TEST DRIVE # 17

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 17



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.



Courtly Cadavers

Several dead bodies have very suddenly returned to life. Not only that, but they seem to be possessed by very courteous and polite spirits. So there are reports of half-rotten beings bowing down to young ladies and kissing their hands or holding open doors for other passersby. It's really nice, sure, but also really disturbing.

Dark Deeds

In the middle of the night, there is a spirit that keeps turning off all of the street lamps. Fortunately, there aren't many cars on the roads at this time. Unfortunately, the spirit is also putting out all of the cars' headlights as well. And no cell phone lights or flashlights work during that time either and it's starting to cause a lot of accidents.

Endless Eight

There are eight blocks in downtown Tokyo that have taken to repeating endlessly. As you reach the end of the eight block, you find yourself stepping onto the first block again. No amount of turning or redirecting yourself will allow you to leave the eight blocks - until you stop by a cafe with a couple of bunny girls out front and make a purchase, that is.

Further Forward

Many in Tokyo want nothing more than to be on the cutting edge of technology! And there are some wealthy people who want to be even further ahead than everyone else. That's why they've sent out a general call for new types of technology to be brought to them. And if what you bring is impressive enough, you might get yourself a nice reward~

Giant Goats

Several farms on the outskirts of the city have reported a very sudden and tremendous growth in their goats. That's right, there are two-story tall goats hanging out with the other farm animals. Other than being very large, they seem mostly the same. But since goats will eat anything, well... Let's just say a couple of farmers are going to need new barns soon.



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Comments

Toushirou Hitsugaya | Bleach | God

[freezetheheavens]

Courtly Cadavers

[Seeing dead bodies coming to life hardly registers to Toushirou. It’s something that isn’t particularly out of the norm for the shinigami, especially since after everything that has happened.

Nonetheless, he can’t really allow half-rotten corpses to walk around, so he prevents one of the corpses from getting close to a young lady, forcing them back.]

Go and rest in peace already. There’s nothing left for you here.

[He’s not sure if he’s able to send these spirits to peace, so talking to them is one way of going at it.]

Dark Deeds

[Toushirou pauses when he hears the accidents occurring, a soft sigh escaping from him as he leisurely jumps across rooftops to survey the damage.

His eyes narrows the moment he notices the spirit.

It’s enough for him to draw his zanpakuto, lowering his reiatsu enough to start to freeze the spirit in its tracks.]

Wildcard

[Make up your own prompt!]

Courtly

[cruelspider]

[That young lady happens to be Machi. Her eyes shift from the half-rotten corpses to the short white haired kid man in front of her. There's the faintest bit of tension in her hands but its gone as quickly as it came. From behind, Toushirou looks like someone fimilar, but only for brief moment.]

It's useless.

Courtly Cadavers

[oopsiedaisy]

[Merrill was no stranger to the undead herself, however she was more familiar with the cranky variety. This one had caught her so off guard she just found herself staring as it approached, until the young boy came to her rescue.

And oh wasn't he just precious? Not very understanding though, the dead man was being rather nice, and she didn't want him to get all cranky and bitey and stabby like the ones back home.]

Oh um, but thank you anyway. You were very nice...[She struggled to find something kind to say to the undead in return. He probably was having a hard time being dead and all, so he probably needed some encouragement!] I hope you find the rest of your face, I'm sure it will look very nice all... back.. together...again.

[She trailed of as a shiver ran up her spine, because thinking about it, she realized he was really quite icky.]

cadavers

[dragonflood]

They can't be reasoned with. [In her experience with these kinds of things, anyway. She hasn't actually tried with these ones, but there's no reason to when she can spend her time searching for the root of the problem instead.]

They're not making much trouble yet. If you're done here, let's look around for what's doing this.

Why more zombies though

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako had frozen at the sight of the corpse shambling towards her because it was so much like her first day here that for a moment she could only stare in horror. But then someone is speaking nearby and as that wasn't a voice she recognized, she's going to assume it's not another evil spirit trying to trick her. For once strangers meant the opposite of danger!

Which is why she's quick to duck behind him, peering out around his side at the corpse, fingers clutching the dark fabric of his robes. ]

I don't think he's listening to you.

1/2 cadavers!

[likethelight]

[ Go rest in peace...?

It's not the answer Allen is used to hearing from other gods and shinki. Not against so unsightly an undead; what everyone would see as a monster even if these are so well-mannered it's a little unsettling.

The other boy-god drops down beside him, expression clear and a bit curious. Don't mind him.

Or his black and blood red left eye and how he seems to be looking through the cadaver. ]

These aren't their normal bodies. [ It's said so conversationally, as if by means of explanation. 'sup ]

Son Gohan | Dragon Ball Z | God

[saiyanhybrid]

Endless Eight

Do you know what’s going on here?

