dankmemes | test drive meme # 35

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 August 25th, and apps are open September 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: GET YOUR RED CAPE READY
[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.

And they sure are big boys. Big and easily angered and ready to run right over you. This time, the Door has brought in Brontos, from the video game Dragon Age.

Brontos are large oxen-like beasts, though more sure-footed due to spending all their time in caves underground. There are domesticated brontos, bred to haul and be ridden and eaten... but these aren't those. These brontos are wild, one and all, and they are skittish and large and perfectly capable of running you over. Maybe just keep your distance.]

SCENARIO TWO: DESERTED
[You're alone. Completely alone, as far as you can tell. Nothing here works - oh, there's food in the stores, sure, but the water's not running, the electricity isn't working. There's not a soul on the streets, where you would normally expect to see at least a few people here and there.

So what will you do? Smash windows and grab food from the stores? (Well, the doors are all unlocked, but hey, who doesn't love smashing windows.) Shout in the streets in hopes someone will hear? Curl into a ball and cry? All valid choices. But then, what will you do when you do find someone, after thinking you were all alone? Someone you like, someone you hate, a complete stranger?

This is a mini version of our Deserted event this month.]

S O R R O W

SCENARIO THREE: ONE MORE CHANCE
[You can't stop thinking about the one who got away. They've been on your mind - well, it feels like forever, but maybe it's only been a few days. A few hours. But you can't stop thinking about them and regretting what could have been.

Maybe it's a failed romance. Maybe a broken friendship. Maybe a family member who walked away - or who you walked away from. Even a business partner who things ended poorly with. Whatever it was, you regret how things went down. If only you had another chance, a chance to fix things!

And then, there they are. The person you've been thinking of. What will you do? Beg forgiveness? Make amends? Run away? Make your decision and take action, because as soon as you do it you might realize it was never that person at all. You might have just poured out your heart and begged forgiveness from a complete stranger.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Yusuke stops dead in his tracks at that not now, feeling a brief flash of irritation at being treated as a child in need of dismissal.

Yet the effects of the gods soon seems to wear off, and Yusuke's anger seems trivial compared to what Sojiro must be experiencing. So he moves to stand beside him, voice quiet.]

...I'm sorry. I wanted to warn you.

( Disappointment seeps through his veins in a way that seems selfish, when he thinks about it. Wakaba's dead, and - though he can only hope that this is the case - at peace, looking down on Futaba and seeing how much she's improved. How her heart has healed. His regrets - and there are many - may linger, but they're not worth reviving the dead over.

He looks back at Yusuke, features carefully arranged to seem neutral, but each aged line etched on his skin looks like the crack in a glass - as though one carefully placed touch or word could shatter it. )

... This is those gods, right?

( He heard about that, too. But somehow he never expected it to be quite so realistic, so close to home when it hit. )

[Yusuke nods, expression sympathetic.] Yes. Often, they will manipulate people here to their own advantage, with no regard for the hurt they cause. I'm afraid we haven't yet found a way to stop them.

['We' being the Phantom Thieves, of course. Fighting adults is one thing, but fighting false gods is another altogether.]

( Sojiro doesn't like the sound of that, because - despite the cognitive world powers and all of that - they are still kids. Still going to school, doing exams, making mistakes.

But what can he do? Same as back in Toyko: nothing. Just give them a base of operations and wait, nod and pretend he understands all the stuff that's being talked about. He exhales, a hand going to the back of his neck, working at a knot that's never really gone away. This is so much shit, really, all adding to the list of reasons he would much rather be in his quiet coffee shop than this new world. )

You kids... Guess you have to be the Phantom Thieves even here.

( Dammit all. )

[Yusuke shakes his head.] We don't have to be anything. Whichever battles we decide, they're our choice.

[There are plenty here with more exceptional powers than the Phantom Thieves, but they choose to fight anyway. That's what defines them, isn't it? Their inability to turn their backs on those in need.]

In this case, though, I'm sorry we can't be of more help. ...Are you all right? [After seeing Wakaba, that is. He doesn't want to pry, but he's also concerned.]

( Look, he's just an old man who was quite happy to continue living an unextraordinary life, to hole up in his café and hide away from that which threatened him. He always looked for the path of least resistance, preferring to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. That was something he tried (and failed) to teach the kid, and perhaps the lack of success was for the best.

Still. Doesn't mean he's particularly enthused about a bunch of kids trying to take on gods. But he will support them. )

Yeah. I'm fine. ( At least, he will be. Sojiro rubs the back of his neck and exhales, taking a glance at the world around them.

Nah. She isn't here. ) This happened to you? This... seeing people who aren't there thing?

( He's the adult, okay. Let him feel like the adult for five minutes and take care of the kids. )

test drive meme # 35

nope, please leave all hearts for thieves to collect at the door

fiiiiine

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject