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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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[If it was a joke about people dying from something other than their own stupid choices, Shun might take exception, but in this case he'll give it all he really gives any other joke, which is a very faint snort. It's...probably meant to sound amused. Maybe. It's hard to tell.

Wendy's definitely right on the more serious remark, though, and he gives a half-shrug at the question.]

If everyone else isn't too drunk or stupid to notice. Putting that much of a mixed drink you don't have any real idea of the contents of in you is asking to at least wake up on the side of a road without any memory of what got you there. Or not wake up at all, depending on your luck.

[As opposed to Wendy's earlier joke, this is an entirely serious comment.]

Well, let’s hope that they just get blackout drunk and make different questionable life choices that aren’t drinking more of these, and just… You know. Losing your pants. Things like that.

[There’s probably going to be a lot of ridiculous stories that will come from tonight, but, oh well. That’s what happens, she supposes. Watching as various people get worried about the things they’re drinking, she taps her foot.]

...Do you think any of the gods are going to get prayers about hangovers in the morning?

[Hey, people pray for all sorts of reasons, right? Sometimes it’s serious, which she can respect: wanting someone to be safe, wanting a business to succeed, things like that. But then, well, there’s plenty of prayers for the more asinine, and she’s pretty sure that they’re going to happen in the morning.]

I wouldn't count on that, but at least if they start losing clothing it's not going to be fatal to anything except their dignity.

[As usual, Shun is probably taking this about a hundred times more seriously than the conversation actually warrants, but he's trying. It's more than he can say for his reactions to a lot of things like this.

Wendy manages to get another faint snort out of him at the question, and he doesn't seem at all unsure when he inclines his head in response.]

Definitely. There'd have to be someone unlucky enough to be a god of that sort of thing, and people will always take the chance to make petty complaints.

[Getting even those small reactions seems to amuse Wendy in turn, simply because he seems like such the serious sort that it’s a welcome change. She’d say that life is too short to be so serious, but… Well. That’s not exactly a concern for the rest of them, although she’s heard that ‘death’ is still a concept in some ways.]

At least it doesn’t sound like something you’ll have to deal with, since you seem so unconcerned.