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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

[ The bucket is thrust on Hibiki so suddenly that she finds herself taking hold of it automatically. Surprised, she looks down into it. And thinks about what she finds.

So when Nora comes back, she deadpans: ] How are you handling the electricity?

[ Like, do you have a plan? Might be a good idea. Just a tip.

Are the ones in this bucket charged, incidentally? Or are these the refugees? ]

[Nora drops the buckets, save one, and climbs up on the ladder she'd snagged earlier.] Easy! I just grab them super fast and voila!

[To prove her point, she somehow waits patiently, then quickly grabs one of the eels. The thing is too stunned for the moment, letting off electricity when it's dropped into the bucket. She squeaks softly and shakes her hand out.]

That's how you do it.

[ ...how you do it, perhaps.

Hibiki puts her bucket of eels on the ground next to the other buckets Nora had fetched. ] A simpleton's solution.

I've no time for such farces.

[ So here's your bucket back. It's not like you don't have too many already. Or that leaving a bucket of electric eels unattended could possibly go poorly...when one is poking its head out over the rim... ]

[She takes no offense to the simpleton comment since her method works, simple or not. Nora looks down at the bucket with the eels.]

You might wanna poke that one back into the bucket before it gets out. [She makes a poking gesture in the air.] Like that. Right in the eye should do!

As if I'd--

[ Plop. The newly-freed eel looks around, confused. There's no water. That is not good. It begins flopping away from the bucket.

Hibiki sighs. Are you going to come down or does she have to take care of this herself? ]

[Nora watches the eel plop out and wiggle on the floor before looking at the other girl.]

Are you gonna pick it up?

[That's the logical option...]

[ So, not you, then. Hibiki sniffs.

And with a flick of her wrist and a snap of her fingers, the whole place is plunged into darkness, then illuminated in wavering shades of blue and green and silver. Undulating ripples flow across the walls, mimicking the sight of sunlight flickering through water. A school of small fish, heedless of the eel lurking on the "ocean" floor, swim about the area.

They even do a loop around Nora's head before diving down towards that eel, which is watching them with interest.... ]