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takamagahara2018-05-01 03:46 am
godsoffortune) wrote in takamagahara2018-05-01 03:46 am
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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!
Feel free to come up with your own ideas if these don't strike your fancy, though.
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.
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.
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?
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.)
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!
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Have fun!
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[Don't mind him, Shun, he's just stammering.]
It's not my fault if you don't believe me, then!
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Anyway, if you want to do something useful, you're going to have to stop blustering about it first.
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(He so is.)]
Fine, fine, we'll do it your way...
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There's always the chance it's just attached to the place, but with this sort of thing and the way this world works, we need to make sure there's not some kind of ridiculous magic working here.
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[Sawatari scrunches up his face, thinking. He looks stupid, doing that, but...]
...like, some kinda ayakashi luring it back as a prank, or maybe the attachment to its home actually being strong enough to leave like...I dunno, some kinda charm or something?
[...he actually can posit some interesting answers, despite his relative newness to the job. Huh.]
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Both are options, and there are other things it could be, like a magical item or a spirit or something else. About the only thing I'd rule out is possession by an ayakashi, since the bird only got violent when you mishandled it.
[He puts that very bluntly, not least because the bird has calmed down significantly in the presence of food and not being grabbed.]
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I don't think I saw anything really noticeable on the roof when I went to grab it, but I was more focused on grabbing the chicken at the time, so...
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[And then equally stupid people brought them across to the Far Shore, where they promptly turned into large and decidedly not-plush ayakashi.
Also he may or may not have noticed the hen's beady-eyed look and just decided not to do anything about it because Sawatari kind of deserves it.]
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[He shouldn't be surprised by that, and yet...]
So like...in that case, even something like its water bowl or the coop itself could have an ayakashi in it, right?
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[He shrugs slightly. It's a valid possibility, which means he doesn't feel at all bad for probably ratcheting Sawatari up even further about what might be lurking in the chicken coop.
Though he does have the decency to revise it a few moments later.] Even if the hen seems too lively for it.