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It's anticipated. It's expected. We're all about expectations, aren't we? Sort of? Maybe? Regardless, it's the first official

TEST DRIVE MEME

You probably know the drill by now. If you don't, here's a quick rundown: test drive memes are a game's way of gauging interest and such. It's a way to play around in the environment without the commitment of apping, maybe see how well that character you're considering gels with the setting. This one will be open indefinitely, or at least until further notice. You don't need to be apped to the game to test drive a character, or even reserved, or even want to reserve. However, if your interest is indeed piqued, reserves are thisaway, applications thataway.

As of this writing, we don't consider anything that happens in the TDM canon unless you'd like to transfer any threads that happen here to the main comms (provided they don't interfere with pre-established game events, of course). TDM threads are just a way to get a feel for a game, or in case you need that pesky writing sample for an app in progress. We don't recommend you do a standard intro post, however - save that for the game proper!

We don't have a set entry date for the game proper just yet. Once we accumulate some interest, we'll be sure to let you know!

Some resources we recommend that you check out if interest continues to abound:

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PROMPTS:

i. do you hear the people sing?
You've heard the rumors circulating about Atlas and his bandits for months. Even the upper echelons of Rapture's high society were having trouble burying their concern under the careful veneer of professionalism. What you didn't expect was an open attack. You'd just been passing by, but the poor souls who lived and shopped and made their living on this street have just found their entire livelihood set aflame. People are saying it's a bombing, while others protest that it must have been something down in maintenance.

Right now, it doesn't really matter one way or the other. The homes and storefronts have been reduced to sheeting flame as hairline cracks go cobwebbing up the glass, the only thing separating the city from a watery grave. Whether you choose to get the hell out of dodge or help the wailing survivors is up to you, but regardless of what you choose to do, this section of Rapture is rapidly coming apart at the seams.

ii. who's your daddy?
You've no clue whose bright idea it was to tail the Little Sister. It might have been some gang of spliced-up nobodies thirsty for some extra ADAM. It might have been your best friend's idiot plan. Hell, it might have even been yours. All you know is that no matter how appealing the thought seemed at the time, you and yours are in for a world of hurt. The Little Sister just had to shriek once and her armored protector came barreling into the scene, drill humming to life with a sinister whine. Guilty as charged or caught in the crossfire, you're in for the fight of your life with a Big Daddy, one of the most dangerous things in Rapture. Good luck.

iii. a part of the masterpiece

Fort Frolic, they say, is the hub for creative artistry. Sander Cohen is either a wildly inspired artistic genius or a madman depending on who you ask, but the alcohol runs the same no matter how you slice it. For tonight, the Fort is yours to enjoy at your leisure. Take a gander, gamble everything you've got, have a drink, maybe sit in for a show. The only thing Cohen loves more than his exclusivity is rampant attention, and tonight he's on full display. He's even torturing - er, entertaining a lucky pair of dancers in Fleet Hall! Don't mind the wires threaded in and out of their clothing, doubtless unspooled over all those important parts of the nervous system and ready to unleash a burst of fatal electricity at a moment's notice. They've got to be just for show.

One thing is certain about the possibly-deranged Sander Cohen, after all: he certainly keeps you on your toes!

iv. wild card! make up your own scenario

We prefer third-person, present tense prose, but if you're just in it for the fun you can write in whatever floats your pontoon. Have fun!

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Flashpoint knows just enough about how they do it to be not certain she could follow through on that bluster. So motion passed on the no third party floppy bits, Deadlock's gonna be all Flashpoint wants to handle for a while anyway.

And hey, it's not like she started the fire! She just did some early demo for the clean up crew. She always brings the house down though, in one way or another. Deadlock's blowing this place wide open though, and Flashpoint's dashing after, debris pinging off her armor. Nice door making skills there Deadlock, showy even. "Enjoy it while it lasts!" Because she's bound to go back to saying stupid things any moment here.

Good, because he may be kinky, but that's a kink too far.

At least on the first date.

And she can admire his door-improvising technique out loud, if she wants. His ego can take it! And it might make up for the gross squishy organic...grossness he keeps feeling bounce around in his interior. Also the screaming. Which he's gonna address right now, but forget to use his inside-his-cabin voice. "Would you calm the frag down?!? No one's even fraggin' shooting at us." Y-yet.

Maybe the fifth or sixth date. WAIT does this mean they get to go on dates? Like real dates? ... It's been so long she's not sure what that consists of anymore.

