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[ Meme ] August-September Test Drive Meme (TDM)

It's that time again!
→ Comment with a new character you'd like to test out in the game's setting. (put character/canon in subject line pls!)
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→ Tag around with new and old characters.
→ App all those characters
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→ PROFIT!
Holds for current players are here. Current cast list is here. If you're a new player and you'd like to place a 2-week reserve, you can do so here.
Here, have a few helpful scenarios for test-driving. Feel free to ignore them and make your own.
I.
Wherever you were, you aren't any longer. You took a turn, a step, blinked and you're somewhere else entirely. A long dusty road leads from nowhere to an oasis (or a nightmare, depending on your taste) of pink and bright light in the midst of the scrub desert and there's nothing and no one else in sight. If you linger long enough on the road, one of the Inn's residents will find you, but you feel noticeably drawn to come inside.
The pink and gold lobby looks like a bunny puked Easter everywhere, and the guy at the reservation desk looks a sort of silly putty shade of pinkish grey. He knows you by name and has a room reserved for you, but other than offering you fresh towels, that's all he has to say. Chances are, one of the residents will intercept you before you talk to Darryl the shade. They'll give you a guest basket with toiletries and chocolates and whatever else Caroline thinks a newcomer needs, and explain (nicely) that you're stuck here, but hey, it's not so bad. It's pretty safe, anyway. At least... so far.
II.
The red, gold and gaudy pink of the Copper Cafe overflows with residents. It's morning, the one and only time nearly everyone finds themselves in the same space for a short window before going about their day. The scent of fresh coffee laces the air, mingling with the buttery aroma of fresh baked pastry. The shade who serves as a cook, Kahni, awaits any orders that include chicken (chicken, not eggs), and Carlos has staffed one of the residents who can cook to make anything else you'd like. Kitty's pouring drinks -- no reason not to drink bloody maries or mimosas on your permanent holiday. Grab a spot at the counter or take a seat at an empty table, now that you're a resident too, there's no better way to start your day.
III. Network
[ooc: Our network is text-based and magic journal. No computers yet. You see this suspiciously well-painted image appear in your network-journal. Uh-oh. Someone taught Lillith to meme.]

Steve Rogers | MCU
Steve climbed off his motorcycle and started up toward the building. Running on nearly empty, he finally had to stop and ask for directions. He'd been on the road for hours and hours, and found himself completely and entirely lost. It wasn't the first time something like this had happened--and paper maps were an obsolete relic only slightly younger than he was. Natasha had shown him a couple of times how to use the map application on his phone, but he still wasn't used to the thing.
This place looked interesting, and there were plenty of lights on in the windows. A sure sign of life. There must be someone inside who can help him find his way back to the interstate. Steve wasn't sure about things, though, as he headed inside the pink lobby. The concierge knew his name (then again, who didn't?) and insisted that he had a room here in this hotel.
Curiouser and curiouser. Instead of arguing the point, Steve gave a gentle, "thank you" and took the proffered key. Best to avoid conflict. Maybe there was someone else here that could help him figure all of this out. He turned to look around the lobby, wishing that he'd taken up Tony on the offer for more training on the blasted pocket computer.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"Just checking in?" his accent was clearly British, and his entire demeanor, despite his decision to be helpful came off a bit stiff.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"Apparently so." He said, not unkindly. Steve took a couple of steps toward the other man, holding up his key. "They seem to think I am, anyway."
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
He went with option A.
"The much abbreviated version is you're stuck here. We all are, you're not special. No way out, no way home, or not one anyone has shared. I am not the one who decides who is stuck so please don't get angry at me. The food is plentiful, the alcohol more so. And the the rooms make the Lobby look positively sedate so I hope you like color."
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"Hello. Do you need some help?"
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"I'm a bit confused as to what just happened." How had the clerk known his name? It was as if he was expected here, though he hadn't even known himself that he was coming this way.
Heck, Steve still wasn't quite sure where he was.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Juliana motioned toward the hotel key card in his hand, "you use that to get into your room." Her smile turned wry, "that was hard for me to get used to, I only knew how to use a normal door key." She paused a beat, "do you know how to use one?"
