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TEST DRIVE # 08

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.

Junky Jokes

There is a small spirit girl who is determined to hear some funny jokes before she passes on to the next life. Your job is to come up with some horribly bad, wonderfully funny jokes to make her laugh. Be warned, though, she's got a very serious face that's hard to crack.

Knights Knives

The swords of the knights at a local museum's exhibit have gone missing. They are praying for them to be returned because these swords are worth so much and such a great part of history. Hopefully you'll be able to find them, because otherwise those prayers are going to someone else.

Ludicrous Lightning

There's been a streak of heat lightning going on. It's so intense that sometimes the lightning will light up the night sky as if it were day and there have been numerous power outages in the area. Go help out the people who are without power and make sure that everyone can still live as normally as possible!

More Money

Who doesn't need more money? A little convenience store needs help since all of their employees have fallen ill at the same time. They're offering double wages to anyone who will work for them. Unfortunately, the store is a hot spot for misfortune and ghouls of various kinds. Have fun!

Neon Nourishment

Surprise! A very American man is shoving neon bright candy and cakes at everyone who will stop for even a moment, and he easily notices all Far Shore residents as well. Which means every time you pass him, you'll be getting more and more of this hideously colored food. Enjoy~

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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Um... I think there are other ways to test it than "give this hazardous-looking food item to something that might immediately consume it without much thought."

[Just. that they probably aren't as fun in a hilariously cruel manner.]

[It wouldn't be her fault if they did that and she said nothing? Either way- Option isn't there.]

True. Although there is the off chance that they may be immune to whatever it is as well. Sadly the ideas other then that are limited.

[Her being a Shinki and all. Bothersome but..dealing.]

I suppose so. I'll need some apparatus to do any real testing, I think.

[She can do that herself, possibly, since god ability. According to the application, anyway.]

Unless you can find someone willing to try it out. Although leaving the general area that he is sticking to or else be entombed by these 'sweets'.

[Someone is keeping a eye out and isn't wanting to risk sticking around.]

You're right. Let's get out of here.

[But she's going to wait for Alice to go somewhere.]

[There is a quick glance about before Alice goes ahead and walks off in a seemingly random direction If anything- she's heading to where she has been staying because it's safe and that guy will leave them be..and there is room.]

How about here?

[Patchouli follows her -- not too closely, but quickly as ever.]

I think this will do just fine.

[She'll go ahead and set her small collection of gifts from that weirdo on a nearby table or other flat surface.]

[Alice will grab a few things, a plate, a knife and a thing of water. Just in case of fire.]

How do we plan on doing this? I don't exactly have much that can help.

This is a good start, though. [Now she doesn't have to manifest tools or anything.]

Step one: if it's some kind of plastic, it's probably not brittle enough to crack under light pressure of the blunt side of the knife, or melty enough that some of it would stick to it.

[For now at least. Going to set one of the brighter colored pieces upon the place, using the knife to lift it and then pokes at it with the flat part of the blade for a moment.]

Not plastic..or at least not hard plastic. it had some spring to it.

[Don't mind her slight scowl at the color. Best not to get her started.]

[Honestly, the color is fairly... awful. She couldn't blame her for that too much.]

Well... it's a start, at least.

Next, we should try and cut a bit off and see how much it resists that.

If it explodes I believe it is time to pay the man a visit to remind him those pranks are not funny.

[If Alice had her dolls- In kind to be honest but for now, cutting into the item. It gives some trouble but cuts after a few moments.]

It's not a pastry type but not fully hard candy.

[Oh, come on, it's humorous to discuss, at least. Mostly because, somehow, the idea hadn't crossed her mind.]

Let me see. [She'll just float around to it, and she has a look at the incision.]

Oh, yes, that's far beyond "a little stale." If this ever was cake, it's definitely not now.

...how many people do you think tried to eat these? Give or take.

Either he's playing the fool to see who takes them or is incredibly dense with what he is giving out.

[It is! Except when remembering this isn't Marisa's style of explosions. Those you knew how to dodge and when. This is a bit too random for her strategic tastes. Putting the knife down for a moment and adjusting her hair band, because by this point she would have been either summoning a doll or tightening the grip on her Grimoire if she had either. So something for her to do.]

To be honest? 69% probably have as they never learned not to take anything from people they do not know and eat it. It's not going to help them with their power nor their color ratio.

