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Test Drive Meme #3


Test Drive Meme #3
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Arrival



Part 1


You arrive in an unknown space, dressed in white clothes (player choice what kind of clothes, as long as they cover everything). Whatever was happening to you before no longer happens. It's like everything was put on a pause and you were transferred away from the situation without you realizing it happened.

The space that you find yourself in is one of these four options:

An empty landscape filled with snow and ice, almost like a blank canvas.
A field with cherry blossom trees and spring flowers.
A sunny beach near an ocean that seems never ending.
A quiet forest with falling autumn leaves.

All of the spaces seem to continue endlessly. No matter where or how far you walk it almost seems like you're not moving at all. There are no animals here - just those who happened to wake up there at the same time, in the same place. Everyone is wearing the same kind of plain, white clothes.

Despite the possible rollercoaster of emotions you might be feeling, the place somehow feels familiar. Like somehow you belong there.

And it looks like you're not alone.


Part 2


After half an hour has passed the surroundings change as everyone is teleported into a room with all the other new arrivals, no matter what space they woke up in. It's a large place with plenty of seats to sit in and beverages to enjoy. Medical attention is offered to those who need it and the doctors here are very prepared for any challenging situations.

Here, in this room, everyone gets an answer to where they are and why. A hologram of a man appears at the center of the room, waiting to be heard. He brings a message on behalf of the leaders of Ellipsa.


The Message [ Click to Expand ]

Hello, my name is Olwen. I'm one of the leaders of Ellipsa as it currently is. I'm also one of the four who summoned you here.

Our world is in trouble and we need your help. I apologize for tearing you away from your world and forcing you to come here but I hope you understand. The magic we used doesn't let us ask in advance, nor does it let us choose who we bring here.

This world is composed of four Seasonal Segments. All of them represent one of the seasons. They were the places we used to get our resources from, but now they're dangerous places no one should go into unless they have the power to fight back. All of them have their own sets of powerful monsters and natural catastrophes.

We used to have plenty of people here who could control the powers of the four Seasons. We called them Seasonal Power Holders. Unfortunately, due to a tragedy you can read about later, we lost almost all of them. Now only four of us remain and the world is in chaos. We have done our best to protect the world, but we need more power holders to do that.

That's where you come in.

All of you have been assigned to one of the seasons. Whatever space you were in just now is what season you represent. You will learn different skills based on the season and those skills are going to help you save this world.

These powers don't interfere with your own natural powers. They use a new energy that has formed inside of you. It's harmless to your health, but it's vital to your seasonal powers. Your own powers should still work, even if the dark energy outside the city might interfere with them.

Unfortunately bringing you here wasn't as simple as it sounds. We couldn't do anything about how to keep you anchored to this world other than making a simple spell that helps with it. That is, you need to touch someone else who is not from this world ideally at least once a day. It will help you stay in control of your powers and boost your magical energy. If you don't, the consequences aren't very good. But as long as you hold someone's hand or give someone a handshake, you should be fine.

That's all I have to say about the situation. The staff of the Research Center will give you more information about housing and other necessary things. I will, however, promise that you will be sent home once the situation becomes better. That's the least we can do.


The hologram can be viewed in private in a separate room later, should someone wish to look at it again. For now, the staff of the Research Center hands everyone their new smartphones with their small flower lucky charms (the flower is anything the player decides). They're also told that the building next door is where everyone can find a room assigned to them with some of their belongings there and possibly even any animal companions. Those concerned about their mount-sizes companions are welcomed to the stables downstairs to see if their friends are there. The mounts are allowed to stay there until you find a place more suitable for them.

In the Arrival's hall there are also several stands with information pamphlets.

First type of stand is for the local Guilds and about the benefits or joining one.

Second type of stands is for the Welcoming Committee that aim to show otherworlders what the world is like and help guide people in the beginning of the journey and helps in getting settled into the new world. They even have people to help if you're unfamiliar with the new phones.

Third type of the stands is for The In Touch Support Group that is led by the Otherwordly Ambassador, Kamisato Ayato. The pamphlets have contact information for businesses looking to help Otherworlders. They also focus more on the lore of the World and what they have discovered so far, as well as a guide on what to think about when preparing to venture out to the Segments.

