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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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[Wow! This monster is exceptionally talented! She can float and look like a ghost, even though she isn't one? Anyway, there are very few monsters Papyrus doesn't know in Hadriel, so he is eager to meet this one.

So don't mind the tall skeleton as he bounds up to Camille, friendly smile on his face, city guard sash displayed proudly across his chest.]

Don't worry! Everyone here is very friendly!! These ghosts are not normal monsters, they are just among the wild creatures that tend to attack the people here. They cannot understand speech, so there is no use reasoning with them! At least, I think they can't. They might have their own? Language?? ...I do not know that much about them, now that I think about it!! Maybe they're the smartest of us all!!

[All at once there is a skeleton trotting toward her, and Camille pointedly takes her eyes off the Boo to stare at him. Or rather, she takes her human eyes off the Boo, and then an eye on a stalk sprouts from the middle of her head to literally keep an eye on the ghostie thing.]

[There is a humanoid skeleton talking to her. Camille claps both hand and claw to her mouth and utters a tiny squeak.]

[Not a terrified squeak. A delighted one.]

Oh Powers above, hon, you are gorgeous!

[She has to actually resist the urge to grab his face because people tend to freak out when you do that, and not always in the fun way. Instead she just leans forward, grinning with a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, studying him.]

Oh, look at you, aren't you just the most wonderful thing! Much better than a ghost to be sure. Look at you, all articulated and everything! Is that every single bone? All, what is it, two hundred? Some specific number, innit? Two hundred and six, something like that?

[She leans back, still grinning like an angler fish.]

But where are my manners? I've gone and interrupted you with my prattling on. What were you saying, monsters and language, yes? Oh, indeed, you know, I've found that most things have their own sort of language. If all those Insubstantials do then I suppose ghosts must as well, no?But, please, continue! Don't mind ol' ghostie over here, I've got an eye on him, hu hu hu!

[Papyrus' eye sockets seem to widen in a way that bones probably shouldn't the instant she starts talking to him. Pink tinges his cheekbones in another display of what bones should not be able to do. He has never been so showered in compliments so quickly after meeting someone! What an incredibly nice person!

This must be it. It has presented itself to him at last. The concept of... friendcrush.]

Oh!! Wow!! Wowie!!! Yes, I am a very wonderful and handsome skeleton! Thank you for noticing!!

[He remembers himself and poses proudly.]

I, the great Papyrus, welcome any and all compliments! What is your name, new and talented monster?

[Oh wow look at him! Camille presses her hands (also claw) to her cheeks because look at this tall, articulated assemblage of bones, he even blushes!]

[Magic is so wonderful.]

You are, hon! I'm glad you know it! Some people, well, they just can't see it in themselves, or they can't take a compliment. It's important to know how awesome you are! And you are very awesome. Do you know, you're the first walking, talking skeleton I've ever met? They certainly don't do that where I'm from, well, not without some help.

[Did he just come back to life, maybe, like some kind of undead? No, no, that can't be it. He doesn't look exactly like a human skeleton. Too smiley, even for a skeleton. He has his own shape to him. He's either a Folk she's never heard of or something similar.]

Papyrus! For the plant? The font? The paper predecessor? Either way, it suits you! My name is Camille and I daresay I'm a bit, well, lost. Feeling an awful lot like I've stepped out of the Mortal Plane entirely, even. Perhaps you can help me?

[AHHH THIS PERSON IS BEING SO NICE TO HIM!!!! DOES SHE WANT TO BE FRIENDS TOO?? IS THAT IT??? Papyrus stomps his feet excitedly in a little happy jig.]

Really??? Skeletons are normal where I am from! I even have a skeleton brother! His name is Sans and he is also the greatest! You should meet him!!

[Sans might like to be showered in compliments as well! He certainly deserves it.]

Papyrus, for only the most refined and classic of fonts. And I can certainly help you, Camille! [He clears his throat and puts on his most helpfully informative voice.] If the Mortal Plane is the name of the place you are from, you are most certainly not there any longer! This place is called Hadriel. It is a place that is ruled by gods of emotion, such as Fear and Hope. It is very weird, so I understand if you have trouble acclimating at first! But I am sure you will do fine!

[She absolutely wants to be his friend, because friendship is fun, and also because it means she can stare at him creepily and try to match some of those super cool bones. It's funny, actually, because usually all those inner bits are so annoying to try and replicate, enough so that she doesn't even bother. Who needs bones poking in every direction or organs getting in the way of a neat new transformation? But when the bones are all it is, oh man. Sign her the fuck up.]

Well, I suppose in some senses, skeletons are normal where I'm from too, but--I daresay they're very different. Ooooh, and a brother too! A brother who is also the greatest! Well I simply must meet him, then.

[Maybe combine their shapes, mix and match, although if this Sans guy is a skeleton and is also related, they probably don't look that much different. Still. She is totally down for more skeletons in her life.]

Ah, you know, it really is a wonderful font. Used it for my menus for a little while, but I, well, I'll admit it, I had a sort of hipster phase and changed everything to a funky faux typewriter sort of thing for a bit. [The fingernails on her human hand shift into typewriter keys for just a moment before changing into claws and staying there.] I deeply regret it.

But! Hadriel. Gods and all! Boy, I'd almost think I'd gone and ascended to the Fourth, of all things, but...seems I've reached a different tier entirely, maybe a whole different cake! Hu hu! I can see what you mean by weird, certainly, though--I suppose it helps that I'm a fair bit used to weird. Rather weird myself! What is there to do around here? Aside from being accosted by fangy ghosts.

Really?? You have skeletons too? Most people here are very surprised to see me! You'd think they'd never seen a monster before! Which they probably haven't!!

[Papyrus can't imagine how a skeleton could be that different from him, but he's learning all kinds of new things in Hadriel. Like humans with magic, and monsters that can change shape! It's all very exciting.]

Well! I am still getting used to Hadriel, as I have only arrived this month, but so far I have found various board games and a bar! Fun for all ages! But most of the time it involves running for your life from a variety of fangy things. But!! Do not fear!! For the city guard, of which I am a part, are always around to protect the people!

Sure! Just not talking ones. Or moving ones? Oh, but honey, there's no need to call yourself a monster! Or--hm, that might have been rude. Is that just what you call your people? If that's the case, forgive me! I'm used to monster being quite an unkind term for Folk like me.

[Along with lots more uncreative terms that humans and other Folk come up with. But whatever.]

A bar, eh? Typical. Though board games I can get behind! Nor do I particularly mind running for my life, though I daresay the frequency you're implying will become tiresome. It is nice to know that someone so interesting and talented is protecting this place!

[He's confused when she, at first, objects to him calling himself a monster -- wasn't she one, too? But then she elaborates and oh, he didn't know he was being rude by calling her a monster!]

It is completely fine! Yes, we are simply called monsters! And now I must apologize, for I was unaware that monster was a rude term for you! I guess that's what happens when you assume! I was told not to take for granted that most people were human here, but I did not realize the same could be said for people I think might be monsters!

[When she showers him in yet more compliments, he poses proudly.]

Yes! For there is no better use for my talents! But, yes, it appears that Fear has an unfortunate dislike of people having a fun, relaxing time. Probably because he is named Fear. But you need not worry as long as I am around, Camille!

Not at all, hon! Seems we've both had a bit of a mild culture shock. But, yes, I suppose if you define "monster" as anyone sentient and semi-magical and not human, then I technically would be one.

[She folds her arms in an exaggerated pout.]

Well how annoying. He sounds like a real killjoy! But, hu hu hu, I wasn't too worried. I can handle myself, certainly, but it's always nice to know that someone has your back!

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