Test Drive 2

[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

[morethanhuman]

Erik huffed a quiet chuckle, sliding onto the stool beside him as its occupant vacated it. "I do, actually," he said. To wit: his presence in the Smoking Room, though Jordan had declined to join him. He wasn't sure he knew how to spend the early evening anywhere else anymore. The mundanity of it ought to have bothered him more than it did.

Max returned with the stranger's drink, and greeted Erik with a nod and a murmured, "Mr. Lehnsherr—" rather eloquently proving his point about bad habits, if he thought about it. He nodded at the rocks glass in the blind man's hand. "One of the same, please." It looked like scotch. No reason to start slow; the way people were pouring in, he'd be lucky to get a refill before the hour was up.

While he waited, he glanced at his neighbor again. "I'd ask if this is your first time here, but I think I already know the answer."

[matt_murdock]

"Am I that obvious?" Matt asks with a light laugh, fingertips instinctively tracing the patterns cut into the side of his glass. When he lifts it for a sip, the crystal is heavy and the scotch impeccable; yeah, he's definitely out of his league.

"What gave me away?"

[morethanhuman]

"Not as obvious as some," said Erik honestly, thinking of the nameless woman in her Renaissance gown. "But I've been here long enough that new faces tend to stand out."

He grinned and added, "And you'd hardly be the first to get the ten-cent tour and decide you needed a drink to help you process." At last, Max returned with his drink, and he lifted it in his companion's direction before belatedly remembering it was a futile gesture. "Cheers," he said instead, "and welcome to the Nexus."

[matt_murdock]

"Thanks," Matt replies with a slight inclination of his head and vague upward hoist of his glass, and takes a small sip. He intends to make this last, if he's to pay what he expects he will.

"Matt Murdock," he offers, hand held out just a little left of where it ought to be, hovering with that blind awkwardness he's had to force himself to become used to. "How long has it been for you?"

[morethanhuman]

"Erik Lehnsherr." Murdock's grip was firm, and Erik could feel the calluses on his palm. "I've been here nearly eighteen months."

The slight stress on the word here hadn't been intentional, but it didn't go unnoticed; Murdock's eyebrow ticked upward, and Erik relented, adding, "And another year before that in a similar situation— elsewhere." Abrupt, but he didn't think it important, nor did he particularly feel like explaining the station to a stranger.

"Suffice to say it's been some time since I've been home," he summed up, his mouth twisting ruefully as he lifted his glass for another sip.