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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!

Comments

Hello hello!

[cyberfly]

​[ His brows furrow briefly. ]

How do you know my name?

[ It could be for innocent reasons, but you never know. He's already met one person who claimed to know him in his previous life. So far, Schuldig has been cooperative in keeping his mouth shut about details that could get Nagi killed, but that doesn't mean he trusts him yet.

As for this broom-wielding man, Nagi is trying to decide how alarmed he should be. Depending on the next thing that comes out of his mouth, Nagi will be prepared to silence him, temporarily or otherwise. He should probably be more helpful to someone who potentially knows him, but diplomacy was never a strong point for him. Or so he finds. ]

[cryptaesthesia]

[How do you know my name? asks the child he once pulled from the gutter. For once, Crawford can't say he appreciates the irony of the situation.]

It's a Talent.

[He tries, which is neither here nor there, but even he feels like that's an unsatisfactory answer, and one he knows Nagi won't except. Nagi's always been too perceptive of a child; one concerned with facts and truths. If only he could be afforded such things in his current state....

Crawford forgoes the broom, leaning it against the wall, and uses his now free hand to straighten his glasses.]

Also, I know Schuldig.

[He tries again, uncharacteristically coping out, and slightly annoyed that that ended up being his fallback.]

[cyberfly]

[ He says 'talent' in a rather meaningful way, distinct from how gods and shinki describe their own powers here. Does he mean psionic powers, then? Schuldig easily could pluck a name from someone's head, but even beyond that, he has history with Nagi.

And now, apparently, so does this man.

Nagi makes a cool visual assessment. He's tall, well dressed, careful, composed. He has a feeling that this man is not someone to be trifled with. That's a trait that he can respect, but also something he should be wary of. ]

You're his associate?

[cryptaesthesia]

[Amused, Crawford shakes his head. Nagi's blatant scrutiny is certainly entertaining, and it causes him to wonder: Is he is more or less intimidating as a stranger? Regardless of the answer, it pleases him to see Nagi doesn't show any tells of fear. History or not, he doesn't have any time for that.

Coming back to Nagi's question, he does have to think for a moment, as the real answer has too much history to be a viable choice. Again, he settles on the cope out, (it's really becoming a bad habit), but this time shows just a little more amusement than annoyance in his tone.]

I'm his boss.

[cyberfly]

​[ If only Nagi knew that his own composed judgment and level-headedness come from his emulation of this very man who stands before him. He might not have been this way, but for the tutelage he got from a mentor with far superior mental control. His own history is a blank spot in his mind, but there's a reason why its absence doesn't plague him like it might have with other shinki. He can easily assess that some parts of his past are superfluous and undeserving of useless thought. ]

Okay.

[ Sure, his boss. He can see that. Schuldig doesn't really strike him as the sort to call the shots. He doesn't ask any more.

He will, however, answer the question he'd ignored earlier: ]

And I don't know where these [ he gestures to the tentacle things, ] originate. But they're probably manifest by an ayakashi.

[ Such things usually are. ]