Test Drive - January

[phantommods]

Welcome to the January Test Drive Meme for Phantom Thieves International! Use this post to try out your characters. If you have at least 10 comments in threads with at least two different characters (a thread being 4 or more comments from you), this can be used as the RP Sample for your Application.

Testrun Prompts

I.

For those looking for an evening of marvel or romance, many are drawn to the Descanso Gardens and their Enchanted: Forest of Lights exhibit. The gardens are lit up in beautiful colors with lit paths to accentuate the beautiful scenery.

What brings you here tonight? Are you on a date? Did you get suckered into watching someone’s kids (or have kids of your own) and are trying to get them through something nice without them killing each other or themselves? Or perhaps you are stalking a potential target and trying to hear some of their conversations. The darkened gardens have plenty of places to slip away and converse - or listen - undetected after all.

II.

With Lunar New Year just around the corner, the Asian American Expo is once again returning to LA. This massive event takes place over a huge expanse of 8 exhibition halls, with a wealth of vendors, three entirely different food courts representing a number of Asian cultures within LA, exhibits celebrating anime and manga, there’s something for just about everyone here.

Are you yourself Asian American, or even an immigrant wanting to celebrate your culture? Are you an American Otaku wanting to geek out about the latest anime and manga? Do you really, really like Dim Sum? This Expo is the perfect place for you!

III.

While the temperatures hovered around a brisk, but not too chilly 70s, there are still places in balmy Los Angeles to get a taste of a winter wonderland, artificial as it. In the financial district of the city is the Pershing ice skating rink, where not only one can do a triple axle or circle the ice to the one’s frosty heart’s content, it often host DJ events, disco nights, and even curling - if you want to know what the fuss is all about. Now the question is, how good are you at skating, and how much do you care if others see your skill (or lack therefore of?)

IV.

Filming on location is standby for feature films, but nothing beats the gritty mystique (and the cost savings!) of filming in Los Angeles, and one Dustin Buboire, teenage song sensation has decided to have his film debut on your street, a dream for fans of the would-be actor, but a nightmare for anyone looking for a bit of peace and quiet, what camp do you fall under?

V.

Los Angeles is not a city known to major temperature variances. With summers reaching upwards to 100 degrees and winters hovering around 60 to 70 degrees, it is generally warm, arid and hot. However, it is a desert, and when rains come to the desert, they often come quite hard. So it is that today it is raining, pouring, really, with a flash flood advisory expected to extend for the next few days at least, highly unusual for the area.

And with this torrential rain, that means Mementos is awash in powerful shadows. With the streets awash in water, traffic is more nightmarish than usual, accidents are far more likely and tempers are flaring. In Mementos itself, this translates to an increase in the incessant, distant honking noise that pervades it, and with more shadows, some of whom will begin the battle in a frenzied rage. Unfortunately, a Phantom Thief’s work is never done. Are you in Mementos to train? Change some hearts? Either way, it’s going to be rough going.

VI.

Wildcard! Feel free to make your own prompt.

Comments

[returnher]

[Locke is now dragging Kang along with an arm around his neck]

What the hell is that!?

[explodingbananas]

Small timer for the fireworks I left under the table. Just a little startling, never to harm, of course. Wouldn't be good to harm a slimy salesman, then he wouldn't learn his lesson. Was considering something stronger, but you're right, I think this is best way about it. It's just like the tale of Sisyphus and his giant boulder. He pushed and pushed that boulder until he learned to build a proper lever... and explode it by pulling that lever, clearly attached to a thermonuclear detonator!

[ HOW IS HE SO NONCHALANT. ]

[returnher]

OK the not harming is good but are you out of your damned mind we're trying not to draw the cops attention!

[explodingbananas]

Won't be a problem. ... Er, probably. Unless I set the explosive radius too high. Might be a problem then. Specifically for the ceiling.

[ Yes, he IS out of his mind. People don't call him "Kang the Mad" for no reason, friend. ]

Very good lesson. Might learn how this new stock handles this type of shell. Could be a BIG boom!

[returnher]

[Do you feel that Kang? That is Locke's arm around your neck tightening like a vice]

So here's the plan. You go back and disarm that right now before we have the cops bearing down on our heads.

[explodingbananas]

[ Hm. He is choking slightly. Not the best position to be in. ]

Squeezing. Very hard! Can't... disarm trigger... if I can't breathe.

[ PLEASE LET GO. ]

If I die... lots of knowledge... goes with me.

[ I mean really where else are you going to get someone readily available to make you explosives on the easy, dude. It's not exactly something you can order, how many people running a pyrotechnics business (you know, fireworks) do you know??? ]

[returnher]

[Locke lets Kang go]

You've got a job to do.