TEST DRIVE MEME

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ΩUTSIDERS
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 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 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 open on 1/27; the game opens 2/2.
φ You can find more information on our setting here, and our navigation is here!

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[bladedance]

That would be a lot easier if they'd take my money, but they want credits. I don't even know what that is! Seriously, just how far out into the other end of everything did we end up?

[She sighs... She pulls a piece of her hair over her shoulder and begins lightly tugging on the end of it as she continues talking.] It's okay. I can defend myself still. [She shakes her head sharply, smiles up at him.] I'm Reianna, by the way. It's nice to meet you. I'm glad I'm not the only one out of place... --I mean, no, I'm not glad we're out of place. And I'm sorry you're out of place, too. I just... It's better to know we're not alone. In this.

[calibrating]

[Garrus considers the proffered hand for a moment before taking it with a nice hearty shake]

You can call me Garrus, York.

[cosmosic]

All I did was call out for him!

[folds her arms, not really noticing the aliens/humans looking at them like THEY'RE the aliens]

Maybe, but if everyone is going to run off like I smell bad or something it might be easier just to do things on our own.

[...wait, did she smell bad? she did just come from fighting in a war non-stop for like 3 days

discreetly smelling herself asfsdfssdf]

[calibrating]

[There's no mistaking that voice-- if there's anything about Shepard that Garrus is attuned to, it's that.]

[But everything else is wrong. The tanned skin is right, but the hair is just a shade darker than what he knows, the bobbed cut missing entirely, and those eyes... those eyes are far lighter than what he remembers. What he knows.]

[Despite being in possession of what should be classified knowledge, his human, whoever she is, is not Commander Jane Shepard]

[And he definitely does not appreciate liars, nor anyone who'd dare try to pose as someone so important to him and the galaxy at such a critical time]

Whoever you are, you have three seconds to get your hand off me before I break it off.

[calibrating]

Yeah, that's real special.

[Living ships aren't exactly something he relates with fondness]

Next you're gonna tell me they all have tentacles, too.

[Which he's really hoping isn't true, because waaayyy to close to Reapers for comfort]

[akinship]

No. Why would they need tentacles? Most of the things they need to sense are electromagnetic radiation.

[swordisakey]

That's probably just the planet.

[It's not the cleanest place, and now have Roxas staring at you Ino, because what are you doing?]

We should probably keep looking for something though. I don't think anything's going to come out of nowhere. It usually doesn't.

[vengefulagent]

I'm...guessing that's their form of money, so maybe it's like using a credit card of some kind. [He can only guess. Makes him wonder if there's some kind of bank to exchange his own money for.] But I really have no clue. I've never even heard of this place before, but there are other humans around...

[He smiles faintly behind his helmet and waits until she's done.] Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm Agent Washington, by the way.

[bladedance]

Well yeah, I knew that much, I just meant I've never heard of a credit... [Then she blinks at him.] Credit card? Huh, I don't know what that is either, but it sounds closer to what they want than what I've got. Maybe you can get away with it.

[She breathes a teeny little sigh of relief when he says he understands... but when he mentions he's some sort of "agent", some warning bells go off in the back of her mind. She tries to shut them out. Obviously he's not from where she's from, so there really shouldn't be any problem. ... But just in case, she probably won't bring up her job. Er, former job - if they're really stuck here.]

Washington. [Nod!] So, where were you going, before I bumped into you? Anywhere specific? I just still feel kind of like I'm at a loss for what to do right now.

Re: hey hey papa

[techburst]

[and she nods back, still with a small smile curving her mouth upward at the corners. she really hopes that randomly showing up on omega doesn't mean bad things are going to happen to them, but she's definitely going to make sure that isn't going to happen, either way.

she can't help but to laugh at what he says, though, because she knows just how true it is - even though she's kind of partial to those cardboard circles. she and her sister have certainly eaten their fair share of them.] That just means he's trying to take care of them while you're gone. You can't fault him for that. [she's teasing, of course.]

