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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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If James had been making an attempt at calming and pacifying, he'd be quite saddened to know he'd failed miserably.

His face, though more matured than she'd last seen it, had been blatantly familiar to her. All that time she'd spent during her... house-sitting years, to put it nicely, carefully memorizing the faces and names and general lives of every possible friend of the family and relative had paid off in the weirdest way, mostly in gaining her the connections to get the job she held now. Her mother had been the one to suggest it initially; that every good wife should be able to place a name to a face no matter how long it'd been.

Obviously the requirement hadn't been applicable to every one else in the world, but that didn't keep it from stinging a little whenever people didn't remember her back.

"Yah," she snapped, a scowl dropping onto her face, "Is that how you talk to your colleague's sister? You even stayed at my mom's house!"

James snapped the clipboard up like a shield, tensed up defensively and stared blankly at his patient. Colleague's sister? Stayed at her mother's house? When had he...?

When had he done...?

And yet a vague recollection of someone looking similar to her from a photo flashed through his mind. From a long time ago when he was still only in high school on a foreign exchange program. An older girl who—

"Ah!" He pointed at her, eyes wide in recognition.

"Don't point at your elders like that," was the immediate response to the finger being pointed in her direction, though if her memory served her correctly, the man in front of her wasn't that much younger than her. He was somewhere around her own younger brother's age, but Joo Mun had been raised to respect even a single year's worth of age difference. And that was one thing she was intent on making sure other people respected too.

Leaning back in her seat with her arms crossed, she regarded the man once more, squinting at him a little during her examination.

"So you ended up joining the PPDC too?"

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