Test Drive Meme #6

[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 23rd, and apps are open March 1st.

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: BLOBBED
[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.

Watch out as you explore the streets of Hadriel, because you're not alone, and there's always something on the rooftops watching and waiting for the perfect opportunity to separate you from your group and tear you into pieces. This time, the Door has brought in several Blobs, from the similarly titled 1988 movie, The Blob for you meet.

These gelatinous creatures have no weak spots or brains that can be sliced or crushed to kill them. Instead, their only goal is to absorb and dissolve its prey so that it can grow larger. Think that its, er, blob-like form makes it easy to avoid? Think again- it moves faster than one might expect, as shown in its canon 'kill' video here (with a healthy cw warning for gore and 80's movie effects).]

R A G E
SCENARIO TWO: WENDIGONE
[Hey, that snack you found? It might taste a little too familiar. At least you don't have time to worry about accidental cannibalism too much though, because you've now become host to a vengeful wendigo spirit! The transformation will be sped up for the purposes of this test drive, though you can post at whichever point in the change you desire. Want to tear people to shreds? Go for it. Want to try to clutch onto the last few pieces of your humanity? Be our guest!

On the flipside, as someone who is unaffected, you may be trying to arm yourself and take these wendigos head-on... or, you may be trying to figure out a way you can save them, which would involve somehow trapping them on Hope's altar. Think you can handle that?

This is a mini version of our Who What Where Wendigo event this month!]


H O P E

SCENARIO THREE: CARNATION DAY
[You know those moments in high school that everyone used to dread? Where everyone would spend a week or so with the opportunity to buy a carnation or two for someone they like, only for carnation day to come along and dash any hopes and dreams you had of getting a flower from that special someone?

Well, here's your chance to relive that day- but, you know, hopefully make it end a little happier.

In this prompt, some characters will emerge through the Door- or wake up, or just suddenly appear- with carnations clutched in their hands. These flowers can be any color of your choosing, and all have tags on them. They can be addressed to you or to someone else, and in that FROM category? Well, from your secret admirer, of course- or any other character who may or may not have sent it! Here's to hoping they're a good one!]

Comments

[watashinonamaewa]

[ The woman down below definitely caught her attention. She leans over a guard railing to ensure the woman would see her and gives a controlled shout downward. Just in case the creatures lurking about were sensitive to noise, she tries not to be louder than she needs to be. Considering it wasn't something she tested yet. ]

Hey! [ She looks around the area listening to a soft reverb of her own voice. Was it too loud?

A motion to come up to the rooftop, an offer for the woman to get off the unpredictable ground. At least up here they will see everything coming. ]

[circumitus]

[Higher definitely seems like the better place to be.

[Rather than going inside and finding a way up like a sensible person would, Rey scrambles up the side of the building instead. Despite her weighty mass, she's deft and adept to climbing and vaulting, able to accurately find the right grips and footholds to spider her way up the side of a structure.

[Eventually she climbs up over the top, pulling herself over the ledge to find the unrecognizable woman standing there already. Granted, Rey is hardly the social butterfly. She may have made some house calls the previous month to try and avoid hungry people from consuming Fear's food supply, but that doesn't mean much. Or so she keeps telling herself.]

Looks like you had the right idea, coming up here. [She glances over her shoulder at the view, able to find their predators within the vicinity.]

[watashinonamaewa]

[ It's a feat that Cibo is familiar, though the speed is fairly impressive for someone she assumed may be human. Seeing that it seems inhuman. Just as the woman reaches the top, Cibo is sure to take a precautionary step away and take her stun baton from her side to start it up. It hums with power as she observes the other female.

[ Better safe than sorry. ]

I hope you understand my concern about inviting you up here without knowing what those things are all about.

[ She pauses to think, gesturing carefully so she doesn't seem threatening. ]

They aren't made up of much at all. Let's at least prove we both bleed so we can hurry and figure out a plan.

[circumitus]

[Rey doesn't take any offense to the woman's caution, even if Rey doesn't appear to be armed in any way. If nothing else, it tells her a very important story.

[This woman isn't stupid.

[And Rey isn't the most friendly-looking person, either, so it isn't entirely without understanding.

[It isn't until her final comment that Rey actually does blink at Cibo, with a look that screams "Are you fucking serious?"]

Are you fucking serious? [She scoffs, gesturing to the baton.] What are you planning to do? Use that thing to prove your ridiculous point that we bleed?

[Not that Rey is worried about being proven wrong, because she most certainly does bleed. She just isn't stupid enough to cut herself in front of a stranger. She points to the scars on her face, her teeth clenched.] Aren't these "proof" enough for you? [After all, she had to have bled at one point in order for scar tissue to happen.]

[watashinonamaewa]

Yeah.

