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Tag Someone New

THE TAG SOMEONE NEW MEME

How It Works

Sometimes, memes can be awkward. There's always that feeling that, if you don't know the person behind the curtain, you'll be intruding somehow. Don't worry. We've all been there. Still, it's nice to have that little reassurance that hey, it's cool. We're all in this together and we just want to play.

That's where this meme comes in! The point here is to play with someone you've never played with before, OR play with a character/canon you're unfamiliar with. The prompts provided include mundane activities, chance meetings, platonic fluff, romance/smut, fighting, and crack. This is pretty much the granddaddy of meme variety, so there should be something for just about everyone.

INSTRUCTIONS
- Comment with you character(s). In the subject field, put all the info that's relevant + any preferences.
- Reply to others. Remember, the goal is to play with new people!
- The initial set of prompts is in this post. The subsequent sets are linked GoogleDocs.
- Use the RNG to get your prompts.
- Have fun!

1. The story starts when...

These prompts are all-purpose.

1. The story starts when your character tells the truth.

2. The story starts when your character hitchhikes.

3. The story starts when your character tries to pick up a reward.

4. The story starts when your character misses his/her train.

5. The story starts when your character tells a secret.

6. The story starts when your character tries to stop a robbery.

7. The story starts when your character agrees to a dare.

8. The story starts when your character answers a newspaper ad.

9. The story starts when your character tries to cover something up.

10. The story starts when your character recognizes someone who doesn't want to be recognized.

11. The story starts when your character moves into a new home.

12. The story starts when your character is reunited with an old friend.

13. The story starts when your character tries to help a lost child.

14. The story starts when your character decides s/he wants revenge.

15. The story starts when your character accepts a new job.

16. The story starts when your character goes to the hospital for help.

17. The story starts when your character bluffs through something.

18. The story starts when your character finds the car won't start.

19. The story starts when your character inherits an object.

20. The story starts when your character walks out on a partner.

21. The story starts when your character wakes up in the wrong bed.

22. The story starts when your character goes on a blind date.

2. Fluff

These prompts are all platonic and fluffy.

3. Romance/Smut

These prompts are romance and smut-related.

4. Fighting

These prompts have to do with fightan'.

5. Crack

These prompts are cracky and include things like animal parts and genderswap.

Get the code for this meme [here].

FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS IT:

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<tr><td bgcolor="4796D3">How It Works
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<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">Sometimes, memes can be awkward. There's always that feeling that, if you don't know the person behind the curtain, you'll be intruding somehow. Don't worry. We've all been there. Still, it's nice to have that little reassurance that hey, it's cool. We're all in this together and we just want to play.

That's where this meme comes in! The point here is to play with someone you've never played with before, OR play with a character/canon you're unfamiliar with. The prompts provided include mundane activities, chance meetings, platonic fluff, romance/smut, fighting, and crack. This is pretty much the granddaddy of meme variety, so there should be something for just about everyone.

INSTRUCTIONS
- Comment with you character(s). In the subject field, put all the info that's relevant + any preferences.
- Reply to others. Remember, the goal is to play with new people!
- The initial set of prompts is in this post. The subsequent sets are linked GoogleDocs.
- Use the <a href="http://www.random.org">RNG</a> to get your prompts.
- Have fun!
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<tr><td bgcolor="D8EA86">1. The story starts when...</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">These prompts are all-purpose.

