TDM #18

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 18



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!

To get you started, here are some ideas for thread-starters! Feel free to come up with your own ideas if these don't strike your fancy, though.



Haunted Hubcaps

A new craze has seized the city: extra-fancy, extra-shiny, spinning, LED-flashing hubcaps. For some reason, anyone who gets a good look at them in motion can't get them out of their head, and they'd do anything to get their own set. Scare out the ayakashi sparking this new fad, or just go steal yourself some hubcaps.

Intense Idols

There's a new TV drama starring the summer's hottest boy band, and it's filming on location right in the city. Just one problem: except for the stars, their crew and actors keep quitting! Help out with a walk-on part or try to figure out what's scaring everyone off set before the whole show is ruined.

Jaded Joggers

The summer heat seems to have had a particularly tough effect on would-be joggers in this Tokyo suburb. Everywhere you look, there's someone in a track suit sitting on the curb complaining. There's got to be an ayakashi behind this, and they need help before everyone's exercise routine is ruined!

Kitchen Kerfluffle

A high-end bakery is desperately seeking new and unique ideas to stand out from the competition. They've announced a baking contest: first prize gets featured as the creator of their newest recipe! Tokyo's best home cooks and food bloggers have showed up for the competition, and tensions are running high. Bring your favorite recipe to compete or help taste test the desserts.

Lugubrious Llamas

The Amazing Maurice and his Camelid Companions are performing in Tokyo for an exclusive one-night engagement, but Maurice's performing llamas are all down in the dumps. They won't get on their unicycles, they won't balance balls on their noses, and the trumpet-playing llama has spat her cud into the trumpet in protest. Find a way to cheer them up in time for the show.



If you're uncertain about anything, feel free to check out the Premise, Rules, and FAQ posts. And don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have on the FAQ!
When and if you're ready to join the game, check out the Taken Characters before throwing in a Reserve and starting on your Application
Have fun!

Comments

Hannah Anafeloz | Kuroshitsuji II | Shinki

[demonsheath]

Haunted Hubcaps

[ It really started as a bit of observation and reconnaissance, so that her god could have more information on this... Unusual circumstance. Everyone has apparently been clamoring for these hubcaps, some even praying to get them. Being from a time where the designs were far simpler, these were... Noisy on the senses.

Yet she couldn't stop staring at a set that was being displayed. Primed and ready for installation!, or so the sign says.

As the crowd starts to get riled up, the blue-eyed woman gently grabbed at the cloth on her chest and pulled- creating a small hole of fabric between her breasts. Yet when she reaches in with her other hand and pulls back out, there's a handgun in her grip, and the aim isn't staying on any single thing just yet. The display, people, or... ]


Lugubrious Llamas

[ There is most certainly something lodged into that trumpet. While there's the important step of cheering all of the llamas up so they could actually perform, the trumpet-playing one would be unable to do so even if she wanted to.

Which is why there's definitely someone dressed as a maid, with some tube going from her mouth to the bell end of that particular instrument.

After a moment, and a very deep breath, the lodged cud goes flying at alarming speeds through the air. Perhaps even at- Well, whether there's a hit or a close call, the woman is setting both items back down and politely bowing her head. ]

Please accept my apologies.

A Butler that can not mug is not worth his salt.

[dance_tarantella]

"Hannah... Keep your sight on the target. That's an easy enough order for even a wretch like you to understand." Came a cold and clipped voice not too far from behind her, it was Anansi- or rather Claude as he tend to use nowadays.

And we know Claude has more salt than the ocean

[demonsheath]

The problem is that she had more than one target to choose from, though her expression didn't betray such disobedient thoughts. While knowing nothing much past the fact that he was a demon and a god that had decided to make use of her, even he counted on that list. Yet it was not in her, her nature to blatantly disobey orders.

"Yes sir," comes her response, in the placid tone that Claude had known before. There was the fast and simplest method of finishing this, or the way that left them with a little self-gratification and the object of these peoples' desires. Distract the humans and open the way to the hubcaps in one fell swoop, or aim right at the snake that was lurking in the shadows. Her mismatched blue eyes were forward, for the 'prize' at a steady two seconds, in which time a bullet went through the neck of the neon blue, green and pink snake ayakashi.

Hey. She kept her sight right where Claude ordered. Whether the bullet went where he wanted was another subject- she did as a shinki was supposed to. There was no guilt to be sensed from here, even if she was interpreting orders as she'd like.

[untodeath]

[ The ripping of cloth is enough to command Grell's attention - and seeing what Hannah has done immediately earns an exclamation of confusion. ]

If you're going to tear your blouse, you could, at the very least, commit to it! What a waste.

[ Planting hands upon her own hip in disapproval, the redhead frowns. ]

Well, what are you going to do with that, then? [ She says, nodding to the gun in the demon's hands - which then strikes a notion that sends her spirit soaring once more. It has her grinning fiercely, as she leans in closer to speak in lower, hushed tones. ] Are you really going to shoot someone?

[demonsheath]

[ Out of all things to comment on... Though Hannah keeps her tongue in place. Really, one should applaud her restraint, what with the smell of all these people and now this redhead getting in even closer. Not that she finds them particularly appetizing, but it really makes Hannah want to- Ah, but it'd be a disgrace if she went against her master's orders.

Which has her keeping a calm expression, contrasting wonderfully against Grell's excitement. The gun casually pointed down towards the reaper's knee. ]

It wouldn't be against my objective. Though I was planning on staying on task, I can spare a bullet for other purposes.

[untodeath]

[ Silly Hannah, an expired soul wouldn't taste very pleasant.

Such a comment only leaves Grell with the giggles, however! ]

Would be a waste of ammunition, darling. [ Reaching to set a hand over the demon's, she bats her eyes. ] Beside, I prefer a bit of foreplay to the release.

[demonsheath]

[ Oh, she's far too sophisticated for that. Maybe ripping and tearing, but eating an expired soul? How garish. Yet one could compliment the maid's composure, for she doesn't flinch, nor move the gun off from where it's aimed, when Grell puts her hands on her. ]

I believe we can agree that you've already had enough.

[ Because remember just where Hannah was aiming that gun? Without a shift in expression or a sign of increased tension, the demon pulled the trigger. ]