dankmemes | test drive meme #28

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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Kobra doesn't have to be told twice and he rolls easily to a crouch to fire off another shot before rising to move. It's better if they separate a little so they're not one easy target, but Kobra's careful not to lose track of where Jet is as he splits off to the side a few feet. ]

Thinkin' we should be worried 'bout anyone else?

[ They have to stop this thing, either way, because he doubts they can outrun it forever on foot. ]

[Jet pushes his hair out of his face with a soft huff of annoyance, one eye bright with the other concealed behind a patch. The creature begins to make that crackling noise again, and he brings his raygun up to shoulder level.]

This isn't the only one - I think our own hides are all we can worry about.

[There are others, here, but until they get this creature off their backs, they can't look to save anyone else.]

If you see an opportunity, use it.

Right.

[ There's what's left of the corner of a building up ahead and Kobra takes a hard turn behind it. Jet's always better at this level-headed judgment shit, but Kobra's not sure that a giant lizard monster calls for level-headed. Then again, maybe he is hallucinating and Jet's not real, either.

He fires around the corner at the creature. ]

You'd tell me if you was a hallucination, right?

[Is this really the time for that, Kobra? Jet shoots him an odd look, quizzical, and then takes a risk in darting over to him and pressing his back to the wall beside him.]

I'd tell you. Cross my heart.

[They're not going to be able to take this thing down on their own. The rayguns they have might as well be pea-shooters.]

Kid, think we should throw this one in. Got to be a way out of here.

Maybe we can hide. How good you think it can smell us?

[ Admittedly, he doesn't know much about whatever that thing is, but if it's like the tiny lizards in the desert, it probably doesn't track by scent like a dog or anything, right? It's not like Kobra went to fire-breathing lizard monster school.

He spies another building remnant with a bit more to it and smacks Jet's shoulder. ]

That, maybe?

We'll find out. [Jet replies grimly, looking sharply aside and in the direction that Kobra indicates.

The way he sees it, with the way things are, they don't really have many options. A place like that could mean shelter, or it could mean a cage or a corner to get stuck in, but when the alternative is being burned alive in open ground, what's a 'joy to do?

Go. [He says, giving Kobra a gentle shove as he lifts his blaster up.]

I'll cover you.

[ Kobra takes off without a glance back. Hesitation can mean death and he trusts Jet at least as much as he trusts himself. Once he finds closer cover, he crouches low and gets ready to cover Jet. ]

Go!

[ It's a loud whisper, just enough to get Jet's attention. ]

[He keeps half an eye on the younger killjoy while he runs, and doesn't hesitate a moment when he's called. Trust is a fine thing, and Jet trusts Kobra.

When he reaches him, he ducks around him and presses his back to the wall.]

Good job. [He says, with a gentle but firm pat to the Kid's shoulder.]

[ Kobra doesn't let the praise distract him in the moment, but he files it away for later as he moves to see if he can get the window on the wall open. The door around the side is blocked, but maybe they can hide in here until that thing passes.

The latch on the window clicks open with some moderate jostling. ]

Think you can fit?

[Jet takes a moment to judge the window, then nods. It's going to be a squeeze, but if it's between getting in there and staying out here with these things, he'll manage to get into cover.]

You first. I'll boost you.

[ Kobra wants to argue, but he can hear that thing moving closer and they only have so much time before it catches up to them, so with a quick nod, he crams his gun into his belt and moves to climb into the window with a little help from Jet. Between the two of them, Jet probably will have an easier time without the boost. ]

Be quick 'bout it.

[Jet does not need to be told twice, and though the window frame pulls at his clothes and he does worry, for a moment, that he won't be able to fit at all, he finds himself on the floor beside Kobra in short order and pushes his hair back off his face with an expression that is more than a little disgruntled.

Not his most graceful moment, but it's hard to be graceful when you're built like Jet Star.]

... Don't say anything.

[ With what can only be described as a teasing smirk, Kobra reaches down to give Jet a hand up. None of them are particularly graceful, but there's something about Jet being a little ruffled that Kobra finds comforting. ]

Ain't gonna tell a soul.

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