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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[northerndragon]

[His next nod is a sympathetic nod, a soldier’s nod. He was a prisoner for a while, and he’d give a lot for his battles to be twenty years behind him. He doesn’t speak again until he answers Fraser’s question.]

An army of dead men a hundred thousand strong with a general who can make new soldiers of any living person he kills.

— Oh, I know how it sounds. It’s hard to make anyone believe it at home, either, but it’s true. We thought it was a slow war against the Wildling raiders from beyond the Wall, but they were only the prey of the dead. So we joined forces with them, found allies, fought other battles on the way. My sister and I took back our family home; it had been given to another house as a reward for betraying our brother when he was king.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ It's a lot to process, but Jamie is a good ear. He listens, eyes narrowing at dead men. He follows, though. Remove the 'dead' part and it's almost as many wars have gone before.

For a while, he processes before speaking. ]

I canna say I have any point of reference for what ye speak of, wi' the undead. But I see the truth of it in your eyes. This...undead army. Do ye mean to say if ye fall fighting for the living, their general can raise the man again to fight for him?

[northerndragon]

[Jon knows the look; he can tell that Fraser wants to disbelieve him, but cannot quite do it. And for his own part, he looks relieved at this.]

Aye. He can and he does. The first ones I ever saw were some of our rangers in the Night's Watch: they went missing and we found their bodies not far from our base. We brought them back in, and they rose and attacked in the night. It was years before I saw their leader, but that day I saw him raise tens of thousands in a moment.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ The only real, logical question that comes to Jamie's mind, as a man of battle eventually does come up. ]

How do ye fight an enemy that's already dead? Ye must've, by sheer fact that you're here, speaking wi' me now.

[ And not appearing to be very dead. ]