THE TEST DRIVE MEME: MARCH - APRIL

[checkingin]

THE TEST DRIVE MEME

SO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CREEPY HOTEL BRIGADE.

Well, welcome potential apper! Here we have the handy dandy test drive meme so you can get a feel for how your character might react to the game setting. This post can also be used to cultivate some of those required sample threads for the application.

Feel free to play any scenario you so please. However please note that TDM threads cannot be used for Activity Checks (for existing players) and will not be considered game canon unless transposed comment for comment into logs in checkingout. We also recommend avoiding playing the initial arrival, so that the intro log doesn't become repetitive and boring for you. Other than that, go wild.

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PREMISE | THE HOTEL
TAKEN | RESERVES | APPLICATION

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS.

No time for losers, because we — have waffles and pancakes and crepes and delicate bowls of ripe bananas and juicy oranges. We have bacon and oatmeal and cereal and milk; we have coffee (that's really hot and will burn you quite spectacularly) and tea (that, on the other hand, is miserably cold and bland). And we have orange juice (that might just kill you)!

Basically, every component one needs to start the day off right. Which is good, because this is the only meal ever served in the hotel. So come one, come all — get it while it's hot and try to pick among seats amidst the crowded circular tables, or stand along the wall. Bemoan the lack of hashbrowns or fight over the last fork. Mix, mingle. Have "fun".

DON'T YOU LOVE MY TASTE IN MUSIC.

What starts as soft, subtle musical notes wafting out of unseen speakers?

Yeah, that quickly manifests into blaring, loud, aggressively high pitched notes — so distorted, and reverberating so magnificently in the main lobby that even those impenetrable windows rattle in their frames.

And what's more, there doesn't seem to be an off switch anywhere in sight. Good luck finding one.

GOING DOWN.

Right by the stairwell in the lobby is an old timey elevator, the sort that really ought to be manned by staff to insure that it's in decent working condition and won't kill you. But it's usually not. And usually doesn't run.

But today, your ears are treated to an oh-so pleasant ding, and the doors will slide open, offering a ride to the floor of your choosing. Finally, no more calf workouts on the stairs, right?

...well, you probably should have taken the stairs, because three seconds in the entire carriage shudders, screeches to a halt, and refuses to move.

Then the lights begin to flicker.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.

Don't see a scenario that appeals to you here? Make up your own. Get crazy with it! Good luck getting outside.

Comments

[hulk]

That's... A thought.

[ And he's looking at this guy with some Serious Concern. ]

Though it's also true for all anybody knows, this is all one very crazy dream. Sans murders or at least with a guarantee of waking up once the murderer shows up. [ A beat, because ha that wish has been going strong for... what? Ten years now? ] But in case it's not, I think we're. There's a few people here who'd be able to deal with that.

[iustitiae]

You really think this is just a crazy dream.

[not a question]

[hulk]

I accept it's a possibility. I've had really weird and honestly awful dreams before. [ Setting his food on a table, he rips off a bit of pancake and rolls it between his fingers. ] But same time, it's. It's also possible this is all actually happening because I've had weirder and definitely more awful things happen. I mean, fifty-fifty either way, maybe.

[ A hapless shrug of a guy who's finally really starting to embrace the crazy in his life. ]

...No matter which it is, though, I'm still hungry.

[iustitiae]

I'm not sure if this is one of those things I should ask about or be scared about.

[hulk]

[ Bruce opens his mouth and then closes it. It's one part concern for this guy, another part... Well. He likes living quietly. Broadcasting the Unfortunate Series of Events that comprised Bruce Banner's very strange life didn't really help that. ]

Maybe another time, when y- If you get calmed down a little bit and. You want to sit down for a second?

[iustitiae]

I'm perfectly calm.

[the best lies are the ones you tell yourself to keep you warm at night!

but sure he'll sit down]

[hulk]

[ He's tired those same kind of lies too, even if how he appears today says little about how well that deception worked out for him. ]

Okay then.

[ A pause, then in an attempt to lighten things up. ]

Not like there's any ghosts today, not l- You ever see Ghostbusters?

[iustitiae]

Everyone has seen Ghostbusters.

[hulk]

You'd actually be surprised.

[ It's a twenty year old movie, never mind the parallel universe thing. ]

But anyway, th- It could be Slimer. Then it'd be ghosts and very inedible grossed-out food.

[iustitiae]

Sure, yeah. It could be that. It could be worse in any number of ways. That doesn't make it good now.