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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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Oh, excuse me, madam.

[He takes a step back, lifts his cane, and also bows. He's a little confused by her, because shouldn't a lady curtsy? But heathen country, heathen traditions... Abby would want him to be diplomatic, and he's representing Massachusetts.]

I would like it very much. Tell me, did your mother teach it to you? Or was it your own invention? I don't wish to make Mrs. Adams jealous of your talent, but she will undoubtedly be interested in the history of these cookies.

[Now Aya's a little confused, because why is he bowing back? He's a man, he's a grown-up, he's clearly from a good background - she's not quite sure where those clothes are from, but they're clearly well-made and, well, nice. Wherever it is, though, maybe it's more respectful to return a gesture like that?

[It's probably something like that. She smiles again,because that seems natural, and clearly the politest thing, too.]

Um... well, yes. My mother taught me how to bake.

[Hold the smile, Aya. He means nothing by it, and your problems are not his concern.]

I don't think we ever made these specifically, but she did show me how to make cookies and the recipe's basically the same. Hers were a lot better, though. And I'm sure your wife's would be, too. Experience really helps, and I don't have that much yet, really.

[He wonders vaguely if she still lives with her mother, or if she's already been married... if it's experience she needs, maybe she could come spend some time with Abigail and Nabby, give them help around the children...]

Well, commitment is the only way to gain experience. [Takes another bite of the cookie.]

So you have made your own innovations, splendid, splendid. If I could convince the army to be this clever, maybe we'd be winning...

Army?

[Aya blinks. Wait, what--

[Well, of course people here have come from all over, and not in the way that people come from all over back home, either. Still - a war? That... well, that rather puts her own problems into perspective, and she's very glad she kept smiling.

[Oh lord, now what on earth should she say? Aya could write everything she knows about wars that didn't come from TV on a postage stamp.]

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean-- well, I suppose things must be very different where I come from. We, um... it hasn't happened for a while.

[Oh, damn it, he hadn't meant to-- what is it with this place.]

There's nothing for you to be sorry about. I forget, you know... my wife has such a taste for politics and men's business, I forget it's not to everyone's taste.

[On the one hand, Aya wants to say something about how she does too have a taste for men's business..

[On the other, she doesn't understand much about war or politics this side of The-Prime-Minister-is-a-Liberal-Democrat and economics - I'm sorry, papa - is, from what she's heard from Ran and her father and from their increasingly earnest and incomprehensible discussions on the matter, legitimately the most boring subject on the face of the earth. Apart from sport, she can't really think of any other men's business and, since she stopped going to baton-twirling classes when she hit middle school, Aya's not really been interested in that either.

[On the other other hand, Aya really doesn't want this gentleman thinking that she's, well... silly or something by going right on back to talk about something that's very definitely women's business. Okay, so let's try another tack.]

Well, by the time we go back we'll all have seen lots of different things here. Maybe there'll be something here that will make all the difference back home.

Edited 2016-10-12 00:07 (UTC)