test drive meme #28

[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 January 25th, and apps are open February 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: GOT ANY BREATH MINTS?
[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.

It looks like this time the Door is going for a little variety. You get to enjoy a couple kinds of chaos serpents, from the video game Hexen.

Chaos serpents are bipedal reptilian creatures with three horns, in two different colors. They can bite, as with most monsters, but the real threat is their breath weapons. The green ones spit powerful fireballs, while the brown ones spit clouds of poisonous gas. If you're lucky, they'll fight each other instead of you - but who ever gets lucky here?]

L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: ONE MINUTE IN HEAVEN
[Remember that first rush of infatuation, when your heart beats fast and your cheeks get red and you feel like you could do anything - anything - to get your crush's attention? Maybe you don't. Maybe you're too level-headed for that. Well, not anymore.

Now, whenever you meet a new person, you feel one solid minute of the most intense crush you've ever had. Their hair! Those eyes! Those incredibly attractive arm muscles! That tinkling laugh! Maybe you're the type to get nervous, maybe you'll swallow seven packets of hot sauce to show how cool you are, maybe you'll just lay down your very best pickup lines. Maybe more than one of the above - there are so many ways to embarrass yourself in 60 seconds!

But then time's up, and your insta-crush is gone, and now you get to deal with the consequences. What did you say? What did you do? That laugh you thought was beautiful and tinkling turns out to be obnoxious and honking. Also, you're pretty sure you just hit on your neighbor. But hey... maybe they actually are pretty hot, and you just made the first move. It's possible!]

C O N F U S I O N

SCENARIO THREE: THE PITTER PATTER OF LITTLE FEET
[There you were, minding your own business, when you suddenly fell into a deep sleep. Not that you remember that - now all you remember is being a child, as your consciousness has taken the form of your younger self. Here's your opportunity to run around and get into all the trouble you could hope for!

Or maybe you didn't become a child - maybe someone else did. Did some random kid just run up to you, confused and a little scared, or possibly just obnoxious? It'd be nice of you to help them out. Unless you hate kids, and hey, who can blame you? They're loud and somehow their little hands always seem to be sticky. Still. Make sure they don't run straight into the monsters outside the city, all right?

This is a mini version of our Hope of a Child event this month.]

Comments

[solase]

[Warmth blossoms in Alucard's chest as with a hand that has no business being as steady as it is he reaches forward to close the distance between the pair of them once more. Snaking an arm around the young prince's waist and tugging him close against his chest with a soft release of breath that leaves his head spinning as he lets out the deep rumble of a laugh.]

With pleasure... [Fingers reaching to curl around the corner of Rhy's jaw before he even realizes they are moving, meeting his eyes for a split second longer before he is crashing forward. Lips drawn to the younger man's as though he were a magnet meeting with his other half at last. In a way, that is rather how he feels.

Can Rhy feel how fast his heart is beating, he wonders, as he kisses him as though the world is ending and this moment may just be their last. Perhaps it may. If Rhy is to turn him away from here, he would like at least to give the prince something good to remember him by, this time. This time...]

[anoshe]

[Part of him did not expect it to actually happen. Part of him thought that for all his flirtation, Alucard wouldn't want to - or that he'd disappear, like a dream. Like too many dreams Rhy has had. But neither of those things are the truth, and before he realizes it, Alucard is kissing him.

It feels familiar, it feels new. It feels impossible, and it's something he's longed for. Just this, Alucard's lips against his again, the way it steals his breath and his thoughts and every bit of composure Rhy can normally claim to have.

His hand comes up, almost of its own accord, to tangle in Alucard's hair. He kisses back, of course, kisses like he's drowning and this is the only way to stay afloat, or maybe like he's perfectly content to drown so long as he drowns while they're doing this. He lets himself enjoy it, all of it. The slight roughness of Alucard's lips, the scratch of stubble, the scent of him. Rhy does not have words for how he's missed this.

He doesn't want to pull away, but he does. Practically, they both need to breathe. More than that, Rhy can't think when Alucard is so close to him. All he wants to do is kiss him again.]

That was - ah - convincing.

[He should not sound so breathless. It's embarrassing.]

[solase]

[It's intoxicating. The breathy sound of Rhy's voice. Rhy's hands in his hair as he kisses him. Alucard thinks he could write poetry about those fingers alone. He presses forward into the kiss, tightening his arms around the younger man, and again it's over all too quickly. Rhy stepping back from him and he supposes that he can't blame him this time but he wants to reach for him and never let go, only just barely holding himself in.

Alucard lets out the bright sound of a laugh and contemplates tugging him close again anyway. As it is, he reaches forward to run a hand through Rhy's curls, brushing them back out of his face and smiling at him. A smile that is meant only for him.]

Are you convinced, then? [he asks, his voice soft and low.]