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TEST DRIVE # 09



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4: Comment around to the other people on the meme.
5: Have lots of fun!

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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.



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Kazuma Kuwabara | Yu Yu Hakusho |Shinki

[ivegotasword]

Peanut Party
[Kuwabara isn't too great at cooking and he's got no spending money, but if he's got one thing going for him, it's that he's strong as an ox and determined to help out. Luckily, there are plenty of packages of peanuts that need transporting]

[Unluckily, his enthusiasm's gotten the better of him, and while he can carry all these crates just fine, he can't really see where he's going. Even worse, someone's just gotten in his way. Boxes fall, peanuts fly, but Kuwabara keeps his balance]

Waugh! Sorry, sorry! I didn't see you there, are you okay?

[Roaring Riders]
[A bunch of punks causing trouble? You bet Kuwabara's there. He went all by himself with every intention of taking them all on at once, but well. He forgot one little important detail.]

[They're all on motorcycles and he's not.]

[Now he's trapped in a ring of whooping and hollering riders, all of them throwing taunts and jeers, some of them popping wheelies, some of them reaching out to give Kuwabara a shove as they pass close by]

Aw come on, knock it off! [he shouts as he stumbles from a recent shove] Isn't one of you man enough to get off your bike and fight me one on one? Heck, I'd take you all on if you'd just get off your stupid motorcycles!

Slick Sevens
[Silly superstitions and bad gambling is one thing, but Kuwabara's sixth sense goes off as soon as he gets near the casino]

Yeah boss, there's something in there, alright, I can feel it. [He glances at his god out of the corner of his eye, hands shoved fully in his pockets and head ducked thuggishly] It don't feel too strong, I'm pretty sure we can take it, but if it's stealing people's luck, we probably oughtta be careful.

Re: Kazuma Kuwabara | Yu Yu Hakusho |Shinki

[volksdaemon]

[Schuldig's wandering around nearby when the roar of the motorcycles catches his attention. He's never minding his own business, not in the Far Shore and not in the Near Shore either by a long shot. However, this guy is entertaining him a bit with just how brazen he is. Alright then.]

Well, let's start with just one.

[He mutters to no one at all and then reaches out with his powers to seize the mind of a Rider. One of them locks up temporarily, his legs going straight and his body wobbling. The guy goes sprawling onto the pavement near Kuwabara's feet - not remotely dead, just a little bruised from the fall, while his bike goes skidding towards the ring and interrupts the slow-moving flow of the other riders.]

'Now's your chance.'

[That's all he whispers to Kuwabara personally - not a literal nudge like he COULD give if he wanted to, but maybe enough of a snap for anyone with a hair-trigger for combat.]

[ivegotasword]

[Kuwabara feels Shuldig's pressence just as soon as the rider locks up. It sends the little hairs on the back of his neck standing straight up. Then there's a biker at his feet, and a little voice whispering at the back of his head, and you know what?]

[Screw that little voice! Kuwabara might've come out here with the intent to get rowdy with anyone in his way, but he had honor! He had a code! And this?]

Hey man, are you okay? That looked like a pretty nasty spill you took there. [He kneels down next to the biker, intent on helping him back to his feet. Once he's got an arm around the guy's shoulders, he glances back, his eyes narrowing]

'That's cheating, and I ain't here to fight dirty.'

[volksdaemon]

'They're going to fight dirty anyway, so what's the point?'

[His tone is more than mocking. It's the Good Is Stupid attitude that he's cultivated thanks to Weiss.]

'If you don't take them out, maybe I will. That's what the people want, isn't it? And tick-tock, tick-tock the people down here are so busy!'

Slick Sevens

[dragonspooker]

Weak and stealing luck, huh...

Yeah, that's a recipe for disaster. Can't go all-out on it, then. What a pain.

[Lina folds her arms, kicking at the ground. Subtlety is not her forte, but if she cuts loose to try and finish this quick, it's bound to backfire horribly. She knows how this goes. Time to strategize.]

No matter how we come at it, there's a high chance for failure. I wonder if it has to focus on people to get at their luck, or if it's just got a big field for sapping it... The former would be preferable.

