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Ariel Mods ([personal profile] arielmods) wrote in [community profile] ariel_ooc2012-10-13 05:53 pm
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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
- 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!
kingside: (Fill in the blanks. If you can.)

[personal profile] kingside 2012-10-20 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Stepford party line?

The expression presents him a few moments' worth of difficulty before he dismisses it, focusing instead on the far more (well, all right, relatively) relevant information.]


Is it expressly forbidden or do they merely take issue with people disrupting whatever work goes on there? Either way, it may be worth investigating.

[And no, he doesn't especially care that he's saying this out loud where anyone can here. Far more subversive things were likely being said in public; it couldn't make a difference.]

May I ask what your take on the situation is?
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[personal profile] pulledfromthepit 2012-10-21 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Near as I can tell, you can go anywhere inside the city you want, except the capitol building. It's guarded and you are... strongly discouraged... from going in without an appointment. I didn't bother making an appointment.

[He figures nobody's told him the truth so far and they were all grunts. Why would the guys at the top be anymore forthcoming.]

Honestly? I think somebody's screwing with us. I believe in other worlds and crap like that, but porno-land here is kind of ridiculous. Why would anyone want to reward people for having lots of sex. They'd have to get something out of it.
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[personal profile] kingside 2012-10-21 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Appointment. Right, so that they can clear away any incriminating evidence before visitors arrive, rehearse their cover stories, generally conceal the truth, how wonderful. They could of course be genuinely busy, but how the hell likely is that?

Lelouch is frowning before the man is finished speaking, but it's plainly in thought, not disapproval. Interesting that the "other worlds" passed through this stranger's mind without incident (had he encountered them before), but more important than that...]


It's more than mere perversion, that much is for certain, but what could the benefits be? Why enforce this way of life on newcomers, especially they've stated themselves that they don't need us to breed? If they have our genetic information already, shouldn't that be the end of it? What is the purpose in keeping us here?

[It's frustrating to have nothing but questions to share, but perhaps some common thread between what he and this person had to ask might lead them to some answers.]
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[personal profile] pulledfromthepit 2012-10-23 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea. Maybe they don't want to spend the energy to send us back once they have what they want? It's got to be pretty costly to yank somebody into another world.

[Dean's found that laziness is a strong motivator for most people. Whatever requires the least possible effort is what they generally will do. Otherwise, why would so many morons be making demon deals?

He shrugs, semi-apologetically.]


I have no answers, sorry. Feeling things out, still.
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[personal profile] kingside 2012-10-23 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A valid enough explanation, if also an annoyingly mundane one. Whatever Lelouch might think of it, though, it prompts another interesting point; assuming this man is right, it must be much more cost effective to keep their powers suppressed and the city itself adequately staffed and otherwise defended from some form of revolt. Are those in control of Ariel that confident in their ability to keep the population contained? Are they that powerful? Lelouch can say nothing of others who may have supernatural abilities, but in the case of his Geass, a power formidable enough to have bent the gods of his world to his will... just who was in charge of this place? What resources do they have at their disposal? The chip he and everyone else had been implanted with has to have something to do with it, but how does it work? What are its limitations?

The list of questions goes on and on, and Lelouch rubs at his forehead to stave off more, eyes closing. Not now. Later. He needs more information first.]


That's all right. Thank you. Should you learn anything else, let me know. The more people investigating this, the better.

[The hand drops, and Lelouch gives the other a long measuring look. Might as well.]

Lelouch vi Britannia. And you are?
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[personal profile] pulledfromthepit 2012-10-24 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
((Continued on the new overflow meme!))