saveyourbrain | TEST DRIVE MEME: Good weather?

IT'S SPRING
I almost literally can't believe it isn't snowing right now just to piss me off.

How it Works
Due to the nature of Save the Earth, it's a more complicated process to play in than most other games. With this in mind, it can't hurt to experiment a little.

Post your character and in the comment share a few details regarding their reincarnation. Repeat if you have multiple ideas you want to try out, as many as you like. It's also suggested that you set a scene and there's a few prompts below to help there, but think outside the box if you like. Then tag around to other threads and help your fellow prospective players to test out their characters and the variations on them. Don't be afraid to presume a little CR to make a scene flow more freely, or to assume an Echo or two. If you have an app, complete or in progress, you might want to link it.

Current players may also use these meme to test out specific future Echoes, or as a general meme. Certain scenarios may even be transferred to game canon if both parties agree and it does not conflict with in game events.

Prompt 1: Location

The Park
The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip whatever go to the park.
Ice Cream Parlour
Don't lie, this is the first place you want to go the moment the sun even half appears.
The Pool
That, or here.
At Home
Because naturally when it's a nice day you want to cower inside.
Barbecue Party
Abandoning all paranoia, everyone has turned up at a barbecue. It's the wildest party imaginable.
Beach
Apparently Locke City has one. I bet it's nice.
Country Hike
All that nature out there can be visited too.
The Street
Oh man, this is the worst location prompt ever. I apologise.

Prompt 2: Event
Suddenly, Rain
And here's you in just a white shirt and short shorts.
A Public Echo
One of those places up there triggers an inexplicable Echo. Are you going to have to grab a hat to hide those new horns? Maybe it's even your first.
A Date
I hear nice weather gets people in the mood for romance. I'm against it, personally.
Here on Business
Mysterious goings on have been detected in the area and it's your job to check them out. Some suggested shenanigans could include plants that try to eat people, a red herring new statue or maybe this thing popping out from behind a bush to play a saxophone in an irritating manner. Go nuts.
Getting Used to a New Echo
Maybe this one is a pain in the butt, either if because it's noticeable or hard to control. Or maybe you just like to practice.
Everything is Normal
Things aren't bizarre 24/7, you know.
Alien Invasion
The Martians* are attacking! They want our brains/world/women/hot dogs. Take these freaks out... or cower in terror.

*Martians are not actual Save the Earth villains.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"I will admit, I think they've seen better days." She laughs and shrugs, "Honestly you don't have to. I'll get a small scoop and some more napkins and we shall be exactly as we were."

"Okay," says the man. "Sure. I can go for that." He looks around. "Man, I don't think this place was here last time I spent much time in Locke City."

She settles herself back in line and nods over her shoulder, "It only opened up last year. You should have seen the line the first day it opened. I waited for half a hour but it's quite simply the best ice cream on this side of the city. Or at least they have the best strawberry."

She waves her hand at him, "So what brings you here?"

"My ma," he says. "She's getting kind of old--well, I'm no spring chicken myself. Anyway, I got a call last week--I was up in New York helping with Occupy Sandy--from the hospital here saying she broke her hip when she tripped on the steps to her building. So I came to take care of her."

"Oh I'm sorry. That's a terrible reason to have to go anywhere." Her sympathetic noise might have been lost in the commotion around the register as she finally got a new cup of ice cream. A quick bite to confirm it's deliciousness and she stepped back out of the way.

"Where does she live? I have some family south of the Dead District that would more than willing to help you out." It's outing her as from a poor family but at some point she had to stop caring about her background and just let it be.

The man names a building inside Locke City's Japantown area--odd, he doesn't look Japanese, though he doesn't look white either, perhaps Indian if anything--which is known if anything for being rather solidly middle class. He doesn't seem perturbed by Leola's poor roots, though.

"Oh hey," he says. "I never gave you my name. It's Nemo. Nemo Vargas."

"Ah, a little outside my range." She feels a little guilty now, honestly. It's defintely not close to home and she just met this man, she really doesn't owe him anything besides the apology she's already given. Yet, it's hard to just ignore things.

"Oh, nice to meet you Nemo. Hah I always forget to ask names, I just get caught up in conversation. Leola Davis. I teach at a nearby school. Well not right now of course."

"Oh? What grade?" Nemo's almost done with his own ice cream by now, despite it having been a large one to begin with. "And don't worry, some of the neighbors have been helping too."

"Middle School so mostly 7th and 8th. Beautiful kids, if a challenge. I teach English." She laughs and waves a spoonful of ice cream before popping it in her mouth, then mumbles around the spoon, "And s'metimes Creative w'iting."

"Groovy," Nemo says without any irony whatsoever, thereby dating himself horribly. "Do you write yourself, or just teach it?"

She just grins, only a bit dated. He has to be twice her age just based on that alone, but she doesn't mind. He's interesting.

"I don't get to write much during the year but I journal and things? Ha, it's not...I don't really write professionally or anything like that."

He grins back. "I play guitar. Also, not professionally. It's all covers, anyway, I've never been able to compose my own stuff. So if you can write anything original, you've got that up on me."

"Nothing to brag about in my end. A few short stories. My students have more imagination than me some days."

"I bet it's great," Nemo says. Even though he's finished his ice cream he's in no hurry to leave the shop.

"Aren't you sweet." She laughs, shaking her head, "But I do try. I just think I can do much better. It's not putting myself down...Just feeling like if I had the right thing to write about, I could do so much more." She had finished her ice cream at this point, wistfully swirling her spoon in the melted bits. Maybe she was saying too much. What did it matter to this older guy?

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i finally figured out his last name

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