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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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They'll ding you if you're too anti-social.

[That probably wasn't true--or very true, anyway--but it definitely could be. One just had to look at some of the most popular Jaeger pilots to notice that most of them had pretty affable personalities. They just seemed to eat, sleep, and breathe good PR. And the Drift, well, you couldn't get friendlier than that.

He was kind of messing with her, but his smile was easy and sincere: trying to share the joke instead of cracking it at her expense.]

( Now that made her stop. )

Wha — No, they wouldn't.

( ... would they? She obviously hadn't considered that. She understood how apathy might lead to incompatibility towards drifting but there was nothing in the readings that she went through about being anti-social. Being anti-social didn't mean lack of empathy. Not to mention that there wasn't any rule like that in the handbook, otherwise she'd have given attention to it.

And really, she was about to argue that — until she saw his smile. Not exactly teasing (though she had a feeling a part of him was just doing that awhile ago) but it had worried her for a moment back there. )

... That was terrible.

Friendship is the foundation of successful drifting.

[He intoned it with all due solemnity, a direct quote from some pamphlet or another that'd been with their official Cadet literature. He was still maybe warping the rhetoric to his own purposes, but he really didn't want to start off his first day making enemies. That was more of a second week kind of thing.]

( She opened her mouth to argue about that — that while it's true, it doesn't mean it's a prerequisite — but Leila had a feeling this conversation will soon devolve into some kind of a debate. Which she's not really in the mood for at that moment. Not that she minded debates but she was hoping to spend her lunch time more productively with less arguments.

Sighing, Leila decided against leaving for now and settled in one of the corners of the railing, opening her book. )

That line isn't a very effective quote if you're actually looking for friends.

No. Probably not.

[He let the line of conversation drop for now, figuring she'd be happier just to be left in peace to read. And he was here for the same thing, anyway. He'd only been between academies for a month, but settling back into the whole routine was grating.

They didn't have much more time to kill before they had to walk back. Might as well get the most of it.]

( She gave him another minute, to see if he's going to add or follow up to that statement. When he didn't, Leila finally settled down on the floor to continue reading. Or at least, attempt to continue reading. She didn't entirely understand what she's doing there, especially since he seemed to be the type who preferred to be alone.

For a moment, she paused and looked up at him — only for her to shake her head and look back down on the page she's reading. She was tempted to comment on something but then again, she'd rather not, knowing it would spark up another conversation. )

[He catches the look, arching a brow at her briefly before going back to being lost in his own thoughts, staring at the sky.

Thus occupied, he does leave her along for a good few minutes, only breaking the silence by suddenly straightening, rolling down his sleeves.]

Hey. We need to be getting back pretty soon, or someone's going to miss us.

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