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test drive meme # 26

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 November 24th, and apps are open December 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: SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL
[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.

This time, the monsters are a bit more transparent, as the Door will bring in a few skeletons! Skeletons often accompany the fear of death and can such be found as entry-level monsters in many different stories and games of all kinds.

Skeletons are well... skeletons.... but they move around like they're still alive. Some of them use weapons to make you fear death by killing you, which is cool for them I suppose. They're not particularly smart and they can be tricked very easily, but once they hone in on a victim they won't rest until they make everyone else just as dead as they are.]

D E L I G H T / L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: SQUAD GOALS
[Hey, look to the guy or gal to the left or right side of you. Did you guys just become best friends?
I think you did! For the next little while, you find yourself entering into these odd platonic relationships you'd never considered before. That guy who you kind of awkwardly made eye contact with at the grocery store last week? Best friends! The lady who's friends with your roommate's sister? Inseparable pals!

This event, based off of our recent event of the same name inspires you and all your weird facebook acquaintances to suddenly feel like you're best buds. You guys will share everything together, do everything together, and just generally think the world of one another. Enjoy your new and beautiful friendship!]

S O R R O W

SCENARIO THREE: INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS
[You know that voice deep in the back of your head that you generally ignore? You know, the one that tells you that you're stupid or worthless or that you should push that old lady into traffic? Well, usually you ignore them- we know you do, because you're a decent person who doesn't experience that kind of self doubt.

Now, though, all those little voices seem to have some merit. You're not sure why, but suddenly just giving into your weirdest impulses sounds like a good idea. You'll have to fight even harder to ignore them, particularly the ones that tell you to do something. What would that guy do if you just up and punched him in the face? What about if you just broke that chick's window? You'll have to find out!

Alternatively, all those thoughts about how lame you are and how you'll never succeed at anything are a bit more believable too. Hopefully you don't have too many of those- but hey, if you do then you can always drown your sorrows away at the local bar!]

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( fear )

Crap.

( this is the kind of thing kat typically remembers. there's never a hard reset or whatever of her brain, just a gradual, continuous loss of her life experiences, leaving her at juuust over a month of them. )

Shit. Ow.

( this? this is weird. she remembers fighting bad guys underneath grand central as the clock ticked on stanton parish's lightshow of a bomb. what a psycho, honestly. anyway, the point is she remembers all of that but not how she got here, and that's kind of a problem for someone who's used to depending on her short-term memory to survive.

she gets up and rubs her sore wrist, and there's a flash of movement at her side that triggers a reaction, purely based on muscle memory. she jumps back and into a tumble with a pro gymnast's grace, and she's on her feet again just as fast. was that you or a skeleton? a skeleton she'll hurt. you? probably not. )

( squad goals )

Dude, you totally need to try this. It's like a thing of grapes, right, but it tastes like pizza. Is that mindblowing or what!

( welcome to bffship with a tiny blond alpha girl who's pretty annoying on a normal day! )

( wildcard me )

[Rosen had not expected to have food suddenly offered to him while walking down the street, and he pauses, blinking owlishly]

I'd be wary of the food you find here...

( the voice almost makes her choke on a pizzagrape. someone familiar? here? that's rare enough in new york or... like, her entire life. )

Oh, come on, doc. ( sorry, sorry, that was half a mouthful of pizzagrape. she swallows that. ) You've traveled to like, I dunno. All over. YYou've probably eaten weird stuff already. But a pizzagrape freaks you out? It's pizza!

( she has no idea he doesn't know who he is. :> )

Yes but the cave is--

[Wait.]

--I'm sorry. Do I...um...how did you know that?

( what. )

You... told me?

( hello?? )

[He is only 60. Surely he's not already going senile.]

How could I have told you that?

[Ok. Maybe 'how' is not going to be the most productive question]

I mean, when did I tell you that?

