Test Drive #26

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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

[subtract]

[Add has to stifle an embarrassing shriek when Ain phases through the hoodie what the fuck who does that?!

He immediately turns himself around, waiting a few extra seconds just to be sure Ain is done doing... whatever other weird shit he needs to do to dress himself. Eventually he peeks nervously over his shoulder to check. Once he can confirm the worst of it is over, he casually clears his throat and turns back around like nothing happened.]

W-well, that's an improvement. [please don't comment he's fine everything is fine] You're still going to stand out, but hopefully they won't make assumptions anymore...

[abgrund]

[ Void entities do, apparently. Limbs mean little to you when you don't belong to this world, anyway...

Ain blinks at Add's visceral reaction of horror, but doesn't comment on it. There is no need to. ]

Is this okay?

[ He holds out his hands in front of him, limbs (and lack thereof) safely covered by fabric. He supposes it was the norm to wear clothes for his human disguise, but the need for it just didn't seem important anymore.

There's also the matter of his legs, but.. ]

[subtract]

You're fine. [now that he's actually looking, with his eyes, instead of trying to shield himself from the horrors presented before him] Hmm. Actually, it looks quite good on you. Green's not my colour anyway, so you can keep that if you want.

[Now the only issue is... the rest of Ain... but they can take this one step at a time. It's a simpler task to just not look down, compared to not looking at any visible part of Ain. There's a "safezone" now! So Add is just not going to look down for the rest of this mission, probably. Better hope that ayakashi they're looking for isn't small.]

... Anyway, if anyone else gives you trouble I'll deal with it myself. Let's keep going for now. That damn thing could be anywhere by now.

[abgrund]

[ Back to the proper task at hand it is. The matter of clothes and being attacked had simply been an inconvenience - so it was a good thing that Add stopped anyone from attacking him, because he might have just elected to open a void gate and swallow them.

Some things fade into the background of inconsequentiality, like other people. At least, he's less trigger happy than a certain other someone with blue hair. ]

We wasted some time...

[ He closes his human eye, sending out a few streaks of darkness in front of him. The ayakashi must have left a trace, he can follow it by devouring the minute magical signature that marks its path. ]

[subtract]

[Add sighs, stealing a few glimpses downward at the shadows reaching forward in search of their prey. Well, he can't make Ain do all the work.]

Dynamo, long range scanning mode. [The machines are already starting to move into formation after he speaks their name, automatically plotting out a scouting path to maximize the covered area. He keeps one at his side, the other five flying off in different directions. Ain can follow the ayakashi's trail, and Dynamo can scout out any possible escape routes. Once they find their target it'll be easier to corner if they know where it'll go next.

The downside is Add can't defend himself with only one dynamo, though. It'll take some time to pull all his machines back in. He sticks close to Ain, keeping an eye on a small holoscreen in case something crosses his machine's paths.]

Hmm... apparently this ayakashi behaves in an unpredictable manner, so be cautious when we find it. There's no telling how it'll react to a god and shinki. [besides trying to eat them, of course.]

[abgrund]

[ For a voided entity, he takes quite a lot of care to avoid staining the area he passes. The tendrils pooling below him leave no trace on the ground, no scent, no smears of suspicious liquid - nothing. Clean, conscientious; perhaps a reflection of who he once was. ]

Understood.

[ It is easy to blank out his awareness save for the scent of the prey that they pursue, so he will lead Add down several streets. His pace increases subconsciously once a few minutes have passed - the trail thickens, and a finality begins to solidify between his (human) hands. His pendulum takes shape, a crystal carved into undulating waves, glowing with a deep green light.

— there it is, a tail turning down a corner, leaving dark drops of mud in its wake. Once they cross the intersection, he would be ready to pounce. Unless Add has another idea...? ]