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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[seventeenfortythree]

'Tis no' your job to fix things, Brianna. What I lost was nothing compared to knowing no British soldier would kill ye or your mother.

[ He doesn't want her to carry that. But he is pleased to know how close he was to her birthday. ]

Ye are my own, and being able to see ye now is better than anything I could have ever imagined.

[mograidh]

Why can't I fix things?

[ She asks the question with a little smirk, a cheeky one, challenging him just a little, but in a gentle way meant to see if she can bring a smile to his face. ]

[seventeenfortythree]

No' trying to fix the past. To only look back willna help us be present and glad for what we have, and what we can look forward to.

[ He walks with her again, that smile present. ]

Tell me more about what ye like, what brings ye happiness?

[mograidh]

[ He may not realize it, but every now and then, she's sneaking brief glances in his direction, pleased to recognize so much of herself in him. It didn't matter that she couldn't do that with her daddy, she loved him all the same. But this is a new feeling, one of being instantly connected to someone by blood, and she cherishes it. ]

Well, I always enjoyed history, like my father. But I loved math, too, and engineering. That's what I studied in college, actually. Mechanical engineering. Do you know much about that? Machinery and things like that?

[seventeenfortythree]

[ Jamie's captivated just listening to her speak, and he feels his heart swell with pride. That he could have such a canny lass for a daughter. He smiles widely at her. ]

I worked the machinery at the press, as ye ken already. And I've done all sorts of building things. But 'machinery' as far as I ken it may be verra different than what you know.

[mograidh]

I don't know yet what's really available to us here in the way of tools, but if I can teach you anything, I will.

[ But she suspects they'll find even more things they have in common as they talk. ]

I like to draw a lot, too.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ That she likes to draw makes him look at her with even more pride. ]

Do ye ken my mother loved to draw and paint? She paint mine and Jenny's portraits. My brother Willie, too.

[ He smiles softly. ]

What do ye like to draw?

[mograidh]

She did? [ She loves hearing more about her family, too. People she'll never know. ] I draw whatever inspires me, really. Usually portraits of people. Sometimes landscapes. That moment early in the morning when the sun is rising and the valley below is just...lit up and shining. Sometimes I can't think about anything else until I draw it.

[ She didn't mean to, but she realizes she's describing the beautiful landscape surrounding Fraser's Ridge. She hadn't meant to start talking about all of that just yet, but she's let it slip a little. ]

[seventeenfortythree]

[ Jamie doesn't truly connect the two, and he's so captivated by the sound of her voice, by the way she describes something so beautiful. It could be anywhere; it could be Scotland.

So, she's off the hook for now. ]

How could ye ever be worrit about me being proud of ye?

[ When he speaks, his voice is suspiciously husky and he clears his throat just a bit. ]

[mograidh]

[ He'll think differently when he knows. She's worried about that, but more than even herself, she doesn't want to put that on either of her parents - if they find mama - right now. That's the last thing any of them need to be worried about.

Smiling softly, she nods a little. ]

Silly of me.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ Jamie pulls her close again and kisses her temple once more before they walk a bit more in their search. ]

Did ye arrive wi' your mother, when she returned to me?

[ He has bits and pieces of the story, but now he's ready to understand more, how things came to be as they played out for his daughter. ]

[mograidh]

No, she...she went back alone. I wanted her to go, I practically begged her to because she refused to leave me. You gave up everything, you both did. It seemed only right that you should be able to just be together again.

[ It wasn't an easy decision for either of them by any means, but she knows it was the right one. ]

I went through the stones about three years later.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ Jamie can't help it, his eyes shine with tears, and he clears his throat. ]

Ye did that for us, lass?

[ Jamie stops walking altogether and pulls her tightly into his arms. ]

Ye have your mother's heart, Brianna.

[mograidh]

[ She welcomes the hug, returning it easily. ]

I didn't want to be the reason you had to stay apart.

[seventeenfortythree]

Braw lass.

[ He says that against the crown of her head before dropping a kiss there. ]

Alright, I think we should have a plan now. To find a place to bring your mother to if we do find her.

[mograidh]

[ He's so affectionate, just like he'd been back at Fraser's Ridge, and just like then, she finds herself welcoming it, bringing her closer to him. ]

What do you think? I think it's more practical if we split up now, meet back here in an hour either just to check in, or because we found her. How does right in front of the hospital sound?

[seventeenfortythree]

[ It's hard for him to want to let her out of his sight. If something happens now, he isn't sure what he'll do.

But they'll cover more ground and he knows it. ]

One hour then, lass.

[ Pull it together, Fraser. ]

Right in front of the hospital.

[mograidh]

[ By way of comfort, she gently squeezes his wrist. ]

We'll find her, and I'll see you soon, da.

[seventeenfortythree]

[ They part, and Jamie is, in fact, the one who finds Claire. He leads her back to Brianna, then lets them have their time together, not fussed to wait on them both. ]