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dankmemes2016-11-20 10:15 am
hadrielmods) wrote in dankmemes2016-11-20 10:15 am
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test drive meme #14
Welcome to Hadriel's test drive, and thank you again for your interest in the game! As always, our reserves page is here, and our applications page is here! Reserves open November 24th, and apps are open December 1st. Please remember that starting in December, there is an app cap of 20 apps.
Two quick points here as well:1. Any thread made in Hadriel's test drive will be accepted as the sole Action Log sample in the application.
2. All threads made in the test drive can be considered game canon, either through handwaving or through a shared mental experience while coming through the Door!
Test drives will be broken up into specific god mini-events, during which your characters can see how well they fare under the watchful eye of one of the gods. Choose wisely or just simply pick 'em all, and have fun!
F E A R
SCENARIO ONE: HOW SAUCY
[The Door brings in all that is chaotic and evil in the world. This may include you, may include the person next to you... and may include the monster behind you.
Watch out as you explore the streets of Hadriel, because you're not alone, and there's always something lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect chance to destroy you for your vegetarian ways. This time, the Door has brought in a large group of Killer Tomatoes, from the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.
While it is not immediately clear how these odd creatures can kill you, rest assured that you should be quaking in your boots. They can bite with their weird little tomato mouths, they can roll after you surprisingly fast, and they can even explode! Truly terrifying. But if you manage to defeat some of these agents of terror and chaos, you could make some mean salsa.]
D R A G O N A G E
SCENARIO TWO: VACATION IN THEDAS
[While you're exploring the city, perhaps you'll run into another creature that's slipped through a rift and is exploring along with you - or perhaps hunting would be a better term. Yes, Hadriel is teeming with demons straight from Thedas.
Perhaps you'll run into a desire demon, who will offer you your deepest wish - in exchange for your body and soul, of course. Perhaps you'll find a pride demon, who will play upon your strengths and weaknesses until you give in to them. Or maybe it'll be a despair demon, there to crush all your hopes and dreams.
Or maybe, if you're very lucky, you'll just find a nug.
This is a mini version of our Fadeout event this month!]
C O N F U S I O N
SCENARIO THREE: SWEDISH MANUFACTURING
[You're in luck! You know that thing you've always wanted? Doesn't matter what it is - a cool weapon, a nice dress, a well-made bedstand, a rare magical invention. Whatever it is, you just managed to find it! Whoa!
Or, well, you managed to find a box with a picture of the item on it. When you open the box, you find all the necessary components for making that item, along with illustrated instructions for putting it together. There's no written instructions, just pictures, but you're smart, you can figure it out! And it'll look just like the photo on the box. You're sure of it.
Better get building! Okay, the instructions don't entirely make sense - did you screw that part in upside down? Wait, are these pages out of order? Maybe you can ask that person nearby for help, or maybe you'll just sink into the depths of confusion and despair. But keep trying! Just think of what you'll get if you succeed!]
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Oh my god -- are you all right? Did those things hurt you?
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It blew up, covered in tomato, how am I supposed to get this out?!
[ Another tomato rolls towards them and Chrysanthe twists her fingers in it's direction, causing the giant tomato to stop in it's tracks, shudder, and deflate with a shriek. ]
They're tomatoes!
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This-- that's it?]
You can just wash it out. You know, like mud or snow or sweat.
[Or human brains, if your food is messy and your hair gets loose, but who's keeping track.]
Yeah, I got that much. Killer vegetables. [Never mind they're not technically vegetables.] It's only going to get worse if we stay here, so let's find a way outside, okay?
[There's that bedside manner she'd had as a resident. Come on, screamy lady. Let's get the hell out. Liv heads over to her, gesturing towards what appears to be an exit to Chrysanthe's right.]
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Every tomato they encounter has the same fate. A twist of fingers, sudden deflating as all the water that holds them together bleeds out into the ground.
Chrysanthe scoffs, occasionally making a distressed sound at the amount of fruit in her hair. ]
Ugh.
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Unnatural things happen.
[Like zombies, and tomatoes with teeth.
Liv doesn't pay much attention to the complaining, barely even pausing when Chrysanthe kills a tomato-monster. Her goal is to get them outside. She'll figure out what to do from there.]
We're almost there. I see light.
[Hopefully it's not the light at the end of the tunnel kind of light.]
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Another sound of disgust. ]
Do you speak from knowledge or supposition? Unnatural things. Light.
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What would Clive do, anyway.]
I have a little experience solving mysteries.
[Actually, he might say something like that.]
I was being literal about the light. [Liv gestures to the better-lit outside of the arena or whatever they'd woken up in.] It looks like we're underground, but there has to be a way out if there's light.
[Right?]
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[ She isn't scoffing, though, and she follows Liv's hand as opposed to looking in the direction of the actual light. People are much more interesting than wherever she is and, by extension, however they got there. ]
You're very pale. Light might be good for you.
[ Light, however, does not equate outside as it turns out. Just a city, half crumbling, within a cave. ]
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...and not since the wake of the boat party has anyone commented on Liv's pallor.]
I don't like tanning. [Now, moving on as they head into the city--] How did you do what you did to the tomatoes?
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[ Chrysanthe makes a confused face. ]
Do not see what leatherworking has to do with your pallor.
Magic is the simple answer. Only they have no blood, just water.
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Wait, what?] When did I say anything about--
[Magic. Tanning, as in leatherworking.]
Please tell me you're just some sort of prestofest/ren faire person? [Because I don't think I can take actual, real-life magic from another world. That's too weird. Too comic book.]
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Your blood is very...[ Chrysanthe narrows her eyes. ] Still.
Are you dead?
[ Much more interesting to her than how they ended up in a giant cave, tbh.]
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[The explanation is cut off before it even becomes an answer, and Liv herself stops walking to look at the woman right in the face.
What the hell do you even say to that, though?]
I-- no. I'm not. [She's about to launch into a lie about how she hates sunlight and likes to keep her hair bleached when she remembers the fact that this woman mentioned magic. Maybe zombies are normal where she's from? Maybe there are vampires too?
Or maybe this is a coma dream. They're in an underground city full of murderous tomatoes, for fuck's sake.
Okay. Out with it.]
I'm a zombie. And I do have a heartbeat, it's just slow. Six beats per minute. You don't need much else when you're undead.