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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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[ Wholly heartless, yes, perhaps. A just god is not a loving god -- somehow he knows this. A heartless god would be a fair god, balanced in all things. Perhaps he hasn't been forgotten after all. Perhaps his god is simply required elsewhere. Perhaps...

But then Simon makes the most unexpected of offers, and Farfarello's heart skips a beat. ]

You seek to tempt me.

[ It's too deadpan to be a proper accusation, but it's most definitely not a question. He peers closer at Simon, ignoring for now the kind expression and focusing instead on the soft hands. The open posture. His mind races with ways he could take apart the body standing before him, and it's only from locking every muscle and holding his breath that he's able to avoid reeling from it.

He is a monster, then. Only a monster would think such things... but is he a traitor? Will he deny his god three times before even being called? He doesn't know. ]

You would have me kneel at your feet? Call you Lord Most High?

[Nothing in Farfarello's tone suggests that he's angry or even mildly offended by the offer. But the words he uses sets off an alarm in the back of Simon's mind. More and more, he's getting the impression that whomever this shinki was in life has made him...very intense. And Simon isn't interested in playing the part of the devil in whatever Farfarello thinks is going on.

His hands shift, lifting up and palms facing out now in a placating sort of gesture. He stays calm, his voice still gentle.]

I would much rather have a partner than a servant, but only if that's what you want.

[Violence is the last thing Simon is worried about at the moment. Maybe it should be, but the god's already learned that anyone who tries to hurt him hand to hand is due to regret it in very short order. But that could also be making him less cautious than he needs to be.]

My name is Simon, I'm a reincarnation of Ixtlilton...a god of medicine, healing, and protection. If you think that's the kind of god that you want to serve or that you should, then I'd be glad to offer you a name. If not, then I could find some other way to help you...or I can leave you be if you don't want that either. I'm not here to test you.

Simon.

[ Simon is the brother of the Lord, whispers a voice -- female, kind -- right in his ear. Farfarello jerks back -- how did she sneak up on him? -- but there's nobody there. With his back to the storefront, there's no way anyone could have leaned over his shoulder to whisper to him anyway.

He swings his head back around to Simon, eye gone wide. ]

Did you hear that?