dankmemes | Test Drive Meme #18

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 March 25th, and apps are open April 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 'P' IS SILENT
[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.

The only warning you get is the flapping of wings above you- leathery and noisy, not unlike a herd of bats, before you are descended upon by a creature with a long, sharp beak, beady eyes, and an appetite for blood. Unfortunately, you've come across a pterobuzzard from Stephen King's The Mist.

Despite the difficult to pronounce name, a pterobuzzards' job here is actually quite simple: to eat. With their large bodies, sharp claws, and savage beak, they can rip chunks of flesh from your body and feast on various entrails after you bleed to death. So that's... fun. Maybe you should run inside, where you could totally be safe, until you realize that one of them has the strength to shatter through a window.

Underground bunker, maybe?]

L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: VERY VERY EXTRAORDINARY
[Something is different about today. From the time you wake up, to the moment you look in the mirror, to the minute you greet your usually-annoying neighbor who you sort of hate. That difference is... love? Surely not- your cold, dead heart has been... well, cold and dead for an eternity!

And yet, you find yourself forgiving your own past mistakes, overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way between you and your acceptance of yourself and just... letting it be. You're a pretty cool person, you know, and you should appreciate yourself a little more! During this event, you're damn well going to, with some self love and acceptance.

Everyone else is on your Nice list as well, though- maybe you have a friend that you've been crushing on? That's dialed up to eleven, now. Or hey, that stranger has some cute shoes and you love them so much it hurts. All's fair in love and... love.

This is a mini-version of the beginning of our upcoming All you need is love event!]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO THREE: CLASS IS IN SESSION
[Breathe in, breathe out.

It's a pretty simple concept, but now that you're supposed to be focusing on your breathing, it seems like the most complicated thing in the world. How does breathing help with concentration? Are you breathing the right way? What are you supposed to be thinking about? Do these yoga pants make your butt look cute?

There's too many things to think about and clearing your mind is hard, but the good news is that you're not the only one in Tranquility's yoga class who's having troubles. There's familiar squirming and fidgeting from the people around you who are probably lack just as much chill as you and are having difficulty finding their center.

Whatever that means.

Maybe the person next to you looks just as lost as you are, or maybe their side crane pose is really on point and you want to ask for tips. Either way, whispering is allowed as you contort yourself into human pretzels, so chatter away!]

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A rather large flying . . .

[ but newt trails off at the command, blinking once before looking (up) at ideo, and then glancing toward the pterobuzzard racing closer to them. take care of this? how in merlin's beard is he going to -- ]

-- no. No, no no --

[ it's said quickly, and newt grabs at said right arm before tugging as much as he can. ]

No, it isn't necessary to hurt it, it's simply territorial, and I accidentally upset it by stumbling through its home.

[ newt speaks hurriedly before reaching into his pocket to remove his wand, glancing around quickly before pointing his wand directly at the pterobuzzard. ]

I can slow it down, but we have to get underground before we discover whether or not these creatures are pack animals -- do you know where to go? We have ten seconds.

[this sort of reaction is boggling to someone who solves problems by punching them - professionally - but Ideo is at least capable of restraining himself with this willowy guy hanging off his arm.]

What do you mean it's not necessary? I'm pretty sure that thing would be all too happy to hurt us if we stand here and let it!

[meaning they shouldn't just stand there and...yeah, okay, Newt has a point. Ideo's sure one Destruction Punch would probably kill it but if this guy's going to get in his way, might as well follow his lead]

No, I just got here. But I'm willing to bet away from the direction it came from is a good start. C'mon, you.

[it's not that he has to grab Newt by the coat and yank him to get him to follow, Ideo just does anyway. As an athlete, he can handle running away as easily as fighting, so he puts himself between the seemingly-unarmed man and the flying creature.]

You would be angry too if someone broke into your house.

[ it's said under his breath, and newt generally ignores the rest of that ideo says, his eyes fixated on the creature -- but he raises his wand, his wrist flicking quickly -- ]

Arresto momentum -- !

[ and newt is grabbed by the back of the coat and dragged backwards, only just tightening his grip on his case to prevent losing it as he's tugged backwards to begin to run, but the spell does the trick.

for about 10 seconds, the pterobuzzard is slowed down enough to give them enough of a head start to not immediately die, and newt (once he rights himself from being dragged a bit) doesn't seem to have quite a lot of difficulty keeping up.

case and all.

he's quite used to running for his life by this point. ]

Underground is best, the claws of that creature aren't suited for digging.

[ it's said loud enough for ideo to hear, but newt's voice doesn't project extraordinarily loudly. ]

We're sitting ducks otherwise.

[Now that's a handy little stick you've got there, Newt. Ideo blinks at the spell but chalks it up to something like Devil Fruit and just goes with it. It helped them out, that's the only thing that matters.]

So you're saying it can still crash through a window or a wall if we're just inside, huh? Great. Right, well. Underground it is. Find a cellar and I can get us in.

[breaking into a building can be his job, no sweat. He'd punch a hole in the ground but that doesn't put a roof over their heads to separate them from their pursuer. As they get out to the streets of the city, Ideo's head swivels this way and that, gauging the buildings for suitability and the potential of having a nice cellar they can blockade off.]

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