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TEST DRIVE # 07

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.

Echoing Endlessly

Many people in the area are complaining about a strange echo following them around. It never seems to go away and, in fact, collects more and more echoes with each passing moment, creating a cacophony of sound. There have been reports of a few people slowly going crazy because of this echoing. It's your job to find what's causing it and put an end to the echoes!

French Frenzy

The new craze has swept over the city! Everything French is so in right now, and everyone wants something newer and Frenchier to make them stand out from the crowd. Just your luck, you happen to have something very French you can peddle - or maybe you can convince someone just how French your very Japanese things are!

Gateway Guardians

A very strange old shinki has left you with a very simple request: guard this door and don't let anyone through. It looks like a totally normal door on a totally normal house! You might be curious to peek through it, but it's locked and you were told not to go through yourself either...

Helping Hands

There's an ayakashi roaming around that is literally just hundreds of hands that randomly grab people and things and move them around before disappearing. The odd thing is that they are... actually doing good things? Maybe it's a scheme to suck people into a plagued afterlife without being caught, or maybe they just really want to help people out.

Irksome Illusions

There's a certain street in the downtown area that has some of the craziest rumors being spread about it. Apparently going down this street will just bring you back to the entrance, but when you turn around to head back you'll only find yourself at the entrance again. Moreover, there are a lot of creepy things that whisper and appear as you walk, more with each turn you make...

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!

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Eh? [A god?] A-ah, good timing!

[A nick isn't automatically fatal, so he doesn't have to worry about it for now. He draws another boundary, but that...won't last.] Be careful, it's stronger than it looks.

[Because he totally wasn't the cause of the boundary shattering or anything!]

My god should be on the way, but...

[There's a bit of a dry look from Shun, but the attempt at a boundary at least shows he's trying, and as a shinki, there isn't a hell of a lot he can do until the aforementioned god shows up. Or at least, that seems like the assumption to make here.]

If a boundary didn't work the first time, it's not going to work now. If you're waiting for your god, stay back until they get here and stay out of my way.

[Turning his head, he calls out his own shinki's name in a rather curt manner, apparently not particularly impressed with it. The white-robed being shifts immediately into what appears to be a mace, just in time for the ayakashi to hiss and take a swipe at the source of the shifting light. Grabbing the weapon, Shun flips out of the way of the slash, landing on his feet a few paces back and leading the ayakashi's attention to dwindle again, focusing more on Fubuki.]

[Very wise advice, until it shows it shows its limitations when the ayakashi refocuses on Fubuki. To be fair, Fubuki could have been quicker to skedaddle.] Looks like it likes me... How flattering.

[He doesn't move.] Hey. Use me as bait, will you? I don't think we can wait for my god.

[Polite of the ayakashi to wait until Fubuki's finished talking, but after a second, it lunges as expected. Fubuki braces himself, preparing to jump out of the way at the last moment.]

[Shun had already been entertaining that plan in his mind, but hadn't expected the shinki to propose it himself. As soon as he does, though, he starts repositioning himself - he doesn't want to distract the other while he's trying to time his jump, but he can respond to the new strategy another way.

The ayakashi's landing after the lunge is messy, but not enough to unbalance it for long. However, it's enough of an opening for Shun, and he darts in with the mace, delivering a harsh blow to the thing's face that throws it back into a wall. It seems to weaken and distort with the hit, but just the one isn't enough to kill it, and it flops back into all-fours and swings its head towards Fubuki again, since he's slightly closer to it.

Bracing himself with his weapon, Shun focuses on the monster's movements once more.]

Bring it over here, then, if you want to be bait.

[Hahaha...no hesitation. He might feel slightly, comically hurt if defeating the ayakashi weren't his own priority.] Yessir.

[He glances behind to get a read on Shun's position, then stands and strikes a pose.] It's your lucky day! Free hugs!

[And here comes the ayakashi. Iiiiiiincoming—! Trusting in Shun's timing, Fubuki ducks.]

[Shun doesn't do hesitation. Hesitation gets people killed a lot harder than fussing over whether they really want to be bait does. But there's no real reason to be worried, looking at him - Shun's clearly prepared for the incoming creature, and as Fubuki ducks, he leaps up, smashing the mace into the thing's jaw. It makes a strange, wailing screech and rears back, and he comes back down in a flip, using the falling momentum to hammer the weapon into the creature's head.

