dankmemes | test drive meme #16

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 January 24th, and apps are open February 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: THE CREEPY CRAWLIES
[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 to impale you on its giant claws and crunch your bones between its mandibles. That's right, this time the Door is bringing you bugs from Starship Troopers, in all their giant and disgusting glory!

Bugs are, well, giant insects that come in all shapes and sizes, depending on the rank, and are way too tall or too heavy than they have any right to be. They can move quickly, most of them have the ability to fly, and their exo-skeletons means that it's difficult to really hurt them unless you've got some muscles on you. Or a really big boot, I guess.]

C O N F U S I O N

SCENARIO TWO: WHO'S THAT IN THE MIRROR?
[Something's lurking in the dark. Something that really wants to ruin your day by any means necessary- that includes preying on your darkest fears, or just, you know, simply killing you. But that's not a problem, right? You're big and tough! Except, so is this creature out to get you. And it knows all of your weaknesses and insecurities too because, well... it is you.

Doubles of characters will be flooding the city and attempting to ruin the originals lives by whatever means necessary. This generally involves killing the original and then impersonating them, but it can also mean killing people you love or just bringing up your awkward teenage years to traumatize you in front of all your new cool friends.

What can you do to stop it? Well, you could kill them first, that certainly won't require a few trips to therapy later! There's always locking them away, or maybe trying to befriend them because hey, who's better at ruining your life than you?

This is a mini version of our Dead Ringers event this month!]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO THREE: CAN YOU JUST LIKE, CHILL FOR A SEC?
[Embrace tranquility! Or rather, get pulled, kicking and screaming into an event during which you magically have to find some chill, or else Tranquility will force chill upon you.

For this prompt, characters will find themselves in a state of sudden peace and calm, without much anger or meanness to go around. That guy you hate? Maybe you should give him a peace offering. The chick who stole your girlfriend? Maybe you should congratulate her! Everything is peaceful and everything is... sorta gray.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to be able to relax, but we have an emotional spectrum for a reason. Pretty soon, the tranquility of this might turn into something a little creepy, even Stepfordish... but it's hard to really care when everything is so damn pleasant, right?]

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[The really ugly thing about this situation? Asriel can see it happening, and for a moment, he doesn't know which one is the double and which one is the real Asgore.

Sickening, right? Awful of him. He should know his dad is a big fuzzy pushover, wouldn't hurt a fly. But... he remembers waking up in a garden, wasting weeks with that stupid king, trying to feel something. Remembers finding out the king had taken the lives of six humans. For revenge. Remembers seeing cold, hard proof that killing had been the only way, that he got Chara killed all over again, wasted their sacrifice, turned to dust for absolutely nothing.

But he... he has to believe the best in his dad, doesn't he? The real Asriel loves his dad. The real Asriel doesn't doubt people. He has to be good.

So he casts out his paws, summons his magic, puts something between the bad Asgore and the good Asgore.

It's - it's frighteningly easy. It's practiced. It's not a fireball like Mom could do, not the flames his parents taught him to make.

It's a ring of shapeless white friendliness pellets, circling the Asgore who holds the trident like they're ready to snap his SOUL at the last second.]

L-leave him alone! You're just being a big bully!

[The appearance of new bullets takes both of them aback, and Asgore's already taken a step back from the trident before Asriel speaks. Bullets mean monsters, and that means he needs to try harder than this. At least he doesn't recognize this...

........oh.

Has he died?

He's visibly shocked by Asriel's appearance. The double is less so.]

Of course. We are doubles, are we not?

[The responses clear it up beyond the shadow of a doubt. The one who's surprised to see him is definitely Asriel's real dad.

He rushes between the two, one paw outstretched fiercely toward the double, keeping the ring of feeble little bullets in place. The other he reaches out behind him - not to summon more bullets, but to offer his dad his other hand.]

Just... just ignore him, Dad. He only wants to make you unhappy because he can. Let's just leave, okay? I can explain everything, but I don't want to do it around the bad one.

[He doesn't... Asriel doesn't think he can muster a lot of range on those little pellets, truth be told. Strong magic requires a strong soul, and he doesn't really have any soul at all, does he? He always did have a rough time facing his father down as Flowey. Couldn't even get him to hand the human souls over by force.

But maybe... he can bluff? He learned a lot about how to lie when he was a flower. He got really good at pretending to care about people, ha ha.

That's not funny.]

[Those little bullets won't give the double too much trouble. Asgore assumes this, anyway, because they don't look as if they would hurt him too badly. The time to act is now, while it's still at least slightly hemmed in.]

Ah - alright? [what is going on tbh. He hesitates for a moment, afraid of what might happen, then reaches out and takes Asriel's hand.

Solid. There.

The double opens its mouth, but Asgore lifts his other hand, and a circle of flame shoots up outside the circle of little bullets. Let's keep that in there.] Let's go quickly. [He would like to lead the way, but he actually has no idea where they are, so]

test drive meme #16

2 - SLAMS INTO DAD AT WARP SPEED

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