May's Voicetest and Enabling Post!

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Here be rules and explanatory things!~
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3

2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~

3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.

4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.

5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.

Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.

<b>Player name:</b><br /><b>Character name:</b><br /><b>Character Rank/Suit:</b><br /><b>Short description:</b>

The information given here is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~

6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.

As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.

Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!

Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on a gloriously random project. Even crackier when it's off-suit.
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.


ALSO: If you would like to be enabled into creating a new character or if you have a requested character (or character type or face or whatever) you'd like to see in the game...post them under the comment thread titled "enabling requests". :)

Comments

Re: 3-3

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

[Elisha glances up at the familiar knock on the door and finishes signing the permission for a new art showing before speaking.]

Come in, Karin.

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

Milord Ten, we had some extra finger sandwiches in the kitchen from afternoon tea. I thought you might like some.

[She steps in and finds a spot to set down the plate, but doesn't leave immediately. It's with a simple look that she lets Elisha know that there's something on her mind.]

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

I would. Lunch was on the fly again today.

[It had been, honestly, on the fly almost every day since he became a Ten. Which was an anniversary that wasn't all that far away, honestly. Eight had come within a couple weeks of Andrew's death. Ten a few months later. Karin and tea had been one of the constants.]

Sit down for a moment?

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

[She perches on a chair, rather than relaxing into it, her gestures and mannerisms sharp and birdlike. More than one lower-ranked Club had compared her to a sort of heron or (on a particularly bad day, a vulture.)]

Thank you, Elisha. Has it been a particularly busy day for you?

[As usual, there is the small talk before she presents her concern. After all, barging in and demanding his attention and help would simply be rude. She's a Five, and he doesn't live to serve her.]

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

[Elisha shrugs with a half-smile, leaning back in his chair.]

Not so bad, really. The paperwork pile is just daunting instead of Nearly Insurmountable today.

[He'll wait for her to bring it up, but he suspects he might know what's up. People whisper, after all, and he listens.]

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

Your idea of Nearly Insurmountable is what most people would call Completely Overwhelming. You have all my respect for what you do.

[She isn't rushing into bringing it up. This is a pause in her day, a chance to talk to someone who she respects.]

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

It's really just a matter of prioritizing everything. And a lot of coffee.

[He flashes a little bit of a grin at that. There had been a couple months there, last fall, where Karin had actually had to cut off the coffee supply in order for him to go to bed. Transitioning from Six to Ten in a few months had been a major one.]

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

Harrumph. I've still got that stash of sleepytime tea, you know.

[It's not really a threat--closer to a fond inside joke.]

So, I had a conversation with Teodor earlier today.

[Now, she segues into the matter at hand. Teodor's a Four who worked in the gardens. Teodor thinks he deserves to be of higher rank than Karin because a.) she's female and b.) "she works indoors and doesn't feel the blistering sun on her pale skin".

And this is a problem on so many levels.]

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

I live in fear. I hope you know that.

[And there it is. Elisha leans back with what Tegan has called the Ten Look.]

He's been a bit..dissatisfied lately, I've noticed.

[And he's an ass, but sadly if they eliminated all the asses, they wouldn't have anyone to do the grunt work.]

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

[She pulls from her back pocket the green-stained gardening glove he had thrown at her feet in lieu of a gauntlet.]

Enough to attempt to act upon it.

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

[Seriously, Teodor. Do you even realize how ridiculous that looks.]

What does he plan to challenge you in, or hasn't he gotten quite that far?

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

A footrace. He wants me in a footrace.

[She's more than ten years older than him. There is very little expectation she has of winning. But the fact that the challenge was allowed makes her wonder which monarch okayed it. That's half of why she's talking to Elisha.

The other half is, of course, the matter of counter-challenging.]

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

[Elisha's eyebrows lift at that. It's not Argine's style to approve challenges where there was such a distinct advantage on one side. And as much as he and Alexander don't really see eye-to-eye on much...he wouldn't think it of him, either. It's an interesting question.

But for later, and a different audience.]

Teodor isn't the brightest crayon in the box.

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

[Karin's personal theory is that whichever monarch approved the challenge simply neglected to ask the form, busy with some other concern on their mind.]

I'm aware of this already. But are there any particularly notable deficiencies?

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

[God knows they all had enough going on lately. Even at the best of times; Eileen would someday be a perfect Ace of Clubs, but she was a twelve year old girl now, and study was her focus. It meant the rest of the Face Cards - and the Tens - picked up the extra.]

He doesn't have much of a head for either words or numbers. But I know you keep all the household accounts in your head before passing them to Leona in accounting.

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

And that would be a fitting demonstration that he isn't ready for the responsibilities that becoming a Five bears. I like that.

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

It really would. And maybe encourage him to actually work for the rank.

[Well...they could hope, at least.]

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Thank you for the advice, Elisha.

[She favors him with a warm, easy smile as she stands, going back into the charade of having only stopped in to deliver food.]

Is there anything else you'd like today?

[cipherspeak.livejournal.com]

You're always welcome, Karin.

[He smiles back and looks at the teapot brought in earlier.]

I'm almost out of oolong. If you wouldn't mind?

[butlebattler.livejournal.com]

It would be my pleasure.

[She grabs the pot to refill.]

I'll be back shortly.