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Khu Ioduan Mods ([personal profile] khuimods) wrote in [community profile] archishellago2018-01-05 10:58 am
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Test Drive Meme #001

KHU IODUAN; TEST DRIVE MEME #001



I. THE VERDANT SENTRY - Attention, New Recruits!
It's clear that all of the city's law enforcement is handled by the various branches of the Sentry: from Mounted Division handling street patrol, to the Aerial Corps provided airborne support for tactical and rescue operations, to the Nautical Branch undertaking regular sea patrols as the first line of defense along the archipelago's borders. But everyone interested in joining up has to go through their basic training program, and that starts today with a general skills assessment. There's quite a mix of attendees today, spread across nearly every race represented in Aifaran and including other Dreamfolk, but whatever the recruiter is saying is getting lost in the two chatty Igheeri who seem to think they're too good to listen to the standard welcome speech... time to interrupt by signaling the person in charge? Take care of it yourself? Gripe about it to the person in line beside you?


II. KIRIN RODEO - Place Your Bets!
At the end of every month, the Mounted Division of the Sentry holds their skills competition. When they're not on the field, their steeds are often the subject of much admiration from children and more than a few adults. Astride many breeds of kirin, some lithe and fleet, some stockier and stronger, these off-duty officers demonstrate their control and bond over the notoriously strong-willed and intelligent creatures with complicated maneuvers. There's a surprisingly in-depth system for betting on one's favourite to win the various matches, and just about everyone's willing to explain the odds to newcomers. There's only one rule: all proceeds go to funding of the city's charities. (Bragging rights on winning are still yours to keep.) Two bells ring loudly over the crowd - last call for wagers!


III. WE HAVE REGULATIONS ABOUT THIS - Munga on the Loose!
Munga are ill-tempered, rat-sized spiky lizards with a gift for camouflage, and whose venom in their spines and teeth is also highly hallucinogenic. And... they're on the loose. Fortunately, keeping them is highly regulated, and pretty much everyone in Aifaran knows about them, but loose Munga are uncommon enough that the reaction is more likely to be startled flailing at a hint of spines and skittering. Today someone's exotic pet has slipped out of their hands, and it's trailing a harness and lead as it zigzags away, prickling and hissing and going for the ankles. It's given a wide berth, except by those who don't notice until it's too late or those too preoccupied by something else. Hopefully the proper authorities have been notified to catch and return the creature, but maybe someone helpful can keep it from getting too far away?


IV. A SURPRISE WINDFALL - Officer, This Isn't Mine...
There was a loud thud as someone tosses a heavy bag from the window of a dilapidated building. Five seconds later there’s smoke pouring out the windows and your holding what seems to be someone else’s luggage. Opening it, you find carefully wrapped bricks of some very illegal drugs, and someone down the side alley is pointing at you and yelling. A mounted Sentry officer is giving you a rather peculiar look as well while he calls in the fire brigade. And among the people fleeing the building, there are five Kin’nal looking at you, wide-eyed, as it suddenly dawns on them that they messed up. Take your new prize and split before reinforcements arrive? Try to explain the mistake? Take note that the building is still on fire?


V. INTO THE UNKNOWN - Watch Your Back Out There
The sea patrol discovered the new irregularity a few days ago, reporting that it looks like a series of tall and jagged stone towers rising up from the ocean. It's incomplete as these planar-shunted locations often are, as if something massive had taken a bite of some mysterious city and then spat it whole into the seas of Konryu. Having been chosen as part of the exploration team, you've been working your way through the complicated labyrinth of stone tunnels and dead ends, searching for what the Opara engineers had enthusiastically described as a potential new power source. "Trace the green glowing power lines," was their (sort of helpful) instruction. However the lean, dark and toothy thing you've just glimpsed should probably be a more pressing concern... warn others? Take it on yourself? Pray it hasn't spotted you?


VI. WILDCARD - Because You're Not The Boss Of Me
Anything else that doesn't fit the above prompts is welcome, just keep it within the game setting please!




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eyeinfusion: (put a trap in ur trap so u can trap cat)

[personal profile] eyeinfusion 2018-01-09 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Some creatures just want to be free. [He says, right before chowing down on the food that he'd sneakily withheld when he'd passed the lot over to Asaka.]

[As for the regulations—] Nothing we can do about that. [Not every exotic pet can be Karen the crocodile, after all. After finishing eating most of his impromptu snack, he holds out a piece to the Munga, waves it a little until the creature turns its attention, and just barely manages not to get bitten when the lizard does a little leap for it.] —Whoa. Hey, hey, calm down!

[To Asaka, he says—] They say that some animals won't let you feed them unless they like you.
cirquedelalune: (are you really)

[personal profile] cirquedelalune 2018-01-10 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
If they're wild, they shouldn't be handing them off to untrained people at all. [But there's nothing they can do about that either, so with a somewhat theatrical sigh, Asaka starts looking around.]

Do you see anyone who looks like they're looking for it? [And there's another hasty step back as the creature tries to snap for the food in her hand again.] Most people seem to be avoiding it, but surely the owner must still be around somewhere if it had a lead and harness on when it escaped.
eyeinfusion: (fusion recovery)

[personal profile] eyeinfusion 2018-01-11 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Why not just wait? We’ve got food nearby. [Which sounds like he’s in it for the long haul, but he’d get bored eventually.]

[That is, if he stops getting amused by making the Munga jump by lifting and lowering his hand, first.]

If the owner doesn’t come back, then you can adopt it for the time being! That'll be fun, right?
cirquedelalune: (missed a trick)

[personal profile] cirquedelalune 2018-01-12 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
We do, but if it's gotten far enough from the owner, they might have a lot of potential paths to check. [So they could definitely be in it for the long haul in that case, and Asaka does not have quite that much patience for minding a lizard. Especially one that keeps snapping the way this one does whenever it tries to grab for the food.

Which is why the smirk she throws to Judai for that remark is a little strained.]
Really, I don't think even an animal tamer could be fond of an attitude like this one. I'd prefer to keep my fingers.