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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I don't know what any of what you just said means.

[That's an exaggeration, of course, and her delivery is deadpan, entirely serious in a way that might suggest there's not much in the way of a sense of humor under that appraising look she's leveling him with.

Still deadpan, she asks,]

You have babies made of beans? What planet are you from?

[There's a 50/50 chance that was a joke in disguise.]

Earth. [ the answer comes without a flicker of hesitation, and is immediately followed up with an echo of her question. if he notices the look she directs his way, he doesn't acknowledge it — it's an expression he's incredibly, intimately familiar with. ] What planet are you from? [ beat; perhaps more pressing: ] What planet are we on? [ not that he gives her much time to answer, not immediately, before adding—] —Tiny animals, actually. [ he approximates the size with his hands. the snails are bigger, but they're as equally, weirdly cute.

he also doesn't bother specifying that they're toys. ]

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Jakku.

[Not a joke. No one jokes about being from Jakku.]

I'm not sure where this is, though. Last I checked I was on Crait. [Her expression softens a touch when she realizes,] You aren't from here either, are you.

[Less a question than a statement, and once she can see for certain they're both stuck in a place she doesn't think either of them meant to go, thrust into a pit with monsters to fight off, it fosters a slight sense of camaraderie. In that end, when a snail starts to get just a little too close to him there's a slight lifting of Rey's hand, a gentle push with the Force, to send it skidding back just a little. Not terribly noticeable if you're not looking for it, but it's there.]

[ jakku. crait. peter doesn't recognise either name, and for a moment, just a moment, there's a fleeting expression of doubt and hesitation, his attention lingering on the either she'd uttered. so they'd both been brought here. that's — interesting, but it still doesn't tell him how or who. he hadn't encountered any strange and-or unusual doohickies, no odd glowing portals or beams of light, doctor strange hadn't been about recently— ]

Not unless this is New Jersey's attempt at improving its image. [ ha, ha, ha... he doesn't notice the hand, but he notices the movement of the snail away from him and there's a flicker of a frown punctuated by a sidelong glance at rey. was it—? or was there someone or something else? spider-sense didn't and isn't warning him of anything—

he sighs (this is going to get quite exhausting quite quickly.), so: ] Jakku and Crait are different planets. [ it's almost a question, the question mark a quick glance at rey for confirmation. space travel is normal for her (he assumes). that's — really cool. less cool is the 'last I checked' and the implication that she doesn't know how she got here, either. for clarity's sake though, he immediately adds: ] You didn't see any— [ he gestures vaguely and loosely with a hand. ] —thing strange before you came here, did you? [ breath. ] I'm Peter, by the way.

I'm Rey, and yes. They had a lot in common when it came to being desolate and terrible, though.

[Whether or not a massive battle between warring factions counts as strange is something Rey can't gauge very well, so she decides to keep that bit to herself. Still, in the name of information sharing and maybe finding some answers, she can be a little forthcoming.]

I followed a crystal fox to some of my friends who were trapped in a cave.

[That's weird, even for her. The Force is still a thing she's trying to wrap her head around, still something she's coming to grips with even though she feels more connected to it now than ever before, and trying to explain lifting rocks seems even more pointless.]

The planet you're from is called New Jersey?

No. [ oh god, no. ] No, the planet I'm from is called Earth and Jersey is [ a quirk of his lips. ] the desolate and terrible part.

[ the crystal fox though: that is definitely weird enough that it could— be related, he supposes, but it's also nothing he's personally encountered in terms of travelling to other plants-dimensions-anywheres. (where's reed richards when you need him?)

a brief expression of thought crosses into doubt and hr shrugs lightly. ] No crystal foxes for me, just the MRT running on time. [ pause. ] —It's a train.

[That clarification is welcome, and she doesn't bother to hide the way it steals a quick grin from her.

She's always been hungry to learn more, to know all the edges of space she never thought she'd see with her own two eyes and to devour anything at all that might be new, a step up from the holos and flight records she had poured over since a young, young age. This is no different, and maybe even better for one very specific reason.]

I've studied dozens of star charts, but I've never heard of Earth. Is it in the Outer Rim?

[ there's a flash of a frown — thought, not irritation — and peter shakes his head, though he can't and doesn't bother to try hiding the fact that this is fascinating to him. ] It's in the Milky Way — it's a spiral galaxy with two arms. Earth is in the inner rim of the Orion Arm. [ it's not the first time he's had to explain that, but he thinks it's the first time he's had to explain it quite like that and to someone not from earth. there's a flash of consideration, and: ] Maybe you call it something else. We— [ a twist of his lips; there had been cosmic events but those had generally come to earth. ] —don't get out much.

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