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]

Oh.

[ She's not entirely sure how to take that. ]

Not even your elders consult the dead?

[theweakhavepurpose]

We don't have elders. There's just old people. And they're not wise like you're saying your ancestors are, most of them are cranky and set in their ways and I have to respond to calls all the time about old ladies who want to keep cougars as pets and don't want to listen to anyone else.

[oldtonew]

[ Kettara is quiet for a long time. ]

Human ways seem very strange to me. Though I don't see what's wrong with keeping a cougar. They're fierce hunters.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Because it eats other people's cows.

[Montana is fun.]

And she sets it on her neighbors all the time because she's convinced they're stealing her mail.

[oldtonew]

Oh. I can see why that would be an issue.

[ Can't have predators eating your farm animals. Even she knows that. ]

She must be a skilled hunter to have trained such a beast so well.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Uh... Maybe?

[He's having a hard time imagining crotchety old Ms. Mable as a mighty hunter and not as the woman who routinely stomps around in a nightgown and combat boots and threatens to run him off her property with a shotgun even if he is part of the 'no good hippie dippie police force.']

I have no idea how she trained it. I'm guessing through food.

[oldtonew]

[ Kettara grins. ]

That's how the Darkspear train their raptors. You must start when they are young, or they will kill their handlers.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I think she found it as a cub, so probably.

It's amazing what animals will do for food. People too.

[oldtonew]

[ Kettara's smile fades a little. ]

Yes. It is.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Being depressing again, like always. He casts around for anything that isn't this spiral into everything is terrible.]

Guess that's me too isn't it? With this stockpile of soup.

[He half smiles.]

But if we run out I'm willing to share.

[He's a prepper for the community, not just himself.]

[oldtonew]

All right.

[ She nods slowly, watching him. What a strange human. ]

I will try to hunt. If there is anything to catch, I will find it.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Good luck with that. Most of the things I've seen haven't looked edible.

[Not that he'd eat them anyway, but he definitely doesn't want to eat giant bugs.]

Let me know if you need an assist.

[He means it, but he sees the futility in offering his small, squishy, human help to someone who could probably bench press a car.]

[oldtonew]

I will.

[ She regards him for a moment, then gives him the tradtional orcish salute: a fist slapped against her pauldron. ]

Well met, Deputy Pratt.

[theweakhavepurpose]

And you Kettara.

[He's not in the military, he has no cool salutes to reciprocate. Which reaffirms how not-a-warrior he is.]

Thanks again, for the help.

[He has so much soup now.]