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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[ikols]

Stark.

[ The hel. No, why is Loki surprised? This Asgard is yanking people in willy-nilly from what he can tell, of course the fledgling gods are pulling in bigwig Avengers by default. He half-expects Rogers to saunter in and shriek Assemble to the entire coterie of heroes on his ketchup-slathered chips.

Which Loki pulls closer to himself, munching slower. ]

You can't have the horse, she's mine. I fed her. [ More importantly, ] Hey, is your phone working?

[amelioraate]

[ ah what a nice greeting. Tony smiles, bright and sharp and all teeth, before leaning against the table with his arms crossed.

he finds your strange need to protect those chips oddly amusing.]

I'm sorry, at what point did I make you think I wanted the horse? Specifically a horse from you?

[ right. play nice. fuck.]

And no, no it's not. Nothing wants to fucking work here which is just wonderful. Is it really that difficult to get multi-dimensional wifi everywhere?

[ikols]

Maybe you're not allowed any horse.

[ Hello, good to see you, yes, fuq u too. ]

Ah, shit. [ He is, genuinely it seems, dispirited to hear the resident technodick's phone isn't working. Loki is good with tech, sure, but even he won't argue with the fact he's no Iron Guy. ] My phone ought to be working, it's enchanted to do so in any dimension, [ his shoulders sag, ] but it's been a blasted brick since I arrived.

[ Saying nothing of his lack of magic. ]

I never liked hippy holidays where they take your WiFi away.

[amelioraate]

[ at least they are on the same page then.

but the fact that Loki seemed to think that his phone would work where an enchanted one did not-- well that makes his mouth twist into something that might almost be a smile. a vaguely suppressed smile, as if he would rather not encourage the god or anything, but also can't help it.]

This is probably only good for copper and glass at the moment.

[ this being the phone he pulls out of his pocket to wave around flippantly.]

Never been on one. [ yes he has. well, not a holiday but that isn't the point.] If it's anything like this, don't plan on repeating it.

[ikols]

[ As Loki grunts and sulks, Raindrop cocks her ears toward Tony and nickers curiously. Loki wrinkles his nose. ]

He's awful, would eat four of your legs. Hard pass.

[ Talking about Stark, not to him. Deal with it. ]

[amelioraate]

Not awful enough to eat a fucking horse!

[ does he sound a little short tempered there? maybe a little bit. he has been dealing with a lot of people calling him horrible, awful, and the like for things that honestly have nothing to do with how terrible of a human being he is. seriously.

at least remind him of shit traits he actually has, he has enough that you don't need to make any up.]

[ikols]

[ That reaction is wildly out of sync with the one he thought he'd get, earning a raised brow for its earnest piety over the subject of horse-burgers. ]

Is something eating you?

[ Sounds like. ]

[amelioraate]

[ you know what, this is not the interaction that he needs right now. even if technically Loki is the most familiar looking face he has come across since getting here. with a strangled noise, he waves off the question, knowing that Loki doesn't actually care (it's information, something to bribe or blackmail with, Tony is stupid but not that stupid).]

Doesn't matter. Try not to piss anyone off here to the point where thy chain you to a rock and let a raven eat your spleen daily, okay?

[ HE IS DONE WITH THIS CONVERSATION. fuck does he wish he still drank.]

[ikols]

They wrapped me in my son's intestines, not ... Stark, wait!

[ Eyes widening as Tony goes to leave, Loki finds the urge to do right leaping up in his throat and tossing out a warning before he knows it, flailing for something of worth to add as he stares. Frowns. He supposes he's one of the most qualified people around to avoid danger and here is a prime-steak Avenger flouncing about in a mood, prone to making idiotic decisions that may get him hurt, so it becomes Loki's duty to dole out some warnings. His responsibility.

His family has always been that in some way, for better or worse, no matter the damned universe. ]

... Stay away from Mimir.

[ Out of all the gods present making a name for themselves, Loki trusts the once-and-future seer the least. ]

[amelioraate]

[ oh for fuck's sake--

that makes something twist in his chest; he doesn't trust Loki, any Loki ever, but this younger version of him was not quite as horrible as the older version. and Tony doesn't feel like anyone really deserves being tied up and tormented for all eternity despite his words.

the engineer sighs heavily, presses his palms into his eyes for a heartbeat before:] Sorry, didn't deserve that.

[ yet lingers just outside the words.

though he would be quiet to eat that when he realizes that Loki is-- warning him? Tony squints a little.]

Isn't he one of the gods? Aren't we supposed to like, pledge our loyalty to them or something?

[ikols]

[ There's no point bringing up the crimes committed in the past by his family, it's as if their evolution can hardly be held against them at times. He focuses on the important part of the exchange, shaking his head. ]

Not that one. This isn't a trick, Stark, I ... I don't see any benefit to you allying yourself with him. In our universe, he's a bitter, old, severed immortal head who hates everyone and spews vague prophecies. That same head is still upon his own shoulders here, which worries me a great deal more.

[amelioraate]

[ are you sure there is no point to that? because Tony is pretty sure that everyone fucking loves doing that. (bitter? he isn't bitter.) it is clear that Tony is at least listening to him, if not actively considering his advice because he is still there, has turned back to face Loki a little more fully.]

Severed heads are never any fucking good, that much is true. And-- didn't think it was a trick. [ he did, for like point seven seconds.] Do I ask why an attached head is more worrisome than a severed one?

[ikols]

[ Stark totally thought it was a trick, look at that guilty segue. Fibber. ]

I told you, the head contained more wisdom than Odin could bear to let die. Mimir is too clever for his own good, or anyone elses, and currently the Odin of this realm isn't half as wily as he should be because he still has two peepers in his head.

[ Chinning a hand, he flicks a chip at Tony. ]

If you want my advice, find the biggest bully around and ally yourself to them. That's how Asgard works.