dankmemes | test drive meme # 38

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 November 24th, and apps are open December 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: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC MOTHERFUCKER
[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.

Of course, a War Unicorn may not seem too lethal, but anyone who's seen Cabin in the Woods knows that they pack a powerful, uh, stab (cw for gore). War Unicorns are mighty beasts, larger than most horses and made of raw muscle. They might seem cute and cuddly in concept, but they're trained to use their horns to blind their opponents before trampling over them with their ironclad hooves and their two thousand pound bulk.

Want to try to bring one down? It's harder than it looks, thanks to their natural magic resistance- many offensive abilities and spells simply don't work on them, and you might piss them off if you try, so be careful...]

C O N F U S I O N

SCENARIO TWO: REMEMBER ME
[It may have just been a brush against the shoulder, a quick handshake, a simple hug- but at the first touch of skin on skin, suddenly you see the other person's memories. This can range anywhere from a recent moment to something traumatic from their past and can be done willingly, if you like.

Of course, once you realize what's going on, you might want to bundle up and avoid contact with everyone- though you might look a little strange, so don't be surprised if someone asks you what you're doing!

This is a mini version of our Memories Past event this month.]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO THREE: PASS THE TURKEY
[It's that special time of year again, where you get to hang out with people you only kinda sorta know and catch up with every other month or so and pretend that you're all really close for the sake of food.

Because of course, there's a splendid feast waiting for you- juicy turkey and warm stuffing and your very favorite potato dish! The only downside is that you have to spend your evening with these losers, but we're sure you'll find something to talk about!

Well- maybe not religion, relationships, or politics. How 'bout that weather we're having?]

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[Poison pauses mid-step as Knock Out's voice reaches her. Fashion has never been one of her main concerns (or even a slight one) and she shoots him a thin smile as she very deliberately flicks her attention over him.]

I thought you would have made some effort to polish up for a party. [She says nonchalantly.] Did you decide not to bother because you can't get inside?

[ Predictably, the medic huffs at the slight. ]

I'll have you know I'm in the very best condition I can be at the moment, given the inferior supplies in this place. Honestly, what self-respecting mech doesn't consider a quality tub of polishing wax to be a basic necessity? It should have come along with the energon.

[ Knock Out casts a disparaging glance at the building. ]

Yes, well, I don't see any reason to celebrate a human holiday even if I could.

Maybe you could make a personal request. [She tells him, her eyebrows lifting slightly.] I'm sure they'd give you what you want in return for a small favour.

[Too much like phaeries for her comfort, but not quite enough like them for her to hate them instinctively. She decides against going into the building, for now, and sits down a few feet from Knock Out.]

It isn't a holiday I'm familiar with, either.

"Small favours" usually end up as anything but. Still, when it comes to personal well-being...

[ He'll probably end up doing exactly that, to be honest. Short of life and limb, there's not much he puts above his appearance, including occasionally dignity.

Having the human sit nearby is disconcerting, if only because he's only a few scant feet taller than they are at the moment. How he wants his real height back! He's actually not a particularly tall mech normally, but this miniaturization was just humiliating.

Thankfully, the high-grade is taking the edge off his potential vitriol over it. ]

It doesn't seem so hard to understand. Be thankful for what you have, share with others, ad nauseum...

[ Knock Out still sounds unimpressed. ]

Why is that such a bad thing?

[She doesn't say it as a challenge, but more like musing aloud as she rests her forearms over her knees. As holidays go, there could be worse ones, and there had never been too much to be thankful for in the Box.]

Or are Decepticons never grateful for anything?

[In her experience... well, she's generally certain of what the answer to that will be.]

[ Perhaps it's the direct call out, but her question does actually make Knock Out stop for a moment and consider. ]

Not often. Perhaps it's not a very good Decepticon trait.

[ He says it with some wry amusement, like it's an inside joke. ]

We appreciate some things. All our lives are easier when Lord Megatron is in a good mood, for example.

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[She smirks slightly, glancing sidelong over at him, and rests her chin on the backs of her curled fingers.]

So... once a year? You could make it a regular thing.

[It seems that everyone's lives were easier when Megatron was in a good mood, but Poison doesn't ever recall seeing it. She saw Starscream in a good mood more often.]

[ Knock Out returns the sidelong glance, more than a little surprised at the aptness of the quip, before chuckling. Yes, the high-grade was definitely having an effect. ]

You could pass for having been around Decepticons more than one might think.

You're one of Starscream's... acquaintances, then?

[ He'd have thought the Seeker would have learned about making nice with humans after past experiences, but perhaps the ones here weren't as bad. Knock Out hadn't really been here long enough yet to make that judgment for himself. ]

[Poison doesn't answer immediately. Instead, she smirks and looks away, shaking her head.]

As much as anyone can be an acquaintance of Starscream. [She quips back. When she'd known him before, he didn't have much of a choice but to 'make nice'... with things being as they were. Here, it's a little different, but she thinks she knows how to handle him most of the time.]

I was somewhere else that wasn't home, before I was here. I knew Starscream there, but he doesn't remember me.

[ That explained the way that Poison was speaking so knowledgeably about such things, Knock Out realized, which still answered only one of his many questions at this point. ]

It's just a little concerning that more than one place like this exists. Moreso that it's evidently possible to move from one of them to another. You have terrible luck, it seems.

[ She did hit the nail on the head regarding Starscream though. ]

He's like that with everyone, whether he remembers them or not. You learn not to take it too personally.

test drive meme # 38

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