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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!

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[Omi stops and blinks.]

Huh...?

[He's not sure which part of that response is most surprising: the idea that he was showing off in doing the most practical thing to help, the idea that this boy, well... doesn't seem to have any reservations in boasting about his appearance, or the idea that those around him should be expected to be similarly smitten with it.

It isn't that the boy is wrong; he is good looking. It's just... unusual behavior.

Right, time for an awkward smile!]

Actually, I was thinking it might be a good idea to fight back the ayakashi.

[He watches the other young man process all of this and then returns his awkward smile with a more dismissive one.]

Of course that's a good idea.

[But.]

I just don't see your shinki anywhere, so that makes you available to get these children away from the ayakashi for the people who can fight against it right now.

[So he picks up another child and starts jogging away, expecting that to be all he needs to say.]

[The boy must be new; he seems to have a lot to learn about gods and shinki and fighting ayakashi. Omi doesn't follow after him, instead opening the flask at his side where he keeps a stash of holy water and drawing it out with his ability.

This time he teleports in closer to the ayakashi and issues a series of attacks with the water. He may not be able to destroy it without Nagi around, but if he can drive it away from the area so that it isn't harming people anymore, that will suffice.

It's a dangerous task with the risk of blight, but Omi is fortunate enough to have plenty of experience dodging. He presses forward in his attack, and as the ayakashi faces one splash after another, it finally retreats.

Crisis averted for the time being, Omi returns the water to his flask and catches up with the boy trying to help the children again.]

Still need any help..? [He asks in a sobered voice. The threat is gone, but there's an awful lot of crying from the small children nearby.]

[Yoon returns to see the ayakashi fleeing.]

What the...

[A God could do that on their own? Then... what the heck did they need shinki for? He's torn between being offended and impressed.]

Well, if you're not going to chase after it, I suppose so.

[He shakes his head out of it and goes to pick up another child. Thankfully there's only 4 of them, so with 2 people they should be nearly done. Maybe just moving them near the others at this point will get them away from the general area where they were getting so upset.]

[Omi offers a sad smile and picks up one of the crying kids.]

Driving it off is all I can do. As you noted, my shinki isn't here. I can't destroy it without him. After you.

[He'll follow the boy's lead.]

Oh.

[Well okay, that makes a bit more sense...]

You could always call for your shinki, right? That's a thing Gods do?

[He keeps walking, happy to be useful again but not exactly showing it.]

Here you go, kid...

[And he sets the child down gently.]