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TEST DRIVE 004

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Here is our forth Test Drive Meme! There are a lot of areas of the city to explore, so please have a look around! In case you need a little help getting started, I've included a few prompts below, or feel free to start your own! Exploration and player initiative are the names of the game here!

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A. Crash into Me

Not exactly, but close enough. You have just arrived and received a strange satchel from a tiny, strange little man and are left more or less to your own devices (more information on what to expect upon arrival can be found here)! Follow directions to the north and check out the housing, or maybe have a look around the Historium and try to get some information from that giant glowing ball, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.

B. A Winter's Ball

What brand new ballroom would be complete without a fancy new winter's ball to break it in? Things are a little strange at the ballroom (check the prompts) with mistletoe that traps you for a kiss with a random passerby, strange gray meringue that makes you willing to overshare, not to mention the fact that one of your strange possible overlords funded the whole thing. What's the worst that could happen?

C. We're all hanging out at the park, right?

The park near the Complex has become a glittering expanse of show! Children ~~and adults alike~~ build snowmen and even sled down some of the higher hills in the area. There are stands around the park selling hot chocolate, coffee, tea, and cider, as well as sweets and wrapped snacks for the day in the park. Speckling the park at regular intervals are standing fire pits designed to ward away the cold and allow for gatherings and conversation.

The pond in the park has frozen over as well, affording the abilities to ice skate as the ever-industrious Raimon is renting skates, and maybe even challenge people to a hockey game. How hard could it be to find some makeshift pucks and other accoutrements in order to play a game?

Tell Phone

The Tell Phones everyone are provided when they arrive are capable of voice transmission and texting as well and photo texts!

NAVIGATION

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Rhy toyed with his red pouch, knowing it had a red phone and a red key. Seemed the world had known how to accessorize with him. but that didn't mean he liked the idea of not being with his love.

"I don't know that they anticipated couples at all. The Sphere had not seemed to expect them to arrive. There were not many, but it did provide. I will have to hope they provide."

What they'll need. Well, from first glance...

"This place seems to have an economy," Rhy noted, given the arrival pouch had some coinage in it. "We'll need gainful employment. I suppose I can look for a tailor or seamstress and see if they will take me on, even with my level of skill. It could hold us steady enough for a while, leave you free to investigate. And places like that could draw gossip."

Llewellyn’s eyes drifted to the small bag, noting its colour... It definitely suited Rhy, but it was quite different from his blue one now that he thought about it. That didn’t necessarily mean their keys were for different buildings, but it did strongly suggest it was likely... Still, they’d made small quarters work before and if this world thought he was going to follow some arbitrary rule about sleeping in our own apartment? They were sorely mistaken.

“We’ll work it out, I promise, Rhy.” He added with a comforting smile. This would be a matter he’d be stubborn on. After everything they’d been through, they deserved that much.

Employment was something he’d also been thinking about, and he offered a nod and leaned forward. “I’m sure that anyone would be lucky to have you, Rhy. There should be one or two around, I’d think... Everyone needs clothing.” He added with a grin. That did remind him that they’d probably need to find some themselves, having only arrived with the clothes on their back...

Humming a little, he refocused and moved on, “I’ve heard there’s a city guard... I’m going to ask around, maybe see if there are any investigation firms or a need for a consultant like I did in the last word. Failing that... I’ll see if I can’t find some sort of job— that way between the two of us we should be stable enough to keep ourselves fed and comfortable.”

"Sounds like a plan," Rhy agreed, thoughtful. This was at least something he was good at. He planned things, and made arrangements. For now, he would help figure things out. "But we should flesh it out. After we eat, we'll investigate the residences, and then start seeking work. The sooner we have that done, the sooner we'll find information I think."

Or perhaps that's only something of wishful thinking.

And Llewellyn couldn’t help but nod, prioritizing their next steps was important. Food, then looking at their new accommodations, then finding work… They should come first, the rest would come later. Even if it was hard for him to not get ahead of himself sometimes, with the way his mind jumped around. It was good that his husband had spoken up, and was there to keep him from jumping much further.

He looked up from his plate and smiled a little, brow rising slightly as he spoke. “It’s almost like we’re uh— good at this. Only just arrived in a new world and already we’ve got a rough outline of some rather practical plans.” He still had some things to worry about, yes, but not nearly as much panic as when he’d arrived.

(ooc: Do you want me to migrate this to the main com’s in the comments where I put up a log post?)

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