Test Drive #26

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 26



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.

Volatile Vagrant

Ayakashi generally have a particular method by which to hurt humans. But an ayakashi has appeared that seems to be completely random in its methods, and anyone merely being near it becomes a target of its malevolence in a variety of ways. Dispatch this vagrant ayakashi before it harms far too many people.

Warm Wanderlust

Hitchhiking in Japan is rare. A friendly but lost-looking foreigner on the side of the road will attract fascination, concern and compassion. But a Japanese person doing the same likely won’t attract the same positive attention. Yet here is one Japanese person praying for a way to experience the adventure of the hitchhike. What to do for your follower? Well, going as a group of three sounds good, doesn’t it? Just be sure to attract sufficient attention to yourselves so that the drivers will properly notice you!

X-Games X-out


The X-Games, popular overseas, has suddenly become a hot topic with Japanese competitors taking top spots in skateboarding events. Burning to follow in their wake, young teens have taken to the streets, parks and basically anywhere with a strip of pavement to hone their skateboarding skills (which may or may not exist in the first place). While it’s good to see kids getting away from the computer screen, they’re also becoming a public nuisance: damaging handrails, narrowly missing pedestrians, and making noise right up to sunset. Answer the prayers of the kids yearning for glory? Answer the prayers of those wishing for peace in their neighbourhoods again? (...What’s a ‘skateboard’ anyway?)


Youthful Yente

An enthusiastic grade-schooler has started a new career helping people find love! She's hooked up teachers, classmates' parents, even random strangers… but it seems like all the matches she's trying to make this month have gone horribly wrong! Is she being stalked by an ayakashi or is this just bad luck? Either way, she needs help getting her mojo back.


Zodiac Zenith

In the trendy Ginza area, a mall has set up an elaborate indoor display of lights set to represent the real night sky. The key feature is the evening illumination show, where the various zodiac constellations are lit up to music. Strangely, there are growing rumours that those who view the show become even more focused on their horoscopes (much to the benefit of local fortune tellers). It’s even said that people’s personalities shift to become more stereotypical to their respective signs. Take in the show for yourself and see what happens?




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

[festal]

( They are. They're such wonderful people and she knows how blessed she is to be able to call them hers. All of her good fortune seems even greater now that she's faced with her greatest brother, feigning unfamiliarity and ignorance when inside, she can feel a cry, screaming how lucky she is to have him for a brother and how much his words really mean to her. He means so much to her and his words are so precious and important and she can't even let him know much she appreciates him for his everything!

All she can do is draw strength from the strongest people she knows. Like the big brother from her memories, she needs to be strong and steady. If she falters, others will see and everything will begin to crumble.

Whereas normally she would bow her head humbly and hide away, she manages to keep her head up and maintain her smile-- pleasant and light, much like the way someone else used to smile before they passed.... The confidence she gives off is much quieter and calmer, )

They are. ( They're the best. ) If anything... I'm the one lucky to have them.

( But this isn't a conversation they should linger on for too long. She's afraid she won't be able to keep her poise and so she moves on, )

Shall we keep investigating?

[lightninglobster]

[Maybe someday, there'll be more to his calm, proud smile--something more than a friend watching with happiness as their shyest companion eases out of her shell, bolstered by happy memories and the strength of her bonds. He matches her smile, chuckling quietly as he gives a decisive nod.]

See, there's some of that confident young ram!

[He teases, of course, but it's nice to see Sakura so fired up--in as much as anything stokes a fire in her gentle heart. He looks around the crowd, glancing between people and the as-of-yet unlit display, a thoughtful expression drawing some severity back to his features. It was time for a battle plan.]

You're right. We don't have much time--perhaps we should find a better vantage point? Or find a way to get closer to the display itself...

[festal]

( Some of that confident young ram? Sakura's eyes widen at the implication and she looks away, cheeks turning a shade pink because she knows exactly what that means. Brave and confident? Her? She dreams! But if Ryoma says it then... it must be true, right?

She looks up again, trying to see what he means by a vantage point. It's a shopping mall so there are several floors they can try to observe from. Looking around, she points to the escalators not too far away, )

There. ( At all of the people moving up, up, up! ) We can go to one of the higher floors!

... Oh! ( And an idea, ) We can look out for other fortune tellers!