Once you get your smartphone and necessary information, you're urged to go out and find your apartment. After that whatever you want to do is up to you.

Part 3


The building next door is where everyone can find their new apartments. As you enter, you're told by a friendly native that for the first two months you can live anywhere rent-free and five meals a day are paid for you. After that they get a monthly payment that helps with some of their living expenses, but otherwise they have to have a job to support themselves.

All of the apartments are comfortable, two bedroom apartments with all necessary utilities. They are also completely soundproof. Sometimes the magic system, however, does glitch and you might find yourself rooming with a stranger. This is not the intention and the staff will immediately prepare you your own room if you ask them. But maybe having a roommate isn't all that bad?





Party in the Underground




Part 1


The center of Nightwake never sleeps and there's always something happening, but today there's a lot of excitement in the air all around the center and every district! Locals and those who want to help them (for 100 Moon Coins or a gift card of their choosing), are walking to everyone to offer colorful fliers along with free vending machine tokens. There's also colorful advertisement on billboards and posters everywhere around the city advertising all sorts of things like items, clothes, drinks and more.

Local businesses, stores and restaurants are also going pretty crazy with their celebrations of anyone walking in being their 50th, 100th or whatever customer of the day and the prize among other things are gift cards and more free vending machine tokens but they aren't even for that same shop or restaurant? They also offer people to spin all kinds of different prize wheels, spin roulettes, buying a certain amount of things from them, and taking part in eating and drinking competitions for a surprise prize. Someone even put these surprise prizes into the Gacha Restaurant's randomizer, so for a week, you can choose it as a total surprise there too. (The surprises can be even more vending machine tokens and silly things like cute keychains or a 5-in-1 avocado tool as some examples.)

You can't find any of these shops, restaurants and other places, that they are advertising, in the whole city. The locals, posters and billboards will tell you where you can find them. There's a new entrance in every district, where locals welcome everyone to the grand opening of the Underground Mall!

Some may even drop into a sudden hole in the ground on their way and fall (or slide) somewhere far away. Don't worry, there will be very soft and huge pillows for landing in your destination.


Part 2


The Underground Mall's upper floors give the vibe of a joyous mall with several restaurants and shops you won't see on the surface. The mall is definitely a must visit place for those who appreciate different fashion and exciting food choices. The party from the surface continues down here with various sales around the area. A good day for shopping!

For those who like games, there's a futuristic VR Arcade for you! This Arcade focuses on games that are played with VR goggles on. Even your regular DDR machine will now take you to dance in different environments and feel like you're dancing for your life or for an actual audience.

There are all sorts of vending machines lined up in their own, huge corner. You can find the usual ones with all sorts of different snacks, food and drinks, but there are also some with cake, cookies, mayonnaise, cream, flowers, engagement rings and other less usual but normal things. Nothing here is randomized, unless you choose the random option from the machine, otherwise you get exactly what you want. So pick your favorites or try something new, that sounds more or less good! You can find a machine that turns moon coins on your phone into vending machine tokens (or you can pay straight with your phone).

And, yes, you can find vending machines full of snacks and drinks all around the area too.

Then there's also an area for ufo catchers with all kinds of prizes like pokemon plushies and lots of other plushies, items themed to different season, plushies and other items themed to any fauna and flora from all around Ellipsa, puzzles, food themed items etc etc.

Moving inside the mall is done by escalators and elevators, but there are also regular stairs for those who prefer them.

The fastest way of traveling from floor to floor in the mall is by quick teleport nodes. You choose a floor you want to go to from the list of choices, much like an elevator and then you're transported into that floor's node within seconds. Unfortunately, they're still working out on the bugs in the system, so you may end up in the wrong place - including places that aren't on the list of choices.

Part 3


There's also a Poké Ball Vending Machine, so anyone who recognizes poké balls may have some idea what they could get here. The vending machine somehow has enough balls for everyone in Ellipsa but everyone can only buy one ball! The balls don't have names in them and no one can see through them, so even those, who know Pokémon will NOT know what they'll be getting from this vending machine as it is entirely randomized!

