ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #2

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the test drive meme. ❧ let's do this. We have an Enable Me Please/App This Please meme up over here! Take a peek, see if maybe you have some potential castmates or characters you might want to try out. 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 really 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 waking or 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 June 24 at 12:01AM PST and close on June 30 at 11:59PM PST. Applications open on July 1 at 12:01AM PST and close on July 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. A thunderstorm seems to have taken over Asgard's sky, dark clouds hanging eerily low and crackling with energy. The entire city is cast into a gloomy grey, the actual colors of the plants and buildings just a little more dull than normal. The air feels thick and heavy, even indoors, and the weather seems to be having varying effects on everyone. A sudden clap of thunder might bring back a sharp memory of the last time you were truly afraid of something. A bright flash of lightning might make your heart race with excitement and a sudden drive to do something you ordinarily wouldn't. The heavy downpour of rain might make you inexplicably sad about something, whether real or imagined. These effects might only last a second, or perhaps they stay with you all day. Maybe you just have to get out of the rain and dry off, that's all - perhaps it's just normal weather. navigation.

Comments

[ananym]

[ the smile comes more naturally. he's not sure how sypha came to be here, but he's genuinely glad to see her again. ]

My apologies. I will arrive sooner the next time I am absconded.

[oratoris]

[She shifts deeper away from the rain, wishing that she had the ability to start a fire, but here her abilities are sorely lacking. Well, more than lacking, they are gone. She does give him a thorough once over, as if making certain that everything with him is in proper order. It appears to be. Barely a hair out of place, which makes her pout for a moment, but no more.]

Good! Even Trevor beat you.

[Although she's not entirely certain which of them arrived here first. She found him, so Sypha will take the credit.]

[ananym]

[ how insulting. he does not grimace though it's a near thing. the strange sorrow that had infected him was slowly dissipating. ]

Well, then I will have to catch up through some other means.

[ a pause. ]

All is well here, I assume?

[oratoris]

[It's a deeper look that he earns from her now, contemplative and thorough, although the strike of lightening darting across the sky does catch her off guard, and look at that, her hand clutches at his sleeve. Yet it's not like she is even fully aware, glancing back out in the storm, feeling her heart thudding heavily against her chest, before she remembers to breath again.]

As well as kidnapped individuals can be.

[But now she is more aware, fingers loosening and gaze turning back to him.]

And you? This place... I've no abilities of my own. It is like they are lost or stolen or locked away.

[ananym]

[ that's an unusual reaction. he has seen sypha in many moods, but fear has never been one of them. gently, he rests his hand on top of hers. he'll never been warm but he is good with the unspoken. at her question, alucard shakes his head, hair falling over his shoulders. ]

No. It feels as if my abilities are cordoned off from me. I cannot reach them.

[oratoris]

[She can't explain that urge that had streaked through her, and doesn't attempt too either. It's almost as if something outside is pushing in, although that doesn't really fit it either. Either way, she does give a reassuring look to him. Whatever it was, it's passed, at least she thinks.]

Then you are the same. I do not know how, although perhaps the why. It is easier to control those who cannot.

[ananym]

You did say the gods didn't like the Speakers.

[ though alucard can't imagine any god looking upon him favourably. not after what he's done. his reasoning may be for the good of all, but he's seen too much to put any real faith in a god that allowed men to burn women. ]

[oratoris]

You needn't remind me...

[That little huff coming from Sypha, although more at the situation than at his reminder. She does give a little side eye, regarding him from beneath her lashes.]

Although he appears to not like any of us.

[ananym]

[ he raises an eyebrow at that. ]

Is that truly surprising?

[ though, perhaps it is, but even alucard has a dim view about organized religion and gods in general. ]

[oratoris]

No, but it would be nice if it was.

[Sypha can't blame him for that sentiment. Her people have had their own run in with the church. Although it is also because of that that Sypha met Trevor, and Alucard. Not that she'll thank the church for that, as it's not like they had an active role.]

But it is a pleasant surprise to see you, even though it means you are now stuck in the same situation as us.

[ananym]

[ his lips curve at that, gentled. ]

At least it is a situation we can work towards a solution. Have you found any yet?

[oratoris]

The books here are lacking. They could take a page from Trevor's. They're all hand written as well, so there is little to be found in that regard.

[Which is a pity. There may be some works that she would browse if she was bored, but it's an eclectic selection to say the least. And not very helpful in how to escape, or return, or leave this place.]

People come from all over. Do you know there are those that travel through space.

[ananym]

[ alucard regards this new fact with a narrowing of his eyes. all of them? that means whatever literature remained here, it was carefully hand-picked for the masses. and unlikely to have any real information they could use. these overlords were not careless. ]

In space? That is fascinating. Beyond any magic or science I have ever heard of.