Test Drive Meme #34

[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 July 25th, and apps are open August 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: OOZES GEOMETRICALLY
[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.

The only warning you may get is the squish slick sound of movement before a gelatinous cube is upon you. Leaving gross trails behind them and with their see-through bodies filled with the bones of those that they've dissolved in their jelly, these cubes have no real vulnerability other than their limited movement.

Gelatinous cubes are exactly what it says on the tin, giant translucent cubes of jelly whose main attack tactic seems to be cornering people in small hallways and just sort of absorbing them into its mass. They then digest all meat and flesh and leave only floating bones and various metals their victim may have been wearing stashed inside of their jiggling forms.

Maybe it's time to apologize for the last time you brought a jelly mold to a potluck.]

A L L

SCENARIO TWO: MY LOYAL SERVANTS
[Thanks for your service to the gods! In order to power each of them up, it's up to you to pick a deity you like most (or dislike least, as it were) and simply say their name in order to be influenced by them and encouraged to inspire their emotion in others!

What, you don't want to play? Too bad, accidental name calling works just as well, even if you didn't mean to incite them- you'll feel their presence pulling their chosen emotion out in you anyway. Hope you picked a good one!

This is a mini version of our In Need Of A Boat event this month.]

C O N F U S I O N

SCENARIO THREE: I MISS GPS
[Sure, you might be a little confused at being here at first, but that generally goes away within a few days. This time... well, this time, that feeling of befuddlement isn't quite going away. Roads that you take seem to disappear behind you when you turn around, your right turns are left turns on the map you're following, and you're pretty sure that everyone except for you put their shirt on backwards this morning.

Is everyone high? What they're saying makes absolutely no sense to you. You can't find your way out of a paper bag, let alone back to where you've been staying lately. Is that a dog or is it an eldritch horror coming up to lick at your calves?

During this prompt, everything will feel off and it can be very difficult to get your bearings at all. That's Confusion for you!]

Comments

[unphase]

I know I'm right.

[she looks very sure. after all, she believes that her teammates will be looking for her as soon as they defeat the Daxamites. if they beat the Daxamites]

No, our first date got interrupted by terrorists trying to steal advanced weaponry.

[itsnotaonesie]

Guess I can't argue with that.

[He wishes he could be as positive about this as she is, but at the very least her optimism about it is helping.]

...Okay, between you and me, that's probably about as bad as my first date went. Well, it was my school's homecoming, but it still counts.

[only because it's the closest thing hes ever had to a date but shh]

[unphase]

[teasing] Nope, so you shouldn't try.

[she has to be optimistic. or else she has to face a possibility she really doesn't want to face]

You know I have to ask what happened, right?

[itsnotaonesie]

[He puts his hands up in that playful "I surrender" sort of way. She wins this round.

But dang, now he's kind of set himself up for story time, hasn't he? In all fairness, it wasn't like the whole secret identity thing was as important here as it had been back home. Still, he takes a quick look around to make sure nobody else is within earshot. He wasn't so sure he was okay with everyone knowing about him yet, but maybe it was better for him to be able to talk to at least one person about it.]

Okay. So, I ditched my date at Homecoming like, as soon as we got there, because I had to go fight her dad. He'd been stealing alien tech and building weapons out of it, and then selling it on the street, and I couldn't just let him, y'know?

[unphase]

[the concept of secret identities would be strange to her. in her world, everyone knows that Tinya Wazzo of Bgztl is Apparition of the Legion of Super-Heroes. everyone knows the rest of her team's identities, too. so far, they've been lucky and no one's tried to go after anyone's families, but she knows that her mother as their planet's representative to the UP would be a prime candidate to try for. fortunately, her mom can phase as well as she can. but if it's impressed on her that Peter's identity is a secret, she'll keep his secret for him]

You had to fight her dad? I assume she didn't know anything about what he was up to. How did you explain it to her? [and a thought occurs to her] Do you have powers, too?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Most of the people where Peter's from don't bother with secret identities either, but none of them are also still in high school. Life's complicated.]

She didn't know anything about what he was doing, and uh... I didn't really explain anything to her? I literally just ditched her at the dance, and why I did that kind of ties into your last question. Yes, I do have... I don't know if "powers" is the right word? I mean, I can't shoot eye lasers or anything, but uh, I can do stuff that nobody else can. It's not really something I want a ton of people knowing yet, though, so that's. Y'know. Why I didn't tell her. That and I don't know how she would have taken it if she knew that I was the one that got her dad arrested.

[unphase]

[he'd already be considered an adult in Tinya's time. age of majority is fourteen and Tinya's already had a year to get used to being considered a grownup.

she hears his story and her gaze turns sympathetic]

Something like that would be hard to explain. No one wants to think of their parent as a criminal. I can keep a secret, so you don't need to worry about me saying something to the wrong person. [she smiles] I'd ask for a demonstration, but that would probably be a little showy and hard to conceal. [she turns serious again] I sure don't know how I'd take it. Probably not well. My father's never really been a part of my life, but he's still my dad, you know?