1. The story starts when your character tells the truth.

2. The story starts when your character hitchhikes.

3. The story starts when your character tries to pick up a reward.

4. The story starts when your character misses his/her train.

5. The story starts when your character tells a secret.

6. The story starts when your character tries to stop a robbery.

7. The story starts when your character agrees to a dare.

8. The story starts when your character answers a newspaper ad.

9. The story starts when your character tries to cover something up.

10. The story starts when your character recognizes someone who doesn't want to be recognized.

11. The story starts when your character moves into a new home.

12. The story starts when your character is reunited with an old friend.

13. The story starts when your character tries to help a lost child.

14. The story starts when your character decides s/he wants revenge.

15. The story starts when your character accepts a new job.

16. The story starts when your character goes to the hospital for help.

17. The story starts when your character bluffs through something.

18. The story starts when your character finds the car won't start.

19. The story starts when your character inherits an object.

20. The story starts when your character walks out on a partner.

21. The story starts when your character wakes up in the wrong bed.

22. The story starts when your character goes on a blind date.
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<tr><td bgcolor="4796D3">2. Fluff</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">These <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IQkvGEnyo7Ss5-_rg1cL_fGPfSXekBEZMgDjjVyGcDA">prompts</a> are all platonic and fluffy.</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="D8EA86">3. Romance/Smut</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">These <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1oVQmCyHYwqWlJaX26rNRKuBNtuDRLxPRA4UdCuIomXE">prompts</a> are romance and smut-related.</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="4796D3">4. Fighting</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">These <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1e3VbSK7FXmf54qy5cZoLVaVfnZFISZUh1MrCl--RT2I">prompts</a> have to do with fightan'.</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="D8EA86">5. Crack</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="F4F2EA">These <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1uGPLnbI6zCtOqiLbmvhnCLvZs4rr0TNbyjEcELha9N4">prompts</a> are cracky and include things like animal parts and genderswap.</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="" height="20">Get the code for this meme [<a href="http://skirtedjustice.livejournal.com/1087.html">here</a>].</td></tr>
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[Character Information; open to anything.]

[ooc: Open to most scenarios, PM with any questions, no smut unless discussed first]

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"Why could you not just let them take the money?!" he yelled over the rapid bullet fire before making his way over to the strange woman. He peeked out from behind the counter, found where each of the robbers were hiding and ducked down a split second before a bullet buried itself in the granite where his face had been a moment before.

He looked under the counter for anything he could use. A moment later, he flung a paperweight out. A dull thunk and cry followed by swearing as one of the men collapsed unconscious, his buddies pausing in their gunfire.

Nickov got a stapler ready to toss if Miss Swords couldn't get to them.

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After the hail of bullets ceased and cries of agony replaced them, Nickov stood up again, ready to throw the stapler and stop another but gazed in horror at the two robbers with missing limbs.

"Are you insane?!" he yelled at the woman, leaping over the counter and quickly coming over to the one whose arm had been cut off first. Ripping off the man's shirt, he wrapped it around the bloody stump to try and stem the flow of red.

"Call an ambulance!" he snapped at her before moving onto the man with the severed leg who was going pale really quickly.

Minoru had been studying under the Great Snake Lord Elders, living and traveling the discipline of a sage for nearly fifty years. He'd grown into a powerful man, learned and developed many healing techniques based on the creatures he studied and lived with. The seal on his chest was as strong as ever, still pulling natural energy from the world around him and blending it with his own chakra. It was the primary reason that, although his hair had streaks of white now, he was as upbeat and spry as he was in his twenties.

But even with all his training, he found himself immediately overwhelmed the moment he appeared on Valcovla.

On the first breath, his body reacted to the poisonous air, instinctively taking on full sage mode. He had a greater resistance that way, and the hard scaly skin would grant him some protection from the elements around him.

He knew he was here to help a woman, and that he was looking for a man of two worlds. But he wasn't sure where to find them. For a moment, all he could do was take a look around and get some kind of bearings.

The world was quite bleak around Minoru, red sands almost as far as the eye could see in every direction, though he seemed to be in a valley and mountains enclosed him. The sky was a mix of oranges and purples with no hint of stars between the poisonous clouds. It was midday but what light that did filter through the atmosphere gave it a constant dusk feel. The air was thick and hot and smelled of sulfur.

There didn't seem to be anything living in the immediate area, not so much as a weed, even the rocks themselves seemed to have retreated from the sand. But it wasn't entirely desolate, about half a mile from where he'd been dropped was an oasis.

The air might have been foul, hot and stifling for Minoru, but for Nickov, this was winter and things couldn't be more pleasant. Fed and watered, he and his friend Odyn enjoyed a moment of peace in the purple and red flora and fauna of the oasis Minoru wasn't far from. Odyn's large ears perked and he raised his massive head from the sand, nostrils flaring as he smelled someone, or something.

Nickov stirred and pat his neck before sitting up. "What is it?" he asked through a yawn, grunting as the ten foot tall beast got to his feet, dislodging him from laying against his back. He got up and followed and looked out across the sand where his friend was looking.

