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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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athenite: (DISCUSS ► oh now i see)

[personal profile] athenite 2018-05-02 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately E-rank luck is a demigod trait.
athenite: (STAND ► sorry did you need me)

[personal profile] athenite 2018-05-02 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you do one of those "quests"?

[ OBVIOUSLY she just continues with the interrogation, although she's not jumping to attack him or anything. she's apparently just Really Intense about information for the moment.

luckily...? ]
athenite: (YEP ► this is happening now)

[personal profile] athenite 2018-05-02 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...why tf not ]

All right. Do you have a weapon on you just in case?
parodeity: ikimaru @ tumblr (GLANCE 🎧 so your point is)

[personal profile] parodeity 2018-05-02 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
i dont have specific plans today
i mean i assume egbert will make dinner or something at some egbertian decreed hour but otherwise im free as a bird
a bird that isnt in a cage anyway
like a wild bird

also i like apple juice
orange soda just isnt my cup of tea
or even my preferred drink
id like drink it if there were no other options


[ SURE DOES RAISE SOME QUESTIONS, DOESN'T IT... ]
batsuits: (bw – sup。)

honestly yeah

[personal profile] batsuits 2018-05-02 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he'll lower the tablet a moment later, after it's clear Zelda is done with her ritual, watching the apple for a moment before looking back over to her. he wonders what that did, what the intention of it was. conducting energy of some kind, he figures, but he's not sure what the extent of that was?

when she looks out, he looks as well and he has to admit -- it probably is quite nice out there with color. gotham is a mess of dark blues and grays but it doesn't seem like this town would be the same. ]


Has that worked before? Your magic?
batsuits: (bm – hrr。)

[personal profile] batsuits 2018-05-02 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yeah it doesn't get better from here. sorry, josuke. ]

Because you owe me, for the interruption.

[ also, he trusts himself way more than he trusts you. obviously. ]
batsuits: (bw – hell。)

[personal profile] batsuits 2018-05-02 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It better count, god. How else are they supposed to do this? Cockatrice are violent, damnit.

But the cockatrice does focus on Bruce, squawking slightly before dragging a lizard foot through the dirt a few times. Then it... launches. It runs at Bruce with another squawk and Bruce dives forward with a roll before grabbing at the passing feathers as it rushes past him.

Now, he's being dragged along in the dirt by a wild cockatrice. Fun. ]


You may... oof, want to stay back, Ms. Amano.
batsuits: (bm – lurk。)

[personal profile] batsuits 2018-05-02 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ minato, you are no help at all. there's a sigh from bruce as tries to think of how to put it. all things follow a sense of logic, even the things that appear illogical. it's just a matter of figuring out what it is. ]

These are events based on stories, right? Folklore and myth, to be specific. Even in those stories, there's a set of rules to follow. The same applies here, even if we don't know what those rules necessarily are.
batsuits: (bm – lurk。)

[personal profile] batsuits 2018-05-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that's an easy answer, isn't it? Bruce just lifts a hand, gesturing to the world around them. The gray, colorless world that's almost voidlike with how empty it feels. ]

When the color returns in full, I imagine.
nipzips: (come on you raver)

[personal profile] nipzips 2018-05-02 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ bat people officially the worst. also, glad to see you made the cap! ]

Seriously? [ Now it's Josuke's turn to shoot him an incredulous 'seriously?'. It's true that he ruined his research, but it wasn't like Josuke's was intentionally trying to cause a disruption. He was only doing what he thought was right.

However, it's true that he does feel guilty, and that's what sways him to the side of doing what Bruce says. ]
Damn it -- Fine! But I can't heal myself, so if something awful happens to me I'm totally gonna come back and haunt your ass.

[ Though he doesn't actually believe anything too drastic will happen to him, he has to assert that anyway. Josuke then plops the gumdrop into his mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. At least it tastes pretty good. ]
photoshooter: (SANKYUU 📷 Ever at your side)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dave, my boy, you had him at chocobo-sized dog. Look at this man. He is sparkling.]

You can ride them?

[What Prompto's picturing in no way resembles a horse. If he ever meets one, he may be somewhat put out. But then he'll get over it, because, wow, horses are pretty great, too.]

Oh, man, I wish I could meet one! Are they friendly? Can you teach them to play fetch?
photoshooter: (BORED 📷 gon fishing)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-02 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm just unlucky. Well, no. I'm definitely just unlucky. Prompto 'Worst Luck Ever' Argentum, that's me.

