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awash mods ([personal profile] awashmods) wrote in [community profile] awoosh2018-04-28 06:59 pm
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Test Drive Meme 2.





These are the mem’ries that last.
These are the mem’ries that will never pass.
And time waits for no one.
It’s gone in a flash.
And only the mem’ries will last.




Prompt 1:

he forest looms, uninviting and full of menace, an unwelcoming place for sure. Time to go explore! It isn't as though there's anywhere else to go, now that you've looked around the Town.

The trees whack at you with branches that have far too much mobility for normal trees, strange and mutated animals watch from the shadows and boughs, and there’s the constant, constant sense of being watched --

But eventually, nonetheless, you’ll come across a small house in the forest. It sticks out like a sore thumb, bright and colorful, which is probably the first warning that something is way off, and it’s...covered in candy. It’s a candy house! It looks delicious.

(It’s empty, too, not a single soul in it, without even furniture, but everything is otherwise edible and utterly delicious.)

But if you eat the candy? You’re going to have a terrible, overwhelming urge to do one of two things:

  • Fight the first person you see
  • Kiss the first person you see

Unfortunate.


Prompt 2:

he problem with a Town like this is that now that color is starting to return, bit by bit? You never really know when color’s going to come back -- or disappear. Maybe you’ve made a delightful, delicious sandwich from handmade bread and tomatoes and deer meat, all of which have color now… and then suddenly, when taking a bite, you get only the taste of ash and bread and tomato as the deer meat loses color.

Also, someone probably died for that color to fade away. Alarming!

Or maybe you’re walking along when suddenly your makeshift clothing is a hideous mix-match of colors; it had seemed fine when it was all grey and colorless!

Or perhaps, even worse, you’re walking out of a house when suddenly, the flowerbed in front of it has full color, bright and maybe a little blinding after so much monochrome. Damn those color mechanics.


Prompt 3:

he quest seems simple, on the Quest Post:

Quest 33:
Feed the Cockatrice.
Requirements: 2 of any color

Key word, of course, is seems. First, you have to find the cockatrice. Maybe grab someone to drag into the woods with you, since there needs to be at least two of you. Time to stomp through the woods in search of the elusive cockatrice.

Of course, once you find it, the quest...looks a bit harder. The monster hisses, ready to turn anyone who approaches to stone, as cockatrice tend to do. What do you even feed that thing? How will you get it to take it without getting stoned up? There are so many questions.

At least the stone will wear off...eventually… if you’re unlucky enough to get petrified.


Prompt 4:

ut hey, you did it! You fed the cockatrice, it seemed satisfied, and now you can go fetch your reward from your home. It must be something amazing, with the work that you put in.

The only change in your home, though, is what looks like a...picture book. It's got a colorful cover (in your character's color shade), and has their name on the cover, so it definitely belongs to them.

And when they flip it open, it's clearly full of pictures scribbled in, as if drawn in scribbly crayon. Unlike the rest of the Town, this book is fully colorful, every shade of the rainbow in those crayon strokes... which depict, page by page, your character's worst moments in their life. Every single last horrific experience or tragic moment -- it's all there, in colorful, cute children's drawings.

Congratulations!


Extra:

Got something in mind? Want to play with the setting more? The sky's the limit, so feel free and make up your own prompts to play with!



Welcome to Awash's second Test Drive Meme! Please check out the FAQ and rules as you test your characters out. The setting is yours to play with, so be creative and have a good time with it!

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good_ideas: (geez || you keep it)

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[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-05-01 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe he saw Shiho, who's always had colour to her?

Either way, she's giving his entire person a look before meeting his eyes.]


Yep, definitely looks like we've got some colours back. [Seeing as how he's so full of colour and all.]

And shouldn't it be "stay safe"?
withwisdom: game cutscene (⟡ prayer)

watch as i attempt to describe the triforce as if no one knows what it looks like RIP

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
You have...

[ it's a comment made under her breath (of the wild) as she turns around to face the objects, because it comes with a faint surprise. the slate is by far among the most advanced technologies in hyrule, even after a century, but this strange man has used something similar? hm. ]

I'm going to purify it. [ ah, but she already said that... ] It's easier to demonstrate than to explain.

[ she steps forward closer toward the item and clasps her hands together, lowering her head in prayer. as she does a faint glow of light slowly begins to surround her form, whisping and glowing in a radiant warm yellow. then she breaks her hands apart and extends one palm outward to the apple on the ground, the glow beaming from her hand to bask the fruit in the same light. as she does so, a trio of triangles appears on the back of her hand to form their own larger triangle. ]
withwisdom: (⟡ slate)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe so. [ taking 'magical' quite literally here. ] I cannot conceive how a house like this could be built otherwise. It seems very brittle, but it stands firm and strong, even though it doesn't appear to have an inner-frame to its design.

