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testdrive meme.

1. First Day At Falner
You have just arrived at Falner Estate, a sprawling, beautiful, 400-hectare co-located space between Britain, Germany, and the Philippines, and the main base of Netsach. The flora and fauna in the area gives both a sense of familiarity as it looks at first glance like things you’ll find on Earth, and a weird sense of otherworldliness. Given the size of the place, the Estate is less of a compound and more like a town unto itself. The older buildings within the estate are gothic in their construction, and clear throwbacks to 19th Century Europe. The newer facilities, however, sport cutting edge contemporary designs that were clearly inspired by Fourth World architecture and technology.

If you want a better idea on what can be found on the estate, you can refer to this link.


2. A Day On The Job
You are pushing papers at Methuselah, doing research at the Arcanum, or going out on patrol -- whatever it is that you're doing, it's just another day for you as a Hunter of the Vigil.


3. Let's Head Down to Haven
Find yourself itching for a night out on the town? Why not head over to Haven, the classy nightclub that looks like a large, monolithic black building with no visible windows from the outside and the name of the club emblazoned in bold, white letters on one side.

Haven is located in Makati City, and is open to the public (especially the local supernatural community), but you might want to prepare yourself to wait in line for a very, very long time – unless you’re a Hunter, of course.

Falner’s Maenad Division holds office on top of Haven, as does Ordo Daywalker. Some of Haven’s staff also live above the night club.


4. The Awakening
Want to tag out your character's origin story? Set the stage and let's see where things go.


5. Choose Your Own Adventure
If none of the suggested premises hit the mark, feel free to set things up and let's do a tag round.


Instructions for the Testdrive:
1. Specify your chosen scenario number on the subject line.
2. Should you wish to tag with a specific character already established within Waking the Dead, indicate who. The current list of available NPCs can be found over here.

Comments

[flusse]

[ She did not ask for help.

Did she ask for help? Nope. Not at all, not even by mistake. Asking for help would mean she wants to do this, right here, right now.

Too late though. ]

It's just a bunch of crap some guy wrote about another guy about... [ She reads the one file on her hand. ] ...how a vampire got stuck by the fangs when he tried to bite a wood based Promethean.

[ ... ]

What the fuck.

[interceptive]

[ Chuckling at that. ]

That's kind of funny! I can just imagine a fanger renegade all "Hrrrk hrrk m'schtuck!"

[ ...Segan, wait, This is a stranger. Looking suitably sheepish now. ]

Oh. Um.

[ D e r p ]

Sorry. Here.

[ Aaaaaaand getting back to helping now. ]

[flusse]

[ Max smirked.

Might have looked like she had a stroke for a moment, but noooo that was a smirk. It's gone now though. ]

I guess this is the crazy ass shit batch. If you can discover the order, I'll buy you a drink, or whatever you pass for proper payment.

[ She has (some) honor, this one. ]

[interceptive]

Oh, it's okay. You don't need to buy me anything.

[ Filing, filing, filing. You'll notice, after you've parted ways or maybe sooner if you check, that she grasped the logic of all of that pretty quickly and arranged them exactly how they should have been arranged. ]

I'm Segan, by the way. Segan Brooke.

[ Also clearly a student at Balamb. Dragon pins. ]

[flusse]

Might as well find an excuse to do something.

[ Because playing paper girl is ruining her mood.

Good thing she didn't grasp the logic right there because Segan might have found herself alone with a stack of papers. ]

Max. Max Fl-Rivers.

[ It does mean the same thing in German, so give her a rest. Also her own uniform has suffered all the possible mutilations and alterations it might physically stand. ]

[interceptive]

Nice to meet you, Max.

[ Because it is the right thing to say... right? When you meet new people and stuff. Like. People. Not weres. Not machines.

Anyway. ]

You're studying here too, huh?

[flusse]

Yeah, this is a lovely pile of paper to meet people over.

[ Which means: Nice to meet you too, Segan. ]

That seems to be the general assumption, so I'm just going with it until they realize this is so not my jam.

[interceptive]

[Blinks.]

Well, if it's not your thing, then who's forcing you to go?

