progress city test drive #3

[progressmods]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Here You Leave Today And Enter The World Of Yesterday, Tomorrow And Fantasy. Welcome to Progress City's second 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! Reserves are always open!

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.

Prompt E Every now and again, the city will host a Festival! Progress City prides itself in making festivals with great food and drink, and will happily let its citizens enjoy it for a nice discount! You can either look up examples of Disney festival treats or make up some yourself, but rest assured, everything you order will be simply amazing. If you're not too busy getting drunk to stand, there are also other events you can participate in! There are also small events your character can participate in! In this hypothetical festival, your character can take a cooking class, attend a seminar to learn basic magic tricks (with real magic!), or try out a fancy new VR game where you fight against other players as giant robots.

Wildcard As always, feel free to come up with your own scenario if none of these inspire you!

Comments

Simon Blackquill | Ace Attorney- Dual Destinies

[ur_1]

A

[It's hard to rest easy when you've got a literal death sentence hanging over you. Simon is no stranger to sleepless nights. To staring at the ceiling or floor of his prison cell, contemplating That Incident Seven Years Ago. To wondering how Athena is doing.

Only a few more days until his execution. Deep down, he's terrified. But more importantly- once he's dead, Athena will be safe. She won't have a reason to continue prying at the scab of her mother's death, she won't have a reason to uncover the horrible truth of the matter- finally, justice will be done.

Simon blinks. There's a ticket on the floor. A ticket that certainly wasn't there a moment ago. Confused, he shuffles around on his cot, leaning over to grab it-

Aaaaand now he's in knockoff Disney World. Simon bites back a sharp gasp, looking around wildly.]

What the bloody hell just happened...?

A-2

[You may be approached by a very imposing man over six feet tall with heavy duty handcuffs and chains clinking merrily against his wrists. His eye bags have bags, he looks like he hasn't smiled in half a decade, and could probably snap someone like a toothpick if he felt so inclined.]

Excuse me. How do I leave this place? I need to get back to my bird.

[At least he's polite.]

B

[Somehow, someway, he's got Taka back. The hawk is perched on his shoulder as Simon lovingly scratches at his pinfeathers, whispering affectionate words to him.

By the way, he's currently strapped into a roller coaster. After a moment, he holds out his hand, commanding Taka to step up. He looks over at one of the ride attendants, all traces of affection entirely gone.]

You, there. Are there any accommodations available for my dear Taka? He wishes to partake in this ride, as well.

[By the way, good luck if you happen to get stuck sitting next to Simon on this ride. You'll have a hawk staring you down, unblinking, talons upsettingly close to your face. And his master is just as threatening a presence.]

a-2 i need those app samples

[midnightcowboy]

[So Jed almost definitely wasn't the person the newcomer originally directed that question towards. But when the other intimidated bystander backs away with nothing but an unhelpful shake of their head in response, he's ready with a much more helpful answer anyways, perched on the back of the bench that had left him previously obscured from view with his arms crossed. He can't say he's really impressed with newcomers most of the time, but hey, at least most of them are easy to mess with.]

Throwin' yourself at one'a them portals oughta do it. If you try it enough times.

b

[deadendstreet]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh

[UUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

I don't think this ride is actually.... safe... for birds. Maybe just leave him with me?

Vitani | The Lion King 2

[joyofvengeancetestify]

A-1

Whoa...

[Vitani's torn between being scared and amazed. She doesn't know how she got here- she obviously couldn't read the ticket- and she has no idea what this thing strapped to her paw is. And she can't find her siblings or her pride... or her mother.

But it's all so pretty and colorful and sure there's a lot of weird monkey things everywhere but!!! New things! New stuff to play with that's not bones! No mother to yell at her or Nuka for doing something wrong!

Vitani's gonna be dashing around the entire park until she collapses from exhaustion, trying to explore everything at once. You can find her just about anywhere- in the stores, exploring the rides and attractions, digging through garbage...]

A-2

[Once she's good and worn out, pretty late in the day, she'll come up to someone who looks fairly responsible.]

Do you know where I can find mother? She'll probably get real mad at me if I don't come home soon. Or get mad at Nuka. She does that a lot.

B-1

[... There is a lion cub in the teacup ride.

She appears to be wildly confused about what's going on and very dizzy. Send help.]

E

[Hey, you know Mayor Plankton's festival? That fucking disaster?

Yeah, Vitani's eaten her weight in chum [look, shes an Outsider lion cub, she's lived her life on a diet of carrion and little else; chum isn't the worst thing she's had and there's so much of it] and now she's chilling in the ballpit. Half of the balls are deflated, now, from puncture wounds. The ballpit itself is battle scarred from her, as well.

You may want to put duct tape on that.]

