Test Drive #28

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 28



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.

Fish Face

An ayakashi has taken to attaching itself to people’s faces. Other than just making the person gloomy, it has another, more odd, side-effect. Humans who can perceive things of the Far Shore take one look at someone affected by the ayakashi and can’t stop laughing uproariously. Even gods and shinki will get at least a case of the giggles. Sure, the ayakashi makes the person look like they have a fish face, puckered lips and all, but it’s not that funny, is it? Save people from the ayakashi, in more ways than one.

God-speed, Gnome

The travelling gnome is a cute trend that many people follow, watching where their little porcelain garden friend will end up next in the world as volunteers take him along on their travels. However the gnome has stalled somewhere, and the outcry on the internet is quickly reaching a fever pitch. Is it foul play? Or did the gnome simply get lost?
Hopefully you can help him resume his journey.

Homing Hen

Mr. Motoi's landlady has asked him to sell the chicken he was keeping on the building roof. He sent the hen to his daughter in the suburbs… but two days later, she was back on the roof trying to get back into her coop. He's tried three times now to find her a new home, but she keeps coming back! Something needs to be done. Will you help the hen accept her new owner, or try to convince the landlady to have pity?

Icy Idyll

In an effort to promote the beauty and simplicity of the idyll, a poetry society is hitting the streets of Tokyo, offering free ice cream to whomever can compose a (half-decent) idyll on the spot.
What is an idyll, you ask? Simply “a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life”.
What do you say? Want to give it a go? No one will judge you too harshly. (Except maybe that person beside you.)

Jujube joy

A new jujube specialty shop has opened, with their key item being “emotion infused” jujubes. With a “secret blend of extracts and essences from exotic, organic herbs and plants”, the company claims that anyone eating their candy will have their mood shifted and uplifted!
Red for bravery. Yellow for happiness. Blue for calmness and relaxation. Green for refreshing energy!
Try a sample (strictly one per person, do not eat two at once) and see for yourself!
The only problem is that that secret blend of herbs and plants seems to be more potent on the physiology of someone from the Far Shore. (If the company knew, they would certainly apologize for the oversight.)




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

Romeo | Shinki

[myblueskies]

Homing Hen

[Romeo has climbed up onto the roof to confront this chicken! He stood facing down the chicken, finger waggling in a telling off] Now just you listen up! You've got a new boss now and you have to go live with her you can't live here anymore!

[The chicken didn't seem to be listening to him at all and Romeo sighed and crouched down to talk more gently to it] I guess you might be scared about going to a new place but I'm sure there will be lots of other nice chickens there and you can make friends with them! And you're just going to get into big trouble if you keep coming back!

Icy Idyll

[Romeo is looking at the smiling woman who is offering him ice cream in return for an Idyll in complete confusion. Not only is he not sure what an idyll is, even after the explanation but he doesn't even understand the prize.]

What's ice cream, miss? [Looking around for any clues whilst also trying to figure out what picturesque and rustic means. Picturesque sounds like picture. Something pretty?

He is willing to try his best though and he brings his hand to his chin thinking. Things that are pretty?] Flowers are really pretty and so are clouds in the sky and the sky itself! That's really pretty too, when you get to go up high and look at the sky that's like a picture too!

icy idyll

[blackshiver]

Honestly, don't you have any imagination...?

[A girl who's sitting in the vicinity seemingly listening to the poetry gives that rather dismissive remark at Romeo's attempt, curling a hand under her chin and narrowing her eyes at him like it's offensive to have to watch someone not be able to recite something like this off the top of their head.]

They said "verse or prose", not train of thought, or can't you listen either?

[myblueskies]

I do have imagination! [He spins round to the girl and pulls a face, but only a small face because she was older than him and he should be polite. Even if she wasn't being very polite herself!]

I don't know what verse or prose means! I listened to all the words they said! [He just didn't understand half of them, he's a little sad that he hadn't managed to do the task right, he had tried his best. But he does his best to keep his spirits up and to learn from his mistake.]

[blackshiver]

Not enough imagination to ask them, obviously. [Rin still sounds distinctly unimpressed with the whole thing, and it's clear she's not really interested in hearing his excuses.]

It's embarrassing to watch someone say they tried after they made such a lousy showing.

[myblueskies]

I did try [He frowns but decides he's going to try again! He will show this girl! He will make the best idyll there ever was and win the ice cream]

Is verse like a song?

[blackshiver]

[Rin huffs, like it's beneath her to be answering this at all, and leans against the lamppost next to her. With a deliberately leisurely air, as if accentuating that she's only answering this out of the goodness(?) of her heart, she takes out a nail file and starts filing her nails before she actually answers his question.]

