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.

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[verbaltic]

I do, [ Hanamaru says, with a nod. Now it's her turn to awkwardly pause as she looks through her collection and pulls out volume one. She shows it to Vergil with a small little smile. ]

I've got volume three as well, zura. I dunno if there's a volume four, but considering I haven't seen any number higher than four, I doubt it exists.

[ Having decided that this guy is a fellow scholar, Hanamaru decides to be bold and takes the initiative of sitting down across from him. ]

[cecidit]

[ He's rather perplexed by this, and it certainly shows on his face— ] My name is not "zura". You may be mistaking me for someone else.

[ He's not sorry about being so brusque. He's just. This way. But it is a relief to know that the first volume did in fact exist and wasn't just lost to the ether; harvest information, while not of the highest priority, may still provide more knowledge than he'd had upon waking. He could concede to read these volumes later.

What does surprise him, however, is the fact that she plants herself across from him. This is. Unexpected. ]

What are you doing?

[verbaltic]

What? Oh, ah, no, that's just my accent, [ Hanamaru explains, blushing a little. Like what happens to a lot of people when they try to hide something, she unintentionally finds her hick accent growing a little thicker as she talks. ] It's a little embarrassin', I know...

A-And I'm sitting down to read? If we're sharin' the books anyway, it makes sense that we'd sit at the same table.

[cecidit]

[ It isn't like any accent he knows, but— all right, then. Vergil closes his book with a snap, raising an eyebrow at her. ]

Why should it be embarrassing? Your idiosyncrasies are your own; if someone else takes issue, then they've proven themselves to be unworthy.

[ He has no idea why he's saying these things, there is absolutely no reason why her insecurities should be his concern. Still, he does remember being a child of two worlds; it isn't quite the same as having an accent, but perhaps he can somewhat understand.

Is he going to address that he hadn't expected she would sit with him? Not at all. Not even a little bit. He'll move the sword out of her reach, though, and surreptitiously make sure there's space for her. ]