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TEST DRIVE # 23
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!
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Waste removal has become an intense process in many cities in Japan. Because the sorting of different trash can be very complicated, some residents just end up saying to heck with it. However, the neighbours are vigilant, and heap curses upon those who break the rules. Putting out the wrong thing on the wrong day, mixing plastics with the burnables, putting out the biodegradables the night before, which attracts crows that scatter the rotting food all over the place… the infractions are many.
Will you join in cursing the ones who can’t follow the rules, or perhaps instead gracefully try to mend their ways?
For the last 20 years, Hanako has worked faithfully at her cleaning job, 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, without a single day off.
The momentous achievement was celebrated with her coworkers, but it was unanimous among them that Hanako really should take some time off! But the woman is stubborn, and is completely unwilling to take the time offered. (What would she do with herself, even?)
All her friends and coworkers can do is pray that someone can convince her to take a well-earned rest… It might take some heavenly intervention.
While crows are famous for being clever, there seems to be an insect following in their footsteps. Rhinoceros beetles have been getting in everywhere. It’s late in their lifespan and people are generally hoping the lot of them die off soon, but in the meantime people have been coming home to find the large beetles getting into every room, even when they’re carefully closed up. Probably the only ones thrilled with this are kids who like to collect the bugs for fighting matches.
Residents of the Far Shore will be able to see that there are beetle-like ayakashi running with the mundane ones, and they seem to be on the hunt for something.
Try to figure it out, protect the kids who might mistake an ayakashi for a real rhinoceros beetle, or kill every bug
John’s girlfriend Julie says she loves him, but she’s up and left for another guy named Gordon. Julie is cruel, heartless, a slut and a bitch! Gordon thinks he’s tough (so what if he’s bigger, better looking and more trendy than John) but he’s actually a moron, a cheap creep and a puff!
John is now desperately wanting someone to deck Gordon the moron good. Preferably smashing his face in. Help Jilted John out?
King Koopa, a stout, shorthaired two-year-old tabby, is headed straight for YouTube fame as a video-game-playing cat. Or he was, until, just last week, he completely lost interest in the keyboard. His desperate owner has been trying everything: bird screensavers, a catnip mouse, even treats hidden in the keys... but nothing brings back Koopa's love of the game. Is he just camera shy? Feeling blue? His owner needs divine intervention to help teach a young cat his old trick!
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Helper
When the attempts prove unsuccessful, obviously that's her cue to chuckle knowingly. ]
Logic has never swayed a lady's heart.
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And what do you suggest to help her realize her need of rest and relaxation?
[Hibiki might know better than him. She's probably got more real social experience than Adrien does.]
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This person is also a model, Adrien. What's more - they're a celebrity.
When Hibiki reaches the pair, she bows, but doesn't take her eyes off the overworked woman. ] Miss Hanako, I presume? You're unmistakable. The diligence in your eyes is like the northern star.
[ Speaking of stars, the air around Hibiki has. Filled with sparkles. And her voice echoes attractively despite not raising her volume. ]
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Green eyes fix on Hibiki. Is she serious? She thinks something this over the top will work?]
What is..?
[Is this the real world or did he get sucked into an anime? Are those shoujo sparkles? Is this some rip-out of that host club show? He's momentarily distracted by those sparkles like a cat watching dust motes in the sunlight. What has his life come to?]
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[ She presses that hand between her own. ] Now, relax.
[ THERE ARE EVEN MORE SPARKLES NOW. But are they working? ]
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I don't think that this is the kind of rest and relaxation her friends were wanting her to take.
[He's just shaking his head and it's taking his everything not to slam his palm against his forehead and rake his fingers over his face. Thankfully the sparkles come to his rescue and he's not so absently watching them before reaching out to try and catch them.]
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[ She's not phased. Not even in the slightest. Not even when Adrien tries to catch a sparkle (should he succeed, it will break with a glass-shattering sound effect, but nothing will harm his hand). And why should she be?
After all, Hanako-san is staring so attentively! Jaw slightly askew.
This can only bode good things. ]
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[But what Adrien? If she's happy isn't that what matters most? Even if that's not what the prayer is for, people rarely pray for what is truly needed but rather what they want.