Bunsen Honeydew | The Muppets

[muppetlabs]

B

No, I'm pretty sure this is Walt Disney World. I mean, I've mostly worked in EPCOT before visiting various parks in our Muppet Mobile Labs, but, [vague hand gestures]

Anyway, it's so good to see they still have dole whip! I have an invention in mind where with just a little bit of tweaking the recipe, we can improve and make these delicious snacks bottomless!

[Who is this weird melon man and why is he talking to strangers.]

D

So, do you wanna try these Insta Growth pills? They're not 'magic' like these magicband things, but it should work just as well. They work on anything, but are sadly temporary.

Your other option would be on the receiving end of this Thunder card! Typically I'd test it out on my dear partner, but I haven't seen him in awhile. What do you say?

D

[midnightcowboy]

[Jedediah may not know a single goddamn thing about science, but the name of the pill is straight-forward enough for him to sound Extremely Judgmental as he hears the pitch from a nearby tabletop.]

Why in God's name would you wanna be any bigger than y'already are? You people are freakishly tall as is.

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

[abnormalsoon]

Prompt B

[If, for some reason, you decided to end up in the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom section of the park, you'll be presented with a conundrum. You may not know all the presidents, but you are pretty sure one of them was never a small, little triangle man with a top hat, cane, and single eye.

Still, he moves like a robot as he speaks, moving his arm and cane up and down robotically.]

Hi! I'm a terrifying representation of a long dead guy who was elected to office! If it isn't terrifying enough that they'd make a representation of me to scare your four year olds, maybe you'll be terrified by the fact that it's a lie the country is a republic and all members of government are actually selected by a shadow council of a race that've evolved into alligators!

Prompt C

[When you ordered a hot dog at a stand, you really didn't expect the small, triangle shaped server to actually bring you a dog. You're not even sure how the thing might have found it.]

Here! This is sort of a self-serve operation, because I can't get it into the boiler by myself. Besides the food you makes yourself is what tastes the best! That's what I've been told, I don't really eat like you do! If you saw how I ate, it'd reduce you to a mound of screaming, crying terror! Just like when anyone watches you eat champ!

Wildcard

Heeeey who's the wiseguy around here?

[The little triangle man is having a hard time walking about on his little stubby legs. He keeps falling down as he walks, even when he tries to use his cane. It's kind of the problem when you're used to teleporting or levitating everywhere.]

I love watching a guy fall down as much as anyone but buddy this is ridiculous! You could at least let me break a leg or something, come on.

wildcard!!!

[tibet]

[Coop doesn't mean to be, well, mean when he finds the sorry sight before him to be the tiniest bit cute, and he hopes thinking so doesn't veer into an uncomfortable territory of sadism. But what else are you supposed to consider the picture of a little triangle cyclops with a dapper tie and top hat trying to hobble around on a cane?

Unnerving might be a good contender, but that's what all of Cooper's dreams and visions are, so by comparison, this is a pretty good change of pace.]

Looks like you're having a hard time using that. [Said as he crouches down in front of Triangle Man to get a better look at him and his adorable little cane.] Was it just for show before? If you don't mind me asking.

"Jappleack"/Applejack | Ask Jappleack | My Little Jamjar CRAU

[caneattheseapples]

Prompt A

[Look at the funny cartoon pony that has just shown up at the transportation center, ticket in...hoof. How the pony is managing to hold the ticket is a mystery. What is more of a mystery to her is where she might be. The pony blinks her eyes once, twice, before looking to the left, then the right of her. It's cute in the way only an overly cute cartoon horse could be.

And then she speaks.]

What the fuck is this shit?

Prompt D

[At first, Japple had been kind of annoyed as hell at the band around her leg, close to her hoof. She didn't know what kind of weird ass shit this was at first, but now that she's getting the hang of it

It helps that one of the spells is summoning apples. Which she is just chucking at anyone who passes by.]

Here! Have an apple, dumbass!

[Head's up.]

A aka i'm sorry

[ilovepuppies]

[GASP A PONY]

You're so CUTE!

Pokey Minch | Earthbound/Mother 2 | Mayfield CRAU

[ceasetoexist]

Prompt B

[He supposes that this beats a town that was trying to torture him every month or so. At the same time, after two years of being trapped in a single town, it's weird having this much freedom. The place seems way bigger than Mayfield at least.

It also looks way to perfect, just like Mayfield. There is, in fact, apparently a friggin' castle in the middle of this place. It's like some kind of terrifying kid's movie. Which means that this place has to be some kind of trick.

Right now, the kid is going around looking into every building he can, looking through everything he can. Turning over trashcans when he has the chance.]

Alright. There's gotta be something.

[No way is this place safe. At all. He refuses to believe that.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Every building, you say? Because if he pokes his head into Fort Langhorn he's going to find himself staring down the barrel of an actual cannon manned by a teenager cosplaying as a pirate.]

Y'arrr! State yer business!

