test drive meme # 39

[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 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.]

Comments

[caeruleae]

[Aqua nods her head in thanks—she doesn't have a big ego, at least she doesn't think so, but it is very nice to have a compliment. She hasn't heard one in quite a while.]

Oh—it's a Keyblade. [She calls it back to her hand in a flash, but only for observation this time. No more fighting unless something is foolish enough to take the two of them on.] I suppose you wouldn't have—there aren't many wielders left.

[Fewer than ten, once, and fewer still, now. As far as she knows.]

I'm Aqua. Tell me, where did you learn your magic? I've never seen anything like those spells, either.

[madamdirector]

[ Lucretia steps forward to examine the weapon curiously, though she doesn't presume to reach out and touch it. She'd seen a lot of strange things during her journeys, but never anything like this.

Magic, however, had seemed to follow the same rules everywhere she went, and none of the spells she'd used had been especially uncommon. She raises an eyebrow, glancing back at Aqua. ]

I - well, I went to school.

[caeruleae]

I learned from my master—he taught me and my friends.

[And if there's a lump in her throat at the thought of Terra and Ven, well. She'll ignore it for now.]

And I've met a sorcerer, but he stopped taking students long ago. I wasn't aware that magic schools existed.