Test Drive Meme: The Overflow

[arielmods]

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: <small>(<a href="THREAD URL HERE">Continued from here.</a>) between <user name="CHARACTER 1"> & <user name="CHARACTER 2"></small> Response here! 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. ◆◆◆◆ 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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Chi-Chi | Dragon Ball | F/M

[princessbride]

for bursting

[princessbride]

[The young man's acceptance of her goal is slightly surprising, considering how he had been criticizing her earlier actions. But she would have no problem in not forgetting it. Her little house in the woods is the center of the world for her, and she will do anything that needs to be done to get back there.

Even, she supposes with a little rational thought sinking in, if that means calming down a bit.

She nods, picking up another plate and savoring the familiarity.]

I just got out of that disgusting orientation or whatever they called it. [A glance his way.] You?

Ariel | The Little Mermaid | F/M

[seacups]

for manmaid

[seacups]

[It would be rude not to take the offered...hand, so Ariel does. Clearly, she's pleased by the result.]

He feels like a jellyfish, too. [She adds with a smile:] He's much cuter than one, though.

[manmaid]

Haha! Yeah? Well I think 'e likes ya'.

for flowersteps

[seacups]

[How long it takes to finally get to become human: your whole life.

The price for legs: your tail.

The feeling you get when you're finally asked to dance with somebody: priceless.

Ariel beams, taking his hand with only the slightest second of hesitation.]

I would love to.

[Her smile doesn't even fade when she adds in:]

I've never done this before, so I may not be the best.

[seacups]

You think so?

[Her little grin grows bigger.]

Hello, Frillish! I'm Ariel. It's wonderful to meet you.

Botan | Yu Yu Hakusho | F/M

[ferries]

Thanks so much for the link, by the way! You're awesome.

[bursting]

[ Setsuna is calm enough once dishware isn't being tossed around. So long as you're not hurting anyone, Chi-Chi, or thinking of doing so, you're just fine in his book. And even though his immediate family is dead—at his own hands, even—he knows just how important it can be to people.

He's still got one waiting for him aboard the Ptolemy, after all. ]

I've been out for awhile. Just trying to assess the situation.

[ As best he can, anyway. He catches her eyeing the plate, cocking his head slightly. ]

Do you cook? That sort of expression... good food is important to you, right?

Mello | Death Note

[volatility]

Dean Winchester | Supernatural | OTA

[pulledfromthepit]

[Dean's always had a little bit of a knack for assimilating. When told to go forth and drink, fuck, and be merry, he pretty much does exactly that.

Currently, he's sprawled in a chair that's tipped back on its back legs and resting against the wall of a bar. He's long since lost his shirt... somewhere... and gained several additional strands of beads, all hanging merrily around his neck or wrapped around his wrists. He has a beer in hand and his feet stretched out before him, crossed comfortably at the ankles.

He's humming a Metallica song as he watches the folks wander by.]

Sam Winchester | Supernatural | OTA

[luciferspromdress]

Reika Aoki | Smile Precure | F/F (but anyone's welcome to talk)

[noblesnow]

[The more Reika looks around, the more convinced she becomes that this can't be real. It's some sort of Bad End Kingdom trick, and they're playing some kind of psychological game. There's no other reasonable explanation for why she's in an unfamiliar place where people are doing... things. And it seems like she's expected to do... things as well, which just proves that it isn't real because who would possibly expect her to just accept this?

In any case, she needs to find her friends so they can work out some way to escape. Of course they're here somewhere. Why wouldn't they be?]

[Blatant recycled tag is very blatant, but hey.]

Umi Ryuuzaki | Magic Knight Rayearth | OTA

[dragon_blossom]

Feel free to start threads based off this

David Della Rocco | The Boondock Saints | open

[dukefuckinwayne]

Good timing! From our current thread, of course.

[bursting]

[ No need. Setsuna understands. He'd understand better were it not for the chip pulsating in his brain, blocking inherent abilities that made it easier for him to read people, but he doesn't need his skills as an Innovator to deduce what Mello's getting at.

Then there's hope. There's always hope. It may be faint, and sometimes when you've fallen into darkness and everything is obscured and you can see nothing save for shadows before your eyes you may think you're all alone without a prayer in the world for rescue, but it is there. And that is enough.

Mello's next question strikes him as odd, and he'll chuckle aloud this time, not mockingly, quietly as is his nature in expressing such emotions, but amused. ]

Do I seem strange to you? The world I'm from is also "Earth". But it's many years in the future.

