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test drive meme #15
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 December 25th, and apps are open January 1st. Please remember that 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: YOU SMELL SOMETHING?
[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 knock you out, drag you back to its cave, and hang you upside down for some reason. This time, the Door has brought in a number of Wampas, from the Star Wars movies.
Wampas are large and furry, in order to stay warm and alive on their native ice planet of Hoth. While their white fur helps them blend in at home, it's less helpful in Hadriel - but that's fine! They're giant and terrifying with big claws and teeth, they don't really need camouflage too. They'll be more than happy to hunt you down - and if they don't eat you right there, they could knock you out and take you home for a later meal. If you wake up in a wampa cave, let's hope you remembered your lightsaber.]
R A G E
SCENARIO TWO: WE'RE ALL PISSED OFF HERE
[For some reason, something's just pissing you off today. It's something weird, too, something that wouldn't normally bother you at all. Maybe it's jackets or buildings with too many windows. Maybe it's animals or the simple act of sleeping. Whatever it is, it's total bullshit and you hate it.
What are you gonna do about it? Smash some windows? Kick a puppy? Or hey, maybe you'll run across someone who hates that thing just as much as you do, and you'll make a new friend! Or a new enemy, if they're wearing that most horrible of wardrobe items, a jacket.
This is a mini version of our Why Do You Have To Be Mad? event this month!]
D E L I G H T
SCENARIO THREE: THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON
[Generosity and charity have infected the city! And hey, that's a good thing, right? Hadriel could use a little more kindness. Who knows what's causing it - Delight is probably bored - but whatever it is, maybe it's affected you, too.
If it has, you'll be inspired by the desire to give gifts to your friends, your family, that stranger across the street. Of course, Hadriel doesn't have a lot of gift shops, so... well, maybe you should just give them the shirt off your back? Or hey, smash a shop window and grab that can of beans, they'll love that! You could even steal your friend's favorite jacket and give it to your other friend. How generous of you!
Or maybe you're totally unaffected, and a complete stranger just ran up to you on the street and tried to give you a shirt they ripped off their friend. It's, uh. Not weird. Aren't you gonna say thank you?]
Konaga Heartsun - World of Warcraft
[There's something pure and honest in a fight, blood on the ground and hearts singing for the glory of the ancestors. Master Firepaw says a monk must never lose themselves to blood-lust, but to enjoy the purity of motion - the giddiness of a blow landed just right - is just fine. So long as you remember what you're fighting for.
Always, protect the innocent.
The monster probably wasn't innocent, but it did try to eat her. Konoga wipes blood off her goggles, eying it suspiciously. The corpse twitches. She wonders if she can eat any of it.]
You can come out now. It's dead!
t h r e e
[You're probably minding your own buisiness, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, when a stranger nearly barrels into you. She then shoves something warm and wet into your hands, beaming and very pelased with herself.
'sup. You've just met Konaga Heartsun, monk in training, and you are now the (proud? horrified?) recipient of a wompa liver.
It's still warm. And bloody.]
You should eat it. [Konaga puffs out her chest.] You're so small.
o n e
First, he'd rounded a corner and saw what he assumed was some kind of mutated bear. Then, after he'd passed out from fright, he'd woken up to find himself being dragged away into the caves by said bear monster. Finally, he'd been rescued from the aforementioned bear monster by a green whirlwind of fists and teeth, one that flew out of seemingly nowhere with a flash of lightning and a furious kick. He'd darted behind the rock he's still sitting behind, hoping it'd all be over soon. If the spray of blood, the disgusting cracking of bone, and the way the sentient whirlwind is now trying to coax him out are any indication, it probably is.
Carlisle slides to his knees and peers around the boulder, his entire frame shaking.]
Right. Good it- [His eyes dart to the mangled, twitching body that had once been the monster.] -it is dead. It is indeed dead. Very dead. Fantastic.
[And then he slides back behind the rock, trying not to vomit.]
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She puts her hands behind her back, hiding the claws, in case that scares the human.]
Did it bite you? I can heal. And I won't hit you. Not unless you hit me first. It wouldn't be honorable.
[More or less. Konaga flicks her ears, staring at the rock. Somehow the human can understand her. He speaks orcish or has a translator charm. Unexpected.]
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No no no, it didn't bite me, or hit me, or really do anything but frighten me terribly -- and that's bad enough, mind you -- but I don't need any, uh. Assistance. Further. Thank you.
[And as soon as he's done talking, a rumbling growl echoes through the caves. It sounds far away, but the mere fact that there are other hideous, mutated bear monsters roaming around makes him change his tune.]
I take it back. I do need assistance.
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[She needs to know where he is, otherwise she might hit him by accident. Konaga pauses, then lowers her shoulders. She tries to make her voice sound friendly.]
You're human, right? That's okay. You can't help it.
Three
For the moment he was walking the streets, getting used to the place. Looking for clues of how his magic was being blocked. Not all of it, he could still travel, he could still conjure, but any spell that meant he could leave this place? It either dumped him elsewhere here, or simply didn't work at all.
And then a perfect stranger was just walking up and plunking a liver in his hands. Definitely a liver, even if it was much larger than a human's. Insisting that he eat it. He paused at that, peering at the strange woman, then down at the liver, considering it as his cloak fidgeted, ends curling and uncurling against his ankles as if uncertain.]
Well, it wouldn't be the strangest thing I've eaten today.
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[And it wasn't still alive so it had one up on his usual meals.]
You're not wrong.
[Says the one who's worse than most by far on the self-care thing. Especially scrawny, even for a human.]
Does my mysterious benefactor have a name?