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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_ooc2016-03-15 04:14 am
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Test Drive Meme | #38


TEST DRIVE MEME - TU SHANSHU EDITION!

Itching to try out writing a character? Then rev up your engines, grab your accounts, and slam your way into this meme! Here is a venue for you to try out whatever character there might be tickling your fancy, from fandom to OC, for as few as one and as many as MANY. Seriously, there's no limit.

How do you partake in this fantastic congregation of character testing? Why, by following these simple steps:

→ Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles.
→ Tag around with everyone!
→ Profit like you live on a the back of a turtle!
→ Maybe even RESERVE so you CAN live on the back of a turtle!

But wait, there's more! For the low, low price of $9,999.99, you can even use one of our handy prompts when you tag someone. You could even pick one with a Random Number Generator to help decide which prompt to go with!
  1. Haggling Over Something in the Marketplace!
    Maybe someone else saw the exact same shiny thing you did at the exact same moment! However shall this be resolved? Remember: blood is extremely hard to scrub off of turtle shell!

  2. Dramatic Chase Sequence!
    You're running away from something! It could be anything, from a rampaging kirin to a gaggle of overly enthusiastic children! One way or another, you can't stop, and much like a katamari ball, you feel obligated to grab everyone in your path along the way to keep them out of danger! Or perhaps you're more the sort to try and knock them into it as a distraction...?

  3. Where There's A Will, There's A...?
    The Life and Dreaming Planes have been merged, and sometimes what starts out as wishful thinking becomes lured into reality. That slick new motorcycle or pile of kingly treasure you were just daydreaming about? Surprise! It's just appeared in front of you. Though, it may only stay for a short while before it disappears again, so make it count. Hopefully you're not the type to daydream about terrible things befalling people you don't like...

  4. SECRET UNDERCOVER MODE ACTIVATE!
    The three major kedan families all have their own agendas, and you've chosen to entangle yourselves with one (or more!) of them. Are you hoping to shift the balance of power? Gain some favours? Perhaps you're on a mission to bring a criminal to justice, or maybe you just want to get the cream of the crop from the black market. Maybe you haven't been hired by them at all, but are using their name for your own goals... as long as no one discovers the lie!

  5. Wait... you want my what now?!
    The kedan are a curious folk, and the Foreigners are entertainment in conveniently arriving packages, especially when they come along with unique items that the kedan might not have seen before. Maybe it's your cellphone... or maybe it's your knickers! How badly do you want to keep your stuff from some overeager native shapeshifters who want to buy, bribe, or burglarize it right off your person?

  6. Sea prunes, get your sea prunes right here!
    Life in Keeliai can take a little getting used to: the chickens have scales, the cows have feathers, and the fruits come in more colour and pattern combinations than your average tye-dye shirt. Not to mention that meal you just ordered from the food vendor? Has arrived on the plate, and you're pretty sure you just saw it move.

  7. Everybody needs a little darkness...
    The Great Enemy may have been defeated over two years ago, and people are even willing to speak Malicant's name aloud now, but there remains a taint in the city never fully purged. Those who consider Malicant a dark god whose end was unjust are the cultists of Keeliai, and they aren't always so easy to identify as one might think. Sometimes their presence is felt in the growing urge to give into one's darker instincts, especially in such a foreign place...

  8. Illicit substances, anyone?
    Every city has its vices, and Keeliai is no different. Perhaps you actively sought it out, or perhaps an opportunistic dealer saw you as a potential customer needing a free sample, but you're now in possession of a packet of Lucid, an emotion-enhancing drug. Interested in finding out what happens when you crush that colourful crystal and ingest it?

  9. Incoming!
    Tu Vishan's latest landfall stop has brought an unwelcome problem to its residents: enormous, toothy creatures who look more like pterosaurs than most people are comfortable with! With a twenty-foot wingspan, these aren't exactly harmless local wildlife, and they have a nasty habit of swooping down on targets both Foreigner and kedan! How are you going to fend them off, or help someone who might have been injured by the latest dive bombing??

  10. WILDCARD!
    Go nuts. Suddenly your character is fighting dragons! Good God, they've found the Millennium Falcon drifting in the ocean! Do you really feel the uncontrollable urge to polish every paving stone in the Earth Sector? Anything goes!
oggling: (Quaffing)

Nanny Ogg | Discworld

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-18 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
1.

Everyone knew that witches don't pay for things. At least, in respectable parts of the universe, everyone knew that witches didn't pay for things. They helped out wherever they went, and they were often given things. It was amazing really, how people were willing to give you things when you saw to it babies got born, wounds didn't go septic, and the dead didn't wander off to who-knows-where.

