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

[puzzlingly]

「Oh — that's one awkward question to this guy... but, um, he can answer it anyway. If Keith wishes to see it makes him doubt for a second.」

Yeah, time goes on here. Not so much at home.

[blazingsword]

[??? He's not certain why it would be a strange question, though maybe Atem hasn't been here long enough to find out.]

Good to know. That's nothing new.

[puzzlingly]

「Maybe he can tell him one day! But for now the uncertainty just fades—it's just something he often forgets is a thing.」

Nothing new? You mean you've been in this sort of situation before?

「Okay, Keith suddenly became very interesting.」

[blazingsword]

[Keith nods, standing now, helmet between his hands as he looks up to the sky. He's still speaking to Atem though.]

Had to travel through a quantum abyss recently - they're full of dark stars, time moves differently the closer you are to them. Being right inside of it, well... two years passed for me. I don't think it was even a month for the rest of my team outside of it.

[He sighs.]

Too much atmosphere to see if this planet is in the middle of one, too. Pidge and Hunk would be able to figure it out anyway, I'm sure.

[puzzlingly]

「Ah, Atem listens alright, and he was right, that's interesting and sounds... amazing. It actually makes a lot of sense, even for him. It makes him wonder about Hadriel's nature.

Idly, he tries to remember those names for later.」

Nah, it doesn't work that way. The so-called gods have been teleporting us from planet to planet. Ah... I suppose no one has told you about that?

「About gods, about planets and something about a war?」

[blazingsword]

Teleporting a whole city?

[There's how the Castle of Lions moved, and the Black Lion itself, and various other bending of space and time that Keith has seen, but moving a whole city seems like it would need a huge power expenditure.]

No, no one's told me. How?

[puzzlingly]

「Atem exhales. There is a lot of history to cover, but, fortunately, he can cheat at that. He finally stands too.」

Have you checked your pockets lately?

[blazingsword]

[Keith hasn't, so he does now. And yep, there's the device... thingy... he's never seen before.]

Huh. That's new.

[puzzlingly]

「Good boy.」

Find the guide, it'll tell you everything you need to know.

「Well, not everything, but the important things.」