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

[abgrund]

[ Ain stays still while the hitchhiker bustles around, only speaking the bare minimum necessary to establish that he is, in fact, not mute. His attention is trained on Sakura while she handles the social interaction - the tension in her frame is not missed, yet he does not respond to it directly.

He only moves when she bows, taking a single step forward so that he can gently pat her on the shoulder, just once. ]

You were great.

[ He had heard these words uttered on a street a few days ago, and it cut into his newly-formed memory for a reason he no longer understands. ]

... shall we return?

[ He would escort her, for as long as she needs. ]

[festal]

( She flinches at the touch but it's out of surprise and not fear. After this entire ordeal, her nerves are a bit on edge and she hadn't expected to be touched so suddenly. Looking up, eyes wide with surprise, she shakes her head vigorously, )

I-I didn't do anything at all!

( Ah, that sounded... a lot more emotional than she'd meant it to. She'd reminded herself of a child throwing a tantrum just now, the way she'd raised her voice so suddenly. Realizing this, she looks away, )

I'm sorry. It's just that... w-we wouldn't have gotten here at all if it weren't for you. All I did... was lose us an opportunity and... I couldn't even speak up w-when he said those things...

[abgrund]

[ Ain's touch is cold, tinged with the chill of the abyss, so it's within reason that she would shy away from him. It had been a gamble to seem more human, after all.

Yet, she still protests. He watches her with a half-lidded eye, willing words to assemble themselves together in his mind - the process takes about half a minute. ]

No need to apologize. [ The shinki tries his best to sound less threatening, though he only results in using a softer, wispy tone. ] You did your best. That is.... what matters....


[ what matters...........


........................................................... something cries out in the murky depths of his mind, stirring weakly before falling back into the darkness. ]