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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!
Feel free to come up with your own ideas if these don't strike your fancy, though.
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!
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!
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Have fun!
Kagaho | Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas | Shinki
[His god decided to take this prayer, but to Kagaho, it seems like a complete waste of time. He watches the cleaning staff chatter on about old Hanako and her work ethic from his chosen spot against the wall, then notices movement out of the corner of his eye.
Oh. That must be Hanako. Hard at work still with her mop and bucket. Once she gets in earshot, he raises his voice enough for her to hear.]
Keep up the good work.
[Because why should someone stop doing her job just because other people want them to slack off?
Of course, this is the opposite of what he's supposed to be doing here, so if you came here with him on this prayer, you may want to intervene...]
Ingenious Insects
I told you I need that one!
[He didn't come here to make little kids cry, but that's how it's ended up. He's standing between them and the ayakashi, but there's nothing he can do until they get to safety and his temper has gotten the best of him. Though he's an imposing figure and you can practically feel the anger radiating off of him, there's something almost panicked about the look on his face. And if you happen to be his god and able to feel the deeper emotion behind all of this, there's a sinking sort of despair as well.]
Wildcard
[Feel free to throw something else at him! Edgelords with rage issues probably aren't the best shinki to take to help out with cute cats or petty neighborhood garbage disputes.]
Honoured Helper
Excuse me, but um... Aren't we supposed to convince Miss Hanako to take a break?
[ She's smiling somewhat nervously and really hoping he takes it as the helpful suggestion it was meant to be. She doesn't want to give anyone the wrong impression on her first attempt to help with a mission. ]
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She'll rest when she's dead.
[It sounds particularly mean-spirited when he says it, but in truth it's not so different from some of the things Hanako has said herself.]
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[ She moves in front of him now, her nervousness forgotten in her zeal to explain the possible horrors of not doing the job correctly. ]
What if Miss Hanako can't rest when she dies?! Maybe when she gets older she'll realize she should have spent time on hobbies or finding love, then she'll die with regrets and start haunting this business! At first it'll be simple things like the lights flickering or items just moving to the wrong spot. But eventually she'll start possessing people and making the walls bleed!
[ It's true, she saw it in a movie once. And she's flailing dramatically as she tells the tale, to emphasize just how dire it is. ]
The business would fail! They would have to spend years apologizing to Miss Hanako's ghost before they could reopen!
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He shifts against the wall, cocking his chin up so he's looking down at her even more. Even leaning back, he's still more than half a foot taller than she is (not even counting his hair), and he's not above making use of that.]
If that was true, every building in this world would be leaking blood.
[After all, who doesn't die with regrets? The world isn't so kind as to give everyone what they want, or even a lucky few.]
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Even if she does it with a half step backward and a somewhat self-conscious smile. ]
I don't think so. I think a lot of people accomplish what they want before they die, right?
[ Otherwise, what would be the point in trying? ]
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[He's not willing to give up the point, but he also seems more interested in making smart remarks about it than actually engaging in a reasoned argument.]
ingenious insects
[He nods at Kagaho.] Allow me.
[He quickly surrounds the ayakashi with borderlines, and then turns to the kids.] Children, you won't be able to touch it.
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I didn't ask for your help!
[It doesn't matter whether he needed it or not, either. This guy has always rubbed him the wrong way and he has zero interest in cooperating with him.]
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[It hadn't looked like Kagaho had had any other ideas.]
I'd hope you weren't relying on a stand-off against them.
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[Tiny ayakashi like this are barely worth his time, anyway. If he could torch the park to take care of the whole issue, he would. As long as he gets the necessary result and his god doesn't get blighted, he's satisfied.]
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[So saying, he leans over and picks up the ayakashi. It'll blight his fingers, but there's an easy antidote for that.]
I'll be taking this. Explain to the children why the bad man took their plaything, would you?
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[Or anyone else for that matter. And if Albafica is going to lord it over him, he can do his own dirty work.]
I told you I didn't need your help, so don't think I owe you anything for it.
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[He frowns a little, because if Kagaho won't do it, he'll have to calm the children down himself, and if there's one thing he knows about children, it's that they can be...unexpectedly grabby. He doesn't know why he has to keep his distance, just that it's important that he does.]
[The fact that he's holding the bug that the children want is part of it, too.]
If you want to get rid of it right now, I can trade. [Trade duties, that is—calming the children for getting rid of the ayakashi. Because yes, he's lording it over Kagaho. Just a little.]
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So hand it over. Or I can just burn it where it is.
[Pity whatever god is supposed to be supervising them.]