( idk man it can strike young, have you met kat. ~~say nothing.~~ )

I dunno, a few months ago maybe? I'd have to check my diary to be sure because it was a while ago, but you definitely told me. Is this some like, new shrinky thing you're trying with me? Playing memory loss to the alpha with memory problems to see if I remember stuff?

( what she remembers is that he and most of the others tortured a guy for information, and that she's still pissed about that, but that he's apparently also her bff right now so clearl it wasn't that big of a deal? )

I don't think it's gonna work.

[Alpha.

It's like a shock to the system that word. Its been so long since he's heard it, let alone even said it aloud]

Wait. [He holds his hands up in a small placating gesture]

You are an Alpha.

[Lee can scarce believe it, but from what she says it has to be true. She knows things about him and about his work. And most importantly, she knows about Alphas]

Alright. We need to start from the beginning. No, I'm not trying to, um, 'shrink' you as you put it. But if you're an Alpha, and if I am your doctor, then we are from different points in our timeline. I know that must be hard to believe

[Especially if she suffers from memory loss as she just mentioned]

But it happens in this place all the time.

[And until now he's never had to experience firsthand how frustrating it is]

You must be from my future.

Yeah. I am.

( she nods. why is he looking at her like that. this is weird. she doesn't like it. dr. rosen is supposed to know who she is. he's the guy who gave her a phone to start a video journal with, to help her rather than take advantage of her. he's supposed to be the one reminding her of things, not the other way around. )

Timelines. ( she fidgets with the pizzagrapes. suddenly they're just not that exciting. ) So... this place. That Door thing. It time travels?

[He nods silently a moment, overwhelmed with everything that implies. Firstly, that he gets released from his cell at some point in the future. Secondly that there are more Alphas who will be entrusted to his care. And thirdly that this girl knows about things in his future life he can't even guess at yet.

First things first, though.]

In a way it does. You see, the Door isn't consistent. Its standards of selectivity escapes us. So sometimes it picks people from entirely different worlds, other times it picks from the same world but not the same time.

[A pause as he tries to think of a better way to put it. His eyes fall on the snack in her hand]

Take those grapes for example. The cave picked the form of a grape but the taste of pizza. It doesn't have to follow the normal rules of reality that you and I would expect back home.

( at least this is familiar. that tone, the patient way he explains things to her. he may have gone totally off the rails when stanton parish killed danielle, but he's still... this guy. someone she trusted. someone who made her feel like she could really belong somewhere. )

So even you can't science it. ( she looks down at the pizzagrapes and makes a quiet sound. it'd be a laugh if she weren't so mixed up inside over this development. ) Must be pretty weird.

So, um... you really don't know who I am, huh. ( she meets his gaze again. ) I know how that feels. It sucks.

[Rosen makes a sound that almost echoes hers. Its funny. But it is also not funny.]

Believe me it is more than 'pretty weird.'

[His expression then falters, turning apologetic. The way she speaks to him...she's speaking as someone talking to a person they know well. A person who should therefore know her well in return.]

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I really don't. But I wish that I did.

[He holds out a hand then, trying awkwardly to initiate a handshake]

Would you let me know you now?

Edited 2017-11-20 23:48 (UTC)

[This never used to be a problem. Kat never had to worry about attachments. Everything was transient, temporary -- even sadness. She had parents once, maybe siblings, maybe a big extended family. But without her memories, she doesn't feel an ache where they used to be in her heart. Just some faint ghost of a feeling, the knowledge that she should miss them. It's more than 'pretty weird'. She gets that too.

She could just start over, she realizes now. She could just let her life take its natural course, let the memory of Dr. Rosen fade away. Then they could get to know each other from the start again. Come on, Kat. This is how you've been forever. This is how you used to be.

But he changed that. He gave her what she's been missing her whole life. And now that she really, truly knows what she could've had, she doesn't want to give it up. She refuses.]