[Because Gohan’s getting tired of flying around in what seems to be in circles.

He stops in mid-flight, probably hovering over a person before he comes down to land beside them.]

Something keeps looping me back.

Giant Goats

[Goats.

Gohan is a bit bemused as he notices the giant goats. It’s enough to make him fly above them, just out of their reach, in order to get a better glimpse of them.

He rubs the back of his head, wincing when one of the giant goats ate another barn.]

Wildcard

[Feel free to make up your own!]

Eights

[sogetsu]

[Weird as that may be, what's really eye catching is the fact this guy can fly. A quick glance gives her no sign of wings or how he's doing it. Maybe it's a god thing?]

Have you tried walking? How are you doing that anyway?

[Regular people can't just float like that! She wants to do it too]

Riza Hawkeye | FMA:B | Shinki

[intohell]

❚❚❚ Courtly Cadavers

[This is just creepy. Especially since these guys don't seem inclined to accept rejection. Riza's taken to distracting a couple of them so some poor girl can run off screaming.]

I'm sure you're very nice, but she wasn't interested.

[And just to make it clear.]

Neither am I.

❚❚❚ Endless Eight

[Riza has no reason to think anything is amiss at first. Sure she's passed several shops that look just alike multiple times now, but there are Starbucks on every corner in some towns, why not multiple versions of that bunny cafe? And maybe they all hire look-a-like staff?

No, that's too much.]

Excuse me?

[Yes, you coming from the other direction.]

I was told there was a library on this street, but I've been walking for some time now. Have you seen it?

❚❚❚ Wildcard

((ooc: Got an idea you want to do instead? Go for it. I'm up for pretty much anything. Not sure - pm me or hit me up at purkle))

Endless Eight

[oopsiedaisy]

[Merrill looks at the woman wide-eyed and nearly in tears. After hours of being lost herself having someone talk to her was enough for her to tell the story she'd been bottling up for hours as she was lost.]

Oh I thought it was just me! I have been walking in circles all night, I passed by the same crack on the street nine times, and at first I thought "oh maybe there are just a lot of cracks that look alike" but then I kept seeing it, and it just seemed like the same crack, but I should be getting home because it's late and I get lost so easily in the dark, and I don't even have my ball of twine to help.

Shion | No. 6 | Shinki

[asterflower]

[Courtly Cadavers]

Oh, excuse me.

[Shion accidentally bumps his shoulder against someone and turns to apologize. Unfortunately that someone turns out to be something. A dead body come back to life that is now turning back to him to take his hand and—

... Kiss it.

Shion’s eyes go wide and he struggles with what he should do. Pull away? Scream? Take a picture? Stare...?]

Please... Um...

[Endless Eight]

This is completely ridiculous. It makes no sense.

[Shion sighs and furrows his eyebrows. He’s sure he’s seen this café at least three times on his way back to his home temple. He turns to look up the normal looking street and then back down it. Is something playing tricks on his eyes?

Looking lost and a little perplexed, Shion continues down the street without another glance at the bunny girls. And sure enough he sees the same café again after a few minutes of walking.]

Something is playing a trick on me.

[Shion, do you not see those bunny girls waving at you?]

[Giant Goats]

[It’s not only the farmers that might need help dealing with the goats. It is Shion too. Shion’s abnormal white color hair and red eyes seems to have caught the attention of the goats and they’ve started chasing after him.]

A-Ahh!

[All Shion can do is run. which isn’t very fast because what is cardio The goats are gaining on him and who knows what will happen to him if they get him in their mouths or under their hooves. Help!]

Giant Goats

[freezetheheavens]

[The moment Toushirou notices the poor boy running, he's quick to flash step towards him.

With a wave of his sword, he freezes the goats in their tracks before lifting Shion up effortlessly and flash stepping away - a good miles away from the goats.]

Teddie | Persona 4 | God

[bearpuns]

one; courtly cadavers

[ Teddie wasn’t sure how he even ended up here, or what people were talking about when they were going on about a god…but he certainly didn’t understand the weird get up these guys were in! Maybe Junes was having a really weird event? Wouldn’t be the first time…

Tilting his head, he noticed how polite and courteous the zombie-people were being so he thought he just had to be the same! ]

Thank you for the compliment, but a humble bear like me doesn’t know anything about gods or such! I’m actually looking for a friend of mine! He’s kind of tall and goes by “Sensei”!

two; endless eight

[ Teddie had spent a good half hour wondering why everything in this place looked the same. When he finally noticed that he was just walking in a circle, he stopped and hopped from one section to the other, noticing how it just continued.

