dankmemes | Test Drive Meme #40

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Test Drive Meme #40

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 January 24th, and apps are open February 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: SLURP SLURP
[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.

What's that on the ceiling? Who's that skittering along the wall? Why, it's none other than the the Licker, from the Resident Evil series.

The licker crawls around on walls and ceilings and can easily avoid all attacks with their creepy crawly acrobatics. Watch out for those tongues, though- they can whip you with them and catch you off balance. They love waiting in dark corners to jump at you and slash you with their oversized claws, as seen here. Luckily, their brains are exposed and they're quite blind- move quietly and avoid their notice, or attack them in their weak spot to get away safely. Be careful though, they tend to travel in packs...]

T R A N Q U I L I T Y

SCENARIO TWO: CABIN IN THE WOODS
[It's nice outside. There's a heat to the air that permeates through the muggy interior of the cabin, but at night, it's cool enough that you can relax and see all the stars in the sky. The hot tub is a nice contrast to the chilly night air and the possibilities are practically limitless!

So cook something up on the grill, go hunting, or just relax and definitely don't get murdered, because you do happen to have a bit of an odd cabin mate. Why are the two of you sharing this cabin? Well, that's up for you to decide, but whether you're close friends who decided to take a vacation together or random strangers stuck together by circumstances, you're here for awhile so you might as well take the time to relax and get to know one another up here in these mountains!]

R A G E

SCENARIO THREE: MONSTER HOUSE
[It seems like you've just misplaced a few items at first- but after awhile, it becomes apparent that the items are misplacing themselves. Weird, right?

Maybe not that weird, because soon afterward, items of all shames and sizes start to move around, now well within sight. Their intent is clearly to annoy or even harm you, depending on how dangerous the item is... maybe a deathly pair of pants, to a set of keys that keeps running away from you, to a house consumed with the desire to- well, consume you.

Be careful of everything, be suspicious of items that may be trying to lure you in with their stillness, and have fun! This event is based on Hadriel's It's Aliiiive! event this month.]

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[ Fear ]

[ Miles has no idea what these weird things are but he doesn't like them one bit, especially since his spidey-sense has been going crazy from the moment he arrived. Sure the lickers are fast but they aren't the only ones who can climb on walls. Whatever they are, they aren't friendly and he can see enough people nearby that he's got a reason to stand and fight as they keep coming.

He's been grappling with a particularly nasty one, dodging its attacks only to get tackled by a second licker that managed to flank him. He struggles to shove it away, trying not to gag as the smell works its way through his mask. ]

Ugh--! No tongue on the first date! [ Not his best line but hey, he's only been Spider-Man for like a week, cut him some slack. He shoves a hand into the monster's chest and with a flash of blue electricity he sends the licker on top of him flying into the other one, knocking both of them into a pile several yards away.

Miles jumps to his feet, heart pounding in his chest. Too close, way too close. And while Thing 1 and Thing 2 try to recover he cocoons them in almost an entire web canister's worth of webbing. ]

Gross...

[ Tranquility ]

[ Miles is surprisingly chill about being in another universe that's full of weird stuff. But, then again, considering his origin story maybe it isn't so surprising. He hasn't glitched out yet so he figures it's just a waiting game until he can find a way to go home. For now he's taking advantage of the quiet to make his mark on the cabin he's stuck at.

If you follow the smell of spray paint and the sound of slightly off key singing around the side of the cabin Miles is perched on top of two precariously stacked boxes, filling in some bubble letters with a careful eye. Piled up on the ground are several cans of spray paint that he's already used in his project. ]

Oh, hey, can you toss me the green paint? I'm almost done with this layer.

Sure.

[Chato roots through the cans of spray paint to find the green, tossing it to Miles. He stands back a bit with his arms crossed, tilting his head to look at it.]

No está mal.

You doing this to the whole place?

[Reminds him a bit of home honestly. So there's that at least.]

Thanks.

[ Miles shakes up the can, the rattle of the can a soothing sound before Miles works on outlining the curves of his mural in an electric green shade. ]

No lo sé. Not yet, anyway. Just need something to keep me busy or else I'll start climbing the walls, y'know?

[ Of course, most people don't mean that literally... ]

You're too young to have cabin fever.

[He smirks, in a literal cabin and everything.]

Where you learn to do that?

So I'm too young to drive and I can't get bored? Being a kid sucks.