[ she lifts up the broken piece and offers it to nanami to look - it took just seems to be made of gingerbread, as opposed to wood. ]

I wish I could meet the owners. I feel they would have a lot to teach us.
nipzips: (who endorses a deep commitment)

[personal profile] nipzips 2018-05-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ ooc: i am all for uncomfortable incest jokes, but josuke will question his life. let's do this ... ]

I don't think this is actually going to go like the story ... [ Right? Hopefully not. ] Well, you should stay close to me anyway. We don't know what will come pouncing out at us in this house.

[ It's always his first instinct to protect whoever's around him, whether or not he actually knows them, and that's why he sort of stays in front of Charles, keeping the guy shielded by his body in case something does decide to appear.

Oh yeah, they should probably introduce themselves so they have something to call each other, at least. ]
Name's Josuke, by the way. Yourself?
withwisdom: game cutscene (⟡ theory)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Correct. Though it is not like curses I have seen before, made of malice and evil, I believe it may be capable of being purified through my power.

To that end... [ and then she offers him up her slate ] Can you please take photographs of my attempt for recording? I can teach you how it works if you don't know how.
withwisdom: game cutscene (⟡ gleam)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, well, I suppose that would fulfill the requirement. I wonder if it needs to chew and swallow however... maybe we could just do that for it.

[ what a troublesome quest when the creature is clearly malicious. but also-- ]

That's quite a unique weapon you seem to have, if I can say so. I would love to see how you operate it.

[ new technologies have been of great interest as a means to defend her home long ago and now it is just a great interest in general. ]
shipracked: (pic#12260392)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[unfazed, Drake continues on cheerily]

Ha ha ha! Who knows? If it didn't sound like too much work, maybe I'd start my own merchant's guild.

Or maybe I'll just bury it.

[either way, it's evident that she wouldn't have any intention on holding onto said gold]
shipracked: (pic#12260503)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[JES DO NOT MAKE ME SHOOT HARU IN THE FACE?]

Aaaah, what a courageous, enthusiastic and incredibly stupid response! I'll take it.

[despite the insult Drake seems pleased?? impressed?? both at once? it's possible]

For showing such spirit, I'll give you a bit of generosity. [she rests her pistol on her shoulder, taking a fighting stance, head tilted back in a "come at me" gesture] Show me your first strike.
shipracked: (pic#12260498)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha! Take one look at me: do I seem like the type suited for dry land? I'm a dog of the sea, straight down to my bones.

[she is, in fact, dressed like a pirate. fancy captain's hat and cape and all]
withwisdom: game cutscene (⟡ regal)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ for a moment she thinks that he may not be interested, though she knows from experience not to take silence for granted out of anyone, and so she waits patiently for a response. so when he speaks she straightens up. they are connected hm? ]

I believe the lack of color is due to a curse upon the land. My power has typically worked to dispel malicious forces - I would like to make an attempt, but require an observer.
inheritance: (167)

[personal profile] inheritance 2018-05-01 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[This time, he perks up eagerly.] You can do that? It'd be great if you could bring the color back. We've been here just over a month and we're still not sure how it all works.

[Izuku takes the slate from her, turning it in his hands curiously.] Can you show me, just in case? I don't want to break it by pressing the wrong thing.
shipracked: (pic#12260506)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[. . . kind of gives him a look when he scrambles over, and when she climbs to her feet (shakily, wobbily) it's pointedly without his help. she doesn't need support, she is cool and confident, she's got this!!]

[. . . even though she does have to reach out to brace herself on a nearby tree, and pause before she answers, inhaling a deep breath]


Mana.

[???]

Aaah, without a Master I'm truly limited, aren't I? Tch! The promise of eternity always did come with terms and conditions. No wonder I never liked the idea of it.

[she isn't explaining herself I'm so sorry]
observitude: (c - work out the knots)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-01 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah]

They could, but they don't have the authority of "and it was so". Gods... People spend their lives relying on them for guidance in how to live. If someone undeniably the god of this world renamed the building material as candy... Who could really say different? They're god.
moralmyopia: <user name="keldeo"> (pic#12243985)

[personal profile] moralmyopia 2018-05-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Prize."

[Bullshit, is what he thinks. Not necessarily about Bruce's deduction, but about the town perhaps actually considering it a prize. It feels very much like the Chunin Exams all over again, and something both sad and sick twists in his stomach.]

To obtain something. Color? [He's quiet for a moment or two, staring at the fire.] All the quests have a prerequisite for color.