The two consecutive hits do what one hadn't, and with an echoing wail, the akayashi seems to cave in from the point of the impact before tearing apart into nothing. Landing balanced on his feet, Shun glances around the alley to make sure the thing doesn't have backup before he murmurs his shinki's true name, returning it to its more humanoid form.

Ignoring it, he turns to Fubuki instead, giving him a quick, calculating glare.]

Even if your god is too slow for combat, at least you make a decent lure. [It's a compliment. Technically.]

Now, now, let's not say things we can't take back.

[He gets up, brushing himself off, but carefully avoiding the place he'd been grazed.]

We make a pretty good team, after all. How about it, want to name me? [Said with the joking manner of someone coming off an adrenaline high, but he'd been taunting the ayakashi so much that it might be hard to discern the difference.]

[Though he can tell (barely) that it's a joke, Shun gives him a bit of a dry look before jerking his head towards his own shinki.]

I might want to get rid of that thing, but I'm not desperate enough to name a shinki who already has a god.

[Though he doesn't usually give much of a damn about the niceties and "rules" the higher-up gods here like to enforce, he doesn't see the point in stepping on the toes of another god if he doesn't need to.]

It's not about desperation, exactly... [Said with a minor note of protest, because that shinki worked so hard!! He's been around long enough that he knows how that conversation usually goes, though.]

But anyway, thanks. Would've been in trouble without you~ [Should he really sound so cheerful about this WHO CARES HE'S ALIVE PRAISE—er] ... Uh, which god are you?

[The implied protest doesn't fly by Shun, and with a slight huff, he crosses his arms before glancing to the soulless shinki.]

It's not that it's not useful in these situations, but it's something whose only purpose is to be used. I don't want to take part in something like that.

[A faint note of the bitterness he has towards the heavens right now is bubbling through there, but not enough to be too offputting.]

Nekhbet. Not that I care about those names.

I suppose... [Without realizing he's doing it, he lifts his left arm across his waist and touches his wrist.]

[He drops his arms and a bit of the levity returns.] I guess a god would have a different perspective, naturally. But you know... you used it, didn't you?

If it comes down to letting other people fight for me or doing something I just don't like, I'll take the latter. Especially if it's not just my fight.

[They're fighting for the sake of humans here, and though he does hold his own fights and vendettas in high regard, the protection of civilians is a high priority too. They don't need anything on the scale of what happened to his own home.

Shun observes the motion of the hand, but doesn't comment, even if his eyes narrow slightly.]

[That's still no reason to scorn that shinki, in Fubuki's mind, but he also knows how emotional these kinds of situations can get. At the very least, he's glad Shun came along.]

Yeah, that's reasonable. [Pause.] Not that I'm criticizing your methods... [Ahaha...]

Uh—Nekhbet, huh? What are you the god of?

[Though he could argue about the "not criticising his methods" thing, he doesn't particularly want to get further into why he doesn't like the soulless shinki. As far as he's concerned, it's enough that he doesn't, and he doesn't need to excuse himself to this guy any further than he already has.

Though there's a slight, dismissive sound at the question of his domain, he answers the question.]

Cities of the dead. Vultures, if the decor in my temple is anything to go by. A lot of other things that aren't relevant anymore.

... Huh. [Whatever he'd been expecting, it wasn't that. He wonders, briefly, if the distaste for the soulless shinki comes from being a god like that, but given the way Shun talks about the god part, maybe not.]

Is that how you found me? [Since they are in an alley and all.]

No. I was looking for that monster, there were rumours about it going around.

[So no, he was not being the knight in shining armour here, saving Fubuki's hide was basically happenstance. At least he did it instead of leaving him to deal.]

My power isn't related to my domain like that, though I can't say sensing imminent death or something wouldn't be useful.

I really wasn't in any danger of imminent death... [He had a plan! Really! He was in the process of formulating one, at least...]

It'd also be awful, though. Maybe it's for the best.

Imminent mauling would've been just as bad if you hadn't been found. [Shun is not convinced of the legitimacy of any plans the shinki might have had at the time he turned up.]

Death isn't anything I'm unused to. [It would still be awful, but he could deal.]

Death...? [He's kind of curious, but his god's always either brushed him off or told him not to talk about that.]

[Though...] Hopefully you aren't used to many maulings!

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