[itsnotaonesie]

Thanks, I appreciate it. I don't mind showing you some time if you want.

I never really knew my dad, but yeah, I get it. I figure if I found out my aunt was out doing stuff like that, I'd be... probably more disappointed than anything.

[unphase]

I'd love to see them sometime. Thank you.

[she scuffs one foot into the ground and looks down]

That's understandable. Disappointment that someone you grew up looking up to would be capable of doing something like that.

[itsnotaonesie]

[A thumbs up. Hell yes, he will show off his sick spider moves some time]

Yeah, it'd be like, "hey, I expected better from you". But even then, like, I don't think the guy was a bad person? He was doing it because he needed the money to take care of his family. And like, I get that, y'know?

[unphase]

[and she will be very, very impressed. most Legionnaires only have a single power, so having multiple powers used simultaneously will be so cool.

she nods and tries to avoid thinking about her mother] Family is important. Nobody wants to think that they've failed them. Is your date, his daughter, doing all right?

[itsnotaonesie]

[And he's going to try to avoid thinking about his aunt because boy howdy thinking about family when you're stuck in a wacky place like this and might never see them again kinda sucks]

Liz. And, I don't know. She and her mom moved away after her dad was arrested.

[unphase]

[yes, it does. Tinya's relationship with her mother is complicated, each one certain that they're right and neither one willing to back down. but she's not giving up the Legion or Jo. her mother will have to learn to live with her daughter's choices]

Oh. So you never really got closure. That must hurt. I'm sorry.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Damn right girl REBEL]

It's... it's fine. I mean, it sucks, but I'm sure she's doing okay.

[unphase]

[she will! she's fifteen, she's a fully grown woman with her own choices to make and her own life to live.

that's assuming she's--no, no, no. there's no time for that breakdown now]

I hope so.

[and she gives him a little nudge and smiles] So, what do people do for fun around here?

[itsnotaonesie]

[just pretend horrible things didn't happen, that's the healthiest way to cope for sure

but not really]

Oh, uh. Fun? I mostly just do stuff at the lab, but uh, I guess for people who aren't giant nerds, there's the Speakeasy? I haven't been there yet, but I heard there's a game room there or something.

[unphase]

[they should start a club! the "Nothing Bad Ever Happened to Me Ever" club. because denial is your friend.

except for when it stops working and you do have that inevitable breakdown.

she perks up a little at the mention of the Speakeasy] The Speakeasy. Is that a club?

[itsnotaonesie]

[There's no way this wouldn't 100% end in disaster!]

Something like that, like a bar or whatever? I don't know if they'd card you, this place doesn't exactly have laws.

[unphase]

[they can either cry on each other's shoulders or find other unhealthy coping mechanisms together]

Card me? Why would they need to card me? I'm fifteen, that's old enough to do whatever I please.

[itsnotaonesie]

[lots and lots of ice cream!!!!!]

Wait, what? You can go to bars and stuff when you're fifteen? You have to be twenty-one where I'm from!

[unphase]

[so much ice cream. and the fear that the reason why her friends haven't found her is that they aren't looking. because she's dead and there's no reason to look]

Twenty-one? [she wrinkles her nose] Why so old?

[itsnotaonesie]

[That's kind of the boat Peter's in too, and this is the shittiest boat basically ever.]

That's just the way it's always been. In some places where I'm from you only have to be like eighteen, but fifteen still sounds like, super early.

[unphase]

[it really is. and Tinya can't help but worry how Jo will take her death, having so many powers but still being unable to save the girl he loves. and how her mother will take it. she's already deeply opposed to the Legion's existence, Tinya worries that she'll take her daughter's death as a reason to shut the Legion down.

she thinks for a moment] I guess it is a little weird. The age of majority was dropped to fourteen on Braal and Titan first. They'd been at war with each other for years. They needed more soldiers and more workers and didn't have enough, so they lowered the age it took to serve. After it worked there, a lot of other planets followed their example, including Earth.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Man everyone is sailing a shitty boat, damn.]

Jeez, they would just be in their first year of high school. They were becoming soldiers and stuff? That's crazy.

[Says the guy who became Spider-Man when he was fifteen. Hypocrisy, much? Heeeee just awkwardly clears his throat because yyyyeah.]

So uh. Titan? as in Saturn's moon Titan?

[unphase]

[very much so]

People from Braal and people from Titan have inborn powers. Their ages. . . didn't really matter. What mattered was, how good they were at using their powers.

[she can't really talk, either, she joined the Legion at fifteen. she assumes he's around her age and he has mentioned fighting]

That's it exactly.