"Good job, that innocent wall didn't stand a chance!" That's appropriate praise, right? Does Deadlock's ego need more? She might be able to arrange that once they're done here and there's less of that distracting organicness. She won't admit it, but the way man feels so fragile in her arms is really freaking her out. It makes her think of Lauren's mate/spouse/whatever. The one who died in the car crash. Does this guy have someone like Lauren?

Y-YEAH. Hopefully she's doing more good than damage here? AHA Ha ha...

"Get clear and let her out! They're not supposed to bounce around like that! Something could break!" And then he'd have organicness all over his interior probably. And a peeved Flashpoint.

Keep in mind, a date with Deadlock probably means her ending up bedazzled and Deadlock threatening someone. He knows how to have a good time! By his own definition, at least.

"It deserves it for BEING IN MY WAY." Yeah, you heard that, structural walls in the area: stay out of Deadlock's way or face the consequences.

"BREAK?!?!" Break? Seriously GROSS the last thing Deadlock wants to deal with is gross organic bits all over his interior. So he's gonna set all possible records and flip a bird to the laws of physics, slamming on his brakes so hard he actually does a barrel role before landing. "Get out, you!" Wait. "I mean. You're safe now!" Right? Better?

That does sound like a good time, can bar brawls be included? Because Flashpoint hasn't had a good one of those in a long time.

"You said it!" Flashpoint can totally cheer him on because she doesn't have to pay the property damages, or listen to him whine when he has to pay them, or help him dodge what passes for cops in this place because he won't pay them.

What she's not cheering on is this stunt Deadlock pulls in the name of organophobia, or whatever you call it. She pulls up behind him and attempts to cuff him upside the helm, or spoiler, whatever she can reach, shouting, "THATS NOT BEING CAREFUL!"

Now where is that little girl, please Primus let her be okay.

Puh-leeze. Bar Brawls are Deadlock's middle name. That's what the yelling normally escalates into.

Deadlock doesn't pay property damages, because...wut even are those? He's never heard of them and therefore they are not important. Obviously.

Oh hush, though, because that was an AWESOME stunt, all things considered. See? Even the organic is cheering. Oh, wait, no, that's probably closer to 'screaming and running'. But whatever. "What? She's safe! And didn't break into a flesh pinata inside me." That's what really matters. Get some priorities!

Fisticuffs are the way to this lady's spark, Deadlock. Well, that and super fluffy-gooey sweet-nice things, but that's her kryptonite and no one gets to know about it, except maybe by accident. And then maybe there needs to be facepunching to remove the evidence.

The next time Deadlock's own property gets damaged and he wants to take it out of someone's plating, well, then he'll know what that's like. As long as it's not her, that hole she put in his wall while swatting green-glowy spiders is totally different.

Sure it was an awesome stunt, how about next time without a passenger? "You got LUCKY! Do you know how fragile these things are!?!" Don't make her cuff you again Deadlock, she means it!! But frag. Now the little girl is running off, ALONE, and Flashpoint's stuck with the adult who's still passed out. "Come back!! What do I do with this now!?!"

Some kind of emergency response team should show up here and take care of the rest, right!? She has no idea how to fix humans!

The odds are better for a brawl with Deadlock as his way to her spark than the other stuff. Unless he's, like, possessed by some weird Dead Universe entity or something weird and totally not like him.

Sheesh, Flashpoint: Deadlock's own property getting damaged is TOTALLY DIFFERENT because it's HIS STUFF. Someone else's stuff and they just get told 'there's a war on suck it up' and then they get a GREAT view of Deadlock's rear bumper as he zooms away.

It totally works.

And let's not mention the spiders because Deadlock can still remember them all up under his plating in really unpleasant and unnatural ways.

"I dunno what you do with that now. You wanted it so bad, you figure it out!" Excuse him while he finishes transforming, so she can see the HARRUMPH face he shoots her way, arms folded over his chassis.

Weird Dead Universe entity's and GTFO in her opinion, she knows how to deal with bar brawls way better than schmoopy things. Besides, he might find out her secret if he tries schmoopy things, so he better not!

Suck it up Deadlock, there's a war on you're against pity parties remember? That includes spidarrrrrghs. Never mind the pity party Flashpoint held for her self that night. Whatever, she's old and entitled!