Yeah. [She nods. Looks at his hand. Takes it. Her grip is weak at first, and then she swallows back the sadness and gives his hand a firm shake.] I'm Kat. I forget everything after, like, six weeks? Maybe less. But I can learn how to do anything just by watching. My muscle memory is perfect. That's my ability, and the downside.

[...that's a hell of an intro. But this is a hell of a thing to happen, so hey. Works out.]

It's very nice to meet you, Kat.

[Rosen gently shakes her hand, making a thoughtful sound in his throat as he releases it]

So your Alpha ability is a form of eidetic memory. One that only works in the short term.

["All Alpha abilities have a downside". He had said that to Cameron Hicks a good long while ago. And, as is proven by this young lady, it remains true to form. Though of the downsides he's encountered, this one is particularly extreme.]

Kat, would you mind recounting for me where we had gotten to in your treatment? Was there anything we had found that helped you ground yourself or construct some semblance of a timeline for yourself? If there was then I'd very much like to find a way to make sure you have that here with you in Hadriel.

[And if she can only remember a particular stretch of time, he best ask now.]

Edited 2017-11-21 18:04 (UTC)

Yeah. You used some really fancy words for it? I can't remember. I didn't record it or write it down. [He did that, as her doctor. And who knows, maybe he's said it since then and it's on her phone.

This is so weird, god. Is this what people feel like when they talk to her? Has she made the same friends a few times, only to ultimately forget them?]

Umm... you gave me a phone to keep a video journal with. Whatever I think is worth remembering, I think you said? A lot of it is stupid stuff I think is funny. People's names and faces and jobs, things like that. I have a paper diary too because memory cards don't last forever -- kinda like my memory.

[She now grabs that phone and flicks through the notes app, skimming the previews for things that happened. There's that stupid commercial, and then further back, a note that starts with Today I was Patient 0 for Nina's new trick.

We tried to get Nina to pull a memory. Like sensory memory? It was pretty cool. I remembered some stupid commercial I watched when I was sixteen.

[She puts her phone back in her pocket, shrugging.]

I'm still doing the journal thing. It was a good idea. And like, now I know I think you have good taste in music.

[She grins and throws horns -- totally the wrong gesture. Totally the point.]

Rock on, doc.

Edited (typo) 2017-11-21 19:35 (UTC)

[There's a genuine laugh at that last bit, despite how painfully close to home it lands. It is a sort of 'cherry on top' of proof that she knows him. His music. His old record collection. Something that doesn't relate to Dr. Rosen but to Lee Rosen. He reaches up a hand to rub it over his face.

It's all so surreal.]

Good, good. Those sound like good places to start.

[He nods distractedly before it dawns on him that one particular part of what she's said is more than just odd. It's concerning.]

...Kat. Could you repeat that part about Nina again? Are you saying we experimented on you with Nina's abilities?

Edited 2017-11-21 20:33 (UTC)

Gimme a sec, I gotta read it. It was a while ago.

[She grabs her phone again, swiping through until she finds that particular entry, reading it more closely now.]

Yeah. So, you had a theory that Nina could push people to remember memories that were blocked or something. You called it "pulling." So you asked me if she could try it on me, and I said sure. Like, why not, what do I have to lose? Nina asked me questions about my sixteenth birthday.

[She pauses, frowning at her phone.] Hold on, I remember this. I wrote that it worked, but...

[She goes to check her more recent notes.]

Yeah. Uh-- whatI remembered was just a commercial.

[She shrugs, but she doesn't quite manage to hide her frown. Kat had hoped the woman in the blue dress was her mother, but no such luck. It made enough of an impact on her that she typed it up. It'd be so easy to forget that she even remembered anything, but the pain of absence is something she's never felt before -- or at least, not an ache she remembers. Knowing she's been here already might help her out in the future.]

Anyway. [She clears her throat, lowers her phone, and looks up at Rosen.] I guess brains store memories even if we can't get to them.