Are you ready to get your first Pokémon? What about being ready to see how you two get along? Everyone, who plays this vending machine, gets either a Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Eevee, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Rowlet, Litten, Poplio, Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble, Spirigatito, Fuecoco or Quaxly.

(And yes, ICly it is entirely randomized but OOCly you can decide which one you want your character to get... Of course you can rng the result too. More about Pokémon guidelines in the OOC Tips of this TDM.)






Welcome to Our Dark Side




The third part of the TDM is under this details cut as it has Content Warnings, including Cursed things, Organized Crime, Illegal Activities, Monster Forms/Body Horror, Attempted Murder, Experimenting on People

The Third Part of the TDM [ Click to Expand ]
Part 1

The lowest levels of the mall are only accessible by random quick teleport nodes around the mall (if you know you know is the motto with these). You can run into them on accident (they're usually hidden, but with so much traffic, the hiding place becomes visible) and they sometimes immediately just teleport people without any warning. The arrival can be in various places. A random shady hallway, in the middle of the floor, in a shady establishment and so on.

Anything that seems shady can be found from these floors. Even the local diners here are very weird and likely have illegal things on the menu. Clothing stores sell all kinds of clothes fit for thieves and assassins and the amount of weapons shops here is twice the amount than on the surface. Rumor has it there are also people trying to summon the devil somewhere around here, but that's still just a rumor.

One of the teleport node locations can take you to the front of a cursed vending machine corner. At first they look like ordinary vending machines, but upon closer inspection one may notice they are anything but ordinary.

The food vending machines are full of different "eatable" bugs with half-hearted warnings that they may or may not be poisonous (they didn't really check before putting them in the packaging), Mystery Food boxes (includes some very suspicious foods that don't look edible, but are actually alright in taste? But may contain some side effects like growing mushrooms out of your hair if you eat the mushroom ones), ones that is labeled Energy Drinks but all of them look more like creepy potions (they provide energy but at the cost of poisoning someone for 24 hours) and hyper realistic cakes that look like various body parts (the cake part is intentionally written in small print).

Other vending machines have various shark eggs (hatching them will provide a magical shark with little hands and legs that invades the first watery surface it finds and bites whoever comes too close - it does not belong as a pet, but one may try to tame one), Mystery Boxes (with anything from highly cursed jewelry to books that suck your soul if written into) and Cheat Slips (it's said these slips will let you master a skill immediately, but all it does is cause one's powers to go berserk for 2 hours).




Part 2


The lowest levels are also a place for a large Casino. While they do exist on the surface, this one is a little different.

The Casino (named just that, "The Casino") is divided into four different sections; All of them are dominated by an organized crime group. This is the only area of the underground they work together in peace and sometimes come to relax. They don't cause trouble for each other here, but they definitely can try to cause trouble for everyone who is visiting the place.

Losing in this Casino can mean being taken to the back rooms by whichever group's area you ended up losing in. They will offer to let you go if you can pay off your debt you made in the Casino, but they have other options of compensation.

Name: Diamonds
Game Area: Card Games (Poker, Black Jack, Craps)
Compensation: They will send characters on a criminal quest to either steal or sabotage something or even smuggle a (cursed) item into important places.

Name: Spades
Game Area: Roulette
Compensation: They will attempt to kill the character that lost in the quietness of the backrooms.

Name: Clubs
Game Area: Pool, Darts
Compensation: They will just make characters clean their casino area.

Name: Hearts
Game Area: Slot Games
Compensation: They will drag characters into experiments in a different facility.

You may also end up taken to the back rooms for getting caught cheating, although it may also end up in a congratulatory meeting for an impressive sleight of hand instead or an invitation to join one of the groups. How would you feel about a life of crime?




Part 3


Those caught in Hearts Group's Experiments will be subjected to series of tests. Mostly they're to check the characters' physical condition before proceeding. Once the tests are concluded, the character will be given a medicine (either via shot or a pill). This medicine will not show any signs of working for a while and characters are let go afterwards.

