meme | test drive!

[ironwood]

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:

1. Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles.
2. Tag around with everyone!
3. Profit like you live on a 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. A Chance Meeting at the Turtle's Head.
   Remember, being here causes a great sense of-- well, shall we say inner peace.
2. 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 turtleshell!
3. Hey, I Just Met You, and This is Crazy...
   First impressions are always the most important, right?
4. 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 need to polish every paving stone in the Earth Sector? Please note, Wildcard options are also what you can choose to do if you aren't yet comfortable in the Tu Shanshu setting and would prefer a more 'dear-mun' esque experience. Please specify in your post!

This marks the official start of the monthly test drive meme and, to celebrate, we're giving a new feature a shot. The first comment/thread on this test drive is going to be titled ENABLE ME and it's where you post character accounts/muselists, etc and others (members, passerbys, shoulder demons) can enable you to apply to Tu Shanshu! Come, let us enable you to the turtletastic madness!

Comments

[sophos]

[Even just hearing the sound of Piper's voice, Annabeth knows she's already won. A part of her would have liked to have done so on her own, but thinking on it, it... probably was getting a little out of hand, so she's a little grateful, too.]

[Still, she can't help the tiny smirk that creeps onto her face when the other girl stands beside her, especially when the kedan starts to glance at the knife. With deep consideration of Piper's request. He mutters a maybe, shooting Annabeth a dirty glance, which she returns with just a fruitful a glare.] See? She understands where I'm coming from.

[veryconvincing]

[Piper continues to smile sweetly at the shopkeeper.]

It's such a nice, um, weapon? Annabeth will take good care of it-- you won't find anyone worthier of your fine craftsmanship.

[Laying it on nice and thick. Though she does believe the part about Annabeth.]

[sophos]

[She's trying hard, so very hard, not to look smug as Piper works her magic. She crosses her arms, raising an eyebrow as the kedan considers the offer, glancing at her with a deeper straight of thought.]

[He grumbles to himself over how he might have been wrong, then offers a lower price.]

Aw, come on. [It's lower, sure, but still more than Annabeth's willing to part with. Besides, the charmspeak's hitting her a little bit, too, puffing up her belief in herself even more. Just a little more.]

[veryconvincing]

[That's the downside to her charmspeak: she can't always control who's affected. But she doesn't seem to notice the change in Annabeth yet.]

Just a little lower? I'm sure if you give her a good deal, she'll tell her friends to shop here. Imagine all the new business!

[sophos]

[She finds herself approving of the idea - maybe she really could tell people to come to this shop, and so she nods along.]

Definitely. I've got quite the network.

[With another scowl, the kedan lowers it again, to something Annabeth is more than okay with, and she beams.] Sir, that's perfect. See, that wasn't so hard at all!

[As she digs out the juulan for it, she shoots Piper a grateful and impressed look.]

[veryconvincing]

[Piper just grins back before waving goodbye to the shopkeeper.]

So what exactly is that?

[sophos]

[She looks down at it with a grin of her own.] A knife? Or something similar enough. It could stab things, that's about all I got so far. [But she wanted it!!]

[veryconvincing]

Fair enough.

[Who's she to deny Annabeth's flawless logic?]

Are there things around here to stab? Aside from stubborn merchants.

[sophos]

Some of the kedan can be pretty hostile, actually. Luckily celestial bronze works against them.

[veryconvincing]

How hostile?

[sophos]

Almost executing two of the foreigners back when we all first started arriving? It's mostly the gangs, though.

[veryconvincing]

Some vacation spot.

Anything I should know? Aside from "that's the Emperor's business."

[sophos]

A lot of things, actually. But probably not the kind of things best discussed in the middle of the street.