TEST DRIVE MEME - LATE APRIL/MAY EDITION

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Ahh Hinoto-Ri. City of lights, questionable Wards, the 13th Hour and Personas. A city that requires your aid in saving it.

SCENARIO 1: GOLDEN WEEK

Tied to the trees and parts of the houses are a bunch of fish-like kites. It turns Hinoto-Ri's battle=-ravage buildings into something a little more beautiful. By now, the air outside is comfortable to walk with a small shirt.

The booths in the Scorpio ward are busy trying to sell you their trinkets and crops. Will you get a mask? Will you buy and outfit? Will you just grab a little something to eat?

SCENARIO 2: Q'S CAR Q'S CAR THE SCENARIO FOR ALL AGES
Well it's been a hell of a ride so far, but you've now found yourself somehow testing one of Q's vehicles.

'Oh, and do try to bring it back in one piece' he said. What are all these buttons again?!

Did you read the manual?...

...wait...

...do you even have a driving license?


SCENARIO 3: CHERRY BLOSSOMS


By now all of the cheery trees in Hinoto-Ri are in full bloom. And what a beautiful sight it is! The smell is heavenly and couples and families hurry to the park to be able to secure a place under one of them to be able to enjoy a picnic together.

What a perfect time to arrive in the city!

SCENARIO 4: AN ENEMY APPROACHES! COMMAND?!
13th hour. Although technically the 25th of each day, it is the time when this world seems to change, the entire city turning a shade of dark red, demons coming out, buildings shifting and dangers lurking at every corner.

But it's your job to make this safer. Just be careful of what you run into...



...this is rather confusing. But you've learned not to think that something you see is exactly as it might be. It could be far more dangerous and deadly than it lets on...

SCENARIO 5: THIS IS JUST AN ARRIVAL PROMPT
You've arrived into Hinoto-Ri! And wow, the weather is warming right now. Like an early hot breeze in spring. At least it makes you feel more at ease...unless you came here prepared for terrible weather. Sorry! Maybe if you can find someone who knows exactly what is happening, you'll be able to comfirm that it wasn't just a dream? Remember the man who said you were here as a special guest! This the city you're supposed to save, so let's find out more about it!

[[OOC - Welcome to the test post! Don't worry too much about Persona stats or your levels here, just come out and make up a scenario about what they are doing. Try out your potentials and interact with the city around you! We'll supply some NPCs once in a while when you least expect it (after all have to test those out too, right?)]]

Comments

Xion | Kingdom Hearts | f.........ive. oh man i'm so sorry guys

[poppetstrings]

[THE FUCK IS THIS. THE FUCK IS THAT. WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE THIS ISN'T BEASTS CASTLE.

Excuse Xion as she (quietly) has a small panic attack because never have the Corridors screwed up and sent her to a different world then what she intended an oh man is she going to get in about a billion times more trouble. Not only was she unable to catch the imposter yesterday, she didn't get to the right world today and delayed the mission and and and-

There's totally a suspicious person in a hooded coat looking around. Maybe she might ping you for someone who's already here?]

[all_wound_up]

[Nano's seen her around town wearing that coat, but typically she doesn't have the hood up. It looks like she's in trouble.]

...Xion? What's wrong?

[poppetstrings]

[It's only natural to turn to face whoever is calling your name, right?

But... She's never seen this person before, and that alarms her even further. So. naturally she's going to keep to the rules set out for her and not interact with Nano, and opt to run away with her hood still up.

You're gonna follow her, right?]

[all_wound_up]

Wait, Xion! Are you in trouble? I can help!

[Of course she's going to follow - Xion is her friend!]

[poppetstrings]

[Nano, you're the one causing the trouble by talking to her!

Too bad Xion is running blindly. She has no idea where the heck she's even going.]

[componere]

[ ... Well, that's a new sight indeed! But it's a familiar face under the hood, and the fact that the super special ultimate sparkly FRIENDSHIP CREW isn't immediately greeting him with well-wishes and smiles is a little suspicious. He'll just be looking your way, and following you from a distance if need be. Now... what's your deal, newcomer? ]

[poppetstrings]

[Well, if it's from a distance, she has no way of telling she's being followed, right?

Right. So she'll just kind of keep from large crowds and try not to stand out too much with her shady shady looking outfit as she tries to look for clues.]

[componere]

[ ... Oh. She looks like a tourist. Well, that's a horse of a different color! He walks a little closer, casually flipping open his phone and aiming. He's going to take a photo of her. For obvious reasons. (No, it's not, it's more like he likes having hard evidence of embarrassing anecdotes because of reasons.) ]

[poppetstrings]

[Have fun with that, Josh.

She'll just be minding her own business while trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.

HOLLA.

At least after awhile she doesn't seem as panicked? Probably because she thinks she might have just read the mission wrong.

Her portals have never screwed up before, after all!]

why u make me do these things

[nyantan]

[Shiki had hoped to just take a routine trip to the fabric store and back, but the hooded figure lurking nearby set a flag off in her head, both in suspicion and recognition. Adjusting the basket of fabric over her arm, she peers at Xion from afar a little ways behind the nearest street corner, face scrunching in confusion when her suspicions are confirmed; that's Xion, isn't it? Shiki is slightly hesitant to approach considering how uncharacteristic the other girl was acting at the moment, at least as far as she had ever observed with the two Xion's she had met. So... have a girl around your age with the same haircut staring at you from a little ways down the street, attempting to be covert but not really being very successful in her endeavor.]

