TEST DRIVE # 23

[godsoffortune]

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!

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.

Gross Garbage

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?


Honoured Helper

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.


Ingenious Insects

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 with fire?


Jilted John

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’s Keeper

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!





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

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ There's obviously a reason for his hair being as long as it is. One that's automatically more important than a demon needing sharp claws, because Kouga's the demon and he's someone that's way better than that.

Once he was released from those claws, he immediately pulled his hair back and kept it draped over an arm to be out of the damn cat's reach. His poor, wonderful braid, which now needed some kind of magical care to be taken care of. The day he figures it all out properly. For now, he's getting out of this dumb place, too.

What? There's no way he's staying in this peasant's dump any longer than he needed. ]

And your calling in life's probably with animal control, stuck in a cage. You're no better than feral strays.

[whirlwindwolf]

[He glances back at him, a bit annoyed that Judar didn't stay but not surprised by it. They found a way to make the cat play so it counted at complete, or so Kouga was going to bet on. If it turned out not to be, he knew he just needed to drag Judar back to the boy's place and tie him down or something--Gagged. Or maybe he could just rip out his tongue.]

What'd you say?

[Kouga whirls around back on him, baring his teeth a bit as he snarls.]

I'm getting real tired of your mouth. Keep it up and no god alive will be able to protect you from me.

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ Their god really needed to stop sending them out on prayers. It almost never ends well, whether or not they manage to get along enough to finish. One of the problems was that Judar had a superiority complex and he seemingly made an easy target for being a lot weaker than he looked. Until he figures out all the stuff he knew. There was just one thing that was keeping him from getting killed for his attitude issues. ]

Someone with your ears should've heard that just fine. I'm saying you're on the same level as an abandoned animal. What makes you think I need a god to protect me, anyway?

[ It's come up before, from instinct, and he had the knowledge to know what it was called. That borg was what kept him protected better than most other things. Especially with how easy it was to goad the world. ]