Test Drive; December

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Test Drive

Welcome to the test drive for Time Trapped. This is an open forum to test out your characters to see how they would fit into the game and if you might be interested in apping them here. We want you to feel comfortable and, of course, test drive threads can be used as samples on your application to join.

First, a few housekeeping things before we start:

  ∞Apps will be open as of Dec 10th at 12 AM, and will reopen on the first of every month. They will remain open until the 10th of each month before closing.

  ∞Both first and third person prompts are allowed in the test drive. We encourage both. We also encourage making multiple prompt options in your post.

  ∞Finally, you will be allowed to transfer your test drive threads over into the game canon should you apply and be accepted.

  ∞If you have any other questions please feel free to refer to the FAQ or contact the mods directly.

Aside from that, happy test driving.

Instructions:
Post with Character you'd like to test drive using Name and canon in the subject line.
Receive comments.
Profit

Prompts

   1. Acclimating to the environment
While Gideon has a part of the area sectioned off for now based on her calculations of where the time anomalies are going to occur the area is still large and confusing. It’s easy for a person to get lost or overwhelmed in this big mish-mosh of a world. Perhaps you are lost, or maybe you are just settling in.


   2. Reach out and touch someone
Gideon has been kind enough to provide you with a way to communicate. Whether that be a device or a simple SIM card. Why not try it out by sending a public message. Of course, you could also be sending it by accident.


   3. Make peace, not war
While LA has become a hodgepodge of different times it has also become a hodgepodge of different areas as well. Exploring the downtown LA brings you to a section of Greenwich Village in New York. Unfortunately what was once a peaceful protest has grown into a fight between Mogul hordes and peace loving hippies who just want to protest. Local enforcement is, of course, trying to sort out this mess but it seems they might need a bit of outside help.


   4. What's this strange building?
The 'Hall of Justice' stands in a sorry state as nature is trying to overtake it. Vines are crawling up the walls and there is Dimetrodon sunbathing in the courtyard, or what's left of it. Inside, any technology seems to have been destroyed and there is no sign of life. Still, it is a ruin left to be explored and the local archaeological society is willing to pay good money for relics from inside. Be warned that there may still be some rather nasty traps active inside and around the hall. If you happen to be a from the DC world you might see a few familiar faces among the broken statues that once adorned this building.


   5. Let’s dance
The Verdant. A rousing nightclub in 'bad neighborhood' of what was once Starling City circa 2013. There seems to be a wide variety of patrons here tonight, anything from Greek Scholars to some Greasers. What a great place to grab something to drink or maybe cause a little trouble.


   6. Dressing in style
Perhaps you arrived in less than ideal clothing. You may have arrived in no clothing at all. It might just be about time to look through some clothing stores and find what is right for you. Of course, it’s never that easy though. There are pickpockets and thieves all over the streets. You may just become their next victim.

   7. Home for the Holidays
Little old London town is high in festivities right now. It's Christmas and the area surrounding Big Ben is snowy, though it's a bit melty due to the climate in LA. Festive decor and foods for sale circa 1885 in england and emotions are cheery and positive. Take a horse and buggy or attend a christmas party.

Just hope the mongols don't show up. Or Amazons.

   8. Wild Card. Go nuts.

Comments

[orions_shadow]

Given his powers he'd be roughed up, but probably okay if they were being serious. As he moves forward he sees Bart moves and tries to snag him, hook his arm in a joint or something so he can try and pin Bart on the rebound.

[orions_shadow]

[He's not as frazzled as he was from the surprise of someone walking, no, storming in on him. He watches her and exhales with a huff. Sure. She looks fine. Getting up on his hind legs after morphing back to his humanoid form he walks into the light.] I didn't break anything.

Re: Herbert West / ReAnimator movies

[wasnt_fresh_enough]

He blinks, raising an eyebrow. "I could see a mental hospital being a nexus of oddness, but a coworker talking in riddles? Riddles of the sphinx or would-be witticisms?" he asks, intrigued.

Come to think of it, this guy could arguably be a more dour and cranky, as well as pint-sized cousin to Nygma.

[wasnt_fresh_enough]

He notices the frost roiling about her hands, and he rises, goggling at this. "You..? You did that...?" he asks, curious as well as surprised. "How is that possible?"

And yes, his scientific curiosity has gotten the better of his sense of self-preservation.

[pocket_sized]

[ Might wanna try working on that Felicity. To be totally fair you did kinda jump from point A to point D there.]

That really wasn't what I meant.

It's possible! Maybe. But I don't think that's how it works. A control-Z for chronomatic course correction? Doubtful.

It could be a side effect of what we initially did.

[havingprecision]

She has to give him something.
Oliver had thrown himself into the investigation, into hunting down her assassin because it was the only thing he could do. He couldn't grieve because others needed to. He had to be their rock, their sense of stability in this even when his own heart and mind were in goddamn freefall.

He wants to demand more, to demand to know how and why and more importantly who.

He wants to demand more because even though she left him, Oliver still loved her. Wanted to see her happy.
She never got enough of that.

But just like then, there's a job to do. Something they have to face together and he can do this. He can compartmentalize and set it aside for now. Oliver will pay for it later, but he can do that in private. Alone.

So he breathes out. Traces the lines of her face with his eyes. Alive. "Okay. I trust you."

"So what's the plan?"

[havingprecision]

[A moment for Oliver to drag his hand across his face. First Sara. Now Thea? How many people had he failed to protect?] Sara. She said something about us being outside of time. Pulled in from different places.

