Test Drive Meme #29

[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 February 21st, and apps are open March 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: FRACTURED FUTURE?
[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 Door has decided to bring in some monsters who already have a taste of what it's like to win their war. Welcome to the Risen, from the Fire Emblem franchise!

Risen are reanimated corpses, dedicated to obeying their master's will. While they have some form of sentience, they cannot be dissuaded from their goal and attack all who oppose them with a singleminded desire to execute their purpose, which unfortunately for you is "killing indiscriminately". Still, they're not all bad and some of them may even be relieved to finally be put to death. Have fun!]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO TWO: ONLY THE GOOD STUFF
[Tranquility has decided to take over Hope's food supply regimen and- well, if anyone thought he was a self righteous hipster before, this is probably what's going to seal the deal. All the food provided in the shops is now extremely vegan-only, from basic lettuce to the most bland fruit you can stand to look at.

None of it even tastes like anything, either- it's all like you're eating water. Maybe to Tranquility, this is a feast, but for you, it's difficult to register that you're even full. Better start prepping those salt mines- it's gonna be a long month.]

R A G E

SCENARIO THREE: YANDERE LIFE
[Unfortunately for you, you came at a time when Rage was very unhappy with everyone- and now you get to suffer for it. Is there anyone who catches your eye? Anyone who you might want to get to know a little better? Well, you're about to get to know them a lot better, because now you're obsessed with them.

It's not the innocent kind of obsession, either- this is a full speed ahead, breakdown, pull out the knives and rope kind of obsession, where your desire to be near someone is synonymous with stalking, being a creep, and overall just not really anything remotely approaching healthy.

Better look out and hope that nobody gets a crush on you either.

This is a mini version of our Kiss me Kill me event this month.]

Comments

[igniting]

[She shakes her head.]

No. The Door brought me through like everyone else. I'm from Earth.

[Which is still a little bit weird for her to say. None of the tribes call their world "Earth", but that's what the old ones called it, and it's the name everyone here recognizes.]

[decryptify]

[ Earth, huh. It's clear from the way he reacts to that he does, indeed, recognize that name for her world -- but it's the way she says it that interests him. She says it like it's unfamiliar. Not untrue, exactly, just unfamiliar, at least to his ear. He can't be sure. There's something interesting there for sure, though, something for him to pick at later, maybe. Not now. ]

But you've adjusted real quick if you just got dumped here like I did.

I'm guessin' you must be from one of the Door's previous Monthly Dumps, then?

[ He totally says Monthly Dumps as if it's capitalized. ]

[igniting]

["Monthly Dump" is as good a term as any, and she smiles.]

Two months ago, but there are people who have been here for years.

[Which, judging from her tone, doesn't make her too happy.]

[decryptify]

[ He can absolutely catch that in her tone, and. He kind of shares the feeling. ]

Two months already sounds like too much. [ And the idea of years sure makes it sound like there might be no way out after all. But no, he won't linger on that. He's just goddamn got here, there must be something. A breath, and he'll just try to focus more on their immediate situation. On the information that this girl can provide. Two months isn't that much time, but it sure is more time than York himself has had here. ] So you said there's creatures out there. More of these?

[ He gestures vaguely towards the dead Risen again. Keeping an ear out for any that might be approaching them, too. ]

You don't seem that surprised by the whole dead-man-walking thing, but it's. Sorta not how it works where I'm from.

[ The only zombies are alien zombies, and he doesn't know about them! ]

[igniting]

It's not how it works where I'm from, either, but strange is an everyday occurrence here.

[Sorry, York. There's not much good news.]

These are new.