Test Drive #34

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 34



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.



Jingle Jeans
The fresh new spring fashion trend is accessorized denim. Super-accessorized! Bells, chains, beads, zippers, belts and more drip from every inch of this season's hot styles, and the stores need someone to model their new stock -- and bring in the buyers. It's your job to convince the fashion-savvy residents of Tokyo that these new jeans are exactly what their wardrobe needs, without getting your five chain belts tangled.


Kitty Kibble
A huge, panther-shaped ayakashi is haunting the streets of Asakusa, and the pigeons at the local pigeon shrine have disappeared! Take care of this feline predator so the surviving sacred birds won't end up as dinner on the wing.


Lagging Laundry
The residents of an Ikebukuro high-rise have an unusual problem: no matter how sunny the day or how long it's been hanging, their laundry just won't dry! Do they have a moist microclimate? An ayakashi of mold and despair? Or do they just need someone to get all that wet laundry to the nearest laundromat with a dryer until the weather warms up?


Melon Mania
A gardener in Ueno has planted a brand-new strain of muskmelon in his window boxes, and this plant is going wild! Vines have taken over the exterior of his apartment building, and beach-ball-sized fruit are popping up all over. He needs help bringing in the harvest… but his neighbors are begging for this plant to wind up in the compost heap so their lives can go back to normal. Whose side will you take?


Nice & Neat
A community art project is being hosted at the Tokyo Art Museum! Jigsaw-shaped pieces of wood about the size of a hand have been handed out to artists and crafters throughout Japan, and the pieces have just been shipped back. Now, they have to be assembled into one giant jigsaw puzzle for display. There's just one problem: someone forgot to number the pieces before they were shipped! Now they've got a 20,000 piece puzzle whose pieces don't match, and it has to be finished this weekend for the grand opening. Help!



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

Tyzias Entykk | Hiveswap Friendsim | GOD

[virtuousdogma]

Kitty Kibble

[Was this what Tyzias would normally like to be doing as a part of her daily routine? Maybe not. Maybe she'd rather spend the day holed up in a library, but the fact of the matter was that she had this job now and she won't just bow out of it. The panther ayakashi was within sight now, anyway, so she might as well.

After that moment of indecision, the grey-skinned alien god let out a sigh.]

Okay. Let's go.

Melon Mania

[Ah, a dilemma. How to go about this one, then? Tyzias could take the side of the gardener and effectively tell the other residents of the apartment to deal with it. Or she could take their side, and rip up the plant to take it to the trash.

But there could also be a third option. Harvesting the fruit and throwing it away as she goes. That way, the other apartment residents would be happy and she would have harvested the fruit as the gardener asked. That, and the guy could easily just grow the fruit elsewhere for next harvest now that he knows how much space it's likely to take up.

Only, now there was the problem of where she would even put the ones she harvests? In the gardener's apartment, perhaps?]

So. Here's the deal, then. I harvest the fruit, upend it as i go, and either you mmmmove wwwwhere you growwww this, or you can mmmmaybe ask for help frommmm your neighbors so this doesn't happen again.

[The gardener doesn't look very happy about this decision.]

[She says this in a drawn-out, tired tone that may sound like she's lazy, but no, she just hasn't slept in a week, thank you for asking.]

Nice and Neat
[Oh joy. A 20,000 piece puzzle? Well, Tyzias hasn't slept a wink for several days, and with the way things are looking, she's glad to have something to focus on and keep her awake. She's sure she'll get it done in time, putting together one of the edges already, but a little help would not go unnoticed.]

Kitty Kibble

[trustheart]

[Chris would likely come across as being more suited towards this sort of thing. Maybe it has something to do with her demeanor, which is like someone who's been in combat before. Odd for someone so young. But it would probably be even more evident from the fact that she summoned a pair of power armor and is currently carrying two mechanical crossbows.] You sure you're ready for this?

[virtuousdogma]

Yeah.

[Tyzias squared her shoulders. She's as ready as she'll ever be. The armor and crossbows were new, but not unusual. Plenty of other trolls carried personal weapons around, in plain sight or hidden as something else entirely. Axes, claws, knives. Some with psionics took advantage of appearing unarmed to get the upper hand.]

After you.

[Her soulless shinki, a curved shortsword that she now held in one hand, was all she needed to get ready. Other than a plan of course, but it seems as if the two of them weren't going to be given the time to plan anything in advance.]

