takamagahara | Test Drive #27

TEST DRIVE # 27

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.

Apparition Apparent

Following the ups and downs of their business after the whole Zodiac affair, the fortune tellers of Ginza have searched for another fad to bring in the customers. The old and cheesy is making a revival, and so the fortune tellers have latched onto seances as the next big thing. Trembling tables, knocks on the wall, creepy voices from beyond the grave- all performance art that people will pay big yen for. Or… is it all performance?

Bead Bustle

At the perpetually bustling intersection of Shibuya, someone’s precious bead bracelet has fallen apart. Answer this sudden but intense prayer to recover all the beads and return them to their owner.
Hope you have a bird-like affinity for small, shiny objects, because they’re certain to be thoroughly scattered under the feet of hundreds of pedestrians.

Cattle Cull

It is part of the cycle of commerce: cattle are bred to become beef. One farmer has been struck with melancholy for the fate of the poor beasts, and has asked for divine intervention in choosing which cattle are to die. Be a cattle whisperer and try to divine which beasts are accepting of their fate? Maybe, if it’s all the same to you, at least try to choose the fatty-looking ones.

Delivery Dash

For some reason, a singing telegram business is getting more orders than their small staff can handle! Good for business, so long as the messages can be delivered on time! Button up into your bellhop uniform of choice and head out in pairs on this urgent task to sing messages of all kinds, from silly to serious, to their unwitting recipients. (Just don’t get shot, ok? That’d be unfortunate.)

Epicurean Epidemic

There has been a rash of ayakashi activity in an affluent region of Tokyo. The victims will, out of envy of those around them, start spending money way above their means in order to enjoy grade-A epicurean delights- everything from entertainment to food. Then once the victim starts getting frustrated with their “sudden” lack of money to keep enjoying said delights, the small worm-like ayakashi feeds off that discontent, copies itself, and splits off onto another human.
On the plus side, the copies seem to like staying near each other. On the negative side, over a dozen people have been infected already. Hope you can find and exterminate them all.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Don't ask how the young boy by her side has ended up tagging along on this expedition- certainly he's not her god- but here he is regardless! And he has an immediate answer to her question.]

The ones that look like they would sell for the most, of course!

[CHILD...]

[ The fact that she could practically see the stars in the boy's eyes is enough to render the redhead speechless for a short time. Until the cow shows some more affection, drawing her out of that and feeling conflicted with the situation. ]

I'm not really sure how I would be able to tell that.

[What? It's the common sense answer, right? Somewhere, a shinki in a business suit is lost amongst other cows, and feels a strange sense of exasperation for a moment.]

[Ebisu, in the meanwhile, pauses at her words.]

Ah.... I guess you have a point. I don't really know anything about cows either...

[It's a little outside his domain.]

The person who made the prayer would know, wouldn't he?

He would, yes.

[ After all, this is his job. That would just be reasonable. ]

I don't think he wants to have too much of a hand in the process or decisions at this point, however. Not with that prayer, or how quickly he passed the responsibility on to whomever showed up to answer it.

Of course. I wouldn't want to distress him... not after the kind of prayer he sent out.

[He loves humans, after all. Even if he's still learning how to truly make them happy... He does want them to be. He raises up one hand.]

But maybe he would have resources in his house, like guides or manuals.

I know he prayed for help, but is it really okay to go into his house?

[ It feels a little like encroaching upon something too personal. Then again, there's something that is keeping this cattle farmer from being able to do the job he's had for a long while. ]

If he's made a prayer, then that's already an invitation into his house for gods, and shinki by extension.

[At least, that's the logic he's going with.]

Well, if that's how it is.

[ She wasn't exactly in a place to object from that point. Despite looking like a child, the god seemed to be pretty experienced, and Chise learned not to judge simply based off of apparent ages. ]

I don't have much experience with prayers that involved the follower's home for something involving their job.

Then we can help each other.

[He offers his hand with a smile.]

Honestly, I'm still trying to get more experience as well....

I thought you already were...?

[ She still takes his hand, seeing as the question and them helping one another were two different things. ]

[Mostly he needs help navigating through all these cows... Help.]

Mm, I've been recently reincarnated. I need to learn a lot of things still. Or... Relearning things, I guess?

Ah- So you don't retain anything from before?

[ How sad... Not that she knows why he was reincarnated in the first place. ]

No, nothing. [He tries to squeeze his way underneath a cow head, who sniffs at his hair as he passes.] It's why my shinki are so important.

Because they're your one solid connection between then and now, and they know how to guide you.

[ She's come to understand that the old gods and shinki acted in a divine being and guide kind of way, which was just a little different from the partnership the new gods and shinki have come to get. ]

That's right! The exemplar is especially important for that. They're the ones most likely to know what kind of danger a god might have been in, and so can keep them-

[And then this very informative explanation is interrupted by a cow licking up all the way up the side of his face and into his hair, nearly making him fall over.]

[ It's certainly a good thing they were holding hands. The second after he seemed to be going sideways, though Chise didn't have much physical strength she did her best to counter the force of the cow's lick. It was enough to steady footing, not counter a destined fall. ]

They're really affectionate. I wonder if that's normal for cows raised like this...

[Thank goodness for helpful strangers. Helplessly, Ebisu tries to shove the cow's head away from him. It's.... a struggle.]

I hope it's not because I'm so small...

[He is not a tiny cow. He is not even a tiny human.]

They're like this with me too, however. Being small might not have anything to do with it.

[ Chise, you're pretty small yourself. Ah, but he seems to be having some serious troubles. What can gods do... Oh. Maybe? ]

You could... fly above them?

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