TEST DRIVE MEME

[visadamods]

TEST DRIVE Welcome to Visada's TDM! Feel free to get as creative as you'd like with these prompts. None of the threads will count as game canon. This is just to give you a chance to play around with the setting and get a general idea of just some of things that can be done in the game. OPTION 1 Mistress Philenor, one of the vivacious butterfly-winged fairies that runs a shop in town, has asked you and another helpful soul to go out to the small lake on the northwestern side of the island and pick some Swallowtails. She needs a bushel of the flowers to make more of her popular aphrodisiacs. You and your partner for the outing leave the village and make your way to your destination. The water in the lake is clear and fresh, you can almost see all the way to the bottom. A small island sits in the middle of the lake, within swimming distance to those so athletically inclined. A tiny stream travels off to the west, emptying into the sea. On the southern shores of the lake grow the Swallowtails: great flowers of vibrant hues of blue. Just remember Philenor's warning. Breathing too deeply of the pollen may have unintended consequences. OPTION 2 Word arrives by lamassu post that there's unrest with the sea dragons. They're refusing to aid the villagers and transportation between the main island and the smaller one to the east has been cut off. People have been stranded there for two days now and something must be done. You volunteer to help and head toward the eastern shore. Maybe you meet others on your way and you decide to work together to see if you can resolve this. Maybe you enlist someone else's help when you learn that Lagiocrus (an ancient blue dragon) is cross with his nephew Jura (a young, free spirited green fellow who doesn't have much respect for people yet) over his foolish courtship of the princess Galzra (a haughty blue dragon from the far north). All of the other dragons in the vicinity are too caught up in the drama to worry about the petty concerns of mortals. Convince Lagiocrus that young love should triumph, or at least be allowed to get its heart broken. Talk up Jura to the disinterested object of his affection. Try to get Jura to see that there are other dragons in the sea. Or find some other way to either end the argument or lure the other dragons' interest back to helping out their landlocked neighbors. OPTION 3 After a long week, you want nothing more than to relax at the beach. It's a great day for it. Fair skies, warm sands, calm surf, and naked bodies sunning themselves along the shore. Wait. Yes, that's right. This is a nude beach. Or if it wasn't, it is now that the first visitor decided to exchange bathing suit for birthday suit. Do you join in? Ogle your neighbors? Swagger up to the hottie on the yellow towel a few yards away and start a conversation? Have fun. Enjoy yourself. You've earned the day off. OPTION 4 Wildcard! Make up your own prompt! Play around with the setting however you'd like.

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[chernyy]

[ The smile gets a little wider at that. Some of it might even be genuine. ]

Thanks.

[ She sets her sandals down first and then undoes the buttons on the front of her dress. She slips her arms out and then the dress itself down past her lips and legs. Her bra and panties follow after she steps out of the dress. She folds them up semi-neatly and sets them on a blank spot on the towel.

As she heads for the ocean, she throws over her shoulder, ]

Back in a few.

[ She's giving you a chance here, Trish. You seem like good people. But if you steal her cute dress she will hunt you down and kick your ass while butt-naked. Don't think she won't. ]

[notpatsy]

[ Trish has plenty of cute dresses of her own, one is even lying in the sand right next to her, there is no risk of theft here. ]

Enjoy the waves.

[ Trish, on the other hand, lies back down and turns around on her stomach to let Natasha enjoy her naked swim without an audience.

Well, without Trish as an audience at least. ]

[chernyy]

[ Enjoy them she does. In a way she's rarely let herself do in... years? Again, it's a little foggy at times. So much of her life has been dominated by training and missions. It's hard to recall events apart from them sometimes. She dives and swims and lets the waves push her towards the shore before she dives back into them, ignoring any eyes on her while still being aware of anyone around her.

She eventually floats on her back for a few moments, just enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and staring up at the sky. This place was pretty damn nice. So far.

When she finally gets out of the water, she wipes her hair away from her face and slicks it back using the water, tucking it behind her ears. She'll walk back over to Trish and kneel down on a corner of the towel. ]

You were right. It is great.

[notpatsy]

[ Trish turns onto her side, propping her head up on one hand and smiling at Natasha. ]

Right? It's like someone dragging silk all over your body only better.

[ She squints a little at the other woman, curious and thoughtful. ]

Hey, have we met before?

