TEST DRIVE MEME: Good weather?

[theearth]

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.

Comments

[freeasabook]

[because I have this NEED to play pigeons, you don't even know. Fujishiro Nageki's an uplifted pigeon who died and haunted a school library. If I took him to the game - I probably won't - he'd start as a bird.]

[so there's a mourning dove in the park. Normal enough... only, it appears to be reading the discarded newspaper it's standing on. Or just focusing on it weirdly... oh, no, wait, there's a flurry of activity as it tries to turn a page rather larger than it.]

[satisfactionbroughtback]

[Lleld Kemberaene is a very little weredragon. Here she is Elaine Kendall, and has Laron-type dwarfism - four feet tall, on the chubby side, resistant to aging. She's older than she looks, though she won't say how old. Thinking about a public echo. Her kind of weredragon appears totally human until they get a moment of unbearable claustrophobia, race out into an open space, and turn into dragons for the first time.]

BBQ!!! ignore the icons, I haven't found a good PB yet

[corpseking]

[Shiro Nakamura moved here just a year ago from San Francisco to attend culinary arts school in Locke City. He's 22 and almost six feet tall. The most interesting thing about him is probably that he's albino; his hair is perfectly white, his skin is ivory, and his eyes (currently hidden by some stylin' wrap-around sunglasses) are purpley-red. No pigment means he has to be careful, though, and so he's wearing a broad cowboy hat and every inch of uncovered skin is slathered in sunscreen.

But he can't help it. He just loves the sunshine after such a long, cold winter! When he'd seen the notice about an open barbecue on one of the many pinboards at the school, he'd made plans to go right away to enjoy some cooking, food, and sunshine. Maybe it would help him get his mind off the weird dreams that he kept having. Ever since a strong rainstorm a week or two ago, every night he'd dreamt of drowning in a flooded city. It... wasn't pleasant.

But what WAS pleasant was trying out his new recipe for barbecue sauce on a delicious rack of baby-back ribs! Oh, and maybe a dry-rub, too. Fresh herbs and spices right from his little indoor garden. He seems to be having plenty of fun, humming to himself as he modifies his sauce]

[peckish4action]

[Dick Grayson is circus acrobat turned vigilante... Rick Graystock, here? Rich boy, orphaned, and a gymnast.]

[And very curious and socially aware. Yes. Especially curious.]

[wombed]

[In canon Jack here is literally Jack the Ripper and a 'Heroic Spirit' summoned to fight in a war over the Holy Grail. Her official class is Assassin and she's all sorts of scary powerful. And eats hearts.

Reincarnated she's an orphaned child forced out on the streets by her prostitute mother, who, with her first echo, has gotten back her silver-white hair and is currently rummaging around in a trash can that's a little too big for her.

Her weight on it, however slight, causes it to fall with a crash and after taking a moment to recover she crouches down over its spilled contents with a deeply concentrated expression.

There may or may not be a knife held tightly in her fist.

(spoiler: there is)]

[notbloodylikely]

[In his past life, Feda Gandamak was basically a Kung-Fu Wizard that was part of a group of heroes that reintroduced magic to the world after 3000 years, then saved the world from the evil organization that aimed to conquer it. A loud, boisterous guy who flirts with all females whether he's into them or not. Although throughout his life he calms down and eventually becomes quite a balanced man. He tries a little too hard to be cool...and is so badly educated he can't do long division.

Feda Hosseini, on the other hand, is just a jock and a star of the Locke High football team, thanks to being a really big kid. Much more relaxed and a fairly chilled out guy in most respects, he's very easy to get along with. Still a flirt, but not by impulse. Despite icons, he has pure black hair usually tied back.]


Pool-Getting Used to a New Echo

[Feda had always had a neutral opinion of swimming, but his latest Echo had given him an affinity for water that was making the experience way, way better. It wasn't quite super human, but it was certainly impressive to see him shooting up and down in lengths, circling other swimmers and generally being as at home as a fish.]

