Test Drive Meme # 1

[hadrielmods]

Welcome to Hadriel's very first 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 September 24th, and Apps are open October 1st.

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!

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: ANYONE GOT A LIGHT?
[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.

Watch out as you explore the streets of Hadriel, because you're not alone, and there's always something on the rooftops watching and waiting for the perfect opportunity to separate you from your group and tear you into pieces. In this instance, the door has managed to grab something truly horrific, and it's definitely out for blood (and brains) tonight.

Smokers are enemies in the video game series Left 4 Dead, who use their prehensile tongues to capture unwitting people and either drag them away for consumption or hang them up to strangle them. With all of the activity of characters trying to find out what's going on and where they are, there are more than a few of them, lingering in the shadows and waiting to try strike at anyone who may be lagging behind.]


SCENARIO TWO: YOUR HEART WILL GO ON
[You awaken in a windowless room, the walls strangely curved. The door, when you try it, is quite firmly locked. No amount of force is able to break through, so it seems to be sealed by supernatural means. Next to the door stands a slender pedestal, about as big around as a large man's thigh. At the top of the pedestal is a indentation, as if something were meant to go there.

But you're not alone in this room. There are two things with you: a person and a corpse. Pinned to the body is a note: Place a heart on the pedestal to leave. Tucked neatly into the corpse's pocket is a letter opener, small and not particularly sharp.

Did you have weapons or tools on you before? You don't now. But look at it this way: what better form of bonding is there than helping a friend or stranger dig a heart out of a corpse with nothing but a letter opener and your bare hands?]


H O P E

SCENARIO THREE: HAVE YOU HAD YOUR BREAK-IN TODAY?
[You're standing outside a storefront, colored glass set into intricate designs. It's beautiful, artistic, but more importantly - there's definitely food inside. Good food, too, by the glimpses you can see through the window. In fact - wait a minute - isn't that your favorite dish in there, just waiting for you? You've been searching for food for hours, it seems, and the city is bare. Your tummy is getting awful rumbly. What luck!

You try the door. Cruelly, it is locked. The food taunts you, just out of reach.

The glass is lovely, intricate, but it's just glass. Or maybe you know how to pick locks. Or maybe there's a back way in. Or maybe some passing friend will be able to help you. There's a lot of options here, if what you really want is a mouthful of the finest... whatever it is you like.]

Comments

[gotsjokes]

Yeah, sure do. It’s starting to stink up in here.

[ Ellie said with heavy disdain as the man went around like a lunatic looking for some piss hole to crawl out of. She didn’t think there was going to be any other way, someone made a lot of trouble to put them in here they’re not gonna leave the fucking door unlocked. But what concerned her the most was the fact that this guy seemed to have some sort of weird mechanical component to him that was really making her uncomfortable.

She didn’t want to stare so she took her looks whenever he was focused on something else. She watched as his hands began to claw at the walls, his fingers work with an obvious un-flesh-like tap to the metal hinges and material that made the walls solid. It wasn’t anything that having flesh would make a sound with.

Her lip turned up and she looked back to the corpse before she squatted down next to it to pull the letter opener from the pocket of the corpse’s chest. ]

You want to do this? Because I’ll let you, just saying. But one of us .. we got to.. do it.

[deus_machina]

[Adam gave the teenaged girl an unhappy look as she investigated the corpse enough to find the letter opener. It actually surprised him that she was capable of doing even that. Granted, he didn't know a lot about teenagers that didn't involve the "bad seeds" he dealt with in his years of being a cop, but he wouldn't have predicted she would be able or willing to do even that much.

Hell, he didn't want to touch it either! He gave an annoyed sigh as he walked up to the corpse and crouched down beside it, looking over the unnamed prop's face, clothes, and then to the letter opener she was holding.]

This is some really messed up fun someone is having at our expense.

[Apprehension began to grow in his chest and Adam wasted another minute looking in the corpse's other pockets, even moving the heavy body slightly to see if there was anything underneath him.

When he was convinced there was no other choice, he moved himself so that he was on his knees in front of it.]

I'm not using that dull thing. You... may want to look away for this.

[A soft, mechanical noise came from him and his right arm shifted in its sleeve, with a long and much sharper blade extending from the cuff.]