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TEST DRIVE # 14

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.

Noxious Neurotoxins

There's a few blocks of Tokyo that have been closed off completely and quarantined. It seems there's a deadly neurotoxin that's been detected in the area. But authorities claim there's no way that could have happened! Looks like this might be the work of an ayakashi. Try not to get infected.

Omnipresent Obituary

The same obituary has been showing up in the papers for the last three weeks. It's for a young boy who died in a car accident. Thing is, this accident happened more than twenty years ago. A little ghost boy is just looking for some attention by printing his own death announcement over and over again. Spend a little time with him, would you?

Pretentious Partner

A detective hailed as the greatest in his field has one heck of a time keeping a partner. But he needs one bad, so he's calling on random strangers to help him out. Unfortunately, he's very full of himself and not even that good at his job. Maybe that's why all his partners leave. It's up to you to help or hurt him!

Quick Quips

Time to step up to the mic and make some jokes. A local bar needs performers - specifically comedic ones. You'd better be quick with your jokes or the audience is going to boo you off the stage, and then you won't get the payment you've been promised for doing a good job! Oh, and this is a request from a devote follower, so you'll lose that support too.

Radical Roombas

Some off-the-wall ayakashi have possessed a number of Roombas and are busily terrorizing people on the streets. That's right - small, round, automated vacuum cleaners are bothering the people of Tokyo. What's more, some kid thought it would be funny to tape knives to some of them. Watch out for Stabby and try to take out the spirit possessing it.

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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1) Pretentious Partner

If it was a choice between helping him or hurting him, then this was going to hurt.

The pretentious gumshoe had made one too many quips at Sesshomaru's expense. The God had one of his hands wrapped dangerously tight around the humans throat, claws grazing lightly against his flesh, but not yet having fatally broken the skin.

Sesshomaru looked unconcerned at the mans struggles, as the man's limbs thumped weakly against his grasp. If there was a Shinki around to advise him, perhaps the detective wouldn't lose his life today, otherwise Sesshomaru held no qualms against ending the mans life now.

After all, he was a god, and gods could do no wrong.

"Fool."

2) Noxious Neurotoxins

The dog demon was becoming quite vexed. This ayakashi shouldn't have been this difficult to locate, but smelling him out through the smog of this accursed city was proving to be a trial. There was present a tingling in his mouth and limbs, and perhaps in-perceptible to all but the most observant, his movements had begun to become slowed and sluggish. It was quite a potent creature.

Wait. There. So small, but sure enough, the ayakashi was bobbing dangerously close to the head of another unfortunate soul come to investigate. Drawing his blade, the demon lunged, paying no heed nor warning to the bystander.

"Enough."

Not a shinki, but a fellow god -- one who dropped to the ground nearby in a clatter of hooves, wings spread wide and a stern glare fixed on Sesshomaru.

"Harming him is an unworthy use of your power."

Sesshomaru turned his head slightly to examine the newcomer. Another god, hmm?

"It should be no concern of yours." As if that settled the matter, his attention drifted lazily back to the man he'd pinned to the wall. Unworthy use of his power? Perhaps. But what prayer could he answer that was worthy of him?

"The powers of the gods are meant to be used to benefit people, not harm them," Celestia responded, not in the least bit deterred from her interfering. "But if moral concerns do not bother you, consider the practical ones. If he is another god's follower, you will be provoking a way you will be ill-suited to win and that will only harm all of us in the long term. If he is your own, you will be harming yourself. Whatever brief satisfaction you may get from harming him will not be worth the long-term damage done."

The annoying stench was enough to drive anyone insane, or just him anyway. What a time to have heightened smell?

Surely enough he managed to locate his damn god, it only took forever in this foul smog. Bastard! Going off by himself like that! By the looks of it he about to hit some random stranger too? InuYasha gave a brief growl before lunging into the attack. With a keen reaction, InuYasha caught onto his blade. Never mind he didn't even notice the ayakashi nearby.

"What're you doin'?!"

Stupid God.

Edited 2017-03-07 21:42 (UTC)

His attack had been aimed perfectly for the loathsome little creature, even if touching the pest would've blighted him, at the very least, it would've been dead.

Unfortunately, a loathsome creature of an entirely different type had bothered to interfere. Sesshomaru moved towards Inuyasha, shoving him angrily aside with his shoulder, releasing the Shinki's grasp on his blade. "Know your place!"

Ignoring his half-brother, Shinki or not, he leaped gracefully over the human, eyes trying to catch sight of the ayakashi before the damn thing fled again.

InuYasha didn't bother to assess the situation before acting, but with sluggish movements like those, whose to say Sesshomaru would have actually his target? Needless to say, InuYasha's knee-jerk reaction did what it was supposed to do, hinder his god.

The half demon slid back at the force, but not by very far. His teeth gritted as he left out a brief growl. InuYasha pivoted to keep up with the god. Just what was he up to? Another attempt at scent tracking was made, but it was difficult to pinpoint anything in the poison. InuYasha settled with stalking Sesshomaru to his end game, whilst keeping up with him, it occurred to him that it was likely one of the ayakashi. ~~Well that would have explained the reaction.~~

Using the blood that decorated his hand from the cut caused by catching the blade, InuYasha executed "Blades of blood!" Red jaded, claw-like energy struck out and cut off the creatures escape route. This would allow an opening for Sesshomaru, whether he wanted it or not.

