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

[mindseer]

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.

[darraig]

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.]

[mindseer]

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!

[darraig]

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.]

[mindseer]

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.]

[darraig]

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.]

[mindseer]

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.

[darraig]

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?]

[mindseer]

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.

[darraig]

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.]

[mindseer]

You're not. Hah, trust me. We'd all know if we were there.

Ah, so AJ's ... [No, those were pretty much human names. "AJ's your moirail" probably didn't apply, did it?] So, basically they're the one you're supposed to protect first, right?

[darraig]

He is. The others are all older than him, even Tenn. That's why AJ is the one I'm most worried about right now.

[That and AJ's potential terrified lashing out in this kind of situation. Clementine would rather nobody gets hurt, assuming AJ is around here somewhere and she just hasn't found him yet.]

[mindseer]

[She nodded in understanding. There was always the urge to try and screw with someone more, but this felt like the sort of moirail-ish moment you didn't fuck with. Besides, she didn't want this guy dying and going all "night of the living dead trolls" on their asses.]

Not going to be too much use identifying, but I'll help out how I can. You asked the head honchos here yet? They're not the brightest, if you ask me, but I would think they'd know who showed up.

[darraig]

That is assuming one of them saw him. Or they have a list or something, I don't know. But I have to try.

[Because so far there wasn't any luck with wandering around like this. Clementine can't help but to worry, to want to confirm if he is here or not.]

[mindseer]

Well, you wouldn't be doing your thing if you weren't trying and I've got nothing else to do, so I'd say we have a pretty good combo going right there.

[Terezi wasn't entirely sure if it was better to hope this kid wasn't here or that he was. Time shenanigans weren't necessarily obvious just yet, so the idea of getting stuck and not taking care of someone in danger... that would irritate anyone, she imagined. That she was past the point of caring about everyone back home was more her thing.]

[darraig]

I'm glad for the help. Even if we don't find him, if he isn't here.

[That Terezi had tried looking, that showed they cared. That they worried for AJ even if they hadn't met him themselves. That meant a lot. Of course, perhaps it isn't surprising that others might want to help look for a missing kid, especially at AJ's age, but she isn't always used to people helping and meaning it. Without some kind of ulterior motive, if they did help at all, given the situation back home and all.]

[mindseer]

[It could be risky to assume Terezi was always this helpful, but still. She didn't see any reason not to help, and it wasn't the sort of thing she usually would tease about. And, honestly? Health hazards...]

It'll tell us for sure. Should probably get you checked out too. You know, just in case.

[darraig]

Me? Why? Oh....because of the outbreak. I'm not sure. Whether they have some way to stop it.

[But if there was a chance? Wouldn't that be worth it? To get that worry off of her chest? She'd rather be the first one to figure it, rather than AJ, at least. In case something went wrong about it somehow.]

[mindseer]

Who knows if it's even catchy for trolls? Never got a human cold after all. Don't know what they've got here for patching people up just yet. Not really my department. I'm more of the taking them apart type.

[darraig]

Taking them apart? Like a surgeon?

[A doctor? Someone like that, she hasn't met any of those in years. But yet they still had to learn at least some basics to be able to survive the outbreak and aftermath since.]

[mindseer]

[She turned to Clementine and smiled with all those sharp, pointy teeth visible. Was that the smile of a doctor?

...

Outside of some horror movies.]

Heh, nope. Nice try, but I meant taking them apart because they had it coming.

[darraig]

Because.....what?

[For revenge? Because they could? Clementine isn't sure she agrees with that. When she has had to do so herself, it has usually been because she had to out of self defense, or protecting someone else. Killing just because 'they had it coming' sounds like something Carver might do.]

[mindseer]

Depends on who we're talking about. Last one I was taking apart was a murder happy clown I was trying to put out of everyone's collective misery.

[Yeah, well, Clementine's fears weren't entirely inaccurate. Not all those kills were even half as justified as her attempt on Gamzee.]

But I'm much more a fighter than I am a healer's the point.

[darraig]

I....I get that. Sometimes things happen and you have to defend yourself. Protect others. I've well past lost count how many walkers I've had to deal with.

[And all the people that had died. Protecting her, either directly and purposely or indirectly because of being involved with Clementine somehow. Javi and the others got the best deal really.]

[mindseer]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't doing it because he pissed me off in ways you can only imagine, but it definitely was a favor to everyone else.

But that's enough about Clowns. Screw 'em. If I never see another clown in my life it'll be too soon