THE TEST DRIVE MEME: MARCH - APRIL

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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.

Comments

[nocounterpart]

Hey Mom. [He walked closer to her, his mind mentally telling him that he was taking longer strides than usual and that he was taller than when he last saw her.]

Yeah, I think the elevator is all magically weird. But the stairs seem fine.

[He felt oddly calm about this entire encounter. While things had changed for him, at least his mother was the same. Or maybe so much weird stuff had happened since he'd brought Emma to Storybrooke, or even before that, that he's just used to it by now. He wasn't sure. But either way, he smiled.]

[nolongeraqueen]

[Regina stepped forward, fingertips brushing through Henry's hair as she leans in for a hug. It feels weird, different that he is as tall as he is. She wonders if he is from the future, but she really isn't sure she wants to know or ask. She's had enough trouble with time recently that she doesn't really want another dalliance with it.

Reluctantly, she pulls back from Henry, nodding her head in agreement.] Even I don't dare step into that thing.

Henry, where are we? This... This is not home.

[nocounterpart]

[Henry easily accepts the hug, happy to see her.]

Yeah. I wouldn't either. But you're right. This isn't home. I only got here a little while ago, so I'm still working things out. [Mostly, he's still in shock that he has seen his father and can again.]

[nolongeraqueen]

[After a moment, she pulls away from her son and smiles down at him. One hand reached up, running her fingers through her hair as she tried to think about what her next move was.]

How about we take a walk and you let me know what you've found out so far?