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TD006

Test Drive 006
WELCOME TO ATERAT

Here is our Fifth Test Drive Meme! There are a lot of areas of the city to explore, so please have a look around! In case you need a little help getting started, I've included a few prompts below, or feel free to start your own! Exploration and player initiative are the names of the game here!

Helpful Links to Get Started

Arrival & General Information | Setting & Bestiary | Locales & Businesses | Residences & Housing Info | Rules & FAQ (ask questions here!)

I. Crash Into Me
Not exactly, but close enough. You have just arrived and received a strange satchel from a tiny, strange little man and are left more or less to your own devices (more information on what to expect upon arrival can be found here)! Follow directions to the north and check out the housing, or maybe have a look around the Historium and try to get some information from that giant glowing ball, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.
II. What Goes Bump in the Night
It looks like Aterat proper has a spirit problem. Maybe you're seeing specters, hearing disembodied voices, your windows rattle when there's no breeze outside. Maybe there are cold spots in your place of business (or your apartment, which is so much worse). Either way, you're 100% convinced you're haunted. Hopefully, someone else believes you, or maybe you're used to feeling crazy.
III. When the Carnival Came to Town?
Take a look at the prompts from our latest event and go to town (or the carnival).
IV. Try the Network
The Tell-Phone allows for text, video, and audio transmissions to everyone else who has one. Give it a whirl!
V. Wildcard
The above prompts are all options, and there's much more to the setting than what they provide. Do your best (or your worst)!
heavenlyhonour: (And your next request was?)

[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-11 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
"So you gave it away." Angeal replied carefully. And he wondered, but it didn't really matter. Zack was here now and he'd look after him just as he always had.

His head shook. "Well I'm sure you've been assigned a place, by the looks of the satchel you've got. I can show you to it and we can grab a bite to eat if you're hungry. And there's someone I want you to meet."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-11 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
"No," Zack said, his voice firm. He's had years to mature, and perhaps it's that more than anything that can let him meet Angeal's gaze without shame. He's grown, Angeal. He's not a pup anymore. Hell, as they stand here in this moment they're practically of an age.

Fuck, that hurt more than Zack knew how to deal with to face. If what he'd calculated after escaping Nibelheim was right...

Maybe it was the fate of the First Class to die young?

"You know me, I'm always down for a meal. Blame the mako infusions." Granted because of their infusions they could also go longer than most without a meal, but damn he got hungry. "Alright, show me around then. Not like there's much harm to it."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-11 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I see." Angeal replied softly. Well at least Zack was here with him even if he should be home. "But alright. Let's get going and I'll show you around so you know where to go and how to get there."

He still had some of the coins from when he arrived and he knew it would be more than enough to get their meals out of the way.

"There's a tavern in town not too far from here, so we'll start there."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-11 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Weren't they both going to be shocked to find Cloud here and with their blade. That was going to be a whole thing. But for now, well, he's just glad to see his mentor again. Even if it makes him less certain about the whole 'not the Lifestream' thing.

He had theories, they seemed fair, and he hated them. But if the two people he cared about were safe, then he supposed he could deal with it.

"You buying? I'm fresh enough off the train that I don't have any work lined up yet."

Open your bag, Zack, geez.
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-11 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I offered right? That means I'm buying, so don't worry about it. Save what you have for a sword because if the rumours are true about the Tonberries you're going to need one. I have it on good authority there's a damn good weapon smith in town. But food first, and we can catch up while we eat."

He was so used to taking care of Zack it was almost second nature. Even if he was unsure as to how his pup had made it here.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-11 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well he won't say no to a meal. It would be nice actually. And the added benefit of not being the big gun in town would be pleasant too. Well, not hun. He's be happy to never have to snipe again in his life.

"And I'm guessing they aren't the sort of Tonberries you can befriend."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-11 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Angeal shook his head. "I haven't run into any myself but I'm sure that's a bad idea Zack. And truth be told, I really only got here a week or two ago myself. But I was told that this place wants you to exist and go about your life. That's kind of a tall order when you've only been Soldier pretty much all of it."

He really had no idea what to do with it.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-11 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not that bad of an idea," Zack insisted. "I definitely made friends with one once. So it'd come sometimes when I was in trouble and stab things for me."

Let it never be said that Zack's limit break was in any form sane. Being able to copy other people's techniques when in high stress situations was a very odd thing indeed.

"A week or two is more time than I've had I guess. And it's not like you've got that much on me. I did leave home a decade ago, Angeal."

Though he had spent some years in a test tube.
heavenlyhonour: (Ah no not really)

[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-12 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Angeal just rolled his eyes sideways at Zack and sighed. "I really don't think they're to be trusted here." He was just as cautious as ever but it made him smile because Zack hadn't changed.

The former First looked over at his pup and had to laugh a little even as he mentally did the math presented to him. "Let's just focus on getting food. When was the last time you even ate?"
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe you just don't know how to befriend them," Zack countered. "Maybe they have their own sense of honor."

Still, he wanted to roll his eyes at not being taken seriously. Oh well. Angeal would never get it.

