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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

No one would miss you!

[The reply comes a bit too fast and he's kind of stuck unable to cross his arms in a huff because he still has a drink in each hand.]

You're lucky I keep you as a shinki at all!

[Maybe he'll drink one of these things so he has a hand free. This is leaving him too open and it bothers him. Yuuri said he should try the one with all the candy sticking out of it, right? Which means he needs to down the one that looks like some sort of...cavern??? What the hell even makes a drink look like that anyway?]

[Yuuri laughs, even as he turns a slightly pouty look on the boy. He's definitely toying with him a little bit, because... it's sort of funny? He's like a fussy kitten, and Yuuri's pretty sure he's totally figured out his weird little I-hate-you-but-not-really game right now, and he's not currently encumbered by the common sense and shame and so on that would normally keep him from poking curiously at things like this.]

Yuriiiiii... Am I really that bad?

[If he were actually upset with him, of course, Yuri would feel it, but he's definitely still drifting along on his Happy, Playful Drunk cloud.]

Of course you're that bad! What would I do right now if an ayakashi attacked, huh? Let you hug it??

[He scowls at him over the rim of his glass, then attempts to take a big chug of the drink.

Bad idea.

He coughs and hacks, turning beet red. Is this something humans are supposed to drink?? How is Yuuri putting these away like they're water???]

Well, you'd turn me into my other form, so it would probably be pretty hard to...

...Yuri? Is something wrong with your drink?

[He's not even sure how to answer that. Does he admit he can't drink it and look like a total baby? Does he shrug it off and say it's nothing when he's obviously lying?

Well, obviously he can't look uncool in front of Yuuri.]

Just went down the wrong way.

[So he'll just...kind of hold his breath and try chug the rest of it in one go.

Ugggh, his head is going to explode.]

[It strikes Yuuri that he has maybe not been a very good exemplar this evening. Okay, maybe "have some drinks and make friends and be happy" isn't the worst example, but... his god is so young! Is he even old enough to drink? He... He has no idea, he didn't actually ask about his age or anything, that seemed pretty rude...]

[Yuuri stands up, a little wobbly, and reaches out to take the empty glass from Yuri's hand when he's done.]

If you don't like it, there's no need to force yourself...

[He scowls and hands the glass over to Yuuri. He still has the awful candy concoction left and, honestly, his stomach kind of churns at the thought of drinking it. It's a dilemma, definitely. Yuuri gave him an out and he could probably take it gracefully and still save face, but at the same time how lame is it going to make him look? Drinking two of these things shouldn't be a big deal, right? (No one ever lets him drink, so it's not like he knows.)]

Does anyone like this shit or do they just drink it because it'll get them drunk?

[That does seem to be the point of drinking. It's not like it tastes good.]

[Okay, so he definitely doesn't actually like drinking very much, does he? Yuuri sets the empty glass down on a nearby table, his movements still surprisingly graceful for a guy who's been drinking questionable cocktails and shots for a couple of hours.]

[Or maybe not so surprisingly, to Yuri.]

Lots of people like it, but not everyone does, and different people like different things. Otherwise, there'd be no point in making so many different types, right?

[His voice is a little gentler -- not like he's babying Yuri, exactly, but there's something about the young god that makes him just... want to look out for him a little. His pride, maybe. It's the pride of someone with something to prove, someone who doesn't want to be treated like he's weak or helpless, and Yuuri doesn't know why, but that resonates with him, somehow.]

[Getting an idea, he smiles.]

If I order you something different, will you trade me for that one? I have an idea you might like better.

[Yuri's eyes narrow.]

What kind of idea?

[He's not saying yes right away. He trusts Yuuri, yeah, but trusting someone doesn't necessarily mean having blind faith in their decisions involving alcohol. Not to mention this sounds kind of fishy. If it's some way to help him save face by getting him a soda or something, he's going to kick him in the face. Sure he's not even supposed to be drinking in the first place, but it's not like he's some baby that can't handle it. So he tells himself. The fact that his head is starting to feel kind of too heavy for his body is perfectly normal after one drink. Right? That sounds right.]

[Yikes, he really does have a way of looking at you like he's going to crush you no matter how much shorter than you he is. Yuuri stammers for a second, but pulls himself together, because really, letting him drink that other cocktail seems like a fast track to spending the rest of his night holding a teenager's hair back for him while he throws up...]

I thought... um... maybe a chuhai? If you don't like the way the liqueurs in that one tasted, especially all mixed together... It's got shochu in it, that's like Japanese vodka, but it's mixed so you don't taste the alcohol very much, and shochu doesn't have much flavor of its own besides "alcohol" so it mostly just tastes like a normal drink?

[And if he can talk to the bartender himself, he can be sure it's mixed light, so it'll be more or less as alcoholic as a light beer, but still technically not going the "here kiddo, have a soda instead" route...]

[Yuri mulls that one over. Well, as much as he can considering he really doesn't know anything about this kind of thing. It sounds acceptable and he doesn't think Katsudon is smart enough to try to trick him when he's this drunk (or even most of the time when he's sober, honestly), so no harm, right?]

Whatever. Don't put candy it.

[Because the sight of the stuff crammed into the drink he's not touching is starting to turn his stomach a little.]

[Yuuri grins. Mission stage 1: complete!]

Okay, I promise. Just wait here and I'll be right back!

[The area by the bar is pretty crowded, but not enough that Yuuri can't find a spot in the front. And okay, he might make eyes at the bartender just a little to make sure he gets served before the rest of the crowd, but everyone will forget all about him cutting the queue in a second or two, so who cares, right? He hurries back to Yuri's side within a couple of minutes, carrying a glass in his hands. It looks almost like a soda, but if Yuri takes it, he'll find that it does smell (and taste) very faintly of alcohol. Mostly of lemon and sugar, though.]

Alright -- trade?