It it works it works he supposes.]
Okay, but what did you do to her? She looks like you made her a zombie or something.
[He's caught one and hearing that sound he's peering into his hand arching a brow. What was this even? Who is this girl?]
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[ Hibiki smirks. Just as planned! Everyone is always so charmed by her charisma but they cannot help but enjoy themselves in her presence. There is no better vacation than having Shikyoin Hibiki by one's side, no finer detox than the celebrity sound of Shikyoin Hibiki's voice... ]
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"Why, aren't you a well-brought up young man! You'll make great contributions to society one day."
Hibiki's one eyebrow quirks of its own accord. ]
[[ ooc: also, there's a little bit of borked coding in your last alan tag to hibiki. i didn't want to reply to it before you had a chance to edit! ]]
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[Can you hear his disbelief? Then he's pressing a knuckle to his mouth holding back a polite laugh and hiding his grin.
But at the look on Hibiki's face, he's smoothly stepping in before anything might happen to cause either of them distress.]
I'm afraid you'll have to forgive my friend. Your kind words have moved her very deeply you see. You've gone and made her speechless.
[He's glancing up to Hibiki silently willing her to go along with it. Even if it isn't true. The notion of Hibiki truly being speechless seems impossible to him.]
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[ Yeah, she bounces back well. ]
Such compliments are like lapping waves on a storm-tossed shore.
[ She can salvage this. There isn't a single problem that can't be solved by her flirting with it.
She's Shikyoin Hibiki. ]
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At any rate you should rest. Your friends are all concerned about you and it wouldn't do for you to become ill from working to hard.
[His words are soft and sincere, his expression concerned and caring.]
After all your health is extremely important.
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Here, she'll go get you both something nice and you can go on that break for her. She'll be right back.
Hibiki sighs and drops the Prince act once the "Princess" has headed offscreen for the moment. The sparkles drop and physically...shatter...on the floor. ] What unbelievable obstinacy. Doesn't she know what she's being offered?!
[ NO ONE WHO REALLY UNDERSTOOD WOULD TURN DOWN THE CHANCE TO HANG OUT WITH SHIKYOIN HIBIKI ]
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I tried to tell you that kind of trick won't work. We need to find something she cares about more than working and cleaning. There must be something or someone. Children? Grandchildren? Someone she can dote on.
[He's pushing to his feet and moving to take up the abandoned broom, idly sweeping as he tries to figure this all out.] Most women I know would leap at the chance to have a few days off for fun things - shopping, spa days, playing games spending time with boyfriends...
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[ Hibiki puts a hand to her chin, musing. ] Should I offer her a resort package in Monte Parlo....?
[ She's giving this Very Deep Thought. ]
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[It's a sad thought but why else would she throw herself into work like this? There's a spark of recognition - he knows a man just like this after all.]
Maybe there's something she's trying to keep her mind off of. Something deeper and hard to face. Work is a good method of avoidance.
[Boy, does he know all about that.]
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In that case, relieving her stress will answer the prayer.
[ NOW MENTALLY CATALOGING EVERY SPA SHE HAS EVER BEEN TO
IT'S A LONG LIST ]
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[He pauses, rubbing at his shoulder; toying with his ring with his thumb.]
If a wound isn't cleaned, it festers - even if it may close it doesn't heal. Infection and sickness rest under the surface taking hold inside under the skin.
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She lowers her lashes. ]
It's a deep cleaning, either way.
[ What would fix it.....?
....More time with her? ]
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[It's a bit like dealing with an akuma though so - He's reaching into his pocket for his phone. He can just search her up can't he? He'd done that before - he knows he has even if it's hazy.]
We need to find the core issue though. We'd only be putting a band-aid on it if we didn't which is no real help.
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[ That's all you get out of Hibiki. Partly because she's being noncommittal about whether or not she approves of this approach, and partly because she's waiting for inspiration about what sort of treat would make a woman who's working to cover a hidden ache decide to enjoy a luxurious life instead.
They better think fast, though, because Hanako should be back soon. ]