dankmemes | test drive meme #21

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 June 24th, and apps are open July 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: A LITTLE FRENZIED
[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.

Do you hear something weird? Some kind of strange, constant humming? Hopefully by now you know enough to know that it's probably not nothing, and maybe you should run. If you don't, well- the Door has brought in some Winter Lanterns, from the Bloodborne video game.

Winter Lanterns are rather hideous creatures that hum constantly and glow orange when they detect someone's presence. They can grab you with their tentacles and take a nice bite out of you, which is super fun, or they can mess you up just by looking at you too long. Yep, hanging out in the gaze of a Winter Lantern for too long will end with you being afflicted by Frenzy - blood shooting out all over the place. Not great for the health, really, so maybe don't get into a staring contest. Maybe just run.]

S O R R O W / L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: HAUNTED
[You thought you might never see them again, but now they're here. That person you loved - that person you miss terribly. Except that you seem to be the only person who can see them, and you also seem to be getting steadily weaker.

So that's what it comes down to, then. This ghost that's haunting you will take your life so it can live, even if it doesn't mean to. Do you have the ability to stop them? You'll have to kill them to do it, and you love them so much. Now's the time to make your choice - but be careful. They're strong enough to be visible now, and one of your friends or even a passing stranger might have something to say about your decision.

This is a mini version of our Ghosts That You Know event this month!]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO THREE: SLEEPING SICKNESS
[For some reason you can't quite put your finger on, you're tired. Like really tired. Like slurring your words, stumbling over your own feet, nodding off if you stop for a second tired. You can't seem to get enough rest no matter what you try - because it's always a light sleep. The slightest sound or movement will wake you up, leaving you just as tired and irritable as before.

What are you going to do? Try to find a quiet place to nap? Good luck. It seems like a lot of other people have the same idea as you - it might be hard to find a truly empty place. Or maybe you just can't take it anymore, and you're going to lay down and take a nap right in the middle of the street. Or maybe you actually feel fine, but everyone around you is falling asleep - and they glare at you when you make the slightest sound.

Maybe you should wake them up? Sleeping in the middle of the street isn't exactly safe. But then, maybe you just want to join them and argue over who gets the most comfortable bit of road.]

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[Tatara smiles gently as he cleans the blood from Raidou's face.

Well, then, perhaps it's time to find another tactic. Losing all of this blood isn't good for you.

[He pours more water onto a clean cloth before continuuing.]

Besides, you don't want the worse to happen and get stuck in a group of them, right?

[It's obvious he's a little embarrassed having a total stranger do this for him, but his vision is blurry and his head was still swimming.]

If there's more than one of them, we'll definitely have to rethink tactics. But that's the only one I've seen out there so far. I guess this means it's time to figure out where we are, now.

True. If there are more. [Tatara gives a light chuckle.]

Well, wherever we are, I don't think it's Heaven. But it's not scary enough to be Hell, either.

[Tatara, that monster was totally scary...

He holds out a freshly wet cloth to Raidou.]

Hold this over your eyes. It might help.

[Then he gets up and looks around the store for juice, thinking of what they give blood donors to keep them from feeling faint.]

[He does as instructed, because boy that feels so much better right now.]

I don't think it's either. You're probably right on the latter.

[Please, he's been in some pretty scary places like this, and they weren't Hell either. Even if they were crawling with demons.]

That's good, though. That means there's hope that we can find a way out.

[Tatara shuffles through a selection on the shelf before coming back with tomato juice and orange juice.

Although his eyebrows raise curiously at Raidou's statemtent - to find a way out. And for a moment he feels hesitant. He's not sure what it would be like if he left here. Heaven it's not, but it did bring him from the world of the dead.

If he sets foot out of here, will he die again? His grasp on this world is hardly more than that of a dream right now.

He gives a faint chuckle.]

Well, if you want out of here, I'm happy to help you. Maybe there is a way out.

Tomato or orange? You really should drink something.

If there's a way in, there's a way out. Even if it's not the same route. And considering I'm not sure how I got here...

[Oh, right. He did lose some blood, didn't he.]

Oh. Orange, please.

[Tatara presses the orange juice bottle to Raidou's hand before sitting himself on the floor beside the other man, accepting the tomato juice for himself.]

I'm not sure how I got here either. Though... It's what makes me wonder. Can you be so sure there's a way out?

[His tone is even, more contemplative than anything, and then the smile returns to it as he looks back toward Raidou.]

I distinctly remember getting shot, and dying in someone's arms. [The tone saddens slightly; they were Yata's arms, and all he could to Yata was that he was sorry, but everything would be alright.] If there's a way out, I don't think I can go back.

[Would watching Mikoto, Anna, and the rest of HOMRA from Heaven be better or worse than to be breathing in a tangible world such as this one? Anna hadn't told him either that he'd come back from the dead. Only that he would die if he continued to follow Mikoto.]

Maybe it's even Purgatory.

[A mix of concern and confusion come over Raidou's face. He certainly hadn't died before he got here.

...Right?]

I... [He doesn't know what to say.] Are you sure that's what happened?

Pretty sure. Though, I don't have the bullet wound to show for it. But... Yes, there's no doubt in my mind that I died, unless I went into a coma without knowing it.

[Though that wouldn't explain why he's conscious here and now. Although, coming back from the dead would be just as implausible. But he doesn't really claim to understand any of it anyway.]

I don't think this is a land of the dead, though. It doesn't feel like one. [After he was just spouting about Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.]

[Raidou smirked a little at that, rubbing his pulsing forehead.] If you're dreaming, please leave me out of it. It's a little too real for me.

[What did this mean, then? The circumstances of how he thinks he got here are a lot stranger, or so he thought. Was it any stranger than someone who should be dead?]

I was... travelling. Through time and space, I suppose. My job is a little weird. [He could explain all of that later.] But I was trying to get back home, back to the Capital, when I wound up here.

[And without his mentor, too. That was what worried him most.]

I might have done something wrong. Cast the spell incorrectly, or... [He shakes his head. He had no idea.]

Oh, you can travel through time and space? That must be quite amazing to see. [He smiles, very clearly interested, as if forgetting the original context of the conversation entirely.] So, where you're from, they use spells to travel? I'd love to hear what it's like.

[You should totally give him all the details, Raidou.]

Not everyone. It's not easy to do. This was the only time I've done it.

[It's complicated. He feels like he'd have to describe the whole case he was working on, which was pretty crazy. Like traveling between dimensions of time and space to find the person who was possessed by your far-future descendent.]

I went there to find someone. I managed to do so and deal with them, but when I tried to get back, I ended up here.

[He had saved Kaya, but she didn't end up here when they tried to leave. He could only hope she returned home safely.]

So you think you messed up your spell. Hmm.

Yes, it would seem entirely possible, wouldn't it? Do you think you would be able to do it again? To get out of here? I'd hate for your mission to be ruined by a malfunction.

I don't have the materials now. Nor could I get it.

[He had checked his pockets when he got here. He didn't even have so much as an extra bullet left. He'd used up everything and had no chance to resupply before getting here.]

Besides, I'm not very good with magic. I had a lot of help doing what I did.

[Without Gouto or the Yatagarasu shrine, he was cornered.]

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