TDM 006: OUT WITH THE OLD

[heckinmods]

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A, Garden Level - Ice Breakers--Literally!
[It's winter in the Garden of Good and Evil. . .but still a beautiful garden! Despite the snow and frost, all the fruits are ripe and delicious, and any flowers peaking through the snow are fragrant and bright. However, any new souls showing up, temporary or permanent, may stumble upon some patches of ice. . .in fact, they're ice floats!

If you're lucky you may just raise an eyebrow and easily jump back to solid ground, easy-peezy. But if you're UNLUCKY, the ice float grows and expands, trapping you on the float. . .until some frost appears on the ice.

Break the Ice with some conversation!

That's right, the ice won't break until you strike up a convo with someone else! The ice is nearly see through, so you can easily catch the attention of passerbys, or maybe someone else trapped on an ice float! Any convo is fair game, and eventually your ice prison will melt away.

That aside, explore the garden or the other levels! And maybe see if your form has changed a bit.]


B, Heaven or Hell - On the Spot!
[While you're here, you're free to explore the cities in either heaven or hell! There's a light powdery snow that sprinkles over the Heavenly gates, emphasizing the sparkling gold and white architecture of the landscape. Coffee shops and bakeries may lure you in with the aroma of warm treats, or cute animals for you to cuddle up and pet. Or maybe you just want to be pampered at the hotel--it's swanky as hell! And speaking of hell, while it's MUCH colder down there (hell freezing over and all that), it's still lively as ever. New Years parties will be popping off all month, and bars offer endless shots for first time visitors! There's something for everyone.

Also in both areas there are an abundance of hot springs right now. What's that about?? Don't worry about it.

What you SHOULD worry about are the sheep-like imps or cherubs that descend upon you suddenly, poking a mic in your face!

If you're in Heaven, a cherub asks: We're polling our temporary guests! Do you think those in hell are SCUM who DESERVE TO BURN FOR ALL ETERNITY or like, nah?

If you're in Hell, an imp asks: We're polling our temporary assholes! Do think think Heaven is full of holier than thou HYPOCRITICAL PRICKS that deserve a holy GUILLOTINE to humble their asses??

Also: your answer is broadcasted! Or the mic just makes your answer echo out, so anyone is free to badger or agree with you back. Or a cherub/imp steals your issued phone and sends your answer as a mass text. THEY ARE SLIPPERY.

Of course, you can just walk away. You're trying to enjoy your afterlife, dangit!]

C, Wildcard
[Bring your own prompts here!!]

OOC NOTES:
-This TDM is open to all! You do NOT need to join the comm to play in it!
-This will be the TDM for Jan/Feb, but you're free to use old ones if you prefer, or make your own prompts!
-As a reminder, THIRD CHARACTER APPS are now street legal!
-Post questions for the mods here
-Remember, playing in the TDM does NOT guarantee your entry or app being accepted into the game proper later down the line!
-Apps open!! Be sure to read the rules linked there and check the current taken list!
-For current or new potential players: TDMs count as game canon AND threads may be used for AC if you wish! It's optional! You can do a whole thread and then decide it's not canon if you want!
-Remember regardless of your alignment, you are free to travel to whatever level you wish!

Comments

Vi(olet) | Arcane | (its ein again hello)

[bitchmittens]

[ooc: some info in journal, i havent settled on a hard and fast canon point, if you are okay with Arcane s2 spoilers please lmk in the subject or something]

A- Ice Breaker

[Well, here we are. Standing on a block of ice in a frosty garden. Not exactly a familiar landscape, or one that was expected. At first, Vi starts to slide down the side of it on her boots, like she's grinding a rail (muffled city escape in the distance) but she gets down to a lower ledge only for a railing of ice to grow up around it, as if trying to prevent her from falling.]

[She vaults it and slides further down, only to be blocked once again, by a wall of ice higher than her head. She growls and stomps her foot.]

What the hell is this?!

[She kicks the ice, chipping off a very small amount of it and not really accomplishing much. She wishes for her gauntlets. Even Vander's old mining fists, would probably be enough. So instead she just, leans against the ice, and waits. Is the ice slowly melting and seeping into her clothes? Yes. She's probably shivering pretty quickly by the time anyone sees her.]

B- On the Spot, Hell

[Homegirl heard there was free booze for newbies and she was on that that stink on a hog. She's done more shots than is wise, and is in turns playfully ribbing at folks to try to get someone to fight her and brooding at the bar. She's in the second state when a zippy little imp flies up to her and shoves the mic in her face.]

[She is absolutely drunk enough and bitter enough for this to be a terrible idea, which is probably why it picked her. Her words slur slightly and many come out through her teeth like a hissing animal.]

Anyone who lives in a big fancy city over top of others is a fascist asshole who deserves to eat shit. If I've learned anything in my life it's that nothing good comes of an upper city and a lower city. Who even decides who's "virtuous" enough [She says this with a big eye roll and the most dramatic hand air quotes] to go to "heaven" anyway. Who decides what actions are justified and who's just a criminal? The people who already have money and power, that's who.

