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TEST DRIVE MEME

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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!

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[Pausing awkwardly, Hiccup gives the guy a long, unsure look, then glances down at the ice under his feet.]

I think that'd be more work than it's worth. [Seriously, breaking up the ice just so he can walk without fear of slipping is totally unnecessary. What would he even use, anyway? His big walking stick? Pfft.]

Really, I can handle it. [To prove it, he takes a step forward. ...And his prosthetic foot nearly slips out from under him, but he manages to keep his balance.] I'm-- I'm a lot better at this than I seem, I promise. I've dealt with ice before. A lot.

[Apparently he just sucks at it in front of strangers who are watching him to make sure he doesn't nearly break his face again.]

Sure you have, not even gonna debate it. [ Jack stops himself from moving forward when the boy almost slips, hesitating. Well. Doesn't he feel like a jerk now? ~~The answer is a resounding YES.~~ ] Buuut I'm a worrywart, so bear with me.

[ He skates forward in bare feet, smacking the butt of his staff down. The ice fractures into delicate little veins all over from one side to the other; another tap and it dissolves into snowflakes.

Jack glances around to make sure it's all banished, then over. ]

So, how come you've dealt with ice 'a lot'? That's a weird thing to say.

[ Coming from him, yep. ]

[Bear with him. Okay, he can do that, but he does so warily, not sure what to think of whatever's happening. A lot of thoughts and questions are running through his mind right about now, ranging from "aren't his feet cold" to "what does he even plan to do", but he loses the chance to ask them for the time being as the guy...does his thing.

Looking down at the ice again as it begins to crack, Hiccup's eyes widen in shock. And they stay that way when it all suddenly turns to snow with another tap of that staff.

Uhm. That's not what he was expecting. At all.]

...Because we get really long winters where I'm from, so I've had years of practice walking on ice. [Just, not so much with the new foot is all.

As he speaks though, his eyes stay on the snowflakes that are now littering the floor under and around him, and his answer is distracted. Like he's just getting it out of the way to focus on something more important.]

I'm sorry, [He raises his hands above his shoulders as though he's not sure what to do with them. Or the rest of himself.] did you just turn that ice into snow?

[AND IS THAT NORMAL BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF FREAKING OUT A LITTLE NOW.]

[ 'Long winters' sounds so ni — Uh, oh. Jack holds out a hand of his own as if to tell him to Stay, Sit, RELAX. Any of the three being inferred are workable. ]

Yeah, but don't freak out! I'm — good.

[ That's ... a really crap explanation, the first thing that blurts out. ]

[How is that even considered a good answer??? What's he supposed to do with that?]

--And that's just normal? You can turn ice into snow and it's a normal thing?

[Nope, he's still freaking out, seemingly ignoring everything that's just been said with the exception of the 'yeah'.]

How is that even-- That shouldn't be possible, right?

[He's been brought here by fairies to fight in their war, but it's the guy that can make snow that he finds unbelievable. Totally makes sense.]

Hey, look around. You're in a fairy castle. I'm far from the weirdest thing you're going to run into.

[ Mildly stung, gosh. Rolling his eyes, he conjures up a snowflake on a palm. ]

I'm Jack Frost, I bring the ice and snow. Or I did, back home. Look, kid, I'm not gonna hurt you.

Right... Right, fairy castle...

[Okay, breathing now. Breathing like a normal person, anyway; nice calm, deep breaths. ...Pretending like this Jack Frost guy just making a snowflake out of nothing isn't completely bizarre.]

I'm just, uh. I don't think--uhm. [He can talk, just give him a sec.] ...That's just, uh, really new. To me. I've never seen...

[He gestures awkwardly to the snowflake, and then the ground all around them.]

That. Before.

[ Time for Real Talk, the kind where he stems the urge to roll his eyes and his lashes flutter as a result before he locks onto Hiccup, raising his brows. ]

Do you want me to stop doing it?

[ He will, if it bothers him so much. The kid isn't too far into his teens, so Jack shows him a lot more mercy than anyone older would garner. ]

Uh.

[He takes a minute to consider the offer, but after a moment gives his head a slow shake. One that's almost unsure that his answer is going to be the right one.]

