dankmemes | 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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[He hadn't caught the cell phone moving on its own, but it's a little harder to miss a giant shadow-esque bubble taking up a lot of space. Sora had been minding his own business and wandering off on his own, but he doubles back upon taking notice of both the bubble and Celty herself. There's a pause as he looks between the two of them, tilting his head as he tries to size up the barrier.]

There's no way to move it, is there? [He can see her trying to scoot past it and that's enough of a sign that this is probably Not Great.]

(Oh sure, there's a way to move it. She could dissolve it, but she's nervous about letting the cellphone loose. Celty shakes her head slowly, gesturing uselessly. How is she supposed to explain this? She reaches out, and allows the bubble to slowly dissipate, just enough for something to become visible within its center, and then quickly reinstates it again. It returns immediately to its smoky, black fathomless.

She huffs, a soft sound, and makes a 'call me' gesture with her hand, and then crosses her hands in front of her chest in an 'X', shaking her head from side to side.

Cellphone probably possessed. Maybe aliens? Definitely cannot undo the bubble, hope you understand.)

[His mouths forms into a surprised "oh" sort of shape as he catches sight of the phone floating in the bubble. It's a little more obvious what the problem is now.]

Your phone? This is getting way out of hand. [He's had his own share of problems with usually-inanimate objects rebelling against him today and he's not about that life right now.] I think I have an idea to stop it so we can put the bubble somewhere else. We'll have to be fast though.

Edited 2019-01-27 02:02 (UTC)

(She nods slowly, keeping her gaze firmly on the bubble. It's a little hard to know that though. The black visor of her helmet is fathomless, just as much as the shadowy bubble hovering just above the doorframe is.

Celty hesitates, then holds up a few fingers.

On the count of three?)

[It's fine, he can play charades well enough to kind of figure it out. It helps that she's holding up her hand though and it's Sora's signal to shift. The Kingdom Key's summoned into his hand with a little burst of light, materializing out of nowhere as he turns to face the bubble.]

You got it. One...two...three! [As soon as three hits, he's pointing the end of the Keyblade toward the bubble, hoping to catch the phone.] Stop! [A stop spell is a temporary solution, but here's hoping it sticks. If it works the way Sora wants it to, it should be suspended in mid-air now and allow Celty to remove the bubble itself.]

(Oh, everything is happening so quickly. Celty startles in reaction to his Key appearing both from nowhere and so brightly, and lets her bubble loose a little late. At least the phone is caught in the spell. She dissolves the rest of the smoke, and takes a hesitant step towards where it remains, suspended in mid air.

Is it safe to touch?

She reaches out to it in increments, waiting for it to move again, but it doesn't. In one fluid movement, she snatches it out of the air and gathers it to her chest in relief, immediately flipping it open and starting to type furiously.

Eventually, she shows the screen to Sora:)

Thank you. It started moving all by itself! I didn't know what to do.

[Oh. He looks surprised when she immediately starts typing and he watches curiously. Prior to the device received here, he never had a phone of his own so he's not really sure what's going on. When she turns the screen toward him he reads the words and nods in understanding.]

No problem! [There's a little grin. This city's already proven itself to be a weird kind of place, but sentient objects is almost a new one. The phone itself seems fine though and the spell will eventually wear off, but for now it's safe to hold onto. Here's hoping Celty can keep it wrangled. The Keyblade disappears in a flash of light though and a hand comes up to scratch at his nose almost sheepishly.]

Sooo I'm guessing this isn't normal around here? [He sincerely hopes not, but you never know.]

Edited 2019-02-04 19:30 (UTC)

(She shakes her head very violently from side to side, holding up one hand in protest. It certainly isn't normal! But, then again...)

I don't know. I'm not from around here, I only recently arrived.

(She doesn't afford him much time to read before she's typing again, fingers flying across the keys. These are motions well practiced. She's glad that she's found somebody who is able to read Japanese at the very least, though of course she's unaware that help from the gods means that Hadriel translates everything universally as it goes.) But I'm not sure how I got here... one moment I was at my house, and then I fell asleep. I think I had a dream about passing through a door, and then I woke up here. Is your experience similar?

[Ah! Good, okay, so it's not just him that stumbled through that door without a clue how he got here. It's a little dizzying to watch her type so fast but at least he's able to keep up well enough. Thank the gods for universal translation that nobody needs to know about! As it is, it takes a few moments for him to process exactly what's being said and his eyes widen a bit.]

Yeah! I mean I wasn't home, I was somewhere else, but I came through a door and woke up in the arena, too. I thought maybe we made a wrong turn somewhere but if that's how people are coming through...[He rubs the back of his neck.] It's nice to know it's not just me.

[There's hardly a pause before he offers another friendly smile.] I'm Sora. [May as well introduce themselves if they're stuck together, he thinks.]

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