July's Voicetest and Enabling Post [a twofer!]

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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". :) OR if you just want to see them put in a musemostwanted post in a few days before we open apps, we'll be posting some descriptions of wanted characters there. :)

Comments

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

A decade?

And she knew him?

Holy shit.

He sets the violin down carefully in its case beside him before sliding down off the wall to put both of his feet on the ground and letting his smile go sheepish. "I'm sorry...I really have no idea who you are. But...I don't really remember anything?"

That sounded like such a cop-out. Christ, Johnny. You're such an idiot.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

"Seriously?"

One eyebrow went up and she crossed her arms. She was a medical professional, though she hadn't practiced much since she started looking for this particular piece of her past. She knows amnesia exists, and she knows sometimes it's bad enough memories never come back, but really. It's like a soap opera or a country song.

"After disappearing into thin air you're going to say you have amnesia? There was a manhunt for you. I went to your funeral." They'd been supposed to go to prom together, but probably an unimportant detail.

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

"A manhunt?"

Considering the only bits and pieces he's remembered so far left him feeling like nobody would have missed him anyway, this is almost as surprising as someone showing up saying she remembers him.

"I. Well shit."

Because what else can you say?

"But it's true, unfortunately." You could ask just about anybody in the Deck about Johnny the Heart's problem remembering his past.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

Johnny's father was a bastard - still was, honestly, from what her parents had told her over the years - but it was a little town. A missing teenager, even from Johnny's family? That was news.

Abby looks at him another moment and then sighs, her lips pressing into a line. "I was your girlfriend," she says slowly. "We'd been dating for two years, and it was serious. We talked about going off together once we were done with high school, somewhere where people could hear you play. And then one day....you were just gone." She looks away for a moment, and then looks back.

"And my name's Abby Benson."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

Fuck his life. That's all there is to it.

Asking her what his last name is...where he's from. Well, all of that can wait.

He just sighs and scrubs a hand through his hair. "Bit over ten years ago, I woke up in some woods with no idea how I got there or...anything." Woke up wasn't exactly the case, but it was the only thing that made sense. "Just me and her," he jerks his chin back toward the fiddle sitting in its case, "so...I didn't know what to do. Just started walking, ended up here. Been trying to figure out what happened...who I am...ever since."

Wasn't very successful, obviously.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

She wants to tell him those things, of course. She'd like to tell him everything he's forgotten as much as she can, but it's probably not the time for that. So she looks down at his violin case. She's not sure if it's the same beat up fiddle he used to play - there's something different about it.

So she just says something else. "I thought I heard you playing a couple of years ago, in Nashville. It's where I moved. I started looking, after that."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

It's not the same beat up fiddle he used to play, not at all. There's a certain...shine to this one that the other one never had, no matter how much he might've cleaned it up.

"You thought you heard me playing in Nashville and you spent a couple years looking for me?"

Well, damn.

And apparently he can only think in expletives now.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

Her shoulders lift in a shrug and she looks a little sheepish. "It seemed like a good idea at the time?" she says. "We were close, Johnny. Really close. It was...difficult, when you disappeared."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

He turns for a moment to close his violin case, also convenient so she can't see his expression. Then he'll turn back to her and smile a little crookedly.

"Well, maybe I should buy you a drink and you can tell me about it."

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

She gives him a considering look, then smiles a little.

"I suppose I could be convinced into a beer."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

He smiles back at her, properly this time and gestures for her to come with him, not really sure if touching is exactly kosher here.

How do you act around your long-lost girlfriend who just found you again but you don't remember at all? Why couldn't he remember things about this instead of...other things?

"Have you been to the Four Suits yet?"

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

She slides her hands into the pockets of her jeans, which solves the problem.

"I haven't been anywhere yet," she says. "I've barely been assigned my...rank, I guess." Like she'd gone into the army like half the boys they'd known once.

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," he says, wry, "the rank thing is....weird. I'm a Four but I never really paid much attention to it."

Though he'd apparently paid enough attention to do a couple of Challenges. Probably to impress girls he was seeing at the time.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm a Two." Of Hearts, which was the other thing. It was like she was in some large-scale game of poker.

"Have you been here since...?"

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much...I mean. I did a lot of traveling around? Not just Nashville but...all over." Trying to find where he came from. Which, considering how much country there was out there was probably easier said than done.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

"You always wanted to," Abby tells him. "Travel, I mean. And we both wanted to get away from home, but there's not much there unless you have the burning urge to farm. I went to Nashville for college and didn't really leave again after that."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

That prompts a laugh, "guess I managed to do what I wanted, then." Though apparently without the girl he'd wanted to do it with. "The Deck kinda makes it easy, too." What with the location being...flexible.

"Nashville's a nice city though. What'd you end up doing there?"

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

"I'm a nurse practitioner," which meant she could actually prescribe things, something that had made Heart HR light up a little when she was filling out form after form. "I worked in a clinic there for a while. Attached to Vanderbilt University."

And then she'd gotten divorced and left town, but that was another story.

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

Opening the door for her as they enter the pub, finally, "well that doesn't sound like something anybody'd want to leave."

Sounded like a rather big deal, actually.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

She steps inside and shrugs as they head to the bar. "Well," she says after they both get beers. "The divorce probably was an impetus too, I have to admit."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

"Divorce?"

Where'd that clenching sensation in his chest come from?

"Guess that would do it."

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

"Mm-hmm." She doesn't notice any reaction Johnny might have to that, too busy examining her beer. "So maybe hearing you then was, I don't know, fate or something."

At least she didn't have children, Johnny.

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

...."Fate?"

Seriously, fuck his life.

This requires a long, cold swallow of beer.

"Guess it worked though," he says, after setting the bottle down. "I mean...you're here, aren't you? That's pretty impressive."

More than the usual, even. Since this place didn't even properly exist.

[heartpursuit.livejournal.com]

She shrugs her shoulders at that skeptical tone. Yeah, it's a bullshit reason, but she can't think of any reason she would have heard Johnny then after so many years.

"I didn't really know what I'd found at first," she tells him. "It looks like any other town, except for the Castles."

[fiddlerjohnny.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it's pretty wild. Never been anywhere else quite like it."

Then a grin.

"Guess we should be glad they don't talk in Ye Olde English, huh?"