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ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

the test drive meme.

❧ let's do this.

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❧ 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!

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Effective and loud. It'd definitely draw the other walkers over to you if you used one of those. And be heavy and bulky in comparison to other options.

[A chainsaw would probably still be unwieldy even for her. Even now, Clementine is more likely to try use the environment around her to her advantage, to make up for her size and all, out of habit in compensating for it.]

Terezi then. But yeah. I never had a cellphone or anything myself anyway.

[She had been only eight when it had all started, after all.]

We just arrange ahead of time where and when to meet.

[She didn't press the matter of chainsaws. That was Kanaya's weapon of choice anyway. Let her def... oh right, eh. Well. Not worth worrying about anyway.]

Damn, that sounds like it'd get real annoying real fast.

Well, I guess we'll find out. They don't have one here either. What're we supposed to use? Post-it notes?

I'm used to it. I guess notes could work. Notes and letters, that is what people used to do. Before phones and all, I mean. I'm not sure yet what might be available here exactly, but. I'm sure we'd be able to figure something.

[Something, even if just notes. If not something more sophisticated depending on what is available and what they could use here instead, or what they could create, what supplies were here.]

I'll need to find my chalk. So primitive, but it can really get your point across if you do it right.

[Total sidewalk chalk artist here... only problem being that she wasn't any good at it. Crude didn't even begin to describe her trollish scrawlings and scribblings.]

This place is so back to basics.

Your chalk? I remember using some.

[It had been fun. Drawing on the footpaths and all. And it did tend to show up quite nicely against the ground. She's not sure if chalk as they might think of it with all the colours might be available here. She certainly doesn't have any on her at the moment, at least.]

I guess I'm used to the basics now. It seems fine to me.

Nothing like chalk to make your mark.

[That and she could smell what she wrote. Even better by her standards. Either way, she was definitely going to be looking for it soon enough, or the nearest equivalent.]

I'll cope. I can work with crude stuff. It's not like I'm some misanthropic ass who never left his cocoon and computer banks. [Pfft, Sollux isn't here to hear that burn.] Wonder if any of the others ended up here.

I'll have to look around. Karkat definitely didn't make it. We'd hear him across town.

What, like to draw on the ground or do you mean to like, mark your path of where you have been? But ah, cocoons and computer banks? A....car cat....?

[What? What is a car cat? A cat that likes cars? Or is that actually someone's name? It's a new one if so.]

Depends on who I'm messing with. Mark a path. Leave a message. So many ways to use chalk to screw with someone. It's great.

[And if John did it right? She had just played one hell of a prank on him and her past self that way, but that was then. This was now.]

Yeah, cocoon, hive, wherever the smelly bastard's living.

No, not Car Cat. He's not a purrbeast. Karkat's a name. Real noisy. Likes to shout all the time.

To screw with someone? Ah, like a prank. I haven't done anything like that in years....

[It's bittersweet almost. Seeming like another lifetime when she remembers the time she for example, put bugs at Duck's pillow. That was so long ago. Before everything changed with her finding out what happened to her parents. Before Lee had.....had been bitten and all.]

Oh. Almost sounds a little like Kenny.

[Though he had been loud more in terms of swearing in his frustration at their situation than anything else. Still.]

Oh man, you're missing out. Pranking and trolling people is one of those things to get you through a really boring day. We're going to have to remedy this.

[Great News, Clementine! This idiot is here for all your trolling and pranking needs!

Also... that was pretty much Karkat. Swearing at everyone for being idiots, including himself.]

Oh? You've got one too? They're kind of fun, when you gag em.

I'm probably really rusty. And er...well, no, I've never gagged him. Kenny's a friend. He's just really vocal? And swears a lot.

[Sure, let's just go with that. That seems to about sum it up. Though it is brief, Clementine can't help her expression falling a little at remembering Kenny. All they had been through, her thinking he had died, finding him again and all, only to end up apart and losing him again in the end anyway.]

Pffft. What's a little gagging between friends? Sometimes Karkat just needs to shut up for his own good and he won't listen to reason. Maybe your friend's not quite as bad.

[Karkat was always shouting. It would be hard to be as bad as him. But, at the same time, there was a bit of a distant look behind that blindfold. She wasn't exactly sad Karkat was dead. They all were. This is what happened to doomed timelines. She'd sent John back to fix all that, but it wouldn't help them. Still, she didn't like thinking of him that way.]