[ Even so, shaking hands hadn't been phased out as a greeting, and probably never would; he hopes not, at least. Physical contact is a good way to understand one another. Of course, this also leads him to wonder what even more would feel like with Mello, but he'll keep that to himself.

Setsuna extends his hand to Mello without another thought about it. So he hopes, at least. ]

Call me Setsuna. Setsuna F. Seiei. It's good that we met.

[ Very, very good, and for plenty of reasons. ]

Daryl Dixon | The Walking Dead | open

[theonlyzenone]

For Matt

[volatility]

(Continued from here.)

[Back home. That phrase reminds Mello of Matt's little trick, the whole reason that they are here against this wall in this dump to begin with. Matt was supposed to tell him something, but instead he lured Mello and set off that fucking chip in his head, and now Mello is missing his shirt and Matt is getting close to naked and they are no closer to finding a way out of this dump.

Mello is infuriated.

He shoves those hands away from his hip but stays close to Matt, now all threat and no affection.]

I don't want to hear that shit.

[What is he doing, losing sight of the important matters at hand, getting physical with his partner — and enjoying it! Mello clenches his fists. There's no point in even trying to conceal his rage. Matt has seen him at his worst, many times.]

You have two seconds to tell me something worthwhile.

[The or else is heavily implied, of course.]

[manmaid]

Yup!

[ Frillish seems cheery, even if its hard to tell by his face - he gives a little swooping noise - the sound would easily remind someone of the sea. he then floats up in down it what can only be assumed to be a happy motion. ]

Makoto Kino (18, post StarS) | Sailor Moon | F/M

[denkou]

[volatility]

[Unfortunately, despite the fact that it was not mocking in nature, the chuckle rubs Mello the wrong way — not a great deal, but enough that it's a little irritating. He was, after all, trying to be respectful. He gives a rough, uncaring shrug in response to that question, however, as though it's no big deal.]

I've been spending a lot of time abroad, in Japan. They bow there.

[It's said in a flat tone, but then Mello relaxes and lets it go. There's no point in letting something minor get in the way of what is going to be a fruitful relationship — partnership. And though Mello himself is not big on physical contact, he believes that shaking Setsuna's hand is a good way to show that he has accepted him as a companion.]

I'm Mello. Just Mello.

[He gives the hand a firm shake, and thinks fleetingly that it is a shame he's wearing gloves, that they're in the way of skin-to-skin contact — before catching himself, and then letting go of the hand. A stupid, careless thought. He can't sacrifice control of his mind that easily.]

I agree.

[And, Mello is a little surprised to find, he really does.]

Thank you for bringing me here.

[It's a rare expression for Mello to utter — thank you — but he wants to get off on proper footing. And besides, Setsuna saved him some time by bringing him here.]

Skylar Jordan | OC | Het

[codedvixen]

Jake Dallas | OC | OTA

[thatsnotmygun]

[bursting]

[ It's something he's used to, rubbing people the wrong way. In fact, he can't remember the last time he rubbed someone the right way. Considering a woman he once threatened with death wound up being his closest confidant, it's unsurprising that relations would be somewhat rocky here. That, and Setsuna already knew him to be a volatile man—because he was, too, and so could recognize it in others.

But Setsuna doesn't dwell on the matter. He's never dwells on much for long, wanderer in mind and in spirit that he is. ]

I don't think it's called that, anymore. But I've been there before.

...and you're welcome.

[ Setsuna's hand lingers longer than necessary, fingers clasped around Mello's. It is indeed difficult to tell through the leather, but you don't become skilled with blades without learning how to use your hands well, to tell an entire story through touch alone. He'd hesitate to use the word delicate, as Mello gives off the impression he is anything but, but they are certainly slimmer than his, which are calloused from many, many hours spent piloting, and if only in a literal sense, more fragile. Oh, he could snap them. Easily. But he won't. Wouldn't ever, likely, unless Mello gave him ample reason to.

Once his hand drops, it's reaching into his jacket, pulling something out and offering it to Mello. ]

Here.

[ It's a small candy. Food?

...well, well. Whaddya know. It's chocolate, and it looks—and smells—rather tasty. ]

It's fine. I had some earlier.

[ A peace offering, perhaps, and because he already knows you're naturally suspicious, he's got more and will start munching away (and also because, as it turns out, he's rather fond of chocolate, too). So not poisoned, unless he deliberately had a death wish. And he'll just be heading to the side of the building to sit on its edge, regardless of what Mello chooses to do, eyes drifting back to the destruction. ]

Pyro | X-Men Movies | OTA

[cacus]