get that much. Doubt I'm ever going to be put in a coffin.

Eh, never much liked the idea of being buried anyway.

(no subject)

haventkilledusyet - 2013-02-20 04:39 (UTC) - Expand

asthehawkflies - 2013-02-20 21:04 (UTC) - Expand

haventkilledusyet - 2013-02-21 05:06 (UTC) - Expand