dankmemes | test drive meme # 41

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 February 22nd, and apps are open March 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: JUST A SNACK
[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.

Or monsters, as the case may be. It seems like the Door has decided to grace Hadriel with a small invasion of Fallen Angels, from the mobile game Food Fantasy. You might run into a Hamstero or a Forker, a Fanged Snail or a Purple Dumpling. Actually they're mostly... kind of cute.

But still dangerous, so watch your back! These Fallen Angels can really hurt. They go down pretty easy, but there are a lot of them, and they're happy to hit you with claws and teeth and whatever other weapons they have. Sadly, they will not let you hug them.

L O V E

SCENARIO TWO: SOULMATES
[You look down, and all of a sudden you see something new: a name on your wrist, inscribed as if it's always been there. Maybe you recognize the name, maybe you don't - maybe you're happy to see it, or not at all. But it's there, and you can't wash it off, and you kind of want to know what's up with it.

So why not go looking for whoever the name belongs to? There aren't too many folks in the city, they can't be that hard to find. And when you do find them, prepare for the best new friend/lover/family member you've ever met. You'll get along like a house on fire - until the name on your wrist fades away.

This is a mini version of our Soulmates event this month.]

H O P E

SCENARIO THREE: SCRATCH-OFF
[In your hand there's a ticket. Scratch off the boxes, see if you win - it's a pretty straightforward concept. But the prize is the one thing you want most in the world, and if you can just scratch off the right boxes, maybe you'll get it!

The other prizes are... less enticing. Do you really need a whole turkey, or a new dishwasher, or a lifetime supply of hair removal strips? Maybe you do. But it's that big prize, that golden ticket, that you're hoping for. So scratch away, or find a buddy to help you choose the boxes, or find someone else with a ticket to compare yours to.

Let's just hope you don't run into someone who actually has won the prize... because after all, what's stopping you from just taking it?]

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Sorry, wh--

_{[Wait.

Waitwaitwaitwait--

He's never quite followed the whole ~world order~ shtick to the letter like some people, but he gives their surroundings a quick once-over before he reaches up to push his hood off.]}

Hang on, Xion? What're you doing here?

[Instantly, Xion points accusingly at him.]

What are you doing here!? [But like, also, what is she doing here? She got pulled through a door... and now her corridors aren't working right!]

I split off to go look for other Heartless on a mis--

_{[Ah! He sees what she's doing!]}

No, wait! I asked you first!

_{[Sorry, Roxas. You're sort of on your own back in Olympus now, but at least Demyx dosen't have to deal with that tyrant of a "drill" instructor inside the Coliseum for... who knows how long, right? He doesn't want to go in there again.]}

I'm looking for Heartless too!

[SO. There!

But also Xion has absolutely no clue how she got here, because this is definitely not where she's supposed to be!]

But this was Olympus! It was just me and Roxas!

_{[And then he ended up here??? Somehow?? This definitely wasn't any part of Olympus he's seen before and it sure isn't that creepy Underworld place he may or may not have ended up in once or twice.]}

Where were you supposed to be?

[....????

??????

From under her hood, Xion just stares, because... that doesn't make any sense.]

I was... supposed to go to Twilight Town.

[But.. The words of that Imposter.... Her shoulders slump a little, and beneath her hood she frowns as she remembers his words.]

_{[Hoooooo... Nobody or not, there's a strange little pang of something in his chest when he notices that tiny little slump.

Let's see... How to cheer(?) someone up 101!]}

Uh... W-Well, maybe you got turned around in the corridors? It happened to me a ton for my first six months! Maybe we can find one of the locals and they can fill us in if we act like tourists?

I've never had it happen to me before.

[Xion says, trying to perk herself right back up, because she's sure that Demyx doesn't care? Why would anyone care. Why does she care, she doesn't even have a heart to care with.

It's gotta be those stupid memories, messing with her head.

She can't let herself be perceived as weak by any other member, especially since she's the lowest ranking among them.]

But, you're right. Maybe someone else does know what's going on. I thought we weren't supposed to talk to people native to the worlds we go to, though?

You wouldn't believe how many times I dumped myself into Agrabah when I meant to RTC. I'm pretty sure the Dusks hated me for awhile because of all the sand that'd get in my boots.

_{[He's 95% positive one still hates him.

He hesitates for a moment - unsure as to whether or not it's kosher because he's not Axel - but ultimately claps a hand to her shoulder and offers a small grin and a cheesy wink.]}

What X-Face doesn't know won't kill him, yeah? I've bent the rules more times than I can count. Just don't tell him I said that or he'll have my hide.

[The hand clapping against her shoulder startles her, and she jolts upwards, back straight as he does, because she 100% thinks she's about to be reprimanded, not that it comes.

This is... Blasphemous? It's blasphemous that any of their number would say such a thing about work! Like, even if it is Demyx saying it. She rubs her arm nervously.]

You probably shouldn't say such things, Demyx...

I have no idea what you're talking about, Xion.

_{[WINK WINK.]}

Anyway, where do you think we should start? Have you seen anyone around?

[Demyx... if you get her into trouble...]

Uh... I don't really know. I guess I was trying to do a bit of recon when I got here, but... It's kind of hard? There's a bunch of monsters around that aren't Heartless.

_{[Really, if they did get into trouble all of the blame would end up on his shoulders. It's his life and his curse.]}

Now that you mention it, I think I saw a couple of those too. Maybe they're native to this place like how that one world has, uh... I wanna say talking flowers? And that really weird doorknob that talks too.

_{[He trails off for a moment, then looks down to his wrist and rolls his sleeve up a bit.]}

Y'think we can find something out about these, too?

[Maybe not! She's the one who failed her mission, she's the one that Saix always picks on... and calls useless. Demyx at least has that going for him.

Xion wrings her hands nervously, gloves squeaking slightly as she does.]

You mean Wonderland? And... I don't know. I hope so. I got one too... [She rolls up her sleeve for him to see as well, a name there.]

Maybe it's just something this world does?

_{[But Xion also gets her reports done! Unlike a certain Nobody who may or may not have tried to break into Saix's computer to switch names around.

She didn't hear it from him.]}

Yeah, that place.

_{[He looks down at the name on his own wrist and knits his brows together, then looks back to Xion.]}

I wonder why if that's the case. I mean, I don't recognize this name at all. It's not my old name either so I can rule that out.

Your... old name? [That's more curious than anything else he says, and she frowns underneath her hood, pursing her lips together.]

I don't have any memories of my past. You really remember that kind of stuff?

test drive meme # 41

surprised pikachu for everyone tbh

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