dankmemes | 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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[Those intrusive little thoughts being louder than normal was really getting out of hand for David. He's inundated, over-saturated, and the only positive to it is that there are too many of them for any one thought to take precedence. Instead, David is just twitchy, even less able to keep still than usual, and constantly scanning his surroundings. He looks away whenever he catches someone looking his way, moves through the area like an unsteady deer in hunting season, and ultimately ends up distracting himself with a variety of foods on offer out of the way of the main crowd of people.

He presses his palm to the side of his temple, shaking his head a few times as if he could knock the thoughts loose and scoop them out, and one of those nagging voices leaves him wondering how much of this is real. The food? The buildings? The woman who had been staring him down and sending all those paranoid little voices into a rabid flurry?

Were any of them real? Or was he just having a particularly bad episode right now? Was he even awake? It didn't feel like the Astral Plane, but neither had it on a few of the visits where he was not in full control. It had felt much like this now. Real at the center, with the edges fuzzier and vertigo-inducing. The harder he tried to focus on them the further from his grasp they seemed to pull.

Another man moves past him, and the thirst comes out of nowhere for David. He needs a drink. Something to settle his nerves. Forget the conflicting voices screaming yes and no, that thought is clearer than his own for just a moment, and he grabs it, desperate to pull himself free of drowning.

Shouldn't have gone off the meds. Yes. There they are. Those little voices, rushing him and receding, trying to drag him out into the drowning sea each time they hit the shores of his mind.]

Shh. [Sharp, the heel of his hand knocking his temple once, he tries to shut them up and half jogs to catch up with the stranger. Real or figment, he needs to have some voices outside of his own head soon or the dial is going to go full tilt to maximum and he'll go deaf from his own mind.]

Hi. [He speaks up, suddenly in step right beside the other man and glancing sideways over at him while they walk.]

[ David isn't the only one struggling to reconcile with his new surroundings; there's a disjointed quality to Hadriel that would be fascinating if he wasn't stranded in the middle of it, in dire need of an exit.

Still, being addressed surprises him. He's already had one surreal encounter since his arrival (two, if you count Eddie; both being entirely too accommodating) and he wonders what further revelations might lie in store. ]

You're lost.

Yes [He initially agrees without a thought and then after a moment changes his tune, watching the stranger confused.]

No. Lost implies there's somewhere I'm meant to be, and who knows what or where that is right now. You might be lost. I'm here. For all I know this is exactly where I'm meant to be.

[ Ren is almost certainly lost.

He knows it too, though he finds comfort in the fact that whenever he reaches for the Forceㅡa simple, reflexive gestureㅡit rises quickly to meet him. For all he may be lost he is far from defenseless. ]

Is that so? [ his voice is level when he speaks, quiet and even, like he's coaxing a startled animal out of its burrow. There's a strange tenor to the other man's thoughts, bright and quickfire, and much louder than what he's used to. ] And what do you plan to do, now that you're here?

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