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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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Dokugakuji recoiled slightly, as if the punch packed way more strength than Gojyo put behind it, laughing and holding up one hand so that any subsequent pokes from Gojyo end up going to his - incredibly roughed up - hands. "Hey now, don't lump Kougaiji-sama in with what the scientists and she do! That whole thing where Kou wasn't himself?" He reached out and grabbed Gojyo's hand - not hard at all, but enough. "Yeah, not something 'our side' wanted in the least bit."

It was a little freeing, he thought guiltily, to not have to worry about if Gojyo heard that or not. Was it really a big deal, even if Kougaiji was still trying to save his mom, that Gojyo knew there were scientists back at Houtou Castle? They'd shown their true colors as far as he was concerned. Them and the Gyokumen-koushu herself. Right now, he didn't even know what Kougaiji would be up to - if he would turn right around and tell her to shove it. Maybe he'd just doomed his lord's mission...? Damn. Can't think about that right now.

So with that hand grabbed, he tries to pull Gojyo into a headlock so he can give him a noogie. "C'mere, no talking to you big bro like that--!!" Because if he's going to be stuck here with an afterlife that can't help Kougaiji, then damnit he's at least going to enjoy having his brother around.