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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

[ Okay, creepy! Super creepy!! Naru can feel those eyes boring holes through him like laser beams. Like ... Cyclops? He does just have one eye. Hahaha...not really funny, no. (Besides, Cyclops doesn't shoot lasers, but optic blasts from another dimension, his brain helpfully supplies). ]

I'm not wrong! I didn't say I was wrong. [ He's going to insist on this. He has a feeling if he says otherwise, he might get shanked. ]

You shouldn't question me, either. You're just a shinki, and all. [ Not exactly what Naru believes, but he's running with it ... ]

[ Meanwhile, Farf is just getting more and more certain that this little creature isn't a god at all. What kind of a god doesn't know things? What kind of a god stutters and twitches like a rabbit? ]

So punish me.

[ He takes a step away from the glass, and holds out his hands to the sides in a mockery of a bow. ]

I doubt you. Show me your thunder and wrath.

[ Forget terrifying. Now he's just being annoying. Naru might not be the best combat guy of Crashers, but he's still Crashers! Or ex-Crashers. He stiffens a bit and frowns proudly. ]

Hmph. I don't see why I should, but I could demonstrate some of my powers.

[ And good thing he has some, too. Unlike his human self, who was pretty damn good at lots of things, but nothing especially supernatural/magical. He brings his arm out in front of him, hand down. He snaps his fingers and turns his hand up. A flame rises up from his palm. Don't get too close...it can flare up in an instant and scorch the eyebrows right off your face.

Now, if only he had this power back when he was a delinquent pyromaniac, before Queen picked him off the street. The damage he could've done! ]

[ Fire powers? Berserker of Schwarz wouldn't have been impressed by simple fire powers.

The shinki Farfarello is only dubiously impressed. Thinking that it might be illusory fire, he reaches out for it, trying to grab it or pass his fingers through it or really whatever he can get away with. ]