Test Drive Meme #002

[khuimods]

KHU IODUAN; TEST DRIVE MEME #002

I. THE OPARA CORE - May I Borrow That? The engineers of the Opara Core facility are always on the lookout for new technology they can adapt into the ever-growing web that provides communications across the archipelago and beyond. Their staff are assembled represent a wide swath of the native races in Konryu whose skills are mechanically-inclined, and of Dreamfolk who've arrived and want to pitch in. Part of their standard operating procedure is to take an interest in tech coming in with the newly arrived Dreamfolk. An excitable female Muin, her bright shock of electrically pink hair and matching, jewel-like eyes alight with a madcap glee, is wheedling for whatever gadget you have on your person. "Please?" she asks for the third time, blinking at you hopefully. "I'll put it back exactly how it was when I'm done. I promise..." II. DREAMING BRIDGE - Grab Your Apron! The Aifaran government fully supports the Dreaming Bridge with both coin and supplies to take care of newcomer Dreamfolk, but the actually day-to-day operations are left to the site staff themselves. While they have a full complement of volunteers to manage the various aspects -- from cleaning and setting up rooms for new Dreamfolk, to helping new arrivals get used to the city by answering questions and organizing guided tours. "Hey you," an Arybar calls out, motioning with a soup ladle. He's about seven feet tall, with tiger-like striping on his skin. "Come back into the kitchen and help out, would you? We're short-staffed today, and since you're getting three meals a day for free, you can share the load." III. HEY MAN ARE YOU LOST - Herding Big Dumb Cats Odd jobs are always available for people who want to make some extra rhinn, and today's option for making some quick cash is to help some farmers clear a stubborn herd of curamija who are grazing on the new sprouts. While taller than most people, about the size of a draft horse, and possessing a massive rack of antlers, they look quite majestic... but they're prone to standing and staring dumbly at those who try to shoo them back off the cultivated land. Several of them have bunched up into a befuddled group, looking perplexed when none of them seem to know what direction to move in. Try to scare them? Coax them with treats? Declare them a lost cause? IV. KNOWLEDGE IS PRECIOUS - Accosted By Monks The Tariken monks are out in full force today, their orange and green robes making them easy to spot in a crowd, and there's a high chance you might be approached by one. Their sect values knowledge above everything else, so recording information from Dreamfolk, who are transient to Konryu, is something they see as imperative. Some of the questions are standard ("what's the name of your world? is it anything like Konryu? do have have any special position there?") but sometimes they move into stranger territory, like what's your favourite bath soap scent and how many times you wear your socks before washing them -- all of which are asked with the most studious attentiveness, just in case your answer holds the secret to the multiverse. V. FETCH A PRETTY PRICE - To Skim Or Not To Skim The salvage mission -- this time to a small island that looked initially like farmland, but was revealed to be entirely mechanical, has been a marked success! As the transports are being organized to return to the archipelago and the safety of the protective magical barrier, you've been left in charge of a sizable cache of recovered parts that are bound for the Opara Core technicians back in Aifaran. However, you're fairly certain that most, if not all of what's in this crate would fetch a high price at the Kel'ghau black market. Some of them are definitely pocket sized, and with the volume there, no one would notice a few pieces missing... right? 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! Applications • Reservations • Taken List • Game Navigation

Comments

[kenzaki]

It's best to go, yeah? Kenzaki doesn't let himself get too attached, for all that something twists in his heart at the sight of those dark eyes.

The cry from behind - not entirely unexpected - isn't in Japanese.

Kenzaki pauses, and says thickly, "It's for the best."

He keeps walking.

On 31 January 2018 at 14:19, jokerundead - DW Comment < dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:

[jokerundead]

He's still walking. He doesn't stop. Of course he doesn't, and the smart thing for Hajime to do would be to let him go.

Well, Hajime's tired of being smart. He's tired of knowing what he has to do, what he's supposed to do.

Right now, what he wants is to do what he wants.

He closes his eyes, takes a deep breath. Lets it out, and it barely shakes, and doesn't hiss at all. Joker is still there, still clawing behind his eyes, snarling, champing at the bit. But... Hajime is in control.

He raises his voice, and thankfully his next words come out in Japanese. "Stop. Don't walk away from me."

[kenzaki]

If they get too close, they'll fight. Kenzaki won't be able to repress it. He needs to keep going. He needs to... to leave Hajime all over again, and isn't that a kick in the teeth.

He still, though, finds himself pausing when Hajime pitches his voice to carry.

"I'll walk away as many times as it takes for the world to be safe," he says mildly. Have to stamp on the aggression, squash it, not let it grow. There's no need to be angry. It's simple.

On 31 January 2018 at 18:17, jokerundead - DW Comment < dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:

[jokerundead]

Hajime has had a long longer to practice keeping Joker in check. From long before Kenzaki came into his life. And since Kenzaki left.

At least he's stopped walking away.

"This world, too?"