Test Drive Meme

[darstone]

Comment here with your characters that you're thinking of bringing into LR, and tag around with other people to see how suitable they'd be for the game! As a note, these threads may be used for application samples, which are opening August 11th. So get your samples ready ahead of time with this meme! However, even if all participants are accepted with those characters, these threads will not be game canon. This meme is taking place in the setting of Darstone, so while you may leave your comment blank, I'd like to recommend you set up a scene or two in your initial comment. Some suggested settings are provided below, but make up whatever you'd like based off the setting pages! ⑴ Marketplace. There's a lot to do in the market-- not just buying goods and window shopping, but sitting down for a cup of coffee at an outdoor table, or getting a drink at a bar. ⑵ Housing. You've just gotten here and finally made it to your assigned apartment, but it turns out you have roommates, and they're one of them. ⑶ Adventuring. Whether out into the surrounding caves or taking a boat onto the lake, you're adventuring, maybe on a quest. Whoever's with you might be a member of your party-- or they might be trying to beat you to the reward. ⑷ Snow. What's snow doing in a cave? Isn't this weird? Well, Darstone is situated under a frosty mountain peak, and from time to time the local mages like to simulate the weather that's going on up above. That means there's some very light, fluffy snow falling from the cave ceiling right now.

Comments

[whomheloved]

Easy there. If they find a weak spot they'll try and get out.

[The oliveblood who'd been watching from the shadows finally steps out when she addresses the other troll, a gentle smile on her face.]

[highb100d_seeker]

[He looks around in surprise, and lowers the plank when he sees her. It's...Nepeta, but so much older.]

Who are you?

[whomheloved]

I'm called the Disciple. Are you all right?

[Her face is curious but she doesn't try to approach him further, never sure of her reception with bluebloods, even those as young as this one seems to be.]

[highb100d_seeker]

[His own expression is wary, but uncertain. She doesn't seem to be a threat - though any adult can be, so far as he knows. But he's as curious as she is]

I'm quite healthy and strong. My name is Equius Zahhak. [He pauses, hesitant] You resemble someone I know.

[whomheloved]

I can see that you are. [She smiles at him, shaking her head at what she supposes is a deflection of her question.] Equius. It's good to meet you. [She raises an eyebrow, curiosity ever present in her face. She doesn't think they've met before, though sometimes they've had wrigglers come to listen to Signless talk. He always insisted on meeting them afterwards on the rare occasions when they didn't run away.] Do I?

[highb100d_seeker]

[He inclines his head slightly, unsure of where he stands with her] Ah, yes. My moirail.

[whomheloved]

Your moirail?! [Now that genuinely surprised her, her eyes widening before they soften again, her gentle smile returning to her face?] Really? Is she here as well? You're...you're really moirails with an oliveblood?

[highb100d_seeker]

[He's quite taken aback by the happy reaction, and feels his cheeks bluing a bit, which he struggles against. He places the board down, covering the blush with the motion, and tries to compose himself]

Is that so unusual? We aren't so different in social stature. Though she is unacceptably wild and often foolish, I work to teach her refinement and dignity, while she calms my rage.

[whomheloved]

It is a bit unusual, at least in most of the parts of Alternia that I've visited so far. [She laughs lightly; his words might sound harsh but she sees the blush in his cheeks before he manages to hide it and would have most likely have smelled it on him regardless.] But that doesn't mean it's not a good thing, and it sounds like you're very fond of her. I was rather wild and foolish myself when I was a wriggler.

[highb100d_seeker]

[He swallows, finding it difficult to meet her eyes. Romance isn't something he's talked to many people about, and he tends to have difficulty putting his feelings into words]

Ah, well perhaps with my assistance she can put her foolishness behind her, just as you seem to have. [His lips purse, a bare flicker of worry] If she's all right, that is.

[whomheloved]

Oh, I wouldn't say I've put quite all of it behind me. I have to have some fun somehow! [She's just teasing him a bit, he seems so solemn and stern, uptight in a way that reminds her of...oh, so that's why he looks vaguely familiar to her!

But all thoughts of comparison flee her mind as she picks up on his worry.] If she's all right? Is there any reason she wouldn't be?

[highb100d_seeker]

[He shuffles his feet a little, frowning.] I'm not certain where she is, but the last time I saw her she was in danger. A highblood subjugglator was rampaging.

[whomheloved]

Oh light, why didn't you say so? We need to look for her! Haven't you ever seen what a... [No, she doesn't want to scare him by describing what a subjugglator was capable of.] Come on, perhaps I'll be able to sniff her out, there aren't that many other trolls here and no other olivebloods that I've seen so far.

[highb100d_seeker]

Ah, no. [He raises a hand quickly] When I saw her, she wasn't here in the city. It was back on an asteroid. And believe me, I know very well what a subjugglator can do.

[whomheloved]

An asteroid? But aren't you too young to have been sent off-planet yet? [She's looking confused but still poised to go searching, scenting the air to see if she can find any more trolls in their vicinity.] I still think we should look for her, perhaps she's been brought here as well. I'm sure you'd be happier to know she's okay, right?

[highb100d_seeker]

It's sort of complicated. [But he nods awkwardly] I am worried about her. I suppose she could be here.

[whomheloved]

Let's go then. What kind of places does she like, where do you think she'd go if she really is here? And what does she look like? You said I remind you of her.

[highb100d_seeker]

She likes caves. [Uh. Not helpful] And foolish roleplaying, and tea parties, as well as hunting animals for food. [He racks his brain] She looks exactly as you must have looked at six sweeps.

[whomheloved]

She sounds just like I was at six sweeps. [She blinks at the strangeness of the similarities, wracking her brain for what might have drawn her interest back at that age.] Does she like purrbeasts as well?

[highb100d_seeker]

[He smiles ruefully] Very much so.

[whomheloved]

There were little purrbeasts in the marketplace, small and friendly and noisy. If she scented them, do you think she might have gone there? [It was what Di would have done when she was six, after all.

...actually it was what she did now too, but hush. That's not here or there.]

[highb100d_seeker]

That sounds like the sort of thing she would do. [He starts off in the direction of the marketplace] It seems to me that you must be Nepeta's ancestor...

[whomheloved]

[She laughs, startled and a little taken aback.] Oh, no, no, it can't be, that's impossible...

[highb100d_seeker]

Why is that impossible? [He looks at her, earnest and serious] I'm certain that the mythology is true. And you share her symbol, as well as many traits in common. You could be her ancestor.

[whomheloved]

I've heard about it, mostly among higherbloods, but... it's hard to explain. [Her 'matesprit' couldn't exactly contribute to the slurry, so neither did she. But that's not something safe to say to a blueblood she barely knows.] I never really passed on my - wait, she even has my same sign?