The same medicine can, however, later be consumed by anyone else in various foods and drinks (free samples, some restaurants, even some grocery store items), even in the higher levels of the Mall. The experiments were the final test before distributing the medicine secretly to the public. So your character may accidentally end up getting the medicine in other ways.

What are the medicine? Monster Form activators. They will awaken a monster form inside a character that will trigger under one of the (player) selected conditions: strong emotional reaction, full moon, near death situation or bleeding.

The form can be returned from by calming down and focusing on their sense of self, but there's a chance to go berserk, making this difficult. If characters go berserk, their powers will be a lot stronger, but they won't know who's a friend and who's a foe. Their form may also be a lot scarier than it normally is. They will likely only want to cause destruction around them or want to feed on humans.



MonsterDescriptionPowers
AlraunePlant monsters with a humanoid shape. They may have changes as simple as flowers growing in their hair or have complex body modifications such as roots for legs and long vines as hands.Pollen with status effects like sleep/poison/paralysis, control over plants, poisonous kisses, etc
GargoyleMonstrous humanoid winged creatures with horns on their head and stony hides.Super strength, tough skin, flight
HarpyHuman-bird hybrids. Anything part can be replaced with bird bodyparts, although the most common configuration is arms turned to wings and legs into talons.Flight, sonic scream, hypnotizing voice, ability to whip up whirlwinds
KelpieAquatic horses with a man made of seaweed and algae, covered in a sticky fur that makes it nearly impossible to get off if one is to ride them. Some may get a fish tail when underwater, although when out of water they have legs like any horse.Water breathing, illusions
LichUndead humanoids, they may look skeletal or simply corpselike.Raising the dead (into zombies/skeletons), necrotic touch
ManticoreBeastlike creatures with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion or dragon. They vary greatly, some sporting horns on their heads, or resembling a Chimera or Sphinx.Super strength, flight if wings.
MinotaurAnimalistic monsters with the head of a bull and the body of a human, although some variations exist in which there are different animal heads. Some sport hooves and a tail in place of legs. Super strength, overall size, super defense.
TaurThis refers to any number of creatures with a humanoid upper body and a lower body that resembles a non-anthropomorphic animal in the same sort of style as a centaur. This category includes things like Arachne and Naga, and other variations of such monsters.Varies depending on animal the taur is based on
WerecreaturesMonstrous, bipedal animals, the transformation of which is often (but not always) triggered by the full moon. Common variants are wolves and bears, although they can be about any animal. The Pooka would be one of the variations in the werecreature category.Depends on the animal the form is based on, but usually super strong/fast etc



This effect can either be permanent or temporary, depending on how the players want it. Temporary can be up to just one transformation under the conditions or several.






OOC TIPS


- Ask your questions related to the TDM here.

- The TDM is available only to friends of the mods and their friends. If you want to play in the TDM, please leave a note here to inform us who invited you over. We will get to you as soon as possible.

- Test Drive is open for current characters to make a top level as well. New characters can add TDM (or "New" or anything else) on their subject line to indicate they're new!

- Current characters cannot access the starting area again to meet new arrivals. They can, however, be at the Research Center when the newbies are teleported in.

- The TDM is game canon so anything in the TDM can happen for your character(s) in the game as well.

- Remember to add Content Warnings wherever needed!

- Smut is not allowed on the TDM. You can play situations leading to it, but if the thread is turning into smut, please move it to a private space such a post in your character's journal, or a locked post in the game's log community if you decide to app!

- Pokémon Guidelines:
• Anything mindblowing crazy that the pokedex has to offer for any of the evolutions doesn't carry over to Seasons. They're closer to anime variants where people can get flamethrower at their face and live (we still do not recommend getting a flamethrower at face)
• Pokémon gain experience points much slower, even if they battle one another.
• You may be able to find a vending machine with weird stones mixed in for stone evolutions. Strange.
• All start at level 5.
• More Pokémon may appear later in the game but for now it's just the ones mentioned.
More on all the available Pokémon here!

- Check Locations: City to find more areas to explore inside the city. Every place in the districts are open. The Underground Mall has been added to the locations page at the very end of it.