[She lost the plot there a little on a metaphysical sense, but she doesn't notice, returning to her liquor.]

C- Rooftops, Hell

[Sleeping in that swanky ass hotel is a no-go for this one. It's too fancy, too soft, too weird, too enclosed. Thankfully the swanky appointments means the windows are huge, so it's not much trouble for Vi to climb out of the window and scramble up the side of the building like a lizard.]

[She climbs up onto the roof with a satisfied groan, stretching her back and her arms as she looks in each direction. Cracks her neck. Then after a moment of stillness she takes off like a shot, running to an edge and kicking off, leaping to the next roof and keeping her momentum. She slides down a pipe, and tiptoes along a balcony, laughing almost silently to herself as the rush of wind passes her ears and pushes her hair back.]

[She runs across one particularly flat, wide roof, and at the ledge realizes that the jump to the next one is a little father than she can probably make. She's going too fast to brake without going off the edge either way, though, so she commits, pounding her foot into the rain gutter and taking off, arms behind her, legs tucked up tight. Her stomach bottoms out through her feet, heart soaring into her throat, and she realizes she probably cannot make it...]

[When a sound like someone sharply shaking out leather hits the air, and suddenly she feels weightless, slowed and floating, and she lands on the far roof, taking a couple of short steps. A pair of oily black and red wings, leathery and batlike, float behind her back, slowly shrinking down to the size of her forearms now that they aren't actively in use. She turns and they turn with her, as if attached, though there is some visible air between her back and the wings, if you care to peek.]

Woah, what was that?

Blitzø | Helluva Boss

[blitzno]

I

While normally Blitzø would be all over talking to new people, he's cold, and he fucking hates the cold, and being trapped on an ice float is making him flash back to some very unpleasant penguin interactions and he is generally NOT ABOUT IT.

So instead of trying to just talk to someone like a normal person he's trying to chip away at the ice with a knife. It's... not very effective. "Ugh, Satan fucking dammit!" He hurls the knife at the wall and slumps against the wall, then veers away from it with a hiss, tail sticking straight up. "I hate the cold! This is such bullshit!"

II

Blitzø has not stopped hating the cold despite being no longer trapped in ice, and now hell is frozen over which is the BIGGEST BULLSHIT OF THEM ALL. Heaven has snow still, but at least it's not as cold.

More importantly, among the cuddly animals available, he's found a pony. His tail lashes back and forth excitedly. This is officially the greatest day of his life. After an appropriate amount of time cooing over how beautiful she is and how much he loves her, he settles down and starts braiding her mane.

"I'm gonna call you Staple Gun. A perfect horse name for a perfect horse."

When a cherub catches up to him and asks about people in hell deserving to burn, he smiles wickedly, sharp teeth gleaming. "I really think you should try."

He isn't expecting his words to echo around the way they do, but fuck it. He stands by them.

...for real, though. At least then he'd be WARM.

III

Heaven gets lame after a while even though his new best friend Staple Gun is there. So it's back to hell, which feels way more like home. Especially once he finds one of those bars with endless shots. Those help warm him right up. It's not long before he hits the dance floor and the press of bodies helps warm him up even more.

"DANCE WITH ME, BITCH!" he yells over the music when he finds a promising partner. He snags their arm and starts to pull them onto the dance floor.

Handsome Jack | Borderlands

[emperorsnewclothes]

[A: Ice Breakers]
[Hm, talk about your issues, or do some mild platforming? Not a problem for the hero of Hyperion. He's all too happy to take one step off the ice flow and watch the rest of it go.

Was someone still out there? Huh, that's probably not - oooh, there's a party over here. Time to mingle.]

Heh. You see that? Ahhh, there's totally people stuck out there in the ice. Ehhh, sucks to be them, I guess. Or not. I dunno.

[He's having a good time, and that's what matters most.]

[B: Heaven]
[Well "Heaven" - since that's what they're calling it - is everything Jack wants. Namely, he's being waited on hand and foot. It's enough praise and care that he's held off on trying to buy the hotel so far (it just needs a few more busts of himself, and maybe a casino). He's definitely still got some big plans for this place but, for now, those can go on the backburner.

He was just about to check out one of those special hot springs they've been talking about before he was interrupted by a nosy cherub. Normally, he might have strangled someone for less, but today... this was in his personal interest.]

No, actually I'm glad you asked. See, back home - where I should be, mind you - I was trying to deal with this whole world of unruly, annoying, and barbaric bandits. Real dangerous types. The kind that'll rip your face off and have a skin pizza party, right after they betray you to your face and ruin your secret weapon -

[He pauses, flickering with a dangerous electricity.]

The point is, the sooner all those scum are taken care of? The better. You know, I might just have some ideas on how to do it.