test drive meme # 36

[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 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?]

Comments

[stupid_monkey]

[Goku didn't think much beyond stopping the man-horse-thing from eating the new arrival. Now that he's face-to-face with it, or rather nose to incredibly rotten stench, he's having regrets. He kicks at it's chest to get Nyoi-bo out of its mouth, and spins in the air to hit it from the top.]

Zero points for bad breath!

[With it stunned, he chances a look to see if the woman is okay. Good, she's moving. Bad, there's more than one of the crazy horse things.]

Hey!

[He tries to get her attention as he runs up behind her, Nyoi-bo disappearing into thin air. He's ready to scoop her up and jump over the Colosseum walls if the monsters let him.]

feel free to scoop her!

[cantgetanyworse]

[There is more than one of them. There is more than one of them.

Poor Jane, with no idea of where she's going and growing more terrified by the second (this is worse than the baboons, so much worse) very much resists the urge that her knees want her to give in to. That is, collapsing on the ground again.

She spots what she thinks is an exit - a large archway in the coliseum walls - and barely checks over her shoulder for the voice calling out before she starts making a dart for it. The ground feels like it's shaking, but she dare not look behind her to see what might be following.]

Done!

[stupid_monkey]

[Goku watches her head towards the exit and realizes she'll never make it in time. Even he would have trouble out-running these things. Two legs just can't compete with four. He can outrun her though.

He catches up with an extra burst of speed. He picks her up bridal style, and leaps over the head of one of the attacking creatures onto the stands. Another jump puts them on top of the walls, and a third lands them in the dirt road outside.

Goku lets out a deep breath like he'd just finished a brisk jog.]

Whew! Those things were big.

and then she was *saved*... saved by a flying wild ma-- oh wait

[cantgetanyworse]

[Perhaps if she wasn't wearing a dress with far too many layers to be useful in this kind of situation, she might have had a better chance of making it. Even with the majority of the skirts gathered up in her arms she's still too slow, and she's all but prepared to be trampled into the floor when suddenly--

-- suddenly she's in the air, she's flying, and--

She's high, she's very high and she screams on the second jump, grabbing hold of the young man like he might drop her. This is far too many close calls and being saved by strange men for one day!

The moment he lands, she squirms out of his arms in a flustered panic.]

Put me down-- Put me down--!

She just gets ALL the monkeys

[stupid_monkey]

Eh?

[Goku makes a confused sound and lowers the woman to the ground. It would be a lot easier if she wasn't flailing.

He takes a few steps back in case she decides to or accidentally hits him.]

What's wrong? You're safe now.

[cantgetanyworse]

[She's ineffectually brushing herself off with several 'oh my god's delivered in increasingly quavering tones. That thing in there-- that thing and she's not dreaming? You're not supposed to feel pain in your dreams, she's sure, but various parts of her are hurting. She winces and lifts her foot from the ground, rubbing the bare sole - all this time, she's only been wearing one boot.]

Safe? Safe?! [There's a stone stuck in her foot, but brushing at it isn't working.]

There are demons in there, and you-- you, what are you?

[Oh, just give her a moment. Her jaw slowly drops as she looks around them, gaping at the tall, unfamiliar buildings and cloudy sky hanging heavy with rain.]

Where am I?

[stupid_monkey]

[Goku watches her fight with the stone in her foot, but not sure if he should help. At one time he would have just reached out and taken care of it for her to be helpful, but he's spent a long time with self-reliant people who wouldn't appreciate it.

He tilts his head, looking more confused at her reaction to the demons. Sure those were weird ones, but hadn't she ever seen a demon before? Oooh, maybe she just hadn't seen a berserk one before.]

Yeah, but it's okay. They usually stay in the Colosseum, and if they don't I'll protect ya.

[He doesn't take offense to being asked 'what' he is, but he also doesn't directly answer. He just smiles and responds as if this is the most normal thing ever.]

I'm Goku. This is Hadriel...well one of the islands.