- Similarly, Locations: Segments is useful for outdoors adventures. You can find monsters to encounter on Beastiary.

- Minor NPCs page has been updated with the criminal organizations.

- FAQ has information on characters' smartphones as well as general things about the world that might be handy.

- Feel free to check and use out Questboard for additional prompts.



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nightimmortal: (pic#16576211)

[personal profile] nightimmortal 2023-07-17 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ He finds a gentle little smile tug at his lips and he inclines his head in answer. He hasn't forgotten that old desperation to find someone precious, immediately, and go to them no matter the consequences.

Unfortunately, he'd answered. And so many had suffered for it. ]


I am pleased to be able to help, even if just a little. I have been here a few months, perhaps I know of whom you seek.

[ The smile grows just a little. ]

There are many strange ways to this world. I hope you do not find them too troublesome.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Default)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
The most straightforward way usually works best with guys like him. And he's got no way out if I get my hands on him. [Never underestimate the power of just being stupidly strong.]

I mean, no sunburns, so yeah. I'd say they're fine. [The fact she's so concerned is weird...but the next thing she says has his attention more and his expression somehow grows even brighter.]

Sounds like some would find you to be a formidable opponent. I don't know much about vampires, but I've fought more than my share of demons and immortals.
politicallyinclined: (❦ shadow)

Ahsoka! <3

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-17 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
(Padmé jumps in surprise and turns, amazed at the young woman before her. How can she not recognize her? Ahsoka. But older! Something very strange has happened and she needs to get to the bottom of it.)

Ahsoka... You've grown. (She has a difficult time looking away from the other woman and acknowledging their mission. Padmé is one of the first who will always volunteer if a world needs saving.)

How is it that so much time has passed for you?
Edited 2023-07-17 03:17 (UTC)
forgingfires: (just a young boy (over 400))

[personal profile] forgingfires 2023-07-17 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You. Fished with father?

[The disbelief is Strong.]

Ah yes, the shadow monkey. I imagine he is difficult to track down.

[There's another flash of the fire as he snarls.]

Of course not! Even with his imprisonment, father's strength didn't wane that much! If those cowards hadn't immediately attacked mother and I, father could have-

Could have-

[He grits his teeth.]

It was not a physical weakness. Father had his priorities and Azure Lion would not stand for those priorities continuing to be present.
silentjade: (LWJ (158))

[personal profile] silentjade 2023-07-17 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ If Wei Wuxian is here, then he will find him. And if he's not, then Lan Wangji will either wait or find a way to return home to him. Once he had rushed off to find his precious person regardless of the consequences. ]

His name is Wei Wuxian. [ An individual who is hard to miss. ] I am Lan Wangji.

[ He will introduce himself in the process, bowing while doing so. ]

I am not easily troubled. [ Not as much as he was when younger. ] What sort of strangeness?
sangreine: flirty :: touch (glance)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-07-17 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She laughs at his thought about bodily dragging Red Son out by his ear. ] I have other ways. You catch more flies with honey and all that. [ Her expression is as close as one can get to a wink without actually doing it. ]

Sunburns? They're caught in a scroll that tortures you with memories, or something like that. Or were.

If you don't know much about vampires then I won't have to have you unlearn any horrible cliches, which is a relief if I'm honest. The stories never do us justice.

If you ever need a fellow immortal to spar with, consider this an open offer. I have such a hard time finding others who can keep up.
foundherway: (068)

:3

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-17 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She has to swallow past the lump that forms in her throat, doing her best not to give away what she knows of what's ahead of Padme. The grief and pain.

But finally she smiles, head tilting a little and her head tails shifting with the motion. She knows she doesn't really need to dwell on what their mission here is, Padme is kind and generous to those who need help. ]


A lot of time has passed for me since I saw you last. It's...good to see you again.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Default)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. Didn't catch anything because of the splashing, but you know, not the point.

[The amusement is just as strong.]

When he wants to be anyway.

[Okay, time for the serious. He steps close enough to really just look him in the eye.]