The Park-surprise me

[Health had always been important to Feda. He was far from stupid, but knew his intellect was nothing special. But he could make a career out of his sort of physique.

So jogging all around the park was a regular thing for him and he was hoping it would take his mind off the bizarre new side to his life. Except instead of allowing him to forget it for a little while, he instead spotted someone he recognised from the network. Pausing, he spent a moment deliberating if he should speak to them before deciding 'why not' and just sidling on up.]

Hey. Small world, huh?

[reapsthewind]

[Chris smells food. Meat food. Food. Chris is engineering student. Food.

So hey have a woman in a black leather jacket with big sunglasses approaching. She kinda hangs back, like, is it okay to be like HEY THAT FOOD SMELLS GREAT or whatever? WHO KNOWS.]

[corpseking]

[Hey now, everyone loves food. And this batch of ribs is almost done. Shiro turns to grab his bowl of barbecue sauce for a last minute slathering and spots a (rather attractive) lady watching him grill. He laughs a little and raises his brows]

I'm not gonna bite ya, you know. The wet-rub ribs are almost done, if that's what you're interested in!

[reapsthewind]

...

I haven't eaten anything but microwave meals, takeout, and instant noodles for like

...

[counting on her fingers]

Oh just fuck it the answer is yes that smells fucking awesome.

[sunhunter]

[The jogger in question is Reina Santiago-Enders, a woman on the police force with a four year old son. The son is, in fact, in a stroller being pushed ahead of her as she runs. Arm work-out, bro, right there.

She looks sidelong at Feda with what might have been annoyance, and might have been resignation. It's resignation that comes out in her voice. She hasn't been the most friendly of people on the network-- or, in fact, on it all that often.]

We do all live in the same city. Bound to happen.

[In her past life, she was a hunter, with a telekinetic power and the endless lifespan of an elf stranded on the world of Two Moons. Plus, she was male. That part hasn't been revealed to her yet, and she's still quite comfortable being female and married, thank you very much.]

[visionarykitten]

((please forgive the lack of icons. I have not made them yet as he is a brand new muse ^^' ))

[The crash sends one of the other local dumpster-divers bolting across the alley, hissing and fluffing up angrily at being disturbed. He hadn't been in that trash can in particular, but the one right next to it, which also went rolling with the topple.

He's a pretty ordinary-looking alley cat: dirty white with patches of black here and there, bright green eyes, leggy and only half-grown, if that. In his own world and time, he's a wizard and a seer. Here, he only just understands the speech of humans and, if he's lucky, manage to speak a little of it... not particularly spectacular.]

[corpseking]

Oh honey. That is unacceptable. C'mere.

[he gestures with his empty hand, then picks up his basting brush and goes back to his ribs]

I try and eat at least one good meal every day! Of course, when you're at cookin' school, it's a little easier.

[there's a few other folks milling around, but there's plenty of room for Christ to get close and up in line]

[reapsthewind]

Yeah, I'm an engineer. Don't sleep, don't eat, just code code code. Y'know.

[she grabs a plate and is just like... yes. food. yes.]

And you sir are one hell of a chef. If this tastes half as good as it smells...

[corpseking]

[he smiles, a smile for her, but he's watching the ribs on the grill like a hawk. The sauce was caramelizing beautifully... he pokes at the meat with a large fork, then pulls a meat thermometer out of the little tool belt around his waist and jams it into the meat] Oh I hear ya. If cooking weren't, like, my whole thing, I'd probably be the same way. [he turns and gives her the grin directly, now] Not a chef yet! I have another year or two! But it does smell pretty fantastic, right? I made the sauce myself.

[he taps the thermometer, and he seems pleased with the temperature. He removes it and then moves the rack o' ribs to a platter nearby] Give it a few minutes to rest!

[wombed]

((OOC: It's fine!))

[Jack straightened immediately, fingers clutching desperately to the knife in case she had to defend herself.