Frowning, he immediately looked around to see something that was different; trying to see if maybe someone he knew was having the same problem. Too bad a pair of blue eyes landed on a girl in a bunny suit. Teddie only grins and slides up to her. ]

You’re an unbearably welcome sight! Would you like to go on a date with me?

three; wildcard

[ Please let me know if you’d like to do something else! ]

one

[antepone]

[ ... he doesn't look like a bear... Maybe this is just a joke? ]

Oh... I'm sorry, I haven't seen your friend around. ... I think. There are a lot of tall people here.

Pidge Gunderson | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Shinki

[verde]

one; dark deeds

[ Pidge wasn’t sure how much how she could be with chores and cleaning, but when the lights started going out, she knew she could help in some way. Looking at the light, she was careful to open up the small console, trying to mess with the wires and get the light back on. However, as soon as she would get one on, she would see another one turn off. Grumbling, she immediately went to the next, and the next, until it was a street full of lights that she had fixed and then subsequently turned off.

Stomping her foot, she could feel the lights flicker with her own kinesis as she cursed. ]

Whoever you are, stop being a coward and fight me in an actual fight! You know…with computers and stuff!

two; further forward

[ Pidge was sitting in the line of potential candidates with new technology. While she is messing with the computer, her small, pyramid-like robot beside of it, she was eying the competition. Small robots, new phones…something with board and….a light? Either way, she wasn’t impressed. After all, this robot she made could do a bunch of things! It could sync up with many different products, hack them or even fix them! It was like a swiss army knife, but a robot!

She thought maybe she should give it a name, but she couldn’t figure out what to name it. Moving her hand over it’s outer shell, there was a small smile spreading on her lips. ]

Rover. That’ll be your name!

three; wildcard

[ Please let me know if you want to do something in particular! ]

Dark Deeds

[freezetheheavens]

I wouldn't waste my breath on it if I were you.

[Toushirou is standing above her in midair, arms crossed as his eyes seem to track the spirit.]

Junko Enoshima | Dangan Ronpa Series | God(dess)

[ultimatedisbear]

Dark Deeds

[Junko is happy to just stroll along, no matter the time of day. It's no skin off of her teeth if anything happens to anyone, and, well, she's never really had many problems with other people. In the normal sense of those words.

However, when the street lights start to go out, she stops and looks around, curious.]

Oh no! I didn't grant any prayers about this. What is going on?!

[Always better to play dumb. They underestimate you then.

Just as she goes to take a step further the sound of car's brakes squealing down the road as it breezes past her, no lights, no horn, just a ton of metal, plastic and glass nearly crushing her.]

ALRIGHT! WHO DID THAT? WHO DARES!

Endless Eight

[She doesn't necessarily hate Tokyo. It has his benefits, of course, but she normally just has a great loathing for people in general. She's only come to this part of town to get something that isn't available in the other sections (a candy she's taken a liking to), but she's passed by the stupid bunny girl cafe like five times. Which means she's traversed the same damn eight blocks five times.

As such, her patience is at an end and she's thirsty. Since there are no other cafes or convenience stores in the area, she stops over to the nearest cosplaying waitress and glares.]

Bubble tea, with extra bubbles. And black and white cookies. Now.

Giant Goats

[She's heard about it, but, well, it's a thing of beauty to watch in person.

Goats, the size of school buildings, eating everything in sight.]

Wow, I've seen some things, but this really takes the bear.

Dark Deeds

[intohell]

Of course not, who would pray for something like this?

[Unless she meant someone had prayed to pay their electric bill and they'd missed it? Riza's lucky enough to have further back when the car roared past them.]

Calm down. It's not like they could see you. You didn't see them after all.

[And the car was a much bigger target.]

Uraraka Ochako | My Hero Academia | Shinki

[lifts]

Courtly Cadavers:

W-W-Wha-!!!!!

[On one hand. It should be very flattering to have someone kiss your hand in this day and age. That's something that doesn't happen these days. The reality though is that having a dead body touching you, much less kissing any part of your body is gross...

Uraraka can't help but shriek a little as she slams her fist into one of the decomposing bodies..

This is unsolicited physical contact and she did not sign up for corpse smooches of any kind.]

Endless Eights:

I'm sure I've passed this shop before...

[Uraraka is standing in front of the shop with the bunny girls and tapping her chin thought. The second time she passed it she thought it was coincidence. The third time she started getting suspicious. The fourth time she stopped and knew that there was something going on. Why was she stuck on these blocks???]

Excuse me! I'm trying to get out of here!

[She quickly makes her way towards the closest person.]

