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TEST DRIVE # 12

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.

Daring Drinks

A couple of local bars are going out of their way to make new and interesting drinks for their customers to try, in a long-standing war between the two bars. Of course, they're going a little off the rails, so there are some very interesting - and somewhat scary - combinations popping out of the woodworks. And they want everyone passing by to try them.

Electric Eels

An odd ayakashi is causing some of the eels at the local aquarium to become literally electric, causing the eels to shock the other inhabitants in their tanks. This is causing a pretty big uproar and if it isn't fixed soon, someone could die or the aquarium might even just shut down entirely.

Frog Friend

Large frogs are popping up all over the place and following people around. They don't seem malicious in any way, but they are kind of creepy to look at, brightly colored, and leave trails of slippery goo wherever they stand. Oh, and they like to jump at people and knock them over, just for fun.

Gaseous Grandpas

A local home for older men is having a problem with a number of their inhabitants where they literally cannot stop farting and belching. It turns out this is the work of an ayakashi that just thinks farts and burps are funny and knows it's easier to get those sorts of things out of old people. Help the poor old guys out, would you?

Horrifying Hentai

Many known otaku in the area are dealing with a rather terrifying problem - every hentai they watch lately comes into reality very suddenly. Sometimes this means cute, begging girls, sure, but it also means tentacles and aliens and a whole rash of other things too. You'll have to stop the ayakashi that is bringing these 'fantasies' to life in order to save these guys.

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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Dry ice. [If she had been confused before, now she is skeptical in a fashion more like irritation.] So this drink has been infused with some sort of magical creation. And they serve it to ordinary people on the street?

Magic?

[Okay, so technically he can do shinki magic stuff now, but that's different, it's not, like, magic-magic.]

No, it's science, I'm pretty sure -- it's, um, the stuff that's in the air you breathe out when you breathe, except when it's cold it turns solid like ice, but when you heat it up it doesn't melt into a liquid, it turns right from a solid to a gas. So it makes that smoke!

[He doesn't remember going to college, but that's the vague impression left over from the science gen ed classes he doesn't actually remember!]

[For one moment, Lenneth's look has all the withering anger of a battle-goddess who feels she is being made sport of... but she relents. This is a strange world which asks her to accept much. Why should the very air not be condensed into smoke and vapor for amusement?]

I still am not sure I understand the difference between science and magic. Both ask to complete the impossible.

Maybe it's the same thing, but it just depends how much you know about why it happens?

[Whoa. That thought is blowing Yuuri's drunken little mind.]

And yet implements of science are used casually by those who know nothing of the mechanics behind it, much as lesser wizards cast spells for results they do not understand.

[If this is a ridiculously heavy conversation to come out of a smoking drink, well, the Valkyrie is a heavy and somber person.]

I know a little of the mechanics behind it!

[Whatever he was before he died, it definitely wasn't a chemist or physicist, but he's not totally clueless!]

Enough to know it's not dangerous if you don't touch it with bare skin or breathe the smoke. People mostly just use it to keep stuff really cold, or to do cool-looking tricks like this?

Well. [She regards her mug, from which vapor no longer streams, then slams back its contents in one long chug. She is, after all, used to the meadhalls of Asgard.]

Mmm. The effect was not worth the drink.

You were probably overthinking it. I bet another drink would help with that!

[It's sure keeping him from thinking about anything!]

You sound like Thor... any time someone nearby used a word with more than one syllable.

[Still, she can accept the logic as being worthy of Valhalla, and reaches for the next drink offering being passed around -- only to find herself staring at a thick concoction that looks for all the world like thick red mud.]

What have they done to this drink...

Well, Thor sounds like fun, then!

[Yuuri when he's sober is an entirely different beast, but right now, "fun" is easily his top priority.]

[He peers at the new drink as someone passes him one, too, and alright, that one definitely looks pretty questionable even to him when he's this drunk.]

Okay, this one I've got no clue about. Some kind of jello shot, maybe...?

[He does the sensible thing, and pokes it. Poke poke poke. Well, it's probably not going to kill him if the bar served it, right...?]

Thor is an overmuscled blowhard who has yet to out-drink me.

[Can we say it again? Asgardian goddess. Even as unemotional as she usually is, drinking is part of life. And on that same philosophy, she takes a pull of this new drink.]

[Her entire body shudders, and she bangs it down on the bar hard, like she can't get it away from her fast enough.] Chocolate, coffee, and cinnamon!?

[Yuuri blinks at that description.]

That sounds...

...amazing!

[He drinks the whole thing in one go, then looks at Lenneth's cup curiously.]

Are you not gonna drink that...?

How can you?! [And at last, they've broken through her placid affect to elicit true and sincere shock and anger out of her.] It is an abomination against alcohol!

I mean, the texture's a little weird, but it's sweet!

[Look, his standards are pretty low right now.]

If you don't want it, I can take it off your hands...

...Are you certain you should be drinking more?

[Seriously, kid, you're looking... iffy. She's a little concerned she'll be officially promoted, in his drunk mind, to best friend or worse.]

["Worse" probably isn't a concern; Yuuri is really more or less exclusively attracted to people he already idolizes a bit, not that he's got the memory to be aware of that. "Best friend", though... It's a risk to be feared.]

Yeah, I'm certain! Are you kidding? I feel great!

You will not feel so great when you plant your face on the floor. [Blunt and direct, no sugarcoating here.] Is this common behavior?

Common... I don't know, this is the first time I can remember drinking. But if I fall down, I can just get back up!

Are you sure?

[Seriously, she isn't even certain he can pull it off at present, let alone if he puts a couple more in himself.]

I am not inclined to carry you home. And a drunken death in the street would not make you worthy of Valhalla.

[For all that his social awareness and reasoning skills are totally gone, he does seem to at least be in decent control of himself physically, for the moment.]

Of course! That's what you have to do whenever you fall down, right? Get up and keep going.

...Valhalla?

[He blinks up at her, bleary, but still aware enough to be curious.]

[Sure, because he's not being taxed. What will happen if he's called upon to do more than sit and gesture dramatically, she'll place no bets on.]

Asgard? Perhaps you would simply call it 'heaven'; it is the realm of the gods.

[Unbeknownst to him, he's managed to out-dance several other world-class athletes after about two bottles of champagne, but he can't exactly tell her that since he doesn't remember it. Heck, he didn't remember that incident even when he was alive.]

Oh! Oh, the... the Far Shore? I was there earlier!

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