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Test Drive Meme: The Overflow

PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR THREADS OVER AT THE LATEST OVERFLOW POST, THANK YOU.

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
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- 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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That is a really unsure description of her heritage. Umi can still follow it, but that is the most unsure sound coming from a human throat she has probably heard in her life, and it's kind of awkward just listening to it. "So you're at least... from Japan originally, but you've grown up in America? That is kind of interesting but..."

They've already talked about a lot, but she doesn't want to pry too hard, but she has questions and... "So... who do you live with now?"

"My aunt and my little brother. My dad died when I was little. My mom's still alive, but... eh, it's complicated." 'It's complicated' was a good way to describe her life in general, really.

"I used to have a big sister, too, but..." She motions vaguely to her scar. It wasn't that awkward of a subject for her, she misses her like hell but it wasn't something she liked to let herself feel bad about... at the same time, though, she kind of hopes Umi got the gist just from the little gesture. Outright saying she died in an accident was still a bit rough.

Complicated. Compared to Umi, with her lovey-dovey parents who smothered her without suffocating her, who she loved and had a great relationship with, and her two best friends both have picture-perfect home lives as well. If anything, it reminds of the people they've met in Cefiro, and that's... sad.

"Y-yeah. Sorry to hear that." That's what you say, right? It's not something to pry into, and she definitely gets it. So she lost more than just a leg and an eye.

"Don't." That was all Trace had to offer. Acknowledging that she died was fine, but... it was weird, but having people going 'sorry' just made it feel worse.

"... Wonder when our drinks will get here." Again, moving swiftly on. Umi had asked, she had answered, and suddenly things were awkward between them for a very different reason. "They didn't seem that busy, did they? Haha, maybe the idea is to take so long to get the food here that..." Wait, no. Bad direction to take a joke in. Stop. Abort, abort.

"Alright." Ugh. This whole thing is pretty disheartening. She'd rather talk about sex then about dead family and grievous injuries - she's seen what losing someone close to you does to a person.

"I dun-oh." Well, they've got their water now! How nice, and their orders for food are being taken, and hopefully they can talk about things that are at least funny? "Hey, hey, don't start that. It doesn't look or sound like anyone's doing that in here, right? This is a restaurant not a brothel. We'll be fine."

Since they're both ordering the same thing, that's one simple ordering process. She sips on the water a bit.

"Yeah, I guess... then again, out there was the streets, not a brothel, and you saw what it was like." Trace shrugs. "Then again... iunno, I never got the impression they'd force us into anything? Like, physically, I mean. I can tell what they want us to do, but... yeah." Trace was rambling again, and going off vague guesses... but vague guesses were all she really had, at the moment.

"Not yet they haven't." But yeah, even the streets were full of it. If they had brothels maybe they were running booths, like when a local restaurant has a truck or cart at a festival. Only with a lot more sweating and moaning. "Maybe they figure if they just surround us with it we'll get pulled in sooner or later."

Which really feels like the point, because it's really hard getting it out of her head right now. She's seen some really attractive people too, which makes it worse.

Trace, for her part, is mostly just focusing on not thinking about Umi having sex. Which was hard, since they were talking about it.

"Probably. Suggestion can be pretty powerful, and all that. Mob mentality." She sips awkwardly on her water again, scratching at her cheek for what must be the dozenth time that day. "I mean... I definitely don't want to, right now, but who knows how long we'll be stuck here?"

Wow, pervert. Umi hasn't been paying nearly as much attention to Trace in return, though it's bound to come up.

Sipping. Water isn't very distracting. Itches are probably more distracting. Who wants to have sex when you're itchy? "Ugh, don't get me started. I'm sure we'll be fine if it's not for very long, and I've got the willpower to hold out and you don't want to right now. So how long..." No, no, there it is. Now she's thinking about Trace.

She's not a pervert. She's trying not to think about it. Mostly failing, but still.

"Yeah, that's exactly my point. We might be here for months, even. We'd have to give in eventually, right? I mean. We're teenagers." She motions vaguely to them both, then takes another sip of her water. Wow, it isn't very distracting.

And with that thought, Umi has probably reached a critical point in everybody's life: the moment they decide whether or not they find horrible scars attractive.

"M-months?!" No, she wasn't in Cefiro that long. But... then again, they had a distinct goal both times, even if it was difficult and took SOME time to complete. Here, there's no 'get out of sexland' ultimate goal to journey for, just sex until they figure something out.

"I'm a very disciplined teenager though and I'm a good proper girl and... and..." Gesturing like that doesn't help, she doesn't even know how sex with other girls works and she's already thinking about that leg and if it hurts and NO. "Um."

...scars aren't her fetish or anything but it doesn't make Trace less attractive.

"Hey, hey, good and proper doesn't have anything to do with it. You're still a teenager. And... well, like I said. Discipline can be worn down." If she smoked like her big sister used to, that'd be a cool line to take a drag on. As it stands, she just sort of takes a sip of he water.

As for the leg, the answer is: yes. It hurts like hell, sometimes, though there are days when it's fine. "Hopefully it won't come to that, though. I mean, I don't hate the idea of sex, but I want it to at least have a little meaning. Plus auntie would probably kill me if she found out somehow."

Yes, the problem is that she knows she's a teenager. Oh, she's a teenager, no matter how dense, and getting thoughts out of her head is hard once they get lodged in there. "I... I really hope we're not here long enough to wear it down." It might drive Umi to smoke. Or drink.

