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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Alexis Castle | Castle

[raisingdad]

[Alexis has been wandering around this strange place for a while now trying to figure out what is going on. It's certainly the most beautiful, perfect building that she's ever seen in her life, but she has no idea how she got here or what's going on. So far, the people that she's asked haven't been much help.

After exploring a few floors, she finds herself in a gigantic library and is momentarily distracted from her quest by the sheer vastness of it. It's even bigger than the main library in New York City, which is saying a lot. In fact, she reasons, a place this big could hold hundreds of thousands or even millions of books. Alexis wanders through the stacks, her mouth agape at all of the titles around her, the stacks rising well above her head.]

[thebestseller]

[Castle had been tucked away in a small corner of the library, re-reading Casino Royale for the... well, by now, he'd long lost count of how many times he'd read it. It was one of the few things that could help his loneliness, the awful pain he'd felt at Kate's departure and still felt every time he came back to an empty bed.

He was so absorbed he didn't notice someone else coming in at first, but he looked up as the person passed- and his heart skipped a beat.

Could it be...?

Tucking the book under his arm, he smiled and came up behind her.]

Pretty nice, isn't it?

[raisingdad]

[Alexis jumped at the unexpected sound of her father's voice and turned to face him.]

Dad. Hey.

[She wrapped her arms briefly around his neck before pulling back again, a look of confusion on her face]

Where are we? What's going on?

[Seeing him brought on a sense of relief though. At least wherever she was, she wasn't by herself.]

[dog_eat_dog]

[Tess spends a lot of her day in the library.

Good reading material gets scarce in a world with limited resources –– there's nothing new being printed, as far as Tess is aware, and much of the existing books have more value as kindling than as repositories of human knowledge. She would know, as someone who has burned more than her fair share of books.

These days, she's just glad she can relax and read them.

Tess eyes Alexis as she passes her row in the stacks. She looks too "fresh" to be from her world, yet she's never seen someone gape over books.]

Have you never seen a book anymore?

[raisingdad]

[Alexis snaps her head towards the sound of the voice, taking in the woman speaking to her.]

I've seen books. I've just never seen so many in one place.

[She's not sure if the woman is trying to be rude or sarcastic or if she's asking a genuine question. Alexis is on her guard. So far nobody here has been helpful.]

[dog_eat_dog]

[Tess notes the girl's guardedness; she's made a career out of working people, and having a good people-sense is crucial to it. As a result, Tess looks over Alexis almost analytically, like she's sizing her up for a fight, but she's just a little girl. Tess doesn't worry about little girls, even if she was a little girl once, too.

Now she's a middle-aged woman, and an accomplished crime lord. Little girls on their guard in the library stacks are nothing.

Tess used to like putting people on edge around her. These days, it just makes her feel transparent, too obviously rough around the edges, too prone to aggression. ]

Too much time on the internet and not enough time in the local library, huh?