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takamagahara2017-11-02 04:57 pm
godsoffortune) wrote in takamagahara2017-11-02 04:57 pm
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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!
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.
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.
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...
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).
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.
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Have fun!
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Did it matter that some statues were real? No, not really. When there was an angry teenager who needed to work his rage out on something, they were a good target. Maybe some of them were ayakashi, yes and touching them gave him some slight stinging, but it was equally satisfying to kick one across the park.
Hibari otherwise stood on the crumbled remains of his latest kill, seemingly uncaring of the chaos he was causing.
Debt Diversion
Actually no, the best way to get an ayakashi off of someone's neck was to just drag them down and appear to be strangling them as he dragged them down from the crowd. Really, these ayakashi were more annoying than anything. Anyone close enough to see him sitting on the unfortunate gambler would also probably see him looking through their pockets for money or other important junk as 'payment' for his hospitality. Hibari did not look like he wanted an intervention.
Copious Copies!
Ren had come here to practice swinging his poleaxe shinki around with ayakashi who probably weren't going to fight back or dodge much, but it would seem he's too late. Particularly to save the actual statues, which is a shame. He sighs as he looks over the debris and then frowns up at Hibari.]
Are you satisfied now?
[Hibari been gone for months, and there's no guarantee he'll remember anything, so it's best to go with something vague for now.]
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Who would be satisfied with such weak opponents as these??
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Then why are you fighting them? I'm sure the ones that aren't ayakashi are even worse.
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[ Hibari almost delicately hopped down from the broken remenants of the statue he so graciously slayed. Normal people weren't obviously targets because they didn't even see him, and well gods-he had no high opinion on them.]
You don't look like someone who could change my mind.
[As he pointed at Ren, the god could see the slight blight marks he had from touching the ayakashi from his hands.]
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[Ren shifts so he's holding his poleaxe with both hands behind his back and shrugs. It's hard to say that Hibari shouldn't judge a book by its cover when he's not exactly wrong this time. Ren has improved a lot since the last time they fought--not that Hibari remembers it anyway--but not that much.
So he should probably just pull out one of his water guns and get rid of that blight and be on his way. But it's not like Hibari would let him leave even if he did that, and he really would like it if he stopped breaking other people's stuff...]
You're right that I'm probably not one of them, but I'm definitely more interesting than those things.
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[Hibari's voice grew slightly harder as he stared up at the god. He really wasn't interested in beating up someone who wasn't any of a challenge, especially with the frustration he intended to get out.
Then again, if this person was a god maybe it could be fruitful anyway.]
I don't spend my time beating up overconfident trash.
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[Ren shifts again, just a bit, to twist one of his hands around one his weapon to be able to swing it out easier and to be ready to move if he needs to. He also ends up looking much more like he is Ready To Go and that yes, It Is A Challenge Please Fight Him, because of course he does. He'd still prefer it was Vanguard, and someone other than Hibari, but the prospect of a fight is still very exciting.]
It's a challenge if you want it to be. I have plenty of other things I could be doing.
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He barely even paused for a disdainful glare before he bolted forward, aiming to drive his heel straight into Ren's solar plexus.]
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Hibari is also as fast as ever, which is more of a problem and he doesn't quite react until Hibari is already moving--but his usual sparring partner is also pretty damn fast when he wants to be, so it's not as much of a problem as it would been a few months ago. Ren manages to dart backward to avoid the kick and spins his polearm around to the front, aiming to snag Hibari's ankle on the blunt end or else slam the axe end into his side. He isn't really expecting either to actually work (or he. wouldn't be trying to hit Hibari with an axe), so he swings the blunt end back around and tries to hit Hibari in the side with that and his foot instead.]
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However, he sees the axe coming and pivots around to Ren's other side, avoiding the attack. The blunt end he blocks with his foot.]
Hmph. You at least will let me have a little fun.
[And he drove his foot downward to try and trap the weapon while turn the other side of his body in a punch that snapped at Ren's head.]
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He has a retort on his lips and ready to go, but saying he's honored when he should have no idea how good Hibari is might raise some awkward questions, so he just smiles instead.
Letting his shinki--and therefore, himself--get trapped is not an option, so he swings the axe away again and ducks low to try to avoid Hiabri's punch (if it grazes the top of his head, that's fine, he's had worse), and then launches himself forward with a punch aimed at Hibari's stomach.]
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He liked this. As time went on, Hibari was getting more and more used to his fighting style and his movements became smoother and faster.]
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This time, though, as he's rolling back onto his feet, he teleports backward a few feet to give himself a fraction of a second more to actually be on his feet before he has to deal with Hibari again. It's giving away one of his trump cards a little earlier than he wanted, but he could have given it away by stabbing Hibari in the back, so this was probably the safer option for both of them.
Then he stands there with his hands on his axe, ready to go again...and waits. Hibari's weakness has always been his impulsiveness, and his side is already throbbing and burning and making a very good argument for not moving, so Hibari can just come to him. If his little teleportation trick hasn't made him too cautious...but it's Hibari so. He doubts that.]
Debt
Which is how he finds Hibari, perched on top of someone he's clearly just removed an ayakashi from and rifling through their pockets. Komaeda's got a very strange worldview and some peculiar standards to say the least, but even he raises an eyebrow at that.
"That doesn't seem like a good idea," he observes.
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"It's repayment. I see it as only fair." And Hibari's hand emerged with the wallet, pulling a few bills out of it before dropping it back on the person who was thankfully, passed out.
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He tilts his head. "Although really, what's the point of saving him from an ayakashi trying to drive him into debt if you're going to steal his money yourself?"
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"It's payment. And what makes you think I care about your opinion? Maybe with their money gone they'll learn just how harsh the world is when they waste themselves away," he said, finally standing up from the prone figure on the floor. He yawned, not giving Komaeda a single care in the world. "It's humanity's greed that caused the ayakashi to come to them in the first place.
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He taps a finger to his lip. "For that matter, if you detest the greed of humanity so much...isn't it hypocritical to demand payment for your services? It isn't as though they were requested."
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"I didn't make the world run on money, and I certainly don't care about what you think is right. If I am the one with power, then I am the one who is right. It's only fair for an exchange after justice has been done if people are going to be ungrateful about it; maybe I should bite you to death next."