Eh... enough about that. Something else. Don't need to spend our day gabbing about loud-mouth chums, do we?

I mean, sure Kenny could go off sometimes, and he swore a lot, but.

[That never meant they had wanted to gag him for it. And probably, she should keep remembering to use past descriptions. For most of her friends and companions by now. She tries. It is just using them reminds her she has lost them which tends to just be more upsetting.]

Probably more productive to talk about this place?

[She shrugged. See, the issue was that trolls had weird ideas about what was a fun way to play. Shutting the shouting asshole up by gagging them until they calmed down qualified as fun for her, and arguably... well, no. Karkat never enjoyed it at all, but he certainly put up with it.

He was also always louder when he got loose.] He sounds like a good person to have around, as long as you have earplugs for those moments yep.

[She grinned away. Her tone said that was a compliment in an odd sort of way.]

So, what do you think of this whole weird-ass city anyway? You buy any of the hoofbeast crap they're selling?

Earplugs. That loud, huh? But...yeah. There were reasons Kenny was pretty good most of the time. I miss him. But ah, this place is certainly different to home.

[What with there being such crowds, no walkers, for a start. The most reassuring thing so far as much as she has gathered from her arrival.]

I'm not sure quite what to make of it yet. My priority is finding AJ or at least a way to get back to him and the others, for now.

Hah... hehe, yeah. He's definitely that bad. Probably still that bad. [Even dead.] It's a whole lot more peaceful and lowbrow than I'm used to around here. Not in any hurry to go anywhere, though if I could drag a couple asshats out of a dream bubble that'd be great for me.

Not really anywhere to go back to.

Not anywhere to go back to? You don't mean.....?

[That Terezi was dead? That they had died back home? That or something had happened back home. She's not sure how to interpret that exactly.]

I don't mean what? [She barked a laugh and looked up.] I ticked off my matesprite and there's no home to go back to? Life's crappier where I came from than here? Come on, don't leave me hanging here. I gotta hear what your first guess was!

That your home sucks? Or, I don't know. That you had died back home or something.

[Hey. Walkers come back from the dead. How is she sure that isn't possible here too? For all Clementine knows, it might be.]

Good guesses but not quite.

[She shrugged and reached up to her blindfold, lifting it over one of her eyes. Milky white, no irises, no pupils, nothing. Back down it went.]

Well, I'm definitely dead, but I know all kinds of people who are dead. Nah, home doesn't suck, but some yokel was in the process of making it not exist. The fireworks as reality went kaput were pretty good though.

[She was ... really at peace with this.]

Make your home not exist? Destroying it? I'd say that definitely counts as to not having somewhere to go back to. I probably wouldn't really care about getting back so long as I knew AJ and my friends were okay, were here with me.

[She just wants to be sure that AJ will be alright. That Violet and Louis and the rest were okay. If they were here with her, away from the walkers and all, she would see no reason to go back to that otherwise.]

We were a doomed timeline. That's just what happens. Don't worry too much about it. But you guessed it. nowhere to go, so why not hang out in this rotten place, right? [She shrugged again.]

If the others show up, bonus, but we'd made peace I think.

A doomed timeline? But I guess. Without walkers, this place is already ahead in me wanting to stay. If I can find AJ at least, if I could find or bring the others here.

[Made peace? Like Terezi had gotten into fights with their friends before and had set things right with them back home before ending up here?]

Yep, doomed as they come. Trust me, if you're not playing the game you don't wanna know. It's way too complicated and a whole lotta dumb.

[A general consensus shared by everyone in her timeline, she was pretty certain. As for made peace? Yes, that, and also made peace with the fact that they were about to cease to exist and that the 'fixed timeline' had a better shot than them. But, it was a distinction she wasn't making just yet.]

See, that's the spirit. If you're stuck here, maybe your friends can be too, and you can have yourself a corpse party. Only tell me who they are, 'cause no kill order on them too. Definitely.

I...am pretty sure I'm not playing? But maybe. The one I'm most worried about finding is AJ. The others...well, there's a few. Louis, Violet, Tenn, James, Mitch, Willy, Ruby, Omar and Aasim, were the ones we met at the school and all.

[The ones she had been with more recently at least. In comparison to Javi and the others. So she figures to ask about them first. Even if she isn't sure if any of them are around too.]

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