Juliana was from 1962, Nazi and Japanese occupied America.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
She leaned over the desk and craned her head to get a look at the paperwork still in front of the desk clerk. "Steve?"
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"Hello, Caroline. Yes, Steve Rogers. But I'm not sure how the clerk got my name. I was lost, and stopped in for directions back to the interstate."
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
So that was why a barefoot young woman was sitting in the lobby tuning a guitar, hands moving with practiced ease over pegs and frets and strings. She had six fingers on each hand, but unlike many with extra digits, her extra set of pinkies were just as functional as the rest.
Curnen looked up from what she was doing at the familiar sounds of Darryl welcoming a new guest. "You look a little lost," she said, her drawl clearly southern. Tennessee, if you had an ear for it.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"I'd just pulled over to get directions. Somehow they knew I was coming."
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
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Steve Rogers | Nick
Now he was leaning against a pillar casually, arms crossed as if he knew exactly where he was, what he was doing, and like he expected Steve to show up.
Re: Steve Rogers | Nick
"Back home?" He repeated after the one-eyed man, his own eyebrows rose gently at the words. "What does that mean?"
Re: Steve Rogers | Nick
"Sorry, Cap, but we're not in Kansas anymore." It almost came out sounding like his 'need to know' voice, but he thought better of it at the last moment. "Turns out aliens and robots and all the shit we deal with back home isn't where the crazy ends. There's also alternate realities and worlds like this one." He held his hands out on both sides, gesturing. In truth, he already knew about some of it - he was familiar with the Quantum realm.
"Somehow you've managed to go from wherever you were to this overly-pink oasis people are calling the Madonna Inn."
Re: Steve Rogers | Nick
Re: Steve Rogers | Nick
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Usually the lobby didn't see much excitement, and the sounds chit chat were enough to draw him from his cat nap. Blinking back to the land of the living, Tony's dark eyes were drawn to a tall, blurry stranger in the center of the lobby. Even in his barely-awake mind, he could tell from the body language alone that this person was lost. Poor bastard.
"Hope your room's better than mine." Tony offered some lazy sympathy, rubbing his eyes.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"Tony?" He asked, taking a tentative step toward his friend and fellow Avenger. "What are you doing here?"
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
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Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Arms crossed his chest, and Steve's stance moved almost subconsciously to one of preparation: feet shoulder-width apart. "Loki." He paused, cocking his head slightly to the side. "...you're outnumbered, are you?"
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
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Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
Even still, when Steve Rogers appeared in the lobby on her check-in day morning shift, you could have knocked her over with a feather. Not because he was an Avenger, or Captain America, or even because she'd known at least ten mutants with killer crushes on the man (she hadn't been one of them, because as Yana pointed out daily, she had terrible taste in men). But because she hadn't been obsessed with him or even been particularly interested, but here he was and it was like...
Well, it was like being around Jean. He took up the oxygen in a room--and returned it somehow clearer for his quiet presence. Maybe that was why she let him talk to Darryl first and waited for the coffee to finish brewing so she could pour him a cup before meeting him in the lobby. And because she'd been around Jean, and Warren, she didn't greet him with his name and knowing all about him.
She simply held out the coffee cup and said, "Hi. I'm Kitty. You look like you might want a cup of coffee with your questions."
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"I really just wanted to get some directions back to the interstate. I didn't realize this was going to be a big ordeal. And somehow the clerk knows who I am?" He hadn't really meant it as a question, but it ended up as one.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
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"Buck?" The word came out more like a wish than a greeting. Steve wanted nothing more than to wrap his old friend in a huge, bear-hug. But this wasn't the Bucky he remembered from seventy years ago. Steve didn't want to hurt or terrify his friend by moving too quickly.
"Is that really you?"
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Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"This place has that effect. Either from the decor, from your arrival somehow being expected, or both. For me it was both," she said, a shy smile on her face as she didn't quite meet his eyes.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU
"About that expected arrival... did they do the same thing for you?" Steve asked, turning to look at the woman. Who wasn't looking at him. He cocked his head to the side. He wondered if he was intimidating her, or if she was shy. He'd dealt with his fair share of shy fans in his tour days, so he knew not to push it.
Re: Steve Rogers | MCU