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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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[ Hibiki used to spend a lot of time yelling about Revolution because she wanted to return to a more classist society. The lessons of history may fall on deaf ears, here.

As is, she's intrigued enough by this person to not immediately go off on her too - and a bit curious why someone would have sufficient nerve to invite themselves to her table. ] How well-versed. Perhaps this institution should employ staff of more your calibre.

[ Had to get the dig in since she's still pissed. ]

[Lara rolls her shoulders, meeting the stranger's eyes coolly, not at all bothered or amused. Just calm, almost bored, like a tigress sitting beside a yapping, bitchy poodle.]

I think they do a fine enough job. You came into a bar, after all, not a teahouse. They're offering you what they sell. If you don't like it, then why come in here at all?

Edited 2017-01-06 23:10 (UTC)

I'd hoped to be accommodated.

[ Which is the pleasant, polite way of saying Hibiki is used to getting whatever she wants, whenever she wants it, wherever she wants it. If you're going to be cynical, anyway. She might have had the best of intentions! And that wasn't her getting the last word in at the wait staff at all!

The tea is a lost cause, though, so Hibiki focuses on a more interesting prospect: Lara. Surely this young lady will forget the recent dust-up if bestowed a brilliant smile? ] What about you? May I order you anything?

[Lara's not really one to consider herself interested, all things considered. She's not standoffish, though, and willing to forgive this stranger's foible after her lecture. Arrogant brats were something she was familiar with, after all.]

Me? Well, if you're offering I wouldn't say no to a beer. It's hot out, after all.

As you wish.

[ Hibiki then turns to the waiter and orders the most expensive beer on the menu. If it is possible to brew a classy beer, and that beer is served here, that is what Lara's getting. ]

...plus the hors d'oeuvres tray and a sparkling water.

[ A what? wonders the staff member. Hibiki frowns. ]

Carbonated.

[That's fair. Lara does prefer good beer to stuff like Bud Light, to the point where she'll actually pour out any of that pisswater. And make no mistake, that's what she'll call it.

The waiter heads off, leaving the two of them alone, thoroughly puzzled but accepting of it all.]

So, what should I call the lady buying me a drink?

Shikyoin Hibiki. [ A reassuring smile, as if she isn't considerably younger than the other woman. ] "Hibiki" is fine.

And you, Professeur?

[ "Princess" isn't gonna fly here, and you did sort of enter this conversation diploma blazing. ]

Lara Croft. Just Lara is fine.

[She's twenty four, and a little too young to have completed her doctorate and the two expeditions she's been a part of. Just a Masters, since she's not a shoujo heroine and prone to impossible feats.]

Now, aren't you a little young to be out barhopping?

[She's definitely noticed you are a little...teenaged.]

[ Hibiki laughs away a concern as petty as her being underage. She didn't order alcohol for herself, did she?

Still. This Mademoiselle Croft has made a point of critiquing every move she's made. It's starting to grate, but not so much to trump her intrigue just yet. ] I like to think I'm cosmopolitan.

[ From the tone of her voice, she doesn't just "like to think" it. But isn't she clever? And demure? ]

[Clever she may be. Demure? God no.]

A fair assessment. Where are you from?

[So she can avoid teenagers from that country forever and ever...

Or at least, whatever prefecture she came from if it was Japan.]

Originally? [ Hibiki blinks. ] Prance.

[ She shrugs a gallant shrug, looking around to indicate her ease in these mostly-Japanese surroundings. ]

I've spent a fair amount of time in Parajuku lately, though.

[ ....you probably don't have to worry about managing to avoid Hibiki's home countries, Lara. ]

[...You know, there are some things it's best not to question. Like that.]

And how long have you been here in Japan?

[Since you must be a god or shinki, having talked to her this long.]

[ Hibiki waves a hand. ] That's not a very interesting story.

[ That hand comes to settle on the table. She leans in slightly. ] As opposed, I'm sure, to whatever brought you here.

Well, the bus...

[Lara snorts a weak laugh as the waiter brings over her beer, a plate full of meats, cheeses, and crackers, as well as some sparkling water.]

But in all seriousness? I came from the Far Shore, and I've been here ten days or so.

[ Hibiki sits back to let the waiter wait upon them. This...still doesn't look up to the standards she's used to, but she doubts complaining will change anything.

She also waits until the waiter is finished waiting to continue their conversation. ] So you must be settling in.

[ The fact she's even newer goes unmentioned. Not because she's hiding it, but because Hibiki honestly believes how long she's done something is irrelevant. As soon as she attempts it, she's mastered it.

So clearly she's got this godhood thing down. ]

[She's in a small bar in downtown Tokyo. If she wanted class, she should've hit up Seoul instead, and let her Gangnam flag fly.

Lara sips her beer and nibbles a cracker she's wrapped in a piece of salami, considering the statement and opting to not poke at the ego there.]

I'm used to winding up in new places. Going from one expedition to another gets you used to that. [A laugh, another sip, and she leans back, looking up at the ceiling.]

What do you do, Hibiki? A student? or...?

[ Hibiki can't help it (or maybe she can, who knows): she laughs at that, once, while raising her glass to her lips. ] Is that how I appear to you?

[ She hefts that glass instead, then, in a toast. ] To exceeding first impressions. And to paths leading us forever to destined meetings.

[ SHE TOTALLY MEANT TO END UP IN A BAR. ]

[Well, a toast it is then. Lara raises her glass, taps it to Hibiki's and nods.]

Cheers.

[And then takes a long drink, finishing half the glass in a single pull. Quite the toast.]

[ Indeed. Hibiki tries to take a sip of her own, chokes when the water hits her lips, and basically ends up just wetting them, pulling the glass away to rotate it in front of herself.

She'd neglected to specify a country of origin. How troublesome.

Setting her glass down, she pats her lips daintily with a handkerchief. ]

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i never thought i'd use this icon in sincerity and yet HERE WE ARE

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