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

[chemethtry]

[ Focus, Pinkman. Just focus. Breathe. Keep it together, yo. There's gotta be an explanation for whatever the hell's happening, right? Of course there's an explanation. Just keep your shit together 'til you figure it out, yo, okay? Jesse squeezes his eyes shut and forces out a long, shaky breath, then shifts upright as he shoves away from the wall to throw a stare, full of blank bewilderment, out at where old man Whitney here and himself had just run from. An arena, it looks like. What... the fuck... How?!

That look of blank bewilderment swings onto the old dude. ]

H-How—? I... Dude, what the fuck was that out there?

[foreveronthesea]

[Yep, definitely concerned. Most people he's seen this skinny have just come from spending some 'quality time' with Morgoth or Sauron. And yet, this one seems too aware for that to be his case.

He does keep an eye on their surroundings though, including what they'd just escaped from. Very much not the ship he'd been on!]

I would answer if I knew. Are you well? [Because it has to be asked!]

[chemethtry]

Sure. Yeah. Almost got trampled to death like a bitch by a psychotic rhinoceros outta nowhere. Yeah, I'm peachy. [ Sarcasm much. All delivered with shrill panic clipping his tone. Anyway, switching back to what the fuck was that out there: ] I mean the singing, yo! Back there, just then. The-That whole—

[ More wild gesticulation to where they'd just come from. What the hell was all that? ]