[ He adds another green flourish before capping the can and tossing it back onto the pile with the rest. As for the other question, he goes still for a moment. The wound Aaron's death left on him is still healing, barely aching right up until something reminds him and then the hurt flares up again. ]

...My uncle taught me how when I was younger. He always said I was pretty good at it.

Mira, you can drive whenever you want, the trick is to not get caught.

[He's a good role model. If there were cars in Hadriel he'd show you.]

Ey, looks good to me and I'm the only one around looking at it, so that's good enough yeah?

Yeah, but getting caught is twice as bad for me. My dad is a cop.

[ Just imagining the lecture he'd get makes him shudder. Bad enough he's Spider-Man, if his dad caught him driving without a license he'd be grounded until he was 50. ]

Eugh. You drew the short end of the stick there.

He know you do this?

[He jerks a thumb in the direction of the graffiti.]

Seems like something he's not gonna be too happy about.

[The arena's large enough to encompass not only everyone who's come through the door but also a handful of monsters. This isn't his first time fighting in a space like this, but he's aware that not everyone knows how to defend themselves. Like Miles, Sora feels like that's enough reason to try and defeat these creatures to allow people a safe passage out and to the streets of Hadriel.

While Miles is busy binding up the two lickers he'd been fighting, there's a thud from behind him as another falls from its place near the top of one of the walls. Sora bounces his way down, a soft purple light following as he zigzags to the ground in a flowing sort of motion with a giant key in his hand. The licker's down for the count, but that happens when you hit something in its exposed brain.]

Looks like you've got your hands full. [It's casual, but this is sort of fascinating to watch. Miles, man, what are you doing?]

[ Sora's arrival isn't setting off his spider senses so Miles takes another second to finish his web cocoon. Turns out that several inches of sticky webbing can even subdue an angry zombie thing pretty well. They might escape eventually but that's a problem for future Miles. ]

I'm good. Thanks for taking care of that one.

[ Just a week ago Miles might have asked what the heck was up with this dude and his giant monster whacking key. Then again, a week ago Miles didn't have superpowers. Now he's gonna roll with it. ]

Are there anymore of these guys hanging around?

Not that I've seen so far. [Once he's sure Miles isn't in any immediate danger from whatever these things are, his gaze returns to the top of the arena. The Keyblade's still in his grip but his stance is more relaxed than it was a moment ago.] But if they're going to keep coming through we should make sure everybody's out of the way.

Sounds good.

[ Most everyone has had the good sense to bolt for the exit, thankfully. But Miles knows that there's always a few who try to hide instead of running and they're the ones who need help getting out. ]

You take one half and I'll take the other.

[ He's assuming that the big key thing is pretty good for smacking stuff around. ]

Sounds good to meet. Meet you back in the middle once we're cleared? [He nods and he barely waits for an answer, bounding off again to start crosschecking his side of the arena. This isn't the first rescue mission he's been on, but it's a little easier to focus when he's assured someone's taking the second half. It means cutting the work in half and buying the people who can't fight more time to get out of here.

That doesn't mean he isn't occasionally glancing back to see how Miles is faring anyway.]

[ Yeah, what's being trapped in one more alternate universe, really? Except everything, and very upsetting, but seeing as they don't have the faintest idea how to get themselves out at the moment, Peter B is just trying to roll with it. If there was a way out, something they knew they needed to do, a world to save or a clear way back, it'd make sense to be proactive. As it is, he's just kind of straining at the lead with no idea what direction to pull in.

And he doesn't seem to be dying an agonizing death for being in another dimension this time around, so complacency it is. He sighs, because he seriously had better things to do than watch Miles tag a cabin in the middle of nowhere, but picks up the green spray paint and tosses it to his protege. ]

Should I be enabling vandalism? Doesn't seem like ideal mentor behavior.

[ Peter, nothing about you has been ideal mentor behavior. ]

Nah, not ideal mentor behavior. But you can still try for okay status.

[ He catches the can without even looking and pops the lid off so he can start adding some sweeping embellishments to his creation. It's still not quite done but he'll need to let it dry a while before he adds the next later to it. ]

And are you really gonna stifle my creativity, Peter? [ Sorry Peter, this is your life now. Being stuck with a sassy teenager is probably karma for your sassy youth. ] This is a really important time for me developmentally, this could definitely stunt my mental growth.

[ And yes, he is still painting while he says all of this. ]

[Mmm damn man lemmie TELL YOU about spidey senses going absolutely goddamn crazy around here. It's not a fun party.

