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test drive meme #001




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☠ faq ▪ taken ▪ reserves ▪ applications ▪ housing ▪ setting ☠

→ Arrival

Waking up in the warehouse is extremely uncomfortable. It’s warm, stifling even, and as you open your eyes, you realize two things: you’re somehow standing and you’re not alone. The room is filled with people grouped at its center, and like you, they are blinking into consciousness and wearing similar expressions of confusion and distress. To the left and right there are closed doors, a man and woman at both; their clothing and demeanour are widely different. The left is clearly upper class while the right is lower class. At the top of the room is a stage adorned in red, white, and blue banners with NFFA in block letters so large that it’s visible from the very back. What is the NFFA, you ask? Within minutes, a man that gives off a ‘Republican senator’ vibe steps up to the podium and begins to speak.
Blessed be our New Founding Fathers for letting us Purge and cleanse our souls. Blessed be America, a nation reborn. Hello and welcome to the city. After fifteen successful purges, we are at a standstill. The New Founding Fathers have found a way to bring you here to promote a higher response in participation. Annually, for one night, any and all crime is legal, including murder. Everyone has the right to purge, and in doing so, you become the best you that you can be. During peace times, crime is lower than five percent and United States citizens know true harmony.

The New Founding Fathers have assessed our Annual Purge laws and adjusted them to allow for this unwanted change. In a three month cycle, all citizens will celebrate a time of peace, preparation, and purge. All previous Purge Night guidelines still apply. This will continue until the Nation is no longer in an economic collapse and rising social unrest has been quelled. Blessed Be the Founding Fathers. Blessed Be the Addend.

Each of you must choose. To the left is those who support and will participate in the purge and to the right is those who do not; pro-purge and anti-purge respectively. This warehouse is the only neutral zone in the city, except during Purge Night. Blessed be America, a nation reborn.

Once he steps down, a woman takes his place and explains further, though in a less formal fashion. Everyone must choose. Pro-purge is anyone that will be actively participating - this means murder, specifically, though all other crimes are still allowed. There will be consequences for anyone who chooses the pro side and then doesn’t purge properly. Anyone who is in full support of the purge and completes three successful purges may go home. Those who choose the anti-purge side, anyone that doesn’t want to kill or believe in the NFFA’s right to purge, are not given this same incentive. All are given time to think it out. They can speak to one another for as long as they need. Any unrest will be not be tolerated.

After everyone has chosen, the anti-purge side exit and are picked up in old buses and vans to be taken to old apartment buildings with basic necessities; there is no reception but are told exactly how it is by veteran Purge survivors. They must get a job and earn money to protect themselves during The Purge that cycles every two months. Those who choose the pro-purge side are chauffeured in limousines to fancy hotels with even nicer accommodations and are welcomed with an extravagant party as well as motivation to purge: you have to purge.

→ Advertising is a Purger’s Right

Throughout the year - and especially now that there is a two month period of peace and preparation - all citizens are allowed to advertise their needs as is sanctioned by the United States Government by any means; Craigslist, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, newspapers, the big screens in Times Square, etc. These advertisements may come in many forms, such as a person looking to pay another (with very specific appearance and background) to allow them to purge them. Payments are legal and binding. The purger might request that they kill, torture, and other various acts—all is legal on Purge Night. Advertisements may be as simple as looking for a partner to purge with or someone to help fortify a house or vehicle. There is no limit to what advertisements may be made. It is the right of every citizen. Blessed be America, a nation reborn.

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[personal profile] safehold 2017-04-28 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Cali grew up learning to blend in and go unnoticed so she never had a target painted over her head. This is no different, though there's an edge of anxiety to her mannerisms here that show she's freaked out. The thought of having to Purge every few months terrifies her, and she has no idea how she's going to survive something like that.

At least he states the obvious and makes her glance up at him with a look.]

Obviously. If you tried dragging me to the left, I'd kick your ass here in front of everyone.

[She means it with as much affection as she possibly can while she's trying to play it cool on the outside and look like she's remaining neutral. Her problem is that she asks too many questions and can be a mouthy brat, but she's trying really hard here not to make any enemies. Now that she knows she's got to make sure he stays alive too, she'll be less inclined to try starting a scene.]

But after that, when they bus us to wherever we're supposed to stay. I don't know what to do.

[She hesitates, because she really isn't sure what she's asking here. She's lived with her grandfather and her mother in that small apartment her entire life. This is the first time she's ever been entirely on her own, and she's not about to assume that Leo will end up close by her or even in the same area.]
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[personal profile] misruled 2017-04-29 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[His mouth quirks, a little half grin at all that sass. She might be a pain in his ass, but she was brave and a fighter - two things that she'd need to survive the Purge. Leo wasn't the kind of guy to try and reign that in, even if it was smarter to keep opinions to themselves. She had spirit, something the NFFA hadn't broken or crushed out.]

We'll stick together.

[It's what Leo wants and he's got a feeling she might want the same thing. He can keep an eye on her that way, make sure nobody gets any ideas about hurting her. Besides, they haven't known each other long but she's all he knows here. He'd like the familiar company.]

Get two rooms beside each other. [He frowns.] Make them put us close.

[After that, they'd have to play it by ear. Find weapons and a way to protect themselves. Try to suss out who they can trust, if anyone.]

This might all be different, but do you think everything outside these doors is the same as back home?
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[personal profile] safehold 2017-05-01 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees that half smile and has to hold back one of her own. There isn't much room for smiling here, not when they have to blend in as best as they can. Still, she shares a quick glance with him where her eyes meet his and she smiles. It's a sad little looking one, a sign that even her sass and energy isn't a match for what they're putting them against here.]

No. It might look the same, but there's no way that it'll be the same.

[Someone walking past bumps against her, and Cali is bounced forward to bump against Leo in return. Shooting a glare in the direction of the stranger, she rolls her eyes.]

But I guess some things are the same no matter where we are. It's why you're helping me find a gun as soon as I can afford one.

[It's hard not to feel that people like her are invisible. Leo sees her, sure, he spotted her easily out of the whole crowd. But they know one another, and he knows enough about where she comes from thanks to how he saved her during the Purge night they met. He doesn't come from the same world as she does, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't get it. So she casts him a wry look, shrugging.]
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