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progressmods) wrote2018-03-03 03:24 am
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progress city test drive #1
| Here You Leave Today And Enter The World Of Yesterday, Tomorrow And Fantasy. Welcome to Progress City's first official test drive meme! This game is a panfandom jamjar set in a flux dimension inspired by Disney Theme Parks (particularly Walt Disney World in Florida) and the original concept for EPCOT (a city that would connect to the theme parks). Whether you're looking to join us or are just here to play around for a little bit, we have a few prompts below for you - but you're also free to come up with your own! | |||
| Prompt A Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, you find a vintage-looking ticket. The next time you blink or close your eyes for any reason, you open them and find yourself somewhere else - Progress City's Ticket and Transportation Center. You have no idea how you got here, and definitely don't know how you got this weird thing on your wrist... You'll learn, eventually, that Progress City and it's world-class themeparks are a popular tourist dimension across this universe. People can get in here very easily, but for some reason, that unremovable band on your wrist isn't allowing you to use their transporters to get home. To compensate, you'll be offered a job in the parks and free housing for the duration of your stay. Is that something you're willing to take? | |||
| Prompt B While you're here, you might as well spend some time around the theme parks in your downtime. It's easy enough to get to them - the city offers free 24/7 monorail and peoplemover transportation to each park, and you also get a free annual pass for yourself with your stay (lucky you)! If you're at all familiar with Walt Disney World, these four parks will seem...remarkably familiar to you. But there's little subtle differences here and there that that make this seem different - and the ones in charge will seem confused by the concept of a "Walt Disney World". Must be a thing about different dimensions. Nevertheless, you're still going to have the occasional bit of free time here, so there's plenty to see and do here across all four areas. Go ride some rides and eat some Dole Whip, you crazy kids. | |||
| Prompt C With the housing, you also get offered a job by Progress City's mayor. Maybe you decide to take it, maybe you don't, he's not gonna kick you out of your apartment unless you deserve it. But this poses a good way to get some actual money. You'll be matched to a job around the resort - hopefully one you enjoy. You could end up working in the parks as a ride operator, serving food, managing a shop, working security, or ending up as a pool lifeguard. There are a number of possibilities here, and you can always change your job later on if you find one that may suit you more. | |||
| Prompt D Over time, the thing on your wrist changes. Namely, it'll start taking on new colors, designs and occasionally icons that reflect your character's personality and appearance. You'll find that by concentrating you'll be able to utilize your band to... cast magic spells, of all things. These also seem tailored to your character - summoning weapons, creating projectiles, putting foes to sleep? It seems that no two bands are alike when it comes to this. ...Occasionally, you'll spot one or two small ink blot-like creatures scurrying about the city or the parks, creating an inky mess and leaving a small amount of chaos in it's wake. Those don't seem advertised. Perhaps they'd be good to try out your new abilities on, or maybe you'd prefer to practice a little bit first. | |||
| Wildcard As always, feel free to come up with your own scenario if none of these inspire you! | |||
Daria Morgendorffer | Daria | Forestcovered CRAU
[She was back at school. She was doing her paper. Life was good. Or okay. Tolerable. Good. It was good.
She was going to class.
She walked through the door.
Only to be here. Daria stared into the distance, staring at her ticket and her wristband simultaneously. She clicked her tongue, slowly blinking.]
...Great.
[There went her normal life. Again.]
Here we go again.
B.
[Admitting defeat to her situation, she wandered around the park on her own. Her expression was as blank and bored as ever. Which was probably a major contrast to all of the smiling faces around. She wasn't miserable, more like a very tired veteran and sick of it. She would be waiting in line for one of the coasters, same expression. About to ride a ride, same expression. Hopefully if she killed some time having "fun", she'll get back to school.
Unless if you happen to catch her in the food line, looking at the high prices. Out of nowhere, she'd just say-]
For an arm and a leg, you can get a piece of meat the size of it. Seems fair.
C.
[There was a bored looking girl in front of the line, awaiting to take the tickets to a haunted mansion ride to all ride goers. But there was something else going on. The people seemed to be listening intently. A story was being told. Someone was speaking.]
-no man was none the wiser. After all, who would believe such a pretty face like that? She was never punished, and just got richer from every man she married.
[Spooky stories about ghost lore? Maybe her job, for now, wasn't bad. Maybe.]
D: Wildcard!!!
B
[Cooper is. In awe of these things.]
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[Ah, here was hers. All ready for her to nab...it's bigger than her dang head.]
But I wouldn't be surprised if people said they used emu.
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[He looks at the thing in absolute childlike awe - the expression perfectly matches the tacky lanyard of Disney pins he has on.]
There are FDA laws in place to prevent those false pretenses. Though, I suppose they wouldn’t apply here.
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[A bite. Sure does taste like a day's worth of sodium and that's good for her.]
Also, who said the Happiest Place on Earth, trademark, can't have a few conspiracy theories?
[Another bite. One, small, deadpan expression bite.]
Better get one of these before they sell out.
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[He’s not...super interested in the way it tastes, but dear God, the size of it.]
Thank you for your advice, but I should be satisfied for the moment. I had a cinnamon roll about the size of my body from the tavern this morning. It contrasted nicely with my morning coffee.
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[Note to self; investigate that later. Calories meant nothing to her skinny body, for now. It's not like she ate much to begin with. She'd splurge sometimes, enough to freak Quinn out. She was smart enough to know she was at her limit when she was. In fact, she lowered her drumstick...kind of not really eating it TOO fast.]
By the time I digest this in August, I'll probably tear into one of those.
C! what the heck, as long as i'm logged in
[ Who put a lion in a weird butler uniform. ]
Now, everyone! If you'd kindly step in, your host will greet you now! Kindly step in, and fill in aaaaaaall that dead space.
[ He's alarmingly good at the schtick. As the queue shuffles into the mansion, he turns to Daria. ] Remember what the host says; don't frighten them prematurely.
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Yet, that's why they come to this ride.
[A beat.]
The tourists eat up all of the lore. If I'm going to be here, I might as well supply.
[Nothing really to it how she said it. Not even so much cynical, just a straight up explanation.]
A!
'Again'? Oh man, don't tell me you were stuck in a horrible, year-long blood ritual where you were locked in a room with twenty people and forced to kill each other, too!?
[She doesn't remember this chick from her endgame DON'T TELL HER MORE OF THEM HAPPENED]
GG star
Mm, can't say I was. I'll never know the true answer.
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Buuuut you've been someplace else before, right?
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[NO TRUST.]
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[She was being very calm. On purpose. She turned her head a bit, still very much keeping a personal distance. She had no idea who this kid was, and if Koriko taught her anything (which was a lot); you don't know where these guys came from. She was still a very cautious person, after all.]
So should we all panic and lose our heads instead?
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I came from a place in which you could be turned into dinner for a bad customer review. It doesn't help anyone to assume rules are the same no matter what new place you're stuck in.
[A beat.]
I'm saving my nervous breakdown for later. Until I know if those blood rituals you mentioned even exist.
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Of course they're real! I was in one! I died and everything!
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Daria literally used all of her sheer willpower to stick around at this point. Only to maybe, at the very least, clear the air. Maybe, if she gently asked a few questions, she might actually get some answers. Seeing that this girl has been through some kind of hell. Was it this hell? Daria had to make sure. She's just going to be so calm, despite hearing the news of "death". Someone's really been through the rodeo.]
Do you know for sure that this is the same place? You just said you were in a room. Also dead. Now you suddenly aren't.