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August Test Drive Meme

THE TEST DRIVE MEME

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This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the applications open, see what clicks. Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.

Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun!

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"Thanks a bunch." Joss tossed the candy candy down her mouth.

Joss' eyes bulged when she looked at the broken cirkets, and case. Her eyes swiveled down to the cat woman's claws and wrist. She imagined those claws could rip her neck out and that an ax would brake on those wrist.

"We'll I'll be. Truth is I ain't fixen this thang twnight. It's too broken But do ya gotta laptop or sometun? Ya can use micrasoft excel to do ya calculaten ya know?"

Xat-Cerxis looked awkward. "Well, my friend Viti told me not to touch it. Not until a new keyboard is made by teacher. It has metal buttons!" She explained. "Besides," Xat-Cerxis said. "I am learning how to write! See!" she said picking up a loose pencil and drawing on a paper scrap. She colored it in with bright colored pencils. Lifting it up, she showed it was a llama with her name 'Cerxis' below it. Every letter of her name was a different shade. Then she bit her lip and looked thoughtful. "My grandfather had a counting-spindle. With knots," she said hoping to be helpful. "If you have rope and sticks, I can make one of those!"

Joss raised her brow. She stood there silently, stiff, as though paralyzed staring as though Cerxis was the strangest thing she had ever seen.

Then suddenly, she laughed.

"Now that's that the funnies thang i've heard in a long time. Miss Cerxis you're all right. Come on have a seat. I'm gonna get ya'll fixed up."

Edited (accent stuff) 2015-08-10 17:31 (UTC)

"Okay!" said Xat-Cerxis. She shuffled over to Josh Possible's table to make a knotting-calculator. She looked over to Josh's smiling face and smiled in return. END.

(ooc note. The word END is not needed)

Joss jumped in the chair before her computer, typed the word "spindle" in a google search engine.

"Wow. It don't get much lower tech than that. But I got this."

At the snap of her fingers a diamond shaped object in the corner suddenly stood up on its bottom point and levitated into the air. The object floated to Joss' side and opened its self up, from the bottom like it were a living tool box. The robot was full of items ranging from first aid kits, to gas mask, to tear gas.

She put her hands in the equipment. Her hand went over her lasso and came down on a roll of wire. "I can't spare none of my rope, but this here wire ain't too hard to tie." She turned back to Cerxis "Can you hand me those pencils? Cause then all we need is sometin like a disk and we're good to go."

Joss rubbed her chin in thought. "But what do I got that's circular?"

Xat-Cerxis stared. She did not have any materials that would be useful. She watched the energetic girl bound around the room looking for things to build with. Then, since she did not know what to do, she found and couch and curled up against one of the sides and stared at Josh Possible as she worked busily. Then she got up and stretched. "Um, I do not know that it is as easy to make as gathering the materials. For this 'Quipu', the knots must be tied in patterns taught by my people. So if you can make the holder for the threads, I will tie this 'wire'. I can count with the quipu. Thank you."

Edited 2015-08-11 00:23 (UTC)

Joss lifted her head out of the box of tools. "You just need a holder? Why didn't ya say so?"

Joss offered wire to the levitating robot, and it opened its four fingered clamp of a hand. The robot floated to Cerxis.

"Now don't be afraid of old tornado. She's a friendly robot. She'll hold your wire nice an tight, why ya work. Just be sure to untie that wire when your done with your calculaltin, ok?"

"Thank you, kindly!" said Xercis emulating Josh. She began to tie all the wires into complicated knots. From her pocket she took out a piece of paper. On it were simple middle school math problems. Cerxis tied lots of knots in the wires until it looked like she was making bracelets. But instead, she unwove the wire when she was done. "I am finished!" she said at last. "Can you look?" she asked holding up the piece of paper. "This is... 'multiplication'? This is 'division'?"

Joss had pulled the calculator pieces closer to herself, wondering what, if anything, she could do with them, but then she noticed the integrate work of wire that Cerxis created.

She stood with a blank stare. It was a world apart from the sophisticated technology she grew up with, and yet she could not call it primitive.

When she was handed the piece of paper it crumpled slightly in her grip as her eyes darted over it.

"Sorry hun, but these here problem with the Xs are multiplication, and these here with lines are division. Ya got um mixed up but..."

Joss' eyes darted over the paper again, stopping to look up into her mind. Several times she whipped out her smart phone and tapped buttons, duplicating the problems on her calculator app.

"For what ya were doin, ya gotta um all right, cept..."

Joss looked over the wires again. "What were ya doin?"

"The knots make the numbers," said Xat-Cerxis. "It is something like an abacus. An abacus has beads to represent numbers. But we do not have beads. We have knots in different patterns. The largest and most beautiful knots are larger numbers. I can use the knots to count sets. Five and five and five and five is "5 times 4". One and one and one and one is "1 times 4". See?" Xat-Cerxis explained. "In my tribe of the Xat, we do not have 'electricity'. We do not have many machines for servants. We do what we can with what we have- what is simple. Teacher has said we live with nature but I do not see it that way. We are one of nature. We do not understand the ways of other men. But there are many ideas... many words and songs. So many it is difficult to know which ones to learn. There are bad teachers, and good teachers in this world."

When Cerxis' explanation first began, Joss imagined a circle of pre-Colombian Sioux women around a fire knitting their way through calculations, even though she didn't know for sure that Sioux women did so. When it was done she felt disconnected like she had gone back one thousand years in the past, yet connected to something else.

She shook her head a little so she could speak again.

"Wow. That's mighty sophisticated fer somethin that's got no electricity.I guess tech comes in all forms." Joss looked up to Cerxis.

"Can ya show me more?"

"You can learn," agreed Xat-Cerxis. "Hold some string! Watch my fingers. Watch shape. I will tie and you will follow." Slowly, Xat-Cerxis made some loops and then tightened them up by pulling on the edge of the thread. They made a simple knot. "One, two, three, four, five!" she counted as more tiny knots appeared. "Imagine every knot is a llama! We have five llamas! It is good to keep track," she said as if that explained everything about her counting system.

"Dam right it's good ta keep track of them llamas. There always tryin ta get out of their fence and cause all sorts a rucks. Dang those thangs bite."

Joss smiled after her statement to show she ment no offence. She then brought her gaze back to Cerxis' work.

"Can I try now?"

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