TDM #004

[bequiet]

TEST DRIVE MEME
You wake, standing. A thick, muddy red dust coats your skin and clothes - it sticks to your tongue and blocks your vision. Inhale and it chokes you, exhale and your breath puffs out in front of your face in a transparent maroon cloud. It tastes of copper, tangy and harsh. Movement is difficult, every limb tingles and aches. Look to your left, your right. Evenly spaced in each direction stands another person indistinguishable in every way from the next. You're disoriented and lethargic, unable to grasp onto a single thought. A pinprick of light blooms ahead and grows steadily larger; a door has opened.

Hands grip your wrists, push at the small of your back and guide you out of the darkness into a room with four walls and a thin, sagging ceiling. The plaster is peeling, the air is musty, and the floor is slick. White plastic piping juts up from the center and curves into multiple spouts, clean water flowing in uneven streams. Those hands pull your clothes off and clear the dust from your body, redress you in handsewn jumpsuits.

A finger is pressed to your lips. Kind eyes meet your own and a single word is whispered - hush.

Led out of the room in a line, you’re taken down a short hallway and into another, much larger room. There’s a woman waiting for you there, a child hugging her leg, and a cloth bag in her hands. She reaches in and pulls out a device, passes one to each of you. Once finished, she begins to move both hands in graceful gestures, a language. One of the people who helped you lifts their device and the screen lights up, tracks the woman’s hands. Letters appear on the screen and you understand the device’s purpose. She tells you what she knows and it’s not much.

This world is haunted. Noise attracts them, so it is not allowed. Communication is through body language, soundless writing, and the device. She tells you that your feet must be light and your mouth never used. There is a community outside these doors, where you can survive together, but only if you agree to one thing: complete and total silence. You'll have time to talk it over. Acceptance allows you to journey outside. The ground is marked in pathways of sand, lining the paths to each building and everywhere in between. You notice that the locals hold their devices always, aloft and glance to it often. It will not vibrate or make a sound to signal a message.

Notices appear. The bulletin board feed lights up so you can read about the history. Rules. Guidelines. Feet on the sand and never anywhere else. To open a door you brush your fingers along the hinges - oiled and you may enter. If not, take the brush from the can sitting nearby and coat the metal with the dark liquid. You're to settle into your new home.

Take a peep
Content Warnings: Possible animal-thing death
Themes: Slice of life, it's like gremlins... kinda

On the first of April, small piles of dust with brightly colored eggs at the center will spring up over night. After a few hours the eggs will begin to hatch and out will come the smallest and brightest bunny-like creatures (the only notable differences from regular bunnies are the colors, size, and that they make no noise). They're friendly and immediately attach themselves (bond) to the first person to pick them up. One of the natives calls them "peeps" because they don't make a sound. All with unique personalities, the creatures can be found nibbling on the dust and needing no other form of food, and will shy away from any and all water sources.

If, however, any of them get wet - there will be a sudden and brief rain shower at noon - the creatures fur will turn black and they will begin attacking the others that didn't get wet. Stopping them is key, and the black creatures will either dash away from the community if given the chance or will need to be stopped.

OOC: All characters can keep a Peep! Any color! They are palm-sized and never grow larger than an adult hand.

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Danny Rand || Iron Fist/Marvel Netflix

[firetouched]

[i. ARRIVAL]

[ At least Danny's used to weird. Of course, every new thing seems to be trying to out-weird the last, so this is definitely something new but ... He can handle this. Right?

He knows how to keep calm, how to centre himself. But every time he takes a deep breath, all he does inhale a thick grit that coats its way down his throat and he'd cough except there's a hand there suddenly to muffle the sound. Then there are hands there, guiding him along, and he knows there's nothing hostile. There's something gentle but urgent in the pushing. It's not like he's in any position to do anything else.

But once he's cleaned and everything's explained, he wonders ... Well. Keep quiet. How hard can it be, right? He wanders out into the city to look for a place to go. ]


[ii. NETWORK; un: @danny]

i'm not gonna waste anyone's time by asking the usual questions
because you're all probably tired of it and i figure i'll just figure it out
but i gotta know, music's still a thing right?
like with headphones???


[iii. PEEPS]

[ Danny nearly says hey there, little guy as a bright turquoise something hops his way. It's alarmingly cute, because nothing about this place seems cutesy, but he's still bending over to say hi to it. When it hops in his hand, he stands up, giving it a light pet with a finger between the ears, and then he feels a rain drop on his face.

