Test Drive #20

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 20



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.



Rope bridge Rumble

An adventure park that features several scary-exciting climbs and crossings between trees using only ropes has a huge problem. The ropes are getting unexpectedly tangled up. Even worse, it sometimes happens when a customer is trying to make a crossing, tripping them up in the midst of their course! While the safety ropes have been doing their job at keeping customers uninjured, the employees are fervently praying that whatever is doing this will go away, before something worse happens.

Steady Shave

It's the height of summer, and even men that treasure their beards, mustaches and sideburns dearly are driven to get it shaved off in the name of heat reduction. Small barbershops are being overrun with customers who want it all shaved off- some even going so far as to want their head shaved bare.
Answer the barber's pleas for a couple extra hands. May they be steady.

Toil and Trouble

A performance of Macbeth is being haunted by an ayakashi causing bad luck. Props getting misplaced or needing repairs, color gels for the lights getting torn, the microphones keep kicking up feedback- The customary wish of 'break a leg' feels dangerously close to becoming real. Rescue the Scottish Play from its curse before the curtain rises!

Ubiquitous U-turns

Elementary school children go home in groups for safety. However that measure isn't helping against some children getting home very late. And none of the kids can bring themselves to say why they end up taking so many wrong turns on the way. Take up a traffic flag and your best teacher voice, and help the children find their proper way home, keeping an eye out for anything - mundane or supernatural - that might be leading the kids astray.

Violet Veranda

Cheerful violets grew unusually well this year on the college dorm veranda, to the point where the whole perimeter of the veranda is full of containers holding them. But now the flowers are nearing the end of their life, and something strange is happening to the students at the same time. As the flowers wilt and fade, so does the energy of the students living in the dorm. While it would normally be impossible to draw a connection between the two, residents of the Far Shore can see the truth- tiny ladybug-like energy-hungry ayakashi are moving from flowers to students. Take care of this however you can before the last petal falls!



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!

Comments

[demonsheath]

[ Their duty, was it? Yet the only thought of was towards the unknown source. Of how easy it was for something hungry to be impatient.

It's the word 'falsehood' that shakes the woman out of her concentration to completely focus on the god that she ended up working with. Oh, she did not like that word, tor the implications, for all it was meant to be harmless and understanding. She will dance around with her words to take such a thing back from his tongue. ]

There is nothing to be had, sir. As beings of the Far Shore, our presence and impact will be forgotten. No matter how this goes, everything will be fleeting enough that it cannot be considered a gain.

You may understand why I was drawn to participate, but that is not a gain in this case.

[amongthethorns]

True but -

[He's tilting his head to the side.]

To them perhaps but not to us. While it might be just a blip that doesn't register for them, it's a part of what we have done. Something we have accomplished for the good of these children.

[A soft sigh then he nods.]

You know as well as I do that most things are fleeting but that doesn't mean they're worthless or unimportant; nor are they unnoticed.

[demonsheath]

[ Though she had no context or basis, the immediate thought Hannah had was that she was too old to be getting motivational lectures on how good deeds made some kind of impact. Yet she could also tell that arguing against it would just risk him pressing harder for a better effect or impact on her views. ]

Perhaps they should be unnoticed in this particular case. However, I believe you would agree that it's more important to get moving and bring those children to where they should go.

[ They were just sitting ducks right now, probably being circled and salivated over. ]

The task isn't over yet, sir.

[amongthethorns]

[Instantly it's clicking with him that were she not a demon she would have perhaps made a very good reaper. He might actually like her which goes against all his academy training.]

We'll agree to disagree on that first point but on the last yes you are correct.

[And Alan is once again taking the lead beginning his task of guiding the children. There's a strange familiarity to this only there are some vast differences. Sir is a new one. He hasn't been called sir in a long time.]

[demonsheath]

[ Sir is what Hannah seemed to call most of the men that were around as gods. As a note of her awareness to their position, compared to hers as a shinki. At least that's how it most likely was. With a small bow of her head, Hannah let Alan return to the children as she used her ability to jump back to one of the roof buildings. Whether that was the ability as a demon or one as a shinki, with their lightness in body, did not matter.

He had someone with more than enough ability to keep them all safe. If nothing else, the light from borderlines would be enough of a display of Hannah's diligence.

Later, when the sound of a medium machine gun echoes through the air, that was the display of her teeth as well. ]

[amongthethorns]

[Alan glances to her briefly. Watching her go fleetingly. Ah. She'd be fine. They'd be fine. He knows a kindred spirit when he sees one demon or not. She may deny it but she'll help keep the children safe.

And Alan is content to let Hannah do her job. She does a much better ob than he could without his shinki. So he's walking the children to their homes, staying to watch them safely get inside before moving to the next.

Once he's got most of them home. He's on to his last two, the vines Alan controls retreating taking the children's hands instead. He's personally walking the last two home before dusting his hands off.]

[demonsheath]

[ Through most of them, Hannah was out of sight in keeping the 'wolves' at bay with spells and bullets. When it came to the last two, however, Alan would have been able to spot her at a distant roof if he had looked around.

It's not until the job is finished that she returns to his direct line of sight. She's not quite in the same condition as before, but with a demon's sturdiness and pride, and the coverage her clothes offered, there was no seeing any damages. She wouldn't even allow herself to show signs of injury and weakness. ]

They've all been returned without incident, then? You'll need to return to the area with a shinki, or call for someone else to clean the ayakashi out. I've only delayed them.