Wildcard:

[Hit me up with something else!

[fullcowl]

[Izuku's pretty sure he stepped somewhere weird because how many times has he seen this exact same building? He stops nearby to rub his temple like it'll help.

And then Uraraka is coming up to him? Like she doesn't know him and his heart aches for a moment. Just... just how many of his friends are dead because he wasn't at home...?

He forces himself to swallow the emotion.]

I think I'm trapped too.

Ryuji Sakamoto | Persona 5 | God

[forreal]

Courtly Cadavers

[As if this place was at any shortage of weird, more and more surprises seem to be popping up like tulips in the spring. On one hand, it's kinda cool in that he'll never get bored, but on the other hand?

Well, the other hand is currently being held and gently caressed in the palm of some half-dead freak, or a really good cosplayer... he can't tell anymore. Ryuji is so caught up in his own shock and if he's at all honest with himself, the fact that he's almost shitting his pants at this, that it takes a moment to react. It's when he feels the dry, scaly lips press against the soft, delicate skin of his hands that his reaction comes out in such a physically exaggerated manner that he could almost take out anyone who might be within reach of him.]

YO!! [He's going to be really loud about this too, apparently.] The hell man!? Prank gone too far. So not appreciatin' the gesture. You can hold a door open for me, but I draw the line at a dead man's lips on my hand!

[Help...?]

Endless Eight

[Alright. He's pretty sure he hasn't been looking at his phone upside-down, so when he finds himself right back at the start again, Ryuji's feet come to a screaming halt and he whips around to check behind him. For what? He's not really sure but something feels off about all of this and it's giving him the heebie jeebies. He can definitely count and he's up to three times now where the cute girls in the bunny outfits are calling out to him and beckoning him over.

Don't get him wrong - if it weren't for him being so damn confused right now, he'd take them up on the offer. He's more angry about the fact that he can't find his way around which prompts him to turn to the nearest person - you - and does what only the bravest of men do... the manliest of men. For he is a man's man.]


Uh, hey. [Sheepish smile as he half-turns his phone to show the map.] I'm tryin' to get to this bakery... any idea how to get there?

[He asks for directions.]

Giant Goats

[Give him a second. He's gotta rub his eyes for this one because either he hasn't been getting enough sleep since he got here and he's lost his damn mind or... no, there's no other explanation for it. He's definitely losing it. There is no way in hell those are goats the size of two story buildings grazing around on these farms. All he can really do is stand there for now, watching them with a dead look in his eyes.]

Guess that explains where all my protein powder went.

Wildcard!

[Got something else? Slam it down!]

goats

[dragonflood]

If that powder was in your coat, I don't think they're the culprit.

[She initiates a stare-down with the nearest goat, but it doesn't pay any attention to her.]

How long have you been here?

Tenya Iida | My Hero Academia | Shinki

[brains_beef_and_brows]

[Toss another dead hero into the mix~ Sorry Deku we aim to break you.]

Courtly Cadavers

Yes, yes. Everything seems to be perfectly normal- there's gentlemen being kind to ladies, showing the perfect amount of manners. Opening doors for ladies, bowing in apologies, and even some being a little bit more bold by kissing the tops of ladies hands and by Iida's book that is perfectly alright. What is not alright? The fact that despite their good manners- the corpses are down right slobs! They are just sloppily discarding precious body parts all over the place and guess who has to alert them to their misdeeds? That's right- Impeccable Iida~!

So.... Do you help the guy who is going around helping the corpses or do you save the poor corpses (and what remains of their ears) and distract Iida?


Wild card: You choose your own adventure!

[fullcowl]

The problem is once again he has no idea if Iida knows who he is. Should he say something? Shouldn't... shouldn't they be stopping the corpses? Even as polite as they are, they're still decomposing corpses and they're seriously freaking people out here.

"Ah... hey?"

Yeah, that's a good start. It leaves plenty of room for Iida to respond to him without letting him know Izuku knows him.

rokudo mukuro | khr | god.

[mistify]

COURTLY CADAVERS

[ He'd been sitting on a bench at the park when the dead started appearing, terrorizing and bewildering the people around him in equal measure. If he had a bag of popcorn, he'd be eating it.

A couple of half-rotting corpses wave at him in greeting when they see him. He waves back. ]

How polite. Plenty others could learn from them.



ENDLESS EIGHT

[ Mukuro knows a faint illusion when he sees it, as subtle and cutesy as this is. It's annoying and impressive in equal measure, which delights him to no end especially considering the amount of frustration that it will cause. He makes a beeline for the cafe after the first loop. He doesn't quite talk to the girls, not yet — although he does wave back at them when they do — but to the next closest to him who looks just about as confused as a person walking around in circles would. ]

Impressive dedication, don't you think?

