Test Drive Meme #32

[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 May 25th, and apps are open June 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: HONK HONK
[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.

Hope you're not afraid of clowns!

Evil Clowns have been a terror on the imagination of children everywhere, and show up enough times in literature for us to reasonably say that plenty of adults are afraid of them too. While they love to laugh, they often bring themselves joy by murdering others and slicing them up with the sharp knives and other torture devices that they have tucked away in their seventeen pockets.

It's not difficult to outrun them, as they have big, squeaky shoes, but it might be difficult to fight them- these bastards are hardy!]

F E A R

SCENARIO TWO: MISSING SOMETHING?
[You may arrive in Hadriel... well, incomplete. Though some may reassure you that it's temporary, there's still something terrifying in suddenly losing your sight or your hearing... or even you arm!

While this event does not affect memories, it does affect body parts, senses, and potentially powers and abilities. You may find yourself unable to do things you once did, or behave the way you normally do.

This is a mini version of our Senses Fail event this month.]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO THREE: MAY FLOWERS
[You're in a beautiful garden. The sun is shining, the grass is green, and there are hundreds of thousands of flowers all around you. The temperature is just perfect, and above all else, it's satisfying.

Maybe you should pick some flowers for a friend, or your mother- you did skip mother's day, after all. Luckily, there's a few cutting shears to go around and you're more than welcome to start hacking away at these thistley bushes! Hopefully you know a thing or two about flower arranging- maybe that person over there is more experienced?]

Comments

[writtendestiny]

[He'll see the way her expression twitches, like it's ready to fall but she doesn't want it to be noticed. It isn't the first time she's confronted a friend only to find out they don't remember her at all, but it doesn't mean it stings any less.]

Ah... Yes. [She replies, her voice far more subdued. Her jaw tenses briefly.]

From... somewhere else. You don't remember me.

[glacius]

[... Oh. Oh, this must be what he'd heard mention of; the other versions of themselves that exist, the other lives that they have not lived. The person who first mentioned this phenomenon to Glacius—his partner, in fact—had met with a particularly unpleasant version, and though he does not want to believe that the darker ice alien had been directly related to him, it still pushes him to ask something now nagging at his mind.]

I do not... I am sorry. I was... good to you, though, I hope?

[writtendestiny]

[He doesn't know her, but she perks up very slightly at the question. He doesn't know her, but... he's interested in having known her?

Poison nods.]

You... you were. You were always very kind to me. We were friends.

[glacius]

I... I see. I am glad to hear that.

[The alien pauses, his operculum fluttering gently as he tries to figure out what else he can even say in this situation.] I am sorry that I am doing that friendship a disservice now by not knowing you. We could... try to rectify that, if you would be so willing. [Glacius has no guarantees that it would work, as he has no idea what sort of events transpired in that other world to bring them together... but there must have been something about this girl that drew him to her in the first place, and that would bring them together again.]

[writtendestiny]

[It's so strange that he doesn't know her. To know he's forgotten her and everything that he went through in that place. She finds she envies that a little - there's a great deal about her time there that she would like to forget about entirely.]

I would. I'd be willing.

[Hadriel might be an easier place so far, but that doesn't mean it's not still difficult in its own way.] Oh, I'm Poison. My name is Poison.