Maybe she can distract Trace from the pain with... ...no. Still not... "I-I know I'm going to have it, especially if I get married, but I wanted to wait until it was with someone really special, and my parents would be really disappointed if I just... just... ended up with any old person."

Or both. Umi would actually look really cool smoking, in Trace's opinion, but mental association with her sister made anyone smoking look cool to her.

No need to worry on that one, by the way. Today is, mercifully, a day where it only sort of hurts. A brief stab of pain made her not really wince, just sort of reach down to rub at the stump, then suddenly realize something. "Oh, oh crap. Speaking of being here for a while... do you think they have drug stores here? Like, normal drug stores. If we're stuck here for even a little bit, I'm going to need painkillers."

Umi would probably start smoking long before her bffs, and it might actually add to her image. Hikaru would just look silly. Of course, Umi's not going to start today anyways, she's not even old enough or anything so that's silly.

She watches closely, wondering just how often that leg must hurt if it's that much of a problem. "They better, I mean, again, if people are supposed to be comfortable enough for sex here then they'd... you know, want to deal with that. We can go look for one next."

"Ah, really? Thanks." The answer: On-and-off, every other day, but it's pretty much a dull pain 99% of the time. Painkillers make it a lot less distracting.

"And yeah, you make a good point. They probably do... somewhere. I mean, even people who do nothing but have sex can have chronic migraines and stuff, right? Gotta be painkillers somewhere around here." It makes sense, and also makes Trace very relieved. "You got anything you wanna look around for, then? Anything you need?"

"Yeah, yeah, a headache can ruin your mood for just about anything right?" It's really no problem helping out. There aren't any pressing concerns, so with all that free time, why not help out someone in need? It seems kind of assy not to.

"Nothing immediately. Eventually I'll need to find a hairdresser, of course, since my hair needs trimmed to stay like this, but that's not remotely as important as painkillers." And she can take care of her hair herself for a while, even if she hates it when it gets uneven.

"We can take a look for a hairdresser after we find a drugstore, then. Thanks again." It mostly just gave them something to do. And... actually, the bit of black hair was natural, somehow. Don't ask Trace how her hair worked.

Oh, hey, their food was finally here. Trace took a bite out of her sandwich and shrugged. "It's pretty good... which is kinda surprising, really. I was expecting it to suck. Or be drugged." ... "That last one was a joke, too. Man I'm bad at this."

Umi has all-natural sea-blue hair. White hair with a black streak isn't even something she's going to question, even if it looks a little odd and... a little cool, to be honest. "Thanks. When you're up to it, of course."

Food, though, is good, and Umi takes a bite, chewing slowly, swallowing. "Eh... hm. It's not... bad, but really different from what I'm used to." That is, Japanese or more high-class Western food than pig slathered in sauce. "I really... that would be funnier if it wasn't so likely." Though she's giggling too much to take another bite.

"Variety is the spice of life, I guess." And she's glad to have made Umi laugh. It's a nice distraction from the fact that, yeah, it actually would be believable if it had been drugged.

She takes another bite, shrugging. "I mean, I've never had that much high class stuff, but I'd be willing to give it a try sometime... then again, how exactly do we get money and stuff here? Working a job, I guess... mm." She's like fifteen, she's never worked a day in her life.

"Well, I guess we can figure that sort of thing out as we need to."

There's a saying Umi likes when she encourages her friends to try something new. She often takes it to heart, to, though she can very set once she has a routine too ingrained. "I dunno. I mean, I could bake you some fancy cakes or pastries, even if it won't be professional quality, but we'd have to see what restaurants are here."

Another slow, careful bite. Fourteen, and never had time for a job, though she's been through some serious ordeals. "Maybe that place we woke up can tell us. We'll go there eventually."

"There's another good idea. And... you cook? Sure, you can fix me something if you want to. I might start to feel a bit spoiled, though." It'd definitely be the first time anyone besides her aunt cooked for her. And while she loved her aunt, she wasn't really... the world's best cook. Actually, she was pretty bad at it.

"Not to mention I can't do much for you in return. I don't really have any talents, or anything..."

"I can't do much other than baking. I enjoy it anyways, so you don't have to feel spoiled - I'd bake whether you did or not, so people may as well eat up." People who aren't Umi, because she doesn't actually like a lot of the sweets she bakes.

"You don't have to do anything, at least not right away. If you want, just be my taste tester at first. Being friends wouldn't hurt either." Again with being quick to make friends, what have Hikaru and Fuu done to her?

"... Alright, sure. Thanks." Trace actually blushes, a tiny bit, tucking some of her hair behind her ear to give her something to do. She's really, really not used to someone being so nice to her.

"I guess we're friends then. It's good to have somebody around her I can count on, at least." That was definitely the truth. Umi might have been joking earlier about being a knight, but... she still seemed as reliable as one. And as much as Trace hated to admit it, she needed someone to rely on, had even before the accident. She was just that sort of person.

"You're welcome." Aw, she's kinda cute when she blushes not like that brain just cute like. A cute girl is cute and pretty and Umi wonders how she looks when she's blushing even more...

"I know we just met, honestly, but... we both need friends, and we both need people to watch out for each other." A person to watch out for Trace. Umi's not too worried about her own safety right now, when the girl across from her is in such bad shape.

Funny thing about 'being a knight' is that it's closer to the truth than she's quite yet willing to tell. "So I hope I'm not being pushy when I say that."

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