JUNE TEST DRIVE MEME

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JUNE TEST DRIVE MEME
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Summer's here in force, the sun beating down like a hammer. Fortunately, there's still plenty to do to take your mind off the heat...


A. Swap Market Stalls
The year turns, the seasons change, and the swap market is back in business, here to offer their many exciting new wares for very reasonable prices, honestly, would they lie to you?

It’s no bad way to while away an afternoon, wandering through the rows of colorful stalls and examining the various offerings, both magical and mundane. Maybe you can buy a trinket for a friend, or a treat for yourself?

Besides, it’s nice to have something fun to do, considering the rumors that prom may be cancelled this year. Gossip claims that it’s a punishment for an unclear incident of student misbehavior, and that two seniors and a grad student have been expelled.

Given that no one can actually seem to pin down who the three people in question were, this part is probably pure rumor.

Probably.

(Hey, gossip is a valuable service, too. Can’t stop the market from talking…)

Just try not to take anything without paying. After some incidents last year, they’ve implemented a few new security features.


B. Midsummer Prep
Every good party requires a good deal of preparation beforehand, and various staff and student volunteers are beginning to set up for the upcoming celebration of the changing seasons. This year’s midsummer festival is shaping up to be a fun little affair, with all the usual traditions- food, campfires, ritual combat displays…

What, you’re not used to that last one?

Yes, well, that does explain why the preparations include both hanging up streamers and carefully warding a small wrestling ring against all sorts of magical damage.

Whether you’re here to help with the setup or just observing for the sake of curiosity, they’ll be working on it in bits and pieces for the next several days.


C. Collecting Sunshine
Sunlight has always been potent, as any of the Undead can tell you, and there is a way to save it for a rainy day. Sunstones cut in a particular way are excellent ways to magically store sunlight to be unleashed at later days, or to add to higher-level potions.

It wouldn’t do just to place them in a window and be done with it, no - it has to have direct exposure, paired with the energy of the young holding it up into the sun, or so the staff insist. One may have a sneaking suspicion that this is an excuse to make the students get more exercise.

D. Iris Network
UN: Xx_shadow_razor_xX
summer break is coming up!!! where do you want to go this year?

also dont comment on the username ok!! i made it when i came here and im NOT changing it

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[pickedpocket]

With the waitress sent off with an order for two breakfast sandwiches, all that's left to take up Garrett's attention is the woman sitting across from him. Perhaps he doesn't even realise it himself yet, but some part of Garrett has always aspired to be as effortlessly charismatic around others as Jailbreak is. Think of how much easier infiltration would be if he could just convince the guards he's someone else! Though perhaps he's not going to be doing much of that in the near future, what with Constantine's mark scarring his handsome visage...

"So, what brought you here? Something tells me you didn't just happen to be passing through the area."

Frankly, he hopes that he's gone and accidentally stumbled upon an imminent crime spree. Because if he has, it could be an excellent way of getting his foot in the door for a more permanent residence in Soleil. Even if his way of going about it is probably going to piss off the local authorities.

[nor_iron_bars]

Well, it's taco Tuesday. [It's Friday.]

Been here a while, anyway. When it comes down to it, there's really only one game in town, but it's worth playing. [With just the slightest tilt of her head, she indicates a nearby window. It's pretty far from the school, but even so the gates of Daybreak Academy are still clearly visible in the distance.]

The only one worth playing, far as some people are concerned. Apocalypse ain't great for business.

[pickedpocket]

...he just hit the jackpot. Not only is one of the very few people Garrett would consider trustworthy set up here, but her goals are apparently in alignment with his. This is exactly the golden opportunity he's been gunning for, and he sure as hell isn't about to waste it...but he can't afford to be hasty with this either, not so soon after just meeting back up with Jailbreak. He'll have to play it safe for now, leaning back in his seat and donning a mask of casual nonchalance.

"...heh. That doesn't sound much like the kind of game I'd be personally invested in. But I am kind of curious to hear what you'd be selling to someone who was actually interested. Plus, it's been a while since I last heard one of your famous 'sales pitches'..."

Just because he doesn't want all of humanity to be destroyed doesn't mean he has to start acting all upstanding and moral about it as well. He's got the reputation of a mythical thief to maintain, and he's not going to let it be tarnished by something as petty as caring about the fate of the world. He'll leave all that rubbish to the cringe-worthy 'heroes' that keep trying to convince people like him to give their patronising doctrines a chance. Fortunately, his comprehension of the French language leaves something to be desired, so any bumbling idealists around here aren't going to be grating at his patience any time soon.

[nor_iron_bars]

Hey, if you insist... [Jail straightens up from her usual casual sprawl, sitting properly in her chair, and clears her throat as she speaks with a mock-professional tone.]

So, as you may have noticed, the world has a lot of stuff. I like my stuff, and I keep most of it here. Current projections from all known reputable sources, and also me, suggest that at this rate, there will be no world, and therefore also way less stuff.

In conclusion, vote Jailbreak 2kforever.

[She relaxes back into a boneless slouch and chuckles.]

Seriously, you think I wanna outrun the apocalypse? Might be able to, sure, but God what a pain. Scrambling just to get the fuck outta dodge and losing out on so much fun shit in the bargain. Rather head that one off at the pass before Earth gets fucked up enough that we stop having stuff like the Louvre and ladies' night at Tequila Dave's.

[Two human institutions clearly equal in their contributions to art and culture.]

Nightfall's coming and I don't wanna die. That's the long and short of it. [She shrugs.] Sometimes looking out for number one means looking out for numbers two through fifty, so you can all gang up on number fifty-one for trying to, y'know, end the mcfucking world. It's a decent strategy.

[Well, he wanted to avoid idealism. Unless overwhelming selfishness counts as an ideal, that probably fits the bill.]