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BUCKLE UP: A TEST DRIVE MEME

Been feeling as if you'd sort of, kind of, maybe like to consider a new character at Poly? Haven't had the chance to figure out whether they work for you in the setting or in general?

Just start a thread for them here with:

character name | series

- in the title, and tag around! Alternatively, just comment to someone else's thread, either doing your own thing, assuming characters just met in the City, or maybe working off one of the following premises:

i. ...it's raining people! The character whom you're tagging missed the memo about perfect Fountain landings and ended up falling on your character instead.

OR

ii. ...ah, a lovely evening at a City shop or bar, when you've just realized you don't have the currency to pay your tab and you have to beg or steal it off someone else!

OR

iii. ...your characters are running up an endlessly high hill from a herd of rabid pandas.

Naturally, the meme is more than open to people who aren't currently at Poly, so pimp this to poor souls you're hoping to enable, it's the perfect time to lure'im in ♥

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EVEN DUCKS MAY LIKE SOMEONE TO SPEAK TO IN THEIR FINAL MOMENTS.

[ That's a yes. ]

Good point.

[Look, they're by the lake in Xanadu where ducks like to gather! Penny breaks off a chunk of bread and offers the bag to Death.]

That's really thoughtful of you, giving everyone a chance get a last word in.

[ Death takes the bag and rips off his own chunk. The ducks don't seem to be afraid of him at all, and although he shouldn't actually have expressions, he seems pleased. ]

MOST PEOPLE AREN'T GOOD CONVERSATIONALISTS.

[Well, that settles it. If the aren't afraid of Death, Penny won't be, either. Ducks have sixth senses about that kind of thing.]

In general, or when they're dying?

[She crumbles up some bread and tosses it towards the nearest group of ducks. As ducks will, they act like they haven't been fed in ages.]

[ Animals are, in general, much less afraid of dying than people are. They also tend to notice the fact that Death is, as a rule, everywhere. ]

I DON'T TALK TO MOST PEOPLE WHEN THEY AREN'T DYING.

[ He gives the ducks a bit of a moment to chase after the bread before tossing his own for the stragglers. ]

[Yeah, people are pretty good at denying death right up until they die.]

[brightly] Then the City must be a nice break for you. I mean, some of us are already dead, so your job's done and you can kick back and feed the ducks.

MY JOB HAS BEEN ALTERED HERE, WITH HOW THIS PLACE DEALS WITH DEATH.

[ The dead should not walk, after all, and yet they do. Still, they are still dead, and so he doesn't mind too much. ]

BUT THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT DIE; PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND THOSE STRANGE OBJECTS WITH BLINKING LIGHTS.

Oh--the not dying. Right. I'm sorry about that. [Because it's all Penny's fault that death doesn't take in the City, of course.]

Blinking lights? Like electronics? [She pulls out her network device.] Like this thing? This is my second one. The first one got eaten by a two-headed sandworm.

I DON'T MIND MUCH.

YES. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM VERY MUCH AND THE NOISES THEY MAKE ARE QUITE ANNOYING.

They are pretty annoying, especially when they're not working right. I didn't know that electronics died died, though; I feel kind of bad for not treating them better.

TOO MANY BLINKING LIGHTS AND LOUD NOISES. BUT YES, THEY DIE, JUST AS PLANTS AND ANIMALS DO.