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

[greywaren]

[Typically, Gansey is the only person who can make Ronan immediately reevaluate an action like this. Once his mind is made up, it's difficult to change, regardless of what a stupid action it might be. And this- well, it's not the smartest thing he's done, but he also thinks that Adam is underestimating him a little too. He has Chainsaw, he knows how to fight, and if he doesn't try, then it might come after them again- come after Adam.

He's already pissed that it tried to drag him off once already. The obvious solution is to stop the threat, permanently.]

You really think it's just going to leave us alone?

[Ronan challenges Adam because he's not Gansey, because he thinks that his idea would still probably work. His eyes are hard, mouth set in a savage line, but Adam is touching his forearm, holding onto him like that's all it will take to stop Ronan from giving into the flurry of anger and protective urges.

Maybe it is. They can't stay here for too long, not without risking another attack, and Ronan looks behind them again, toward where the tongue had whipped out of, and growls low in the back of his throat, indecisive.]

We won't be safe if I don't try.

[unknowable]

We'll be safer if we get away from here.

[He knows Ronan won't obey him without question. Adam doesn't command the same level of devotion Gansey does. All he can do is try to say things that will make sense to Ronan, try to give him logic and plans and things that he might agree with. He's followed Adam's plans before, when they made sense to him, but there's no certainty that he will now.]

There's no way to know how many more of them there are. We don't know how intelligent they are, either. If you go after one, it might be a trap. Even if it doesn't leave us alone, if we get away from here we can find somewhere it can't hide so easily, and maybe more people.

[He hasn't let go of Ronan yet. It's hard to focus, too, when he doesn't know when that thing might come after them again. His eyes keep flickering to the shadows next to building, to open half-destroyed doorways, to any possible hiding place. His leg hurts.

He doesn't know what he'll do if Ronan runs off and leaves him alone, but he doesn't know how to stop it, either.]

We'll be a lot less safe if you get hurt. Or killed.

[greywaren]

[Ronan stares at Adam for a long moment then, his gaze fiery and challenging. He wants to protect them- of course he does- but he's also pissed that the monster could get so close to them, could hurt Adam the way that it did. The only solution is to find it, hurt it back, make sure it knows better than to attack him or his friends again.

Because he's angry. He wants to retaliate. Ronan turns back, looking into the darkness behind him, listening to the echoing choked breaths of the monster, and his shoulders slacken, just a little.]

...fine. But you stay fucking close to me, you got it?

[It's a surrender so much as anything is with Ronan. He flicks the knife open and doesn't hand it back, instead moving closer to Adam, relenting to stay by his side, just in case something tries to grab for either of them.]

[unknowable]

[He wants to protect them, too, and all he can do for that right now is try to keep Ronan from going off on his own, try to keep him close. They'll be safer together, even if there isn't much Adam can do. If nothing else, he'll watch Ronan's back. And there's always Cabeswater.

He doesn't back down against Ronan's stare. He's used to that, his anger and his frustration, and though things might have changed between them, Adam is no more likely to back down. Especially not when he thinks it's important.]

I won't wander off.

[He doesn't ask for his knife back yet, though he will later. And frankly, he feels safer with Ronan by his side like this - and it means that he can be sure Ronan is safe, too.]

Let's go back towards that amphitheater. There might be more people there.

[greywaren]

[Ronan is still tense, but he nods when Adam promises that he'll stay close. He doesn't want to go back to the arena, not when they're already so far out this way. They'd been making good progress on mapping out the area when the attack happened, and the idea of turning back feels too much like a defeat for him to be comfortable with it.

He spits on the ground, grim as he turns and looks back the way they came.]

More people doesn't mean safer, you know.

[unknowable]

No, but it does mean more targets for the monsters to choose from.

[Adam isn't looking for people to save them, just for things to distract whatever's coming after them. It's safety of a sort, he supposes, but really the only people Adam has any interest in depending on are Ronan, Gansey, and Noah.

He turns, heading toward the arena, making sure to stay close to Ronan.]

And maybe we'll be able to find the others.