Test Drive Meme #1

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Welcome to Fernweh's Test Drive Meme! Do you have an interest in joining the game? Need to make sure the setting works for you and your character first? Or have you made the decision to join the game and need fresh samples for your application? Whatever the reason, feel free to use the scenarios however you wish.

You know what to do! If you don’t, just follow the instructions.

How To Play:

→ Comment with the character you would like to test drive (duplicates are allowed)
→ Choose a scenario or start your own
→ Tag around
→ Have fun!

SCENARIOS

01. Arrival

You have been sitting and staring at the sign above you for some time now, lost in a blur of swirling questions that seems to start with how you ended up there; in a place (and time, maybe) that you know you weren't an hour earlier. Or maybe you're an old hand at this by now and you've figured out that this is simply another stop that the multiverse bus has made. So why not get off and look around a little?

At any rate, the sign points you towards the direction of a place called "Gazin", which looks like a decent-sized town from where you stand. There has to be someone who can explain.

02. Around Town

So, you've settled in. Well, mostly. At least you know where things are without taking too many wrong turns and ending up in the less desirable areas of town. But now you can go about your day. Visit the market, check out the local shops or have a drink with a new friend at one of several inns.

03. Exploring

You've heard people talk about some pretty interesting places and now you're itching to get out and find them. Be careful though, there are creatures and monsters out there that will be pretty interested in meeting you and may wish to have you for its next meal. Better take someone along. And maybe some weapons, too. Make sure one is made of silver.

04. Monsters

So, you managed to find that location you were looking for. Good for you! Only.. it seems you've also found one of the native creatures to the area and you now face to face with it. Um. Good luck! We'll see you when you get back!

Hopefully.

05. Celebration

It won't take long for you to figure out that people of Gazin are, all in all, pretty happy people. It shows, too, when a seemingly quiet evening suddenly bursts into a random, impromptu party to celebrate whatever good fortune has touched a person. Name Days, good harvests, betrothals, weddings, or just life in general.

Sing, dance, drink and be happy, too!

06. Wild Card!

Want something else? Feel free to choose your own adventure or mix and match to create something completely different!

NAVIGATION

Comments

Rhaegar Targaryen | Game of Thrones

[valiantdragon]

Arrival/Around Town:

A silver-haired young man eyes the sign, hands briefly pausing in checking over black armour with a red three-headed dragon emblem on the chest. A quick check at his side assures him he is still armed, but it's an almost negligent glance before he studies the town the sign points to.

Not exactly what he'd meant with the thought of being anywhere but at a tourney, even one he'd organized...

Rhaegar smiles half to himself and starts off toward town, where he runs into a wizard (he thinks!) who crams knowledge into his head (amazing ability!). He keeps looking around, quick to find temporary lodgings and removes the armor itself. There is no war here, he learns, and the armour is making the people here nervous. But he's not the only one with a sword, so he'll keep that at his back- only those from Westeros are likely to recognize it anyway, and he doubts many of them are here with him.


Celebration:

Now this is more like it! Rhaegar laughs as the music starts up and immediately joins in, singing as he learns the tune and borrows an instrument to play along. Much more enjoyable than dances and politics. And learning about the culture here is fascinating.

Spying someone who might not be having as much fun as others, he adjusts his part of the song to cajole and tease, hoping to at least draw a smile as he pointedly gives his attention to them with a flash of a smile.


Wildcard me!: Feel free to find him pretty much anywhere!

/SCREAMS

[thebrideoffire]

She had been watching him from the beginning, drawn by the sight of silver hair and purple eyes. She remembered him from the visions in the House of the Undying, but the face familiar and beautiful, but unknown. Seeing him play music, laugh and tease the others around him, in her heart she believed she knew him, thinking that blood called to blood, but perhaps it was hope making her jump to conclusions?

Regardless, she watched him, afraid to approach and have that dream (wish) shattered. It was only when he tried to make her smile that she was unable to hold back the question in her mind. "Are you Rhaegar?"

Aaah fresh screams in the morning....XD

[valiantdragon]

He's caught her watching him for a while, but it's not a new thing. Many people have watched him since he was born. He turns to music to ease friction though, not wanting the people to be uncomfortable around him.

Rhaegar finds this young woman to be beautiful, but also strangely familiar despite being certain he's never seen her before. The hair and eyes hint at family, but surely he'd know her if this was so?

Finally she approaches, and then she speaks. Asking a question many have asked back home, but not here. It is enough a surprise that he's glad the vocal section of his part is done until the next song. He nods, straightening from his perch and returns his borrowed instrument with a flash of a thankful smile to a fellow musician.

Then returns his attention to her, gesturing for her to walk with him. "You know me, but I am certain I have not met you before."

She's book Dany too

[thebrideoffire]

"No, you would not have. I was born a year after-" she breaks off, uncertain what he may know or be willing t speak of. That this was happening at all seemed impossible. Her heart felt so fragile in her chest, one false step, one misspoke word and she might shatter. "I was born on Dragonstone when our mother and Viserys were fleeing into exile."

