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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!]
Han Solo | Star Wars
[Han's seen some things in his time, flying from one end of the galaxy to the other then very reluctantly (he'll insist) working for the Rebellion: good things, bad things, things that he wishes he'd never even seen in his life, things he keeps close to his chest like a winning hand in sabacc.
He has never seen killer tomatoes before. He has definitely never seen them try to swarm him like this before, which is really more annoying than anything. He really wishes Chewie were around to help out, it'd be much easier to fend off a swarm of round, sharp-toothed little monsters with a Wookiee around.
Currently, he's trapped in a dead-end alleyway and taking cover behind a dumpster, shooting at killer vegetables. He's trying to clear himself a path through the swarm, but so far no luck--for every tomato he shoots (or for every one that explodes near him, there's bits of tomato all over him from previous skirmishes), another one rolls into place.
He really should've borrowed Chewie's bowcaster, he thinks.]
[three: swedish furniture empire strikes back]
[Finally! After two hours of blood, sweat, tears and creative cursing, Han--with, perhaps, you as well--stands back to admire the results of his hard work--]
That's not a hologame table.
[He says it flatly, crossing his arms and squinting at the--well. It was supposed to be a hologame table for playing dejarik. It does not look like one.]
I think it barely even counts as a table.
[...whoops?]
obviously this is an imperial initiative
and yet here they are. it should be finished and maybe it is but it sure doesn't look anything like any dejarik table ahsoka's ever seen. ]
No. It's definitely a table from this angle.
[ she's lying. lying with her hands folded together in front of her mouth, her expression struggling between exhausted amusement and frustration. ]
no subject
From what angle? It doesn't look like any table I've ever seen. [A huff.] Fat lot of good that manual did.
[Says the guy who barely even looked at it.]
no subject
[ she steps away to grab the instructions and then back to his side, holding the diagram of the finished product up in front of them both for comparison with their own end result. ]
We were kind of winging it.
no subject
[He stops, crosses his arms, and steps closer. Prods the base of the "table" with his foot just slightly. The whole thing wobbles, and he steps back.]
I hate to break it to you, but it's a piece of junk.
no subject
That should make it all the easier to get it to work. There's room for improvisation. We just have to... [ she trails off, staring at the attempted table before tossing the directions aside and grabbing the nearest tool, headed to pull a piece off and start putting it on a different way. ]
This right here is our problem, I'll bet.
[ she's lying to make herself feel better at this point. being bested by a table feels really, really wrong. ]
no subject
Besides, he has a reputation to uphold here, and he knows at least two people are going to laugh at him forever if he lets himself get bested by a table. So he steps up next to her, kneels down and pulls another piece off the table, turns it upside-down, and sticks it back into place.]
We don't get this looking like a table, [not even a hologame table, at this point, just an actual table] this whole thing's gonna be our problem. Unless you know anybody in the market for scrap heaps.
[three]
She pauses by the man, eyebrow raised.]
You know what a hologame table is.
[Someone from her world? He's not wearing a uniform. Nor, apparently, is he having much luck with the construction of his chosen--mess.]
no subject
Yeah, and that? [He jerks a thumb at the thing that was supposed to be a hologame table.] Doesn't count as one. [He's just really glad Leia's not here to roll her eyes at him.
He looks the new arrival over, his posture wary, guarded, despite his casual way of speaking.]
But you'd be the second person I've met here who knows what a hologame table is.
no subject
It's a trick. The instructions. Along with most things here.
[She eyes him up and down with a critical eye. The face isn't known to her, though he's dressed like a smuggler. Curious.]
Would the first be Ashoka Tano?
no subject
[What a small galaxy. And Ahsoka had helped! But he's not going to screw up her rep here by mentioning her role in this disaster, if she's even got a rep. Instead he huffs out a breath, sets his hands on his hips, gives the "table" a dark look.]
Would've been nice to get a warning, [he says, dryly] but I guess that'd give the trick away. [One hand drops, brushes lightly and casually over the blaster at his hip.] Still, you'd think the Empire's got better tricks than this.
no subject
[She, better than anyone, would know.]
one
[A small grenade rolls into the middle of the mass of tomatoes, beeping. Hopefully Han can get down in time, cause a few seconds later, it's gonna explode and spread tomato guts everywhere.
Sabine stands at the other end of the alley, gun in her right hand and another grenade ready in her left, dressed in her full, brightly painted Mandalorian armor, helmet and all as she scans the streets, ready for more vegetable destruction.]
That should buy us a second. You all right?
no subject
Never gonna get the smell out of my clothes, but other than that, I'm just fine. [Mandalorian. Huh. Well, he's just glad she's not Boba Fett. He readies his own blaster, scanning the streets for signs of more tomatoes.] How many more of those you got on you?
no subject
Not enough. Let's get moving.
[And she starts making her way down the street, sniping tomatoes with her blaster as quickly as she sees them.]
three
This is totally your fault you know, I told you not to put the brace where you did, now the thing looks like it can barely take a scathing glare let alone any of the curses you were throwing at it earlier. Speak softly, Space Cowboy.