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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME
It's Chinese for 'Japan.'

Prompt A: Serious Event

A memory is displayed. It's yours, the most traumatic of your life whether it was a terrifying clown encounter or the death of someone you love. It's on a loop for everyone to see. You can enter the memory and take your own place, but no matter how hard you try, you cannot alter the outcome. You're forced to try in vain to change what happened or watch until you decide it's too much and walk away. If you can.

Prompt B: Lighter Event

Welcome to Storybrooke.

You've lived in a quiet town in Maine for as long as you can remember. You are a fishmonger or a diner employee, perhaps you work at the hospital. Whatever you do and whoever you are, it's not the real you. You are cursed and you know no other life outside of Storybrooke.

When the curse breaks (either from True Love's Kiss or, in a more TDM friendly, handwaved way), you have two sets of memories: who you were, and who you are. Do you choose to accept all that you were cursed to believe, or would you rather slip back into your old life? The choice is yours.

Prompt C: ediS rorriM

Use this prompt to test out your mirrors. Are they loyal to the new White Queen or do they think she's too good to be true? Do they long to cross over or spend their days tormenting reals? Whatever the scenario, know that the Queen is watching, and let that guide you - or not.

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 don't know anything about Templars but if it gets you to stop stealing devices? Whatever works.

[ She takes the device, pocketing it confidently because she will actually find whoever it belongs to.

Still, he looks kind of bummed out and since she just gave him a cupcake it doesn't seem very nice to leave him like that. ]

Hey, Jacob, it's fine, you know, all the worlds are different, right? So, maybe in your world, iPhones will be a lot cheaper.

It isn't theft. It's acquiring. People should not leave items laying about. Though learning they're the items of the rich makes more sense why they don't seem to care. The poor don't leave cherished items just lying about.

[Sadness and bitterness tinge his tones as he gives her a look.]

I know that you wouldn't likely know if our worlds were the same or not. The Templars are not as open as they once were when they ravaged the world, and those that fight them do so from the shadows.

[Unless you're Jacob Frye, but that's another story.]

But if people are paying that much for the ability to communicate, they have won. [He holds up a hand.] And don't tell me that this inflation changes things. You already made it clear you did not have one because of the cost.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there's a 99% chance my world is not run by Templars.

[ Although that might explain the Illuminati, but Juliet isn't even going to go there. ]

Taking something that doesn't belong to you is theft. It doesn't matter how expensive it is. [ She might be small but her opinions are big. ] And wasn't going to say I disagree, but that's how it works. It's called capitalism.

I'm going to smile at you sweetly and nod, and pretend like most of the sheep would say the entirely same thing in London rather than fighting back against control.

[And he does smile then, nodding.]

Not that I think you're sheep, but they're good. They're smart. They know how to twist the world. You're speaking of it. This capitalism. That is their rule, and you wouldn't know it.

[And he's earnest and believes that, sadly given the hurt in his eyes as he says it.]

I wish it didn't seem true but if toys like those are being kept from the masses, kept from communicating with one another... [He sighs, shaking his head.]

I'm not a sheep!

[ Wow, Jacob. R U D E.

The look in her eyes softens her, though. This is obviously something very personal for him and Juliet is not insensitive to that. ]

And that's not really what I meant, plenty of people have cell phones. It's just the kind of cell phone that's different. Sure, they don't all have fancy screens and apps and can play all your music, but not everyone needs all that. I'm not saying my world is perfect, but it's not all bad, either.

[Jacob shifts, turning to face her more fully.]

Tell me something. In your time, are most beholden to those that run the factories? To working themselves to the bone as if they are indentured servants? Do their task masters run things with an iron fist without regard for their lives and livelihood?

[He doesn't expect her to deny it, and yet he hopes. Oh how he hopes.]

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