Verse is a poem. Haven't you heard of that word before?

[myblueskies]

A poem! [He knows what a poem is! A poem is a song without music. He hadn't been very wrong after all! ] Alright!

[He has a think, a poem about pretty things...]

The sky was really blue
and birds were flying through
the clouds were fluffy and white
and I think that is a pretty sight!

[See he even remembered that poems are meant to rhyme!]

[blackshiver]

[The poetry society members seem to be much more impressed with that than Rin is, because one of them offers Romeo an ice cream upon hearing it. Rin, for her part, lets out a quiet huff and continues her nail work.]

I suppose everyone has to start somewhere.

[myblueskies]

[Romeo grinned as he was handed the prize, the ice cream that had been promised. He had done it right! He had made up an idyll and the poem people were impressed!

He stared at the ice cream, even with it in his hands he doesn't know what it is, he's never seen anything like it before. It looks like food though.

Even distracted as he is he doesn't ignore the other girl] You gotta start at the basics or you don't learn things! That's why it's important to do your best! [It's like he hasn't heard the insult in her words at all] Don't you want to try and get an ice cream?

[And with that he goes to bite at the top of the ice cream, excited to know what this new food tasted like]

[blackshiver]

"Doing your best" doesn't solve being pathetic from the start. [Rin puts that in a somewhat bored tone, as if she's explaining something very obvious to a child. At the implication she'd want to be part of the event herself, though, she shoots him a scornful look.

Though she absolutely would've jumped in to dominate if he'd implied she didn't have the confidence to do it instead...]

I don't need someone else's cheap throwaway food. [She puts her nail file away and instead withdraws a fancy-looking heart-shaped lollipop from her pocket, pulling off the wrapper and flicking it away before she slides the sweet into her mouth.]

[myblueskies]

[Romeo pulls a face, but she's an adult, or at least she's not a kid his age so he doesn't actually argue. Even though he thinks that it's fine for people to not know things at first, as long as they work hard and learn things by the end!]

It's a prize, not throwaway food, miss [But it seems she has her own, he bites the ice cream. He does pull a face at that. It's cold.

He is stood, wide eyed, not sure what is going on as the coldness spreads through his whole head]

[blackshiver]

Why would they be giving it out so easily if it wasn't throwaway? [Rin's retort is somewhat dismissive, and she rolls the lollipop stick between her teeth as if his attitude is grating on her. Which is somewhat ironic considering her own behaviour.

When he makes a face at the temperature and then seems to get still all of a sudden, she makes an annoyed spitting sound.] Don't make me beat the brain freeze out of your weak little head, kid.

[myblueskies]

[At her threat his eyes widen and he takes a half step back as he quickly swallows the ice cream. The cold spreads through his whole body but he ignores it and brings an arm up across his face, as if to protect his head. He doesn't know what he's done wrong, or why this lady is so mad at him and he doesn't like being called weak at all! He keeps his head up, keeps his spirits up]

I'm sorry miss! [It's unfair, he hasn't done anything. But he knows how to behave himself!]

omigosh hi! I remember you from Animus | Hens

[hardknoxlife]

[ Chickens though... it's been a while since he's had to handle any. He's right behind his shinki though, head tilted as he looked at the chicken closely. If there's anything being a god here has told him, it's that there's usually a reason to these things. ]

Listen, Romeo... s'all well'n good that we've the hen on our side but m'starting to wonder if there's something more to the poor sod not wanting to stay in one place.

Hello! I remember you too! Nice to see you again

[myblueskies]

[Romeo is still crouched down but he tilts his head up to listen to his god even if he keeps his eye on the chicken, he doesn't think it will misbehave though. Especially since it is where it wants to be.]

Something more? What do you mean?

[It seemed enough that the chicken was scared about going somewhere new, but mister Ronald knew much more about things than Romeo did]

Same! It'd be a blast to see Romeo around TFS, ngl.

[diehardreaper]

[ He's seen it before. Animals are much more perceptive when it comes to these things, after all. ]

Could be an ayakashi. They're fairly skittish things, chickens're, but hmm...

[ With that, his hand goes into his pocket and he turns on one heel. ]

Any idea what'd have a hen come back to roost? Mister Spears's had pigeons but those're trained to come home.

[myblueskies]

[Romeo nodded. It might be! Their new home might have an ayakashi in it and if so they should go fight it so the chicken can live in peace!

He thought for a long moment about why the chicken might come back] Only if it has eggs or something, if it is going to have babies it won't want to leave them [He is not one for sitting still, so he has jumped up again and is looking around for any sign of eggs]