Test Drive 1

[concierge]

Welcome to All Inclusive's test drive! Anyone is welcome!

Guidelines

• Please make sure you are familiar with how we play and what characters are allowed before participating.


• Writing should be in para/prose just like in the main game. That means no brackets, no asterisks, etc. No network posts, please.


• No anonymous comments.


• We very strongly suggest NOT writing your character's first time at the Nexus, but rather a random scenario once they've gotten more used to the idea of the place. The shock and surprise of new arrivals and subsequent info dump by whomever meets them tends to be one note.


• Entries to the test drive may be of any length. However, if your intro (top-level) comment is of normal post length and you are proud of the quality, you may use it as an example on your application.


• Feel free to tag around the meme with any character you already play or are considering, even if they don't have their own intro comment.


• If your character is accepted into the game and you have permission from the other involved players, you may consider test drive threads as game canon. You may also linkdrop them to the main community if you choose.


• Please use the header below for your intro/top-level comment.

Header

<b>Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Location:</b>

Name: The character's name
Canon: The character's canon
Location: Choose: Somewhere in the hotel or grounds or through a door

Comments

[somanyopinions]

"Unable to return?" Anne echoed, the concern sudden and clear in her eyes. "How long are you typically detained?"

Upon her arrival she had been informed, naturally, of the many and varied tricks of the hotel, each more incredible than the last. The information had been thoroughly overwhelming, however, and she could see now that she had not fully absorbed all that she had been told, for she could not account for her belief that being trapped here entailed a few hours at most.

[armedagainstlove]

"The doors fail to release me back there," he says, though he does not say 'home' because he has not felt as though he's had a home for many years. The manor is long ago dead in his memory and the garrison is adequate, but hardly welcoming and inviting. "I find it is often a span of one to two weeks. Consistently."

"It is not a terrible place," he concedes. "You should not fear it, my Lady."

[somanyopinions]

"It is not this place I fear, but separation from my son," Anne swiftly corrected, her voice firm. "Even should time fail to pass in France, it would not stop me missing him."

This very day she had been debating the safety of carrying the Dauphin with her to the Nexus, but this new information threw the argument into a more difficult light. Should they be unable to return, how might she care for him without a wet nurse? What if he fell ill again, and not even Constance was by her side? Yet, would it not do them both immeasurable good to experience the knowledge and freedom such a place could provide?

[armedagainstlove]

"He has not been able to travel here with you?" Athos wonders curiously. He is sure that he has seen mothers with their babes in residence at the hotel, though he has no manner of knowing whether they live here or arrive and no true inclination to find out. That would require the art of polite conversation, something Athos avoids unless the direst circumstances requires otherwise.

At times like these, he begins to wonder about what his life might look like, had his Anne bore him a child. What would have happened when Papa hung the babe's mother? Better for them all that parental affection had been lacking and children had not been produced during their marriage.