Instinctively, Danny uses his free hand to shield the bunny while he finds someplace to duck for shelter. As he's checking on his little furry friend, something black comes running, and Danny can see that it's ... Not right. And it's coming right for the little bunny. Holding it out of harm's way, Danny kicks the black one away - sorry little buddy - and looks around for anymore incoming attacks, or for any help. ]


[iv. WILDCARD]

Choose your own adventure or hit me up at fritzwinky.

un: CallingIt

[flyguy]

Sure. If you can find a pair of working noise canceling headphones and a music library. Greater miracles have happened.

What tunes?

[He feels the music thing, okay. Building things without his library blasting just isn’t as zen.]

[firetouched]

i'll keep my fingers crossed
i like everything
i'm pretty partial to late 90s hip hop and r&b but i'm still trying to catch up on music from the last decade so this a bummer

[flyguy]

You take a decade long sabbatical? Seems kind of long.

But you're in luck. I just might be able to help. With the music part, not the headphones part. I'm too busy to build somehing you can find in any convenience store around here.

((OOC: Is it okay for Tony to know Rand Enterprises/the whole plane crash and suddenly reappearing to take back up the company? Just newspaper information, no ninjas/mystical monk/defenders stuff.))

[firetouched]

i sort of went off the grid for a while

hey, i'll take what i can get
thank you
really

((ooc: absolutely! I think that's pretty reasonable, all things considered. Especially since Danny is a member of the the NYC Billionaire Club.))

[oorah]

[ frank has learned to just roll with the punches of this place. it's quicker and less taxing than trying to fight it. he watches his pitbull max roll amongst the brightly colored creatures, enjoying the way they bound over him and snuggle in against his dark fur. he's afraid to touch the things himself, though when it begins to rain he looks around as the peeps turn black and start attacking one another, using the dog as a dividing line of conquer.

he catches a man's eye through the fray even as he pulls his hood up to try and get a lay of the land. max gets up and shakes excess water off of his back, effectively turning all the bunnies near him dark, and he runs around to cower behind frank's leg. ] This is new. [ it's huffed, gruff and uneven, like someone who isn't used to speaking aloud. he shrugs a shoulder, a little helpless. looks like a teamup to him. ]

[firetouched]

[ When Danny makes eye contact, he can't help but squint. Does he know this guy? There's something familiar that Danny can't actually pinpoint, but that's going to have to wait, because it's looking like he's going to need to kung-fu some demon bunnies.

Must be a day ending in Y.

But he's at a loss of what to do. If he puts his peep down, the poor thing will get torn to shreds. He he gets it wet, it's gonna go Gremlins on him. If he stays here, doing nothing, then he's just useless. He shakes his head helplessly. Some team up, huh? ]

[oorah]

[ wow danny!!!!! have a glare for your efforts as frank sweeps him aside, letting as many peeps take asylum in his clothes as will fit to keep them dry. he's not really looking to kill the black peeps but he remembers something he has in his back pocket just then, looking ridiculous as he pulls a slim black tranquilizer gun out of his jumpsuit while peeps crowd into his hoodie. he'll shoot down as many of the crazy bunnies as he can. ]

[firetouched]

[ .... so punching bunnies doesn't look so bad now, does it? But there's still the question of what he can do with his own, but he sees other peeps taking refuge in the guy's sweater. Danny doesn't have that extra layer, so, hey - Thanks for letting him sneak his Peep into your Peep Refuge, Frank.

Hands free, now he can actually, you know, do something.

He hasn't tried this since he got here, but, hey, here goes. A deep breath and a bit of focus and he feels the chi flowing through. Glowing fist, cool, huh? Crouching low (in the hopes to lessen the impact), Danny hits his hand against the ground. There's a sound that reverberates - it can't be helped - it's a light enough strike that it just knocks over some of those blood thirsty ones that are in the vicinity. They're not dead, but the looked knocked out. When they do come to, they might even be disoriented. ]

un: orchids

[blacksky]

Shouldn't be a problem so long as your house is sound proofed in case those headphones get ripped off.

[firetouched]

this could be a problem

[blacksky]

Picked the wrong house or you don't have a player yet?