No. ...No, that's okay. I mean, you're right, this is a fairy castle. I should probably...start getting used to those kinds of things. [Scratching at the back of his head, Hiccup deflates a little, considerably calmer now.] Sorry. That may have been a slight overreaction.

[ His shrug is careless, deliberately so. ]

You over-react to a lot, I'm guessing. [ It's then he gets a good look at what the boy is wearing, and ... well. That get-up is a little too old to be a blast even from Jack's past. ] What's your name? And where were you going?

[He so does not overreact a lot, gosh. That comment earns a look, but Hiccup lets it go to focus on this whole introduction thing.]

Hiccup. [Don't laugh, okay.] And I was just looking around, not really going anywhere. This, uh. This place is a lot bigger than buildings I'm used to, so I guess I was just curious?

Your name is Hiccup? [ He doesn't laugh, but a wicked grin cuts across his face and he certainly isn't going to leave that one alone for long. ] Never mind. Do you even know where your room is yet, Mr. Intrepid Explorer?

[HUFF. Even if he's told to never mind, Hiccup gets the feeling the topic is going to come back up at some point. He folds his arms over his chest, but the annoyed look he's trying now more or less fails at that question.

A glance from side to side, trying to spare himself some time, he does his best to come up with a way to give the answer that doesn't sound embarrassing.]

Well-- No. Not yet. But I'm working my way there! It...can't be that hard to find. I'm sure.

[Don't judge him okay, geez.]

[ Shifty McShifterson is clearly the most subtle boy to have ever lived. ]

Or maybe you want to end up in the girls' wing, so you can say you "got lost".

[ There's so much to tease him about, where to start. ]

What?!

[He doesn't really look like the kind of person who would do that, does he???]

No! No no no no, that's not it at all! [Shaking his head and waving his arms vehemently, he's doing his best to deny without accidentally overdoing it.] Absolutely not! Who even does that sort of thing, that's just...not cool.

[ SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER #1. Sagely, Jack twirls his staff over a shoulder and clucks his tongue. ]

Skulking around the corridors like this, some people might get the wrong idea. I'm just saying.

[ In which Hiccup becomes Enemy of the State for ever ~~having had the misfortune of~~ walking into Jack. ]

[No, this is the absolute opposite way he wanted his first day anywhere to go. Stop looking at him like that!!]

I'm not-- I'm not skulking! I'm just walking! There's a very clear difference that I'm sure most people would see! ...Probably.

[He doesn't even think he's anywhere near the girls' wing anyway! ...Pretty sure. Is there a map, because that would probably be really helpful right about now...]

--No one should get the wrong idea because there's nothing wrong about it. This. The fact that I'm not doing anything but checking the place out.

[ So easy to rile. Rolling his eyes, Jack jerks his head to the corridor Hiccup was headed down. ]

Relax, twitch. C'mon, I'll show you around ... and for the record, if anyone tells you to go to the Bower, don't.

That's where the women live.

Er. Right, noted.

[MENTAL NOTE MADE. Thank you, Jack Frost, for making sure he doesn't accidentally make himself out to be a creep.]

You sure, though? You don't have to show me around. --I mean, I would appreciate it, but.

[But he'll start walking again anyway, because he's sure not going to turn down the offer if it's real. ...Even if he's pretty sure the guy was just riling him up for the fun of it.]

[ Just call him a genuine service to the needy. ]

Yeah, I'm pretty much done for the night, anyway.

[ As evidenced when they round the corner where frost glimmers on the portraits, icicles dangles off the banisters of stairs and on suits of armour. Someone will have to clean that off tomorrow but it won't be Jack, so carpe diem. ]

You said your home's wintry, where'd you come from?

Done...what?

[His gaze is on Jack as they round the corner, but as he catches sight of a glimmering out of the corner of his eye, Hiccup turns his head. ...And suddenly it makes sense.]

Never mind. [Though now he's wondering if Jack doesn't just do this to make peoples' lives difficult. Even if he has to admit, it's kind of...pretty. In a really cold sort of way.]

Oh, yeah, I did, didn't I? I'm from Berk. Buuut you've probably never heard of it. [Shrugging, he gives a little eye roll.] Wintry's putting it lightly. More than half the year we've got snow. And about half of that, we're more or less trapped inside by it all.

[Maybe slight exaggeration there. But very slight.]

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