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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Calvin was waiting to be noticed. He had spotted Fitz the instant he walked into the room and had just watched, studying him, noting all the little ticks and quirks about the young man.

Such a curious young man.

When the engineer finally did look at him, Calvin couldn't help but grin wider, slowly pushing his chair back to stand.]

I'm..? Come on, go ahead and finish. I'm curious what you want to say.

[ Fitz isn't a coward. Jumpy and a bit meek, sometimes, but now that the initial surprise has worn off, he manages to settle into a guarded, cautious calm.

There's a very obvious pause as he considers his reply, and something reluctant in the flat way he gives it. Using the name Skye seems like a misstep, but he can't bring himself to call her anything else.

He may not be a coward, but he isn't stupid, either. Provocation isn't a good plan. ]

The doctor. You— [ Hurt Trip, held his life hostage. ] Helped Trip.

[Surprise flickers across his face before he lets out a bit of laughter, clapping his hands together.]

Yes, yes I helped that young man. It was my fault that he was hurt but I helped him too. I don't want any unnecessary deaths. I would never want that.

[This young man didn't remember the same things did he?

How interesting.]

[ Unnecessary deaths implies that some deaths are necessary, of course. It seems like a logical statement, but having to state it at all sort of negates that.

Fitz doesn't move to join him at the table (obviously). He doesn't move at all, though he does cast a quick glance around the room. Not looking for help — checking to make sure Skye isn't about to walk into this.

He's still looking elsewhere when he starts to speak, voice carefully flat and neutral, focus shifting back to Cal on the last few words. ]

Did you just get here?

I did. It's quite an interesting place, isn't it? So many strange people here, people that are very clearly not from the same place as us. It's rather refreshing.

[The doctor smirks, eyeing Fitz a bit.]

How long have you and your fellow SHIELD agents been here, hm?

[Because that's what the other had been looking for, right? You can't hide things from him, Fitz.]

THE TEST DRIVE MEME: MARCH - APRIL

FITZY

calls an adult tbh

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