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Whether you're trying to figure out how your character would fare in this setting, trying to get some samples together, or just dipping your toes in the water, you've come to the right place! The Test Drive is here to make your life easy by letting you see what the game is like without actually joining it first. So here is how it works:
1: Post a starter with your character, including whether they are a god or shinki in the subject line.
2: Act like your character is established enough in the setting to allow your thread to go places.
3: Take on any god/shinki of your choosing, as long as they're not already in the game!
4: Comment around to the other people on the meme.
5: Have lots of fun!

Terrible Twos
There is an oddly large number of toddlers running around the streets without adults around to keep them in check. This is probably because they've all gotten scared to the point of abandoning all reason by the sights and sounds of the horrifying tentacled ayakashi that is preying specifically on young children. Help keep the children in line, or just go kill the ayakashi. Your choice.
After being untouched for a hundred years, most inanimate objects will form a malevolent spirit. That's the case with kasa-obake, umbrella yokai. And it's not uncommon to see kasa-obake around either. They're out in droves with the rainy weather, blowing open in people's faces, falling over in front of them to trip them up, anything to startle or harm the Near Shore residents. Your job is to entertain and quell the raucous spirits. Or get rid of them.
An interesting video is making the rounds on the Near Shore. Anyone who watches it is so engrossed in the textures, lighting, and story that they wind up seeing the real world as nothing but black and white after their viewing. Everything seems dull and unreal to them afterward, and any attempts to watch the video a second time end in failure. It's likely that there's something causing these people to lose their luster of life - an ayakashi, perhaps?
Surprise! A number of snakes in local areas have suddenly sprouted legs - two legs, to be exact, that allow them to stand up straight like a person - and are running around excitedly on their newfound limbs. They are rather unused to not slithering, though, so they keep running into things and causing chaos wherever they go - possibly because a lot of people are terrified of snakes running around like it's normal. Please wrangle the snakes up so scientists can figure out how this happened.
Another scientifically strange anomaly has occurred on the island nation of Japan. A new breed of coconuts has suddenly sprouted up out of nowhere. There are dozens upon dozens of trees littering the beaches and dumping coconuts all over the sand. Not only is it strange for this time of year, but the coconuts are a sickly green in color and pear-shaped. See if you can figure out the secrets of the coconuts - or maybe just figure out if the coconuts are delicious.

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Axel | Kingdom Hearts | God
[Axel is not the worst with kids. Not at all. But when they're freaking out, they're a little harder to deal with.
The children are small, but there are a lot of them, and at least a few bump into the newly minted god's legs as they freak out and flee the ayakashi, setting him off balance just in time for a stray tentacle to send him flying - straight into someone else.]
Oof! Sorry!
[Where's his shinki when he needs them?!]
Walking Wigglers
[What's the saying? Whistle while you work? Well, even if that's wrong, Axel's taking it to heart. He has a bag on his back and a stick in his hand, and he's using the latter to toss snakes into the former. The bag's already bulging and hissing before something occurs to him, and he approaches the nearest far shore resident.]
Hey, you think these things are poisonous?
[It's not exactly enough to stop him, but it's enough to make this more urgent.]
Xenomorphic Xylocarps
[Some may be freaking out about the fruit. Axel? He's built a throne out of them, lazily spinning one in his hand as he sits in his lumpy seat.
He's bored. Maybe a game of coconut dodgeball is in order... Or fruit ninja frenzy, as the case may be. With a casual flick of the wrist, he tosses the coconut in the direction of the nearest person trying to clean the fruits up.]
Think fast!
Wild Card
[It's not as if gods don't have down time. Axel can be found in a variety of places, both near and far shore. This is the prompt for finding him elsewhere!]
What the hell is a xylocarp
THAT IS DANGEROUS! He whips around to whoever threw it his way.]
Watch where you're throwing that!
[........... Oh no.]
Apparently a fruit with a hard wooden pericarp. Which is apparently its skin.
Especially Roxas's presence, that's enough to make Axel double-take. He looked for you for a long time, lost you, gave everything up, Roxas. But somehow, you're here? It's about as reasonable as anything else, he supposes, and grins a little, just a little pain in it, before walking over to tousle the shorter god's hair.]
Why should I? You've got the reflexes for it! Long time no see, Roxas!
fruit needs to stop being weird
And this one remembers him.
Roxas just kind of nods, still rather stunned. What, this makes Axel #4 in his year and a half plus away from things? But this one remembers him. He looks so happy that even the hair ruffling doesn't do anything to ruin his mood.]
You're here!
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Yeah, I am. You're kinda stating the obvious there, Roxas. You need to get your head checked or something?
[He stops to run a hand over his own hair. He missed you too, buddy.]
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No! The last you that was here was a shinki, and he didn't know who I was and now you're here and remember me!
That's what he wants to say. That would be too much?]
I've been here over two months! So it's about time.
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Two months? It hasn't been that long, has it? Does time work differently in this world or something?
[That would be the simplest explanation, at least, but it doesn't make much sense. For one thing, Axel's never encountered such a phenomenon before, at least as far as he knows. Then again, he's never been a god before, either.
... Maybe this is the afterlife? If it is, it kind of sucks, if it made Roxas wait so long.]
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[Well over a year in the other place. There's a lot to talk about.]
