dankmemes | Test Drive Meme #34

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!]

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What is the White Triangle, and the Daxamites?

[ So many people come here dead. No wonder she is worried. ] What was happening when you were pulled from your world?

[ Chuckle ] I couldn't imagine living that long, either -- until I did it. How old are you, Tinya? [ He can't really tell. She looks young, but then, there are mortals who are 25 but look 15. ]

[she swallows hard] The White Triangle is an organization of racists dedicated to destroying the United Planets. And Daxamites. . . they're a race of people who, under a yellow sun, have the powers of super-strength and speed, invulnerability, and--and heat vision.

[she remembers being held in Jo's arms and then pain. she sighs] Four Daxamites had come to Earth, trying to destroy it or at least kill everyone living on it.

I'm fifteen. I turned fifteen right before I joined the Legion.

Racists, eh? People who can't tolerate the fact that there are not just one kind of people in the universe? And these Daxamites. . .

[ Heat vision. He gets it. Maybe like the Balrogs of his own world, or maybe something different, but definitely something that has the power of fire. ]

You were attacked by one of them?

Fifteen! You have lived a lot of life in a short period of time, then.

[she nods] The movement started on Daxam, but it's spread to other planets as well, including Earth. But Daxam is where the movement started.

[she's too well acquainted with heat vision]

All of Earth was attacked by four of them.

I have. I've been lucky.

Not good. That kind of thing can destroy a civilization. People must fight against it, and I am glad that you are doing so.

[ He's getting the feeling that she has personal knowledge of death by fire. ]

Is that attack the last thing you remember from your world?

Sometimes it does not feel like luck, to be one who has become a warrior in order to fight against an overwhelming power of evil. And yet. . .to have had that experience. . . what could be better or greater?

I only wish that the people of Earth--and the United Planets itself--had been stronger in their condemnation of that sort of thing. Maybe if they had, we wouldn't be in the situation we are now.

[good luck getting that out of her]

Yes. So I have no idea if my friends won or lost or if they're okay.

I don't know. All I know is that I'm proud of the Legion and what it stands for.

There are always regrets, I guess, about how we have handled a dire situation. Or how our allies and our own organizations have handled things. I think that's unavoidable, considering nobody has a crystal ball and can tell the future. [ But it's true that sometimes you know in advance how things should be handled, and when that doesn't happen. . . well, good cause for regret. ]

[ It would be just like this spirited young warrior not to talk about her own death! Or so Curufin observes. ]

I hope your friends are okay, and I hope they won. And I hope that someday you may return to your world and hear that a great victory was achieved, and have the chance to rejoice with them and to share in the glory -- as I have no doubt you deserve.

That's true. I guess my disappointment is in the fact that the United Planets was formed specifically to combat that kind of racism. To unify the people of separate worlds and cultures without taking anything away from those cultures. But everyone ignored the White Triangle, even after they destroyed Trom.

[it's partially that and partially not wanting to admit it to herself]

I hope for all of that, too. I especially hope that I get to go home soon.

Ignoring a terrible threat, for whatever reasons -- fear, denial, ignorance. . . this is a problem, and it is not only your universe that has it.

[ Nobody wants to admit to being dead! It's perfectly understandable. ]

I hope it will be possible for all of us to return home soon, or to wherever we wish to go. We're currently planning a number of expeditions to fetch some fragments of the Door, or some fragments of another Door -- I'm not quite sure which -- but we hope it will result in expanded capabilities for that mysterious device. Maybe then, people can go to other worlds than their own, or go back to their own worlds in time to prevent their own deaths, or go back after their own deaths and take up again whatever fight they have been engaged in. In your case, the battle the Legion has taken on.

Edited 2018-10-08 02:21 (UTC)

That's not exactly reassuring. But, I have to admit, I'm disappointed in the UP. So far, they've done nothing about the White Triangle. It's just us in the Legion who've been taking them on, even after they destroyed Trom.

[she certainly doesn't want to. she's young, she has too much to live for.

it takes a moment to digest this information] I would love it if that was possible. The fight we're in, we can't afford to lose. The everyone on Earth is depending on us.

I suspect it's a feature of all sentient life, though I hate to say it. Maybe we're just blind to things sometimes, because they're so big and so awful, and we fear our resources will never be great enough to combat them. Of course, there are worse reasons. Sometimes it's because we stand to benefit from the destruction -- or we believe so at the time. We'd be wrong, of course. Nobody ever really wins when they throw their best energies into destroying, or stand by and watch somebody else do it. I do admire you and your Legion for stepping up when no one else would.

[ He hopes that she may get the chance to live again, in her own world, and to follow her dreams and aspirations. Nobody should die this young, and yet many do. If the Door can rectify that, then that is all the more reason for him to pour his energies into this coming expedition. ]

I pray that it is possible, for your sake and for the sake of your people.

We had to stand up. The White Triangle attacked one of our own, beating her half to death. And as I said, they destroyed Trom. That's over seven billion sentients, dead because someone thought they were lesser beings.

[she really doesn't want to think that she's dead. she has too much to live for. she has friends she loves, she has a boyfriend she loves, she has too many things she wants to see and do. she's not done, she's not ready]

Thank you. I hope it's possible, too.

That is appalling. The Legion had every reason in the world to stand up, and you should be proud.

[ And maybe Tinya will get the chance to return to her world as a living person, and continue the fight, with her friends at her side. Curufin wishes this for her, since she wishes it for herself. ]

May it be so.

I'm very proud of them. I can't wait to get back to them to finish the fight.

[she refuses to accept the possibility that she's dead. or at least she doesn't want to admit that it's a possibility. she still has too much living that she wants to do]

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Wanna call this a wrap? Sorry about the delay!

That's fine! And it's okay! <3