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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.

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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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"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."

Well, she blushes just a tiny bit more, then takes a deep breath and tries to keep herself under control. She's definitely developing a bit of a crush on Umi. Thankfully she's already accepted the fact that she likes girls, or this would be way more awkward than it already was.

"... Yeah, alright. Thanks." Trace mumbles. "I mean, uh. You said you were a knight, right? I don't know if I can play the princess, but I'm fine with you helping me out. I'll do whatever I can to help you out. Might not be much, but... well, I can do my best." There. That made Trace a lot less embarrassed about it. She wasn't being protected it was just something that benefited them both. That involved her being protected. Dammit.

"Besides, we might have just met, but... well, if you ignored everyone you'd 'just met', then you'd never get to know anyone better, right?"

Seriously, Trace is cute. And... Umi's pretty sure she's never thought of liking girls. Sure, she's seen the way Eagle and Lantis are, and it's not like she hasn't heard of all sorts of kinds of sexuality in passing, but she's never thought hard enough to apply it to herself. But now that she's sitting here with Trace, there are things popping into her head.

"You don't have to be a princess to be a fair maiden, worthy of a knight's attention." Umi can't help snickering at her overly dramatic way of saying that. "Do what you can, when you can. That's all we need to do for each other, and if we do that I think we can really start to get past 'just met' pretty easily."

"Uhm... thanks." Trace repeats herself stupidly, mostly because that stupidly dramatic way of saying it was also really sweet, at least to Trace.

She clears her throat. "That's a good way of working at it, though. We'll help each other out as much as we can, and become... best friends forever, or something." She guesses. She still had friends, obviously, and she liked them, even when Moon was an asshole to her - but she'd never rely on them, not completely. "... And seriously, that whole 'knight' thing is liable to make a girl swoon. Or a guy, for that matter."

Man, Trace is awkward, Umi really needs to yank her out of that shell. Unless this is the real, honest Trace, but it feels like she's having a hard time being herself. It'll take time, she's not going to force it, but she wants to see it.

"Haha, well... I've got some really important best friends," she doesn't want to be mean, but she wouldn't die for Trace as easily as she would the others or anything. "But we can be really, really good friends." Umi clears her throat at yet another mention of the knight thing. She's not sure if she should just blab about it yet. "Am I really that dashing? Are you swooning yet?"

"Mm..." Trace would like to echo the sentiment, but she can't. As for whether this is the 'real' her... it's about 50/50. She's sort of naturally awkward, but ever since the accident 'tense' has practically been her middle name. So she became even more awkward.

"Totally. You can't see it, but I am just swooning all over the place." Trace jokes, giving a little laugh and remembering to take another bite of her sandwich. "... Actually, I've heard the word a lot, but do you know what swooning actually is? I'm not really sure."

Once you've gone through fighting and suffering alongside people, you tend to bond, and when you are all strong and kind people at heart, that bond is almost unbreakable. Umi really doesn't like to brag, but she's just as close to them as she is to her own parents, if in a different way.

"I think it literally means... uh... fainting from how amazingly charming someone is." Umi laughs a little as well. "So you aren't actually doing that yet, but I dunno, you might be getting close." Does she want to charm Trace? It's getting harder to think that she isn't.

Even if she didn't want to, she was definitely doing a good job of it. "Yeah, definitely." With that vaguely awkward note to end on, Trace takes the last bite of her sandwich and wipes her hands off with a napkin. Hey, she might not be rich, but she could still have some class.

"... Really, though, I know I've said this like five times, but thanks a lot. You're like the only reason I haven't just started panicking and running in a random direction. Well, that and I can't exactly do much running. Hobbling in a random direction." ... Okay, no, that was still awkward. "You get what I mean. Anyway, just try to keep yourself from sweeping me off my feet. Even I have to draw a line somewhere, you know?"

Wait really? It is getting hard to tell whether or not she's actually charming this girl, if she's attractive to her. Umi knows that she's tall (for a Japanese middle-schooler) and slender and athletic and pretty, and she tries not to let it go to her head but she's feeling a little inflated right now.

