TEST DRIVE MEME

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TEST DRIVE MEME

Welcome to the outsiders test drive meme! You can use this post to tag with characters you're interested in bringing to the game or who you'd like to try out in the setting.


Please set all threads in one of three areas: the landing zone, where your character get off the shuttle upon arrival; the markets, where your character might run into any of the station's alien population; or in the residential district they'll be staying in.

φ Please give the name and canon of your character in the subject line! OCs (including Mass Effect OCs) and AUs are welcome.
φ You may use threads from this post as a log sample, so long as it has at least 5 of your comments in action tags or prose.
φ If you app in later, you can keep CR from this meme if both players agree to it OOCly, and so long as you keep interactions to these starting areas.
φ Apps and reserves and are always open! Our next processing round runs from 4/20 through 4/26.
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[soldad]

[ Arthur shoots a side long glance at Eames at the question before shaking his head. ] Nah, they both ended up here as well. York works at a bar, not sure what Wash is up to.

[ There's no bitterness in his tone, just general relief at knowing where they are. York knows what Arthur used to do, as well, and it went - good, to say the least, telling her, but he doesn't mention that, not yet.

Eames' obvious glee gets Arthur snorting. ] Laugh it up, asshole.

[ He touches his hand to the pistol holster reflexively before he speaks. ] Not a lot of corporations to be found here. Seems like it's all dirty and dirtier work. Merc groups trying to get on top of each other, and there's a queen bee, Aria - she runs a protection bracket on anyone new that arrives.

[ Quieter, more frustrated, ] Nothing legitimate I can fake at, no PASIV to go higher on, and I'm starting at the bottom. Hell, it was like learning to hack all over again when I worked on Sacrosanct.

[ He raises his hands, rubs the line of his brow. ] Not that you care. Basically, I had no choice but to start from bottom.

[paisleythief]

Good to hear. You two seemed to get on well. [ Eames is only peripherally aware of any entanglements that might include those three, but he's genuine in the sentiment. Having a support system in place is important for people, for Arthur, and regardless of how Arthur approached said support, York struck Eames as the kind of woman who could help Arthur without losing sight of herself or asking the world of him in return.

If Eames has some qualms with where Arthur usually choses to lay his loyalties? Well. That's another story for another day. ]

Laughter keeps us young. [ Offhanded, in that backhanded way of his. ( Implying, of course, that Arthur could use a little more laughter in his life. ) But it doesn't seem fair to continue picking at the younger man when he slips into his usual seriousness.

Scratching idly at his ear, Eames observes the subtle shifts in buildings and crowds that indicate they're moving into a more residential (for lack of a better word) area. ] Sounds like this Aria is the one to get close to, but likely you've already tried that. Barring extreme circumstances, there are advantages to finding yourself in unfamiliar situations. Where there's common ground, there lies solidarity.

aria and moneypenny would get along tbh

[soldad]

[ Arthur has a small laugh for Eames at the get on comment but nothing else.

He's been herding Eames towards the residential areas for the pure fact that they're a little quieter, a little safer. He keeps an eye out for varren. Actually. ]

If you see any really ugly alien dogs, let me handle it.

[ But after that passing comment, he tilts his head while looking at Eames. ]

Aria's more likely to shank me than let someone get close to her. And her group isn't recruiting.

[ He gives Eames a slightly squinty look, reminiscent of a certain extractor. If Eames is getting at something else, Arthur is missing it. ]

Everyone that's been dropped in here has been sticking together. For the most part, anyway.

you could not have strung together a more frightening sentence

[paisleythief]

[ Watching his step, Eames gives Arthur a noncommittal shrug of his shoulders that just barely indicates he's heard him. Its not the best version of communication, but when has that ever been the case with them? Arthur is the second person to warn him away from the alien dogs, and Eames is in no position to jump into the fray- if he was ever of that disposition to begin with.

However, the shanking comment gets a modicum more of Eames' attention. ] Are the two mutually exclusive? [ He's joking... mostly. ] No one's roster is ever too full, if you've got the right skills to offer. Its just a matter of figuring which skills this Aria finds most useful- or lacking, in her current recruits.

[ The streets aren't foreign to Arthur, and he navigates them like a second thought, a peripheral, and Eames has to wonder why he's considering the merits of one merc group over another when they shouldn't be here in the first place. Shouldn't Arthur be trying to find his way back, not bandying about playing intergalactic space hero? ] Sticking together against what?

c":

[soldad]

[ Arthur shakes his head. ]

I've been profiling her. She's the most genuine person I've seen, in that she doesn't give a shit, just wants all the new people out of her way, and isn't looking to fill out her roster.

[ One person managed to get on her roster, and that was as trade for getting a working computer - and they're gone now. ]

And I'm not on her level. [ He's still learning how to hack and encrypt on everyone else's level, and he hates being behind but needs must and all that, and he can't afford to talk what he can't back up like Eames can.

Arthur hates to admit it but he's almost become complacent in his place right now. No one knows how they ended up here - there's not even a rift and the relay they came through is supposed to be broken. ]

The locals don't like us. It's worth sticking together.