Mikleo didn't hesitate to grab Sesshoumaru's arm the minute he spotted the demon choking the poor human. Sure he was a terrible detective and damn straight he should have been killed but Mikleo's morals didn't allow that. No one deserved to die even if the were truly messed up and full of crap. The shorter boy's hands increasingly tightened his grip when he grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm.

"Hey let him go. This isn't how we're suppose to do this."

He replies calmly. Please don't make him have to reprimand a God, Sesshoumaru. He's a Shinki and he will overstep his boundaries.

"Is it not?" If Mikleo's goal was to save the man's life, then for the moment he'd succeeded. The demon's grip loosened enough that the man thudded to the ground, sputtering and gasping. Of course, the down side of that maneuver is that Sesshomaru's annoyed gaze is now directed at him in his place.

"Who are you to decide what I, Sesshomaru, should and should not do?" Who was to say this man's life was even worth saving? Honestly, this prayer thing was simply a bother.

"No it isn't. There are other ways to get people like him to make up for what he's done"

Even though the poor detective didn't see him, Mikleo was still stern on trying to return the favor by not killing him. That was at least the first step. The water seraph slowly lets go of Sesshoumaru's arm once he dropped the human who was now sputtering for air.

"I'm not, but if you're going to do something like this irrationally, we'll end getting in trouble. God or not, you shouldn't kill someone because they did something wrong. Instead, we should focus on getting evidence against him."

He's the demons' Shinki right now and he was by no means going to let him kill a man on his watch.

All of this blabbering on was tiresome. Even if the two of them gathered evidence to expose this failure of a detective and all his shady dealings, to whom shall they report them to? The humans had some form of government, yes, but that was not his place to interfere in, nor did he want to fill his head with that nonsense.

"Do gods not cast judgement?" From his understanding, Gods were born from many different wishes. Some people wished for strength, forgiveness, others wished for pain and the death of others.

Please... Mercy... The man sputtered at his feet. Sesshomaru made a quiet sound of disapproval and turned away. If he dispatched the man now, his Shinki would surely revolt. It would do him no good to have yet another weapon that would not cut.

But what to do with the human?

The so-called detective had indeed been more than annoying. Hell, it was taking more than the blond thought he had to not throw him across the city. However the Shinki also knew that the man was harmless. Also related to a prayer, which seemed important to try and carry out. At least, that's how it sounded from other people.

So when you see a God about to choke a helpless person to death, whether or not they were yours, it felt like you should do something.

"Oi," was the first thing he said when coming beside the long-haired God. Shizuo was thoroughly a human before having died and was just a few inches taller than Sesshoumaru. It still wasn't difficult for him to take a fistful of clothing and hair between the shoulder-blades to start lifting the demon-God up. "He's an annoying jackass, but he's still a life. So let him go already."

... Sesshomaru had never been picked up in his adult life. ~~(We will kindly leave any puppy demon memories with mother to the side for now.)~~ And more to the point, he'd never been so thoroughly disrespected by someone who was supposed to be serving him. Of course, it would be unbecoming of a God, and more importantly, of a demon of his stature to become needlessly flustered by such things. Yet, even so, this blatant disrespect could not stand. Only the human trapped in his grasp had witness the rage flare in his eyes momentarily.

Calmly, the God's hold tightened on the human for a moment, only to gain a proper grip for what was to come. Unceremoniously, the demon flung the human into the Shinki beside him. He was careful to keep the force from being fatal to the man, but injury was not a concern.

There. Now that he'd released the detective, perhaps that annoying stinging sensation would stop. "Insects possess lives as well. No one mourns them."

One would imagine that someone who jumped in front of a giant metal monster (also known as a Bullet Train) to save a child and kitten would also be the honorable type. You know, the kind of soul that understood the placement of a lord and servant. Unfortunately for this demon lord, he got someone who normally preferred to lounge around and take it easy, but had more of a hair-trigger temper than some half-breeds the lord knew, and had no recollection or understanding of the unusual strength he had. For a completely normal human, that is.

He also had some amazing fortitude for one, as well. For as the detective was flung into the blond, the force barely moved Shizuo an inch. Even more, he kept his hold on the God. With little actual concern for the injuries the now-sputtering man may have, he set both the detective and Lord down with the same amount of ease.

One could imagine that there was subtext in all of this. One could imagine that for a lot of what Shizuo did. Really, he just acted on what seemed like the thing to do.

"I dunno," he said while ignoring anything the living person may be doing, and probably looking right over... Honestly, Shizuo probably didn't remember much about the person they were supposed to tail. "There's probably someone out there that does. Maybe some kids."

While I won't say he doesn't deserve this kind of treatment, acting in such a manner could cost you worshipers.

[Kikyo took a sip of tea, tagging along out of curiosity's sake and nothing more.]

Sir Detective, if you value your life, it may be in your best interest to alter your attitude.

One less will not cripple me. [Perhaps to see if the detective would take her advice, he allowed the man to slump down between his fingers.

But fortunately for the detective, just then Sesshomaru caught wind of the scent of the man they were supposed to be tailing. It was typical private detective work, unimportant drivel involving the slaying of human lives. Disappointingly the accused had no scent of human blood on him, nor gunpower, or even the sickly smell of ayakashi.]

Get up.

Edited 2017-03-11 04:27 (UTC)

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I : WHY ARE YOU AN INUYASHA PRONE TO VIOLENCE LORD.

Sorry, we're from shounen. Our solution is to punch it until it stops twitching.

that is not a proper answer GDI

Rofl. Blame it on our dad then?

1 - Your choice if he's Sessh's shinki or a random one

We can make him Sesshy's. For extra fun. :)

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