Right now, Nanny Ogg was flabbergasted that she had to pay out of pocket for a loaf of bread.

"Here now, you're going to make a helpless old lady pay that kind of money?" Nanny Ogg, a woman who ruled her own private empire with an iron fist from the comfort of her armchair, said without a trace of abashment. It was astounding lightning didn't strike outside as the blatant lie.

10!

Do you want a witch all up in your business? Need some good ol' advice from Nanny over a pint or six? Found Greebo in your kitchen god help you, you poor sod? Well now's your chance!
Edited 2016-03-18 23:55 (UTC)
purrns: (🐾 Then I fall apart)

1. YES.

[personal profile] purrns 2016-03-19 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's out of sheer curiosity (the great feline downfall after all) that a boy in a cat-suit has come to see what all the fuss is about . Sure, he lacks the solid testosterone fuelled pirate-yness of a certain cat in her life but you've got to be content with what you get here. Chat will just assume these people are trying to overcharge the sweet old lady. That sounds about right for the merchants around here.

"Everything okay here? Looks like you're in a bit of a purrdicament."
oggling: (Break them good and hard)

Re: 1. YES.

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-19 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Nanny was not particularly tall. She was fairly wide, and certainly didn't look like she'd missed a meal in her life. She looked like a fairly old apple - all round and wrinkly.

And her face split into a grin at the pun.

"This is highway robbery, it is!" Nanny said and then hesitated. She was a basically honest woman. "Well, robbery anyway. Just look at what they're chargin' for a loaf!"
purrns: (🐾 And you can't bring me down)

[personal profile] purrns 2016-03-20 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Chat glances between the lady and the vendor, who looks like he's seriously reconsidering his life choices and it has nothing to do with Chat being on scene. The teen folds his arms, tsking softly.

"Absolutely. You can't change this much for bread. She might really need it."
thatched: (geeeze)

10 Double yes

[personal profile] thatched 2016-03-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[he found a Greebo in what passes for what they call an apartment from down here and he's grabbing protectively at his single can of tuna, glowering at the cat who seems fairly content to just glower back]

Get out of here, you catty cat. Or I'll sic the bird on you.
oggling: (He's just a big soppy really)

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-19 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Greebo watched the man intently, licked himself as only cats can do. In the distance, the voice belonging to an obviously elderly woman was calling. There was a tinge of worry to her tone.]

Coo-ee! Greebo! Where've you gotten to?
thatched: (pfft)

[personal profile] thatched 2016-03-19 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[he's not quite sure what a Greebo is but he's willing to risk it. So he calls out: ]

Is he an old cat that looks like a demon and smells worse? [only one of those might be a slur]
oggling: (Make merry)

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-19 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well I never!

[Nanny was a generally honest person when she couldn't be arsed to make up something more interesting. And if she was being honest with herself, that was an apt, if generous, description of what amounted to biological warfare in cat form.]

[But Nanny had a soft spot when it came to Greebo, and she stumped off in the direction of the voice.]


There's no call for that kind of talk. He's a big soppy, really.

[Greebo looked up at Thatch with face that looked as though he'd been in a fight with a bear. Which he had. Nanny scooped up the massive tom cat as though he weighed nothing.]
thatched: (hmph)

[personal profile] thatched 2016-03-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[that poor bear. If Thatch knew he'd be tempted to send a farewell card, or at least pick up the pieces for a barbeque]

He can sopp away from my tuna then. [puts it in the fridge and then leans against it for good measure. And then mostly casually]

So what hellfire did you summon him from?
oggling: (Default)

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I never summoned him. That's demons and things of that kidney, and I don't have truck with the occult very often.

[She scratched the beast under his chin.]

Had him since he was just a kitten.
atent_dead: (Default)

1

[personal profile] atent_dead 2016-03-19 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
It really is quite shocking. Things just happen when you're a witch. Clearly someone should explain the order of the universe to the people here. And with the way Granny is walking over like she owns the entire marketplace, she clearly has a notion of that someone being her. Never did believe in leaving anything to some vague someone. "I've never heard of such a thing, Gytha."
oggling: (A jolly old witch)

Re: 1

[personal profile] oggling 2016-03-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Nanny spotted Granny emerging from the crowd like an iceburg out of the fog. It generally meant there was a lot of unpleasantness in store for the unsuspecting. She lit her pipe, her prior outrage momentarily forgotten.

"You'd never believe the prices they expects us to pay, Esme."