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

[hypomeneo]

Ambitious? Sure. I'll give them that. Poorly organized? The incompetence displayed in - pun, entirely appropriate - putting this together is glowing.

[Waver is... being Waver, in contrast. Give the man an inch to bitch about and he'll go and seize a mile instead.

It doesn't seem to affect his ability to put together the puzzle, though. Instead he seems to thrive on griping, snapping pieces together faster and faster. Maybe it's a superpower of his?]

I'd love to know whose grand idea to do it this way was in the first place.

[alloflove]

[ He covers a chuckle. What this person is saying is the truth. And All of Love is accustomed to similar personalities. In a sense, his last Eve was a like that a fair bit. He is used to being complained to. ]

Ambition does not always go hand in hand with competence, after all. The miscalculation this time around is almost amazing.

[ His pace might not speed up, but conversation doesn't slow it down at least. He does have a few centuries of experience by now. ]

I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to find out whose idea it was, if you really want to look it up.

[hypomeneo]

That's more trouble than it's worth. As much as I want to chew out the idiots involved in dragging me to a museum at who-the-fuck-knows at night, it's not my job to do the lecturing.

[Strangely, Waver can and can't say the same. While the man has a few decades of life on him, the Heroic Spirit he's fused with is nearly two millennia old. Not that it matters, Waver can remember none of it in his unlife and Zhuge has, for all intents and purposes, washed his hands of everything being as dormant as he is.]

Even if we save their arses here, what brought them to this point had better be addressed. Divine intervention should be the last resort and doled out sparingly, especially in cases like these.

I don't intend to bail them out again if they cock things up due to their own stupidity.