ariel_ooc | Test Drive Meme: The Overflow

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CITY OF ARIEL: THE TEST DRIVE
THE OVERFLOW

Since the last post is fast approaching 3k comments and getting laggy for some of our players, we have decided to go ahead and stick up the overflow post. Please continue your threads or start new ones here if you'd like. To make this easier on those continuing threads from the last meme, here's a handy form:

Please remember to let your thread partners know you've bumped your threads over here as well! We started the meme early to give you plenty of room to do just that.

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With the City of Ariel grand opening only a month away, we are holding our first ever test drive meme. Tag in and see how your character would settle in the game. You're a fresh face in the city, newly processed, and arriving at a bustling time. The city is expanding and you are greeted first in the re-education center by your helpful counselors and then directed out of the building to a large festival.

Be puzzled, make friends, have sex, or whatever you want! There are no restrictions on thread types played out here.

Your first awareness that something has gone wrong comes during a groggy moment of semi-lucidity when you look around yourself and find that -- instead of wherever you remember being last -- you're in a chair, in a room with a man you don't recognize. He's sitting behind a desk whistling to himself and sorting paperwork. The whole atmosphere might remind you of a high school guidance counselor's office, only with far more comfortable chairs.

When your head clears enough to speak and you ask him where you are, he smiles brightly and says, "Welcome to the City of Ariel."

You were brought to Ariel during a very special time! There's a large festival going on celebrating the new expansions to the city and everything is decked out for it. Everything is bustling and vibrant in the city today because of the celebrations. There are decorations up, food vendors set up all along the streets, kissing booths, games, and just about anything else you can imagine an event like this would have!

The people of Ariel are out and about as well, some are in vibrant costumes and others are just checking out the sights. Some of the more exhibitionist types are even having a little more fun out in public than you may be used to seeing back home.

As soon as the grogginess from your arrival passes, you are allowed to leave the re-education center and see it all for yourself. Upon exiting, you are even handed beads of various colors, several of each so you don't worry about running out.

Each color has a special meaning listed below:

pink - toys
blue - oral
yellow - watersports
green - age play
lavender - crossdressing
orange - multiples
grey - bondage
white - hands (mutual masturbation, fingering, handjob)
red - blood
black - wildcard

These are to aid you in making a connection with others. Show your interest in others and tell them exactly what you would like to do with them by sharing the beads.

If you would rather take a different approach, feel free to walk around the festival and see what (or who) catches your eye. The point is to relax and get settled in your new home.

TAG IN
- Post your character's name, canon, and preferences.
- Set up an opener in your comment or leave it blank.
- Tag around and have fun!

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Please note that all CR in this meme can be carried over when the game starts between characters that are accepted into the game.

Threads can also count towards third and first person samples on the application, just provide links.

Take a look at our OOC Meet and Greet post! Meet. Greet. Make friends. Have fun!

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[The odd, rowdy group had caught Rin's attention as well, but his expression was less amused and more confused blinking, head tilted to the side as he nibbled on some teriyaki chicken on a stick.

Drunk people always just confused him. He'd been pretty buzzed once in his entire life, on wine that was supposed to be Kuro's and was potent enough to knock even his demon metabolism back, but aside from saying a few odd things and slurring a lot, he didn't remember much beyond Yukio carrying him back to the dorm over his shoulder.

Other than that, though, he just didn't see the point in losing one's facilities like that. Probably one of the few teenagers in the world not interested in getting completely wasted.

But... it was interesting to watch, at least. For a moment or two.

He started to move away from the crowd again when some one bumped in to some one else who bumped in to him, sending him stumbling off balance. He would have yelled at the person, too, if not for the fact that he went crashing right in to some one smaller than him. Oops.]

Shit I'm sorry! Are you okay? Some asshole totally pushed me...

[Typically it was hard, if not impossible, to throw the boy off balance by anything. Usually his instincts and reflexes were quick enough to keep him from being knocked into, however, being in such a situation as this and his mind still particularly fuzzy he didn't have all of his faculties back just yet. Thus he squeaked in a startled manner, stumbling back onto his rear before adjusting himself to look at what had just hit him. But the fact someone was speaking to him answered that question, a curious look taking over the startled one.

At least it had been an accident. A light smile crosses his lips, shifting to stand and brush himself off a bit. Not that it really did much as his poor outfit was very much still covered in dried blood and dirt as were his nails, for that matter.]

A-ah, nothing to worry about. I was a little taken off guard, but nothing that could not be fixed. [He replied, voice remaining soft and with a happy little tone to it. Not much could upset him, particularly with the news of being alive once again, nothing could mess this up for him.]

