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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] dankmemes2019-01-19 01:02 am
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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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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-01-28 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Like how've I been the past year and a half? Uh... pretty good, actually. This place can really put you through the wringer and I've almost starved a couple times but it's different from home. I can be myself at least, no undercover bullshit, no visions making me question what's really me and what isn't. And I'm not dead, so overall, being stuck here's not the end of the world.

[ Oh wait. Duh. ]

Hey, are you hungry? Because the brains I get here are vision free.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-01-28 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's good, at least, right?

Not ideal, as ideal would be that he was still human, that he had never gotten involved with this whole zombie mess, although his help did aid Ravi with his cure... Liv knows well enough that you can't go back, that second chances are rare to begin with.]


I'm glad- I mean, you know- [Not glad that he is dead, because never that. But that maybe, just maybe, this is some second chance for him? However this place actually works.

His question though does have her nose wrinkling and a little shrug of her shoulders.]


I was nabbed right before my meal, but... Are you talking brain tubes?
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-01-28 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ideal would be human, and not dead, but Drake's always been the kind of guy who took what he could get. Rolled with the punches. Things are about as good as they can be.... most of the time he's even happy, so he's not going to argue with being stuck if it gives him a second chance. ]

Yeah I know what you mean. And no, they're uh. Not synthetic, but they just never belonged to anyone. Hope kind of grows them for me, I think? I didn't really want to know the details. But they're whole brains.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-01-29 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[There is that medical part of her mind that wants to ask more questions, as how could a brain never have belonged to anyone? A clone? She's not a fan of the ones in the tubes, although if push came to shove and that was all there was, Liv would, but...]

Who's Hope?
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-01-29 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the gods. They're not really gods, though, they're aliens with godlike-to-us magic, that feed off our emotions... and swear I'm serious and not crazy, that's how this city runs.

[ He's aware it sounds nuts. But it's just how things are. Drake doesn't know how to convince her of that without just... her living here for awhile and seeing for herself. ]
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-01-30 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
... feed off of our emotions?

[Because that makes it sound like some brain worm that's going to suck it right out of her skull...]
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-01-30 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds creepy, huh? Sorry. You can just think of it as it gives them power if we feel certain things. Power they use to run and protect the city... it's almost symbiotic except for the massive power imbalance but it's not like I'm in a position to complain.

[ He's just being honest. ]
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-01-31 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Her expression shifts a little. Right. Even if she can't explain this and what it is, if it is just as he says, he's alive here. Or at alive as they can be, she assumes.]

What does that mean though? Someone's going to jump out of a dark corner and try to scare me>
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-01-31 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Drake's smile fades, because talking about this so frankly is... well. it sounds horrible. ]

It's a little more hardcore with that. They screw with our heads, or the setting, to manipulate us. And it's hard to fight.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-01-31 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[So long as it's not some Saw scenario... She likes her digits, and her eyeballs, where they are.]

So a variety package deal then. Not just happy rainbows and lollipops.
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-01 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's... rarely rainbows and lollipops. But sometimes. Like now, Tranquility is a chill guy.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-01 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. So who are all these alien gods?

[Because anger or wraith... Insanity? That could make things more than a little hairy, especially if full-on zombie mode comes.]
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-01 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Hope, Fear, Rage, Sorrow, Confusion, Tranquility, Love, and Delight, though she's imprisoned after betraying us all... it's kind of a long story.

[ Luckily Drake's never gotten too caught up in Rage -- could be hairy indeed. ]
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-01 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Eight alien gods, and not all exactly bad, right? Maybe fear and rage are less than ideal, if what Drake is saying is true, and if she's going under the hypothesis that this is somehow real, than she's going to have to accept it.]

How... delightful.
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-03 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow Liv. That was good and terrible at once. Drake forces a grin -- he took Delight's betrayal kind of personally, to be honest. ]

Heh. Sorry, it's funny, but it's hard to laugh for real when Delight herself nearly killed me.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-03 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[There really are too many questions... Like are they all related? Are there more of them? Are they a race, and where is their planet, or are they on their planet? Is this akin to some b-rated sci-fi movie?]

So they don't all get along then?
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-04 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely not. They usually leave big decisions up to us because they can't agree on what to do.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-07 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't sound anything like any god.

[But Liv is willing to consent that she has never actually met anyone who is a god, if God actually exists, or any of the other religions... Rather, it just is the Bible and other mythologies that have been written about, by humans, so...]

So if we choose the wrong choice, no one to blame but ourselves?
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-08 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know who it was that started calling them gods, they don't really act like it either. It's just the powers. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if every now and then they did have a majority, but let us have the choice so that we couldn't blame them when shit went sideways.
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-09 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Liv would have thought it was the title that they had given to themselves, but it's not like she went around introducing herself as a zombie, so had someone, once upon a time, just assumed, and they had gone with it? Had no one thought to ask since?

Her nose gives a little wrinkle, although the thought doesn't remain too long anyway.]


So... we're stuck here with alien gods, who give us choices, like some Russian roulette but something instead of bullets game show, and we're... supposed to make the best of it?
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-11 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the gist of it, yeah. There are some good people here, though, it's not as terrible as I've made it sound.

[ Or maybe it is, and he just doesn't have a choice, so he rolls with it.... it's up to Liv to make that call, really, he's dealing alright. ]
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
You haven't made it sound that terrible.

[Not like she has been chained and locked up, tortured to be shown on live stream. But, it's also not exactly were she would expect to be. Vacations aren't really a thing that Liv does anymore either, given her food source. Rather hard to explain a packed brain in your carry on.]

Maybe a little strange though.

[Or a lot.]
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, hmm. Maybe I should've made it sound more terrible, then. I feel like I haven't hit the right balance.

[ He's smiling faintly as he says that, though -- he did miss her. ]
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[personal profile] amwhatieat 2019-02-14 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'll make certain to come knocking on you door and complain when terrible stuff starts to happen.

[The smile dancing over her lips. Liv has lived (pun not intended) through some terrible situations, starting with her being turned in to a zombie, and his final death included in that. It is what makes her smile waiver a litte.]
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[personal profile] braveoff 2019-02-15 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You can knock on my door for anything, Liv. I'm sorry you're stuck here but it's really good to see you.

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