[ The illusion, or the girls being outside all day doing their job mis- and redirecting everyone's attention, who knows? But he's of course going for the assumption that no one knows what the hell is going on and will just think he's being weird saying things out of the blue. ]

Perhaps a drink might cool your head.



WILDCARD

( bring your own tag!! )

Endless Eight

[oopsiedaisy]

[Merrill had been twirling around muttering to herself as she tried to figure out how she managed to get so lost this time. She had been so lost in thought she hadn't even noticed someone else was there until he spoke, and he gave her such a start she let out a yelp and whirled around so fast she nearly fell over.]

Oh what? A drink? [Oh. He was just a person with silly hair. That wasn't so startling, and he was trying to help too. How nice of him!] Do you think it will help? I was hoping for a ball of twine maybe, I left mine at home.

[Her thoughts jump before he even has an opportunity to answer her inquiry about twine, and she goes into another question that had been on her mind almost all night.]

Do you know why those women are dressed as rabbits? It looks cold.

Obi | Akagami no Shirayukihime | God

[yasei]

Courtly Cadavers
[ From an assassin's the point of view, the dead getting up and moving around is not ideal. Not that Obi is responsible for any of these particular deaths, but it makes him think that it would be pretty bad if this had or did happen in Clarines.

That is, until one of the dead bodies, who was apparently intending to help an old lady carry her things, is smacked in the head with her handbag. Really hard, too, from what Obi gathers. Because the corpse topples over right into the street and flails.

And Obi, well... ]

Bwahahaha!! Awesome!!

[ Obi finds it hilarious. ]


Dark Deeds
[ Thankfully, Obi has excellent night vision. He's the most at home in the darkness.

The same cannot be said about most other people, and Obi avoids the mess of people by getting up on a lamp-post and peering down. ]

Uwaaah, those metal carriages sure are dangerous.


Endless Eight
What are they wearing?

[ No, seriously. What are they wearing? He's never seen bunny girls before. ]


wildcard

Dark!

[darkestbefore]

[ Yona is not quite so lucky with the night vision and her climbing skills are.... mostly nonexistent. Therefore she's not really equipped to be dealing with any of this, especially since she'd been caught out here entirely by accident.

One hand is on the lamppost Obi's chosen, however, as the redhead waits for her eyes to adjust to the sudden blackness the entire street's been dropped into.

The voice coming from overhead somewhere has her head tipping back in confusion, even though she can make out almost nothing. ]

Hello?

[ Metal carriages? There's none of those around here, right? ]

Haruka Inaba | Cuticle Detective Inaba | God

[heartsound]

Dark Deeds
[ This guy is out wandering in a pajamas. He's at least wearing shoes...well, slippers.

Because he lost his oxygen tube and the Near Shore doesn't agree with him, he's really worn out and feels really weak. He's sitting against the wall of some building or other like a dying flower, mumbling inaudible words to himself. Up close it's something about "Nii-ni". Actually, in the end it's pretty much the only thing he's saying. ]


Endless Eight
[ Haruka has not faced the endless streets as such. He's heard about it from people passing, though, and has remained in place watching, instead of wearing himself out he's listened for the solution, and eventually he knows what to do. But dealing with salespeople is a hassle, and he usually lets Natsuki deal with those sorts of things, so he needs someone to help him out.

He listens, and he purposefully chooses to walk up to someone who, for one reason or other, won't turn down his requests. ]

Hey, excuse me? Could you help me with dealing with those people there?


Giant Goats
[ Having gotten hold of an oxygen tank that he can carry with him easily, he's somehow ended up getting dragged to the farm and there he stares up at the goat with a nostalgic look on his face. ]

Oh Don, you've grown so big~

[ Wrong goat, Haruka. ]


wildcard
[ Haruka can read thoughts and know things about people just from hearing their voice, that's always fun. ]

dark deeds

[dragonflood]

[A tiny bob of light floats over to him.]

You. [Sorry, guy, here's a lady standing right in front of him all of a sudden.]

Where do you need to be?

Makoto Niijima | Persona 5 | God (Warning for potential spoilers)

[nuclearpowered]

Dark Deeds

[The thought of accidents and lights going out without warnings has given Makoto plenty of reason to investigate, but when she rolls into this area of town on a strange motorcycle and realizes that it's headlights have winked out as well, she's realizes the full extent of the problem. Stepping off, the machine vanishing, she holds up a fist. Blue flame, an unnatural, almost radioactive seeming color surrounds it as she starts walking.