[Rin wasn't the sharpest banana in the box, but he at least had some pretty good intuition on his side, and at least when it came to people he tended to be a little more on the ball than he was about other things.

Still, it wasn't the effeminate nature or even the soft voice of the teen that pinged him once the other was standing - it was the utter mess his otherwise nice clothes were in.

That... was a lot of blood, for some one who didn't look injured.]

G-geez! Are you sure you're okay?!

[Haku had sort of forgotten about that whole clothing being a wreck thing, particularly the fact that the hole that resided over where his heart was. Oh well, it hadn't been a big deal until things like this happened. The question seemed to confuse him all the more, looking down at his clothing with a frown, how to explain this sort of thing...]

I am absolutely sure. I admit they did not pick a particularly good time to bring me here, though I am uninjured for the most part.

[That pesky scar that was pretty easy to be seen through the torn clothing being a nice sign of that. Shifting a bit he tried to hide himself a bit better, just the tiniest bit embarrassed that his appearance would cause such undue grief.]

I would explain, but I think it would probably cause more questions than it would answer...

[The shifting caught Rin's attention, eyes going down to the scar with a grimace.

Okay, so not a girl. Good thing to know. But still, whatever had caused that... Rin shuddered to think, his own mind coming up with some of the nastier demons he knew back in Assiah that could inflict damage like that with barely a flick.

Ugh. He really hoped there weren't any around like that in this new place.

BUT back to the matter at hand - it was still disconcerting to see, if nothing else, and even the comment earned a worried frown from the tailed teen.]

... well if you're sure...

[It comes out a bit of a mutter, one foot coming up to rub at the back of his calf as he shifted his weight.]

Aren'tcha cold like that, though?

[Herp, protective instincts. Sorry, Haku, you've triggered all of them in one fell swoop it seems.]

[That's what worries him, the fact that he's set off those sort of triggers without even trying. As far as he's concerned he should be taking care of himself and not getting anyone else involved with this nonsense, knowing that he'd be of no use to anyone else. Particularly while in this state and even more so considering this environment was so much different from his own.

A weak bit of a laugh is his answer, though he raises a hand to his mouth to quiet it just as quickly as it had appeared. Rude, that was absolutely rude of him to do.]

I have been in colder places than this, this does not bother me in the slightest. Trust me, where I am from it snows almost year round and I do fine in clothing not much more than this.

[Which... to be fair, was the actual truth when it came to it. No need to worry anyone else.]

My clothing can easily be mended or replaced if it is necessary for me to do. It... certainly does look far more tattered than I had expected, but I suppose that is what happens when one is buried in the ground for so lo-... [Abruptly stopping right there, he's said way too much already.]

[Rin's frown deepened at that, unable to catch whether or not those were just hollow reassurances or the truth. A part of him wanted to just drop his uniform jacket on the kid, reassurances be damned, but he knew that would come off weird and probably more pushy than he should be.

Surprise, Rin had actually managed to learn some tact in the past year.

He was seconds from saying "Oh, okay then..." when that last part was just barely picked up by his pointed ears, and his frown turned in to a wide-eyed blink.]

Wh-... what... ?

[Really, he wouldn't have minded him doing such a thing. It took quite a lot for him to consider anything as pushy or weird for that matter, shinobi was a very hard thing to ruffle or startle for the most part.

However, the questioning he realized he wouldn't be able to hide his words. May as well come clean despite how ridiculous the whole situation would sound to just about anyone.]

Buried in the ground. Before I was awoken to this place I had died and how I am here in such a state as this I have not a single idea as to the reasoning. It is easy enough to figure out this is most certainly not the other plane and that the people here are very much living.

[He motions a bit to his chest again, though still a bit wary of showing it for the most part.]

A hand and arm through the chest while using a jutsu, protecting the one person who was precious to me. It has been reduced to nothing more than a scar and I have not been told why. I have no purpose to be here if my precious person is not here as well, I was bred to be a weapon and be useful to that person. But without that person being here... there is no point in my continuing existence.

You were... dead.

[That was mostly what Rin picked up from all that. It wasn't that he wasn't listening - he simply focused on that over everything else because all he could think of was What if dad--...

No, he couldn't focus on that. This place was not where some old priest, perverted or not, needed to be. That was done, over with. Shirou was gone. Rin knew that.

A hard swallow finally found his voice, and a more focused train of thought again.]

W-well... they said we had some reason for bein' here... I wasn't really payin' attention so I might need a refresher on that later but-- that's... somethin', innit? Even if your precious person isn't here, it's not like you got--[Was there a proper term for being brought back from the dead?] er... dragged outta your hole just to sit around and twiddle your thumbs or whatever.

[... smooth, Rin. Real smooth.]

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