TEST DRIVE #6

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

Comments

[ajayya]

[ Ajay might be more surprised by the way this guy's acting if he weren't already operating under the assumption that he's incredibly intoxicated. Not that he can smell any evidence of it, but you never know... ]

Uh.

[ He gives him a cursory (cursory) glance before he answers, and rubs awkwardly at the back of his neck. ]

Well, it...looks like you're all in one piece, so. No damage, I guess.

[testgasm]

Wh--

[He looks entirely bewildered for a moment (perhaps more bewildered than the default of suddenly finding oneself in a strange, unfamiliar body), but it doesn't take him more than a few seconds to realize there's been a miscommunication.

Still, he does find issue with one thing, blinking a few times in an almost exaggerated fashion.]

Well, I mean. Seems like the optics are on the fritz, but, uh. I sort of meant...do you have a mirror on you, by any chance?

[ajayya]

A mirror?

[ Think fast, Ajay. He hasn't even seen a mirror in what feels like ages, much less had cause to carry one around; he still has his camera, but of course it's not working; the flat of his knife is probably too dull for a useful reflection... ]

Oh—

[ But it does give him an idea. He pats himself down for a second before he pulls out a pair of aviators, looted off the body of some lieutenant he's already forgotten about. One of the lens is cracked, but the other is still clear and intact, and he swipes over it with the sleeve of his jacket before he offers it to the guy. ]

That's the best I've got.

[testgasm]

[He reaches for the glasses with all the coordination of someone with no fine motor skills. That is to say--he grasps at it with a heavy hand and drops it. Finagling it between his thumb and index finger and bringing the lenses into a position where he can use them as a mirror takes more than a little fumbling.

Once he has them in position, however, the reaction is instantaneous.]

Oh, no...

[Wheatley appears to be all at once disgusted and incredibly distraught as his free hand pulls four white lines down the side of his face.]

It's worse than I thought, augh, this is--this is awful!

[ajayya]

[ Yeah, there's no way this guy isn't on something. Not something Ajay isn't used to, but still...

He sighs and rubs at his neck again. ]

I dunno, you don't look... You look fine to me.

[ After a beat: ]

Not— fine fine, I just meant... You know what I mean.

[ He shouldn't have gotten involved in this. ]

[testgasm]

[Wheatley is still fairly occupied with squishing his face around, as if that will make him less unsightly. When it doesn't, he lets his hands fall into his lap, looking at Ajay with a kind of disbelief.]

Fine!? You think this is--this is fine?

[A sphere is a sensible shape--now he's all pink and squishy-looking and covered in ugly little brown dots, with all these bits that stick out, to say nothing of the fact that he's ginger.]

Is there--do you know if there's someone I can complain to? About--about all this? Bodily displacement?

[ajayya]

[ Did you want me to call you ugly and gross? — is what he thinks, but decides against saying in favor of another sigh. He definitely shouldn't have gotten involved with this. ]

Maybe you could talk to one of them? [ He gestures vaguely at the imps, though he's still not sure what their purpose is other than to be obnoxious. ] Although, they'd probably appreciate it if you, uh...put on some clothes first.

[ After another beat: ]

And so would everyone else, I think.

[testgasm]

[Wheatley casts a glance to the imps and scoffs.]

They're the ones who put me in this in the first place!

[He can only assume, anyway, and starts to grumble as he undertakes his next big task: standing.]

Honestly, you humans...

[ajayya]

Look, I'm just trying to help—

[ But before Ajay has enough time to mentally pick apart just what the guy means by you humans, he's starting to stand, and the full magnitude of just how much he should not have gotten involved with this starts to bear down on him. ]

Whoa, whoa—

[ Ajay scrambles to his feet ahead of him, starts pulling off his jacket; it's not nearly long enough to cover anything important when worn properly, but shit, at least it's something. ]

You really ought to find something to wear, all right?

[testgasm]

[Wheatley apparently cares little for Ajay trying to help--right now he's focused entirely on standing. If he even recognizes the fact that being Naked in Public is not necessarily socially acceptable, he doesn't acknowledge it.

The fact that there is even a preoccupation with clothing in this DIRE SITUATION just kind of baffles him, and his face says as much.]

I don't have anything to wear. Can you help me up?