Although given that death has happened I'm not fully sure this would keep many down if the did so.

I could believe either quite easily.

[It wouldn't be funny if they actually did explode. Until that point, though? Humorous enough.]

Mm. Well, until we run more in-depth tests, I suppose we haven't discovered them to be lethal yet. Just massively unhealthy. Perhaps we should cut a chunk off to examine it in more depth.

By the way... how is it doing the work on your own? Without your dolls?

[She likes Alice well enough, but she'll still continue being a butt to her. Besides, she could easily be made fun of herself.

Still: rude, patchy.]

At least he's not a fairy as far as I could tell.

Hm...True.

[PATCHY. Alice looks slightly annoyed but it's a brief passing on her face. Going to cut even deeper, having to actually saw at it a little bit to break through. She pulls thew knife back to slightly poke at the jellyish filling , trying to figure out what it was meant to be.]

It's...difficult when you are used to having many hands to help but..it's nothing compared to dealing with the loss of memory. That has been the more difficult thing to overcome. Although it was nice not to remember some things that have happened.

[Sorry, Alice. Your only friend from home is an asshole.]

I suppose you're not doing very bad for yourself, but I haven't tried to ask you to do a lot of things at once, either.

I suppose memory loss is difficult. Is it worth losing the good things just to not have to remember the bad ones? Of course, it's not like you had a choice in the matter, but assuming you did, or even nearly so... I do wonder.

I'll think on that more, later.

[She's back to having a look at what, exactly, that filling is. It actually looks like something like food, aside from the horrendous color.]

[But isn't that half of home though?]

True, but even then I would find a way to do it all without the help. Maybe someday I can find a way to regain what is missing.

That...Yes. In some ways it is worth it but at the same time, losing what made me who I am was strange and worrying. Forgetting what happened before I came to Gensokyo was nice to a point but..

[A pause as she shakes her head.]

It took a while to figure out what was going on and why. When I awoke- there was nothing and now..I know I'm missing some things as well.

[But for now, resisting the urge to do what Marisa would, squirt the jelly at Patchouli and going to bring out some of the jelly onto the plate to observe the color.]

...This is no fruit I ever seen before.

[T...rue...]

I guess we'll just have to see. [Honestly, couldn't Patchy probably figure out a way to confer at least one doll upon Alice with her god power since I apped her as being able to write down things and manifest them? I told you Patchouli is an asshole.

Anyway, she nods but moves back over to examine the... substance...]

Do you suppose there are some flavors of human-world sweets and the like that cannot even be approximated by natural ingredients and must entirely be synthetic? I know that the flavor of banana sweets is based on an extinct strain of bananas, but that's not exactly the kind of instance that I'm thinking of. Something lacking any natural ingredients except maybe for sugar? This looks like nothing I've ever seen before.

[Although for now- it's a good idea. Not with the ideas running through heads currently. Doll mounted attack bunnies.]

Perhaps. I don't know of anything more from the outside world, although the shopkeeper did have some candies that were from there at one point. I'm not sure what 'Cotton Candy' is but I doubt it is fit for consumption for anyone over the intellect of two.

[Of course..there is one test but...Alice isn't sure she even wants to attempt. Mocking nor the idea of a sugar overload. Going to grab a fork and another knife to cut more off and try and get a better look on the inside.]

[That sounds awesome, though.]

Hm. Cotton candy is mostly sugar, I believe. So that might be as close to "completely synthetic" as human food can get. Inasmuch as that could be called food.

[She's going to give it another brief examination, then set it back down while she waits for Alice to get the fork.]

[It does but for now, one step at a time.

Returning with the knife and fork, trying to pull the piece apart a little bit.]

Sounds...odd and like it would cause a overdose if not watched. It is safe to say that this is not going to explode by this point.

[Although...curious on how it was made now. Both the currently being examined items and Cotton Candy. Moving the glass to the side and thinking on this for now.]

I can't see of anything else that can be done without more items that are not available or someone trying it.

[Indeed. This is definitely not an ordinary piece of food by any means.]

I'm certainly not going to, and I don't expect you would, so I guess we're just going to have to leave this for now.

Disappointing. I was really hoping to get to some sort of a result. Oh well. I guess we'll just have to hope that that person didn't run into too many people, since I doubt most of them would stop to question the horrendous colors, but on the other hand, he did have enough that I don't think that's likely.

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