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

[therightpartner]

True, but it does mean that someone will be looking for us.

[Peggy expected him to protest that his security could not be breached but they both knew that it had and if it could be done once, it could happen again. But perhaps talking of their future endeavors had been distracting enough to keep Howard from voicing that complaint.

As Howard speaks, her expression softens. Yes, she disliked the lies and evasions he seemed to think was necessary but something like this... it probably would have been best not to tell her. If he had, she would have gotten her hopes up and they very well could have been shattered.]

Howard, that... that would be a fitting tribute. We could keep his ideals going. This Coulson implied that I led this group at one time. We could have a place where anyone with merit could be welcome.

[And that was far more alluring than Peggy wanted to admit. She tried to act impervious to the mistreatment she'd been subject to at the SSR but even now, when she didn't need the approval of men who were blind to her talents, she wished that she could be thought of as useful.]

I believe he was from the future. Which means that we could be dealing with advanced technology or whatever the Tesseract really is. But I do not believe that means we can't outsmart them. We managed it during the war when their tech was beyond ours. We'll do it again.

I know, Howard. I might still be angry with you at times, but I have forgiven you. Which means I really should tell you what else Coulson said.