But no, it was only a cat. Jak sighed and stared at the cat a moment, before crouching down and holding out her hand]

Won't hurt. C'mere kitty... [She sets the knife down in case it frightens the cat more. The idea of diseases doesn't even cross her mind.]

i'll ignore yours if you'll ignore the fact that mine are all 1832 and most are sucky

[sceptique]

[Renaud is an art student, all right, and between being dragged to protests and having to finish up his latest project he hasn't really had a good meal in. Um. Weeks.]

Any chance they'll be done soon?

[reapsthewind]

Oh that's gonna be hard...

[so hungry...]

Right, uh, I'm Chris, by the way.

PERFECTLY FINE actually I have no idea where I'll find an albino with glasses PB

[corpseking]

[geez what is it with all these fellow students who can't be bothered to eat? He weeps for you.

He's working on the dry rub ribs, now, the wet ones having come and almost gone (and wow they were good). These are getting a more smoky approach]

These need another 45 minutes or so, sorry, man. I think there's some of the other ribs left right here, though... ah! [he grabs the remaining ribs off of the platter and puts them on a plate] Here.

[corpseking]

We'll talk until they're ready, then. I'm Shiro. [he washes his hands quickly at the mobile sink, then extends a hand to her] So you said yer an engineering student? You over at the university?

[as_reckless_as_ever]

[In Suzaku Kururugi's past life... uh... its very, very complicated. Let's just say he was a knight who piloted a mech and leave it at that. Also, he was a freakishly awesome martial artist. And might be gay.

As Kojima Midorikawa (he goes by "Kyle" to blend in better in america), he's a bit of a dork, is fond of video games and manga, but possesses only normal human physical skills. He's also an orphan, recently moved here from Japan on a student visa, and is living on his own while he works his way through school where he is a freshman at the University. And, yes, he speaks english.]

[PROMPT A - Ice Cream Parlor

Because, why not? Its a nice day, so after class he decides to stop off to get a milkshake. While he's enjoying it at one of the tables, he's also taking in a few rounds on that Hot Newly Released Game™ on that Really Popular Portable Gaming System™. Perhaps that's piqued your interest?]



[PROMPT B - Inexplicable Echo

When the Echo hits, he's left feeling hollow, somehow, strange an empty. The feeling passes soon enough, but its confusing and disorienting. It distracts him enough that as he starts to cross the street, he doesn't notice the oncoming car. By the time he hears th horn, its almost too late, but using reflexes he didn't have up until a few seconds ago, he jumps up out of the way...

...though that now leaves him hanging from the traffic light.

He might need a hand.]

[visionarykitten]

[Yeah, he knows those words. A lot of the time they come with someone who does want to hurt him. The cat eyes her, ears half-back and eyes wide, and makes another attempt at actually talking.

It comes out half in "cat" and half understandable.]

Aurrouioh do I know h'rauiiaoua trust h'rrii?

[The Speech, the way a wizard in his world speaks to other species, is still coming in fits and starts to him... makes communication tricky, sometimes.]

[notbloodylikely]

Yeah, but one of the biggest cities in America.

[Stepping up his pace a bit, he moves ahead a little to take a look into the stroller, giving said son a wave and a smile before falling back into step beside her.]

I dunno. Maybe we're drawn to each other. I bump into one of us every couple of days.

[misgives]

[ What on earth is a girl that little doing out on the streets like this? Ayden frowns. Normally he doesn't like approaching other homeless people, but she's just a little girl. And it looks like she almost crushed herself with that big trash can, and there can't be very much good in there to eat. Ayden still has half a burger he salvaged out of a dumpster behind a restaurant. It's wrapped in paper in the pocket of his coat.

He was planning on saving it for later, but...

He moves a little closer, crouching down so that he's eye-level with her. ]

Hey.

That's not how you do it.

Here.

[ He sets the wrapped burger down on the ground and nudges it in her direction. ]

[partyrok]

[Did someone say free food? Loki is a mooch no matter what body he's in; therefore, Lucy is all over that.]

Mmm, that smells delicious.

[If she flatters you enough, will you give her some?]

Prompt B!

[partyrok]

[Lucy stares up at the weird guy from the safety of the sidewalk.]

The hell are you doing up there?