Test Flight!

[lucetimods]

the luceti test flight 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 flight 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

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[Why didn't you do it?

It would have been better if it was an accusation. Robert's hands lift off the keys, and he sits at the piano, considering it.

He could explain that DeWitt had things to atone for, that he had a debt to repay, even if it wasn't the memory he'd created for himself. But that might hurt her. That would mean telling her the things she doesn't know yet, the things that will change everything.]

I didn't think I could. [He could leave it at that, but he won't.]

Songbird wasn't of my creation -- I didn't know how to stop him. I also wasn't very good at violence, not... on a large scale, and I knew the fight it would be to get you even out of that tower. I needed someone far more capable and far more accustomed to it.

I think... at the time... I was afraid, too. To try. To leave Columbia myself. Because I couldn't have just sent you off. I couldn't have just left you alone.

[He smiles faintly and makes a very soft admission:] And Rosalind never would have gone with me.

[tearmeanewone]

Booker is definitely good at violence, I'll give him that. And I'd think you'd be glad to run from Columbia and never look back. There are so many other places in the world to see that aren't a floating island.

[Elizabeth tilts her head in curiosity.] I would think Rosalind would have loved to go somewhere besides Columbia. To someplace where her knowledge wouldn't be brushed off as-- [She gives a short, wry laugh.] --'a woman's intuition'?

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Two atheists in a theocracy. We were... certainly outsiders. But--

[He sighs a little. She knows enough, at least, to know he crossed the barrier between worlds to go to Columbia.]

To really get you away from Comstock, we would have had to go to my world. A world which would never have accepted a woman as a serious physicist. A world in which Columbia -- Rosalind's greatest contribution -- never existed.

She... wouldn't have just been the female Lutece twin the way I became the male Lutece twin. She... would have lost everything. Better "woman's intuition" and the credit of a marvel like Columbia than a woman who would be barred from most scientific assemblies.

[tearmeanewone]

That doesn't make any sense. [Elizabeth, bless her, is still in a state of idealism. The world, in her opinion, should function as it does in her books. Logic. Facts. Conclusions drawn from evidence. Romance and fiction when the moment called for it.]

If she could make Columbia fly, she could do it again. And then who would claim she wasn't a physicist? Blind people, probably. People who are annoyed they didn't do it first.

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The world... doesn't work like that. [It's a hard, bitter truth.] As much as Comstock and I failed to see eye-to-eye...

He would admit when a woman was brilliant. He would give her due credit. Anyone else... Anyone from my world would have attributed everything she did to me. No matter what I said, no matter what I did.

She would have been nothing in my world, and I couldn't do that to her. So, I stayed.

[tearmeanewone]

[How absolutely ridiculous. Elizabeth couldn't believe that there was no alternative, Columbia or being nothing. Rosalind did seem like the sort of person who would choose Columbia though.]

[It was a depressing thought, though. That someone would choose to stay in Columbia, knowing what it was. Elizabeth hoped that there was something on the other side of her escape. Something worth everything she and Booker went through to get her out. But what if there wasn't?]

Knowing what I know about Columbia... that was very generous of you. [She nods and smiles, leaning back onto the piano.] But I guess it all depends on what matters most to you.