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

[sightlessly]

[Matt may not be able to see that hand waving, but the way his senses work, he knows exactly what Atem is doing, and he can't help but laugh. He reaches out a hand -- with an impressively quick movement, all reflex -- to grab at Aten's wrist, shaking his head.]

Good guess.

[He admits before releasing his wrist with a sheepish smile.]

[puzzlingly]

[ Oops... ]

S-sorry... How did you...

[ He's amazed, more than embarrassed, truth to be told. ]

[sightlessly]

Would you believe adrenaline rush?

[He's not used to giving up his secrets so easily. Not that he regrets it; given the choice, he'd have grabbed Atem and made a run for it again. He wasn't going to leave a kid to face off whatever the hell that thing was. No way.]

Sight's only one sense. My others work a little better than most people might expect. [Understatement, but that's the general gist of it anyway.]

[puzzlingly]

[ No one is, and Atem of all people, definitely isn't, he's not going to prod more than necessary.

But this is just very, very cool. For as mature as Atem might be, (at times...) he's still just... a kid. ]

I see...

[ Atem! ]

A-ah, not, pun intended.

[sightlessly]

[Matt laughs. Honestly, he likes it better when people don't tiptoe around it anyway.]

Pun or no, glad you get it. Honestly, it's... it's hard to explain. It's complicated. And not entirely normal. It's not something a lot of people know about me.

[The implication, the unasked request, is that it stays something of a secret.]

[puzzlingly]

[ He gets that, perfectly. He will not tell another soul. ]

I feel I need to reciprocate in some way, for trusting me.

[ Nothing is ever free, there is always some kind of payment. ]

[sightlessly]

[A shake of his head, and Matt offers a smile. This kid is okay. Matt thinks so anyway.]

Nothing to reciprocate. Besides, let's say I won't mind having a friend in this place, and we can call it even.

[Though for both their sakes, he hopes they find their way to where they belong instead of... whatever the hell this place is.]

[puzzlingly]

[ A friend, huh?

Yes... yes he can do that. ]

All right. Let's go find out where are we then, friend.