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

Debt

[fortunesmiles]

Komaeda's been idly strolling through the area, surveying the scene. Garry's currently preoccupied, and without his shinki he can't do much against the ayakashi, so mostly he's just getting a feel for what's going on and what should be done whenever Garry does show up.

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.

[disciplineking]

Good thing Hibari didn't care about some random crazy-haired guy's opinion of his actions, even if he looked up and glared at Komaeda. It was a lazy glance, because despite the fact this person was either a god or a shinki, he didn't seem like much of a threat.

"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.

[fortunesmiles]

Komaeda smiles. "Well, I meant that it doesn't seem to be a good idea to look for money on someone that an ayakashi has been trying to bankrupt...but I suppose you found something after all."

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?"

[disciplineking]

Hibari just gave Komaeda a look. He really didn't look like he was in any position to judge, not that the teen cared in the first place.

"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.

[fortunesmiles]

"It wasn't really an opinion," Komaeda remarks, still with that unsettling smile. "It was a question. If you believe they deserve to be left with no money, why remove the ayakashi in the first place? Is it simply that you want their money instead? Only I don't know that the Far Shore has much call for material wealth, so I'm not sure what you'd want it for..."

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."

[disciplineking]

Hibari has decided he absolutely did not like this guy. He was annoying and self-rightous, and somehow he knew that he dealt with those people the same way he dealt with all of his other problems-violence.

"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."