timetrappedooc | Test Drive; December

Test Drive; December

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.
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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.

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What would you rather? Cobalt Blue? Reverse-Reverse Flash? [ Oh, sir. Stop. ]

What was I thinking? Well, I was thinking she dies, and I live. She dies and I become a God and don't have to feel any of the pain that the so called 'Team Flash' forced me to suffer through when I failed at the only reason I was created.

Something like that.

[Barry you are worse at names then all of team Arrow, and that's saying something.]

Yeah, just don't name yourself, ever. Or just go by Barry, or Bart, or Bartholomew, or Barthal ... yeah, don't go with Barthal, that's a horrible name too.

So you didn't even try to talk it out?

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[ Hey, at least he didn't pick "The Accelerated Man". The hell kind of name is that? ]

I'm not going by any of those names. Not Allen or West or anything like that.

They didn't exactly make themselves available to me to do that, did they?

[Hey! Don't you dis that name. It's a good, quality name. Very to the point.]

Then pick a different one. People change their names all the time.

Did you try?

I did. I picked Savitar.

Of course I did. I didn't go from zero to 'I'd like to be a God' in an hour flat, Felicity. When you wake up, in agony in some facility with half your face speed-lightning burned, you pick up a phone. You call people.

[ Is that true? It's not...not true. There's probably a lot more to it. ]

[She's sure that isn't the whole story of this. This is Barry, this is Barry's team. They don't fracture and break like hers. They stick together as much as they can.]

That's a stupid name. How about Adam?

And I'm guessing whatever happened turned out badly. Then you decided to get revenge. If you're going to go to all the trouble of going back in time why not try talking to the people who you're trying to kill before you go with the killing plan?

It's not stup...wait, why Adam?

That's not what happened. That's not how it happened.

Why not? You look like an Adam.

[He could totally be an Adam. Adam ... something. He'd have made a great Adam.]

Then explain it to me.

[Since he clearly didn't bother to explain it to Team Flash. She can't imagine any scenario where they would just shut him out. He's still him, at least she thinks he is, deep down inside. There's no way they could turn him away if he came asking for help and a place to belong.]

I do not look like an Adam.

I'm not supposed to still exist. I'm an abberation. Disposable. Iris is dead. Wally's a vegetable. Caitlin's Killer Frost. Cisco lost his hands. They abandoned each other. As if they're going to drop everything for me.

Newsflash: They didn't.

Now you're just being difficult.

[She's pretty sure he's just being difficult now.]

And you never tried the one here?

Why would I bother?

Why wouldn't you?

Well, with logic like that, how can I not?

Again: why would I?

Because these aren't the people with the past that you knew. They would have helped you.

They offered. Once I failed to kill Iris. Empty promises, as it turned out.

Did you take them up on it or did you attack them again?

[She's pretty sure she knows what the answer is.]

I listened to them tell me that they'd help me, they're so sure they can do something. Tell me stories about my own parents to try to manipulate me. But then I ask questions, valid questions: what will they do, how will they help, what happens to me once it's done and there's nothing. They can tell me nothing. And even in the end, it's only Iris. Only Flash. [ Certainly not the man he considered one of his father's. Not his best friend. ]

I didn't attack them again. [ Liar. Sort of. ] I enacted plan B. Open a time portal, expose the Speed Force, get shot with the speed cannon and become fragmented throughout all of time. Existing in every moment throughout time.

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Did you want them to lie and tell you they had it all figured out? If they were willing to try then at least they were going to try.

It's sweet that you believe in them. Really, it is. But no. They weren't.

I would have believed in you too. Just like I believe you can be a better person here.

Or don't you believe me either?

Really. How?

Not trying to kill people for one. Just living for another. You're not a bad person, you just made bad choices. Use that brilliant brain of your that I know you have to for good things.

I know you can.

You think that it's just posturing, I think. When I say I'm not him. I spent an eternity in that speed-trap prison, Felicity.

You're not Barry, Adam. Because I'm totally calling you Adam since you never gave me a better name. That doesn't mean you're not still smart, and it doesn't mean you can't still be a good person.

Of course I'm smart. Smart and close to a collapsing paradox. No wonder I ended up here.

I don't see what's so wrong with Savitar.

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