dankmemes | test drive meme # 36

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 September 24th, and apps are open October 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.

You don't want to ride them- someone already tried that. Near you is a horselike beast, one without any fur or skin or anything that might make it more palatable. It's a Nuckelavee, a Nordic mythological creature which terrorizes the Northern Isles.

This demonic creature seems to embody that of a man merged with a horse- but not in the cute centaurian way. They are natural swimmers and emerge from the deep to drag their prey down into the water with them- so terrible that even the scent of their breath can sap you of all will to live. Better hold your own breath and look out!]

L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: GET YOU SOME
[You don't know where you are or where you're going- or what you're even doing in this strange city on the ocean- but you do know that you need someone by your side to make it better. Even if you don't know them, even if you hate them, there's something comforting to having another person so close to you.

Closer.

Physical contact with another person seems to put your mind completely at ease, erasing all of your worries and doing better for your mind than a hundred meditation sessions. So it's time to get friendly, even if you're not really that friendly of a person in the first place.

This is a mini version of our A Little Touchy Feely event this month.]

SCENARIO THREE: 15 MINUTES LATE WITH
[Good news! Love has decided that since other liquids seem to be all the rage amongst you humans and they somehow learned about Earth agricultural crops, they've decided to open up a coffee shop!

Here's the space to live out all of your coffee shop AUs in a Hadriel setting! With a storm brewing over the island and a merry pink glowcloud somehow creating caffeinated drinks on the spot when you order them, get ready to tuck in and get nice and cozy for a few minutes.

But uh-oh! Your name is misspelled! Or it's someone else's name entirely, but it's your drink. Or something about your order is wrong- whatever the case, Confusion definitely wouldn't just stand around and let Love have their fun. Somehow, everything is wrong in this poor coffeeshop... what are you going to do about it?]

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No, because I thought coffee would be sweet! The store smelled like it, so the taste should be the same!

[He stamps his foot on the ground and scratches his head furiously. GG on hammering home that mankid image, Zack.]

Those fuckers lied to me!!

So your false assumption means they lied?

[Oh god, it really is like having Devit with him. A loud temperamental man-child thing that really shouldn't to be allowed in public with civilized people.]

They sell sweets too. It's not just coffee.

Huh...you mean, beside the ice cream picture? But, they're selling literal shit?!

[He jerks a thumb over at the overhead menu.]

It even says, "craps"! The fuck kind of shop is this?!

[...'crepes', actually. Not that he ever knew how to read, save for recognizing some shapes of letters.]

As far as I know, that says crepes. Thin pancakes usually filled with sweet things.

[Tyki sighs, and gets up suddenly. He feels like he'd be doing the world a disservice if he didn't at least try to educate the young man. He doesn't expect it to work. People like him are stubborn and full of set ideas. He's tried helping the twins with culture and education from time to time, and that was an amazing waste of time and energy.

But it's the effort that counts. Coffee, crepes, sweets and savory things that can be found in coffee houses are some of the world's greatest pleasures. The scent of roasting beans and baking sweets is intoxicating and comforting. And it almost pains him that there are people that don't get it.

And that effort leads him to purchase a plate of crepes, and a much sweeter kind of coffee. He brings them back to the table Zack is sitting at, and sets them down.] These are the crepes. And this? Coffee that probably won't taste like dirt to you.

[He doesn't question it when he sees Tyki get up. Eh, maybe he had enough of him. Besides, people come and go. Such is life- least that's what he figures until he sees him come back, plate and all, and raises a brow (or well, some semblance of it underneath his bandages) as his mouth drops slightly open in shock.]

...the hell...

[Uh, U H. What should he do? What to even make of this??

His eyes shift over to the coffee first and becomes almost unnervingly mesmerized by the steam rising up. It looks hot, it definitely has to be, there's no way he could touch it right now; thankfully, the overwhelming scent wafting over snaps him out, and he then looks over at the crepes for a moment before turning his head right back to Tyki with a wary gaze.

Honestly? This seem suspicious.]

...hey, are you serious??

[Why feed him, of all people?!]

[Tyki stops mid drink, from his own bitter coffee, when Zack speaks to him again. He'll just make himself comfortable, there's more than one seat after all.]

I am serious. Cafes and coffee shops are some of the best places for cheap quality food. It'd be an error on my part if I didn't take the time to actually educate you about what they're like.

[There's nothing even vaguely backhanded or snobby about the way he speaks. It's just as it is, matter of fact, simple as can be. Tyki sees a bit of his favorite kind-of nephew in Zack. And he's absolutely lonely without his batshit crazy family around. So yes, he's trying to help someone learn the better parts of casual culture. But a selfish part of Tyki is taking out his sadness over being separated from his family onto him too.

This is about as altruistic as ulterior motives get.]

test drive meme # 36

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