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

[theresolve]

[Only in that the subtle thud is enough to catch Blackwall's attention and he turns faster than you'd think possible in that armor, shield raised and sword at the ready. Shit that falls from ceilings when you're deep underground is usually of the 'eight legged and bigger than your average tusket' variety.

It's no spider though, but... a kid? So far the enemies he's faced have been clearly borderline mindless monsters, so there's hesitant hope that this is another refugee or whatever the heck they all are being stuck down here. He lowers his sword and shield to show he means no harm, looks upward, then back down at the kid. There didn't seem to be any place to hold on to up there that he could see.]

The fuck did you come from?

[mercurialize]

[That went surprisingly well. Kylar, himself, relaxes.]

Uh... that way.

[He points behind him with his thumb.]

You walked right passed me.

[Not even a lie.]

[theresolve]

Maker. [Blackwall sighs in exasperation, and jumps to a quick conclusion based on personal experience.

He happens to know a squirrely young man who can hide in plain sight, after all, though Kylar doesn't have a scarecrow hat.]

You're not a Spirit, are you?

[mercurialize]

[He's more of a hoods than hat guy, really.]

Pardon?

[Sounds rather superstitious of the man, really. Although it wouldn't be the first time he's been referred to as a spirit. But usually it takes glowing eyes and demonic features before that conclusion is made.]

[theresolve]

A spirit.

Know a boy that can do the whole...

[Blackwall gestures vaguely to Kylar which is supposed to encompass the whole 'invisibility in plain sight' thing.]

Not being seen thing. He was a Spirit.

[Actually a sort of Spirit Human hybrid thing but it's hard enough for Blackwall to grasp the vague details of How Spirits Work as he's not a mage and has not spent his whole life studying that, nevermind that even most of them have gotten it wrong.]

[mercurialize]

We're in a foreign underground tunnel with choking gas producing creatures trying to kill us and you're questioning whether or not I'm a ghost?

[There's a sigh from him. Maybe he should just disappear and find someone else. But he's been standing and waiting for too long now. He's wasting time.]

Look, do you know where this is?

[theresolve]

Spirit. [Uh, ghosts are different, duh. But considering how sassy this kid is Blackwall is inclined to believe he isn't one. Cole can sometimes be sarcastic and sassy, but generally only when you leave yourself wide open, and even then Blackwall is pretty sure it's still sincerity on his part. See: "Hey Cole say something interesting," "'Something interesting'?"]

No bloody clue, I'd say the Deep Roads but the things out here sure as shit aren't darkspawn.