test drive meme # 38

[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 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?]

Comments

[often_impaled]

Pretty easily. It was huge, there were chunks of city streets in the thing. It'd eaten a whole pirate ship! Bet that gave it some serious heart burn.

[Not as bad as what Dante gave it, but that's another issue.]

[knifecollecting]

Big, huh? [That's interesting. Most of their monsters are human-size.]

Don't a lot of people see that?

[often_impaled]

Huge. I think there was a school bus in it. That thing must have had crazy heartburn.

[Dante's world kind of runs the gauntlet on this issue. Either they're human sized or big enough to have a full city in.]

They're not supposed to. But when certain assholes summon them from hell, things get wild fast.

[knifecollecting]

There weren't kids in it, right? [Damn.]

And you just killed it? Don't you need to exorcize it or anything?

[often_impaled]

No humans. Just a lot of demons. [He was really relieved that it hadn't eaten kids with the bus.]

Nah. It wasn't that easy. I had to get swallowed, wander around, find the heart and kill it there, that thing was huge, and then cut my way out of it's eye when it crashed. [No exorcism needed when you're half demon.]

[knifecollecting]

Wait, you were crawling around in its chest cavity? [That's disgusting.]

How did you get to the eye?

[often_impaled]

Nah, it wasn't like that. It's a giant demon, it had rooms and hallways. Stuff like that. [Dante will agree that it was entirely disgusting, even if it's not hardly as bad as Jo is imagining it to be.] I took a staircase up.

[knifecollecting]

...What? It's a demon, not a building.

[None of that makes any sense, Dante.]

[often_impaled]

There are demon buildings. This one was just a huge ass demon, with building like... [He gestures a little.] Bits. Inside of it. Walkways too, I avoided the acid blood pretty easily.

[knifecollecting]

[What the shit...]

You're not joking, right? [Demons definitely don't work like that in her world.

And thank God too, even if he isn't around to hear it.]

[often_impaled]

[It was weird even by Dante's standards.]

Nope. The heart had chambers, inside of a real chamber. Big as some rich asshole's boardrooms. And it was flying around a giant possessed tower from the demon world. Messed up stuff. [He doesn't seem very bothered by all of that, though.]

[knifecollecting]

[Jo shakes her head again in disbelief. Things in her world were often pretty weird, but this takes the cake.]

Wait, you said tower from the demon world too. Do you get buildings from Hell?

[often_impaled]

Yeah, sometimes. Only when stupid assholes summon them, but it happens. And then when enough demonic energy is around, sometimes buildings change too. It's just how it is. [Demons are crazy and they make things crazy for everyone.]

[knifecollecting]

[Jo makes a sound of understanding at that. Stupid assholes, yeah. That sounds about right.]

Yeah, I don't know what makes people summon a demon. It's almost the stupidest thing ever.