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

[facemyenemies]

[The comment wasn't intentional, and it took her a moment to understand what he was laughing about. She blinked, then smiled faintly at that.]

You know what I mean. [She let her smile fall a bit, still there but not all that real either. With her left hand she pushed the banana pancakes closer to him.]

Eat. If you go about this like you did before you'll be back to standard in no time.

[ingrantitude]

Not until you pick.

[He points.] Because you're sharing these with me. Bananas or Strawberries.

[his voice is quiet] I'm not going to force you to make up your mind, but you deserve something nice for all the help you've given me.

[facemyenemies]

What? I can't pick from both?

[she says as she takes a banana round with a fork, then cuts at the strawberry pancakes, mixing the two.]

[His insistence on her having something good makes her raise a brow is all.] I have had plenty of nice things since helping you. Do not worry about that.

[ingrantitude]

[That makes him smile for real.] Well all right.

...thanks for ...being there with those ghosts.

[facemyenemies]

[she smiles faintly to see a real smile and that was enough for her right now]

I'll always be there, so long as I can be.

[ingrantitude]

...Up for a game later?

[He'll start in on his own plate of pancakes] Battleship?

[facemyenemies]

You have battleship here?

[she said with a bit of a brow raise. Seriously?] I think I could stand to beat you at a simple game.

[ingrantitude]

It came in my suitcase.

[He's been playing it with a lot of people] I'd like that a lot.