Pausing at the gap between two buildings, she peers into the darkness, her light source casting weird shadows in the gloom. A motion to one side catches her eye, and without thinking she sets herself into a fighting stance.

Calling out in a stentorian challenge, Makoto's voice rings out down an alley.]

Come out! There's no point in hiding down there!


Endless Eight

[Tokyo is a familiar enough place for Makoto, easy enough to move around in, but this district is new. She's not familiar at all with it, and so she marches through quickly, intent on making her way towards the next ward. Except, poof. Right back at the start. Blinking in surprise, she looks around at the humans nearby and goggles at you. Clearly you have all the answers, don't you?]

H-How?

Giant Goats

[Again with the unexpected, though this time with a bit of warning, Makoto stops on the outskirts of the farm and marvels at the enormous billy goat that's currently chewing on a tractor. It's...]

Magnificent. Impossible, but, certainly magnificent.

[Turning to whoever came with her, she flashes a smile.]

Why don't we go see if we can find him something more appropriate for dinner?


Wildcard

[Funk me up, friends! If you want to plot something with me, do so via PM or intercession! Also, if you want me to avoid spoilers please let me know in your subject heading]

hey look more people who can set themselves on fire!

[thevanguard]

Who's hiding?!

[ The voice comes back vaguely annoying before there's a flare of light from the alley and Yata steps around the corner of a building. His Red Aura is wrapped around him, illuminating a few feet in every direction surrounding him although doing very little about the thick darkness past that.

Although he stops short when he sees her, her own fist wrapped in blue fire. ]

Whoa. That's the first time I've seen a blue version before.

Mabel Pines | Gravity Falls | Shinki

[meowbel]

Courtly Cadavers

[Mabel had to admit, seeing a bunch of dead bodies running around was a little creepy to the poor young girl. At first, she was tempted to run as fast as she could wondering if they were going to eat her! Granted, they were really polite but she couldn't help but wonder if it was all just a trick or not. As she narrowed her eyes and pondered a little to herself. Should she attempt to talk to them or not?

Either way, it didn't take long for her to warm up to the undead beings.]

Oh, aren't you the ladies man? C'mon, let's go and see if there's any flowers around! I just know there's one with your name on it!

[Why yes, you are seeing a young girl dragging a dead body to a field of flowers. There's nothing wrong with that!]

Giant Goats

[The moment that Mabel had heard of a giant goats, she figured it was time for a visit to the local barn! While some might find it scary to be facing a giant creature ten times taller than you, that didn't seem to mind with the young girl.

Instead?]

Awwww, look at them! They're so cute! Quick, we should get them something to eat! They are growing goats, after all!

Wildcard

[Surprise me!]

goats

[priforprince]

Stand back, Princess.

[ When the wings that soar in the sky unfurl...

...Nah, this isn't the time for the Introductory Speech. It is, however, time for a mysterious figure in a mask, a cloak, and a floppy hat to drop down out of nowhere and brandish a rapier at the goats. ] We don't want them mistaking you for their hors d'oeuvres.

Tieria Erde | Gundam 00 | Shinki

[manmade]

[A: Endless Eight]

[At the end of the loop, when Tieria steps from the eighth block back to the first, the first thing he does is check behind an unobtrusive garbage can. Armed with a roll of bright red flagging tape, he’d been marking small, out of the way areas as he'd passed through in an attempt to prove if the area was truly trapped in a loop or if there was a different cause. It isn't until he sees the first mark he’d left behind, untouched and exactly as he'd left it, that Tieria feels confident confirming the veracity of the reports.]

So it is supernatural in nature... Then, what is the source?

[He could be commenting to his companion or to himself, depending on if anyone joined him for his investigation.]

[B: Jumping Jellyfish] (from TDM #13)

For some strange reason, a bunch of jellyfish have taken to literally jumping out of the ocean and all over the beaches. They seem to be scared of something in the water, but be that as it may, they're scaring away all the beach tourism! Quick, figure out how to get them back in the water!

[The beach is supposed to be a place for people to relax, to unwind while surrounded by the refreshing beauty of nature. It’s a place of peace, and generally speaking, things like weapons and murder are probably looked down upon.

So it’s a good thing that Tieria is a resident of the Far Shore or else he would’ve certainly stood out; poised at the end of a dock in business casual and armed with a handgun, he’s been systematically shooting down any jellyfish that dares to make their way to the beach. It’s solving one problem but creating another, as the living who have not been scared away in the first place are growing increasingly concerned over the amount of dead jellyfish washing ashore.]

[C: Wildcard]

[Hit me up with something else and I will roll with it. Or, you can contact me at byobeamspam or by PM to plan something out.]

