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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 is your least favorite color? Which tool in a standard toolbox is most useful to you? What time of day do you accomplish the most? Do you have children? 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 ) Congratulations! You have been judged Drift Compatible, and sent home to pack after giving a definite yes to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. The next thing you face down is the flight into Santiago, Chile, and the subsequent drive in to Valparaíso's Shatterdome. You and the rest of the crowd of soon to be PPDC Ranger Cadets have been gathered together to wait for the old bus scheduled to take you to the Shatterdome. While waiting in the open air, those from any Northern Hemisphere countries may find the summer weather strange. Today's high is going to be in the upper 80's, and there's not a cloud to be seen that's not clinging to the distant mountains. Welcome to Chile. When the bus arrives, it's another hour ride out toward the coastline to get to the Shatterdome. Even better? The bus Air Conditioner is broken. Safe travels, Cadets!
Please set up your own scenarios as you like. The above two scenarios are suggestions. Anything goes!

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[righthemisphere]

[Damn right she is.]

Six days. We thought we'd get here and settled in before admission opened. Get the lay of the land.

[Try to learn their way around to avoid getting lost and looking like idiots. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen.]

Some pretty great stuff to do in town.

[Yancy snorts. Raleigh shrugs. There is considerably less to do around here than Sydney but Anchorage isn't that big of a place. Finding things to do that don't include the PPDC these days is a challenge and this is a whole new culture to absorb. People and language and custom he doesn't know. It's exciting.]

We should check it out once you're settled.

[suicidemission]

[ sdkflj what Raleigh Becket is inviting him to do things? Fucking dreams do come true, or something. He feels jittery, like he's met a rockstar - and he kind of has. ]

Yeah, yeah. Could show me around, gimme the lay of the land? [ They've been here a few days already, they know their way around. Hopefully. ]

[righthemisphere]

[They're both rockstars, it's important to stick together. chuck must know more than they do how hard it is to make friends when you're on a giant pedestal all the time. It's hard to genuinely connect without fear that the person is just playing nice because you're famous.

It makes you doubt your friendships. An ugly truth. And here, surrounded by cadets and hopefuls? It's kind of almost worse. But shit, they're young, and Chuck is young and they already have more in common than anyone else here.

Kind of destined to be rockstar friends if you ask him.

Everyone says Chuck Hansen has an attitude but if he does, Raleigh hasn't seen it. The guy seems fine to him.]

Sure, man. Of course. I don't know if you've ever been to the Icebox but Ranger Quarters are so much better here. I think they want us to meet and greet for a while and there's a General Assembly in like half an hour, but after that I'm all yours.

[suicidemission]

[ Absolutely. Chuck's young, he's got that fresh face - he's not quite legal, either, so that makes it that much worse. There's blog sites dedicated to him, fangirls sighing and posting raunchy things to the internet just wait until he's legal. It'd be a lie to say Chuck didn't know about it (seriously, inflate his ego some more) but truth be told - he didn't indulge much, if ever. All of that was too much of a distraction away from his ultimate goals. ]

Been stationed in Sydney with Striker, but I was at Kodiak Island.

[ He nods, tucks his helmet further up onder his arm, fingers absently curling protectively around the metal. ]

Right then. Better get 'em to get me outta this thing, yeah? Starts chafing after a while.