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test drive meme #13

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 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, 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: DON'T LOOK AT ME
[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 hop right on you and chow down. This time, the Door has brought in several Boos, from the Mario video game series.

These monsters can be menacing, but are also incredibly shy. When looking directly at them, they will cover their faces and fade into the background- however, when turning away from them, they advance on you until they're in the perfect spot to take a nice big bite. The only way to defeat them is to escape this part of the level- that is, run madly away and try to keep up eye contact while you do so. They may look cartoonish, but those ghost teeth can be sharp!]

SCENARIO TWO: YOU'VE GOT RED ON YOU
[Hadriel is home to many things- temples, irate gods, angry citizens and... well, zombies, apparently. Beware as they start to walk/stagger/generally kind of shuffle around the streets of the city, since where there's one or two, there's usually a hundred more just waiting for the right moment to strike.

Zombies attack Hadriel by the dozen for this prompt, and nowhere in the city is technically safe from them! While they're not necessarily fast or intelligent, they have an advantage on you in that they have a lot more friends and they can't feel pain. So saddle up, bunker down, and try to survive the infestation!

This is a mini version of our Dead Men Walking event this month!]

R A G E

SCENARIO THREE: CAPTURE THE FLAG
[Hey, what's Hadriel without a few mind-numbingly stupid games to forget the fact that you're in a murdercave that routinely tries to scare the crap out of you while also maybe killing you every once in awhile? You're not quite sure who came up with this particular mind-numbingly stupid game, but you seem to be playing, so get your running shoes on and grab that inhaler!

This is a game of Capture the Flag, and thanks to Rage, you're really starting to feel that competitive spirit. You're going to win- you have to. So what if you incur a few fouls along the way?

There's a red team and a blue team for this prompt, with both teams trying to protect their corresponding flags. Try to strategize to take the other team's precious flag, chase someone from the opposing team down, or just go all out and full body tackle that poor guy who got a little too close to your territory- it's all on you!]

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In the coliseum

Jenny at first fell for how harmless they looked, assuming they were some kind of mascots of... whatever this place is. It looks like a derelict theme part. She was to one of them, long ago, to train her absorption skills.

Perhaps that should have tipped her off.

The way it is, she barely avoids being mauled, but the thing still manages to put a deep gash into her arm before she can whirl around and press her hand to a slightly less dangerous part of it and concentrate.

Adrenaline rushes always aid this, and so the thing is sucked into the palm of her hands within moments and her hand. She throws a look around quickly once that is gone.

Are there more approaching? Are there other people who are likewise being approached by those? What the heck is going on?

In the streets

She managed to leave the coliseum without another incident (or at least, without another injury), but as she walks around the city, it is still obvious that she is hurt - she's holding her left arm with her right to support it and her dark blue jacket is soaked with blood at her upper arm.

While attentive to her surroundings, she also seems to be cursing quietly.

She's definitely cursing quietly.

As soon as she spots someone who might qualify as human, she approaches them.

"Hey, you! Where can I find a doctor here?"

Capture the flag

So you're on the red team, apparently. You also are just a bit too close to the blue team's flag.

And this policewoman here spotted you and is now melting out of the shadows a few metres away, gaining speed quickly as she's storming at you to take you down.

Marian's anxious about everything so far, and although by all standards 100% human, definitely has the 'crazy-eyes' when she turns around at the call. There's a long moment of staring directly into Jenny's eyes, her lips pressed into a thin, worried line.

But after a couple very long seconds of staring without uttering a response, she seems to accept that it's fine and visibly relaxes a fraction. She looks down at her watch this time, nervously back up to Jenny, and back down to the watch. Getting right down to business, she asks in sharp, broken fragments of sentences, "Broken? Arteries severed? Any info that a doctor would find useful?"

"Probably infected because something bit me." At least that's always something to look out for with bites. "Weird big white blob, no idea about any specifications regarding the species."

She studies the face of the woman, trying to figure out what she's dealing with her. How trustworthy this woman is. She doesn't look like a doctor doctor, but might well be a streetdoctor... and in that case affiliations get interesting.

Though. She's helping a policewoman so perhaps not?

"So you are a doctor?"

"No." Marian's voice is still clipped, strained. After that first long stare, she doesn't make eye contact any more, instead looking down and fiddling with her watch. "Those damn things. Wait here a second."

There's a sudden, sharp flash of flickering blue and white and she's gone, vanished into thin air. The wait, however, turns out to be very literal -- as in exactly one second later, she reappears in a similar eye-searing flash, this time with bandages and a small bottle of alcohol for disinfectant. The trip, by Marian's standards, was hours longer, jumping back on the timeline to find the clinic and supplies, jump forward to this exact moment to pick them up, jump back and walk back, and jump forward again to this moment.

She doesn't hand them over right away though, staring at the indicator lights on her watch again. Her local coherency number is higher now, but still safe, and not a single yellow LED. It should be okay to offer the supplies, then.

"Here. It should be good enough until you can get to the clinic. It's a ways from here. Uh. I guess you probably need help with it?" The last time she took first aid training was years and years ago, but she hazards that even if the other woman doesn't want to do anything on the spot, they could at least rig a temporary sling.

For a moment, Jenny can only stare, and then her brain jumps into high gear. She's heard of this, though she's never seen it done this blatantly. The powers of a Polish mage. It shouldn't make her assume things about this woman, after all this very clearly isn't her home city, and. Well, considering that this place seems to be underground it is no wonder that she's a mage, everyone would turn into a one eventually if they have the Gift...