"Uh... days ago probably. Was saving the supplies for Spike."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-13 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Angeal shook his head. "Whatever you say pup."

There was a sigh as he got the report about saving supplies. And he briefly thought about how if the person Zack was referring to meant the young blonde infantryman that he had knocked him down, just enough to knock the breath out of him. He was pretty sure that was the kid.

Saying nothing about that, he just kept walking. "Just make sure you don't go away hungry." Because he'd gotten here, the only one to cook for was the puppy and since he was so small, he didn't eat much as of yet.

and having cooked for three grown Soldiers, he ended up making too much food.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-13 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Cloud was a fucking amazing kid, and Zack knew he'd be important some day. As more than just Zack, and therefore Angeal's, legacy. He would save the world. Zack just didn't know how yet.

"Oh come on, you know me. I love to eat. Guess I gotta find work here so I can eat my fill. Like, seriously. Think people will be down for some sorta handyman?"
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-18 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
There was an amused glance over at Zack with the eating thing. Angeal definitely knew the guy could eat which to him was more than fine because if for whatever reason Zack hadn't been a big eater, that would've been another issue.

However there was no issue.

But as far as a handyman went, Angeal had to smile. "There are a lot of places that need fixed up in certain areas. And there are people moving into housing, so I don't see why they couldn't use an extra set of hands."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-19 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Good, I've got a pair," Zack said, trying to keep himself positive. Because yeah, it was taking some work.

He had so many unanswered questions in his head. So many things he wanted to explain to Angeal. So many more he wanted the man to explain to him. But... but this wasn't the time, and he had learned something about keeping things to a time and place.
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-21 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Angeal slid a look over to Zack and just smiled. It was weird having the pup here with him and even if he wouldn't ever wish anyone to come here and be trapped, Zack was good company.

But they got to the tavern and Angeal grabbed the door first. The smell of the food got to him and fortunately his stomach didn't growl like he thought it might.

This made him wonder if it was a perk to being deceased.

"Let's get some food, Soldier."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-22 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Good company because he hasn't started prying yet. He slips through the door and damn his stomach is totally growling. Loudly. He hasn't eaten in SO long.

"You dont' have to tell me twice. Or, well, not three times at least."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-25 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Angeal slid the other menu to Zack and had a feeling that there was something different about Zack. And the thought kept nagging at him and no matter how long he looked at the menu he couldn't shake it.

So finally he lowered the menu and looked at his pup.

"Is everything alright Zack?"
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-26 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Of course something's different. it's been so long.

"No, Angeal. Not... It's been so long and looking at you I'm so confused. You're... you're okay. You look fine. Better than when I last saw you. And I don't get it."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-27 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Mako blue eyes blinked at Zack as he described what was going on. And so he then took a breath, figuring what the pup must've seen the last time he saw him.

He now bore physical scars of their fight, but that wasn't important right now. What was important was Zack. "The Lifestream has a way of mending things."

And Angeal wasn't sure he should get into how he was on his way to go pick Zack up and bring him there after that fight with the Shinra troops.

So he didn't.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-27 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Does it? Does that mean, when his soul returns to it, he can be whole, for even a moment? Or is that why he had only woken up with scars instead of, well, everything else?

"Then... Why did you leave?"

It hurts, he doesn't know how to even talk about it.
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-27 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
This question had him wondering and he searched the other's face for a minute. "You mean why I left Soldier?" Or, Zack was asking why Angeal had left him and for a minute the serious face dropped.

And he looked at the table, unsure how to communicate that. There was also that punch to the gut that he'd given Zack, ending up in the other meeting the Ancient in the church. There was an unspoken apology for that too, along with so many other unsaid things and so many regrets.

So the former Soldier sighed with a shake of his head. "There was so much going on. I wasn't...myself."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-27 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
You know what, both questions are valid. So he just keeps looking at Angeal, trying to get him to answer.

"Like Sephiroth was sorta... fucked up in Nibelheim? Genesis made it worse, so much worse."
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-27 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
He blinked and looked up at Zack. Those two definitely had a talent for fucking things up. It was why he'd gone to look for a young soldier, someone he could dote on and forget all about the figurative cock waving and one upmanship that Sephiroth and Genesis did. Angeal had tired of their childish behaviour and had quit playing Mom and referee.

And then he turned and abandoned the one who needed him the most.

Guilt wracked through him but he couldn't really show that because he'd always been strong for Zack, or at least tried to show that sort of thing even if he felt that he was failing at it right about now.

So he nodded almost miserably. "I know, I saw the damage."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2022-07-27 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
They'd all needed Angeal. But if Angeal hadn't left, maybe Sephiroth would have stood firm. Who knew what would have happened if Sephiroth's only friends hadn't run. If Sephiroth hadn't put Zack in the position of killing the man he had looked up to.

"How did you see that?"
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2022-07-27 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
"You can still see what's happening and check up on people." Angeal then gave Zack a direct look, wondering if the pup remembered the copy in the church protecting Aerith. And then there was the time he went to see Zack while he was being experimented on.

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