progress city test drive #1

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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!

Comments

[spazzed]

( aha. gurl. if you want to get something free off of this idiot there are uh. so many other ways to do it — like just. being nice to him. because sometimes he second-guesses himself so badly that all it takes is a pat on the head to get him to —

anyway.

generally speaking, eye contact is something he can manage without any measure of trouble, but. yeah, uh. he's pretty sure that is not how you're supposed to eat a churro. never mind that — ) I'm preeetty sure I could get fired for giving stuff away. Even to a pretty girl. ( god he is so trying to not be awkward. this is just an awkward situation.

did you say dare? this boy has never turned down a dare in his life.

even if none of those dares had included anything like this. )

[slapdown]

[It's worth nothing that Naoka's negotiation tactics are often poorly thought out – or not thought out at all. Still, even if she ends up paying for the thing, it's worth more to her to learn a bit about what Lance is about. They are going to be coworkers, after all, and it looks like they're around the same age. She's curious.

So yeah the awkwardness is by design, and it's totally on her. She spins the churro so that she can lick off the sugar and cinnamon all the way around. Then she points it at him.]

I wonder if you could get fired for flirting on the job, too. Not that I'd rat you out or anything. Since we're going to be working together, obviously we should look out for each other

[spazzed]

( this kid is pretty much what-you-see-is-what-you-get — until you've stuck around long enough to figure out that most of that bravado is all for show, but that's neither here nor there — and he almost visibly deflates with relief when she doesn't push the issue of a free sample, feeling a little more in his element than, say, thirty seconds previously.

he blinks, though, when she points at him ( … with the churro, no less ), giving over a sheepish grin to start, and then something a little bit more solid as he rolls his shoulders in a shrug. ) Teamwork makes the dream work, or so I've heard. ( don't ask him where he'd heard it, because he can't remember, even if it is a nice motto to live by. ) So, coworker, got a name?

[slapdown]

[Even if the relief doesn't quite show on his face, Naoka can more or less intuit that the direction of conversation is getting more comfortable for him. Which is chill! Even if it ends up quickly reversing course at some point, oops.]

That's cute.

[Finally she takes an actual bite of the churro and chews, briefly delaying the introduction.]

It's Naoka Ueno. You can't complain if I just call you Hot 'N Fresh, right? Or Delicious Boy?

[spazzed]

( honestly, the immediate reversal back into awkwardsville is bound to happen, whether it is actually immediate or is staved off for a couple of breaths — and silly him, he'd been thinking the discomfort had passed! really, lance, you should know better.

embarrassment is bound to follow you around for the rest of your life. ) I guess not, but you could also call me Lance if you wanted. ( is he blushing a little?

it's lance. no matter the awkwardness, of course something like this is going to bring a tinge of pink to his cheeks. ) Lance is uh. Fine.