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TEST DRIVE # 15

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.

Sneaky Snakes

There are a number of snakes that have become possessed by a bunch of very sneaky ayakashi. They are slithering around, silently, snaring unsuspecting passersby into their trap - their trap to steal money. That's right, these snakes are busy snatching bills and coins from whoever they can. Try to put a stop to their thieving ways, or perhaps get thieved by them yourself.

Tummy Troubles

Many of the customers of a certain restaurant are complaining of the fact that their stomachs hurt after eating there. It could just be food poisoning, but many of these people are winding up in critical condition after a couple of days. It's time to figure out what the heck this cook is actually putting in the food.

Underwhelming Underwear

A family run business has been selling underwear for generations, but the underwear they sell is super boring and bland. Nobody wants to buy from them when cooler underwear is just around the corner. They've asked you to help them bring customers back in - by making their boring underwear seem as cool and hip as possible! How you do that is up to you.

Vividly Violet

There are so many ayakashi making their way through the air that at sunset the sky is turning an absolutely gorgeous shade of purple. Near Shore residents are reacting to this in varying ways. Many are delighted by the beautiful sky, but just as many are terrified that it's a sign of the end of times. Try to take down some ayakashi to make the sky less purple. Or just sit back and watch the beauty.

Wonder Wall

Anyways, there's this college boy who won't stop playing his acoustic guitar. He's from the US and is trying to pick up Japanese chicks. By now he should've somehow realized that they're totally not interested in him. But the song just keeps getting louder and louder and all that the people near the campus can hope is that today is gonna be the day that he stops playing. Maybe you're gonna be the one that saves them.

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

Kairi unplugged her own ears as Alice was musing to herself and noticed her say Cupid. "Oh, you must be from the Far Shore too then - are you hear answering a prayer for him?" She wandered over and smiled at the other girl. "Because I don't think there's a Cupid around, but I do know an Eros. He's nice enough he might help you out." She said with a rudimentary understanding of the Greek words of love to know what kind of love Eros stood for, but she'd met him as "Rin" first so she didn't associate such awkwardly lurid things with him.

She turned to look at Kairi and smiled, giving a small nod. She gestured to the guitarist not so far away.

"Well, I wouldn't want him to be romantically in love with the harp," she offered with a bigger grin as she tilted her head. "But singing and music takes practice... I think though he needs to learn to love music for music! Practice makes perfect and he's not perfect."

"Ohhh, I get what you're saying - if he played the harp all the time, it wouldn't sound as bad." That hadn't occurred to her. "Besides, it might make the girl like him more too - the harp's really pretty to listen to, like you said. She might even prefer it..."

But then Kairi takes a step back to consider. "Music for music's sake... either a really good teacher could tell him that, or maybe if he went to a fun concert where they were still playing classical music?" Weirder things had been suggested as a way to answer prayers, as far as she was concerned.

Alice looked about and gestured idly to the building that said "Theater."

"DO you think we'll find someone in there that can recommend it? We can't be too far from the music building, if they have such a thing." Should one of them pretend to be a lost student, perhaps? Well, in her case a lost child.

Kairi turned to see where Alice was pointing. "I'm not sure. That building could be a movie theater or it could where they put on plays. I'm not sure if they hold concerts there too."

But she shrugged anyway. "It's a good place to start - and get directions from someone who knows the buildings on campus better, maybe?"

"A movie theater, at a university? Goodness, universities are quite different in America than they are in England. Do all American universities have movie theaters?" she supposed it couldn't be all bad, could it? With film students and the sorts. America did tend to have a lot of movies and actors, so perhaps that was why the increasing need for movie theaters.

"That sounds like a splendid idea, let us see if we can't find someone then!" she grabbed Kairi's hand, trying to find someone who looked like they knew what and where everything was.

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here, not hear, oops, freudian slip I guess haha

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