takamagahara | Test Drive Meme #38

TEST DRIVE # 38

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.

Deadbeat Dads
Eel-like ayakashi have taken a liking to hanging out with deadbeat dads, luring them into even worse ways to be distracted from spending time with their family, and ways to spend their money other than on child support. The resulting drinking, gambling and womanizing is a downward spiral that draws in the mother and child as well, creating a wealth of negativity for the ayakashi to revel in.
Track down the dads, wherever they’re hanging out, and dispatch the ayakashi.

Exciting Excavator
There is hardly a child out there who hasn’t longingly dreamed of driving an excavator. It looks so exciting, to move huge piles of dirt around like that! Big construction machines are so cool!
Now, even if that longing is forgotten (sorry, shinki) or long-buried as a childish dream, it has a chance to be revived. Prayers really do take one everywhere, don’t they.
Lend your Jack-Of-All-Trades skills to the construction site, and get behind the wheel of an excavator. You totally know how to run this thing, right? As always, there will be another god or shinki on hand to back you up (or tear you down).

Fans and Fence
Fans of the romantic drama “Snow in Summer” have descended in droves on a distant, sleepy neighbourhood that was a filming location. In paying homage to their favourite show, the tourists have carelessly left behind litter like plastic bottles and empty bento boxes, and the trash is irking the residents.
The worst point of contention is the fence. The backdrop of the drama’s pivotal confession scene, it draws the most visitors. However, in the drama it was marked with graffiti, and now it is back to being a normal drab grey. So some, perhaps well-meaning?, visitors have taken the liberty of recreating the elaborate graffiti, true to the scene.
Now the residents are livid, and they’ve called in anyone who would listen, including gods, to their side, demanding reprisal, or at the very least for these damn kids to get off their lawns.
Good luck mediating this dispute.

Ginger Gulp
Going out for drinks after work is a salaryman’s lot in life. Particularly Friday and Saturday night, the alcohol gets flowing and the workers get stumbling.
The market for remedies against the ills of drinking is bursting, and now comes one drink hoping to outshine them all. Ginger Gulp says that it will soothe the bloated stomach, ease the cramped kidneys, whisk away headaches, and even freshen your breath.
Too good to be true? Although tiny, the free sample being offered to you (or by you) should prove that actions speak louder than words. But one needs to be staggering drunk, first. How else will you know if it really works?

Hunter Hippos
Contrary to their dawdling and somewhat dopy appearance, hippos are in truth fierce animals. They can, and do, occasionally hunt to eat meat, and are powerfully aggressive when provoked.
The herd of hippopotamus-like ayakashi that have taken over the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium are quite like the natural animal they’ve taken after. Most of the time they are content to simply wallow about the grassy field, and during baseball games they seem almost sedate as they ‘graze’ upon the fan’s fervour.
However, should anyone come along and threaten them, you can count on having a real fight on your hands. They are huge, way faster than they look, and will have no qualms about doing as much damage to their attackers as possible by biting with their long, sharp incisor teeth and by straight-up ramming with their bodies. You’ll probably need more power than finesse in this fight to clear the famous stadium of ayakashi.

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!

Threaded | Flat

dadbeat;

[So it's time to track down some bad dads, it seems. Lance is all about it - he can track people! It's not that hard! All he has to do is follow them, and he doesn't even have to do it alone.

Which is good, because he doesn't super want to fight monsters right now. But it's also bad, because just following people is boring, and anyone stuck with him has to listen to him.]

Ugh. How much longer do you think this is gonna take?

excaviting;

Right. [Wrong. Lance pushes at one of the levers, which stubbornly stays still.] All I need to do is...

[Nope. Still wrong.]

Oh, come on!

[Someone please stop him before he accidentally hurts someone or something.]

wildcard;

[Feel free to throw anything you want at me!]

flawed fathers

[You're Aku's shinki (you poor thing) or perhaps you aren't and he's just using someone to help him gain god cred for himself. In any case, the 9-foot-tall and perpetually grumpy ~~demon~~ god approaches to get a report on the whereabouts of those accursed ayakashi.]

Well, have you found any yet?

[Speak of the devil, there appears to be an eel-like ayakashi behind him right now... and it seems to be following him.]

hip-hop-opotamus

[The stadium was empty and dark under the night sky and the herd of ayakashi was dozing peacefully in the field. Until a boulder the size of a car comes careening over the side of the stadium into the ball field and lands right in the midst of the herd. One or two ayakashi may have been injured by the falling boulder, but now the herd is very much awake and angry and out for blood.

From over the side of the stadium (the side the boulder came from), Aku peeks his horned, fire-browed head to see what chaos has erupted inside. Naturally, he'd rather attack the ayakashi from afar with a blunt object than deal with them in a more sensible way. Once he's had a look, he turns to the unlucky soul tasked with helping him clean up this mess.]

What? You think you can do better?

wildcard

[Anything goes!]

[Exciting Excavator!]

Awww yeah! Who's the best digger? I'm the best digger!

[Ruby Rose, Shinki extraordinaire is on the job. She's actually managed to get the hang of the excavator controls with ease.

...Unfortunately following the exact instructions she was given is another story entirely. She has dug maybe three or four additional holes than she was supposed to and has piled all that dirt into a little hill.]

Just a little more on the top and we should be good...

[Hunter Hippos]

[A handful of harmful hippos? Ruby was up for the challenge! She had even brought back up with her to make sure thing went down without a hitch. She was perched high up in the bleachers observing the Hippo's through the scope or her trusty sniper rifle.]

...And here we see the ayakashi, grazing in it's unnatural habitat. Unaware and not expecting it's natural predator.

[She takes her eye off the scope and glances over.]

Okay. So here's the plan. We march down there and tell them to leave. If they don't. We beat 'em up.

Excavator

[While Nagi might not know how to run this thing, that does not mean he is going to let anyone see him worrying about it! Oh no, he has all the confidence of a pro as he takes the controls in hand.]

You know, it's a very easy thing!

[He will... "teach" anyone who happens to be in earshot, speaking quite loudly.]

You just push these and-- OH NO!

[Whoops, a freshly constructed wall is gone and Nagi's hands fly to his face in horror. Well, they didn't need it THAT badly, right?]

Ginger Gulp

[In Nagi's mind, there's no reason for someone to be drunk for him to try and sell a product! That would simply be a handicap. Of course, he's only calling out to women, so... maybe he missed the point?]

Oh yes! If you drink this, I promise you will feel better in NO TIME!

[He grabs the hand of a young lady (could be you! or maybe you're just watching~), bending over in a bow and bringing the back of her hand to his lips.]

You have my word, my lady.

lance | voltron | shinki

Aku | Samurai Jack | God

Ruby Rose | RWBY | Shinki

Nagi Rokuya | Idolish7 | shinki