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Progress City Mods ([personal profile] progressmods) wrote2018-03-03 03:24 am
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progress city test drive #1

TEST DRIVE MEME
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!
keen_gear: (Keen Gear!)

Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard | Darkwing Duck

[personal profile] keen_gear 2018-03-05 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
D.

Keen Gear! She didn't know where that hockey stick just came from, but she was having a great time getting a feel for it... until she saw the shadowy things. She looked for her dad, sure it was some new villian, but didn't see him around. Probably off taking a nap on the People Mover. Alright, not the first time she got herself in the middle of a caper, and besides, if he wasn't there, he couldn't tell her no....

Time for an adventure! Shifting her grip on the hockey stick, she headed towards the direction the creature had gone, ready to pound some bad guys into pulp.

Though she probably wasn't paying as much attention to anything that might be coming up behind her as she should....
derring_do: (05)

[personal profile] derring_do 2018-03-09 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Where there's one shadow creature, there's always more. Or. Well. Usually more, she wasn't going to act like it was a concrete rule, but Della had at least learned to keep it in mind whenever she ran into them.

She hadn't bothered going after the first one (the kid looked like she had it under control, probably, and Della would be really hypocritical if she discouraged her from fighting), but the second one, following along behind the hockey stick, caught her notice. Though, from the looks of things, it didn't catch the kid's attention. Which was perfectly fair, in her mind-- who really had time to look over their shoulder when they're raring for a fight?-- but it still looked like disaster waiting to happen. Better safe than sorry!

"Whoa, hey, look out!"

She took several large paces back from where she was standing before taking off in a sprint and springing into a leap, launching herself feet-first at the monster. Not her best plan of attack, and it certainly wasn't down for the count, but it was enough to distract it from the kid for the moment.

Even if her landing wasn't exactly graceful, Della did manage to roll back out of it without much difficulty, and immediately went about wiping ink off of the bottoms of her feet with a slight frown of disgust. She really hated those things.
keen_gear: (Nothing behind my back)

[personal profile] keen_gear 2018-03-10 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Gos spun, ready to argue that she could take care of herself when she saw that wicked take down. "KEEN GEAR!" She cheered, then following that hype turned and smacked the distracted creature into its buddy with her hockey stick. "She shoots, SHE SCOOOOOOOORES!!!!!!!!"
derring_do: (03)

[personal profile] derring_do 2018-03-14 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Della dusted her hands off, eyeing the couple of downed critters with an impressed look before glancing at Gos. She couldn't say she'd ever tried using a hockey stick as a weapon before, but clearly the kid was pretty efficient with it. Maybe it wasn't lethal right away, but it took them down for the count well enough.

"Good shot! Guessing this isn't your first time taking down goons, huh?"
keen_gear: (Uh well.....)

[personal profile] keen_gear 2018-03-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah! Sometimes the heroes need a little help." Speaking of which, time to find dad. "There might be more of them, so we should probably split up." So she could call up her father without anyone over her shoulder. Besides, she was looking forward to pointing out that she totally kicked butt on some bad guys and someone who would let him know she had help would only make it more likely he was going to ground her and she'd have to waste time sneaking out....