dankmemes | test drive meme # 39

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 December 25th, and apps are open January 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: HE MADE HIS LIST
[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 were hoping for something seasonally appropriate, right? Well, the Door doesn't know it's December, so this must be a coincidence - because this time, it's brought in the Krampus.

This creature is the opposite of Santa, and if you've been bad (and let's be real, who in Hadriel hasn't), it'll be all too happy to punish. Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll just scare the crap out of you and give you some coal... or maybe it'll decide your punishment needs to be much, much worse. Don't you wish you'd been good this year?]

R A G E

SCENARIO TWO: HADRIELITE VANDAL
[Last night everything was fine. You went to bed happy and content - well, as happy and content as you ever are. But this morning, as you stepped out of your house, something was wrong. Maybe you didn't notice it at first - maybe someone had to point it out to you. But there it was, in big bold letters: someone had painted an insult across the front of your house.

Maybe it's a rude name. Maybe an insulting comment. Maybe just a picture of a dick with an arrow pointing to it that says your name. Whatever it is, someone did it specifically to fuck with you. But who? And why? Maybe you already think you know who, and all you need to do is hunt them down. Or maybe it's time for an investigation. Or... maybe all you want to do is clean it off before someone sees.

Good luck. That paint is already dry.]

C O N F U S I O N

SCENARIO THREE: ALL FLIPPY-FLOPPY
[You didn't realize there was anything wrong, not until you saw that person you've always thought was your best friend. They seem the same as ever, it's just - you really don't understand what you saw in them anymore. They're kind of whiny, they're way less cool than you remember, and that hair? Ew.

It's not just that. You ran into your worst enemy earlier, and maybe... you were wrong about them? It really seems like they have some good points, and that annoying expression they always make actually seems kind of cute now. Maybe it's time to kiss and make up, possibly literally!

This is a mini version of our Your Best Enemy event this month.]

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I. Fear
[Perhaps some might find the Krampus terrifying or unsettling at least, but considering his current prey is a Tiefling... Well. Dantalion is far less than impressed. The creature spotted him as he was exploring and chose to single him out for an almost endless list of bad deeds from this year alone. But the warlock doesn't know that, what he DOES know is that something ugly is bothering him and he would like for it to stop.

Krampus lunges forward, attempting to make a grab that he just barely manages to avoid by practically ducking and stumbling away from. Once he regains his balance he gestures with a hand, conjuring a floating book over his fingers that flips open just as a single eerie violet eye blinks to life on the cover. With a snap of his fingers a black flame coalesces from nothingness before firing at the Krampus, who leaps out of the way with only minor singing.

Instead the blast lands mere inches from a passerby, nearly causing some nasty collateral damage. Dantalion seems completely ignorant of this and just resumes firing spells at the creature. Sorry, hope you're as good at evading magic as Krampus.]

II. Rage
[The warlock is no stranger to insults, he really isn't. He's done a good deal of unpleasant things in his life, and once that's coupled with the incidents of his life growing up it's all rather par for the course. But there are some terms that do nag at him more than others, and one is presently scrawled haphazardly across his home when he comes outside:

"Impostor"

... Tch. Well he's certainly not going to be seen trying to clean it off- that would be the same as him acknowledging that it exists in the first place. And acknowledging that it's about him. But before he can go about trying to willfully ignore the slight Dantalion turns and catches sight of someone passing by who lingered just a little too long for his tastes. Silver eyes narrow and he fixes the stranger with a glare.]

... What?

III. Wildcard
[ooc: Feel free to hit me up on Plurk

trickeryesque or DM me if you want to plot. Or just do anything random, he'll likely be wandering here and there.]

[Said stranger has indeed lingered. At first, Caedra was simply doing a double-take. This place is so over-full with humans that anyone obviously different stands out dramatically, and having been here for who knows how long, she has started to become far more used to that absolutely boring monotony. Nothing at all like the Abyss, where she is the anomaly for her remarkably human-like form.

But the double-take turns instead to her standing there, waiting. Observing. Is this one tiefling or fiend? Or something else entirely? Does it know its lineage, or is it like Hayden, who seems to be confused about which part of the lower planes he comes from?

On being acknowledged, she smirks a little and tips her head in greeting.]

That written there, is that directed at you?

[Dantalion raises an eyebrow at the question, taking a moment to properly look over Caedra before appearing to be quite unimpressed with what he sees. Of course it also doesn't help that she has caught him in rather bad mood, making him much less eager to bother with putting on his usual act. The tiefling turns fully towards her, arms crossing as he snorts derisively.]

Me? No, I had rather thought it was directed at that suspicious rock over there. [He jerks his head in a vague direction.]

[And rather like the tiefling before him, now gone, he seems to fancy himself a comedian. Wonderful. She doesn't seem to find the humor very funny, but she glances at the rock anyway as if playing along.]

I hear dwarves find such magic trivial, but there aren't any here, to my knowledge. A shame, since they make sturdy servants. But why would someone mark you as an impostor, then? Since you're quite new, I imagine nobody here knows what you even are.

[If there is one thing that the warlock truly dislikes it's nosy people, and for whatever reason this woman can't seem to take the hint to mind her own business. For just a moment he weighs the option of simply attempting to take care of her how he does most of his more pesky problems (fire), but decides against it. For now.

Instead he forces himself to behave, shrugging a shoulder dismissively and smirking slightly.]

I can't say I have any idea. Most likely some fool with nothing better to do decided that they felt like harassing a stranger because they feel inadequate about themselves.

Mm. Yes, they do a fair amount of that here. Although, I imagine you may be no stranger to such treatment.

[Nosy? Maybe. Bored, most certainly, or she probably would just walk away and ignore him. Tired of subtlety, too, and she raises an eyebrow.]

Well, unless you're fortunate enough to be from somewhere other than a material plane. Where has this place brought you from?

[Dantalion has already decided that he doesn't appreciate how presumptuous this woman is, an eyebrow twitching even though he keeps his expression as neutral as possible.]

Well I'm not so fortunate. And if you must know I'm from Lantis. [Partially a lie, but he's found that here no one here has heard of the kingdom as it is and therefore there's little to no concern with someone asking questions or being suspicious. It makes things significantly easier.]

[Wherever that is, and she doesn't feel like pretending to have heard of it. Not worth the effort for some obnoxious tiefling - if he's telling the truth about being from a mortal realm, anyway, but she has always been better at telling lies than detecting them.

Shame. It would have been far more entertaining for one of those infernal bastards to turn up here. She does love it when they try to outwit her, as if that's ever effective.]

Don't know it, but everyone here is from somewhere new. They'll be frightened of you here too, I suspect. They don't see many tieflings. But who knows, perhaps they'll pretend to be open-minded for a little while until they decide to turn on you.

[Shrug.]

test drive meme # 39

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