This batch of freaky monsters is also pretty unfun, and Peter has really not been enjoying his time fighting them. Who decided that having tongues like that was acceptable? Because it's not. The good news is that they aren't strong enough to break out of the webbing, so they've been pretty easy to pin down. Aaand speaking of webbing, he's pretty sure that that giant cocoon of web didn't come from him? Now that's worth inspecting.

"Inspecting" involves dropping out of the air and landing on top of it, poking at the webbing curiously, and then looking up to see where it actually came from. Prooobably from the guy in the Spider-Man mask, if he had to guess.]

..Ooohhh my God.

I can't believe we both wore the same thing! Well, one of us has to change.

[I mean he has half a million questions, but quips take priority. Such is the way of the spider.]

[ Miles' spidey senses only give him a warning a few seconds before another Spider-Man drops into the scene. He's starting to think that Spider-Man is a universal constant because here he is in a place that is definitely not home and here's another guy making quips wearing a fancy spider suit.

And of course he can't resist quipping back. ]

I think it's gotta be you who changes, man. Didn't you hear that red and blue is last season?

[ Spiders gotta spider. ]

Red and blue will never go out of style. Probably because it's tacky and was never in style to begin with, but I can't win 'em all.

[Buuut yeah maybe that's enough goofing, time to start addressing the half million questions. And get down off the squirming pile of web and monster. Gross, dude.]

Okay. So... I've been here for a while. I've seen some pretty crazy, pretty unnerving stuff lately, I've seen like, nightmares that give nightmares nightmares, but-- and don't take this the wrong way, but you're kind of freaking me out the most? And wow, that sounds really rude and mean when I say it out loud, doesn't it. Crap, too late, I can't take it back now.

[please help this boy]

[ Looks like someone here hasn't been introduced to the larger spiderverse. Miles gets why he's so freaked out. He holds out a hand to try and calm Peter down. This guy is probably a Peter Parker, right? Seems like statistically if the suit is red and blue and it's a guy then it's probably a Peter. ]

It's fine, I get it. You're used to being the one and only Spider-Man, right? I'm Spider-Man, too. Just from another universe than you.

[ He hooks one thumb under the edge of his mask and tugs it up so Peter can see his face. ]

It's kinda complicated, I know. I'm Miles. [ Please don't freak out. Or freak out more, he guesses. ] You're Peter, right?

[Whaaaaaaat this guy is literally a baby. Which, honestly just raises even more, slightly more alarming concerns?? But at the very least now Peter can confidently say that this definitely isn't his future son from the year 2050 or something. Not that that would be possible anyway what with the whole Thanos thing, aaaand the fact that Peter has zero luck with girls anyway, but man you just never know.]

I-- wow, yeah, everything you just said? Yes. All of that. I definitely thought I was the only one. Like, I literally had a conversation with a dude like a week ago about this exact thing. Different universe, though. That totally checks out.

[Like that's the least mind blowing part of this whole conversation, if only because Peter's been living here with people from different universes for a few months.

And then he realizes that he's being totally rude while his brain does that whole logic thing. The kid introduced himself Peter get your shit together. He tugs his own mask off and probably looks kind of like he's still freaking out a little on the inside, but this is just his normal face don't worry about it.]

Um, y-yeah, you're... I'm Peter. Parker. Wow, I don't think I could have made this introduction anymore awkward if I tried. How-- how do you know who I am?

(She picks through the little pile, and plucks the green paint from it to toss to him in a low arc. It's nice, to watch him paint. Nice and quiet. She likes the colours. She considers his mural with her arms crossed, then slides her cellphone out from the bottom of her suit sleeve and taps on it for a moment.

Eventually, she comes up to show him the screen, giving him a gentle tap on the back of his shoulder to get his attention.)

You are a very good artist. Would you like me to hold those boxes steady?

[and George has been here for going on two years now. it's hard for the stupid gods to shock her with anything anymore. most of the time, her reaction can be gauged as a "meh" or a "feh" or when it's really bad "whatever.

so when she gets stuck with some kid she doesn't know, he gets a "meh." not that she doesn't give a shit, she does (kind of), but she figures it's another trick. so, meh.

he has been out in the cold for a while, though. maybe she should investigate.

so she goes outside and follows the sound of the off-key singing, only to find that the kid's been graffiting the place. cool. and he needs more paint. sure, why not?

she finds the green and hands it up to him]

What's that gonna be when you're done?

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Test Drive Meme #40

Miles Morales | Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

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