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TEST DRIVE # 09

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.

Old Officials

There's a business that is desperately wishing the older members of their workforce would bow out. They've been sitting on death's door for so long and are doing little to help the company. The younger managers only want to step up and take their place! Help convince these ancient businessmen to step down.

Peanut Party

A celebration for peanuts is sweeping through the city. Peanut butter, peanut cookies, even just plain peanuts are being sold, thrown, and praised all over. It's your job to help spread the peanut love, either by helping to make the tasty treats or by buying more peanuts from the next town over.

Quiet Quail

Oddly enough, a request has come in from a quail, of all creatures. It thinks very highly of itself and knows that it's super mega important, but it has such a hard time being anything but quiet. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to draw attention to this quail - make it stand out like not other quail has done before.

Roaring Riders

A rowdy motorcycle gang has been plaguing the streets for a few weeks. Every night, at midnight, they make their engines roar out in unison, waking everybody in town. The riders themselves are good guys, they just have this one nasty habit that they refuse to give up because it pays tribute to their patron god. Do you have the heart to get them to quiet down?

Slick Sevens

The newest tourist stop is a large casino. It's said that everyone who enters the casino has their luck stolen from them at the door. That might just be silly superstitions and bad gamblers talking, but there is definitely an ayakashi there who seems to feed on people's luck. Maybe that's what's causing everyone to lose so much.

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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Peanut Party

[ Mao has overcommitted. It just felt natural, to step into the kitchen and try to find a way to make things go easier. One way turned into two, though, and then three, and now he's trying to grind peanuts for fresh peanut butter with one hand, stack boxes for peanut butter cookies with another, and all the while keeping an eye on the timer on the oven because the staff of the bakery all seem to have gone on break at once.

He thinks he sees a face on the other side of the counter but he's soooo not able to fill any orders right now. ]

Sorry, but it's going to be a few minutes. ... Unless you want to throw on an apron.

[ He's joking. Possibly. ]

Roaring Riders

[ Sometimes you have to go past the obvious solution, so rather than confronting the riders themselves, Mao is lurking not at all suspiciously around their leader's house and garage. Hands in his pockets, whistling, the whole nine yards of definitely not waiting to see if the guy's home or not. He's already checked that the motorcycle is inside, and if he can disable the bike somehow, well, hopefully that'll save people at least one night's worth of noise and that's a start.

He has no idea how to do that or if that even qualifies as answering this prayer, but he wants to do this with as little drama as possible. Confrontations just go badly and these aren't bad guys. Just insensitive. Breaking their motorcycles won't change that but it'll buy a little time to figure out how to. Maybe. ]

Other: byo prompt!

[It would be hard to deny an interest in trying some of the treats being churned out in the kitchen, and Alluka seriously hopes that there's some kind of opportunity to do so at some point or another, but that's not quite what has brought this tiny shinki over to this particular bakery today.]

I can help! [Up goes one arm, 'Pick me! Pick me!' Your joke turned out to be the real deal!] My god sent me here to help.

[And boy does it look like you need a hand, buddy.]

[ Mao almost misses the offer and the tiny shinki making it at first, but then he thinks to look down just a little further. Oh! Don't worry, there's literally no one else he could pick. ]

Great! Maybe you can help with the boxes?

[ That seems pretty safe for someone her size and not having to worry about those anymore will be a load off to start. Maybe from there they can figure something else out. ]

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mao isara | ensemble stars! | shinki

slides in on my knees for Peanuts

;_; hi