Nagito Komaeda | Dangan Ronpa | God

[fortunesmiles]

Courtly Cadavers



[Komaeda supposes he'd find this a little weirder, people coming back from the dead and all, if that wasn't essentially something that's already happened to him just for him to be here. After all, if he died and is now alive (in a sense) here, as with all the other gods and shinki, it seems kind of silly to be arbitrarily afraid of zombies.

He's not even sure what the big difference is between them and the zombies, really, though clearly there is one. He hasn't met any obvious rotting corpses as gods or shinki. He supposes the decomposition and clearly different nature of the zombies might at least have the potential to be intimidating, though, if they weren't acting so polite. It's hard to be scared of a monster that's courteously holding doors for you, or lifting a dilapidated hat as you pass.

If Komaeda is anything, he's curious and confused.]

I'm really not sure if this qualifies as good or bad luck...is it both at once...?


Dark Deeds



[The biggest problem with being a god of fortune, while having such polarized luck himself, is that the luck Komaeda creates can come into conflict with the luck that he causes, good or bad. He has influence over the fortunes of others, but his own remains not just outside his reach, but as potent as anything his godly abilities can conjure. Which means that around him, any good fortune he tries to create, his own inherent bad luck promptly attempts to crush. The end result is that wherever he is, with anything that immediately or will eventually affect him...he can't create anything but a perpetual draw. Good luck and bad, constantly at war, never winning.

The upshot is that for every crash he tries to prevent, another one happens. And Komaeda knows that. So he's borderline panicking as he tries to distance himself from the wicked spirit and its street of influence, because god though he may be, he can't counter the effect it's having up close. He has to be far enough away that his bad luck won't kick in.]

Out of my way, please! I have to get out of here before I cause any more accidents!


Giant Goats



[Honestly...Komaeda doesn't really know what to make of this one. He's simply staring at one of the massive goats, head cocked, a thoughtful look on his face.]

It's bad luck for whoever owned that barn, I suppose... [He's talking to himself, hardly paying attention to whether anyone is near enough to hear him.] I wonder how it happened, though? I've heard of my luck making fantastically improbable things happen, but this just seems impossible.


Wildcard

[Any prompt of your own devising is fine!]

Dark Deeds

[ultimatedisbear]

[She thought she recognized that stupid hairstyle. Of course, of course it would be her favorite senpai who was here with her. His luck made Naegi's look normal.

And no doubt he would see it as a sign that they were together. And she's not so sure he's wrong this time.

Just as he tries to run away, she hooks her red-painted claws in the fabric of his hoodie and yanks. She's not surprised when his slight weight even comes her way. Nope, not at all.]

But you're going to miss all of the fun. I'm sure there are a few vending machines still standing.

Chrono | Chrono Crusade | God

[sinnersaved]

o1. DON'T FALL APART ON ME!!

IYAAAAA~!

[ That's the sound the woman, standing there on some city block with a mortified look on her face, makes. Crouched down and holding her purse close to her in a panic, one might think she's being attacked. She certainly thinks she's being attacked.

Why, exactly?

Maybe it has something to do with the boy(?) standing there in front of her, looking more than a bit dumbfounded. Or maybe, just maybe, it's the fact that this young man is holding what appears to be some poor unfortunate person's detached arm. Someone's very bony arm—actually, it's more bone than anything else, really.

Yeah, that probably has something to do with it.

Or, optimistic thought, she might be screaming about the very confused gentleman zombie ™ standing there between them.

But honestly, she's probably screaming about the boy holding someone's disembodied arm, let's be real here. ]

M-Miss, this really isn't what you think...

[ He starts to wave his right hand (wait no, the other one, he's still holding someone's arm with that hand), backing away slowly.

HE MIGHT HAVE A FEW REGRETS. A little help might be nice! ]

o2. GOING BUMP IN THE NIGHT.

[ To say that Chrono is used to circumstances like this is a bit of a misnomer—he's used to them, when a demon is involved. When accidents are more maliciously manufactured, and certainly not the byproduct of some capricious spirit's innocent whimsy gone awry.

But that doesn't change the fact that, after tracking the spritely specter throughout the city, the demon-god stops dead in his tracks the moment he hears tires screech, and the gut-wrenching crunch of metal colliding head-on with metal nearby.

And sitting in an intersection, two cars, both with their headlights disabled, in a mangled in a heap of metal and destruction. Suddenly, finding that spirit (the one that very likely caused this mess) moved so far down Chrono's priority list. Breaking into a sprint toward the scene, he begins to steel himself. This... isn't going to be pretty.

And without his horns—

No, there must be something he could do. There has to be. Surrounded by the mangled remains of what once was two vehicles, but now is some twisted, gruesome conjoined mess that he had to attempt to pull the survivors from...

