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?]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Margaery knows exactly what she thinks of the so-called gods and much of it can't be repeated in polite company.

however, she is not above taking advantage of the little things that they do to earn the populace's esteem. for example, the coffee shop. she'd only had coffee once--such a thing is unheard of in Westeros--but she liked it the time she had it.

she may have heavily doctored it with cream and sugar, but never mind that]

No, I'd ordered a mocha. Mocha does mean chocolate, does it not?

[Pepper doesn't drink sugar. The milk is enough of a treat for her today.]

It does. I didn't realize they knew what chocolate was.

[while Margaery is far more used to tea and can only stomach coffee if it's been heavily doctored with sugar and cream]

They know a great many things. It's possible that they were able to pluck the knowledge of chocolate out of someone's mind and reproduce it from that.

[Pepper considers this for a long moment.]

They can read minds as well? And make things from memory?

[she gets serious]

Perhaps not read, but close enough to make a great many people uncomfortable, including myself. They do have an uncanny way of turning our minds against us.

[That is very interesting. Pepper can see that being uncomfortable. She's also used to JARVIS anticipating her requests... It will be a learning experience.]

What happens?

[it's terribly uncomfortable and invasive. Margaery doesn't like a bit of it and tries to deny the so-called gods their pleasure as much as she can]

They play tricks. Once, they made everyone think that all but a few people were left in town. Another time, they made it so we all felt as though we had to be touched. Still another, we were made to feel terribly possessive of one another.

[Pepper takes a moment to respond to that. At first, she's almost certain she misheard.]

They have that much power?

[unfortunately, it's all very true]

They do. However, they seem to operate on some kind of schedule. Usually, the last week in a month is when they act.

[Pepper nods knowingly. Even if people deny it, everything runs on a schedule. One just has to find it.]

I don't suppose you could tell me where we are in that cycle?

[the so-called gods are predictable in their way]

Well, new people generally arrive ten days into the month, so I would say we have approximately fourteen days until the so-called gods start their tricks.

Two weeks? [Pepper quiets for a moment, considering her next question.]

Are there patterns in the actions they take?

Yes. Sometimes it happens a little sooner, other times it happens a little later, but that seems to be the general rule.

Not really. One month, Love may be feeling particularly neglected. Another month, it may be Sorrow who tries to influence us.

That sounds very hard to deal with. [Pepper shudders to think about the range of things that could happen.

She doesn't like the sound of her future here as much.]

Do you have any tips?

It can be. Your first couple of months will be the worst because it will all be fresh and new and you'll have a difficult time not reacting.

[she's been in worse places, like King's Landing]

I try to pay very close attention to how I'm feeling at any given moment and I try to be sure that I'm having an appropriate emotional response to whatever it is that's going on.

[Pepper nods knowingly. That is something she's used to, at least.]

That won't be a problem. [Even before she was CEO, she had to be careful. There's far too much attention on her for her to let herself react however she would like.]

[then she's already a step ahead of most new arrivals]

Good to know. But what sorts of circumstances are you used to dealing with? [she'd know the feeling. as Tommen's queen, she had to either be joyous or pious, depending on when she was queen]

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