Test Drive Meme

[espigeonage]

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Because all our characters are the modern reincarnates of the characters we know and love, you need a modern mundane AU! Post your character with a couple details about who they are now. Use a prompt to set the scene! And tag around.

->Stranding Shower Inclement weather has suddenly forced you to take shelter. There's someone else under this overhang or bus stop - this might take a while, so you might as well get to know them.

->Mafia Menace Armed thugs with catlike mutations are attacking someone to tell them to stay out of the metaplot! This will end well!

->Cliffside Calamity Vegas has turned into a city atop a mountain. Things are somehow intact, but now the front door to something you have to get in or out of overlooks a sheer drop.

->Superhuman Sighting You have an interest in seeing one of the numbered - is that one there?

->Superhuman Surprise You felt hollow for a moment, and now you're numbered! Suddenly you're that much closer to canon and manifesting a mutation, a power, or a strange memory! Probably in public!

->Wild Card Combine prompts or pick something less alliterative! Monsters! Cultists! Boring days at the mall!

Comments

[akhorishaan]

Y-yeah, lint. My shower stopped working and the supervisor won't answer his phone, and it's been a few days...

[In Akhor's canon, dragons automatically change the dirt they sleep on into gold. So when Virgil goes to sleep when not completely clean...]

Um. Sorry? I don't think anything's happened in like a week, it looks fine.

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[satisfactionbroughtback]

[...whoops. Sorry!

Laurel hesitates more, but she's starting to tire. She spirals down towards that roof, tail heavy behind her. Now how does landing work... maybe...

She hits it hard and skids, claws leaving furrows in the concrete, before stopping, sore. Bending her long long neck she nudges at the inside of her 'elbow'. Ow.]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

[okay, wow. That wasn't exactly a graceful landing. Jasmine races forward, a look of worry on her face]

Are you alright?!... She asked the creature who's been unable to answer her so far...

[seed_of_memory]

Yes, well, a lot of this has been severely unexplored since the upheaval. Considering all the murders and everything else that's been appearing, it's wise to show caution.

[she came closer, the light of her flashlight causing the gold in his hands to glint]

... I thought you said that was lint.

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[seed_of_memory]

[this is obviously some kind of trick. Fuyuka sighs mentally, before deciding to see what information she can get out of him]

This handsome alien. Could you describe him for us? Both his appearance and what abilities he seemed to have?

[akhorishaan]

It's... it is lint. [There are traces of gold in around his toenails too, and in the empty holes where his earrings would go. Virgil's too confused to make a good excuse.] Or something in the water.

[satisfactionbroughtback]

HhhNNNnnnnnnnn.

[She can't talk as a dragon, but apparently she can groan just fine. Now... turning back... She closes large eyes and focuses, focuses... and becomes a red mist in a dragon-shape, which starts to contract.]

[seed_of_memory]

That is not lint.

[Fuyuka makes a face. She's starting to figure this out]

Sir, are you a numbered?

[akhorishaan]

It's totally lint! I... I wear gold lamay sometimes, okay?

[denialll! he's kinda dim but he doesn't wanna be numbered.]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Um... that's a pretty cool trick you're doing with oh my god you're melting you're turning into smoke and melting what the hell?!

[satisfactionbroughtback]

[The dragon-shaped cloud of mist contracts and coalesces, and then - there's a redhead here, rubbing one arm and wincing but apparently still peppy.]

Oh my god! Wow. Okay. So: flying, harder than it looks! Landing, Jesus Christ!

[seed_of_memory]

[she adjusts her flashlight]

Then, pray tell, what is it doing in your ears?

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Oh thank god

[Jasmine sighs with relief]

I thought you'd died like some sort of video game enemy or something!

[akhorishaan]

[He winces at the light.]

-It is? Uh. No, no, I've got earrings, they're cool.

[seed_of_memory]

[Fuyuka sighs]

Sir, please. You don't need to continue this charade. I won't compromise your privacy further, if you would prefer. I am not trying to make this difficult for you.

[satisfactionbroughtback]

What? Oh, yeah, the fog thing. Don't touch that, bad things will happen. Not that I know what they are, but I don't think anyone will like it.

Pretty spooky though, huh? Rawr.

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Yeah, sure. It's just like our momma's tell us, never trust smoke that's red by the way why were you a freaking dragon?

[Jasmine is a bit on edge and may want to get to the point]

[satisfactionbroughtback]

Oh, that? [she laughs as if that was rather funnier than it was.]

It's a Numbered thing! Obviously. I've only done the dragon thing once before. It's a lot of fun.

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Clearly. Still, do you have any idea how many people probably saw you?

[satisfactionbroughtback]

Lots! But c'mon, this place turned into a mountain, and I don't hear sirens. Do you?

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... No, I guess you're right. And this is Las Vegas...

[satisfactionbroughtback]

Yeah. Besides, they saw a dragon, not me. So it's cool!

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Yeah, unless they track its flight to this rooftop...

[beat]

We should probably get off this rooftop...

[satisfactionbroughtback]

That's true!

Well, you're the one who can fly without being all huge. Did you see a way?

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Mmn... [she thinks for a moment] I could... carry us somewhere else?