If anyone could survive something like that...

She'd still insist on helping them, wouldn't she? Even at the cost of part of her life. Refusing would never be an option—Rosette would just make the choice for them. Even now, she made that choice for him, even if she was nowhere to be found.

Maybe that's what pushed him even harder; made Chrono run even faster, to try to help. No horns, no contractor, and no astral line to tap into, there had to be something he could do here! Right?! He can't just leave them there to die!

Time to find out what he was really capable of here. ]

oX. WILDCARD.

[ Got an idea that isn't here? hmu either in this thread or on Plurk at pearlescent! ]

Elena | FFVII Compliation | Shinki

[provenworth]

[Courtly Cadavers]

[She's seen plenty of B-rated horror films to know a zombie when she saw one. What she found more disturbing than the actual walking corpses was to see them being so gentle to their...prey? Victim? It was really hard to narrow down just what to call those who came to close and were subjected to such politeness.]

....Guess we can add this to the list of things I'd never expect to see.

[There was no escaping such kindness herself, one coming too close for comfort. Elena lifts a hand, palm out, as if the action would cause the creature to stop in its tracks.]

That's close enough. Go find yourself another person to bother.


[Dark Deeds]
[Darkness never seemed to bother Elena, which made her more apt to go out and enjoy evening strolls so she could enjoy the sky. What did bother her, however, was reckless drivers. Such as the one that passed by her so closely that she could feel the side mirror graze against her arm.]

WHAT IN THE-?! [She's furious, face flushed momentarily in anger, hands clenched at her sides, turning to yell at the retreating vehicle.] TURN ON YOUR DAMN LIGHTS BEFORE YOU GET SOMEONE KILLED!


[Wild Card!]
Bring your own tag!

Cadavers

[ashestoinnocence]

[Really? Is that all she's going to do? Just hold up her hand and say stop? What's that going to accomplish?

With an irritated sigh, Diana picks up a broken board off the ground, and swings it hard at the back of the shambling corpse's head. Luckily for her, the locals here are of a similar height to herself and she can actually reach. Wood connects to skull with a loud, sickening crack and the zombie crumples to the ground.]

Maybe next time you should try hitting it instead, hmm?

[The young girl's voice, permeated by a sharp British accent, has a snippy tone to it as she glares at the woman, clearly annoyed.]

Diana | Rule of Rose | Shinki

[ashestoinnocence]

Courtly Cadavers

[Courtly politeness or not, being kissed by something dead is disgusting and Diana's not the least bit shy about expressing her distaste. She shudders dramatically and snatches her hand away, giving the corpse an fierce glare as if assessing whether to smack it across the face. In fact, without really thinking about it, Diana raises her fist but it stops mid-strike. On one hand, the vile creature could use a liittle discouragement from going up to pretty young ladies such as herself and a solid backhand to the face feels like both an reasonable and reliable solution to the problem.

But on the other hand. Dead thing. Eww. She'd have to touch it again and that's just gross.]

What to do, what to do...

[Is teaching it some proper manners worth getting her hands dirty? Decisions, decisions.]

Dark Deeds

[After the lights go out, a loud clang and rattle followed by a muttered stream of blistering curses in a sharp British accent as Diana walks straight into a trash can. Can't a girl walk and think at the same time without inanimate objects trying to kill her all over again? Another loud clang resonates in area as an irritable Diana kicks the offending trashcan.]

Stupid trashcan! When we find the things causing these blackouts, we're beating them up first. Then you can rend them.

[It's only right that the little trolls suffer horribly before they die.]

Giant Goats

And now it's over-sized livestock? Do we look like goatherds to you?

[It's not clear just who Diana's complaining to up to in the Heavens but she's certainly bold about it, yelling at the sky and stomping her foot. It's just bluster really, letting off steam. It's not like anyone's probably listening anyway. They're probably all busy doing whateve godly things it is they do up there while she and the other hardworking newcomers deal with this mess.

With a deep, frustrated sigh, Diana turns to her partner.]

Just what do they expect us to do to fix all of this anyway?

courtly cadavers/ let the asshole brigade begin

[disciplineking]

[The undead weren't very discriminating with who they went up and tried to be 'courteous' to, and this ended up being a mistake. Because there was another undead near Diana who made a mistake and chose to try and touch someone who had no qualms about swinging his tonfa around and caving the creature's face in.

It also had the unintended side effect of slamming into the undead bothering Diana and cascading them both into a wall, probably leaving a dent. Hibari didn't care, it wasn't his property. Instead he was looking smug at the mess he just made.]

If you're going to be so cowardly about striking back, nothing will get solved.