test drive meme # 35

[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 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.]

Comments

[oldtonew]

[ Kettara puffs out her chest, making herself look bigger. He doesn't wear the symbol of the Alliance, but that doesn't mean he isn't a threat. He's human, after all. ]

I am Kettara Bloodthirst, shaman of the Earthen Ring!

[ Named for her mother, against tradition, and ready to fight. But the question remains: what, exactly, is she fighting for? Shotoa wouldn't hire humans to fight alongside him. The Grimtotem, apparently his true allies, are too proud to allow it.

Something else has happened. Something unexpected.

Kettara bares her teeth, tusks gleaming. ]

Never seen an orc, human?

[warhorns]

[A place he's never heard of, and-] Are you a wight, creature? Something from beyond the wall?


[When he'd heard of White Walkers he hadn't envisioned this but he can't think what else she could be. Maybe over the sea there were creatures like her.]

[oldtonew]

[ Kettara growls again, a clear warning. ]

No! You are not supposed to be here!

[ Not here, in Horde terrority. Only this place is -- different, uneasy, and she doesn't recognize any of the smells. Kettara snaps her teeth, thinking. A spell, perhaps? Shotoa is a powerful shaman. There's no reason to think his abilities haven't grown over the years. Perhaps he opened a portal. Perhaps it dragged this human into it as well. ]

I am not supposed to be here.

[ Her master would advise calm in a situation like this, Kettara thinks, and lowers one of her axes. Just one. She maintains the totems. ]

I should be in Feralas.