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

[justanitgirl]

Yeah, me too then, but, you know, I'm still me. [She gives his hands a reassuring squeeze. She's there, she's the same as she was three years (more or less) and she's not going anywhere. Not without him at least.] And that's kinda true. [She can tell that's not enough. How could it be? How could he really take all this on faith when he's got so little to go on?] We actually have a few working theories, but the best one comes out to a time bubble. It's a theoretical place outside of the times we came from, except we're not sure if what we learn now will have an effect on the future. [She has faith that he can put two and two together and get that it's the reason why people aren't telling him things.]

Re: Quentin Lance l Arrow

[justanitgirl]

Felicity isn't really looking where she's going. Eyes on her tablet and her computer in a satchel over her side. Because of this, she almost trips over Quenton. It causes her to look down to see him. "Oh god! Are you - When did you get here? Here," She offers a hand once she's stopped flailing a little from almost tripping on him.

[strongerthanyouknow]

If she gives a half-roll of her eyes at his just as nonchalant acceptance, it's fond, too. Well worn and time-tested, both back in the real 2017, and back in the real 2014, and even in the far future of the 'hopefully never real again 2046.' Oliver Queen was Oliver Queen was Oliver Queen.

She gives an overdone sigh, and holds the one out she'd been tapping -- to let him have it, even as she grouses.
"Just because I have short of ten of them on me currently, does not mean I do not need all ten of them back."


Then, came added, a look mocking over patience, as if he were a small child, and not who he was;
"One would think you'd have learned better how to pack for being kidnapped by now."

[strongerthanyouknow]

"Dad?!"

Here, Quentin. Have one Sara Lance. Stopped middle of putting her battons over her shoulder and behind her back, for the surprise of seeing a face she hasn't seen in a far too long while -- and one she was definitely not thinking, or anything like hoping, would suddenly appear in the middle of a Time Crisis.

8. Ship entry

[justanitgirl]

"I wouldn't - " Before Felicity can finish giving the warning about the Waverider, about what she'd seen it do to Ray, the lion kid is already out of sight and into a ... shadow? Well, that's a new meta power.

He'll be fine. Maybe he'll make it. She's pretty sure he won't.

When Gideon spits him out onto the ground she rushes over, crouching by the cat-boy. "Oh god, are you alright?"

[justanitgirl]

[She raises a brow. Pretty sure? Then again, that was Ray. Never concrete, always one foot in the potentiality of blowing himself up. It's what made them such good friends.]

Pretty sure?

[Even at the question she's packing her things to go.]

[justanitgirl]

She nods, carefully getting up from where he'd hid them before answering his comment.

"It was. I mean it was more than state of the art for about four years ago, but it's kinda obsolete now. If it's the only choice it'll do in a pinch, but I need something more upgraded."

[orions_shadow]

No movement at first, not until the spotlight is turned off, his limbs stirring a bit before he starts to crack his eyes open. That was rough, the lights cast upon him forced him out, and now he felt beyond weak like all of his strength, at least of supernatural origin, had been sapped from him via one-two punch of his decidedly obvious weakness and...Well, he recognized the feeling of a power inhibitor. "Rrrrgh." A low groan while he lay there. For the moment? No. He wasn't okay, but he'd recover.

[orions_shadow]

"Does the internet even work?" That would seem unlikely to him, but hey, stranger things have happened in every possible way. Wifi would be a small miracle though, he thinks. "I heard that the moment you buy a computer it's obsolete so I never bothered getting one except the one my dad got for me. It's a glorified paper weight." He rarely uses it. Give him his 3DS and he's happy.

[pocket_sized]

Considering all I had to work with was a set of screw drivers? Yeah. It worked. It'll have to do until I get it somewhere I can do some maintenance.

[What, him? Blow up? Nah.

No really he's figured out how not to protect against that for the most part.

If there's anything he can pick up for her, he does and hands it to her.]

[goodviberations]

"Where is here, exactly? A minute ago I was in my lab in Central City. What happened?"

He doesn't know this guy from Adam, but at least he may be willing to answer some questions. Unlike Gideon. He's gonna have to talk to his best friend about designing a less sassy AI.

[goodviberations]

Broken. Well, at least he's slightly familiar with that. Usually it's Barry doing the breaking- sorry, buddy, but it's true- but he can work with this.

"No, I don't think so. I was with Harry in my workshop, I blinked, and now I'm here. I thought I accidentally breached."

[goodviberations]

"I don't even know where here is, Mick," he points out. "I was in my workshop with Harry, I blinked, and now I'm here. I don't think Harry was pulled through with me."

He's pretty sure he'd have heard Harry bitching by now.

"Sara's here?" That's something, at least. Two familiar faces.

[goodviberations]

Cisco is never one to say no to a hug, so he's happy to return Felicity's affection. He already feels more relaxed than he had a minute ago. Whatever this craziness is, at least he's not alone.

"From three...years ago." He's not even surprised, honestly.

"The wedding that wasn't," he says, purposely vague. If Felicity is from the past, he doesn't want to screw time up any more than it already is.

[goodviberations]

"Caitlin," he answers, relieved. Okay. So he isn't alone here. That's good. "Where are we? What's going on?"

Caitlin can't breach, so that gets rid of his accidental breach theory. Now all he needs is a new theory.

[havingprecision]

A time bubble. [Like repeating it will somehow make it make more sense. It doesn't. But he's trying here. There are people he cares about, people he needs to protect and very soon the whole "I can't tell you" is going to come to a very explosive head.

Oliver's spent too long in the dark to suffer it for too long.] I'm almost afraid to ask if anyone knows how it happened, never mind how we get home. [He reaches for the sandwich, eating more out of reflex than any genuine hunger. He needs to stay on his feet, needs to stay ready and aware and that meant food.]

[havingprecision]

Fortunately it's a creature frightened off by an arrow near the ground at its feet. As the creature lumbers off, a hand is extended. "Detective Lance."

Please don't try and arrest him. Oliver's already having a bad series of days.

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[bringstheheat]

Sometimes people forget that Mick Rory can move in complete silence when he chooses to. The barest touch on the ground. Moving like a wisp of smoke through the ruined hall. Lessons he would never quite be able to forget thanks to the Time Masters and that bastard Druse.

He hadn't been looking for Hunter.
Blondie had sent him out to look for other members of the team and this asshole? He didn't count anymore.

So as Rip turns, Mick throws a very satisfying punch.

This place might not be so bad after all.

[havingprecision]

They can do this.
They can drink and throw knives and pretend that time hasn't fractured apart beneath them and Oliver can drink and try to ignore the gulf between them. The one where Sara has died, lives again and becomes captain of a time ship and he.. he doesn't know what happens to him. To them.
It's not something he can bridge with just a touch, even if he wants to.

So he lets her tease him, accepting the knife with a fond smile of his own. At least weapons were a certainty. Something that he could hold and use and understand.

He'll slip away tonight. He'll find somewhere alone.
But not just yet.

As Sara chides him he just laughs, saluting her with his drink before letting fly with the knife. "You would think."

[bringstheheat]

Most of the city would have heard Harry bitching by now.

"Along with Glasses and I think I heard Robin Hood dropped in too." A shrug as he starts down the street, clearly expecting Ramon to follow. "Time's been shattered into pieces. People are being pulled in from all over."

[goodviberations]

There's no hesitation from the engineer. He scrambles to follow Mick.

Okay. So Oliver and Felicity are here. That's good. More familiar faces. People he can trust to help figure out how to fix things.

"Shattered? What does someone have to do to shatter time?"

[bringstheheat]

"Time paradox. We saved reality but broke time in the process." Oh well. Blondie is doing enough angsting about that for the entire ship. So much is just going to roll with it.

[goodviberations]

A wince.

"Yeah, I know how that goes." They'd made the decision several years ago to let Barry change the timeline, not knowing what it could do. Mistakes happen. "So how are we gonna fix it?"

[strongerthanyouknow]

Sara watches Oliver's fast movement at the side of her vision, even as she's flipping up one of the other two in her hand, and throwing it. His not even lodged into the wall, when she's taken in its trajectory, and she throws hers to land an inch or so above his. She's going to owe someone a wall, but then, this time won't exist, again, soon either.

Remorse for repair isn't something Sara has.

Especially when it's a viscerally rewarding sound to hear them both hit home.


She flips the third up in her hand, head barely tilting, eyes narrowed as she's deciding where for it.
Nothing about that changes in the slightest, even as she says, "You can ask."

[havingprecision]

"I could," he agrees. Pauses as the next knife flies from her hand. He could ask. Part of him wants to ask and another part of him doesn't want to know. Since the Gambit went down it's been one horror show after another. Struggle and loss. Death. Fear. Solitude.

"Maybe another time I will."

Because right now, Oliver doesn't want to think about her past, his future and how it all tangles together. Or if it doesn't, if they simply follow different paths.

Maybe it's selfish, and it very likely is, but Oliver just wants a few hours without that hanging over his head.