trainingwings | don't stop me now

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

No, not really.

I think getting too comfortable in this place is a big mistake, nice as it might be most of the time.

You locals are awfully friendly...

Get stuck in a fishbowl no one can figure out how to get out of, and you learn to play nice. Especially since even death here only lasts for about a week. Be kinda uncomfortable otherwise.

[He was often surprised how well the village got along with itself. Then again, maybe other than the notable few, they'd lucked out in that regard. Someone truly desperate to take everyone in the place down would be able to do an incredible amount of damage.]

People who don't stay dead...[ another sigh. that had been a tough fact to read. ] I admit, the concept isn't exactly new to me. But it also isn't comforting.

They usually come back more or less as they were, although from what I understand, there's usually some sort of price. A memory lost. Or skill. Something like that. But it's not like they come back undead...or otherwise as some sort of monster. And considering that I come from some place where if you come back, it's a real bad thing, I think I can deal with this.

Me too. I mean -- I don't know about dealing with it, but I also come from somewhere where a return from the dead is a very bad sign.

[ for a while, she thought it was just her... ]

Yeah. I figure wasting time letting it get to me isn't gonna help, so I'm keeping it even.

[He makes a quiet sound that sounds something like 'huh'.]

So what's your brand of resurrected monster, then? Mine is vampires.

[ vampires? wow. she has little room to be sceptical, and yet she is. ]

They're victims of a viral outbreak. Most of the time, it's not their fault. It starts with fever. Nausea. Itching. Insatiable hunger. And it only escalated from there. The skin rots. They feel no more pain but they barely think.

...viral zombies? That's what it sounds like. It is contagious?

I try to avoid the z-word. [ at the very least, it's grown tacky over the years. ] And it is. Highly. The t-Virus can chew through a city in mere hours, but the monsters are only a side-effect of something more insidious.

[ her voice evens out, as though parts of the tale are well-rehearsed. ] It, and other viral agents like it, were created for their mutagenic properties. The idea was that, on infection, the virus would edit a subject's DNA. Make them stronger. Give them abilities unseen in the natural world. They were creating a B.O.W.

And instead they fucked up and created a problem, right?

People never learn, do they.

Their true intentions remain somewhat murky. Some might say the outbreaks were the best way to demonstrate how effective a B.O.W. could b. Or to obtain combat data for the next strain.

If it's contagious and not contained, then they messed up, whether they realize it or not. Infection isn't a genie you can just stuff back in the bottle once it's lose. And it's not going to care who made it. The data isn't much use if no one is safe from it.

[...yeah, there may be a sore spot in there somewhere.]

[ a soft sigh. ]

You have to think about the larger landscape. Someone looking to sell a B.O.W. to a hostile nation-state isn't exactly thinking about stuffing it back in a bottle. Especially when an outbreak is the perfect way to advertise the weapon's efficiency.

I see the results of this kind of crap every day back home. And I know they don't give a shit. That's why I'm saying what I'm saying.

Anyway, sorry about your own problem.

[ something about the man unsettles her. and claire finds herself resenting the fact that a stranger who first met her with friendly curiousity now attempted to educate her on her own situation. her very profession.

coolly: ] And I'm sorry for yours. For what it's worth.

[he's not directing it at her, but she wouldn't know that. It was actually a poor attempt at sympathy. either way, he hears the coolness.]

Thanks.

You seem to be doing fine; I'll let you get back to what you were doing. Sorry if I stepped over the line.

[Click.]

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