dankmemes | 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?]

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[He senses it from halfway across the city. Someone is here, someone powerful in the ways of the Force. It's like someone has touched a live wire to the Dark Side, harnessing all of it in ways he's never been able to do.

When he finds Anakin in Hadriel, he just stops and stares, recognizing him from the old holos. He should have known. Of course the most powerful would have been drawn here. He approaches cautiously and with respect, sweeping into a low bow. His vocoder flattens out any emotion in his tone.]

Lord Vader. It's an honor.

[Once he made his decision to hold power above all else, he committed himself to a life of loneliness and pain. Ironically that pain works in his favor, adding to his strength until it is greater than Palpatine's (and the man well knows it - thus why he designs a way to keep Vader under his thumb).

Kylo will not find a triumphant victor standing before him, but rather a young man who has seen too much agony. Anakin is broken; unhinged. He blinks, uncomprehendingly, unused to someone bowing to him.

But this is how it will be and he quickly smirks, though the expression does not touch his eyes.]

Why do you consider it an honor?

[He's dreamed of this moment for so long. All he's ever wanted was to live up to the legacy of his grandfather and now here's the man in the flesh. Kylo wonders at what point he's from, considering he's without his suit and mask. He rises back up, studying Vader carefully.]

You're the greatest Sith Lord that ever lived. Why wouldn't I?

[The words may be flattery, but Kylo Ren is no fawning sycophant crawling on his belly. They're said in the same simple tone as one would say the sky is blue. It's a fact being stated. Kylo has a habit of putting the people in his life up on a pedestal. Once, that had been his parents. When they ended up disappointing him, he'd turned to someone who never could.]

[He is from a point where he is torn but mired deep in shadow. Anakin Skywalker will soon die or sleep only be reawakened by Luke's cries of pain. His smile is seemingly warm with delight at the pronouncement, but his eyes are pale and his gaze is difficult to meet and hold. Madness is lurking within the golden depths, sanity holding onto a fraying thread.]

You are a Sith? [With a brief jerk of his chin, he motions at the mask.] Why do you wear that?

[Kylo senses a little through the Force of what makes up the man facing him. Where he had expected to find a bedrock of sureness seems to be fraught with cracks. Truth be told, it reminds Kylo more of his own mind than anything else. This is a disturbing revelation.]

Not yet. [Words that are galling to say. He's failed thus far in his quest to purge himself of the Light.] I'm a Knight of Ren.

[He ducks his helmeted head down, suddenly more awkward than he had been a moment ago.] It's out of respect for your memory.

[The bedrock does not happen overnight nor has it been present since the beginning. Anakin Skywalker must break before he can re-form into something that will never shatter again.

Save once. For Luke. But he doesn't even know of his son's presence yet.]

What does a Knight of Ren do? [He can sense power - some of it untapped - in this man and, yes, there are similarities between them. Enough so that it is grating.] Am I wearing a mask? Will I wear one?

[Why, he wonders.]

Edited 2016-12-26 12:41 (UTC)

We serve the Supreme Leader of the First Order. [He's tied to Snoke as surely as if his master had a leash on him. But in this place, without his constant presence in his head, his effect on Kylo Ren has been diminishing. It has left the Knight with the looming feeling of the Light in his head, growing stronger by the day. He continues to fight against it as much as he can.]

Yes. In the future. There was-- [Then he hesitates. How much should he tell his grandfather of what is to befall him?] --an accident.

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