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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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[ Might as well just walk directly away from the castle, since that seems to be where most people are gathering, gods and natives and new arrivals alike. So, he gestures down the nearest street.

There doesn't seem to be too much in the way of buildings, so it hopefully isn't going to take too long to search through everything. ]

This way?

I guess. Wherever there isn't so many people.

[Granted, they could keep asking others, but so far that hasn't seemed to have been successful. Nobody so far had said they had seen AJ around that she has been asking, so she may as well take matters into her own hands at least for a bit, to keep looking for him herself. That and with Rhys helping, she has a better chance at finding him, right? In theory.]

[ And so he starts walking. ]

Soooo. Six year-old kid with a knife and gun. Guess your home's not really sunshine and roses, huh?

[ A pause. ]

Not that you, err, need to tell my anything about it. Just ...

[ He rubs the back of his neck, and then vaguely waves his hand. Just ... something. ]

Not exactly. No. I was eight when I learned how to shoot.

[So barely much older than AJ when it started. When the outbreak happened. Clementine is still on edge, but seems to slightly relax a little more with the tension in her shoulders and posture as they get further from the bigger crowds.]

There was this outbreak. Walkers -- zombies? Whatever you want to call it. The dead didn't stay dead. When they bit you, you would soon die and become one of them. We're all infected, we all turn when we die, even if we aren't bitten, but.

[That's just....normal. Life, how things are, now. After so many years, it feels like anything before the outbreak was another lifetime. Almost like all that happened to someone else.]

[ His eyes widen, and for a few seconds he's speechless.

And then all he gets out anyway is: ]

Holy shit.

[ Sure, Pandora's a hellhole of bandits and disgusting and disturbing monsters that want to kill you, but at least everything stays dead. Usually. Unless you're Handsome Jack and you have a crazy fan who decide to make an AI version of you but, even then, you're still technically dead. ]

Yup. Welcome to the life. Now you get why I made sure he knew how to take care of himself?

[Sure. She knows others might take issue with the idea. Especially if they didn't have walkers to deal with back where they were from. But the walkers? That is all AJ knows. He has only vaguely heard stories from Clementine about what it used to be like. About a time when they didn't need to be constantly alert, before Clementine knew how to shoot, before she met Lee.]

[ He holds up his hands. ]

Hey, I wasn't judging you. Honestly. Where I'm from there's a planet where I'm pretty sure people are born with guns in their hands 'cause they're just screwed otherwise, if you're unlucky enough to get born there.

What? Seriously?

[....and she thought the walkers were bad? Sounds like this guy has it worse, even. At least from what he says there. Clementine isn't sure if she wants to hear details or not.]

Seriously. Everything there wants to kill you. Pretty sure the plants want to kill you.

At least some of the flora back home are safe. And the fauna....most of the people usually want to kill you for your supplies, but. That's because everyone is that much more desperate if they have survived this long so far.

[Somewhat taking advantage of others, of supplies you find, is the only way to survive still. She's long since had to realize the necessity of that, even when at first she was adamant that she was against stealing.]

Yeah, I bet. Sounds terrifying.

[ Not that it's too unlike that even outside of Pandora. Trying to make it in the galaxy often means risking getting on someone's bad side and just ending up dead. And they don't even have the excuse of survival a lot of the time.

He didn't have the excuse of survival. He just wants to make money. But that's how it works. Play the game or get played. ]

Isn't it ... easier to find supplies if you work together, though?

In theory. Splitting up means more chance of finding something. It's just....at least in my experience, groups don't tend to stay groups for long.

[Something always happens. They die somehow or separate and then she is left. That's how it has always been in her experience up till now at least. That the dead kept coming back and eventually obviously outnumber the living is why she is so antsy around crowds. Clementine glances around, checking side streets and such as they pass by.]

[ A shrug. ]

I just know I wouldn't have made it as far as I did without the people I had with me. Fiona and Sasha would be fine without me and Vaughn though.

[ It's just kind of. Coincidence that they're sticking together still. They're growing on him, though. ]

I wouldn't have made it for long at all if I....if I actually had dropped a rock or something on Lee when he showed up at my place first back then. Ever since...it's because of him. What he taught me that has helped me survive.

[She owes him everything. Not that she could ever properly tell him that, outside of wishing she could. Outside of dreams. At least as far as she is aware with who might show up in this place, not anticipating that people she had lost might be around somewhere.]

Yeah, see? That's what I mean. You can't just do everything by yourself. AJ's lucky to have you.

I'm not sure what would have happened to him otherwise. But honestly? Between us, I've mostly been just....winging it. I don't know if he realizes that, but. It's all I can do to keep us going, to keep us on the move and finding supplies. That's why I was so hopeful about staying at the school.

[She isn't sure if that will be working out in the end, but still. Even for a little bit, it was nice to feel safer, to not stress so much about supplies.]

I dunno, winging it doesn't sound too bad. Most of my elaborate plans haven't really worked out. Why change what's working for you, huh?

Something like that. But....it'd be nice. Not to have to keep moving. To have somewhere safe. Somewhere to call home. He kept asking if we'd have one someday.

[She didn't want to promise that they would. But she said she hoped so. Someday. That's all she could give him, really. With everything being so unsure back home given the situation.]

Yeah. Yeah ... Having a home is ... nothing to scoff at.

Well. The street kinda seems to end here, sooo. Guess we'll go this way.

[ He gestures vaguely to the left before he turns to walk through the left side street. This sure is a very unfinished city. Is it even big enough to be a city? Town is better. Maybe even village.

Whatever. ]

I hope you find one someday. A home, I mean.

It isn't anything to scoff at. But yeah, let's turn here....

[She sighs, running a hand through her short mess of hair at the nape of her neck, biting her lip. This was probably easier than talking to someone who had a great home and all, but it still wasn't easy. To talk about home to anyone who hadn't been through it. That'd take some adjusting to. She glances, trying to check, to keep an eye out for any hiding spots AJ might be in.]

I hope so too. I...might have found one. Maybe. If they let us stay at the school with them.

I hope they do.

[ He'd question the heart of someone willing to turn down two children, when one of them is six, but that's just humanity for you, isn't it? You might like to expect better, but usually it's not what you get.

At least not from his experience. ]

I guess we'll see how things figure. I just...I never wanted to promise, to get AJ's hopes up. Before that we'd basically almost constantly been on the move.

[Since the Frontier and all. She can't even be sure how much of all that he remembers. But he knows that this isn't normal? About the idea of a home. That's just hard, given the situation back there. To find anywhere safe enough for long.]

Hey. Anything can happen.

[ Life is really just wild and unpredictable, and while he doesn't really want to say something stupid about how he's sure everything will work out, it's kind of impossible to know what the future holds. Last he checked, at least. ]

I guess. Part of me would want to say this place would work even better. Without walkers and all.

[Though this still requires finding AJ to celebrate and live with, of course. Or else this won't quite be the same.]

Yeah. So far it's looking pretty good. If I didn't have stuff to do I might not mind staying either.

[ Buuut he also doesn't quite trust the gods. ]

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