Test Drive Meme #31

[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 April 24th, and apps are open May 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: WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE
[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.

Even if the monster looks cuddly.

Direwolves are not quite what you medieval fantasy folks might think they are- they're untameable and almost the size of a bear. While usually a predator like the direwolf might wait for the opportune moment to strike, these beasts hunt in packs and are very, very hungry. You won't be able to tame them, and any attempts may result in a couple of missing fingers.]

S O R R O W

SCENARIO TWO: REGRETFULLY YOURS
[Have you ever done something you regret? A thought or an action you've performed that you look back on and wished you hadn't? Even if it's something outside of your control, something you couldn't have known, if there's something rattling around in that brain of yours, it's coming out in full force right now, leaving you guilt-ridden and prepared to confess all your sins to the nearest bystander.

But what if confessing isn't enough? You need to show them how sorry you are in any attempt at redemption you can muster. Work as hard as you can and maybe someone will forgive you. Work even harder and maybe someday you can forgive yourself.

This is a mini version of our Tears of Joy event this month.]

R A G E

SCENARIO THREE: TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
[The goal is simple: stay together in this room and use the supplies provided to build the best tower you can. You've got matchsticks, popsicle sticks, Q-tips, four different kinds of glue, and various little wheels and doodads. The team with the best tower at the end of the exercise gets a wish granted! That isn't so bad, is it?

Except your teammate is insufferable. Everything from their ideas, to their building strategy, down to their accent is absolutely intolerable to you. How can you be expected to work with such a difficult partner? If you leave the room your tower is forfeit, but who can expect you to stay in these conditions?

Careful- they're just as fed up with you as you are with them. Can the two of you overcome your mutual disdain to build this arts and crafts masterpiece, or will it be a race to the door?]

Comments

YESSSSS

[bookthefts]

( A quick flash of anger burns bright in Irene's stomach as those words hit her, and it takes every boarding school teacher and Library training session she's lived through in order to keep her expression from flashing with the emotion.

Someone destroyed books. Books, a library, everything that it means to the people and the world here. Judging by the fact that Irene still can't place where she is, she would consider it likely that there could also be incredibly rare books here, ones the Library would love to have lining its expansive, ever growing walls.

She'd be quite happy to learn the name of the perpetrator(s) and see them hanged for their crimes, but priorities must take place. She's alone, in a strange alternate, and desperately requiring a link back to the Library. )

Then, the nearest bookstore will suffice.

( Somewhere with enough rooms of books that she can draw a link to the Library and make her way to a computer for a report. And reunite with Kai and Vale, ideally. )

[6weeksmax]

[ Wow okay there, lady. Kat gets the need to keep records, but uh.

Well, you do you, she guesses. ]

No bookstores. You gotta make do with what you find in the shops around here. It's pretty cool, if you ask me. You never know what you'll find.

[bookthefts]

( No bookstores.

The words are so casual, yet they settle like ice in Irene's gut, a horrifying prospect that brings back flashes of that empty grasp when she reached out to the Library from an alternate Venice. Her breath feels too heavy in her chest and it's a struggle to keep her expression from slipping into panic at what all of this means.

Effectively, she's trapped here. She can't forge any type of connection without books. And, a slightly hysterical part of her mind supplies, if she's here without books, what on earth will she do in her spare time.

Get a grip, Irene.

First things first, when presented with the unknown, she needs to search out more information. )

Is there a map of the city?

( The shops do sound... unique, but getting her bearings comes first. )