ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

[asgardmods]

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.

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[freewilling]

You see 'em too.

[ that's good. he was starting to wonder. a guy can only take so many impossible things in a day before he has to start questioning his sanity.

bucky spares a glance at the man by his side, then turns his attention back to the horses. they have eight legs. for all he knows, they also breathe fire. ]

[theprezident]

Yeeeep. Sure do.

Maybe we're all just going crazy. Maybe this is some kinda ... I dunno, do you dream when you're in a coma? I was about to say fever dream, but last I remember I didn't have a fever. Might have definitely knocked my head really hard or something, though.

[freewilling]

I'm not sure mass head-knocking sounds any saner.

[ all of them going crazy in the same way seems unlikely. unless he's imagining all these people; which he doesn't think he is, he's not that creative. ]

[theprezident]

Look, I dunno, man, I'm just trying to make sense of all this.

[ You know what? Enough staring. He's going to brave this insane world and go pet a fucking eight-legged horse. Let's go. ]

[freewilling]

I wouldn't do that.

[ he shakes his head as the man starts approaching the beasts. petting the strange creatures, that is, though trying to make sense of this insanity seems to be a moot point - and possibly just as dangerous. bucky, at least, is already feeling the beginning of a headache forming. ]

Being kicked by one of those legs is bad enough. [ and that is if that's all they have going for them. ]

[theprezident]

You clearly haven't seen the animals I've seen. If they could even be called animals. They're more like ... monsters.

[ The eight legs are weird, but he'll take this over a skag or a rakk hive any day. Though it would be very difficult to be worse than a rakk hive.

He still takes the last few steps very slowly, though, and carefully holds out a hand towards one of the horses. ]

[freewilling]

[ oh he's seen monsters, pal, they just walk on two and speak their minds. ]

You seemed plenty surprised about those excess legs.

[ so he's really not about to take you at your word on your weird-animal experience levels. don't say he didn't warn you if you get your teeth kicked in.

he watches carefully, tensing up, at the ready to pull the guy the hell out of there should something go wrong.

why does he always surround himself with stubborn punks. ]

[theprezident]

Yeah, well, I didn't expect them on something so ... normal-looking otherwise. Heeere, horsie.

[ So far so good. One of the horses reaches its head forward to sniff at his hand and, once it realises there's nothing exciting or tasty in it, it pulls its head back with a snort and shakes it. Like it's a little offended. But at least it's not kicking him?

He braves another step forward, reaching to pet the neck of the horse. ]

Nice horse.

[freewilling]

[ yet, it's not kicking him yet, bucky's not about to throw caution to the wind, he's had his fill of pain. the horse doesn't look all that happy. ]

It's your funeral, pal.

[ he's all talk, if something happens, he's got your back. ]

[theprezident]

It's fine. It loves me!

[ His hand is right there, so close to petting ... And then the horse just snorts again, turns away and prances right the hell out of there. ]

Oh.

Well, at least it doesn't hate me enough to destroy my kneecap?