...good manners girl.

And how does she feel about Trace now? "You're still welcome. I couldn't leave someone alone to panic and freak out, especially in your shape." Trying to just make it an observation, without making a big deal of it, but that's pretty hard. Finishing her own sandwich a little behind Trace, she sits back, drinking her water. "...don't wanna get caught up this soon."

"Yeah... you've got a good heart, Umi." She wasn't quite sure what that meant, herself, but it was basically just another way of calling her 'sweet' again. Trace didn't like to repeat herself.

As much as she disliked it, sometimes, it was a basic fact. She was... well, she could handle herself, and be fine on her own, but having someone willing to help her made a lot of things feel safer. Not to mention more convenient. As for her... okay, yeah, she had a crush on Umi. A tiny one, at the moment, but still. "Mm. Think we should go hunting for drug stores and hair dressers and stuff, now? And before you say anything, I'm still gonna pay for you. Even after all that."

Man, Trace keeps complimenting her though. It really does feel like she has a crush on Umi, but she's not sure how she feels about that to be honest. Where does she go with that? Especially in a place like this, where she's sure that people out there have even less than crushes on each other. "Thanks."

"Why do you get to keep paying? We should both have the same amount of money. You're going to run out, and then I'll have to pay for you until you get a job anyways." It seems like a silly way to go about it, but if they're sticking together for now, it shouldn't leave them on the street either.

"Call it my chivalrous heart, I guess? The food here isn't that expensive, so I've still got a decent amount." She waves it off... to be honest, it's just Trace selfishly trying to make herself feel useful, but Umi didn't need to know that.

"I insist. C'mon, you kept me from cracking my skull open on the pavement back then. It's the least I can do."

All kinds of chivalry between these two. It's nice to have a friend like this, even if they might end up frustrating each other insisting on doing things. With the help she's given Trace getting around, though, she can accept this. "Alright, alright. You buy me things, I keep your skull in one piece."

A little morbid, maybe. "I just hope no one messes with us when they see us not doing anything."

"Ehh... if someone tells us to do something, we can just say we're planning on doing it later." That seems like a good plan to Trace. Both those things, actually.

She reaches for her crutch and leans on it as she stands up, her eye drifting over to Umi. "Not like they'd have anyway to tell, right? Maybe we're just stocking up for a night of passion." ... Wow, that was a bad thought to have, with all the awkwardness between them.

Before Trace says anything awkward, Umi is already standing, waiting to see if Trace needs help and offering her a hand. It's almost certainly going to be easier this way, she's just not sure if she should wrap an arm around her or under her arms or what.

Though now it's more awkward doing any of that. "Wh-... haha... y-yeah... stocking up, the two of us to... have a night... us... together..."

Trace is kind of awkward now too, so she just takes Umi's hand and uses it for some added leverage. Okay, she's good now. She's standing.

"... Sorry." Trace mumbles. Though it was kind of cute, seeing Umi all flustered like that. "I, uh, gotta learn to think before I speak." Or just not speak at all, at this rate. "Still, it'd probably get them off our backs, you know?"

Suddenly, even holding hands feels like it's just a bit different than it would've have been a minute ago. It's hard to take something like that back and pretend it was never said in a place like this, when she's having thoughts like this. "Oh, don't worry, my brain to mouth filter is pretty bad too."

Still holding Trace's hand, she leans just a bit closer. "Are they gonna believe two girls as nervous as we are? I.... man, they'd probably ask for a preview or something."

She's half tempted to lean in and kiss Umi, suddenly, but she quickly pushes that thought aside. They might be sorta-kinda flirting, but she didn't want to make a leap of faith only to realize she had gotten the wrong idea, or something.

... It's kind of hard to think straight, though, with Umi so close. And her still holding her hand. "Uh, well... hm. We'll figure it out if it happens, I guess. No sense in worrying about things that haven't happened."

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