Test Drive #22

[godsoffortune]

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!

Comments

ESP >.>

[thevanguard]

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. ]

[violentbeauty]

[ 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.

[thevanguard]

How about anywhere away from the dumb humans who apparently have a death wish?

[ His retort is a hint sarcastic as he rolls his eyes, practically dragging Yukari around the corner down an adjoining street. ]

You can't kill them just for being idiots. At that rate, there might not be any left.

[violentbeauty]

[Yukari smirks to himself, this kid is certainly someone not to estimate, but Yukari isn't unnerved by him.]e

And here I was thinking you didn't hear me at all. My, you have some excellent hearing. From so far away, you rolled in to save them, that's really cute.

[He shrugs at Misaki's lecture.]

I can't? But that's just the truth of the world. The weak are cut down by the strong. The world keeps turning no matter how many idiots are left. And believe me, the world aren't in short supply of them to risk extinction.

[thevanguard]

Weren't you paying attention at shinki 101? [ Yata just rolls his eyes, shrugging one shoulder. ] It's not up to us to decide that, anyway. Besides, the more idiots are, the more prayers our gods are likely to get to deal with the idiots, right? It works out. Or something.

[ #logic ]

[violentbeauty]

Sure our gods make the decisions, but aren't we not tools that carry out that will? Or were you not paying attention?

[ Yukari is not at all disillusioned to what his position is, and he's willing to do whatever his god asks of him. Though life as a shinki can be uneventful at times, he considers it a high honor that someone wishes to use.]

How do you know that's not my God's will? And they can't be wrong, if that's what they believe.