Test Drive 001

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Test Drive #001 Welcome to Atonement's first test drive, and thank you very much for stopping by! Please refer to the prompts below for ideas, or simply make up your own, whichever is easiest for you. Prompts Arrival: You don't quite remember how you arrived here. It appears that you're suddenly in a dead land with eerily red skies. The grass is dead, the trees are dying, and there's absolutely no sounds of life beyond your own footsteps, even if it feels like you're being watched somehow. Eventually along the narrow path you follow, you walk through gates that seem to guard a quiet, abandoned town and a sinking feeling starts to settle in that you are far from home and there may not be an easy way back. The sign hanging above the gates simply says "Welcome to Penance: Home Between Homes" and nothing more. Within the gates, there are the leftovers of what may have once been a lively, welcoming little town, if it didn't look as if people either fled or somehow vanished in the blink of an eye. There are dusty shops that are still stocked with supplies, many with their doors busted out or left open. There are homes that haven't been touched in what feels like an eternity but they still have furniture and the remnants of the people who lived there previously. Cars and bikes are littering the streets that are in varying shapes of usability. The more you look, the more unsettling everything becomes... First Punishment: As a show of good will, your hosts will give you a very easy, albeit potentially embarrassing, task to carry out for your punishment this month. First: There will as few secrets in Penance as possible. Transparency is key to atonement. You will reveal at least one sin in a way that will be permanent, which means via tattoo, scarring, branding, or other permanent means somewhere on your person. For those who are unable to be injured or scarred, there will be enchanted items that will be able to pierce even the toughest skin, cut deeper than even increased healing can recover from. All necessary items will be available at the tattoo parlor in town. If desired, characters may also make an announcement on the network listing their sin(s) for judgement from their peers. Please note that if the character insists they are free of sin, they will be provided a list of what they're guilty of by their hosts. Settling: It's time to settle into a home in Penance, either alone or with roommates. There is comfort and safety in numbers after all... Do try not to fight over housing if you've both accidentally chosen the same home... Your hosts will be very unhappy if you start a fight this early on over such a silly thing. If settling down isn't something you feel like doing, you may go and explore anywhere that you'd like, including outside the gates. Please be aware that there may be demonic forms of all types of common animals living outside them that move swiftly and silently. They will vary in aggressiveness and tamability, so please keep this in mind. As a note, all threads may be considered game canon if all parties agree. Hope you have fun and thank you! Game is set to officially open February 1st or when we reach a minimum of 10 players. premise | faq | taken | reserves | apps | hiatus/drop | network | logs | ooc | mods | requests

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[absinthes]

Grantaire doesn’t notice him, at first, because it simply doesn’t occur to him to think Enjolras is there.

Enjolras doesn’t belong here in this afterlife, because whatever this afterlife is has Grantaire in it. He’s not certain he believes in Heaven, but he knows that if there’s anything like it, it’s where Enjolras and the rest of the Amis belonged.

It’s almost enough to make him wish he hadn’t slept through the failed revolution. He’d missed his chance to see them all a final time.

In any event, he’s almost upon Enjolras and still doesn’t quite process it’s him until the other man turns. Even then, it takes a couple heartbeats to realize that it is Enjolras, and not just someone that looks remarkably like him.

He halts abruptly when it properly processes that it is Enjolras. He can’t help the entirely baffled look in his eyes.

“—Apollo?”

[logomachist]

There is, for want of a more satisfying turn of phrase, an internal logic to the moment. The last thing before the pain had been the unfamiliar roughness of Grantaire's hand catching hold of his own. The last moment of defiance had been with this man just beside him.

Whatever this is, it might be a hair more comprehensible with Grantaire just a half-step behind him. It puts the rest of their friends just a half-step ahead.

That's something worth working toward. Enjolras isn't sure Grantaire's appearance has ever relaxed his shoulders before, but somehow it does now. This is something to do. This is a reason to take the next step forward, not quite waiting for the other man to follow.

"You haven't seen anyone else?"

[absinthes]

"Of course not."

It's an almost immediate statement. It doesn't really take thinking about, especially while still confused.

"I'd doubted they'd be here. Why are you here?"