Test Drive Meme!

[paradisamods]

TEST DRIVE MEME Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Whether you're considering joining paradisa for the first time or you just want to test out a new muse, this is the place to do it. Only character journals allowed, please! Feel free to have your character roam any of the castle's rooms, grounds locations, or City Royale. Thanks for your interest, and have fun! Premise: You wake up in a giant, magical castle. Everything is beautiful and the castle grants material wishes. It also provides a magic journal to every resident that allows everyone to communicate with each other like a two-way radio.

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[themuse]

Kate was a little surprised by her knew company. Not just because of his unique height, which was awkwardly imposing even for her, but his casual manner. Here she was, snooping around and trying to figure out where he had been kidnapped to. And this man appeared, asking questions she didn't even understand.

"Pardon?" she asked, her eyes glancing to the duck again, as if it might be able to clarify.

[majestic_leader]

"The duck. Is he a friend of yours? Or, are you just talking to a duck?"

But then something in her expression seems to draw him to a different conclusion. He tilts his head, considering her for a moment.

"Or are you new here and have no idea what I'm talking about? You know I don't think I've seen you around; I would have remembered a pretty lady like yourself."

[themuse]

That comment received a pretty impressive eye-roll and Kate took a step back, narrowing her gaze. He was, at least, right about one thing, though.

"Yeah, I guess you can say I'm new." She shot another look at the duck, her mind still reeling over his initial comment. "Is having friends that are ducks a normal thing around here?" Granted, Kate was the one talking to it, but she couldn't have foreseen her off-handed comment causing that kind of confusion.

[majestic_leader]

"Having friends turn into ducks, yeah." If he was at all undeterred by her eye-roll, he doesn't show it. No, no he wasn't. He holds his hand out in greeting, smiling.

"In that case, welcome to Paradisa. I'm Spartan Paul DeMarco but you can just call me Paul.

[themuse]

Kate sighed but offered her hand in greeting, giving it a firm shake. Friends turning into ducks sounded a hell of a lot worse than just friends who were ducks, and Kate didn't know what she hated more. The fact that was a serious thought she actually just had for the fact that she was in a place where a thought that ridiculous could actually be construed as serious.

"Detective Kate Beckett." Since they seemed to be going with titles. "What the hell is Paradisa?"

[majestic_leader]

"Detective? Nice." He's inwardly sobbing because why does he keep hitting on such high-powered ladies? At least Kate's not trying to publically humiliate him like Palmer did.

"Paradisa is that thing there." He motions to the nearby castle. "Drags us in from our own worlds, like some weird slipspace anomaly or something. Then sometimes it turns us into ducks, or cats, or lamps. That's the tame part."

[themuse]

"Something tells me I don't want to know the not tame part."

Kate isn't really sure what to think. At least talking to a duck doesn't make her feel as nuts as she did before; this guy is obviously the one off the deep end. She takes a casual step back, crossing her arms and eying him warily.

"How does it take us from our, uh, 'worlds,' exactly?"

[majestic_leader]

"You'll figure it out when it happens. Kinda hard to miss."

He gets it, it's weird, but he's pretty confident she'll eventually realize it's the situation that's fucked up, not him. "Haven't quite figured that part out yet. Maybe you and your detective skills can help." He gives her a wink.

[themuse]

Kate resists another eye-roll at the wink. She's already in a huff due to the circumstances, and not being taken seriously isn't helping matters.

"Yeah, well, maybe they will." She grits her teeth and glances back at the pond. "Would be great if I had a little information about where to start."