[ivegotasword]

Well hey, maybe if we're lucky, we'll spot it before it spots us, then I can always get long enough to impale it before it knows what hit it. [Being a spirit sword who can get as long or as short as he wants has its advantages! And with his spiritual awareness, it can't be too hard to find the darn ayakashi, right?]

[Too bad subtlety is neither of their strong points]

Don't worry about it, boss! You and me, we're an excellent team, I'm sure we've got this in the bag!

[dragonspooker]

[JESUS CHRIST KUWABARA, mind your wording that sounds awful out of context. It works, though, a fairly solid plan, all things considered.]

Just don't talk too much about being lucky in this. We've got some stupid monster working against us on that front, we don't need to handicap ourselves further by setting off flags to work against us. It just like when you say "what's the worst that could happen", and then the worst possible thing happens!

[ivegotasword]

[What's wrong with the wording? He, as a spirit sword, can get as long or short as he wants! It makes sense to him, how could it possibly sound awful?]

If we had some wood to knock on, that'd take care of it though, right? [He looks around for something made of wood, but there's nothing conveniently nearby.] Crap... uh... maybe the poke tables inside will be made of wood?

Peanut Party

[dioception]

[It's not that Dio didn't see him. He saw, he just didn't really care, at least until he was nearly run over, and boxes when flying. Thank goodness for Dio keeping his powers, because that meant that stopping time in order to save most of the crates was totally doable.

Within the blink of an eye, most things that had fallen from the other man's arms were stacked neatly in his own.]

No harm done, my friend, but don't you think you could stand to share the work a little?

[He doesn't seem to be struggling with the carrying aspect, but neither would Dio. Even if he were not a vampire, he was 6'4" and made of muscle. He could help the guy out a bit, at least enough for him to see.]

[ivegotasword]

[When Dio stops time, Kuwabara feels it. He's not sure what it is, of course, but there's a ping to his senses, and then Dio's standing there with half the stuff he'd been carrying in his arms. Super speed doesn't seem out of the question, but if that's really all it was, would he have felt it? Then again, the energy he was picking up from Dio was strange all over, it certainly wasn't the standard human, ghost, or demon energy he was familiar with. It kind of feels... bad... but he can't figure out why.]

[Well, he could puzzle over it all day, but it doesn't change what happened, or the fact that Dio is offering to help him out instead of yelling or threatening. He couldn't be so bad if he was acting like a decent person, right?]

Ahaha, yeah, I guess I got a little carried away when I was picking up boxes. [he chuckles sheepishly, bowing his head in apology.] The vendor was just so cute, I couldn't resist showing off how much I could carry, so I forgot about the seeing where I was going bit.

[Being 6'3" and made of muscle himself meant it was quite a bit. The vendor was suitably impressed - right until he was out of sight, and she completely forgot about him]

These ones were going to, uh... shoot, I forgot, hold on. [Forgive him while he sets his boxes down on a nearby bench and starts patting himself down] I know I've got it somewhere, hang on, just lemme-

[He goes through his pockets, not noticing when a slip of paper falls out and falls to the ground]

[dioception]

[Dio had certainly noticed that the young man was well-built. It was hard to miss, even behind the boxes he'd been carrying.

He raised a brow at the mention of the vendor being cute though. Information to file away for later. 'Will overextended himself for an attractive person'. Instead of commenting on that, Dio just kept up his grin before noticing the paper.

With his arms occupied, he didn't bend over to grab it, but instead used his Stand to get it, the golden humanoid only partially appearing to grasp the paper and hand it to the other man.]

Not looking for this, are you?

[ivegotasword]

Holy crap! [Kuwabara jumps as the Stand appears, tripping over his own feet and going down to the ground in a heap.] What the heck is that? That's not a ghost, is it?

[It doesn't feel like a ghost, anyway. It almost feels more like an extension of Dio. Besides, he's kind of like a ghost himself, so it's probably fine???]