Did he even know that their mother was pregnant at the time? Viserys never spoke of it. He blamed her deeply for their mother's death and any reference to her was quickly squelched in a huff of anger and with a warning about waking the dragon. Now, the questions she ignored for so long and were too afraid to ask finally surfaced.

"My name is Daenerys. I am your sister."

Aw...I'm considering a pre-Lyanna canonpoint for him

[valiantdragon]

Rhaegar links his hands at his back, listening intently to what is, and is not said. Dread fills him at implications. Exile. Fled. Meaning their family has fallen, but how? Why?

Because of his-their father?

He accepts her claim of being his sister with a brilliant flash of a smile, though it's short-lived as he keeps leading them slowly around the celebration. "How do I die?" He abruptly asks, though not in an unkind tone. Carefully measured.

"We were still at peace when I came here," he belatedly thinks to inform her.

[thebrideoffire]

"You don't know?" This was what she feared, having to tell him about what happened when she is not fully aware of the facts either. Viserys gave her one story, Ser Barristan added further details, but it wasn't the same as actually living it. "I have heard others speak about time and memory in this place, but I was not aware what that meant."

Now she did and she had to tell him about their father, Robert Baratheon, Elia and her children, along with so much else. It was enough to make her stomach turn.

"I was told our father was mad. Is that true?"

[valiantdragon]

He only shakes his head in answer, waiting patiently for her to speak as she chose. She- Daenerys- knows more than he does. Of what happens after. Of even just this world. He's not all that surprised with the question she chooses first.

Rhaegar doesn't immediately answer her though. How to explain it all, to phrase it simply but truthfully? "There is a...sickness. In our blood. A madness that appears, sometimes strong, sometimes hardly noticeable until later in life."

Nothing he'd readily admit to just anyone, but he believes what he sees, and what little she's told him.

"Unfortunately, as Father ages, he has been growing more paranoid and suspicious, even of me." Speaking in the past tense is a challenge he is not yet going to meet. For him, this is all the present.

[thebrideoffire]

"The way Viserys framed it, the madness was lies from his enemies. Ser Barristan was the one to tell me and he refused to serve me fully until he was certain that I wasn't like our father." She shivered, frightened to voice these thoughts, but able to for the first time. Somehow she always believed Rhaegar would understand where none of her advisers would. "I fear sometimes becoming like him, that my blood will be tainted."

She didn't want to be a monster, but what else could she be if her children were monsters as well? Her decisions, made in good conscience, did not always sit well with her. She wanted to be a good queen, one that was loved, but Meereen was proving how difficult that might be.

"Viserys, I cannot say if it was madness or cruelty that afflicted him, only that he seemed at times to possess both." Some of their blood never suffered the taint. Their mother, she was good and kind where her husband and son weren't.

[valiantdragon]

Hearing the name of a trusted friend has him smile knowingly. "Fear is what gets us, Daenerys, in the end. Ser Barristan is a good man who will guide you well, if you let him. His voice is one you never need doubt." But he understands her fear. Feels it himself, but he has gathered people he trusts around him. Listens to them.

"It is why I spend time with the people. Getting to know them, and letting them come to know me." Rhaegar thinks she might be more like their mother, if not like him. But hearing some of what has happened to their brother has him frown, expression darkening a little. Not at her.

Sorrow and pity for the little brother he remembers. "...Perhaps a bit of both. I know him as a kind child. It is possible the responsibility was too much for him, even with Mother around."

[thebrideoffire]

"I trust him with my life," for he had proven himself and sought forgiveness where Ser Jorah demanded it. The city was alone, without her guidance while she was here. Yet there was Ser Barristan. He knew her and what she hoped to do, he knew her brother and had always spoken of Rhaegar. There was no one better to guard Meereen in her stead, until she found herself again and what she needed to do.

"I was told you were the last true king of Westeros, more than our father was." Even if he never wore the crown. Rhaegar was the last dragon. More than anything, she had tried to model herself after his image, but perhaps had fallen short.

"Mother died when I was born. We were alone in Essos and dependent on the charity of others. We fled each city, afraid of assassins chasing us. There were times when we had nothing. The day he sold mother's crown, I think that is what changed him. He didn't wish to be the Beggar King any longer."

/more screaming

[king_inthenorth]

Jon catches sight of the man from across the street as he steps into the inn. The silver hair would be enough, but the sigil makes it obvious. The man is a Targaryen. Which one Jon doesn't know, but there's no denying what family he belongs to. One that it turns out is also Jon's family. So of course he's interested. But how does he open that conversation?

He sees the man again when he's around the village, and he's no less eager for answers than he was before. More, even, because he knows that he might be able to get some.

If he doesn't do this now, there's a good chance that he never will. He takes the chance to speak when he sees it. If nothing else, he can offer his limited knowledge of this place to someone else.

"I expect this place isn't what you're used to."