test drive meme #23

[hadrielmods]

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!]

Comments

Ann Takamaki | Persona 5

[cakebuffet]

a. fear

[The first thing Ann notices is the fact that her phone isn't working the way it's supposed to-- she'd assumed that the sudden shift in setting meant she'd stumbled into the Metaverse somehow, maybe accidentally activated her navigation app, but a few moments of investigation show her that she not only has no service, but that the nav doesn't recognize this place at all.

Frustrating as that revelation is, it has nothing on the second thing that catches her attention.

She hears movement behind her before she actually sees anything, quickly turning on her heel to find herself almost face-to-face with the creature skittering down the nearest wall, heading towards her at top speed. She feels every muscle in her body go tense; it's like no Shadow she's ever seen before, but she acts on reflex, prepared to handle this the same way she would any other foe.]

Carmen!

[Even as the name leaves her lips, her Persona appears behind her. A flick of Carmen's wrist sends a burst of flame towards the creature, causing the smell of searing flesh to fill the air as it finds itself slowed, letting out a high screech as it stumbles backwards, granting Ann just a little more room to breathe-- not that she's eager to, with that stench in the air.]

Ugh. Gross.

[Just one more thing that marks it as being something other than a Shadow. Whether she tries to kill it or run, she'll have to decide quickly-- she'd rather not give it a chance to get close.]

b. sorrow/hope (p5 spoilers)

[She's been frowning to herself since she'd first come across the mirror a few minutes earlier. She'd watched the events it showed a couple times over since then, and while they made her stomach turn, she's more angry than she is upset-- at least at first.

There's no way they're all going out like that. No way that creep is going to actually manage to pull one over on them, outsmart them. There's just no way that any of them would have worked this long and hard only to lose-- and there's no way their leader is going to end up dead.

She makes a disgusted noise as she tosses the mirror aside, letting it hit the ground. It cracks, but part of the image can still be seen: a teenage boy with unruly black hair, collapsed. Lifelessly strewn across a table in what looks like an interrogation room with a bullet hole between his eyes.]

It doesn't even make sense.

[She frowns, folding her arms over her chest as she crosses her legs in turn. Anger was winning out over the tears that had begun to prick at her eyes, but she doesn't know how much longer that will last. Real or not, it had been a hard image to look at. Akira hadn't been the only one she'd seen in the mirror. One by one, all of the Phantom Thieves...

She shakes her head stubbornly, trying to chase the image out of her head with limited success.]

It's a sick joke, that's what it is. Well, I'm not laughing.

fear!

[jocoeur]

( there's a hail of bullets just from above, raining down on the descendant as joker swings in. what's he swinging from, you might ask? that's not important— what's important is this dashing entrance he's making. he lands with a flip between panther and her would-be stalker, empty clicks sounding from the barrel of his weapon.

it had been weeks— months, since he had seen ann, seen anyone he knew from back home— but here he was, slipping so easily back into that leadership role in the moment. )

We can take him! ( it seemed a poor reunion just to run away, didn't it? anti-climactic, even. joker's fingers brush against his mask, gripping onto the edges as he calls for... )

Arsène!

[cakebuffet]

[Truly, she's never been so glad to hear gunfire in her entire life. She brightens immediately as Joker lands in front of her; for as unfamiliar as this place is, for as many questions she has concerning their current surroundings, this makes her feel infinitely more confident. She can take care of herself, but they're always at their best when working as a team.]

Stylish as always, Joker!

[Thank God.]

Let's take him out!

[jocoeur]

( that comment earns a grin as he glances back towards her, hoping above all else that her sudden appearance wasn't just another trick of the gods. they so loved their games, after all...

but taking out the descendant was more important than any of that right now, as with a gurgle it was ready to make an advance towards them again. with a confident— ) Ravage them!

( his persona unleashes a cleave upsetting the creature off its balance as the winged-thief disappears again from sight. one more hit should do it...
with his knife at the ready, there's half step backwards with another quick glance for ann, as if to say you're up, panther with another flash of a smile.

he couldn't help himself. it was the middle of a fight but he was actually enjoying it, the familiarity of fighting alongside a friend, someone that he knew could be trusted...

yeah, he'd missed this. )

[cakebuffet]

[Ann can't help smiling back, even with the looming threat ahead. They have him on the ropes, and fighting alongside one another is so familiar and so easy that it chases away whatever concerns she'd had about her new surroundings-- at least for the moment. She nods in his direction before thrusting a gloved hand forward, directing Carmen's attention towards what was left of the creature that had been closing in on them.]

Dance, Carmen!

[Another pillar of flame erupts, this one larger and more deliberate than the first, engulfing the beast and causing another high keening sound to escape it. The smell isn't great, but there's no doubting that they'd finished it off.]

Yes! As usual, you have some seriously good timing.

[jocoeur]

( there's a flick of his nose with his thumb at the smell, before he moved to pull up one of his gloves. satisfied that the monster was down for the count, joker turned with a confident— ) Hn. ( letting its scream die out with the flames to his back as he approached ann. )

It just so happened I was in the area— ( he teased, his grin crooking slightly into a smirk. ) It's good to see you, Panther.

( being in the presence of one of his fellow thieves— it seemed to light something inside of akira that had felt dim the day he had arrived. it wasn't... another illusion, right? )

[cakebuffet]

[She's glad that he seems to be in good spirits. It helps to set her own mind at ease, despite the unfamiliar surroundings. She coils her whip to put it back in its place at her hip once she's sure there's not going to be a follow-up attack-- probably better to assume that thing might have had friends nearby rather than be caught by surprise.]

It's good to see you, too. I didn't see anyone else when first came through-- I thought it was just me. Is your Nav working?

[If both their apps are busted, that's going to be a huge problem, right?]