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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[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.]

[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.

[If nothing else, it's an immense comfort to realize that induced amnesia has done nothing to quash Kuwabara's honorable heart. Kurama steps aside to get out of Kuwabara's way, letting him root around for the missing phone.]

You might have taken a smaller load of boxes, but I still should have been paying more attention to my surroundings, so at most it's only half your fault.

[That's not gonna stop him from letting Kuwabara do all the looking, though. He's the relative jerk in this friendship, after all.]

Heh, guess I can't argue with that. [Well, he probably could, but there doesn't seem much point to it. He probably wouldn't have run into Kurama if the fox had been paying attention] I'd still feel bad if your phone got trashed, though.

Oh, I found it! [It's caught in the lower branches of the bushes, near the back. He reaches back, doing his best to extract it gently, then gingerly pulls his hand back, phone in tow.]

Looks like the screen's a bit scratched up, but otherwise it's okay. [He dusts it off a little bit as he rises to his feet, then offers it to Kurama] And hey, I'm really sorry, yanno?