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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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[Ankh isn't the kind of creature that had any interest in this sort of thing. Sure, he knew that the desire for lust could cause for particularly strong Yummies, he just never did anything about it. Sex was a human thing after all. He never was overly curious to dive deeper into all the stupid fantasies that fueled humanity's sexual appetites.

But he also had a task to do (even if Shingo was no longer nagging him about being nice and saving people), and prayers to answer. Which meant there was a slight young man with elaborately styled hair standing in front of the mass of things when Crawford got back. At the sharp question, he turned his head to look at the American with one eye, almost like a annoyed bird trying to figure out what nonsense was coming at it now, before turning back to the tentacles.]

Don't be an idiot.

[Crawford takes a brief pause to consider if this strange young man is talking to him or the tentacles, but ultimately decides to assume the latter. It's not a hard conclusion to accept, not in consideration of how off he seems. There's a particular type of madness lurking in that one eyed stare that seems all too familiar. Crawford shakes his head and sighs. He does seem to attract the mental ones. Maybe one day he'll have to consider what that says about himself.]

Do you know where you are?

In a place full of idiots who let their greed get the better of them.

[There was a snap to his words, a sharpness to how he cut off consonants and rolled his vowels. Ankh did not bother with proper speech, but he savored his words, even if it it gave him a rough look. He gestured towards the mass of tentacles, his right arm looking like it was covered in a strange gauntlet of scales, wings and tipped with wickedly hooked talons.]

The one buried under that ayakashi is letting his greed consume him like a fool. [He turned, facing Crawford fully and leaning into his space. There was a hint of metal and fire around him, and the tentacles were doing their best to ignore the obvious target he was making himself out to be.] The question is do you know where you are?

Unfortunately.

[He understands in broad strokes where he's ended up, and the rest can be filled in later in more private company. He doesn't need a history lesson from this...creature.

Crawford's not sure if he is human or was human, and it's not his prerogative to care. Human experimentation isn't unheard of in the circles he's traveled in. He's just fortunate the blinding of precogs fell out of fashion.
Almost boredly, he shakes his head; watches the ayakashi this young man pointed out with feigned interest.]

Well, I suppose he got what he deserves, in any case.