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

[abyssalarcana]

[Hopefully this little game will turn out better than Tucker's silly parlor tricks. Caedra eyes the cards, then selects a few from various parts of the deck. Not true randomness, sadly, but it doesn't much matter anyway. If he's at all good at whatever little game he's trying to make of this, he'll find a way to craft some story out of them. She can't wait for it to be well off the mark from reality.]

So. Tell me then, what's my prize?

[uncharisma]

[He turns over the first card. Let's hope these random cards can be wrangled into something that works for his purposes.]

First, your past: the Sphinx. A woman of riddles and intelligence. You've been able to overcome obstacles in the past that others may not have been able to manage. You take calculated risks, and your journey thus far gives you confidence.

[He flips the second card.]

Your present is the Black Cat. A symbol of superstition, but this card's not so unlucky. Rather, it tells me you currently have a mystery in your life, but the Sphinx indicates this isn't the first time. You may find luck on your side here, in fact.

As for your future...

[And, finally, the last card is revealed.]

The woodland fairy Hindrance.

[Gods. If he could let himself wince now, he would. That's not what he'd wanted at all. Maybe he can manage to make this sound like good fortune.]

You have something ahead that will delay your goals. This is only temporary, and the Sphinx tells me you're not so easily discouraged. However, when this card appears, it indicates that trying another approach than your usual fare will bring you even greater success in attaining what you want than you have in the past.

[Hopefully that does it. Risk/reward, right?]

[abyssalarcana]

[She watches, but loses interest with each card. Yes, this is exactly the sort of nonsense she expected. Vague generalities that anyone who has ever lived could identify with if they so wished. She likes to think she knows better.]

Right. So I've overcome obstacles, I have a mystery in my life, and the future looks like it brings challenges. Just like every other person.

[She gives a dry laugh and manages to hold herself back from throwing all of his cards into disarray the way she had done with Edgar. Prestidigitation is not the most subtle of spells when one is trying to pretend to play along.]

This is why I tend not to believe the superstitious nonsense my people tried to burden me with. But I suppose I knew that going into this, so I can't fault you. I hope you find someone more gullible to play your little game with. The cards are quite pretty though.

[She shrugs, gives a smile anyway. No hard feelings, right? Just a devil-horned boy trying to put the universe into some sort of order, as they tend to do. Disgusting creature.]

[uncharisma]

[Rather than take offense, Molly bursts out laughing.]

Well, I don't know you well enough to point to specifics! Half the reading is how you interpret your cards. You know yourself better than I do, certainly. The cards wouldn't work if their general meaning couldn't change for each person.

[Still, he grins at her.]

Even so, you don't have to believe in them, of course. Generally, people are paying me to read their fortunes, so they're much more open to applying the cards to their lives. Being willing to part with silver usually means as much.

[He's a little disappointed his ploy at stirring up hope didn't work, but honestly, the more he talked to her the less he figured she'd go for it anyway.]

[abyssalarcana]

Well, a real diviner would probably argue that his judgments were accurate and not based on interpretation, right?

[But it's not like she cares, just laughs it off. It's a gimmick, nothing more.]

With no silver, you'll have to find some other way to con people for your little fortune-telling act. Have fun.

[Clearly it's not her thing, and so she shrugs him off as she turns to leave.]

[uncharisma]

[He shrugs. He knows he's not going to convince her, so he doesn't bother. It's not like he truly believes in his "gift", anyway.

As she leaves, he calls out,]

Lovely meeting you, regardless!