[cosmosic]

[seeing if she smells bad! but she doesn't smell like Chouji when they had been sparring for hours and he's covered in sweat and she wants to be miles away. but she doesn't smell like her usual either -- flowers and her shampoo.

now there's sweat and dirt and grime and grief and anger...]

You'd be surprised.[there isn't much that suprises her now, even things that appear out of nowhere. but that would be too convenient and things were never convenient]

Eh? What do you mean the planet?

[techburst]

[have a nice scowl from your sister, zoe. a very stern scowl.] I'm just saying .. you can't play around here. So be careful? Please?

[fuckinghysterical]

[She listens to what Dun says, rubbing her temples as the severity of the situation sunk into her head, once again. Before, she had at least been on the side of the strongest PMC force on earth, but now she was the one at the disadvantage and in her experience, bad shit happened to her when she was put in such a position.] I-- I don't know this Aria -- heeheehee -- but clearly, she knows this terrain better than either of us combined; she really does have the advantage over either of us, for now.

[It was a hard thing to admit, but without her Octopus suit, she was nearly powerless. She still had a gun and she could deplete people's energy through hugs, of all things, but she had the feeling that those abilities weren't going to do a whole lot against enemies she hadn't gotten the chance to stake out just yet.]

[anarrowtotheeye]

For now.

[He repeats, one hand gripping the hilt of his podao. No matter how impossible the situation, Dun knows that he will, must even, rise above this all and secure a way back to his cousin and lord.

He won't let anything get in his way.]

What's your name, girl?

[If he's going to take on this city's biggest power, he's going to need some allies.]

[fuckinghysterical]

Octopus. Laughing Octopus.

[But as soon as she introduces herself that way, she furrows her eyebrows, confused. That was the name she was referred to the most often, in the past four years, but she wasn't much of an Octopus now.]

No... heheheh... no, maybe not anymore...

[But there was one other name she was referred to as, even if it was far less common.]

I-- I suppose it's "Laughing Beauty" now. That's what my superiors called me, anyway.

[Satisfied with that answer, she looks back to Dun as her eyes curiously scanned his appearance yet again.]

Who are you?

[anarrowtotheeye]

The name's Xiahou Dun.

[He barely raises an eyebrow at her name though; Chinese naming customs had parents naming their children with characteristics and positive words. His own name, "Dun", means sincere. He supposed his parents called him that in hopes that he would be honest in his dealings. If her superiors chose to call her "Laughing Beauty", then perhaps they wanted her to smile more. Certainly she took their intent to an extreme; Dun found her constant giggles very annoying.]

You appear somewhat familiar with all these gadgets. [And by gadgets, he gestures at the electronics and wires that make up Omega.] Perhaps I was wrong to write you off as useless from the start. But you must take care of how you speak and to whom you're speaking to, especially here. There are too many men with evil designs on their minds, especially for one with a pretty face such as yourself.

[fuckinghysterical]

[She did have a birth name, but no one had referred to her by that name for... how long had it been anyway? Seven years? In that amount of time, the name was almost foreign to her, and she was far more conditioned to being referred to as a Beast, rather than a human. It was odd to be in a place like this, where there wasn't any obvious warring going on.

She's surprised that he seems to think that she's "useful" just because she had a passing knowledge of technology and it shows on her face -- the remark about her beauty didn't even faze her as she knew it was one of her few assets she carried, obvious when one of her codenames actually drew focus to that side of her.]

You really think appearances matter, in a place like this? Eheh? How odd...

[Indeed, that never mattered on the battlefield. Though again, perhaps the focus of this place wasn't on the battlefield? Oh, this was all so terribly confusing! She considers Dun's words before pulling out her gun -- a sort of submachine gun -- out for display.]

I may not have my tentacles, but I have this, heheh! If anyone tries to fuck with me, I'll kill them! [And she seems so nonchalant about stating that fact too. After what she went through, it didn't seem to be a big deal to strike down anyone first that might threaten her security.]

... But thanks, Xiahou. [Also, she doesn't understand the Chinese naming order.]

[anarrowtotheeye]

Appearances don't make up a measure of a person, but they can attract the wrong kind of attention.

