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.

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[gotyourselfapilot]

He's fully human. As much as Poe wishes he had the Force, he doesn't. It actually makes him sad a little bit since he truly believes in the Force. Poe heard many stories of the Jedi, knows about Obi-Wan and his teaching of Luke, Leia even had told him things about it. Poe's been through and seen a lot of action. In the end it's not just those Force users making a difference but the people of the Galaxy too. The Resistance can make a difference, people can make a difference.

"Yes and a pilot. I go on a lot of tough missions but it's all about doing the right thing. Trying to keep hope alive."

[zombra]

"Seriously?" She sounds a little doubtful, if only because he's sounding like a boy scout right now. Of course, her recent situation has left her kind of mistrustful, and talking about the "right thing" and hope just makes her suspicious. There was hope of a cure at home, but hope dwindles until you're trapped with the monsters closing in around you.

Then again, she was somehow transported here instead of being left there to die. Does that mean something? Should she be reading into it? She doesn't really know the answer to that.

"Sorry, it just sounds so... I dunno. Like you read it off a recruitment poster. A little too good to be true, maybe." Here's hoping he doesn't find that insulting; Tessa just can't help but say it.

[gotyourselfapilot]

Poe's not insulted if anything he looks a bit amused by her statement. A lot of things he must say may sound very odd to anyone that doesn't really know him. The Resistance knows him all too well, including another side that he knows he'll have to gain their trust again.

"I lived in peace for a while. I can tell you a story. It's kind of long but it'll help explain why I believe in hope. I would rather see it live on where I'm from. It's a struggle, darkness is everywhere." He makes a pause before looking at Tessa straight on as he says this next part. As if it's been said to him many times.

"Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it, you'll never make it through the night."

[zombra]

"I—" she starts, then stops herself. Tessa really doesn't know how to take this. Is she being trolled? Is someone hiding in a bush with an iPhone filming all this? He can't be serious.

"I guess if it works for you, dude," she states, crossing her arms over her chest and giving another shrug. At this rate, her shoulders are going to be sore.

"What if we don't want to go back?" It's been swirling around in her mind and she can't hold the question in any longer. "Like darkness really is everywhere back there. Metaphorically. I don't mean it's like constantly night or anything." Way to sound dumb while trying to sound poetic, Tessa. "There's only death waiting for me back there. So, like, if I can have hope in anything? It's that they don't send me back. I get to stay here."

[gotyourselfapilot]

She's not being trolled. Poe can do those things though so he doesn't really blame her for going cold. Tessa really knew how to sting him too. He wasn't really expecting this kind of turn of events in conversation.

It makes sense why she's asking all of those prior questions. Poe puts his hands on his hips while looking down almost defeated by a simple question. Yet, to find light in this might be difficult. He's not one to give up. "I'm going back to a rebellion most likely. That's not stopping me from giving up and staying here. People back home are going to be in danger. The enemy I face can have another weapon out there that can continue to destroy the galaxy, more planets. If you're truly going back to something that's hopelessness, I would rather you stay here."

[zombra]

In a way, he ends up making her feel worse because she's definitely given up on her world while he's still fighting for his. Or worlds. Galaxy. Whatever. If Tessa truly has a cure locked away in her DNA, is it selfish to want to leave her world behind? Even after everything the doctors did to her?

A hardened voice in her head says screw it. This place just needs to bring Mike in too and then it'll have all she needs of her own world. It can stay there, rotting and decaying as the zombies run out of people and animals to devour and rip themselves apart.

"Yeah. It's really not gonna get better so... I need to see if the gods will let me stay."