[He accepts the paper from the Stand with a frown of uncertainty, but his expression quickly brightens up when he reads what's on it.] Oh yeah! I'm taking these to a food stall on West Plum St! It's uh... [he squints at the paper, reading the instructions] 'bout half a mile up the road here, then hang a left on Orange St.

anybody want a peanut?

[herbalsupplements]

[Normally Kurama is not one to get caught off guard by things coming his way, and certainly not by a Kuwabara on a mission, but he found out about that video with the sheep teaching a cow to headbutt and it's been nothing but dicking around on his phone ever since, peanuts be damned. What this means is that, until a moment ago, Kurama was standing around paying more attention to his phone. Now he's on the ground, unharmed but bewildered.

Congratulations on finally finding a way to knock Kurama on his ass?]

It's alright, I should've been paying attention.

[He climbs back to his feet, looking for his phone, but it must've gone flying in the collision.]

I don't suppose you saw where my phone went in all the chaos?

No more rhymes now, I mean it

[ivegotasword]

[He would be absolutely thrilled with himself if he could remember just why it was such a big deal. Instead, after getting over the initial shock of running into a person, Kuwabara's left staring at Kurama, feeling a little dumbfounded. He gets the sense there's something important about this guy, something he can't quite put his finger on, something that he has absolutely no business knowing anything about. It's unnerving, frustrating, and eventually, he forces himself to push it aside in favoring of erring on the side of caution. If it's something he's not supposed to know, that means it's something to do with his life, and he'd be damned before he let himself get turned into an ayakashi.]

[Still, self-preservation is no reason to be rude, so after about ten seconds of bewildered staring of his own, he shakes himself out of it and swings his head around, looking for the missing phone]

Uh, no, I didn't, it didn't go out into the street for it? Shoot, I hope it's not broken, I can't afford to buy you a new one.

[herbalsupplements]

[It's easier to play off the hurt of going unrecognized this time--he's had practice with Yusuke, after all--but that doesn't make it any more pleasant to realize that Kuwabara is dead and so doesn't know him anymore. Kurama slaps on a believable but false smile for Kuwabara's benefit.]

It's alright. If it is and the Heavens don't replace it for me, I can figure something out.

[Translation: he'll just steal a new one and do nerdy shit to it until it works. Now, what would be the most likely angle...? These bushes on the other side of the sidewalk. Much safer than the street, but if his phone's there it must have fallen in. He stares at it, trying to decide whether it's more effort to use his powers or just dive in.]

[ivegotasword]

[Kuwabara's perceptive enough to tell something's off, and when it's paired with that feeling, it's easy enough for him to guess what it is. But what can he do? The strange impulse to avoid his past is far stronger than anything his precognition is giving off. Damn, what a bad situation.]

[At least he can look for the poor guy's phone.]

Nah man, it's my fault, I'm man enough to take responsibility for my actions. [The boxes get set down and he gets down on his knees, digging through the bushes Kurama had been eyeing.] Letting someone else pay for my mistakes is the coward's way out.

peanuts!

[shockshot]

[Aaaand down Masaki goes with a squeak and a sprawl. She may be covered in peanuts at this point. They're all over her, some of them are in her hair-how did that happen is anyones guess.]

I'll be okay! My fault. I should have been looking where I was going.

[She offers an apologetic smile.]

Could I get a hand up please?

[And maybe after they can see about picking up all the boxes together. Why she didn't notice Kuwabara...well, she might have been distracted by something she saw in one of the shop windows.

Which happened to be food that didn't have peanuts in it.]

[ivegotasword]

[OH NO, HE KNOCKED OVER A CUTE GIRL, THIS IS THE GREATEST TRAVESTY, but also a perfect opportunity for some flirting]

No, no, it's my fault, I shouldn't have been carrying so many boxes I couldn't see! [He hastily starts picking peanuts from Masaki's hair, then he offers her his hand, his expression going serious - seriously starry-eyed] Please, if there's anything else I can do to make this up to a princess like yourself.

[shockshot]

[Flirting with peanuts? It's flirting with peanuts.]

Well, you were trying to do your job so....

[She shrugs, smiling, and takes his hand to pull herself up. Though the last bit does leave her bemused, and blinking at him. Enough that she doesn't let go right away.]