"Looks like we have company." he sighed and waited for the stranger to arrive, narrowing his eyes and drawing his knife from the sheath of animal skin on his forearm as the creature that approached was like nothing he knew. "Who are you?" he asked in his native tongue first, his other hand clasping Odyn's short mane. No response, he asked again, but this time in human, though the other was no more human looking than himself.

If there was anyone in this desolate place, they would be at the oasis, Minoru reasoned, and he set off in that direction. He could feel the air clinging to his scales, and cringed at the sour taste in his mouth. It was perhaps his lifelong fire affinity that made breathing even remotely bearable.

This place certainly wasn't pleasant. And when the first living thing he saw pulled out a knife, things had the potential to be even less pleasant.

The humanoid one spoke, first in a language he didn't understand, and then in one he did. Minoru's eyes opened wide. The facial markings, the scar, it was just like what he saw in his dream.

"You're the one I'm looking for!" He exclaimed with a smile. His voice was a little hoarse from the air, a slight wheeze already discernible in his breath. He was clearly no native. "My name is Minoru. I'm a healer. You're in need of one, right?"

Nickov's ears perked up and he slowly lowered his knife. "Huh? How...Well...my mother needs one...not I...But...how did you know?" he asked, putting his knife away and patting Odyn's flank.

The great beast turned a white eye on Minoru then nudged Nickov's shoulder with his nose.

"My name is Nickov, this is Odyn" Nickov said, giving his steed's ears a scratching before blinking and peering around Minoru then to the serpent sage. "How did you even get here?...You...you are not from Valcovla, are you?"

"I have dreams. They tell me where I'm supposed to travel next." He answered with a bit of a shrug. Even after all these years he didn't have a better explanation. "The Great Snake Lord Elders, they just know what they mean and what portal to send me through."

There's a lot of room for interpretation regarding dreams, and some could argue it was his teachers' way of getting some peace and quiet for a change. But snakes are the ultimate symbol of life and death, and this was how Minoru lived his life. The amount of people he'd been able to help made it all worthwhile.

"This is my first time in your world." He added, as though the effect it was starting to have on him wasn't obvious. He wiped sweat from his brow, and noticed the scales on the back of his hand were starting to look a little discolored. "Taking me a bit longer to adjust... than I thought."

Portals? Dreams? Sounds like fantasy but he kept an open mind.

"I did not think anything not born here could survive more than a few moments." he said then turned and beckoned Minoru into the oasis. "Come, its more comfortable here and there is water." he said, tail giving a flick. Odyn followed by his side and the three came to a shallow pool of water, it was warm, but clean. The air felt and smelled far more fresh and cool in the grove

Odyn laid down, tucking his legs under him rather like a horse would, Nickov going over to one of the trees and plucking down a hairy cantaloupe-sized fruit. Odyn opened his mouth and Nickov stuck the big fruit in. The beast rolled it around until he got it between his big teeth. A crack and Nickov removed it from Odyn's mouth, the two halves split open. The stench of rotting meat filled the immediate area but Nickov seemed unperturbed as he handed one half of the very ugly fruit to Minoru. "It is rot-fruit, smells and looks awful but tastes akin to watermelon." he said.

"I can see how it might be a little unforgiving." He admitted. If he didn't have the protection of his Sage Mode, he probably wouldn't have survived more than a few moments either.

The oasis was a refreshing change. Minoru stayed out if the water, but just sitting next to it seemed to take a weight off his chest. It was actually pretty pleasant... until that smell was thrust right under his nose.

Minoru almost gagged. Meat wasn't something he consumed anymore, let alone rotten meat. But this was fruit... And apparently it tasted like watermelon? No way he'd turn down the gift of food, especially it it was something sweet. He could get past the smell.

"Thank you." He nodded politely, before digging in heartily. Truth be told, it was actually pretty good!

"I'll do whatever I can to help your mother. Do you know what's wrong?"

[OOC : Available in human or Dragon form. Open to pretty much anything. F/M for shippy things, but please PM if you're interested in playing smutty scenarios as I'm not exactly confident in that kinda thing.]