[dogdaughter]

[ After he's turned over a trashcan or two, somebody with dog ears decides to check out what's up with that. Her eyes are a weirdly vivid shade of green for a human. ]

Um, what are you looking for? Materials? Or did you lose something...?

Master Shake | Aqua Teen Hunger Force

[themicruler]

Prompt A

Whoa...what's this? This is cool.

[Excuse the giant walking, talking milkshake that is just looking around at all this new stuff around him.]

I mean...of course it is. I did make it, it's mine. Welcome to my home! Mi casa es tu casa! ...As long as you paid you did pay to get in here right? We're making money off this?

Prompt C

[Congrats. There's a new ride mechanic in the city. Excuse him as he fixes this ride with his specialty: hitting the side of it with a hammer.]

Work! You better start working you mother! Oooooh boy, you better....if you don't get moving your ass is going to be refurbished into car doors, and won't that suck!

C

[not_over_yet]

[ Master Shake may or may not notice the scent of tobacco. The designated smoking areas are in fact far off enough that a single pipe could be noticeable... buuut this particular pipe is also very small. Like, belongs-to-a-mouse small. ]

Given we don't manufacture cars in this place, can't say that's much of a threat. Have you tried insulting its parentage?

[ Basil is currently bored enough that this qualifies as an acceptable pastime. ]

Pete | Mickey Mouse Shorts

[stinkypete]

Prompt B

[While wandering the streets of Progress City, you may stumble upon a large cat (?) committing various illegal acts, such as spray painting "PETE WUZ HERE" on the sides of buildings, stealing any sort of Mickey Mouse merchandise he can find, knocking over garbage cans, and loitering. One might hear him mutter under his breath--]

Disney World, pah! More like Mickey Mouse's World--darn place don't even have anything dedicated to me! Mickey would've never gotten to where he was without me! I should be on everything here! Why, if he were here, I'd--

[He doesn't seem to notice his surroundings as he continues to blatantly commit these crimes.]

Prompt C

[Pete was assigned security detail when he arrived in Progress City, and, to be honest, he's really, really enjoying his job. Maybe a little too much, if you ask anyone else.]

HEY, YOU! [He points an accusatory finger at someone who's passing by. He stomps on up to them, drawing himself up to loom over the other person's head.] I saws you breakin' the rules! Unless you wanna get punished, you're gonna give me all your cards right now!

[security is like, a totally legal way to mug people, right?]

Wildcard

[Today, Pete is well groomed and clean-shaven. The neat, checkered tie around his neck looks completely alien on him. His chin held high, the cat clears his throat and walks up to a nearby microphone to speak.]

Citizens of Progress City! Are you tired of the empty promises that your candidates make, only to break them upon entering office? Are you tired of phonies who won't even perform the most basic mayoral duties?

If you want a mayor that'll make some REAL changes around here, that'll listen to the people, vote for Mayor Peg-Leg Pete, your very best friend!

[He winks at the crowd, his grin a bit too wide.]

wildcard

[andbegone]

BOOOOOO.

[Spoken from the very front of the crowd. The boo-er in question very clearly elbows the person next to him, leaning over to speak not at all discreetly about just how he feels about Pete's campaign attempt.]

My campaign speech was better.

B

[twoswordsmaybemore]

[Wade's just gonna pick up one of the fallen trashcans and put his dole whip cup in it.]

Personally? I'm more of a Donald Duck kinda guy. I mean, don't get me wrong, you're cool too. It's just... Donald is way more iconic than you or Mickey.

C

[ur_1]

Cease your jabbering, fool.

[Simon's still got his fucking handcuffs on, give him a break. He's been here for like 10 minutes at the most. He refuses to backdown, matching Pete's glare with one of his own.]

What rule do you claim that I broke?

Henrietta Biggle | South Park: The Fractured But Whole

[noncomformist]

Prompt A

[What the hell is this?

At first she was just looking at some lame piece of garbage, next she was standing here in this barf-inducing crapsack. She has to admit, it is kind of shocking just how awful where she's been brought is, and for a moment Henrietta is slack-jawed in shock at it, cigarette holder drooping between her fingers.]

Oh my god.

[The words are spoken with a mixture of shock and disgust. Perhaps, even a little bit of terror. Not the reaction you'd really expect from most ten year olds.]

It's like a fiefdom of conformists.

[And she just takes an angry drag off her cigarette, smoke billowing between her clenched teeth.]

This is so lame.

Prompt B

[There had to be something or somewhere in this place that was not just utterly fucking awful. Henrietta, at least, didn't plan to just stalk the streets of this hellhole all day without any kind of direction. Her ego couldn't take it, having to pass each one of the stupid attractions in this place knowing she couldn't spit on each and every fucking one of them.

Then she comes to the Haunted Mansion. Even if it still looks like the dumb happy shit here, it's still the closest thing to looking kind of goth in this place. Who knows. There has to be something decent in this place.

