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

[purr_ince]

I wouldn't either. Life if more fun when you're spontaneous, right? You never do the same thing twice, always have a good time. You're never bored either.

[Adrien just nods at her seemingly content with this state of affairs. He is actually.] I have a very strong feeling you wouldn't let me. [He doesn't know how he knows that but he does.] I like that thought by the way. Being your friend regardless of everything sounds right somehow.

Let him be irritated. He'll either take action in which case we will, too. Or he'll realize what a cranky baby he's being and man up. [He's smiling warmly reaching to touch her shoulder delicately.] We'll just keep an eye on him either from here or from back at the temple. I'm sure we can just pop back if we need.

Maybe you should just tell him. Plainly. Especially since it's a guy. We can be kind of thick and it's best to just lay stuff out on front of us. Bluntly as you can. And if he doesn't accept you and your love then he's an idiot and I'll happily grab some of that ice cream and chocolate stuff you like and let you eat your pain way. [Adrien nods at this because he is very, very serious and if someone hurts his goddess he'll do that and maybe Chat will have a little chat with them too - that may or may not involve his baton or claws and a whole lot of hissing with a hint of fang.]

Nope. Thinking about it too much hurts. [Adrien gives a little pout, snuggling up against her. He's only had random flashes of things. Nothing that made sense at all. Nothing worth really mentioning before now. A glimpse of headphones, a ladybug charm, a bright yellow jacket.. just flashes of colors really.] Perfect. [He relaxes into he as her fingers run through his hair and his head settled on her shoulder for a moment.] I'll do my best, My Lady. Maybe we should go back home? Even if he's going to do something he won't do it knowing he's watched.

[doodlebuginette]

I couldn't have said it better myself. [And maybe they wouldn't always have a good time, but that was okay. As long as things were more good than bad, she was going to take it as a good sign.]

You're right about that. [She's just smiling at him, content in the knowledge that he knew that much about her, at least. It was comforting.] Me too. [Because they were friends before all this, but she can't tell him that.] Why wouldn't we be? We get along and we work well together.

[Mari's just nodding at that, because he's right. And she knows it.] Here's hoping he realizes what a brat he's being. [She was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, despite his previous behavior.] You're right. We can always make sure he's behaving.

[At that, she's just kind of staring. She's pretty sure that telling Adrien how she felt would be too close to telling him something he's not supposed to know, and there's no way in hell she's going to take that chance. If something happened to him, she's almost certain it would kill her. Seeing him die the first time (and the second time in a vision) had been hard enough.] I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the advice! [She's just shaking her head and smiling at that. He really was too good to her.] I do enjoy chocolate.

Don't worry, I'm sure it'll come back to you eventually. Without the pain. [Okay, so maybe she wasn't entirely sure how getting a shinki's memories back was supposed to work, but she wanted to believe it was possible to do so without them turning into a monster.] Don't be sad, kitty. It'll be okay. [She's content, for the moment, to run her fingers through his hair because it's obviously helping him to relax. And then she's glancing down at him with a smile.] That's all I ask for. Are you ready to go home?