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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

[At the very least, Neo straightens up the other buckets and sets some a more useful distance away from the tank before picking one up. If all she needs to do here is be the bucket interchange person and there's someone literally offering to get potentially electrocuted instead, she is not turning down the chance to watch that disaster.

Not that the other girl seems too bothered, but still, when she comments on getting zapped, Neo's smile becomes perhaps a shade unsettling. Maybe this will turn out a bit more entertaining than she'd thought, at least.

Climbing the ladder with no issue at all despite her ridiculously tall high-heeled boots and loss of one hand to holding a bucket (she's barely using the other hand anyway; she might as well be climbing stairs with the ease she's having), Neo leans the bucket on a rung and folds her arms on the edge, resting her chin there with an expectant, faintly amused smile in wait for the show to begin.]

[This girl is a lot hardier than you give her credit for! Nora has gotten zapped twice and only fallen off the ladder once. That's a huge accomplishment! She could have, should have, probably been hurt or killed by now. But no. She's a little too stubborn for that.

Nora glances back at the other girl and her impeccable balance.] I will try not to drop any on you.

[She says this with an air of "I will definitely not drop one on you!"

So not this girl gets to see just what Nora has done to get the eels out. Which is grab the eels fast enough where they are too stunned to zap someone till they are in the bucket. One, two, three, four, zap,] Ow [five, and six make a full bucket. She offers the full bucket handle to the girl.]

Next one please.

[Neo merely smiles up at her in answer to that remark, as if having an eel dropped on her is the least of her worries. Which it is, given she's dodged much more dangerous things than electrified eels in her time.

Watching Nora grab the eels, Neo tips her head with a thoughtful air, her eyes following the motions. She's fast, but could still be fine-tuning the process, and it really is only a matter of time before one of them is in her hands long enough to bite...figuratively speaking. With the flash of a wider smile at the sound of her "companion" getting zapped, Neo takes the full bucket and offers her the empty one before stepping back down the ladder gracefully. Just as graceful is the manner in which she "accidentally" hooks one of her heels on the bottom rung, pulling the ladder subtly away from the tank. Depending on how the ladder's standing right now, it's either an increase to the chance the ladder will fall if the weight at the top moves out too far, or just makes it that little bit harder to reach the eels.

Either way, Neo draws no attention to it, simply placing the bucket down with the first full one and grabbing another empty one to take up with her, still wearing that odd little smile as she perches herself on the ladder again.]