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.

Comments

it's cute AND accurate, and also oh my god rhys c:

[skittering]

❰ lalli hears the man coming from a pretty good distance away, but it's not until he nears the edge of the finn's scattered papers that lalli glances his way. first at his feet (making sure he's not stepping on them, then up at his face). ❱

Runes, ❰ he says, returning his eyes to his work. ❱ For protection. ❰ he doesn't even know if they work here, but he has to do something, right? ❱

omg c:

[theprezident]

Huh.

[ He takes a few steps around the runes to get a better angle at some other ones. He's never seen anything like it. ]

Where I'm from we usually just use guns.

[skittering]

Guns don't hurt spirits. ❰ without missing a beat, as if that's a totally normal-person answer. maybe for lalli it is. ❱ And they run out of bullets.

❰ lalli himself has a rifle, back home. he absolutely wouldn't try and use it on anything bigger than a common beast. ❱

[theprezident]

[ Blink.

You know? At this point he'll more or less accept everything. Ish. Little bit. At least not protest anything out loud, but also quietly thinking that everyone here is a little nuts. ]

Pretty sure we don't have spirits where I'm from either. Orrrr everyone gets killed too fast for any spirits to get to them anyway.

'we don't have spirits' says the man haunted by handsome jack

[skittering]

❰ that's fine. rhys can have his moment to blink about it. it couldn't possibly faze lalli any less, his practiced hand hand already drawing out another rune on another sheet of paper.

in fact, when rhys speaks again, it almost seems as though he's not even going to reply. to be honest, he sorely considered it - but emil's been a terrible influence on him, and soon enough he finds himself asking: ❱

Killed by what? ❰ the infected? but if there aren't any spirits, there can't be any infected either - or else this man is wrong about not having spirits, in which case he's just stupid and naive. ❱

LOOK that's an AI that's completely different

[theprezident]

Uhhh. Bandits and animals, mostly.

[ Or a colleague they thought they could trust. ]

i GUESS it is. also i'm so late to this

[skittering]

Bandits and animals... kill everyone? ❰ he echoes, sounding more than a little bit skeptical. those seem like such low-grade threats compared to, say, a massive worldwide infection destroying everything it touches. ❱

Shh you're fine.

[theprezident]

[ How dare you.

But also yeah that infection is probably worse. ]

Yeah. Look, the majority of people on that planet are bandits, and the animals hate everything that isn't their own kind.