ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

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the test drive meme. ❧ let's do this. Anyone can post to the test drive meme, including duplicates! Please put your character name and canon in the title of your comment. All threads are considered open to everyone! Tag around and make some friends (or enemies)! If you decide to apply to the game, you can use your TDM threads for your app samples! You only need to provide seven comments if you use TDM samples. You can't be "late" to a TDM! This will be considered open until the next one goes live next month. You can make up your own scenario, interact with one of the locations in the game, use the welcome process of your character selecting a god house, or use our optional prompt below! You do not need to pick a god house to play on the TDM! You can have your character still in the process of discussing/deciding/despairing instead. If you are accepted to the game, you can keep TDM threads as game canon as long as you fudge some of the details depending on your original thread. If you aren't sure exactly how to do this, you can always ask a mod. Reserves open on May 25 at 12:01AM PST and close on May 31 at 11:59PM PST. Applications open on June 1 at 12:01AM PST and close on June 7 at 11:59PM PST. Please always feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions! Have fun, dear (future?) Wanderers. ♥ ❧ optional scenario. As you enter Asgard proper, many of the natives have gathered into curious crowds to greet these mysterious children of the World Tree. Some of them carry baskets of flowers and nervously offer one to any Wanderers that come near. They are vibrant and colorful, picked from the wilds surrounding Asgard, and they might have an odd effect on your character if they sniff the flowers directly. Purple flowers will make your character very giggly and easily amused by everything they see and hear. Orange flowers will make your character feel very warm all over, like the sun is beating down on them directly. Blue flowers will make your character somewhat short and impatient with anything that seems like even a minor inconvenience to them. Effects of the flowers can wear off anywhere between a few minutes to an hour. And for those new to Asgard, this scenario aligns with some of the general curses we might have in the game! navigation.

Comments

arrival

[evanescent]

Aerith's threaded the flowers she'd been given through the length of her hair, and has approached her new residence with fascination rather than trepidation. She can't hear the Planet here — nor the thrumming, comforting pulse of Lifestream, now that she's been pulled from it — but this place is lively, full of color and noise and people. It's comforting too, in its own way, even in the unfamiliarity of it.

Of course then, she notices when people are out of place, the confused gazes, the blank stares...and in this case, the woman in a hospital gown. She heads over, offers a smile she hopes is comforting, her hands laced behind her back, leaning in just enough to seem nonthreatening and curious, rather than intrusive.

"They don't seem big on introductions. Are you alright?"

[zombra]

"Yeah, I guess not," she replies, briefly watching the timid people with baskets before refocusing on this person.

"I'm fine." It's said automatically, even though she really isn't. Tessa had been pretty sure she'd reached the end of her life, for real this time. Trapped on a hospital roof as zombies swarmed the floors below and there she was drugged out of her mind by medical staff and only on her feet because someone in a hazmat suit dragged her up there hoping for a helicopter to arrive. And now she's here. It's a lot to unpack, especially since she hasn't seen Mike anywhere and she was sure she'd heard him call her name before losing consciousness.

"It's just weird to end up here when I thought, um, I was in this whole situation and I, uh—" Keep it together. Keep it together. "I dunno." Tessa shrugs, because she can't just say how she feels. Not only does she not really know, but articulating her feelings is the most awkward thing on the planet and she avoids it whenever possible.

"I'm Tessa." Better to just swerve off the Feelings Highway and into the Field of Introductions instead.