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test drive meme

Have a whole bunch of stray muses kicking around? Ever wondered about how one (or more!) of them would play out here at

poly_chromatic? Well, wonder no more! Welcome to the test drive meme! Here's how this is gonna roll.

Start a thread with your test drive character! You know the drill, just mark the character's name and canon in the comment subject, and/or...

Tag around to other people's threads! Play it like your character has just arrived in the City, as if you've already met, or...

Pick from the list below - or use an RNG if you prefer - to hit a character with one of the City's curses! Is one character cursed? Both? Are they cursed with the same or different curses? That's all up to you!
1. Did It Hurt When You Fell From Heaven? Whether they're suave, awkward, good, or just plain horrible, citizens find themselves unable to stop speaking in the language of pickup lines.
2. Average Joe Day Those in the City with supernatural skills or powers, suddenly find themselves quite normal.
3. My Dirty Little Secret The one thing a character never wanted anyone to know is the one thing they feel compelled to talk about all day.
4. 5 7 5 Citizens will find themselves speaking only in the 5-7-5 syllable format.
5. Caffeinated Day All affected citizens will find that any liquid they drink has much more caffeine than usual.
6. It’s a Boat, it’s a Bug, it’s Ours Citizens realize they’ve given birth to a child, regardless of their sex - only the child is an object, which they treat as if they were their own flesh and blood.
7. Sing and Shout! Citizens burst into song of pop, rock, opera, or musical caliber.
8. Handcuff Day Citizens wake up to find themselves handcuffed together, and no key nor force will unlock that lock!
9. Truth or Dare Affected citizens are compelled to play every preteen girl's favorite slumber party game for a day.
10. [Not] Awesome Powers Today, affected citizens have...new powers! ...Amazingly useless ones.

Or just roll however you want in the game environment. Don't sweat the details, let loose, have fun - and enable, enable, enable!

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[ There's a young woman in little more than a chemise standing by the fountain, doing her best to try to keep warm in a sweatshirt some sympathetic passerby was willing to give her. She's a pretty girl — young with a head of thick brown hair — though she goes to great effort to hide one side of her face, which is marred with a terrible scar that runs across her forehead, over her nose and down the length of her cheek.

When Brad passes by she chirps up, asking: ] Hey, mister. This heaven?

[ It's a sight that he'd enjoy one hell of a lot more if he hadn't just been in an active warzone minutes ago. As is, he's still very firmly stuck in a mindset that has him grim and silent — particular because displacement like he's just experienced doesn't just happen and if he can't trust his senses, what can he trust?

Still, she looks civilian and he forces a measure of — if not friendliness then at least neutrality into his voice. ] Heaven's make-believe bullshit.

[Ginny looks amused more than anything else, though maybe she shouldn't; then again, it's better than looking smug. She leans against the bar, glad that it's a slow enough night at the Blue Light that she can take the time to talk to Brad (she barely works here unless she's filling in for another waitress, but she misses it, so she's here).]

How's it feel being like one of us for a day, then?

[ Brad is not exactly pleased. Sure, it's neat to have more powers, but it also feels like cheating somehow and he doesn't trust the City in any way. He doesn't want it messing with who or what he is.

In short, he's not amused. The flattest, driest tone: ] I'm ecstatic.

I can tell.

[Her grin broadens and she slides his beer across to him, resting her empty tray on the bar, arms crossing.]

Come on, it's just until midnight. And as far as curses go, being a little bit magical isn't that bad.

[ The beer appeases him slightly, and he lifts it up and downs about half of it in one go. ]

It's undignified. [ He probably wouldn't be complaining so much if he could do something worthy of a recon marine, but levitating tiny things is about the extent of his ability and that just blows. ]

That's what you say about everything here.

[She eyes his glass and decides against asking if he'd like another.]

At least you're not... I don't know, hovering a centimetre above the floor or something. Or talking to bugs.

[ Fuck yes he would like another, but if she's not asking he'll just order in a minute or two. He can levitate the change to the bar, won't that be a fucking killer. ]

Talking to bugs might be useful for surveillance.

What, asking the network for the latest gossip isn't enough?

[Ginny catches a glimpse of someone waving at her and raising an empty water glass; they know her well enough by now to know that's the one thing she'll refill from where she's standing, so—wand out, aimed, Auguamenti under her breath and the glass is full.]

Sorry. Er, what was I—right, network, everyone knows something about what's happening. Or has theories, anyway, all we ever have are theories in this place.

Edited 2013-02-13 15:35 (UTC)

Not here. [ Brad might be stuck here for the time being, but that doesn't make him any less of a recon marine. He trains for war even when there isn't one — and there bloody well is, just not here.

He's not interested in theories or gossip, he's not Ray. ]

I don't know what to tell you, mate. I've been here long enough to know I haven't got any more answers than I did when I arrived.

[She moves around the bar to pull up another beer and put it next to his half-empty one, leaning on the bar across from him now.]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Sgt. Brad Colbert ▸ Generation Kill

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10 because i love you.

i assume this is brad being a wizard, then

or a ~useless super power~

uselss magical power

sob yes

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