[firetouched]

no player
also what if it doesn't have music i like on it?
or is that
that just happens somehow?

peeps

[triplegoddess]

[ Nico was kind of excited when her pastel purple bunny turned black with the splash of a raindrop but she soon lost control of it. It bit her hand and hopped away and had already taken the lives of two dry bunnies, seemingly for sport, before narrowly evading her grasp. It leaves tiny, bloody footprints behind as she chases after it. She only barely stops herself from calling out to the first person she sees, who appears to be in possession of her evil peep's next target, then covers her mouth to contain a horrified exclamation as he kicks it to defend his own unsullied bunny.

She fists her hands in her hair, expression screaming at him, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? before she dashes off to what is sure to be Bunnicula's corpse. This is why you should never love anything!!! ]

[firetouched]

[ Look, he panicked. He has a little friend to protect and that black thing had blood on it's teeth and it was fight or flight. And Danny always, always chooses fight. Sorry??

He shrugs and holds up his hands, little peep still in one, and shakes his head in very sincere apology.

In his defence, though, it was killing things. ]

[triplegoddess]

[ Miraculously, her bunny is neither dead nor lame, but certainly out of sorts enough to let her finally catch up with it. Nico scoops it up in both hands and tucks it in against her chest, where it starts to gnaw on the lapel of her jumpsuit. She's careful in balancing it there with one hand so she can pull out her device. ]

STAY AWAY FROM HER [ >| Okay so it was killing things but only 'cause it didn't know any better! Like his peep is so perfect! It's soft fluffy exterior hides a killer inside, just like hers does, just like the human spirit!!!!! ]

[firetouched]

Look -

[ He pauses, covering his mouth. Shit. Right. He frowns, and huffs, and waves an arm around. Yeah, lady, he kicked the damn thing. He'd probably kick it again.

He tucks his little guy into his pocket, keeping a hand gently over it so the rain doesn't hit it. If there are cannibal bunnies around, Danny's not staying. ]

un: semiurge

[assguardian]

i think music's still a thing too but as far as headphones are concerned, i haven't seen one. sorry :c!

i'm billy, by the way! welcome to reims, france? i'm told we're in france, anyway.

[firetouched]

france?
i guess i've ended up weirder places without meaning to

i'm danny
nice to e-meet you

[assguardian]

i'm billy! nice to e-meet you too! :)

what other places have you ended up in unintentionally? that sounds like it could be problematic for you.

[firetouched]

you ever hear of a place called k'un-lun?

DEFENDERS ASSEMBLE! SAVE THE BUNS!

[blessmefather]

[ Normally Matt would question any type of violence against animals, especially at that size, but he hears the nearly inaudible snarls of aggression from the tiny lungs of the peeps that became wet and there's a small frightened heartbeat coming from Danny's hands. As the rain picks up more of the peeps begin turning their attention away from peacefully grooming themselves or nibbling on dust and the next one that leaps toward Danny's arms makes it clear this is not a normal animal fight.

He can't call out to Danny to watch out behind him so he rushes up behind him and knocks on of the black peeps out of the air. He didn't hit with all his strength but he still feels a pang of guilt at the sound of the little creature thumping on the ground a split second later and scurrying away. ]

DEFEND THEM!

[firetouched]

[ There's an initial shock (and gladness) that someone else is whacking away demon bunnies. But when that fades and Danny can look at his peep's saviour, he's struck a little senseless. And he can't really help it because, really. Really. So he says - ]

Matt? [ Right. Right. No talking. But this was necessary, right?? How the hell is this even happening? ]

NEW GROUP NAME: DEFEND-BUNS

[blessmefather]

[ Matt puts a finger to his lips, reminding Danny not to speak, then turns sharply away the next moment. The peeps are difficult to track individually unless they're within around twelve feet, they're so small and their footsteps are incredibly light, which is why it troubles him when he senses something moving towards them from further out. Is that a group of them moving together?

He turns to Danny again and points towards the nearest building. Peeps can't open doors and it will be dry in there. ]

the iron peep and darebunny

[firetouched]

[ Listen (figuratively) - Danny's having a hard time not hugging Matt right now. But this definitely isn't the time, and Matt's right. If they get inside they can figure out what they're doing. Danny knows neither of them are running away. They're not the sort to do that, not even when it's cute little fluffy things at stake.

Danny's careful to shield his own peep from the rain as he makes his way to the building. At least he's faster than the black ones, his legs are longer and while they're fast, he can cover more ground. ]