Test Drive Meme #8

[hadrielmods]

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 April 24th, and apps are open May 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, 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: DEAD FLESH BUFFET
[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 lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect chance to swarm around you and chow down. This time, the Door has brought in a group of rotfiends, from the video game The Witcher.

These unpleasant-looking creatures are necrophages, meaning they feed on the flesh of the dead, and if that flesh is in short supply they are happy to add to it. Normally found in groups, they are fast and difficult to corner. What's more, when on the verge of death, they have an annoying tendency to explode into a flammable cloud of poisonous toxins. You left your torch at home, right?]

R A G E
SCENARIO TWO: MMM WHATCHA SAY
[There you were, just walking along the street, minding your own business like a good underground hell-city citizen, when all of a sudden you saw someone. It was like love at first sight - if by 'love' you mean 'deep burning hatred'. You've never wanted to kill someone so much, and why? Well, you're not really sure, but there's probably a reason! You'll just have to figure it out. Or not. Who needs a reason for murder, anyway?

Or maybe you're the one someone else has targeted. Maybe you know they're after you and you're desperately trying to watch your back. Why do they hate you? You don't even know them. Or maybe you do, maybe they're your best friend. Either way, this is a super awkward situation, and someone might end up dead. Hopefully not you!

This is a mini version of our Assassin event this month!]


H O P E

SCENARIO THREE: SCRATCH OFF
[This morning, you received a scratch ticket in the mail (who knew Hadriel even had mail?), addressed to you. The instructions are clear enough - scratch off three matching icons, and you win a prize! Sure, okay. But here's the grand prize: a one-way ticket home.

Unfortunately, try as you might, you aren't gonna win that one, but keep hoping! And hey, just think of all the other GREAT PRIZES you could win: an inflatable duck, a plastic ring to give your sweetheart, an empty can of Red Bull, a cell phone charm shaped like a strange green creature with a boner.

So what if you didn't win that ticket home? You got something almost as good: a shitty prize! Thanks, Hope!]

Comments

[circumitus]

[Again, this isn't the first time someone has spoken to her like they know her. Here as well as back home. She doesn't like the idea of someone messing with her memories again.]

You must be mistaken. We've never met before. You just got here, didn't you?

[Even though hers is a face that's difficult to mistake for anyone else.]

[muscovy]

Yes, but we didn't meet here, yes? We met on a ship, and then it got shipwrecked, and you let me move in your treehouse with Firo and then we both adopted his last name because we are a family now.

It is fine if those worlds are being silly and won't let you remember that we are a family. Because I can tell you about it so you know and we can be a family anyway.

[circumitus]

Firo...?

[This definitely sounds familiar. Not the ship or anything that Muscovy is talking about, but it seems to add up with what she's at least been told already. It's too much to be a coincidence.

[Her arms drop to her sides.] Am not the person you knew in that world. We're not family.

[Sorry, Muscovy. She's lacking in the emotions right now to worry about being too blunt.]

[muscovy]

You just don't remember it. That is very different from not being family, yes?

[He nods his head. It really is as easy as that, she just has to accept that it is.]

[circumitus]

That doesn't make any sense.

[It isn't like Rey has never lived different lives before. If someone from an old life had walked up to her and started saying the same things this kid was telling her now, she'd be just as open to it. In that she isn't opening up to the concept at all, because she is a different person now. To her, it's as simple as that. She can't just accept someone else's life and pretend that it's her own.]

[muscovy]

It makes sense. It is very silly to say that it doesn't.

[Muscovy has never heard of the agreeing to disagree thing, though, so he'll continue working on this until she shares his opinion.]

Family never stops being family. That is why it is family, yes?

[Family is the one thing that won't leave, even if a war or raids or intrigues or other problems will keep you apart for a while.]