"I wasn't asking you!" If Deadlock had his way, he'd probably leave the poor dude right here in the street. Lucky for Flashpoint she can hear sirens, time to hand this guy over to the emergency crews. He's still breathing right? Uh. Uh. She thinks so? Flashpoint is actually so caught up in her utter triage fail that she forgets to oogle his transformation, darnit! "Ya know you could care about something other than yourself for once, instead of standing there acting like a giant hypocrite."

Hhhhhhgggh It would be worth it to try schmoopy if it got her to spill feelsy deets. Especially if they're about him. SO TEMPTING.

And she's dang right he'd leave the organic standing there. What? He wasn't like on fire or anything, right? He's FIIIIIINE, obviously. Deadlock's ego, however, might need a little first aid.

Especially after that cold burn Flashpoint just delivered. OUCH. "I CARE ABOUT PLENTY OF STUFF OTHER THAN ME!!" If by plenty he means, uh, one thing?

There will be NO spilling of feelsy deets! Not unless he can handle that. Remember what happened last time, when she was dying and they'd only known each other a week? Yeah, THAT TIMES TEN.

It'd be the end of the world, clearly.

Besides, Flashpoint isn't allowed to, uh, like someone on a very serious and profound level. It makes her all protective and mother-heny. Also no one is allowed to like her that way either, because then she feels guilty when she does stupid slag that almost gets her killed. Lose/lose!

Deadlock's ego has a permanent sprain if you ask her. And NO, Flashpoint isn't stroking it until it feels better. ~~Not unless he asks nicely~~. "Like WHAT!?!" Don't mind her as he hands over the limp form of my mister almost-charcoal to the EMT who looks more willing to brave the fire than get close to two large bickering robots. "Name 'em!"

Uh. Okay. No feelsy deets, then. He's not sure he's up to that. Keep that stuff away from him!

But excuse you, Deadlock will like her any way he wants to: she doesn't get to decide that! And HE is the one that gets to be all overprotective and scrap on her, and she has exactly two things she can do about it: Nothing, and Like It.

"LIKE I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU!" Because see above, no feelsy deets, okay? that means it's mutual! "MAYBE LIKE YOU, OKAY?!" Don't make him yell any louder--those EMTs are already giving them weird enough looks. "NOT YOU GROSS ORGANICS!!" Just to be clear!

Yeah that's what she thought. Deadlock doesn't have the bearings for her feelsy deets. HA. (this shouldn't make her sad, WTF)

There's no monopoly on overprotectiveness here, Flashpoint can indulge in that if she wants. Though really, it's a toss up on if she'd go off on a yelling spree or just accept that like everyone else, he'd leave or fall by the wayside. As much as she hates to admit it, Flashpoint's fighting spirit isn't as young and fresh as Deadlock's is.

She gets free reign on doctoring the scrap out of him if he gets himself hurt though.

Well hey, look at that, maybe Deadlock does have the bearings. Now if only she hadn't been totally thrown off by his sneak-attack honesty, she could maybe say something meaningful here. Instead, "WELL THEN-- THEN-- Try caring about some of the things I care about!!"

There's so much caring going on here, the fire department might just hose THEM down.

Hey, he can handle all the feelsy deets! He just...doesn't wanna. That's all.

That and he doesn't want to risk spilling his own bucket of deets. Then they'd have a big intermingled mess of deets on the floor and...yeah, it would be bad. For his ego.

And he will graciously accept doctoring from her, especially if she says something like 'thank you', 'my hero'. Swooning also acceptable.

"I care about stuff you care about! WHy you think I just did that whole rescue" shudder! "thing just now!?" See? he got an organic buttprint on his interior: that is LOVE.

Yeah she knew she wasn't worth it. That's all right though, Flashpoint's done fine on her own all this time. She can keep doing it no matter how lonely it is! It doesn't matter that she's old now and kinda running out of time to enjoy that stuff...

That stuff is for other people! At least that's what she believes because it makes going without easier.

And Deadlock can have all the 'thank you's and 'my hero's and swooning he wants as long as he can accept some sarcasm in there. It's the only way she can do it without making either of them purge. If she really went all doe-eyed on him would Deadlock actually be able to handle that?

And she can't argue with that point, he DID go in after her. So fine, she concedes the point for once, arms crossing over her chest. "Yeah. Okay. ... Thanks." Thank yous are starting now Deadlock, are you prepared?

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baby you can drive my car

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sadly this is probably my favorite icon

It's his default state around Flashpoint

they have that magic with each other

true explosive chemistry like no other

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