Test Drive Meme

[mercenarymayhem]

The city of Gulch is a bustling place, a haven for criminals and rogues, yet a cherished home to its natives. You might be a native, well familiar with typical, day-to-day life here. Or you may be from off-world, here for some opportunity you think you can't get elsewhere.

Or, you may have been dragged here by the dimensional portal known as the Transponser™— an outsider, confused and weary.

What will you do while you are here?

1) New arrivals: Maybe you're a mercenary who just arrived from off world. Or maybe you're a visitor who came through the transporter. Either way, you're new, and it's time to explore.

2) Taking a job: Everyone who comes to Gulch needs to have a means of making income. Maybe you've taken a job as a mercenary. Maybe you become a lowly store clerk. Either way, you need to make contact with customers.

3) Avoiding the plague: The clouds are descending and it's time to find shelter! Make your way through the streets with the others who have found themselves vulnerable.

4) Touring the city: It means a long train ride but you want to see the sights, so you pay for a token and off you go!

5) Wildcard: Whatever you want to play out! Tag around and have fun!

Comments

[wanderingmemory]

I meant to Sigma. What happened?

Sneakers are not a priority to me.

[baruthumos]

One day, you will develop a sense of humor, penguin.

First, he's okay. He's going to be okay. Let's get that clear.

He was helping a lady find something she'd lost when she was set upon by some ruffians. They roughed him up a little, then his boyfriend brought him home.

Do not panic when you come home. But maybe fuss over him. It's been rough.

[wanderingmemory]

I have a sense of humor. It gets put aside when I'm hearing that my younger brother was attacked, Omega.

I won't panic, but I don't like this at all.

[baruthumos]

Well, yes, I would think you're not a fan of any of your siblings bleeding. But it wasn't his fault. He was just doing the right thing at the wrong place at the wrong time. I hear those responsible have been taken care of, too.

Which I suppose is for the best.

[wanderingmemory]

Understood. I won't get on his case about it.

And I'm glad it was handled...

[baruthumos]

Handled by someone else.

So are you coming home for dinner tonight? I'm making mystery meat. I mean, I know what it is, you all get to guess. Whoever's right gets to clean the kitchen.

[wanderingmemory]

I figured as much.

I guess I could be home tonight. Start getting used to being home more.

[baruthumos]

Surely we're not so horrible to be around.

[wanderingmemory]

It's not anything with you guys. You're my family.

[baruthumos]

What did Alpha always tell us, though?

[wanderingmemory]

...

Omega.

[baruthumos]

What? There can be other things on the list. Just for now, we need to take care of four and five, and that means suck it up, buttercup. Do you think I don't have things I'd rather be doing than evicting Gamma's mushroom kingdom out from under his bed?

[wanderingmemory]

I understand, Omega.

You don't mind me continuing the courier work, right?

[baruthumos]

Of course not. Keep working, keep going to school, and if you can't be home more often, make it count more. Bring groceries with you, I don't know, you figure it out. You live here too.

Or are you trying to move out?

[wanderingmemory]

I understand. And I'll see what I can do.

I'm not moving out. I'm not leaving you guys.

[baruthumos]

Okay, good. Someone's got to stop thinking about boys for two seconds.

...

please tell me you have not met a man or a woman. I won't judge. But your timing needs some work.

[wanderingmemory]

I haven't met anyone. If I had, I would have said something already. ... Probably.

But don't worry. There's no one of the sort.

[baruthumos]

Thank all-powerful Atheizmo, because I am about done with that flavor of drama. Let's have something new. Like no disaster. Think we can manage that?

[wanderingmemory]

I think we can manage no disasters, but I could be wrong.