Exactly. Your father could have been a match for Azure normally. But you're not your father, not yet. And this wasn't normally. So you did what you could. There's no shame in that.

[He immediately lightens up without backing off.]

Besides, it's not like you'll settle for not good enough. You've got his stubborness for sure!
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Here comes Monkey King!)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He just grins.] Maaaaybe~ I don't know if he's told you about the dragon-pony girl, but she does a great job without honey.

[The description makes him quirk a brow, expression sobering for an instant.] Yeah, that's a was. I mean at one point almost all of us were sooooo...anyway!

You struggle to have anyone keep up? So do I!
forgingfires: (r u srs?)

[personal profile] forgingfires 2023-07-17 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Red Son leans back as Wukong gets close enough to meet his eye, and there's still that defensive tension. He's still reeling from the talk of the beach and everything that happened and what Wukong is trying to say happened and its]

[A lot.]

[Make all the stranger because]

[It seems the other is trying to be...]

[Comforting?]

[Which is confusing and Red Son's expression definitely shows that. He really hasn't got much of a poker face.]

[Its strange. He's wondered what was the whole connection between MK and the Monkey King and while he's definitely seen some of the Monkey King in MK, mostly in him acting like an idiot, its the strange moment where he]

[Sees MK in Sun Wukong.]

You're.

Trying to comfort me.
politicallyinclined: (❦ maternal)

;u;

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-17 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
(A look of determination follows Ahsoka's hesitation. That won't do. No matter how old the other woman is, they are friends. The best of friends. Padmé closes the space between them and embraces the now much taller woman.

She's grown.)


You say that like we haven't stayed in touch. I know that can't be true.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Default)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, obviously. Is it working?

[He rubs the back of his neck, not exactly looking away, but not fully making eye contact either. He's trying to be good at this. To be more aware of people's sensitivities.]

Look, Red Son. What happened with Azure was a lot. For everyone involved. I just want to make sure that you know you didn't let them down.
sangreine: happy :: neutral (pause)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-07-17 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah from what Saya's heard about Dragon Girl, she'd bet on it. Seems like she and Saya would get along. ]

Sure I could drag him out by his ear, but I have more fun with the honey. I don't mind flustering him a little if I have to. [ Not that flustering him is hard. ] Not that I do it on purpose, that would be manipulative. But what can I say, I'm a natural flirt.

Ah... I didn't mean to bring up a bad memory. I'm sorry you all went through that. I know something about torture of that kind, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[ Fighting is a much cheerier topic indeed ] That's right. I'm always looking for others that I don't have to hold back against, especially now that I'm getting good with my Seasonal powers I'm quite tough to match. Sounds like you'd be a challenge, and who couldn't appreciate that?
foundherway: (063)

;w;

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-17 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. When was the last time anyone had hugged her? Ahsoka can't help stiffening briefly before sighing as she relaxes into that warmth she'd not let herself dwell on often. The Force nudges at her that this is alright. That she's not being tricked, even if it doesn't tell her much else. ]

I haven't exactly kept in touch with anyone, actually. It hasn't been...safe.
forgingfires: (Its a heavy weight)

[personal profile] forgingfires 2023-07-17 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[If he hadn't been restrained by Peng-]

[If he had tried to get the scroll with them then-]

[If he had had better security set up-]

[If he had been stronger, if he hadn't been so out of control that part of his power had to be gutted as a child-]

[He looks away. Because its hard to believe he isn't a failure when that is what he had been for so long.]

I don't understand.

You-

Why do you care?

[Its an easier subject then his own feelings of inadequacy.]
knowsvinewhip: (Getting ready to talk)

I DO NOT MIND AT ALL

[personal profile] knowsvinewhip 2023-07-17 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[Hakkai had been so caught up in the relief to see a single familiar face, he hadn't realized 1) he'd left a door open, or 2) there were probably other people around. That probably says something about the situation, huh? Well. Time to ignore that until much later.]

[He turns, still cradling Jeep, and makes his trademark apologetic smile. That's... hm. Wow, what are the odds of an actual monkey appearing? When he's thinking of someone similarly named...]