[ Because she is sure she has seen you somewhere, Nat. ]

[chernyy]

[ She maneuvers herself to sit on her side some at the extra space on the towel. She will need to remember to bring her own next time she comes. ]

And you get the chance to feel lighter than air.

[ But the question had her intentionally pushing her expression into one more pinched, thinking, before she's slowly shaking her head, ]

Don't think so.

[ She was already mentally going through her lists of aliases. Habit tbh. ]

[notpatsy]

Wait a second, you're an Avenger, aren't you?

[ Pardon her for sounding like an excited kid on Christmas morning. Trish has a thing for heroes. ]

Sorry, I didn't recognise you with your clothes off.

[ She winces a little at how weird that sentence came out, but then just smiles because this is so cool. ]

[chernyy]

[ For a second, Nat thinks to deny it. But then Trish looks too excited and proceeds to say that and Natasha can't help but start laughing. Like turn-her-head-away-and-laugh-out-loud laughing.

She wags a finger at Trish, ]

That was good. I can honestly say I've never heard that one before.

[ At least not when she wasn't undercover. Or from someone who wasn't Stark. ]

[notpatsy]

[ Trish laughs too, mostly because it's nice to laugh together with someone. ]

Don't give me too much credit, it was pretty unintentional.

[chernyy]

That's what makes it even better.

[ She squints over at Trish under the sun beating down on them before offering her hand, ]

What's your name? Since you already seem to know me.

[notpatsy]

[ She takes the offered hand and shakes it. ]

I know of you, not the same thing.

[ A distinction that feels important to make if nothing else because she is too used to people thinking they know her just because they hear her voice every weekday on the radio. ]

I'm Trish. Trish Walker.

[chernyy]

Natasha Romanoff.

[ As she lets the other woman's hand go, ]

How do you know of me, Miss Walker? Just because I'm an Avenger?

[notpatsy]

And there was that impressive info dump you unleashed on the world as well.

[ Thumbs up for transparency there, Romanoff. ]

[chernyy]

[ She smiles again, a little more ruefully this time and more to herself. ]

I'm surprised you're still excited to see me, in that case.

[ Because Natasha was no angel, that's for damn sure. ]

[notpatsy]

[ Trish shrugs a little. Yeah, that had been a lot of scary info but that didn't change the fact that the Avengers were doing a lot of good, and Natasha was one of them. ]

I'm a new yorker. I owe you guys a lot.

[chernyy]

Not everyone from New York feels that way.

[ She's heard a lot of thanks but she's also heard how much damage they did during all the fighting.

Looking back up at Trish, ]

Where were you during it? The attack.

/has no idea, has to make shit up

[notpatsy]

Yeah I know, some people don't seem to get that if you guys hadn't been there, we would have been invaded.

[ Because the world is full of dumbasses. ]

I was at work in a radio studio in Hell's kitchen.

/works for me!

[chernyy]

[ A corner of her mouth quirks at that, quietly grateful Trish is one of the people that understood that.

But then she's ducking her head slightly, ]

Sorry we didn't stop it sooner.

[ Because she knows Hell's Kitchen got a pretty bad beating during the fight. ]

[notpatsy]

Pretty sure most invasions aren't dealt with that quickly. You did good.

[ Sure, the time after the incident was rough, but the point stil stands that it could have been way, way rougher. ]

[chernyy]

[ That gets a little smile and a nod before she says, ]

You know, it'll be awkward to talk to each other with our clothes on after this.

[ JUST SAYIN'. ]

[notpatsy]

[ Okay that gets a laugh. ]

Only because you pointed it out!

[chernyy]

[ Nat shakes her head and makes to look off at the ocean, her tone purpose matter-of-fact, ]

It was going to happen sooner or later.

[ But she looks back at Trish, smirking, ]

Either now or when we later realize we got sunburnt everywhere.

[notpatsy]

Oh, ow, talk about least sexy situation ever to ask someone to put lotion on your back.

[ Just. So much pain. Pain that defies everything. ]

[chernyy]

[ She shrugs one shoulder. ]

Isn't it still sexy if you need it on more than just your back?

[notpatsy]

Not if everything hurts! Unless you're into that, of course. But I mean, preventative lotion rubbing could get pretty sexy I guess.

[ Hopefully this isn't coming off as if she's trying to awkwardly hit on Natasha because that would be unfortunate. ]

[chernyy]

[ Trish manages to make her life so there is that, at least. ]

We can always leave and go somewhere with more shade.