Of course, she's disappointed almost immediately in it. By the time the ride gets to the portrait gallery, she's already smoking again, leaning against the side of the cart as bored as possible, rolling her eyes.]

It's like a gallery for the shitty demons who couldn't cut it in hell.

[This sucks. What an affront to everything goth.]

Prompt E

[This place even has its own stupid horrid conformist festivals. At least at home she could fully avoid all the dumb festivals or at least have her clique to hang out with, but here there's just nothing else to do but go to them. Go to them and talk about how fucking stupid and awful they are.

She decided she'd take a look at this wussy 'magic' class. Surprise. It's the most eye rolling thing she has ever seen, and at this point she is just leaning back in her chair.]

This is so fucking boring.

[She doesn't bother to whisper that either. Let everyone know how much this sucks. They deserve to know.]

B

[supoorhero]

[This is so cool. He's never even been to Disneyland. Or is this Disney World? Who cares. Same rides, same food, same shitty haunted house. Regardless, as you would expect from a kid without any adult supervision, Kenny's having a pretty good time. He's also not following any stay-in-the-queue rules. Fuck that.

This is why one of the portraits (the one with the zombie guy) seems to have gained a life of its own by floating off the wall and towards Henrietta. Just kidding, he took it off the wall. He holds it in front of his face like a mask and wiggles it at Henrietta.]

BOO!

snow miser | the year without a santa claus

[snowtunes]

Prompt B

[Here comes a cool guy. At least that's what many would be forgiven for assuming when they first hear Snow Miser's voice — smooth, easygoing, and currently, pitched in what could easily swing downwards into whining.]

Ohhhh, man, is it terrible out here. And he says they actually LIKE summer? Phew!

[If there's any snottiness in his tone at that last comment it's quickly waved away when someone comes into view. Feeling optimistic, he reaches out to tap the unwary person on their shoulder.]

Hey, man. What's a guy gotta do to cool down around here?

[He is easily nine, maybe teen feet tall, and terrifying in the way that a stop motion puppet from the 1970s primordial being made entirely of sharp angles of ice and snow would be.]

Prompt C

[Okay, now this is something up his alley. Who doesn't love ice cream? It exists to be eaten every day, especially in summer, which means that it was pretty much made to spite his brother, so having a job that revolves around it sits very well with Snow Miser. His duties don't technically extend past selling the stuff, but no one said anything about him being unable to improve upon it where he sees fit.

It's too bad his idea of improvement seems to be a little too...overenthusiastic.

If you happen to order anything from his quick service stand, you may notice that he appears to be sitting rather than standing against the counter to accommodate his weird height. This doesn't seem to hamper him from doing his job, though.]

Here ya go, fresh and— oh, one sec. [He flicks his trusty Blizzard card at the ice cream dish, blasting it with a burst of ice that leaves it completely frozen.] There! And there's more where that came from, too.

[winkwonk]

Wildcard

[The end of days has arrived and it's come to Epcot. Against all natural logic, it's snowing in the park — a light drizzle if you happen to be on the edge of it, but venture inward and you'll notice that it's starting to pick up. Make it to the lagoon and it's practically Christmas in July with a good eight inches of snow blanketing the entire area.

The lagoon is totally frozen over, and reclining by the edge of it in an oversized beach chair is Snow Miser, sipping an obnoxious looking smoothie, wearing sunglasses, fanning himself with his Mountain Blizzard and Blizzard cards.]

Talk about a blizzard beach, hahaha!

wildcard

[dogdaughter]

[ And here's someone tromping around, not exactly dressed for snow and clearly cold, but also clearly having a good time. (Snow's... not novel to Jade, or at least she feels it shouldn't be at this point; buuuuut she still gets excited whenever a good deep snow happens anyway.) Is she looking for the snow's source? Nope! It's just part of the whole amusement park thing, right? Sometimes it just snows, because snow is fun and that's the whole point of amusement parks, probably,,

...Eventually she spots Snow Miser waving a couple of those magic cards around and puts two and two together. A giant eldritch-looking icicle-man, neat. Waves at him cheerfully! ]

Oh, hi! Did you do all this? There's so much of it for just one guy!

[ Tromp tromp tromping her way over. Young woman with dog ears and eyes way greener than humans' normally get. It's fine. ]

prompt b

[gutterballs]

[Hey, Snowy. Are you seriously bothered by this heat? There's a Dude here, well, The Dude here, and he's wearing a worn-in sweater despite it being just about 100 degrees outside.

He's caught offguard by the fact this dude is a fucking giant, but...]

Oh, uh, it's all about vibes, man.

[octoshy]

[ICE CREAM!!! This is the third or fourth time Marina has stopped by for it, and the Blizzard trick gets her every time.]

That's so cool!