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Test Drive Meme #10

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 June 24th, and apps are open July 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: UNBEARABLE
[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 several bereskarn, from the Dragon Age video game series.

While they were once normal bears, these hideous creatures have been corrupted by the Blight into something terrible. They are larger than normal bears and have bone spikes jutting out through their skin, which leaves them with constantly bleeding wounds. They are easily enraged, and will attack fiercely if agitated. Have fun!]

SCENARIO TWO: CLAMOROUS CAVES
[Wow, it sure is weirdly foggy out, considering there's no weather in Hadriel. The sun's dim, the light's strange, and hey - is that an air raid siren? Oh shit.

Welcome to Silent Hill, Hadriel edition. When the siren sounds, the city changes into a twisted, darker version of itself, teeming with monsters and looking like something straight out of your nightmares. And if you're really unlucky, there might be a monster lurking in there just for you, your own personal demon ready to hunt you down. Let's hope you can stay alive until the city changes back!

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

R A G E

SCENARIO THREE: NO FLAMES PLZ
[This morning you woke up to a letter on your doorstep, addressed to you. Curious, since there's no mail delivery in Hadriel. Upon opening it, you discovered a carefully written letter containing a brutal takedown of something that means a lot to you. Something you really care about

Maybe they're trashing your favorite sports team. Maybe they're calling your hometown a trash pit full of hipsters. Maybe they're saying your boyfriend has weird hair. Or maybe it's worse than that - maybe they're saying that everything you've been working for is a complete waste of time, and you're an idiot for trying. Whatever it is, it's calculated just right to piss you off, and piss you off real bad. And hey. That letter's signed.

Maybe somebody will come by and talk you down - or maybe the person who comes by is the one who's name is on that letter, even if it might not quite be in their handwriting. What're you gonna do? Fight them? Lay an elaborate trap? Try not to let it get to you and talk it out like adults? Yeah right. Time for a reckoning.]

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To a point. The monster we faced is hardly the only one out there.

[ Castiel grimaced, laying his hand on the door to lock it behind him, and then crossing over toward the window to close that at all. He was clearly more injured than he was trying to show. He sunk down beside the window, however, dropping down and bringing his hand to the sticky blood where the bereskarn had ripped through his hospital shirt. He'd be fine, of course, but it didn't keep him from aching with it, closing his eyes tight. ]

You smell like home. [ He said, suddenly. ] Like ozone and...and safety.

[ Is that a smell? ]

That's-

[She lifts an arm to sniff at her shirt, trying to figure out what Castiel was talking about. She can't smell it.]

Do we need to treat that?

[ His expression softens for a moment, amused by her reaction, and then it tips back over into pain again. He pats the floor beside him. ]

I'll be fine. It's nothing I can't physically...can't heal on my own. It didn't cut through to my grace.

Are you okay? It hit you quite hard, as well.

[She glances out the windows for just a moment before settling into the ground beside him. She sways a little as she drops, but manages it.]

I'll have a bruise, but I'm not seeing double or anything. [Well, she's pretty sure she'll have a bruise. If there was a mirror she'd check out the side of her head, but as it is she trusts Cas to say if it's too bad.]

[ He nodded, in agreement and relief. He could make Jo feel better, but at this point he had his own injuries to concentrate on. Besides, it was probably enjoyable for her to actually feel something real, feel actual pain, after her time in Heaven. Not that he could really guess what that was like.

She looked exhausted, like she'd been running and fighting since she woke up here. It wouldn't surprise him if she had. ]

This place is called Hadriel. It's surrounded by caves, where the monsters usually live, but once a month at least they spill out of the caves and into the streets, like this. It isn't always this way.

[It almost seems like she's relearning how to use her body again, how things feel when they happen...

It's an odd sensation, like she was young and just fell out of a chair and was feeling pain for the first time.

She can't decide if she likes it or not.]

Hadriel. [Jo rolls the name around in her head, trying to figure out if she'd ever heard of it before. It didn't seem familiar.]

So I just got lucky, huh. [She laughs weakly.]

Wait, how did we get here? How long have you been here?

The first person I met called it the...um... The "Murdercave". They weren't very helpful.

[ His tone just about says how he feels about that assessment, and being misled to believe it was the name of this place. He narrowed his eyes, minutely, in recollection. ]

You were pulled through something they call "The Door". It's a multidimensional rift in space and time. I've been here...two months? This is the third time that people from outside have come here, in my experience, including my arrival.

If it's any consolation, I'm sorry you were brought here. I know you were resting.

[She pats his knee after that narrowing of his eyes, a weak attempt to comfort him.

Jo quickly does the mental math and huffs out a breath of disbelief. New people showed up every month? That was weird. This was weird.

Then he apologizes and she laughs weakly.]

Yeah, I bet Osiris wouldn't have apologized.

[ Hmm, curious. He hums, grateful for the comfort in an astounding way. It wasn't often that people cared how he felt, or, well, touched him. Too long hanging around with angels and/or Winchesters.

But he's concerned by her words. ]

Osiris?

Yeah, Egyptian god? [She wipes some sweat out of her eyes and sighs.]

He's a real dick.

Why would you have... You were at rest. that should have been all there was to it.

[ A pause. ] Was this something to do with Sam and Dean?

Yeah, well. [She sighs quietly.]

Osiris decided to go after Dean and I was his star witness.

Of course it was Dean. Of course.

[ In a tone that sort of says: "If anyone would go and get himself into that kind of trouble it would definitely have to be Dean Winchester." ]

Did they...um... "Gank" him?

[Jo lets out a long breath and shrugs.]

Yeah, Sam got him just in time. [She's still on that high of realizing that she wasn't being compelled to kill Dean.

She doesn't want to mention that to Castiel though.]

[ He smiled, in relief, and then added: ]

I do so wish that they'd do it with time to spare, instead of leaving things until the last second.

Yeah, well. [She tries to laugh, but it comes off as tired and weak.]

Hunters have to do things where they can.

[ Castiel shifted his way upright, trying to make it seem less painful than it was as he pulled himself up beside the window. He looked down into the street below, which was - gratefully - empty, and then nodded back to Jo. ]

If you'd like, we can head to safety now.

[She watches him move and wonders if he's actually up for it.

...But she isn't in the habit of not taking people at their word, so she stands and brushes herself off.]

Where is safe here?

Our home, in Spire one, is the place where I feel safest. We'll head there, or to Hope's temple, whichever we can reach first.

The temples here... They inflict the emotions of their gods upon visitors. Not much, but enough to make it discomfiting. [ A pause. ] You'll discover these things for yourself. Needless to say, Rage and Fear are...unpleasant experiences. And now there's Sorrow, as well.

Whose home? [And then he continues and she gets even more confused.

Gods? Temples? Temples inflicting emotions on someone?

She feels like she's had enough of a god's will being imposed upon her for a lifetime, which is ironic considering it happened after her lifetime.]

Let's get to the spire. [Wherever that is.]

It's Sam and Dean's. I just... [ He bites his lip. It's not his home, and even now Castiel feels like he's invading, like it's not his, and he ought to shift, find somewhere else to build his nest. But it's probably good news to her, he imagines, that Sam and Dean are here. Maybe he should have led with that. ] I just hide there.

[ It was a safe place.

He steps across, moving back for the door that they'd closed, negotiating it open again. ]

Stay close.

Sam and Dean are here? How? [They were just...

She's so confused. And why is Castiel hiding at all? He's an angel.]

Got it. Just lead the way.

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