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JULY/AUGUST TEST DRIVE MEME
You're like an angel with no wings.

Prompt A: Serious Event

In each trip a character makes from their room, they will have one random encounter with a monster (or monsters) that will attack them. Fight, team up with others, run away if you think you can, but there are monsters. Everywhere.

Prompt B: Lighter Event

The mansion is gone and now we're all camping! Women on one side of the camp and men on the other with a large picnic area in between. It's like summer camp except there are no counselors. You are in charge of making your own food and fun. If you wander too far out in the woods, you'll just get lost and wind up at the campsite again. Make s'mores! Tell spooky stories! Have fun!
Prompt C: ediS rorriM

Peace has been restored to the mirror side with the White Queen ruling, but she does have a request: get to know one another, dear mirrors. She's hosting a 1990s dance party and you're all invited. Jam out to Spice Girls and mingle.

Prompt D: Choices

Any scenario goes! Thread out your character's arrival, have them act like a long-established resident, let our past events inspire your scene, or write up literally any Wonderland-based scenario you feel like playing with.

Rules

Test drive memes go up every other month. Please note that any threads made as part of the test drive meme don't count towards your activity check, and they can't be used as samples for any future applications. Thank you for understanding, and have fun!

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I'm pretty sure she might actually be the smartest kid on the planet.

[ Or the most manipulative, anyway.

She might not have got her smarts from her dad, but she definitely got that. ]

Uh... About a year and a half now? So yeah, you could say pretty long. It's a hell of an adjustment.

Kids are always a lot smarter than adults give them credit for.

[ She's had better luck with kids in politics than some adults in Pawnee. ]

That...is an incredibly long time. But it's an important thing to tell people! No one should have facts left out to make being here seem better, but also part of being here is an amazing garden and an ocean with a party boat! That stuff counts, too.

You're telling me. [ She misses Trixie so much :c ] Listen, there are some saving graces about this place. Outside of events it's actually really nice, and we are taken care of. I still haven't quite gotten used to not working but we all stay busy.

[ Chloe doesn't do party boats, though. She's not that fun. Or fun at all, really. ]

So what, are you some kind of politician?

Kind of, I'm the Deputy Director of the Parks and Recreation Department! And it's great, I get to be outside, plan parks and playgrounds, and see democracy in action every day.

[ Of course, most of that democracy is getting the municipal building to validate parking but still! It's something, and every day she's a part of it. ]

I have to listen to angry citizens all the time for having new ideas. Whenever people, what I hear is people caring loudly at me. So, whatever people wanna throw at me here, I say bring it on.

Parks and Rec?

[ Sorry she doesn't sound too impressed, Leslie, it's just that...

She's not too impressed. ]

You said Indiana, right? [ You see, Chloe assumes this bizarre little woman from some podunk town in a crappy flyover state has just fallen off the turnip truck, and thus, makes a horrible mistake.

She underestimates Leslie Knope. ]

I'm not sure you're really prepared for what's happening here.

[ Did this woman just.

Did she?

Is she????

Wow. Okay. All of these internal thoughts play across Leslie's face before she recovers, her voice a high-pitched version of itself with a very plastered on smile. ]

What exactly are you implying?

I, I don't--

[ She didn't mean to be rude, although that is clearly the way that it came out. Maybe this will serve as a reminder as to why Chloe has such a hard time making friends. ]

Listen, I'm a homicide detective back home, and I've seen some crazy - I mean crazy - freaking stuff and even I wasn't prepared for the things that happen here.

[ To be fair, her boyfriend is literally Satan so she's not being that dramatic. ]

[ At 'homicide detective' Leslie lets her demeanor shift just a little - but not much mind you because assuming she's less capable because she's from Indiana is, to be frank, a little rude. But she does get points because of her profession. ]

Granted, I've only mourned the loss of one valued member of our society and he was a mini-horse, but I assure you, my confidence in trying to push a little positivity into this place isn't me also trying to ignore the terrible things that everyone made sure to tell me happen here. If that's all anyone has to look forward to, then what's the point? Of getting up in the mornings, of doing things in between, of trying to be the best people we can while dealing with flying demons?

[ Maybe a werewolf will eat her face off, who knows! But she's choosing not to dwell on it. ]

[ To be fair, Leslie is making a lot of good points, and Chloe knows that she is. For all the horrible things she's been through back home - her father dying, solving murders, almost dying herself a couple times - Wonderland has still been a rough adjustment. Her first death happened not long after her arrival had screwed her up in ways it took months to work out. But it is exactly for those reasons that maybe Leslie's onto something, that maybe it is important to have more positivity in the face of something that can make you feel so hopeless some days, and so helpless.

She considers all of this, but there's one point she's still stuck on. ]

Sorry, was the, uh... Was the pony murdered?

[ Jesus Christ, Chloe. ]

[ This woman is honestly on real thin ice, and Leslie's previously softened face hardens again. ]

Who would murder a defenseless...[ Wait, go back. ] A miniature horse is not a pony, have some respect for the dead! What are you, a monster?

[ To be fair, everyone in Pawnee is over the moon for this stupid horse. ]

Look, ma'am, I have nothing but the utmost respect for the men but especially women who step in to help people in positions that can sometimes be thankless, and my job is one of those positions. So, forgive me, if I want to try and make this place a little better instead of a depressing death trap. I would think a police detective who sees the worst of the worst would understand.

Edited 2018-07-29 16:06 (UTC)

I, uh...

[ Part of her understands that she just majorly fucked up but the other part of her honestly has no idea what is going on anymore.

Chloe isn't sure she buys that being a director with a parks department is really has any equality to being a police detective in Los Angeles, but she manages to choke a quip down about that. Mostly because, given the judgments Chloe has made? This lady is kind of scary, all things considered. ]

No, you're right. You're... totally right. I'm sure the po- miniature horse was an important part of your community and I'm... sorry for your loss. [ She manages to keep a straight face. Maybe she isn't that bad of an actress after all. ] I have seen the worst of the worst at home, and here. I guess I get a little caught up in that sometimes. I think that your, uh, passion for wanting to bring something positive into this place is very admirable.

Like I said - if only bad things happen, then everyone will always expect bad things, which makes everyone super negative, which makes this place pretty miserable.

[ So, anyone is welcome to think she's too passionate or too enthusiastic. She's just Leslie Knope, and she refuses to give in to the attitude most people here seem to have. ]

[ Yikes, she's just so... Genuine. Chloe isn't sure how much of this woman she'll be able to handle, it's like Ella magnified.

Granted, Ella had been growing on her. ]

Well, I guess it might be your job to bring something positive to it, then.

[ She is trying to be a little encouraging and nice now, at least. She doesn't mean it in a bad way at all.

Even Chloe can admit a little more nice around here wouldn't hurt. ]

Maybe! It never hurts to want something good for everyone.

[ And already, she's thinking about that and what it could mean. Ideas are formulating. ]

If that becomes my job, then I accept.

[ Oh God this is certainly going to be A Thing, isn't it? ]

Great. Well, uh, you know. Good luck.

Thanks! I appreciate the vote of confidence.

Anytime.

[ This place will either eat this woman alive or she'll be running it in a week. ]

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