Because I don't remember any of that.

2

[havingprecision]

[Good. Someone else familiar. Oliver answers almost immediately.] Felicity. Where are you?

[strongerthanyouknow]

Sara watches the brief war in his face. The one that could just as easily refuse everything she's saying and demand answers, or, it could do what it does now. Gives. In a way that has nothing on kindness, even calling itself that. There's a deeper weight to what his face becomes, and, for Sara, an answering flicker of guilt deep in her gut, when he lets it go. When she watches the steel and cold and dark-edged, but light-driven, responsibility steal into the place of all that emotion in the demand of her name right before.

In the admissions of her death right before that.

She has no right, and she has to do it anyway. Does. Has.
It's not even cold comfort that he does it, and he'd forgive it.

They're too alike in that. Sara gives a clipped nod, all business, trying not to let it evoke even more guilt when he says he trusts her (trusts her still, when she doesn't know if she can give him the truth later either). She pushes that back, too, like him, looking away, from him, and starts detailing in far simpler terms than earlier.


"The is the Waverider." Beat. "Timeship." Mine. Mine, her heart thunders.
"Obviously not supposed to be crashed into the ground. Or time splintered around it."

[havingprecision]

Now is neither the time (in any sense of the word) or the place to demand those answers, to reach out again to simply confirm that she is warm and alive beneath his hand and not so still and so cold on that damn table.
Those desires, like so many before, are set aside. He has a responsibility. A job to protect people even when he isn't sure of the scope of the world surrounding him.

Timeship.
Broken time.
Well he's dealt with stranger.
(Although if he sees Constantine he's just going to say fuck it and get good and drunk)

A long moment of silence as he takes in the ship. As he takes her in, even when she doesn't look at him.

"Well. That would explain both the cowboys and the dinosaurs I saw on the way over here." His hand flexes on his bow. "So how do we fix it." Not 'you' and certainly not 'me'. Us. We. They were a team once and they will be again.

[snowandfrost]

[She smiles at that]

Team Flash is always ready to help.

[snowandfrost]

"Sometimes. I have a better control of both of us now. I hope she wasn't too bad." Caitlin gives him an apologetic smile. She takes a step back when she sees him lift the car then set it down. "I would have believed it already but that definitely solidifies it. How long have you been here, again?"

[snowandfrost]

[She breathes a sigh of relief at that]

[snowandfrost]

She rolls her eyes at his questions.

"Why do scientists always ask questions as the worst times?" she asks. There's more poking, prodding, and eventually, they're starting to beat on the ice wall. "That wall can only hold them away for a short while."

[redarrowqueen]

We'll figure it out and face it as a team, just like always. [In spite of the blood and stray glass Thea grips Oliver's hands in hers. Plus its keeping her at least semi calm?]

[kid_flash_found]

After all the crap he gave me when I was Impulse? It takes everything in me not to bring popcorn.

[Yeah, he's grinning. Wally deserves the karma, as far as he's concerned.]

And I'm not egging her along in any way. Splitting my time between San Francisco and Keystone and Central Cities is awkward enough.

Not that I'm saying not to hugs. I'm definitely a fan.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart tries another trick as he feels the grip, vibrating free and moving again to a safe-ish distance, ready for another pounce, he hopes. From the grin on both their faces, he figures they just needed an excuse to let loose.

Still, he's not going to forget that lions are dangerous predators, and there's a reason Beast Boy rarely uses those shapes. Instincts are tricky things, after all.

Re: 2

[justanitgirl]

[At just the sound of his voice there's a heavy exhale of relief. She's smiling on her end. Smiling so hard that she can't help wondering if her face might break from happiness. Can that even happen?]

Oliver!

[Even her words sound relieved. She wants desperately to hug him right now. Oliver gives the best hugs. They're tight and warm and, well, Oliver hugs.]

I'm at an internet cafe under the Eiffel Tower.

[justanitgirl]

It's not that.

[She lets out a breath, fingers curling over the bow. It happens to be Oliver's.]

This is, sort of a special place.

[So, very special. It was the first place she really started to get to know Oliver and Diggle at, it was the birthplace of Original Team Arrow. It was, well, the place where everything began.]

You're a meta, right? What's your name?

[justanitgirl]

Wait, what?

[She's pretty sure he just started talking about things she has no idea about.]

[justanitgirl]

[A smart best friend would have been able to follow.]

And yet we just fought evil alternate Earth Nazi Oliver and Kara. I'm pretty sure there's totally a chance that there's a control-Z for chronomatic course correction.

And it's possible, but you said Rip created the Time Burau and fixed all of this. So this would most likely be a similar but potentially unrelated event.

Re: 2

[justanitgirl]

"None. And metas are totally real. Every so often we someone shows up in Star City with meta powers, but mostly they stay in Central City. Which is fine by us. The Flash is way more equipped to handle them than anyone in Star."

Huh, wrong girl. She moves to the next redhead she can find and taps her.

[alittlehelpfrommyfriends]

"The Waverider? I've seen it as well. I should head back there. See if I can talk Gideon into being less... Gideon."

He sighed. "But I do appreciate the offer. Are you here alone?"

[alittlehelpfrommyfriends]

Perhaps once we find Jefferson we can, ah, teach her some new manners?

[ Wasn't that how kids said it these days? ]

2

[alittlehelpfrommyfriends]

Doctor Snow!

It's good to hear your voice!

Well, except for the part where you're stuck here, too.

[ He sighs as he looks around Little London. ]