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?]

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The robot had already gotten Beth to stop yelling, and she's barely gotten her sentence out before she hears Emily. It's surprising, and not who she was looking for or had even expected.

It doesn't stop her from listening, and when she finds Emily Beth runs over, giving a quick look back to the robot before heading through the door and turning again to Emily.

"What's going on?" It's the first of many questions, but she just asks the one. For now.

Rather than answer right away, Emily follows Beth through the door and shushes her, listening for the robot. A few seconds later, when she's sure they're not being followed, she lets out a sigh. How the fuck to even start answering that?

"Welcome to shithole cavetown."

That totally counts as an explanation, right?

"Those robots probably want to kill you. Everything in the colisseum tries to kill you."

"Is that supposed to be a fucking joke?" Because this one is equally not as funny as the last one, and maybe she's still a little pissed about that one. You upset Hannah and that's not cool.

It also doesn't quite register yet that she's alive again. She'd died - how the hell could she be seeing Emily, or in some shithole cavetown? Great, the afterlife was a fucking nightmare joke.

Okay, wow. There's only a handful of people who can talk to Emily like that and get away with it, and Beth Washington is one of them. Emily may be a raging tempest, an ice queen, all the dumb cliche phrases -- but Beth doesn't back down. Beth stares Emily right in the eye and doesn't let herself get steamrolled.

The guilt Emily feels just helps Beth out, and it's all Emily can do not to launch into a string of apologies.

"No," she spits out after a second or two of stunned silence. "This is not some fucking joke. You'll figure it out as soon as we walk out of here, though. I'm- I don't do stupid shit like that anymore."

That counts as an apology. Kind of. Maybe.

Look, she'll deal with it later.

At least she'd acknowledged it, and it stops Beth from mentioning anything about it - for now. If this is real then they've got a bigger fucking problem. Why the hell would those things try to kill her and what is this place? Cavetown wasn't cutting it.

"Fine. Do you even know where we're going?" Because what other option does she have except to follow her?

It's a relief when Beth lets that drop, though Emily is still tense all over, not ready to let her guard down. Beth had been so pissed off over the prank. She had every right to be.

But Emily really doesn't want to hear it right now.

"No, I'm the blond leading the blind." She rolls her eyes as she heads in the direction of the first spiral. "Of course I do. There's these houses here, really fucking weird ones. Chris and Hannah and I live in one."

"Great. That just makes it better." Creepy houses, she loved it. Even the lodge could be creepy up alone on the mountain, especially at night. This place gave off a creepy vibe even without Emily having to tell her how weird it was.

"How did you get one?"

Yeah well. The lodge has got nothing on this shithole.

Even creepier is how they got the house.

"All these buildings were abandoned when people started getting here, so we just picked one and moved in." And because she suspects Beth is going to ask, she adds, "Nobody knows what happened to them, and the assholes in charge don't want to tell us."

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