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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[volunteertomatoes]

It's not full proof, but it's a near-failsafe way to knock out the possibility of lucid dreaming, and you can go from there.

[ Theon, you don't scare him. He was roommates with Penny for half a semester in university. ]

[reek]

If it isn’t full proof, then it isn’t proof at all.

[ Theon has had horrible dreams as of late. It’s gotten to the point that he can hardly sleep through the night. If this is his current dream, he’ll take it over the previous night’s.

And he just doesn’t want to look like an idiot trying to shove his thumb through his hand. ]

[volunteertomatoes]

[ He lowers his hand, frown apparent and brows creased, and looks over at the other. ] Process of elimination. [ It's mumbled, very much a defeated afterthought as he awkwardly crosses his arms for lack of anything else to do with them. ]

Listen---just--in my experience, even if you think it isn't real or anything, it's not a good idea to mouth off about Gods and stuff.

[reek]

In my experience, the gods aren’t listening, real or not.

[ He’s quick to respond, his smile sharp as a knife and not particularly friendly. It's a different response, more bitter, but still in the same vein as his previous response. It's growing clear that this is personal to him and he isn't just an edgy atheist edgelord. If the gods are real, why would they allow his life to go the way it’s gone? He’s too stubborn to give up that logic, and he will mouth off about what and who he pleases, thank you. ]

[volunteertomatoes]

[ Suit yourself, buddy. Quentin doesn't actually say that out loud (he's a small guy and he doesn't know the other guy from eve, if there's a chance he'll accidentally piss of the wrong person it usually happens anyway) and instead, he shrugs with a flap of his hands. ]

Where I'm from, they do, sort of. It's kind of a mess.

[ But, after pressing his lips into a thin line: ]

You gonna go Godless the whole time you're here?

[ Is that even possible? ]

[reek]

Who is there to stop me?

[ You can take that and his easy smirk as a “yes”. He hasn’t quite figured out that they’ll simply place him somewhere if he refuses to choose on his own. ]

The make-believe gods?

[volunteertomatoes]

[ Quentin knows when enough is enough--even if his need to help is currently at war with the fact that this guy is absolutely adamant. He winds up hissing air through his teeth, watching him carefully.

Is it too early to say 'I told you so?' Probably. And it's not like Quentin's an expert in this situation, he just has a bit of a better grip on the whole Gods are real thing than this guy does. ]

I guess so.

[ And he glances over at the hall, pressing his lips into a thin line. ] Let me know how that goes. I'm Quentin, by the way.

[reek]

[ I don’t recall asking, he thinks in that typical irritated, bitter fashion that colors so many of his conversations, but he can be polite when he wants to be. He holds his tongue and instead, he smiles. It’s steely and sharp, but it’s a smile. ]

My name is Theon Greyjoy.

[ A weird name for a weird guy. You’ve lucked out today, Quentin. ]

Gods be good— [ His smile becomes a smirk, like he’s just told the funniest joke in the world. ] —I won’t be speaking to you again at all.