Time works different here because we're gods. It's really weird.
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[He's still very new to this, and he's not sure what to make of it at all. They just slapped a name on him and sent him on his way, it feels like, and now here he is, with his best friend. He's not complaining, exactly... at least, not anymore. The throne of "coconuts" lies forgotten, washes out of his mind by the realization that Roxas is alive and a god, too, and the inherent weirdness of those facts.]
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The expression doesn't last long as he recognizes who it is. Axel. It's only been a couple weeks, but somehow he's been reincarnated and has built himself a throne of coconuts. While he still thinks he's a monumental idiot for getting himself turned into an ayakashi, he's also glad to see him again - not that it shows. However, any initial ire fizzles out as he approaches him.]
I see you're back.
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Back? I just got here. Did that fruit thing actually clip you there or something?
[Because clearly you're confused, Saix. Axel has no memory of this place.
It's good that it's Saix, though, because his presence prompts Axel to set the next coconut he was going to throw into the throne again. Not going to start shit with a berserker around, no sir.]
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No, it didn't. My mistake, I thought you were someone else.
[He holds out his hand.]
My name is Saïx, nice to meet you.
[What reason does he have to assume that Axel would know him if he's only just arrived, right?]
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Regardless, it has Axel taking a deep breath and shaking his head a little, but he can't shake the feeling that acknowledging his friendship with Saix and Isa right now would be a Bad Idea.]
Y-yeah. I'm Axel. Got it memorized?
[He settles for an uneasy grin as he takes Saix's hand and gives it a quick pump. He's not used to Saix being so... open, either. It's weird. Maybe something really is wrong with him.]
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[What else was he supposed to say to a dumb question like that? "Got it memorized?" Who the fuck says something like that? At least the last Axel didn't ask him that. But hey, at least he gets a second chance to know the guy after almost killing him as an ayakashi. Something he didn't think he'd get to do.]
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Yeah... You're a... shinki, right? I guess it's true that shinki don't have their memories, then?
[How does that not bother you immensely?! Axel can't imagine living like that without being in incredible distress. It doesn't make much sense.]
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I am, and you're mostly correct. I remember things I learned in my past life, at least when they come up and I have reason to draw on that past knowledge. But I don't remember anything about myself or how I came to gain that knowledge.
[It bothers him plenty, but he's seen where chasing after memories leads you, and it's not something he has any interest in pursuing. Even now, seeing that Axel is back and apparently a god this time around. It's too big of a risk for himself, his god, and those he's met while here.]
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... That's weird.
[Axel: Master of understatement.
He doesn't know about the ayakashi, not yet. He only knows that he's really feeling not good about correcting Saix about his past, so he probably won't, unless he needs to. Given what happens, he probably won't ever feel that is necessary or a good idea.]
Walking wigglers
[That's a good question. She'd been picking up a lot of these, or at least giving them a good whack with a baseball bat she had bought earlier. She felt kind of bad about it, but some of them were going to get in trouble, and some of them attacked when she or Near shore citizens got close to them. She didn't have a bag though.
She used a rolling trash can.]
But...I guess we shouldn't get bitten and find out. Don't some snakes bites make blood all...jelly like?
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[That's news to him. And worrying news to boot. He gives a dubious glance at the snake currently kicking at the end of his stick.]
Would that even affect us? I mean... We're not exactly human, right?
[Axel's not even sure he has blood, anymore. Don't Greek gods have ichor instead or something? He's not sure, he was only skimming the reading. He can't really remember bleeding much in his last life, either.]
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[It was a clip on youtube. You know how it is. But...she glances down to the snake kicker, her eyebrows knitting together. It's so weird.]
But I don't know. I'm dead, and you're...either dead too or a god.
[And she had no idea if Greek Gods were ichor or wine or whatever. She didn't want to get bitten anyway, because that'd hurt.]
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I'm apparently a god. Goddess. Whatever.
[As he speaks, he sticks the fork of his stick under the snake's legs, around its tail, and flicks it into the bag. It hisses as it goes. The bag is much smaller than her trash can, though, and it's getting full. He holds up said bag, and gestures in her direction.]
... Can I dump this in your can?
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[She waves it off, smiling. And...in goes the snake. She's about to say yes, when she thinks of his phrasing, and giggles.]
Sure! Go ahead. Better move fast though, because I think some of them are still wiggling around.
[Thank goodness they haven't learned how to jump...she hopes.]
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I'm Hestia, apparently, but you can call me Axel. Got it memorized?
[As he speaks, he dumps his bag of snakes into her can. It's noticeably heavier, then, and he rubs his head, a little unsure of what to do.]
That too heavy for ya? We can trade, if you like.
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Got it~! I'll remember. Hestia Axel!
[She's teasing him a little, and she smiles. But he's right, it is kind of heavy to roll about...]
Sure! You know what? We can do the rest together, or until the can is full. What do you think?
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Heh. Nah, just one or the other.
[He nods at her suggestion, handing off the bag and grabbing the trash can. Wow, it is pretty heavy. Then again, he's a stick.]
Sounds like a plan. We'll probably be done soon, this can's mostly full. Can't imagine the scientists will have room for this many snakes.
[He flicks another legged snake onto the fork of his stick; its toes and tail twitch indignantly.]
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