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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] takamagahara2017-11-02 04:57 pm
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Test Drive #22

TEST DRIVE # 22



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.



Buttered Buns


Things are tough for small bakeries in huge cities. It seems like there’s always a bigger chain offering less expensive breads around the corner. To compete, “Four Clover” bakery has gone all-in with a campaign to attract customers, and you’re here to help. They’ve put together a mascot costume for you (degree of cuteness up to player’s imagination), printed a zillion flyers, blown up bunches of balloons… and in praying for the success and prosperity of their store, they’ll certainly go along with whatever heaven-sent ideas come along.

Copious Copies


Outdoor art exhibitions take advantage of the best days of the start of fall. In one large park, a multitude of unique bronze and ceramic statues are on display. However, there’s way more of them than there actually should be. The artist and organizers are stumped by a plethora of near-perfect copies standing alongside the originals. Should a god or shinki get close enough they’ll be able to tell which are ayakashi pretending to be statues, but don’t get your nose bitten off. And don’t break an actual statue while hunting the ayakashi. Please.

Debt Diversion


Formula car races are huge draws for those who love speed, and those who love betting. Snake skeleton ayakashi are twining themselves around the necks of betters, whispering in their ears to seduce the humans into crippling debt.
While gods and shinki are in a human’s blind spot and generally go unnoticed, trying to remove an ayakashi from someone might draw attention, depending on how you go about it. And in a crowd this large, there just might be a human who will notice a strange pair trying to do something to someone else’s neck...

ESP and Extraterrestrials


A group approaches you. Some of them look relatively normal, if a bit on edge. Some of them look the very image of a nerd. And all of them are looking at you intently. This group of searchers of the paranormal have somehow (accurately) honed in on you, and are intent to find out everything about you. What planet are you from? What’s up with those clothes? That hair? Do you have any special powers?!
While they welcome you in peace, they are also very unwilling to let this interview end with your escape… Might need a friend to help you out (or throw you to the wolves).


Fashionable Frills


Fashion runway. Frills. Shirts, pants, dresses, underwear; the changing room is full of variety.
Go strut your stuff.
It’s for a good cause, honest.





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!
welcome_home: (006)

Buttered Buns (Are you at all surprised right now?)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2017-11-03 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a quiet giggle from somewhere nearby as a little girl peeks her head around from the corner of the bakery, watching him trying to pass out samples.

When he ends up looking dejected, she slips out to smile up at him shyly. ]


Having trouble?
welcome_home: (002)

buttered buns!

[personal profile] welcome_home 2017-11-03 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a little girl watching him from around the corner of a building, her eyes wide and curious, because it's not every day you see a god hanging around in a cat mascot costume. Not unless you're one of the idols, anyway, but he didn't seem like the type. There were not near enough sparkles, for one thing.

Besides, she'd been drawn here by the bakery itself, before she'd paused a little distance away to watch curiously for a while instead. ]
angryplushtoy: (The first step is the one you believe in)

it spans time, space and torture~

[personal profile] angryplushtoy 2017-11-03 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[It is a plus - for Ichiru. Iorogi is not all that nice of a guy.]

I'll remember their faces for next time.

[After a few minutes with this plush no one will think that the larger human is the bully.]

Hmph. So you often stop to help a guy in need? [Or was it just his form that was interesting?] Do I look human to you? You could say that this whole situation that we're in isn't unusual for me.
thevanguard: Color Attitude Loud Happy (015)

ESP >.>

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-11-03 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Riiiight, that's enough for today's show. [ There's a redhead skating in on a board between the shinki and the crowd, who were clearly too stupid to know that that... was probably an actual threat. He waves his hands at the people, shooing them back out of the way before latching onto one of the shinki's arms with determination. He had no clue what was going on, so bluffing it was! ] He's needed elsewhere right now, you can come back and fangirl later. Bye-bye!

[ And he'll just start dragging the shinki down the street while hopefully leaving the people behind him bewildered but still possessing their heads. Empty thought they apparently seem to be. ]
lionhearrt: (Bitter Ends)

[personal profile] lionhearrt 2017-11-03 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ A quirk of his lips. Who said it was a gift? The red crown weighed heaviest and Mikoto never wanted it in the first place. He doesn't mind being burnt from the inside out that he accepts. But a man who needed to roam, free of any chains in order to live couldn't accept the self-imposed chains he was forced to wear to live in this tiny world. It wasn't a gift. It was a leash. ]

If you say so.

[ A noncommittal answer as he pulls another cigarette from his pocket. He lights it with a flick of his finger and slips it in his mouth. ]
Edited 2017-11-03 05:23 (UTC)
littledove: (Naruhodo!)

Kobato Hanato | Kobato | Shinki

[personal profile] littledove 2017-11-03 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Buttered Buns

Eh? An animal shape?

