dankmemes | 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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( there are most certainly alleyways in hadriel. it's all in where you look.

and this one? might just be hanging out in one. in the sense that he hasn't quite fully taken to scoping out his new surroundings, and has been more people-watching than anything else. ( it goes without saying, really, that nothing good could come from this – but only time will tell, really, and for now?

let's just strap in for the ride, shall we? )

he isn't expecting to be called out, regardless of the situation; but when that voice rings out, whether or not it's directed at him is something else entirely, but it does have him stepping out of the shadows with hands in his jeans pockets, head tilted to the side as though he's simply comping across something unusual. interesting.

and far be it from him to look a proverbial gift horse in the mouth. ) Lucky guess.

( his tone is light, airy, even. and doesn't he just look about ten shades of unimpressed? )

You shouldn't go looking for fights unless you're ready to own up. ( says the one in constant search of a fight. but … that might just go without saying. )

[ ...Oh.

So.

This is awkward.

The man steps from the shadows and Uryuu shifts. It's subtle, small, incremental whispers of the muscles in his face, wrist, thighs. The line of his mouth has not altered, nor of his eyebrows, a superficial continuity, the easy disinterest -- not yet a preening confidence or overconfidence, though his words had doubtless had enough of that by implication -- it is a discreet, restrained tensing.

The reiatsu had not felt human, kept hidden in a strange world, and expecting foul play, Uryuu had assumed.

It hadn't and still doesn't feel Hollow, Arrancar, Shinigami, anything familiar. It's different.

That expression doesn't help Uryuu to feel less like an idiot, but he's enough on guard still to not yet be obvious in it, and it's just the right thing to keep his attitude firm. ]

It wasn't a guess. I have no problem owning up, but it was conditional.

[ Having satisfied the condition of coming out, no need to fight. Right? ]

( is it awkward? nah, it shouldn't be. this is just some kid wandering around in an underground cave city, not knowing a damn thing about where he is or why he'd been brought here in the first place, calling out to the shadows and trying to pick fights with them.

there is absolutely nothing awkward about that.

therefore being called out on it is perfectly within reason. ( don't worry, uryuu. your secret is safe with him. it's not like he's about to go around blabbing your business. )

now, there isn't much about this one that would seem human beyond what's on the surface; he looks the part, sure, but when you come from his background – demon dad, angel mom – you're about as far from human as they come, and while he doesn't think that's going to be of much consequence in the long run, he might be a little bit interested to know that it could be felt.

that's something of a new concept to him. novel, one might say. if one were to use that sort of term.

then again, you may just as easily hear the word weird come out of his mouth before anything else.

of course, he's not really in the mood to start any fights – not right this second, but check back in a few, his mood might have changed to err on the side of bored and therefore find him looking for something to break the monotony – and not with a kid that looks like he's been handed the short end of the stick.

dante hums out a low note, hands sliding into his jeans pockets. ) So you're not just going around, poking your head around corners and taking a shot in the dark that something's out to get you? ( he's being a deliberate shit now, and it's evident in the slide of a deeper grin across the bottom half of his face, not malicious, per se – but maybe just a little bit of trolling.

sometimes, he doesn't know how to be anything but purposely antagonistic. about that breaking of monotony – )

[ Of course there is nothing awkward about that, as it's a perfectly natural thing to do once one adds a single factor. No, the complication is that someone had seen.

(Thus, regardless, though he isn't worried, or he would never admit to it which approximates the same thing, whether or not this guy says anything isn't the problem, it's that knows anything, period.)

There are not angels and demons, strictly speaking, in Uryuu's world. Little wonder the reiatsu feels so strange. The last unfamiliar reiatsu he had sensed, that which was neither Hollow nor Shinigami, neither Arrancar nor Quincy, had lead to him cut open in the middle of the street. The Fullbringers.

They, too, had been skulking about, either in the shadows or out of sight. He won't feel dumb for being cautious, but the lack of overt attack (at least thus far) in this guy keeps him self-conscious. It's hard to explain without the attack to justify it. Explaining it requires saying more than he's comfortable with, than he ever should to someone uninvolved in all this.

Hard to know how much to say. He's in an unknown place, the entire waking up process waving countless red flags, that has similar but not exactly the same reishi concentration as earth. When he'd used reiraku, there had been plenty of normal humans, and plenty of other.

He doesn't know what to make of it.

And this guy, he's getting the feeling, is antagonizing him.

Which, Uryuu can admit he kind of earned, given how this started.

It's still annoying. ]

I knew someone, or something, was in there.

[ A cautious, limited way of putting it. ]

What about you? You just hang out in shadows all day?

( it's not really that he makes a habit out of hanging out in the shadows, waiting around for any unsuspecting someone to come about and stumble over him. really, this is just a happy coincidence – because aren't you glad you did stumble across him, kid? – and even though it might be beyond his comprehension to think that someone would be able to sense him without seeing him, sense the fact that he's not quite human, it's definitely going to be a point of interest once it all comes out in the open.

if it does. no, when it does. because you can't just go around saying things like i knew someone was there without giving a bit of an explanation. you just don't do that.

now, about that antagonizing; it might be a little bit on purpose, because this one gets bored rather easily and has the attention span of a gnat – or, perhaps more appropriately, a three-year-old on a sugar high – so he really tends to get his entertainment wherever he can get it, and in this case? it's you. so sorry about that, but you've had the unfortunate circumstance of crossing paths with an absolute brat.

and he's not exactly the right sort of person to feel repentant for it. so … maybe it might just keep right on going. ) Hell of a sixth sense, or whatever the fuck you call it you got going on, then. ( and he shrugs. )

Nah. Trying to get a feel for the place. Just woke up. ( well, not just, but recently enough that he's still getting his bearings.

it's going to take a while. )

[ Glad would be one way of putting it, and a funny way at that. Better than something or someone that attacked? Probably. Time would tell. It opened another question, however, one only just less pressing than the whole of this place. The why, how, when, where, even what, all of it.

In the meantime, he does say limited things without explanations, does, did, done. Of course. Uryuu's actually fond of providing explanations, perhaps fairly charged of enjoying the sound of his own voice, but he's ever conscious of when it's appropriate. If only deemed so by him.

It's one thing to go off on an informed enemy as they size one another up, each word grinding down the heel of his superiority. It's another with someone who feels different in a world that feels almost the same. Guarded but not combative, not so engaged.

In any case, he's at least no stranger to being antagonized or, honestly, not that he'd be honest about it, antagonizing. But, once the other guy shrugs, letting it go and still giving no signs of attack, Uryuu can relax.

A little.

A sixth sense is probably fair, but the shrug gives him the out, and he takes it. ]

An unpleasant awakening, [ Uryuu observes, having recently done it himself, ] and rude -- bringing us all this way, but no one there to say hello.

test drive meme #13

1 / 1 you asked what my soul said and i followed it

gotta do what you want GOTTA

tru tru also god i'm sorry i didn't mean to write this much???

STORY OF OUR LIVES

SIGHS .... and accepts their fate as a tl;dr terrorist

easier to yield to the inevitable, yes