dankmemes | test drive meme #23

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 August 25th, and apps are open September 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: SLIPPERY NAKED PEOPLE
[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.

No big deal, but there's a freaky wall-climbing zombie thing stalking you. Maybe you should get inside? Or run. Or just accept death. This time, the Door has brought in some Descendants, from the Uncharted video game.

Descendents are emaciated, man-eating monsters that used to be normal people until affected by a virus - you know how that goes! Terribly, always. They are fast and agile and quite strong, and they will stalk you and crawl up walls and maybe break your neck if they can. Badass.]

S O R R O W / H O P E

SCENARIO TWO: THE FUTURE ISN'T BRIGHT
[You found a mirror. It's your mirror, created just for you, and when you look into it - well. You might not want to look more than once, because it shows an image of the worst possible future you could imagine for yourself. Maybe you're dead. Maybe someone you love it. Maybe you've lost everything. Basically, it sucks.

What are you gonna do? Throw it away? Smash it? Keep looking over and over because you love pain? Or maybe someone else threw theirs away, and you're the one that found it. You really, really want to look. Invasive, maybe, but your curiosity is killing you. Just a peek...

This is a mini version of our Bad End event this month.]

L O V E

SCENARIO THREE: VISIT ME AND EXPLAIN YOUR PASSIONS
[You know that totally inconsequential hobby? The one that you love? Or maybe your favorite TV show or comic book? Wouldn't it be great if you had someone to talk to about it? Someone who would listen patiently while you explain the family tree from that obscure fantasy novel you reread every year?

Well, wait no longer! Your time is now! The moment you make eye contact with someone, you'll know they want to listen to you explain your obsession. They've just been waiting and hoping you'll come along and educate them! So go to town, buddy, tell them all about your waifu.

Or maybe a stranger just walked up to you and started talking about their favorite knitting pattern. That's... cool. Are you gonna interrupt them? Walk away? Get into an argument about how your favorite knitting pattern is so much better? Now's the time to show your passion, or possibly your complete disinterest! Go for it!]

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[Okay, Tucker. You shoot and she'll drag. She's making a beeline right for one of the entrances.]

Hadriel. It fucking sucks. And you weren't out, you were just... Not here.

What do you mean I wasn't here? Is this some kind of weird time shit?

[He will indeed shoot, whenever something gets a little too close for comfort, but mostly he's content to just let the ghoul-things run around like maniacs. She said they wouldn't follow, right? That means they don't have to kill them all.]

[It's true—as soon as they cross under the archway, the things lose interest and focus on whoever else is still in the coliseum. Once they're in the clear, Kyna turns to throw her arms around Tucker, hugging him bone creakingly tight.]

We've been here like a month. I didn't think you were gonna show up.

[Okay this is fine, but also weird?]

What do you mean a month? What day is it? I just saw you like five minutes ago.

[He squirms a little, trying to breathe, but he does give her a loose hug back.]

It's August, I guess, but the dates didn't match up when we got here.

[The loose hug is lame and a little annoying, but whatever. She pulls back.]

Corbet's not around either.

August? It's not even summer yet.

[He's so lost. What the hell's going on here?]

What's the last thing you remember before you came here?

We were saving those kids that were being used in those fucked up necromancy rituals. What do you remember?

[Whoa. What?]

Yeah, that already happened. Like two weeks ago? We were on our way back from the weird gnome forest. You know, giant frogs? Bullshit mirror thing? We played tag with a wizard and you totally lost? It was embarrassing.

[They also had a really serious talk outside of a church but he's gonna... leave that out...]

What? Jesus, don't tell me that shit. What if it alters the future or whatever? You could end up being your own grandpa or something.

[Except she really wants to know, so...]

What mirror thing?

Or maybe me telling you this shit is because I'm supposed to make sure it happens? It ends well, so chill. And me being my own grandpa would explain why I'm so gorgeous.

[Are you sure you missed him???

He doesn't really want to tell Kyna that she almost got her arm eaten off by an abyss, so maybe let's sugarcoat that one.]

It was stupid. Not a big deal. But maybe don't stick your hands in weird mirrors.

Cool. Okay.

[It's terrible that this stupid back and forth is making her feel better. She's still happy to see him, obnoxious teasing and all.]

Are you trying to say that incest makes people hotter?

[He frowns.]

What? No. Is it even incest if they're not actually your grandparents yet? God, nevermind, this is stupid.

So what have you guys been up to for a month? What's up with this place?

[Kyna grins again. It is stupid, but that's the point.]

Uh, well, we've been sucked through this bullshit door by a bunch of gods who aren't really gods but who really like to fuck with us.

Okay so... do we have to kick their asses to get home, or what?

[That's how this usually works. The word "gods" does worry him a little. Sounds a little worse than "faeries" and "demon".]

Nope. We're fucking stuck. I don't think we can get through the door without them. Why do you think I've been here for a month, because I can't kick ass without you?

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