[ Without thought, Cibo lifts her fist just in front of her body. The black suit she wears reacts to her intentions and pulls itself back off her forearm. The humming on the baton quiets, voltage lowering substantially. ]

It's only because I know creatures that can create human suits. With voices, personalities, and scars. But in my experience, most don't know how to mimic a living body on the inside. It's just them underneath. Besides, wouldn't you like to know if I were one of them or not too?

[ Even though Cibo doesn't react to the pain, that is definitely the sizzle of skin-to-hot-plate sound. It only takes a second or two to burn at the first layers of the skin. She tears it away, pulling the skin and leaving an oozy blister. She's sure Rey sees before the suit covers it back up. ]

I'm not going to force you. But I probably won't trust you as much as I would like if you don't.

[circumitus]

[This woman does have something of a point, considering how, in Rey's world, synths are just as capable of mimicking human form as anything else.

[However, the synths she's familiar with also have a penchant to bleed. You'd have to completely take them apart in order to find that they aren't human.

[Rey sighs.] That's going to be a bit of a problem.

[As she says this, Rey holds out her right hand for Cibo to see. Within a few seconds, glowing red veins start pulsating from her fingers to her elbow, revealing heatwaves surrounding the skin.

[In the next second, a burst of flame consumes her whole hand. The fire flickers, but she's not screaming or reacting in pain, neither does her flesh singe or melt as flesh should.]

Am not very burnable.

So unless you plan to use that as a bludgeon, it's going to be rather hard to prove your point. Didn't exactly bring a knife.

[watashinonamaewa]

[ Cibs is visibly impressed. Combustion is not a feat of any human, cyborg or silicon she's seen before. The scientist in her wants to move closer and observe. She doesn't. ]

Well, unless those things like to catch themselves on fire...

[ It occurs to her that she hasn't been keeping the best eye out in the few minutes of their conversation. With a peek down to the street, she walks closer to Rey with the baton now put away. ]

Sorry about the fuss. Didn't want to be eaten alive, you know? We should probably get moving now.

[circumitus]

[Combustion isn't a very common feat, even for Rey's own kind. It's what makes her unique, much like her brother.]

Haven't seen it, if they do.

[Poof goes the fire, and Rey's hand returns to normal, unburnt and unscathed.

[She lowers her arms back to her sides, unguarded but still alert towards her surroundings.]

Agreed. Should find someplace that might be able to chemically combat those things. Fire doesn't work against them, so maybe freeze flashing can. [She's just theorizing aloud here.]

[watashinonamaewa]

Just to cover all the bases, electricity didn't do anything to them either.

[ A gesture to the stun baton clipped to her waist. ]

Freezing them should work— Seeing as it's one of our last choices. But I'm assuming that cryogenic liquids aren't readily available in this place? If not, we're going to have to make some.

[ Oh... ]

And if that doesn't work, we'll need to prepare a more... corrosive compound. Just a heads up.

[circumitus]

Good to know.

[Considering she hasn't tried electricity yet. She isn't sure what she could use to test that theory herself, though.]

You have any idea how to make cryogenic liquids? [Because Rey sure as hell doesn't have that on her arsenal of knowledge stored in her head. She may have engineers and linguists on top of being soldiers, but there's only so much "useful" information that she can contain.]

Noted. We should check the stores first, at least. There may be something there that we can find...

[watashinonamaewa]

Off the top of my head we're going to need a compressor, reservoir and something to use as a cooling tower. We'll need all the tubing and tools we can find.

[ That should give them a good start. The other little pieces would be the hardest to look for. She would have to pick out the best candidates herself. ]

Most of it will probably be in back rooms or basements. Tight spaces, unfortunately. We'll have to be careful.

[circumitus]

You look like you can handle tight spaces. [She may or may not be remarking on Cibo's physique.]

Not sure if we have basements in any of the houses or spires, but can't hurt to check. Still think we should check the shops first, in the unlikely event that our 'hosts' provided us with the necessary tools to beat those damned things.

[watashinonamaewa]

Designed for mobility, I guess. [ Shruuug. She knows she's lanky. ]

It would be doing it the hard way to make a conversion system like that if we didn't have to... [ It'll take hard work to build from scratch and take up time that they probably don't have. ] Lead the way. Seems like you know your way around a little better than I would.

[circumitus]

[Well, so long as she knows...

[Rey nods in agreement. She's very familiar with the hard way. Hell, building the dam was the hard way.]

More or less. [She knows there are people who've just barely been around longer than she has, which means all of these events are fairly recent.

[Without another word or striking a conversation, Rey slides down from the rooftop of the building and drops. A fall that would have been enough to sprain a human's ankle doesn't have so much as a scratch on her when she lands.]