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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Harlan frowns, a little confused. Did... she think...? Oh boy. "That's not what I meant. Last month, plenty of new arrivals were in over their heads with these monsters. I've got experience fighting shit like this. Just trying to help."

But he's glad, ultimately, that she's not acting like a newbie. He doesn't need to pick her up and dust her off and explain how dimension hopping works. He just got here a month ago, but he's already tired of that schtick.

"So, what, it's like being a werewolf, or something? You get bit and turn into one?" He's curious.

"Nah, no biting involved - I was just born this way."

She shrugs, folding her arms over her chest. Not too many people know this story, not because it's a big secret - well, not anymore, her secret identity effectively went out the window the minute she and Chris had been attacked by wendigos - but because not many people have ever asked. And back in her own world, that secret needed to be kept, if she wanted to stay alive. Here, among her fellow monsters, it doesn't really matter so much anymore. In Hadriel, Nick doesn't have to lie about who or what she is.

"Nightbane are 'developmentally atypical humans,'" she says, finger quotes included, "is how it was explained to me. I thought I was just your normal type of human my whole life, until a couple years ago. I was up in Canada on a random trip to Vancouver, got attacked by this - thing," she shudders at the memory of it, "in Stanley Park, and before I knew what was happening, I'd turned into what you saw earlier. But that's apparently pretty typical for a first time changing, it's called a Becoming - some kinda trauma happens, and it like, triggers the change in you, like turnin' on a light switch. For me, it was gettin' attacked by another Nightbane. The guy who taught me everything I know about Nightbane got blown up in 'Nam, stuff like that."

Hm. Sounds like a werewolf he knows, honestly. Just not the traditional kind. He's not about to sell Tucker out, though. The whole wolf thing isn't his secret to divulge.

"Shitty way to find out. Why'd the other one attack you?" He has a million questions, but that seems like a good place to start.

Nick shrugs. To this day, she still doesn't know why she'd been attacked by the other Nightbane.

"No clue. It was happening to a lot of us, though - Nightbane who didn't know what we were yet. We were being stalked, then attacked - some of us were killed before we had the chance to Become. The sick fuck that was following me was leaving me roses and shit." She shivers at the memory.

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