[She stares at the long pink balloon within her hand for a hard minute. Somehow or other Kobato has found herself in front of a store, dressed up in frills with dozens of balloons. She had happily volunteered to help sell them. But she hadn't realized that it entitled shaping them, too.

This...! It's just like what that really happy clown did on that television show she saw through a store window! Suddenly beaming with excitement she grins.]


Kobato will do her best!!

[ . . . Are you ready for it!? Now if only her balloon animals actually ever took on the shape of an animal. Snakes aside...]

ESP and Extraterrestrials

[ This never happens. Not unless she is the one approaching living individuals, and that usually takes some attention getting. Which is why she is surprised now!

Planet...? UFOs? What is an extraterrestrial....? She can't seem to open her mouth before another question has been asked. Which is maybe why she looks flustered and overwhelmed as the interrogation seems to intensify.]


I don't have a space ship. [She's tried to explain this so many times.

Wait.]


Ships can fly?
in_praetego: ([=n=] Come on and show the world)

copies | Please assume post first meeting!

[personal profile] in_praetego 2017-11-03 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ He was trying to do this the right way. A dodge here to avoid being struck, a quick turn to just barely miss a swipe from a claw, while he took a closer look. There had to be something... anything... a small detail that set the copies apart from the real thi--

And then he hears the crash.

And the crashes that follow. Of course, he turns to the sound and winces at the statues falling. ]


Rin...

[ ...that's just like his twin, though. There's a sigh as he comes over, adjusting his glasses and using the motion to lightly press the area between his eyes. ]

You were supposed to be careful.
discerp: (List 10 things your GF won't do for you)

[personal profile] discerp 2017-11-03 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Eep!

[Mikan squeaks and jumps, standing up straight when clair turns her attention to her. There’s something about her gaze that makes Mikan feel like her very soul is being accessed and judged or something.

The offered hand gets a baffled look— Clair wanted... her hand? She wanted to willingly touch Mikan?? She looks between the hand and the girl a couple times before realizing with a panic she’s been making her wait
] I’m s-so sorry! [She grabs Clair’s hand and looks extremely flustered]

Wh-Where are we going..? Ah, um, not that I’ll argue! We can go anywhere you want, I won’t complain, I’m sorry!
priforprince: (supplement)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-11-03 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ....Ah. An active lady.

Hibiki recovers quickly from this (charming, in its own way!) discovery, laughing to herself. The crowd of occult enthusiasts is hurriedly looking up any planets that are said to possess lost royalty. The escapees have a small window of opportunity, here.

She gives Clair a slightly reckless - but still, of course, completely charming and trustworthy - smile. All right. If this is what moves the audience's heart, she shall adjust her role. ]
Just hold me tightly.

Haah!

[ Yes, that's not how you actually start a horse, but it is in the movies, and the aesthetic is everything.

One presumes you both enjoy, and desire, speed? ]
littledove: (Clap Clap Clap)

[personal profile] littledove 2017-11-03 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Minion...?

[Speaking of minions, a bright and cheerful heroine appears before him on the nick of time! She was just passing through, propositioning people to pray to her god. She even has fliers and hand-outs. They're all made special by her.]

Ioryogi-sama [ '-sama', he's a god after all.] You look very cute like that!
Edited 2017-11-03 14:14 (UTC)
stunninglady: (What pig slop is this?)

[personal profile] stunninglady 2017-11-03 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
... Do I really look so terrifying?

[Well, frowning at her isn't going to help, Clair. She pulls Mikan a little closer as she leads the way down the street.]

Don't fret, miss, you're perfectly safe now. I give you my word!
farseen: (hidden surprise)

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-03 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[His surprise at those words was such that he let his guard down-- and the young man faced no resistance in dragging Shin-Ah away from the throng that had been harrassing them. Seeing through walls was handy, but there was another who could do the same?]

I can, too.

[Shin-Ah said quietly, wariness in his tone as he peered back at the crowd they were leaving behind.

Although his time in this 'Tokyo' had been short, he was under the impression that his talents were far more than merely uncommon. Finding another who could do the same had to be more than just happenstance.]
farseen: (wat do)

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-03 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was not great!

Shin-Ah stared at this young person, darkened lenses askew in his shock and dismay at hearing such words fall from her lips when he had hoped for salvation from this madness.

Abruptly he shook his head and backed away into a corner. This was not what he had expected....!]
farseen: (water logged)

yay!

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-03 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[With those words the crowd, with muttered complaints about muggles always ruining their fun, dispersed into the slow trickle of foot traffic on the streets.... and Shin-Ah, thoroughly overwhelmed by the sudden attention, sighed and allowed his shoulders to slump in sheer relief.

The roving eyes and the onslaught of questions had been exhausting-- he didn't know what to say, didn't know where to even begin to dissuade the crowd and convince them to leave him in peace... and the night wind was just cool enough to leave a shuddering chill in his bones. Burying his face in his hands, he seized a moment of solace before finding his voice to speak once again.]