Oh, thank you. I hadn't realized he'd come with me. Though, I must say, it's something of a relief, haha.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Think you're ready?)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'd never drag him by the ear! I'd carry him over my head. [Come on, you know that would be funny. Red Son flailing ineffectively the whole way.] Nothing wrong with being a flirt.

It's in the past. Eventually waaaay in the past...thankfully.

But, no, I'm always open to a good sparring partner. I don't get to do that very much anymore. And I can count the number of people who can keep up on both hands. [But...no fingers.] So you've been here long enough to get to know your new powers? Which season are you?
politicallyinclined: (❦ conflict)

bestie <3

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-17 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
(Her stubbornness gives way to worry. She feels the stiff reaction and then... Ahsoka relaxes. What has happened to her? How could Anakin let her fall out of contact with them for any reason? Padmé knows how close they are; Ahsoka is precious to Ani and he would go to the ends of the universe to make sure she is safe.)

What do you mean? Come, I have an apartment where we can talk privately.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (pic#)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
That's not an easy question to answer.

[Because he's DBK's kid...because things could have been different if he hadn't made so many choices he regrets now...because he hadn't been happy to seal away his last brother and that's why he disappeared after...all of the above.]

Maybe it's because I have a lifetime to decide on changes I want to make. I dunno.
sangreine: happy (quiet laughter by enlaire)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-07-17 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ The image of Red Son over Monkey King's head being hauled around makes Saya chuckle, again with a hand over her mouth. ]

Good thing there's nothing wrong with it, I couldn't change if I tried. I'm sure there's some moral in there about Queens and wanting everything they set eyes on. [ Even if Queen here means both the same thing and a very different thing as what one might picture. ]

I won't promise I can defeat you or any such thing, but I think I'd prove at least entertaining. I even have fun losing if it's a good battle.

I'm a Summer, probably because two of the associated feelings are passion and anger. Yourself?
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Default)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I understand that completely.

[He gestures off-handedly at the monkey peering over his shoulder at Hakkai. For his part though he just takes in the adorable dragon from the doorway. Cute doesn't mean wants to be pet.]

So, are you two new here too? Because I know I just got here. It was a little weird enjoying the beach and then being at a completely different one.
foundherway: (067)

heeee

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-17 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Padme just knows her too well. Any lie would only hurt more. More than the truth? The horrible truth? Ahsoka just doesn't know. Only that she won't abandon her friend here, she won't make Padme be alone. ]

That's best.
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Here comes Monkey King!)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, what's important is being true to you right? [He doesn't really care about the semantics. Saya is an interesting, chill person. He can respect that.]

A good spar is a good spar. It just sounds like neither of us need kid gloves.

[He grins wider.] Me too, though I didn't really think about the why though. [It's because summer can be great, but the heat can be entirely too much to bear sometimes.]
forgingfires: (I can't believe I'm in charge of the her)

[personal profile] forgingfires 2023-07-17 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[...he supposes that's fair.]

[He knows his father and Wukong had been close before. He can recognize that relying on the Monkey King to help find a nonlethal solution to the Samadhi Fire had implications.]

[He knows why his mother told him that the word of their family meant something and it would always mean something. A belief that is steadfast precisely because of what betrayal had done.]

[It was part of why he never really spoke to Wukong if he could avoid it. MK and Mei were one thing, but what does one say to the person who had ruined most of his life.]

[(The other is the keen awareness he could not beat the Monkey King in a fight if it did come to blows.)]

Mother would remind me that you can lie as easy as breathing when you want to.

Are you lying? About Azure Lion?

You're aware angry Mei and MK would be if they found out you lied to me about something like that?
Edited 2023-07-17 04:07 (UTC)
retirementsnotsopeachy: (Well that's just uncalled for.)

[personal profile] retirementsnotsopeachy 2023-07-17 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[A twitch of both an eyebrow and his tail, then that comment is emotionally swept under the rug with his other baggage.]

And what would lying about something like that get me? You do know I was locked in the scroll first right? And my slab was cut in two by Azure? So really, me lying about it kind of hurts me the most if you think about it.