It wasn't about what we fed the cockatrice, just that two of us completed it together. Two of any color.
shipracked: (pic#12259102)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[you know, Rider would probably take pride in being called a vixen. probably]

[Nanami is fast, but so is her opponent, and it doesn't take much for Rider kick at the ground and sidestep the strike. it truly isn't in her to hold back, buuuut she also doesn't like fighting opponents who aren't on her level. . . so for now? she's going to put poor Nanami to the test]


Easy enough!

[by pivoting on her heel, whirling around behind Nanami as she brushes past, and attempting to slam the hilt of her pistol into her back. rude!!]
moralmyopia: <user name="keldeo"> (pic#12244007)

[personal profile] moralmyopia 2018-05-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Geez. It's about as frustrating as having to deal with Naruto.]

If travelers were going to be fed, it wouldn't be a house. [He realizes he may not get through to her. Whatever.] Do what you want.

When you turn into a monster, I'll kill you.
shipracked: (pic#12259107)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[her response is proud, confident, and extremely enthusiastic]

Catch it.

[SHE WANTS THE BIRD. GIVE HER THE BIRD]
inheritance: (162)

[personal profile] inheritance 2018-05-01 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Then it'd be a good idea to keep an eye out, in case there's something about this one that makes it stand out. Sometimes these quests can be really vague and unhelpful. [It's with a wryly smile that Izuku says all this.]

I know a few who might be interested! Um...I have no idea where they are, though. The only way we have of contacting each other here is with the laptop.
moralmyopia: <user name="futurexhokage" site="www.tumblr.com"> (pic#12262983)

[personal profile] moralmyopia 2018-05-01 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe we're the ones who are cursed.

[He looks away, and it almost seems like he may continue on regardless. However, he stands there for a long, quiet moment without ever moving forward. Dammit.

Finally, he turns back around, venturing just a little closer.]


How does your magic work?
observitude: (c - sweet prince)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-01 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[don't just his love for the dead -- wait]

...A shell. Empty and dull when compared to the person it was based off of. Sometimes...there are things like him in there, but that's just from my mental cognition of who he was. If I'm not...occupying...then it doesn't last long for the same reason.
shipracked: (pic#12259102)

[personal profile] shipracked 2018-05-01 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[this is like]

[the absolute worst pair for a quest, what the heck. rambunctious pirate lady and someone so incredibly chill that he won't hold her back from her bad ideas]

[because as soon as he gives her the go ahead (not that she needed it; she was already stepping forward, flintlock pistol in her grasp), she charges the cockatrice and shoots at it. multiple times]

[the poor monster shrieks angrily and begins running around in circles to avoid the bullets, tail lashing out like a whip as it does so]

[enjoy your rider vs cockatrice battle Minato, I guess???]
withwisdom: game cutscene (⟡ content)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well... [ she smiles, reserved despite his eagerness. ] I don't want to make you any promises, but I'll do my best.

[ her power may have waned from the long length of time she had to use it to keep calamity ganon at bay - this isn't just a test for the color, but a test for herself. but anyway, she steps over to stand beside him as he holds the slate, the glowing blue eye in the center of the screen lit up. ]

The slate operates entirely by touching the screen in front of you. [ she quickly taps her index finger over it and the eye vanishes off. a display of icons appear. ] Click the very last one to the left to activate its photograph function. You then aim and click on a button to the left side to snap a quick photo - it's automatic and you can snap as many as you wish uninterrupted.

[ so, basically, just like any normal smartphone/tablet device, though she describes with an air of teaching to her - as if deku wouldn't possibly know how to use it without the lengthy explanation. ]
observitude: (charles - sweet nothings)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-01 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[whatever the color... who knows!]

Staying safe is subjective, and it's a lot more difficult to do. But if you can stay safe, that's probably a good idea.
withwisdom: (⟡ uncertain)

[personal profile] withwisdom 2018-05-01 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
That can't possibly be true.

[ she states with a firmness, and wonders from where such a comment could come from. but regardless of that- ]

My power is to purify curses and malevolent forces through prayer. Though I am uncertain as to whether or not it will work, I feel it would be a disservice to not at least make the attempt if there is a chance of success.
nipzips: (and the lips and the face)

[personal profile] nipzips 2018-05-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Josuke gets tricked into gathering all this fish and he's still going to carry it anyway. Easily whipped. Anyway, the pride of victory would be enough if he didn't feel so conned! Never trust adults: The take-home message for today.

Bag slung over his shoulder, the expression on his face is still that of petulance. ]
Just watch. I'm gonna get you next time. [ Sure sounds like an empty threat, but okay. Let teenagers have their moment. ]

Let's go ... find it then. Do you have an idea where it may be?