dankmemes | test drive meme #11

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 July 25th, and apps are open August 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: WORKING TITLE
[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 few Working Joes, from the Alien: Isolation video game series.

Once simply androids meant for mundane jobs, working Joes have had their programming altered to isolate and eliminate threats onboard their ship- which they now believe to be Hadriel. Super strong, yet slow and plodding, an android may ask you for identification before throttling you when you don't have the right answer. They are quite sturdy and difficult to destroy without the right tools. Have fun!]

H O P E

SCENARIO TWO: BEAUTIFICATION DUTY
[The city has always looked a little drab, but now with some tools from Hope, it's up to you guys to spruce it up a bit! Your character will find themselves in a shop filled with various paints, home improvement tools, window stickers, streamers, and various other items and tools used to improve the appearance of the neighborhood.

You're encouraged to add your own little flair to the project in order to improve living standards and make Hope the happiest god in the pantheon. So, what will you do? Paint a mural? Sweep up some rubble? Install a skylight! The cave is your oyster.

This is a mini version of our Extinction v2 event this month!]

S O R R O W

SCENARIO THREE: CRY ME A RIVER
[When you wake up in the morning, something feels... off. It feels like you just watched 20 ASPCA commercials in a row and then topped it all off with the first ten minutes of Up. You're beaten down, depressed, upset by all the horrific acts and trauma in the world, and it's enough to make you want to cry.

Turn on the waterworks, because Hadriel is about to have a shortage of tissues and everyone's getting dehydrated. You might run into your neighbor crying while you're scavenging for food, or you might just find that one whole asshole in the entire movie who isn't affected.

Either way, it's time to get some hugs, some kleenex, and maybe a little bit of chocolate. Happy... crying?]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( beautification )
[ kandara seems to live in the natural parts of hadriel - always found wandering in the park, or strolling through the orchard. these plants are nothing like the ones at home, but they are as close to familiar life as can be.

naturally, when the gods ask for the place to be made more beautiful, kandara turns to the wildlife and picks her way through weeds, conjures water and waters the plants. she studies the flowering fruit trees and ensures they live as beautifully as possible.

but - from time to time - she makes her way into the city, where she drops by on people cleaning and helps out, or asks to join in a party of painters. all with a smile and an air of joy.

this is much better than her entrance here. much more enjoyable. ]

( wildcard )
[ whatever you like!! ]

[Corbin isn't really much for painting, but he likes the orchard, at least the trees that he recognizes, and the ones that he doesn't are good enough for climbing and perching in. Kandara might have seen him around, a large black crow perched in branches, not really bothering anyone, just watching.]

[Of course this time he's sitting in one of trees, a freckle covered red-head in pair of jeans and a worn flannel shirt, bare feet dangling as he snacked on a bright purple fruit.]

[The sixteen year old waves at her]

Hey.

[ She doesn't bother to pulse her magic down here after arriving, tends to find that she doesn't need to waste the energy.

So, as a result, Corbin's presence startles her slightly, causing her to double take and drop the globule of water she conjured. ]

Oh-! ... Hello. [ Still, she smiles. ] Forgive me, I did not notice your presence.

Nah 's fine.

[He hops down from the tree, bare toes digging into the soil with a smile]

How'd ya do that? With tha water?

This? [ She conjures another small globe of water. It hovers just over her palm, spinning. ] Magic. How else?

[Corbin shrugs a bit, but the little globe of water makes him smile]

Ya could be a dryad. Or a nixie, but ya don' look blue 'nough fer that.

[His smile gets a bit bigger]

Shur are perty enough though.

[ There's one very important point there, because you're speaking of a race she knows very well, a race she practically considers her own.

Eye sparkling, she can't help the excited utterance that leaves her lips; ] Ah, you are familiar with dryads? [ The strangest thing about this entire place is how many people look like her. ] I grew up among them.

We had some in th' woods out back at m' folk's place. They were nice, they made sure ar garden allus came in nice an' we kept 'n eye on 'em. Made sure no one came in an' trie't' hurt 'em.

[Humans haven't been terribly kind to dryads, or any of the other not-precisely-human folks, and since Corbin as his family were by definition more mobile, they helped out]

So yer human? Or somethin' else?

[There might be a bit of a hopeful note to his voice, he's met some odd people here, but so far no one that's actually claimed to be anything other than a human.]

[ She approves a lot. As is evidenced by the fact that the happy look doesn't leave her face for a second. ]

I am. [ A beat. ] It seems there are a lot of humans here, does it not?

[Corbin likes that happy look, and he's glad he helped put it on her face. Even if she mostly seemed like a happy person anyway]

[He nodded.]

Yeah... I mean, it ain't that weird I s'pose. There was allus plenny ah humans in town.

But I was kinda hopin'

[Hoping that in this place of wonder and strangeness that he wouldn't still be so rare]

I did see a f- one a the Good Folk hangin' 'round a kid. Ah hope he's okay...

[Because according the Granny Blair, who knew these sort of things, fae were all Very Bad News. All of the Blair grandkids knew to keep an eye out for them and to avoid the signs of fae activity. That there was one here, and that it seemed to have attached itself to Muscovy, was worrying to say the least.]

[ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, you know what, he's not having any of this. ]

Miss.

[ Stiff, even for an honorific. ]

What are you doing?

[ She sends a spray of water from her hand to the dry soil surrounding a tree trunk just before she hears the voice.

The orchard always brings her peace, and - although she's slightly startled by the sudden attention to her work - Kandara brings her hands down before her and offers a smile. ] Watering the plants. Would you like to help?

[Even having grown up in a comparatively natural part of the ADL, Rán has never dealt with plants. And considering her life in the last few years, she's certainly had even less reason to deal with them. Or deal with people dealing with them. Especially like this.

So the reason for her stopping to watch Kendara isn't even interest, it is more the unexpected and slightly confusing sight.]

What are you doing there?

[ Kandara soaks the ground once more with some water conjured from herself before turning around and inclining her head politely at the person who sneaked up on her.

She starts, just slightly, on seeing her. She isn't human, like so many of the others here, which is odd and oddly comforting all at the same time. Kandara is far more accustomed to the non-human than the human, and being here is strange more for the overwhelming presence of people who look like her than it is anything else.

All the same, this woman is not like any of the non-humans she knows, either.

She opts for politeness, because that is what she always does. Polite and friendly if there is no reason not to be. And a question is hardly reason. ] Ensuring these plants have water.

[ Her joy diffuses, a lighthouse. Wanda is drawn to it the moment she's within radius, and soaks it in as she observes Kandara at her work, slowly, her mouth pulls into a smile. ]

Is that what you do?

[ All smiles, most of the time. It isn't hard to be when you can find beauty in the world like this. When you get the opportunity to see something new and unusual and wonderful. This place has its bad parts, and Kandara misses home and her friends in the forest, but she finds far more good than bad here. ]

Yes. [ She sends out a brief pulse of magic, just enough to try and get a sense of the woman before her. ] Among other things.

[ A beat ] What is it that you do?

[ Wanda feels it, buoyed by the gurgle and hymn of the water. ]

This.

[ There's a pot nearby. Her fingers curl, and red tendrils reach out, around, lifting it slowly. She puts it down. ]

( Asks to join a party of painters? The more the merrier! Their clothes are already a little ruined but you could say that the people as well as the building are now more colourful. They'd been giving the inside walls a new coat of paint, stopping it from looking quite as miserable with peeling walls, and- well there was paint on the walls. And plenty of paint on them. Elena at least has definitely never painted a wall before - especially not with tools that are probably not the right things )

Sure. I think we could use some help.

test drive meme #11

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