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[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 10



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.



Terrible Twos

There is an oddly large number of toddlers running around the streets without adults around to keep them in check. This is probably because they've all gotten scared to the point of abandoning all reason by the sights and sounds of the horrifying tentacled ayakashi that is preying specifically on young children. Help keep the children in line, or just go kill the ayakashi. Your choice.

Unused Umbrellas

After being untouched for a hundred years, most inanimate objects will form a malevolent spirit. That's the case with kasa-obake, umbrella yokai. And it's not uncommon to see kasa-obake around either. They're out in droves with the rainy weather, blowing open in people's faces, falling over in front of them to trip them up, anything to startle or harm the Near Shore residents. Your job is to entertain and quell the raucous spirits. Or get rid of them.

Vivid Videos

An interesting video is making the rounds on the Near Shore. Anyone who watches it is so engrossed in the textures, lighting, and story that they wind up seeing the real world as nothing but black and white after their viewing. Everything seems dull and unreal to them afterward, and any attempts to watch the video a second time end in failure. It's likely that there's something causing these people to lose their luster of life - an ayakashi, perhaps?

Walking Wigglers

Surprise! A number of snakes in local areas have suddenly sprouted legs - two legs, to be exact, that allow them to stand up straight like a person - and are running around excitedly on their newfound limbs. They are rather unused to not slithering, though, so they keep running into things and causing chaos wherever they go - possibly because a lot of people are terrified of snakes running around like it's normal. Please wrangle the snakes up so scientists can figure out how this happened.

Xenomorphic Xylocarps

Another scientifically strange anomaly has occurred on the island nation of Japan. A new breed of coconuts has suddenly sprouted up out of nowhere. There are dozens upon dozens of trees littering the beaches and dumping coconuts all over the sand. Not only is it strange for this time of year, but the coconuts are a sickly green in color and pear-shaped. See if you can figure out the secrets of the coconuts - or maybe just figure out if the coconuts are delicious.



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!

Comments

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[eternalshield]

[He bounces the kids a little, gets a few screams of laughter and once he's got them settled in a row playing tug-of-war with his scarf, he claps Yun on the shoulders-- which lets him rather subtly stand between them all and the ayakashi.]

Great start... Zeno's mouth is watering already!

[handsome_genius]

You have an incredible imagination-

[Yun is still huffing at the man even as he finds a semi-abandoned street cafe with a wooden table & benches he can use.]

To get your mouth watering before I've even begun.

[He starts unpacking his satchel on the table.]

This is a pretty useless city, though - I don't see anywhere safe to start a fire.

[eternalshield]

If you're worried about disappointing someone who's looking forward to it, don't-- Zeno would eat poison if hungry enough, Zeno just wouldn't give it to the small ones.

[Zeno shrugs, and overturns a table, moving the children on the other side of it.]

Make one?

[handsome_genius]

You WHAT?

[Yoon reaches over and grabs Zeno by the jacket or scarf or whatever he can grab.]

YOU ARE NEVER EATING POISON WHILE I'M AROUND? UNDERSTOOD?

[How insane do you have to be??? IDIOT.]

[eternalshield]

[...Zeno just grins, so hard and wide that anyone who didn't have a legendarily strong body would have a sore jaw.]

It's just an expression! [Maybe. Sometimes. Look, if he's hungry, and there's nothing else around, and it won't kill him...]

But this is very forward...!

[handsome_genius]

... Forward.

[Yep, still holding Zeno by the shirt.]

What's stuck in your head now?

[He's missing something here and he's not sure he's gonna like it when it's explained to him.]

[eternalshield]

Stuck?

[Zeno laughs. There isn't much that throws him off balance after such a long life, but...]

Have we known each other long enough for this kind of thing, Zeno wonders?

[Is he a shinki or not? If he is, that's a gentle reprimand; if he isn't, well, Zeno will be the one getting a reprimand, gentle or otherwise.]