Princess?

[ivegotasword]

[He rises smoothly as he helps her to her feet, a smoldering grin upon his face]

Of course! A girl as pretty as you could only be called a princess. And I, Kazuma Kuwabara, am fully prepared to be your knight in shining armor! [Check out that gleaming smile as he poses, one hand on his hip, flexing his other arm. Oh yeah, he's such a stud, there's no way a girl could resist this display of manliness, right?]

peanuts, peanuts everywhere

[hamonfisted]

[Well, being crashed into by a walking talking tower of peanut boxes isn't exactly what he was aiming for today. Joseph peers over any remaining boxes at the other man, eyebrow raised. That hairstyle...]

Eh, don't worry about me. [He shrugs.] What did you think would happen blocking your own line of sight?

[He takes a second to help collect some of the packages and boxes that had fallen.]

Just so you can't accidentally bowl someone over, I'm gonna carry half of these. [And that's final.] So where are we headed?

I'M SORRY I'M SO LATE... ROARING RIDERS ...

[jaganshi]

[ Hiei's been calmly observing from afar for a bit now, wondering when Kuwabara will stop disappointing him and actually take one of these punks out. Of course, the little demon isn't one to enter without quite a bit of a splash, so he debates for quite a while about even making an appearance and relieving Kuwabara from the torment of it - (let's be honest, Hiei is laughing inside at all of this goings on, but in the consideration of pissing off a few people decides that now may be the time.)

Jumping from where he's perched and landing surreptitiously on a helmet or two, the fire demon alights next to his taller counter part with that typical haughty air about him, as if he hadn't just caused a bunch of people to go spinning off of their bikes, crashing in to each other and generally making a ruckus and pissing people off - ]

Why the hell are you just standing here?

SCREAMS IT'S FINE HIEI AND KUWABARA BEING ASSHOLES AT EACH OTHER IS MY FAVORITE THING

[ivegotasword]

Not all of us practice ballet, Shrimp. [Kuwabara snaps, then starts muttering to himself as he summons a spirit sword in each hand. Now that a couple of bikers have been taken out, the rest are none too pleased. He was sort of hoping to avoid this, being one person and oddly afraid of being run over, but there was no avoiding it now. The bikers line themselves up in front of the pair, seven in a row, revving their engines menacingly.]

Aww shit, they're gonna - [Is all Kuwabara gets out before the bikers leap forward, charging Kuwabara and Hiei in V formation.]

GOOD CAUSE IT'S MY FAVE TOO

[jaganshi]

I'm not even going to ask what kind of foolish shit that is. [ Knowing Kuwabara, the teen would surprise him with his knowledge of things that seemed a bit too refined for a baboon, but hey, even monkeys could sometimes learn astounding things. So far as the fear of being run over... look at how it worked out for Yusuke, Kuwabara, you'll be just fine. Hiei, for one, blinks slowly, looking rather bored with the entire affair, not even bothering to draw his sword just yet.

But then again, Hiei could pretty easily vault the bikes, unlike a certain human next to him... ]

It wouldn't even be fun to slaughter all of you.. [ Hiei mutters, followed by a 'tch', but he isn't moving from his current position, from the moment, probably debating his best plan of attack, which may be hopping over a few heads again, considering. ]

YAAAAAY

[ivegotasword]

[Yusuke DIED when he got run over, and Kuwabara can't even remember that because he's dead now too! If he could remember, he would know that Yusuke dying is the exact reason he's so nervous about getting run over in the first place]

[Not that he has time to complain with a bunch of bikes coming at him like that. Hiei might be able to jump gracefully over the vehicles, but Kuwabara has to scramble to avoid being hit. He manages to dodge the first, trips over his feet and sprawls out in front of the second, and rolls out of the way just in time to scramble to avoid the third]

[The fourth clips him, the hot metal burning his arm]

Ow, Jesus! [He grabs his arm just below the wound, staggering back to his feet] We're not tryin' to slaughter 'em, we're just supposed to make 'em go home, so don't kill anybody!