TEST DRIVE MEME: The First (Fixed Setting)

[thecrows]

TEST DRIVE MEME
HOW TO: Post with your character in what will be a fixed setting for the first round! Do a top level, respond to others! If your thread is substantial, it can be used as a first-person on your application! Remember that this is not game canon, and everyone is welcome!

You were just ushered into a large park by a murder of loud and insistent crows who somehow manage to get the gate shut behind you before they fly off. The park is awfully green for such a dead-looking town. It's dusk, and things are starting to get a little noisy at the edge of the tall iron fence that surrounds the area. There are gazebos, cobblestone pathways, gentle slopes, and of course, the lake and the island with the large, dead tree. It's full of crows, and if you stare at them, they'll all stare back. Feel free to take a load off on one of the many iron and wood benches, but the gates to the city are closed!

This does not, however, mean you are barred from ghost-watching as night progresses. Remember, they won't see you!

Comments

[stabbywheelfeet]

That was sarcasm.

[A beat. And he cants his head to one side.]

Unless you were too, then. Then we're even.

[poisonousflame]

"Even" is fine by me.

[ No. It's really not. ]

Who'd want to hang around in a place like this, anyway?

[ Not that he thinks there's anything particularly wrong with the scenery. But he'd like to know what's bugging this big silver thing. ]

[stabbywheelfeet]

Sure.

[He shrugs, looking back to his nonexistent nails again.]

Not me. I have a war to fight. Lives to save. All that.

[poisonousflame]

[ Wars to fight and lives to save? Definitely interesting. Not something that Axel would readily take part in (except, perhaps, in causing a war — but missions are missions), but something he'd like to know more about. ]

Really? Man. And here I was just—

[Struggling to walk. Struggling to remain conscious. Struggling to carry the body of one of his best friends, after he'd beaten her down and knocked her out, because he swore that he would always bring her back—]

— getting home from a job.

[stabbywheelfeet]

Well, too bad for both of us, then, isn't it?

[Ironhide would probably be fine without him for a while -- the old timer was indestructible. Right? He just wasn't looking forward to the inevitable shouting match of where were you?]

[He tries for nonchalant, though, rocking slightly on his wheels.]

[poisonousflame]

Can't argue that. Though I gotta admit: it sounds like you've got a more pressing reason to get back.

[ A lie. An enormous lie. But nonchalant is the name of the game. ]

[stabbywheelfeet]

Of course I do. Your race isn't going to keep itself safe from Decepticons.

[OH yeah, assuming Axel is a human right here.]

[poisonousflame]

[ The redhead tilts his head. He doubts this thing knows what he is, any more than he knows what it is. But there's no need to press that little issue. ]

Kinda tough to keep safe from something you've never heard of.