...Thank you. [He said, peering at the stranger owlishly before bobbing his head.] The people were too much.
thevanguard: Serious (012)

:D

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-11-04 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yeeeeah, people usually are. [ He gives an aggravated sigh before turning to study the guy he'd stumbled across. ] Although usually they don't notice us easily. Maybe it's because they were looking for something unusual. I guess shinki count, huh? [ He makes a face before tipping his head to the side. ] You hurt?
farseen: (....)

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-04 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[To that, Shin-Ah shook his head. He wasn't physcally hurt by this debacle in the least. Shaken, yes, but not hurt.]

I guess so...

[He said uncertainly, unconsciously echoing this other Shinki's words nearly verbatim. Shin-Ah preferred going unnoticed, but incidents like this showed just how fragile such a cognitive state could be.]
thevanguard: Happy (027)

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-11-04 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yata studies him for a moment before gesturing to him with a crooked smile. ]

Come on. A friend of mine runs a bar near here, we can go settle there until you're feeling more yourself. He makes really good hot chocolate. It helps.
iseeall: (smile)

[personal profile] iseeall 2017-11-04 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo looked back at him with his closed shut eyes, but didn't seem too suprised by what Shin-ah said.]

I figured. The way you were acting was just like me. Besides, I could see something was different about you.

[He hoped that he hadn't said that in a way that made this guy suspicious of him, but Leo really didn't know how to word it. My special eyes saw your special eyes? That would be wierd.

Thankfully they reached a point where Leo was pretty sure people in general weren't going to find them, and let go of Shin-ah's arm.]


Uh, sorry for barging in like that. They looked like they were bothering you, though....
farseen: (innocent)

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The notion of hot chocolate at a bar seemed ludicrous at first, but it still was enough to make Shin-Ah's heart feel lighter than it had all evening.

Nodding his assent, he fell into step behind the stranger as he led the way.]


Mm. [Shin-Ah hummed-- a soft sound that barely carried over the noise of the city.] Thank you. Hot chocolate... it would be nice.
farseen: (serious)

[personal profile] farseen 2017-11-04 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[Leo didn't even need to elaborate on how he had known Shin-Ah was different. The sky-blue hair that he currently had uncovered and the piercing gleam of his eyes behind the exceedingly dark sunglasses he wore at night were a tell-tale sign of his differences and his skills.]

They were trouble, [he confessed, still allowing this person to drag him along without any misgivings.] Too much trouble. They shouldn't have been able to see us...

[Thus, he hadn't known what to do.]
iseeall: (more -_-)

[personal profile] iseeall 2017-11-04 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, to be fair Leo had seen and was friends with people who looked way stranger than Shin-ah ever did, but like the other one, he didn't feel the need to elaborate.]

Yeah, I don't know why. It's really a bother; believe me, in some cases its better to just not be noticed.

[Oh right, here he was just standing in front of this poor guy without even telling him who he was.]

Sorry. I'm Leo. Leonardo Watch.

[He held his hand out to shake.]
thevanguard: Manga Serious (067)

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-11-04 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mention it. [ Yata just grins as he stretches his arms behind his head and glides down the street beside the other shinki, one foot on his skateboard and the other occasionally pushing himself along, but never too fast that the other guy couldn't keep up. ] I didn't do much other than show up and yell, after all.

I'm Yata, by the way. You one of the new guys?
priforprince: (leering)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-11-04 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
There's no need to be afraid.

[ Hibiki's tone shifts, becomes more mentorly, reassuring. But also slightly patronizing. ]

I'll completely transform you. Like a duckling shedding its feathers to discover a handsome swan.

[ Now! Someone show her some clothes! ]
violentbeauty: (pic#)

[personal profile] violentbeauty 2017-11-04 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yukari really doesn't expect anyone to come to his rescue (not that he's in trouble), but he feels he can handle the situation appropriately on his own. However. Misaki comes rolling in, and getting the nerds to back off of him. Such a shame. There's his hope of blowing off some steam. Clearly not an idle threat.

He looks down at the hand that's gripping his arm and leading him down the street. He's not sure what to make of this, but teasing this younger man seems right.]


That was very heroic of you. But I must know, where exactly is my knight on wheels taking me? Probably where I'm needed.
violentbeauty: (Default)

[personal profile] violentbeauty 2017-11-04 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
You're a man of few words.

[ Though that makes Mikoto a bit harder to read. Yukari observes him as he places another cigarette into his mouth and lights it with his power. This man isn't discreet about his abilities, and he has no problems using it so causally. He has a good grasp of it, but is that just confidence? Yukari doesn't really know.]

So what brings you here? This doesn't seem like something you would voluntarily do.

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