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

[widow_of_the_crag]

It sounds similar to the history of my world, but I don't know the word Deryni. What are they? Are they like Targaryens? A family from the East that can control creatures or magic?

[Though she wasn't sure how many would say the Targaryens were despotic as a whole. The Mad King was fearsome and tyrannical, but Joffery had proved to be the same and he was no Dragon. Who could say anymore if a single House was despotic. Cruelty seemed to simply exist in men without boundaries or control.]

I have never seen anyone possess magic before. How can I not view them as something beyond mortal?

[The term was a sharp twist in her gut. Her eyes held on him, guarded and dark. The subject had been approached in veiled terms, she'd even admitted that her husband had been murdered by her family. But hearing someone speak of it, as though they lived in Westeros, it changed her level of comfort.

She was now speaking to someone that wasn't exactly a stranger. He knew her history and what had happened to her husband.]

That is what the smallfolk called it.

[And possibly Joffery, he'd find delight in that.]

No, his murderers have all been rewards. Each person who played a part has been given something.

[Walder Frey would have the Riverlands, the Lannisters would hold the throne and had the Tyrells on their side, and her mother had the Lannister marriages she had wanted. The only one who was responsible that was punished was herself.

She shook her head, glaring at nothing in particular.]

No, not like this. Had he married Roslin Frey, he would still be alive. Whether or not I did anything consciously, I still am the reason he died. My mother was able to spy on him, he lost allies and many of his men. There is no point in saying I am not responsible. I am.

[kingforboth]

[The amount of times people here had asked him that made him realize just how little he really knew about half his heritage.]

I suppose it could be just that, yes. Deryni are a race separate from humans. Really the only difference is the use of magic, and how we react to some....medications. I don't know where we came from though. So much knowledge has been lost. It could have easily been the east or any other direction. But yes, perhaps it was just like that.

[Cruelty existed in both, Kelson would agree. Sometimes madness ran in families, but sometimes madness and cruelty just were. And try as he might, part of him believed that as much as Deryni were persecuted, they did it to themselves.]

Magic is the same as any skill, just like being good with a sword or having a knack for languages. It doesn't make someone special, it's just part of what the can do.

[It wasn't hard to realize Kelson had made a wrong turn.]

I don't know about the smallfolk but I don't think something that horrific should be named like a battle or a great victory. I can imagine who thought of the name. You name things that deserve honor. There was no honor behind that.

[He certainly wasn't naming such things after his own wedding. Red Wedding indeed. The more he learned about her world, the more he disliked it.]

Then I pray they will suffer the consequences in the afterlife, if not before.

[Real world justice was always preferable. Vengeance wasn't the answer but he still found some deaths liberating.]

I shan't argue with you. Guilt and our own views of what is and isn't a sin is individual. I have noticed however that even if certain events had not happened, others were bound to take place. You cannot change individual natures.