[trustheart]

[Chris sizes her up. She has her doubts about this one, but she's here and she's all she's got. Time to do what she can to keep them both alive. Hopefully this thing is a lot weaker than a Noise.] Alright. I'm gonna try to flush it out. You okay with lying in wait to take it by surprise?

[virtuousdogma]

[Tyzias gives a nod of her head.] I ammmm. [If that's what must be done to get rid of it. She was good at being something other than what other people expect anyway. The reassuring smile she tried to give however turned out to be somewhat like a grimace.]

[trustheart]

Alright. Wait here then. [Chris dashes off, with surprising speed for someone whose armor includes heels and looks so heavy. It takes a few minutes, but she reappears soon enough... with the Ayakashi fleeing her, several of her energy bolts stuck in its back, as Chris seems to be singing.] A discount sale of lead bullets just for you, as there is no something that cures stupidity...! [Sure enough, she's flushing it towards where Tyzias is...]

[virtuousdogma]

[Tyzias gets ready, counting down the seconds in her head as the panther draws nearer. Five. Four. Three. She darts forward, calling up a Rend and darts under the giant panther as it passes her, cutting its neck and part of its chest.]


(ooc: and here's to hoping I didn't do horrible. Not used to combat in rp :/ )

[trustheart]

[ooc - you're doing fine!]

[The panther lets out a cry as it's slashed, and it claws at its neck like a real predator would. Unfortunately, it raises its paw and whirls around to try and slash at Tyzias in vengeance. Chris spies this and her eyes widen.]

Watch out! [One of her bows quickly shifts to gun mode; she can't rend it without using her shinki, but maybe she can use the force to knock it away from Tyzias, if her aim is true and fast enough...]

[virtuousdogma]

Tyzias thinks she feels something, but whether or not it actually landed a hit can't be the priority right now. Chris's bullet hits its mark in time for that possible hit to have only been a snag on her outfit, though admittedly it was a close call. With it knocked back and righting itself, this gives her the perfect time to strike again. Leaping up this time onto its back, she aims for the back of the skull.]

[trustheart]

[The ayakashi lets out a yowl as the blade embeds in its skull, and it thrashes about violently, critically wounded. Chris breathes a sigh of relief.] Finish it off! [As she cries out, she switches to her crossbows, firing energy spikes to spear the ayakashi's feet to the floor.]

Melon Mania

[alloflove]

[ This person should take a nap. It's not like she's like his eldest brother and is a combination of "generally tired", "slept too little", and "slept too much", he's pretty sure. She should definitely sleep for a bit.

She does have a decent idea about how to deal with this situation though, so she's apparently a functioning insomniac. ]

I think that sounds like a reasonable idea. [ Says the little butterfly-- making it seem like the voice comes out of nowhere. This is what happens when he's in the sun. ] If you were to grow them at a more suitable location, you could expand as much as you like. On the other hand if your neighbors were to cooperate with you, then you would have more hands to help out and would not need to cause a stir. Both options would give you more peace to dedicate to your work.

[virtuousdogma]

[The man seems maybe a little convinced now. He’s thinking it over at least. Meanwhile one of his neighbors barged in unnanounced and yep. They got into an argument. Again. Although now it was with the gardener taking the side that they had proposed, which was one positive so far. At least in the direction of getting the neighbors to help him because he’s in an apartment where would he even move his plants to? But the neighbors, at least this one, weren’t having it.

Tyzias herself just sighs, and looks between the two arguing people and the butterfly as she comes up with another solution.]

[alloflove]

Oh, my...

[ He flutters a little, settles on a vine. It would have been preferable if the neighbor had not appeared. Or if it at least had been a more cooperative one barging in. ]

Perhaps there are allotment gardens somewhere not too far away...

[ This he says to the lady, not to the arguing mortals. They seem far too into their...discussion, at the moment. All of Love has been living at the Alicein estate for so many generations now, that he doesn't know if Japan has allotment gardens at all, though. ]

[virtuousdogma]

They're usually on the outskirts of towwwwns and cities, if I remmmmemmmmber right. Should be one not too far frommmm here. [It was just a matter, now, whether or not the gardener was willing to pay the fee and drive, or walk if it was closer than she thought, however many minutes that it took to get there.]

[alloflove]

I suppose that they would be. Placing them in the middle of the city may be unhealthy for the plants. Perhaps there is something about it on the internet?

[ He doesn't have fingers and his phone is melded into his clothes, which is melded into his body and as a result can't be accessed. ]