[Because she gets not liking your own situation. She can't relate to not wanting to go to Balamb (it is kind of really her biggest dream in the whole wide Fifth World), but she can definitely relate to being forced to do something you didn't like.

[flusse]

[ She waves her right hand, ring ever in its place. ]

Just the entire fucking Rivers family.

[ This is not true; only a handful of them are somewhat interested on seeing her at least train enough to make sure her lineage carries on, what with being the last one around. ]

And I've got nowhere else to go, so. Might as well stick around for as long as I'm allowed to.

[ She's always been scum, and scum doesn't last too long anywhere. Of this she's completely convinced. ]

[interceptive]

Well, I guess there's that.

[ Trying for a bit of a smile now. ]

Who knows, though? Balamb's pretty nice compared to other places where you could be learning more about yourself.

[ And she's speaking from experience there. ]

[flusse]

Yeah I mean-

[ WHY MUST YOU APPEAL TO LOGIC, SIEG!?!? ]

Yeah. It's not bad, I know bad and this isn't it. This is more like where people like me try to take everything not bolted to the floor and run back to, well, bad.

The whole Rivers thing is way too complicated for me anyway.

[interceptive]

[ SORRY NOT SORRY, LOGIC IS KIND OF HER THING.

Only no if she knew this was making you uncomfortable, she would actually be sorry. But socials? Not her strongest suit. Nope. ]

I can imagine it would be. I've done some reading on Rivers.

[ 'Some'. Sure, Segan Brooke. Just 'some'. ]

[flusse]

You have?

[ You see that smile, Segan? Nothing good ever comes from that smile. ]

Don't you wanna give me a hand? I bet you make the best summaries ever.

[ Run Segan! Before it's too late. ]

[interceptive]

[ Blink, blink. ]

Oh, everything I've read is already up on Balamb's databases, or in the Arcanum. It shouldn't take any effort at all to find it yourself.

[ #innocent ]

[flusse]

Eh, no. I'm sure effort would be involved.

[ Don't play a player, Segan. ]

I mean, if you don't want to help me, I get it. Could've been fun...

[ And then she looks a bit hurt. Or does she? ]

[interceptive]

[ Have a sheepish smile, but her eyes are quiet. ]

Sorry. I'm kind of really busy with my stuff for ASC. Besides, effort is what students of Balamb should be all about, right?

[ If you don't work, you don't get anywhere. What was that Zack said? "Don't be an empty can." ]

[flusse]

[ Oh, effort. That thing. ]

Well. Whatever.

[ No sense on pursuing that venue anymore. Out of her hair, out of her mind. ]

So, me: Rivers. You?

[interceptive]

Technomancer.

[ Standing up now, and handing what she's managed to gather together to Max. She's... not sure what to make of this one now. The uniform thing, she could ignore, but.

Hmm. ]

[flusse]

[ Technomancer. Okay.

Max checks the files, although there's no real interest in her doing so. As long as it looks in order she couldn't care less. ]

Segan Brooke, Technomancer. [ She's committing that name to memory. ]

Are you busy right now?

[interceptive]

[ Making a mental check of her schedule, because Segan be Organized like that. ]

Not for the next fifteen minutes, give or take. [ A shrug. Yeah, she was specific back there because she's the dork who schedules her day in fifteen minute increments. ] Why?

[flusse]

[ Max stands up and hands her over a little under half of the files. ]

I already dropped this shit once. Plus, I have no idea of where these go. The archive should be somewhere in this floor, but this mansion is ridiculous.

[ Plus maybe she enjoys her company. Or doesn't hate it. It's something. ]

[interceptive]

[ Chuckling. ]

Yeah, it's three times bigger than the city hall down in my town. [ Turning away with a cant of her head. ] I'll show you where the Arcanum is.

[ That, she's willing to help with. ]

[flusse]

Where're you from?

[ Considering everyone speaks English, that doesn't tell her anything. ]

Lead the way.

[interceptive]

Redtree, Alberta.

[ "No One Cares-ville", was what some of her lovely former classmates used to call it.

Things will probably be different now. ]

[flusse]

Alberta...

[ Loading, please wait. ]

Canada?