[poppetstrings]

[Maybe she should have been paying a little bit more to her surroundings and less to freaking out about them. But eventually, she does realize she's being watched.

Not a good thing. She's not supposed to interact or get spotted or really anything like that! But here she is, shellshocked in place.

And then she books it, trying to get out of her line of sight as fast as she can.]

[nyantan]

[Wait, what?]

--Xion??

[She's gonna yell after her, only jogging a little bit as not to seem like she's booking it after the girl who was obviously frightened or... something. The only thing she could possibly think of to explain this is 'new arrival', but she wouldn't know until Xion stopped running.]

[poppetstrings]

[Xion stumbles mid-step, loosing her footing as her name is called by a complete stranger. Naturally, she hits the ground face first, though she tries to get up rather quickly.]

[charmedbymemories]

[That coat. She catches a glimpse of it through the crowd, and it makes her freeze in realization. Someone from their world? Who had arrived? Naminé pushes back against the tide of people, trying not to think of the implications of what the wearer's clothing choice meant.

(Someone pulled from an earlier time, or a different version completely.)

It was a shorter member-- so either Zexion or Roxas or Xion. She finally breaks free and catches the person's sleeve.]

Wait--!

[poppetstrings]

[Oh jeeze, oh jeeze, caught, and so soon after arriving?

Xion attempts to pull free to run.]

[charmedbymemories]

Wait!

[She starts running after the cloaked figure, confused. Running was their immediate reaction? It has to be Roxas or Xion, then, because Zexion would never hesitate to talk down to her-- and now that she's had a better look, she's almost certain it's Xion.]

Wait, please, I just want to talk to you!

[poppetstrings]

[Nnnot going to happen Naminé! Xion has absolutely zero plans of stopping because someone native to this world has told her too! You'll have to stop her somehow if you wanna talk!]

oh hi there

[jerkwithaheartofcold]

[Oh hey totally suspicious person in a black coat. Now that's not something you see every day. Jack tilts his head from his vantage point, curious and- was that panic?

Eh, not like they'd hear him, but it was worth a shot.]

Hey there! Something wrong, kid?

hi C:

[poppetstrings]

[She definitely hears him. Definitely sees him, and even locks eyes with him before she goes stock still.

And then panic sets in further and she bolts. Like every other thread so far whoops Can't get caught, after all. Saix would have her turned into a dusk.]

[jerkwithaheartofcold]

[WELP.

THAT'S A FIRST.]

Whoa-ho, easy there! I didn't mean to startle you.

[Yeah, Xion? It's going to be hard to outrun a spirit of winter, even if it's a bit warm for his liking. So instead? He's just gonna float alongside you.]

[whereibelong]

[Xion sees the coat-wearing figure in the middle of working. Why is it she always spots people while she's at work? She begs her other coworker - a native - currently in the store to hold down the fort while she takes care of an emergency, and he sighs and hems and haws but ultimately agrees.

It has to be Roxas, or herself she thinks as she sprints out the door after her younger self (not that she realizes . She doesn't remember Zexion well enough to realize he might actually qualify as "shorter black-coated person". But regardless, in either case, they probably needed help.

It's only as she gets closer, trying to not stick out too much, that she gets a better look at the black-coated figure. Definitely female. And therefore definitely a little her. Oh dear. She swallows. What should she do? Should she get one of the others? meeting another self

Except Roxas and Axel aren't here, and she isn't sure who else this one might know, or how long it'd take anyone else to get there. So... there was nothing for it.]

X-xion?

[It's... so strange to call out her own name yet be talking to someone else entirely]

[poppetstrings]

[That gives her pause. That was her name. That was her voice. But she doesn't remember speaking. And why would she say her own name? That's just silly.

Awkwardly, she looks around and-

That is most certainly her face.]

M-Me!?

o hi there~

[scatteredwinds]

[Well. You sure are pinging this fellow newbie. And he's kind of gaping. Because pardon him, but the last time this blond derp saw you, it was in a digital projection of Twilight Town and it was Complicated.

That was kind of a while ago, too.

So there's a generally Roxas-shaped guy staring at you like he's seen a ghost.] Xion...?

[He's dreaming, right?]

HI C:!!!!!!! sorry i derped and forgot to say hi

[poppetstrings]

[That is definitely a Roxas-shaped person! But something is off about him, and maybe she'd be able to pick it out if she wasn't so surprised and relieved to see him!

It definitely helps to calm her down, man. And she could use some reassurance and calm right now. It's only natural she closes the gap between them!]

Roxas! Were uhm, you sent here too?

It's okay! ^_^

[scatteredwinds]

[Yeah, perfectly natural. Except he still looks like he's seen a ghost.

There's a lot of questions that he could be asking right now. 'How are you you again?' 'Did something happened to Sora?' 'What's going on?'

But he's just. Too glad to see that she's okay. And then her question registers, and he has to stop himself from finishing closing the gap and hugging her.] Ah... no? I don't think so, anyway. I'm just as confused as you are.

[For more reasons than one.]