[The piece of metal she's waving around hardly impresses Dun. It's not sharp, and apart from bludgeoning damage what else can it do? He'll keep to his podao and his sword, thanks.]

I fail to see how that small thing you're carrying can protect you. Can you even fight? And it's Xiahou Dun. Not Xiahou. It's a double surname. Have you never heard of one before?

[fuckinghysterical]

It's not that small! It's bigger than a typical handgun, you know! Eeheehee! And it fires a lot faster than one too! And of course I know how to shoot a gun, if that's what you're asking!

[Even though she was still a pretty piss-poor hand-to-hand fighter and would be terrible at using any weapon that wasn't her suit or a gun.

After her initial protesting, however, she calms down to answer Dun's second question, rubbing one hand near her neck..]

But, ah, no... I hadn't heard of them before. Eheh... sorry, Xiahou Dun.

[anarrowtotheeye]

[A gun? He's never heard of those before. He regards the item with some scepticism; there were no arrows, not even stones. What would this "gun" fire, and how effective could it be?

There was only one way to find out.]

Shoot that glass jar over there.

[He points to an empty bottle, conveniently placed on a nearby abandoned shelf. Bottles had yet to be invented by 2nd century AD either, unfortunately.]

[fuckinghysterical]

Uh... all right.

[She looks at him oddly, not really sure why he was demanding to see a test of the gun's ability; that particular class of gun -- the FN P90 -- had been manufactured since the 80s, so it wasn't like it was cutting edge technology here. But whatever, judging by the sword he carried around, Dun really didn't seem like the kind of guy that was up with the times anyway.

So after looking both ways to make absolutely sure that no one was about to cross her path -- because god forbid she accidentally kill the wrong person -- she briefly presses the trigger of her gun to fire at the indicated glass. Even in the couple of seconds the gun fired, it shot off at least a couple dozens of bullets (as the P90 was capable of firing 900 rounds a minute), which pretty much decimated the glass along with at least a few holes in the shelf around it.]

Satisfied now, heheh?

[anarrowtotheeye]

[He ignores the odd look she gives him, concentrating solely on the weapon. The truth is, now that he's taken a second look, he's seen something like her gun being carried around by the guards. He hadn't really thought of it as threatening, but the way people reacted when the guards pointed one of them at their direction seemed to suggest that it probably held more weight than he'd originally realised. If it is lethal, than he'd rather know now rather than later.

The short burst of ammunition, along with the loud ruckus it makes, shocks Xiahou Dun, as well as the destruction it left behind. Walking over to the remains of the shelf, he feels the holes left behind. There's nothing left of the bottle either, except for small shards of glass scattered around.]

Impressive...

[fuckinghysterical]

[She lowers the weapon parallel to her side, smiling with mild amusement at his reaction.]

The way you're acting, it's as if you've never seen a gun before -- hahaha -- do you really deal with all of your enemies with blades?

[Not that it was the first time she heard of it -- Vamp was rather fond of throwing knives and she had heard rumors of a man that could fight Gekkos with just a blade before -- it was just an extremely uncommon method of battling.]

[anarrowtotheeye]

[It is a blow to his pride to be shown up by a girl with questionable sanity, but he manages to reply through grit teeth:]

No, I have not seen such a weapon before.

[At her last question, he draws his podao out of its sheathe. The blade nearly seems to sing, the way it cut through the air as he pulled it out. The lights from a nearby neon sign reflect of the strange sword, covering one half of Dun's face in white light while the other remains in the shadows. His voice is harsh when he speaks; almost as if he had been offended by her statement.]

My blades have cut through enough bodies to form a path for my lord; you'd be wise not to underestimate what they can do.

[neverknocks]

Nice to meet you, Garrus. Though I guess I wish it were under better circumstances.

[ Still, she's got that relaxed quality to her voice, and there's sort of a natural shrug in the way she moves. She glances at him, peering at his face thoughtfully. ]

And I guess there's no tactful way to ask this, but what do you call your kind, anyway?