Edited 2017-11-21 22:08 (UTC)

['Pulling'. 'What did she have to lose?' Rosen is speechless. It is many car crashes happening simultaneously: Pushing his patients, experimenting on another, and all while being the authority figure meant to protect them.

Nina's powers, they have the same potent effects as drug addiction, 'playing' with them is akin to playing with a gun. And then to use them to toy with the mind of another Alpha, opening the possibility for any manner of permanent physical and psychological damage...

..He feels a ball of fear sitting in his throat. The same as when he had had a sinking feeling whenever he heard the name Binghamton but had never wanted to look. Now...now he's not so sure he wants to know what is coming after he gets out of his cell.

But right now he needs to focus. Kat is here. Kat is the present. She needs to be his priority. What is coming down the line, well, thats out of his hands in the cave.]

Brains store information indefinitely until they are no longer functional, however they are programmed only to keep a certain amount immediately accessible to us, whatever amount it deems necessary for day to day function mostly...

[He reaches up push his hair back out of his face]

Alright. Before we discuss any more of this, we first need to figure out where you are going to live. Where will it be safest for you.

[Bright side? Give her a few weeks and she'll forget it even happened unless she happens to read it in her diary, or see it in her video journal. Yay!]

Where I'm-- [She makes a face that's the visual equivalent of "idk", then shrugs.] I've been roughing it in the orchard since I got here. It's nice, there's always food around. Plus, it's close to the hot springs, which are really nice by the way.

Where are you staying?

( She's so freaking close to knowing the secrets of the organisation she's in. So. Freaking. Close. One more meeting, one last piece of the puzzle.

So, of course, of course this would be the very moment that the world decides to shift and Six finds herself somewhere foreign, without any memories of how she managed to end up in this strange new world. What happened between home and here? It's a puzzle, one without any clues right now.

And- ) WHAT THE HELL?! ( Skeletons.

Six's reaction is to grab her bag, pulling it away from the skeletons heading her way, the movement enough to send a blonde girl tumbling. )

Oh- ... Kay.

( Can she go back home, now? Because there's some super spy tumbling around and skeletons and she is so not ready for this. )

( is she a super spy? who knows? maybe for a while that's exactly what kat was. she only started keeping a video journal and supplement paper journal recently. a few months feels like forever because she's never remembered anything for that long before. it's weird, and it's cool.

and this place? yeah, this place is neither of those things. except weird. really, really weird. )

You might wanna, I dunno, run? ( seriously, girl-with-the-bag, snap out of it, there's time later for shock! but you have to be alive for it. funny how that works. ) Go, I'll distract it!

( cool, okay...

how.

all she can think of is what she just did. tumbling. gymnastics. )

Goddamnit I hope this works.

( she somersaults into the skeletons' path, stops, and then does a handstand. what the fuck is she doing. what the fuck is she doing. she has no idea. )

Are you running???

( please please please be running away, or else this was a waste. )

( The contents of the bag would probably be heavy enough to do some serious damage to these piles of bones, but also... no. Six would sooner see her 5 inch stilettos vanish (yes, she did take a minute to slip out of those and pick them up. #Priorities) than risk cracking her tablet, her laptop, her phone to kill a couple of skeletons.

Sure, they're weird but they can't... really... hurt her so badly it'd be worth that, right?

And that weird girl is really distracting. She should probably let her handle it, run her ass as fast as her bare feet can carry her towards some sort of exit, turning back as she reaches the doorway to the Colosseum and yelling- )

ARE YOU COMING?

( God, don't make her go alone. She's the computer girl, not a fighter. She makes other people fight for her, and she's pretty sure the skeletons don't see or care about her totally awesome shallow attempts at looking Badass. )

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test drive meme # 26

kat | alphas

HI THERE. HIIII. But ahh. He's from S2E1 So he doesn't know you yet Kat. I"M SORRY

hawk-warrrrrdddd!

Just another way Rosen manages to fail at life.

wow way to break kat's heart

;~; i'm sorry

aren't we all though ;-;

Too true ;;~;;

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