dankmemes | Test Drive Meme #3

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.

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!

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: GIMME A HUG
[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 on the rooftops watching and waiting for the perfect opportunity to separate you from your group and tear you into pieces. This time, the Door has brought in a large slithering beast for you meet.

This Titanoboa is not the friendliest of snakes. Over fifty feet long, it requires quite a lot of meals in order to keep going, and it seems to be most interested in making you one of them. A giant anaconda, this is a constrictor rather than a venomous snake - but don't worry. It's got teeth, too, in case it needs to do a touch of nibbling. We're sure you'll get along just fine.]

SCENARIO TWO: THE DOCTOR IS IN
[You awaken on an operating table. How did you get here? What's going on? You don't remember checking into a hospital or seeing a doctor, and when you try to get up you quickly discover that your hands and legs are secured tightly to the table, the straps digging into your skin.

Next to the table is a tray of gleaming steel surgical instruments, their sharp blades glittering as the overhead light flickers. They seem to be the only clean thing in the room, as you begin to realize that the walls of this operating room are moldy and stained, and there's something dripping from the ceiling. This may not be a legitimate hospital at all.

There are footsteps outside the door. It could be a friend - or not. Will you call for help? Try to free yourself? Lay back and wait for the doctor to arrive?]

H O P E

SCENARIO THREE: HOPESGIVING
[You find yourself in a kitschy, brightly lit, utterly pleasant gift shop. Lining the shelves are all manner of stuffed animals, inspirational figurines, greeting cards, and delightful ornaments. Some even look familiar, like something you might have seen before.

The door isn't locked. You can just leave, if you want. But on a pedestal where the registers should be is a globe of glittering light, and within it, a picture of the person you care for most in the world. Carved on the pedestal are the words Bring someone hope, and you will bring them happiness.

Of course, you aren't alone in there. Will you find something on the shelves to show to your companion, something that might bring them hope? Or maybe you brought something from home. Or maybe you don't care at all, and just want to smash everything in there. It's all up to you.

This is a simplified version of this month's Hope event.]

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[Why is everywhere in this place so creepy.

Still, somewhere like this might be full of salvageable and useful items, and that's why Chris is here even if he's questioning whether it's not such a smart decision after all. But the makeshift way of wrapping his knee that he's been going with is only doing so much good, and if he can find an actual brace or something that'd definitely make the whole thing worth it.

He hasn't run into anyone so far and he's hoping the entire place is abandoned--by both people and monsters with any luck--so the sudden sound of a voice startles him enough that he doesn't immediately recognize whose voice it is.

But then it clicks, and there's no way...]

Josh?

[He calls back, though he hasn't moved yet from where he's frozen against the wall just outside the door. He wants to move, to follow the voice immediately especially if it really is Josh, but he's all too aware there's a good chance it isn't.

Josh never got off the mountain, after all.]

[He knows that voice. Of course he does. But how or why Chris ended up here, he doesn't know. Is he even real? Josh isn't entirely sure of anything right now, except that he wants to get out and that the straps aren't loosening. They're just digging into his arms, and it hurts, and the pain gives him a brief burst of greater clarity. It sounds like Chris, and even if it's not, what's the alternative? A hallucination? Someone else? Something even crazier?

Whatever. He can't worry about that shit right now, not if he wants to get out of here.]

Chris? Hey! You out there?

[Because Josh doesn't see him, but he can't see much from where he is. It doesn't mean anything, he tells himself. It's totally possible to hear someone and not see them and still have them be real.]

Hey, uh, give me a hand, bro, I can't get out of this thing!

[That's too complicated a response to be a monster mimicking a voice.

...Isn't it?

It has to be, because the chance that it really is somehow Josh is too significant for him not to investigate. If it really is Josh then he can't just abandon him a second time, no matter the risk.

He shoves the door open, tense and ready to be met some sort of horrible creature, but... Oh god, it really is Josh.]

H-Hey, man, just give me a sec-

[Focus, don't think about how crazy this is or the utterly complicated mix of emotions that arise at seeing his best friend again after everything that went down. There's time for all of that later, when they're not in a creepy abandoned hospital that might not be so abandoned after all.

It takes a second to figure out the buckle on the strap around Josh's left wrist, but he soon gets it open and starts on the other arm. The glint of the surgical instruments catches his attention--weapons, even if they're tiny ones--but he'll snag one later after he's done getting Josh loose.]

[There's a rush of relief, seeing that Chris is real, but past the relief are hundreds of other questions - like, where the hell is this place, what are they doing here? At least the apparent reality of Chris assures Josh that this weird, crappy hospital, or whatever it is, is probably real too. That's simultaneously reassuring and very, very not.

Josh flexes his free arm, working out the stiffness, and does the same with the other when he's totally free. He wastes no time getting the hell off the table, looking between it, the walls, and Chris.]

What is this place? How'd I get here? How'd you get here?

[He pauses, breathes for a moment, trying to ignore the panic and - everything else.]

Hey, thanks.

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