TEST DRIVE MEME #4

[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

tough set of choices for them - a? - I hope this is okay?

[watchkeeper]

[Regret, immediate regret, and panic - that's what Joel feels as he stands there off to the side in the shadow and stares like a deer caught in headlights at the crowds bustling about the room and mingling with each other. How is he expected to join when he wants nothing more than to turn on his heel and find the nearest exit? This place - whatever it is - he's not supposed to be here. He should be back at Tommy's, with Ellie. Instead he's standing there in a grey sweatshirt, hem frayed, sleeves torn, the fabric stained in what look like oil patches with the sleeves rolled to his elbows and dark raggedy jeans, his backpack strapped securely at his back.]

This ain't... [This ain't right.

Yeah, Joel needs to get out of here. Joel needs to figure out where to go to get back home. To his brother and to Ellie. They finally have something good, something solid, a place they can call home and make something of. He's not about to let this place and these bastards take that from him, not when he'd almost lost her once already.

Move, his mind urges and kicks him into high gear, finally pushing forward. And he doesn't stop, distractedly snapping his attention to the right when he catches quick movement which then causes him to collide the side of his body into hers in passing. The force is enough to snap his attention back while he turns with fast reflexes to grab for her.

Instinct, years of surviving, and being quick on his feet are the reasons for why his fingers bite into her arm before it's yanked up high at her back and she might find herself pulled back into the shadows with him, a shiv from his pocket pulled out to press threateningly up under her jaw.

Joel has no idea who this person is. He thinks they bumped into him, or that they were trying to get the jump on him using that movement from seconds before as a means of distraction; he's no stranger to the tactic. And he's not taking any chances here.]

You got two seconds, get talkin'.