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

[theprezident]

"I was a programmer."

Hm ... She looked really young, and she was dressed in clothes that weren't really like anything Rhys was used to seeing. Would she know what that was?

That was probably something he shouldn't make any assumptions about. He would just let her ask if she didn't.

[madcuriosity]

"I wasn't aware that programs were so complicated as to need someone solely dedicated to writing them! What sort of program did you write? Did you work for all sorts of theaters or just one? Or did you write for many sorts of things like sports programs as well?"

So that was a "no" on knowing what it was.

[theprezident]

That was a very big no. Okay then.

"No, not ... that kind of program. Uh ... How do I explain this?" He rubbed the back of his head, frowning in thought. "You know your ... mind? How you can remember things, and imagine things? Like you've got this picture in your head that pirates have hooks for hands? Where I'm from, we can build machines that are kinda like a human mind. They can remember things and store images and stories and ... stuff like that. Whatever you want to put in there, really. Even emotions and personalities, in a way. What I do is I tell these machines what they're supposed to do, because they can't really think like humans can." A pause. "Does that make sense at all?"

[madcuriosity]

"So... you make machine people?" she offered, trying to follow along. "Or well, you tell machine people what to do? So why does being a programmer require a metal arm?" she glanced at it.

"Will machines only talk to you if you're a bit metal yourself?"

[theprezident]

"No, my arm just sort of translates what they're saying. It makes my job quicker and easier. I, uhm, wouldn't really call them people though. There's this machine called a robot that's pretty close to being a person. Usually they can move and talk and kiiiind of think like us humans. Then there are computers, and those can't really think at all. Usually they're just ... boxes."

Or something like that.

At least she seemed to mostly understand, so apparently he wasn't too bad at explaining computers to someone without a clue what they were. He was actually kind of surprised. He'd been expecting she'd just look at him like he was stupid or something.