test drive meme (#2)

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Test Drive Meme The Pan Pacific Defense Corps was usually offered any of a variety of local buildings to set up their testing centers. For reasons of access and availability, most testing clinics were set up in central areas for any given community. Those of the PPDC staff on hand vary in their personal intensity. Some of the men and women wearing Strike Group insignia seemed overly serious, to the point of frowning with intensity at some of the youngest checking in for this testing round. Those from the K-Science division are tight with nervous energy as they direct prospective cadets through various activities. Everything was meant to measure potential, looking for that spark that meant they had somebody who was Drift Compatible. The majority of people were turned away after the first series of seemingly random tests, officials looking in eyes, placing odd looking contraptions over heads, asking for people to play a series of short games, one even in a virtual reality set-up.
	( SCENARIO ONE ) If you are still here now, you've made it past the first cut. You'll be sat down in a room with the rest who have made it this far, then systematically led into smaller interview rooms as pairs. If you came with a partner, they're your first interview candidate. If you came on your own, all your interviews are random assignment. All who have been asked to stay are required to sit through and conduct a series of short peer to peer interviews. The questions are straightforward. What kind of pets would you like to own? What game do you gravitate toward first in an arcade? What does the fox say? Where do you squeeze your toothpaste tube to get toothpaste on your toothbrush? What do you believe the Drift is like? Peer to peer interviews last for half an hour to an hour, and each person is asked to participate in at least three peer-to-peer interviews. There is no punishment for going off script. There is a one-way mirror looking into each interview area, and one door leading into the room with a small panel of glass located on the door. There is a clock on the wall in each room. The time they report is odd when examined. These are not digital clocks, but timers, counting up time since the last Kaiju attack.
	( SCENARIO TWO ) You've been accepted into the Jaeger Academy. You've been assigned to your barracks, issued your uniform and necessities, shown the overall layout of the Shatterdome, and told the wake up call is at 0530. You're settling in to the Academy schedule, and for many, it may be brutal indeed. When you're brought into the indoor swimming pool, it's to an overwhelming stench of chlorine. Your swimsuits are all the same for the men, simple swim-trunks, one uniform blue. Women wear a blue and white racer style swimsuit, in the same cut across the board. Uniformity doesn't disappear for swimming lessons. Lessons start out basic, teaching each Cadet to rely on themselves and each other to keep them afloat. From there, maneuvers get more complicated. Learning safe diving techniques, practicing proper holds to keep an unconscious or panicked partner afloat. Speed, agility, and endurance: all will be in demand. Then you start hearing rumors about full uniform swims coming up the next session.
Please set up your own scenarios as you like. The above two scenarios are suggestions. Anything goes! If you want to stop by and see about doing some communal AU Worldbuilding, check out the new AU Worldbuilding Meme!

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[boomerangarrow]

There's an accent. But it's impressive he can manage to explain the strangeness of thinking about a fox make any kind of sense. She'll return the smile with a smaller slightly amused one.

"Huh, they changed the questions. I guess that makes sense." Gotta keep them on their toes, it seems. "Wasn't that a song?" One that took over the internet briefly and then disappeared. It's just what happens to internet fads.

[junestunes]

A song? Oh, crap. There are plenty of songs that involve foxes, but most of them are kind of traditional or dorky. What could she mean? What kind of fox songs would they have in Hollywood? He racks his brain for a minute, trying to get the joke and failing miserably. Damn it.

"Yeah." He finally agrees, falling back on an old standby. If someone cool says something you don't understand, pretend like you get it anyway. "In the song."

[boomerangarrow]

Ah well, it was a weird, and probably mostly American sensation. She does give him a look that says something along the lines of you're trying to hard.

"You can always say you don't know," she won't judge him for something so completely ridiculous. It's pop culture and the only reason she knew about it was one of her friend's playing it far too often.

[junestunes]

"Right." He agrees again, a little helplessly. He's not impressing her at all. Damn it. "Our shrine have a fox."

Damn it where did that come from? No girl in the history of ever has found a guy who hangs out around the town shrine long enough to become familiar with the animal life there attractive.

[boomerangarrow]

Bah, impressive. She kind of hates people who try to impress her. There's far too much of that at home. The few friends she have are kind of ridiculous losers, but only kind of.

"What shrine?"

[junestunes]

Ah, well. They'll have to talk about the shrine, then. Yosuke shrugs. "Tatsuhime, the shrine. There was a mountain town. It's boring. Eh- toe...the old shrine live there. Empty. Inside, the fox lives there. It's not exciting. We go there to send a prayer." He informs her dutifully, looking almost sheepish. Who starts a conversation about abandoned shrines? Ugh!

Yosuke ducks under the water and then resurfaces a few feet away in the opposite direction, trying to shake off the nerves and awkward vibe. He doesn't want to come across as someone boring. He's not that boring! Besides, he's far from home. It would help if people at least wanted to talk to him sometimes. He'll just have to do better at making conversation. So he tries again, ever hopeful. "Have you been to New York?"

[boomerangarrow]

It's still something to talk about, and it's probably best if she knows at least a little bit about her fellow cadets. And now she sort of has an idea of where he lived at least.

Kate swims over. After all, these are supposed to be swimming lessons, she might as well do what they want her to. Besides, it's not exactly difficult.

"I'm from New York." Manhattan specifically but that's not what he asked.