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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[theprezident]

[ He squints at the arm for a couple of seconds, and then slowly lowers it and opens his palm. Closes it. Opens it. Tries to bring up something, anything, from the database in his head. The fake vault key, Vasquez's stupid car. But there's nothing.

Actually, does he even--? Wow, the database probably isn't intact either, is it? It's all just his memories at this point. ]

Great. Just great. So, what, it all just short-circuited when I got dumped here? That it?

[asgardsflight]

[ Honir hums noncommittally. ]

I don't know what most of that means, but I think the answer is probably no? We don't really know what did the dumping of you here so it's hard to say for sure. "No" sounds like a better answer, though.

[ Help... ing??? ]

[theprezident]

[ He stares at Honir for a few seconds, and then just. Sighs. ]

It doesn't make sense. Last I checked, both my eye and my arm works about the same. I can move my arm because there are wires going through the arm and into my shoulder where they connect with my nervous system.

[ See, he'll even map out the path with his finger! From the hand to the shoulder. ]

My eye is the same. Wires. Plugged into the nervous system. This, [ he waves his cybernetic arm again, ] can't be hollow or have, like, wires that don't work or whatever, or I wouldn't be able to move it.

[ At this point he's not really expecting an answer from Honir, honestly? Just thinking out loud. Ish.

Or just complaining. Whichever you prefer. ]

[asgardsflight]

[ Honir is very patient through Rhys' explanation, just... endless curiosity with a faint smile. ]

Oh yes, I saw all of that when I looked inside your head! Can you tell me, did it hurt to put those on your body?

[ ??? ]

[theprezident]

You-- You looked inside my head?

[ Oh my god, he thought he was free of anyone not supposed to be in there being in there! ]

[asgardsflight]

[ Honir tilts his head. ]

Well, yes! I had to see why your eye isn't working.

[ ??? ]

But I didn't look into your soul or anything. I was hoping you would tell me more about it yourself!

[ ??? ]

[theprezident]

[ He just. Scrubs a hand over his face. Massages his temples. Does he even want to know? ]

I don't even know why I'm trying anymore.

[asgardsflight]

[ human.exe has stopped running. ]

Trying? What are you trying to do? Can I help?

[ Very sincerely!! :) ]

[theprezident]

[ What is wrong with this guy ... ]

Understand my life. It's not going very well the past few days.

[asgardsflight]

[ Sheepishly: ]

Well... I mean, I can, if you want me to look into your soul.

[ Such things we say so earnestly! ]

[theprezident]

[ WAVES HANDS REALLY FAST ]

No, no no no, that's okay! You really don't-- Don't need to do that. Just, uh. Just a tip. Pretty sure most humans don't like getting their minds or souls looked into. Okay? So just. Don't do that.

[asgardsflight]

That's why I asked first, silly!

[ A gentle laugh! Like this is all perfectly obvious and normal. You mortals are so endearing. ]

But if you want to tell me about your last few days instead, I will gladly listen.

[theprezident]

[ Hang on. ]

I didn't say you could look into my head.

[asgardsflight]

Well, I asked if I could look at it, you never said no, and then you let me look at it, so I did!

[theprezident]

[ Just gestures baffled...ly at him ]

I thought you just meant my eye!

[asgardsflight]

Your eye is inside your head.

[ Not even said with any sass, he's still very sincerely explaining how this works. :') ]

[theprezident]

[ Oh my god he gives up. ]

I'm gonna get a headache.

[asgardsflight]

[ Oh no! ]

Are you okay? Do you need to sit down?

[ Honir raises his hand and a comfortable lounge chair appears right behind Rhys, close enough that he could just fall right into it. ]

[theprezident]

[ Just blissfully unaware of that for now. ]

No, no, I'm fine. I just ... I'm not really sure what to think about all this. It's not actually that hard for me to understand everything that happened back home, it just escalated really fast, but this is a whole ... I swear I must have hit my head or something. I'm probably in a coma. That'd make sense. Maybe.

[asgardsflight]

How would that make sense? I mean, I don't know if you hit your head or not, but you are definitely awake and alive right now.

[theprezident]

I like the alive bit. Not so much the awake bit.

[ He's not convinced though. Why would his coma dream tell him anything other than that he's totally awake?

If coma dreams are even a thing. He actually doesn't know. Maybe being in a coma is a verse scenario than being here for real. ]

Look, if you really are gods, you don't happen to be able to check that my friends are okay?

[ Would he believe it if they said they could? Hell if he knows. ]

[asgardsflight]

[ He chews the inside of his lip for a second, like he doesn't really want to say it again, but - ]

I mean -

[ the thing with the soul and the - ]

[theprezident]

...

[ He sighs, and kind of. Slumps a little. Ugh. Is it worth it? Can he actually trust that Honir would tell him the truth? Would Honir dig around further if he's given permission? Does Rhys truly care what the guy sees?

It doesn't even really make a difference if he can't trust it for sure, does it? ]

Never mind.

[asgardsflight]

[ Oh no. :( ]

I'm sorry. I could tell you a lie if it would make you feel better, but I'm not very good at it.

[ For starters: maybe don't tell them you're lying. ]

[theprezident]

Yyyyeah, I can tell.