No. She'll get out of this place before that.

"...I do." She closes her mouth and walks to a relatively safe looking corner of a ruin to sit down. She doesn't want to risk collapsing from dizziness or pain while standing when the fabric is peeled away from the wound. "I can tell you what to do, my last first aid training was only a few weeks ago."

"Okay. Good." Marian's still abrupt, gaze darting up and down the street as she follows Jenny, then back to her watch. Just because a potential paradox event hasn't triggered in the middle of an interaction yet doesn't mean it still/already couldn't happen/have happened. The yellow indicator lights remain dark. Safe. But she's been trying to hard to keep an interactions short and to the point to minimize risk.

"We should. Uh. Probably get that off. I guess." she says, stopping every few words as she twists the cap off the bottle, moistening some of the gauze. It's not uncertainty in her voice exactly -- twitchy might be a better word at this point.

"Yes. It's not bad if it bleeds, that will flush out some of the cloth particles, but if it gets too much use," she digs through her pockets and holds up her detective badge, a slim black wallet-like item, "this and gauze to stop it - but gauze on the wound, then the badge, and then tie it down firmly."

Not perfect, but it will have to do for the moment.

Maketh pauses, shouldering her rifle. The monsters don't usually come this far in, but that doesn't stop them from leaving a mark. Or causing harm to others. She hurries over, frowning. "Let me see."

"...Are you a doctor or do you have supplies? I have first aid training, I can look after myself if you don't."

She doesn't pull away, but her whole body still expresses caution, reluctance. When she asked for a doctor, she expected something... well, more officially doctor looking. Though, looking at their surroundings, she probably shouldn't have. It's weird to be in a place like this while wearing an uniform.

Dangerous too, probably, she realizes belatedly and curses herself. What was she thinking just wandering around and approaching people like this?

Maketh holds back. She knows that wariness. "I have bandages and alcohol wipes."

Probably more than the other woman has.

More than Jenny has, if not much more.

...Sufficient, hopefully. At least she's healthy and up-to-date with all her vaccinations, so she has the best possible chances of getting through this bite, assuming that there was no poison in it. And even then... well, she's probably better equipped for that than most.

None of that means that she has any reason to turn down what disinfection alcohol and keeping the wound clean through bandages can provide. Especially since it ...probably is a flesh wound, just going by the feeling of it and by what the fabric looks like where it is stuck in a mess of blood and dark blue polyester-mix.

"Thank you." It will have to do for the moment. She looks around and points to a sheltered spot a few house ruins away. "Will that be safe enough in this place?" She'll ask again if someone with advanced medical qualifications can be found in this place, or maybe someone that more supplies could be purchased from, but since the other woman didn't offer it right away she will likely not be willed to and she's not in a state to barter for the information at the moment. She'll need a moment to collect herself. Still in a state to shoot someone if this is a trap, though.

Maketh hesitates. Thus far she hasn't seen any monsters, or at least nothing close enough to pose a real threat. That could change in an instant, though, and it would be best to deal with an injury at the clinic or the guard post. Both locations are fortified. "It would be better to deal with it at the clinic. Can you make it that far?"

It's safe enough for a bandage job, but little else.

"...You have no better supplies than alcohol wipes and bandages at this clinic? Doctors? Healers?"

She needs to get a better grasp of the situation. Needs to figure out where she is.

"...This can't be a cave." Please tell her that they are not indeed below ground.

Maketh nods. They have all of those things, though not in abundance. "But if your injury is not severe, I would prefer not to waste resources."

It's not perhaps the kindest thing to say, but it's true. She's practical to the extreme.

"I'm afraid it is. We are...trapped, for the moment."

"Our doctor always tells me that feeling like we're being a bit wasteful with resources so people don't get worse and then require lots more is a good way of action." There is no strong emphasis on this, it's more like telling an anecdote. "Either way having someone who's a specialist in the field assess it would feel more reasonable if there is such a thing as a staffed clinic."

She makes a face and the last words, that settles into a nervous frown as she peers up to the roof.

"We are trapped underground? ...How long have you been here?"

That's an odd thing to say to a stranger. Has she been in a situation like this before? Maketh rubs her face briefly. "Longer than I'd care for. Would you like me to look at your wound now, or wait until we get to the clinic?"

"...I'll assume the people at this clinic have been underground as long as you?"

Her expression shifts to resigned and she takes a step, trying to measure how far she will still be able to go now that the adrenaline rush is making way for pure dread.

"I would prefer to go there."

"Some longer, a few less."

Maketh nods just once. "All right. This way."

She follows Maketh, mulling over what she has learned so far.

"If there is no way out, how do you eat?"

From all she knows plants needs sunlight to grow, and sunlight can only be found above ground.

Food is provided. We grow some. The rest--arrives.

[That doesn't make it safe.]

You've seen the monsters. There are others. They come and go.

...Provided and arrives. Who just provides food?

[No. 7 would blow a figurative gasket if they heard about food being provided for free.]

The ones in charge.

[It's probably to soon to call them gods. Not everyone takes that well.]

It's inconvenient if we die.

...Why?

What's it to them?

[Yeah, this is definitely suspicious. Trapping them underground and keeping them alive. ...Assuming this woman says the truth but for the moment Jenny will just roll with it.]

Edited 2016-09-24 18:56 (UTC)

They get hungry too. [Maketh glances back.] They eat emotion. If we're dead, there's no point.

test drive meme #13

Jenny Holm | OC

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Sorry about the delay my health decided to go bump in the night

No worries!

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