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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[Keith isn't trying to be condescending, he's not Sokka, okay. But from where he's standing all he sees is a youth who appears to be completely unarmed facing down a jelly cube. So he's got his bayard as a sword out and at the ready and is running to attack when -

Did she just summon water??

... You know what that's not even the weirdest thing to happen today. He still makes his attack from behind - from whatever serves as 'behind' for the jelly cube seeing as it didn't seem to notice Keith's approach but was focused entirely on Katara, slicing it down the middle but avoid cutting it clean in half because the last thing they need is more jelly cubes. This way it'll have to take time to reform itself.

Aaand that's when he sees the person passed out behind Katara. Okay, why she wasn't running makes total sense now.]

They alive?

[ Katara had already frosen her water and was ready to make it rain sharp. The cube didn't seem to be moving. Was it dead? She is slightly concerned but the other person approaches her before she can do much else. He seems to have handled the situation perfectly. Katara unfreezes the water and directs it back into her pouch. ]

Oh, yeah. They're fine. It seems like they're sleeping, really.

[ Katara smiles. ]

Thanks for your help. I'm Katara. I'm assuming you're in the same situation I'm in.

[ She looks to the side again, checking up on the jelly monster. ]

You...wouldn't happen to know what that is, would you?

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Keith - and what it is is 'pretty pissed when it reforms'.

[Which it's already doing, jelly melting and squirming in frankly disgusting ways as it slowly mends itself. Keith takes the brief window they have to put his bayard away, the sword vanishing for now as he darts around the cube and picks the sleeping person up in a fireman's carry.]

Come on - we can stash them someplace safe once we get out of sight then draw it away to come after us.

Keith? Oh! Are you from the Fire Nation?

[ That is her assumption, anyways. The jet black hair is also a key into that as well. Katara gives him a firm nod at his suggestion. ]

Right.

[ Oh jeez. Tough guy. Is he some kind of...Fire Nation version of a Kyoshi Warrior with guys instead? She didn't get a good look around the last time that she was there. ]

Oh! Let's put them over there!

[ Katara points to where a large piece of rock lays. Actually, it's more like a bolder. Hm. She was sort of curious about the story of this whole place. But no matter. ]

I have an idea on how to beat it. But I don't know if it will work. Do you know anything about the monster? It looks like it could have some kind of...liquid in it. Which makes it look so squishy and...

[ She looks back at it and squints. Look at it just...putting itself back together. ]

Oogie.

[Keith doesn't even know what a Fire Nation is, but he's got bigger fish to fry (ha) at the moment. Getting unconscious dude to safety, stored away so they can draw away the Jelly. Once that's done, there's the question of how much water the Jelly is. Keith huhs]

Well, Jello's mostly boiling water and a little gelatin powder then cooled until it becomes solid, so... Yeah. I don't know what this is, but it's pretty jello-like. Can you do something with that?

[She was moving water earlier, but he has no idea if it being mixed with something else changes that. He draws his sword again just in case.]

Never heard of the Fire Nation before either. I'm from Earth?

[ That's going to be a serious challenge. Katara herself is unsure if she would be able to do it but there was no point in not trying. ]

I'll try my best. If it doesn't work then we'll have to try something else.

[ She is sure Sokka would be able to come up with a better plan than herself but he's unfortunately not here. Katara takes a deep breath before she begins moving her body to a rhythm in an attempt to move it somehow. ]

Ah, wait. So you're from the Earth Kingdom then?

[ Ba Sing Sei? Fire Nation Colony? No wait, that one didn't make sense. He'd know if he were from the Fire Nation and he seems to not even know what it was. ]

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