you know what I'm sayin'?

[growing_pains]

( the test drive meme )

This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before applying, and to see if things "click". Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.

Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun! Feel free to consult the institute tour and dorm guide for setting info.

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[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

Reisen resisted the urge to facepalm. Because that was a surefire way to disrupt her own powers and make them difficult to use.

"You need to work on control," Reisen sighed, at the same time her eyes lighted up briefly to knock away one of the raptors with an optic blast.

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[peachhat]

"I controlled the guy just fine, not my fault his equipment is this strange." Tenshi replied, while making the rocks she had thrown earlier rise up again on the other side of the room, to pelt another velociraptor, who shrieked.

While its friends seemed busy either moving closer to the makeshift cover that Reisen and Tenshi were at...or leaving the room...

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

"I didn't mean the scientist, I meant your rocks!" Reisen shot back.

The raptors leaving the room... that would be a problem if they managed to escape into the city and had to be neutralized right away. Her eyes lit up again, but not an optic blast this time.

"Cover me," Reisen ordered.

She focused on the raptors trying to escape, trying to tweak their wavelengths into a state of lethargy.

... she rarely tweaked them the other way. That would most likely give messy results.

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[peachhat]

"With rocks?" Tenshi asked, fully well knowing that was not what Reisen meant.

She did the cover-job by a)knocking a rock at a jumping Velociraptor, which sent it flying backwards (with a rather surprised expression on its reptilian face) and then b)getting ready for further attacks.

"Whatever weird and embarassing thing you're planning on doing with your eyes, you better hurry!"

Meanwhile, the velociraptor that had just been hit finally got back up, and started to for the table again...

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

"Control your rocks better!" Reisen shouted back.

Somehow, despite her banter with Tenshi, it wasn't disrupting her work on the raptors trying to leave. It's not like she hasn't worked with Tenshi on a number of missions before. Thus, one by one, the dinosaurs slowly dropped into a lazy stupor onto the ground.

"Why would you even think I'm trying to do anything embarrassing?" Reisen added with a sigh.

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[peachhat]

"I don't know, you might go cross-eyed if one of them moves badly."

Tenshi said while aiming a rock, throwing a jumping raptor back. It sailed through the air, into the portal, and was gone.

Tenshi, of course, mostly bantered because she could, it was not distracting her too much.It was a pretty exciting situation, actually: She had never seen these odd lizards with their huge talons before.

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

"That's not the point..." Reisen sighed, before adding, "I still wonder why they let you join the team."

As long as Tenshi was still keeping the raptors off of them, Reisen was slowly dropping more of them into lethargic stupors.

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[peachhat]

"Because my abilities are just that great, most likely."

Yeah, humility was not one of her strongest suit.

"And look, it's fine, we contained this stuff. I just hope nothing else comes through the weird portal thing. How DO you close something like this, anyway?"

Well, she was pretty much running with things right now. She liked planning things sometimes, but going with the flow suited her far more than that.

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

". . ."

Reisen just stared at the portal.

"We should have brought in a techno-path with us," she finally said.

This kind of thing was certainly outside her field of expertise.

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[peachhat]

"Maybe we should cover it with rocks? Though I guess they would eventually fall into it..."

Tenshi pondered, then pondered some more. "Maybe we could just fill the entire room with BIG rocks? Some could fall through and it wouldn't matter."

Something shrieked in the distance, probably from behind the portal. It sounded rather loud.

"...Or maybe we should just mess with the devices some more."

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

Reisen hesitated a moment... unfortunately, Tenshi had a good idea. The rabbit earred woman certainly couldn't think of anything else.

"... alright, I suppose we don't have a choice. But we need to get these dinosaurs back through that portal, first. The last thing we need is a real life Triassic Esplanade."

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[peachhat]

"I guess these birds can't be too heavy." Tenshi remarked, and sighed. "I'll leave the labor to you."

She did move, and happened to go near a velociraptor, too, but clearly was waiting for a retort just the same.

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

"Are you joking..." Reisen faltered, slapping a hand to her face, "Just get them through, and hurry!"

There's no way these things could be light enough for her to just hoist through on her own power. Tenshi's earth manipulation would be infinitely more reliable for that...

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[peachhat]

"I was, just wanted to see you reaction." Tenshi said, and smirked, and finally started to use her abilities, forming a small, floating platform from the ground and using it to move the raptor through.

One by one.

"Next time's labor is all yours, though, with me under an umbrella watching."

[Prose]

[udonge_hakase]

"I'll take care of the portal, and we'll call it even," Reisen sighed.

She just hoped she wasn't making a mistake, but... well, the solution was obvious, right? A portal had to be maintained by power. One made with technology? Needed a source of electricity to be that power.

While Tenshi was moving raptors through, she had been looking around the area. She walked over to the fusebox, flipped it open... and turned off the power.

While that succeeded in making the portal disappear... it also plunged the room into darkness. It was fortunate that Reisen's ability to see wavelengths translated into a sort of strange dark vision for her.

She wondered why she hadn't thought of looking for the fusebox earlier...

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[peachhat]

"You did take care of the light." Tenshi remarked, in darkness. She could still 'see'...technically. She knew where all the rocky stuff was. She couldn't spot everything else, but it was good enough to move around.

That she bumped into Reisen was clearly an accident!

"Pretty troublesome. You did contribute some, though."

Her tone made it soundlike a jab, implying that Reisen usually did less. Of course, she didn't exactly believe that, and liked working with the rabbit a bit, it was interesting enough.