[Anyway, enough About That.]

How fast do you have to be to dodge something like that? You know, I thought I was pretty good...
photoshooter: (MUSS 📷 Shut up about Homestuck!)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-02 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
PPL DON'T JUST COME BACK TO LIFE!! IF THEY GET WEIRD POWERS AFTER THATS EVEN MORE MESSED UP, DUDE AR EYOU A DAEMON????/
tosa: neutral (Default)

[personal profile] tosa 2018-05-02 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
( It's his luckiest day in a while. The only thing that could make this worse is the actual police. )

Yeah, yeah, feeding Onidori. ( Aaaaand there's a beat before he feels like maybe he needs to explain? A P P A R E N T L Y you can't just nickname giant chickens "demon bird" because it's not clear enough. Which really makes him wonder how many bird monsters are running around this place that you actually need to be clear. ) The cockawhat's-it-or-whatever.

... Ya know, if ya just told me what ya wanna know exactly, we could probably cut the whole twenty questions part.
parodeity: feastings @ tumblr (DISCUSS 🎧 nah son)

[personal profile] parodeity 2018-05-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they're friendly in the sense that humans are - some are, some are instead giant fucking grouches who should live in trash cans. Also I'm not sure about the fetch thing. I've never really had much to do with horses, but I figure maybe a few are smart enough for it?
tosa: neutral (Default)

[personal profile] tosa 2018-05-02 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Gardening's pretty popular where I'm from.

( Just a suggestion! But wow, sorry for being a dude? He's still a beautiful sword, though. A literal cultural treasure. Sorry you just can't see. )

Nah, I'm just an old fashioned sword is all. ( Third option: You're an actual sword but he wouldn't expect anyone to assume that. ) Guess ya really wanna start something though, huh? I didn't even do anything! But I guess that's how goes.

( And he'll laugh! Because this really is just his luck. He can already hear his friends saying he's nothing but trouble but you know, it's not his fault trouble keeps coming for him! It's not like he's starting things for the heck of it. )

I'll humor ya! Just go easy on me, alright?

( Please. He just came here to have a good time. Luckily for Greed(?), Mutsunokami has a pretty good time fighting so it's a win/win situation until someone gets hurt. )
tosa: neutral (Default)

[personal profile] tosa 2018-05-02 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
( What's that look for? Mutsu is a good sword just trying to help after hecking up? But okay, alright, fine, just brush him off. Rider's a strong independent woman who don't need no man or sword because she has guns or something.

Or maybe she actually isn't all that independent since... it sounds like she has a master? Needs a master, even?
)

Ya need your master? ( That's all he's getting out of this thanks to her no good awful explanation. Okay, but he's a smart guy so he can figure this out. All of her energy just went out of her like the wind out of her sails and it happened after fighting. So is her energy this "mana" thing and is it linked to her contract with this master? After a moment putting that together he asks, ) ... You're some kind of spirit, aren't ya?
photoshooter: (OHO? 📷 Wanna see?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-02 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You said they like apples, right? Maybe if I tried it with an apple...
tosa: neutral (Default)

[personal profile] tosa 2018-05-02 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends on why ya need to remember them in the first place, I guess.

( So this guy expects to meet people like the Uesugi on the battlefield? That narrows it down to a handful of centuries, he supposes. It's still a pretty broad clue, though. )

... So, where're ya from?

( He'll go fishing for clues, sure, why not. Also I guess Hanbei might recognize Mutsu's accent as someone from the south because Tosa-ben is pretty distinct. )
girod: (Default)

[personal profile] girod 2018-05-02 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If the shoe fits, Bruce, but that isn't what he's focused on. Clark zeroes in on Bruce's hand like a heat-seeking missle, and the naked hunger in his eyes as the glove is removed is... well, it must be very effective magic.

He reaches forward, pulling Bruce's hand between his own, and doesn't even attempt something sweet and polite. Instead, his lips press at the center of Bruce's palm, immediately intimate, before he breathes in and draws back.

And swallows. ]
girod: (Default)

[personal profile] girod 2018-05-02 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
'Old man'?

[ Excuse you, he looks 30. TOPS.

But he at least appreciates her kindness in checking on him, and her care in offering a warning. Thankfully, that kind of fall barely registered other than being embarassing. There's other things to focus on. ]


Have you had to deal with dangerous things much, since you got here?
girod: (glasses: thinking)

Clark's preboot but that doesn't preclude anything, considering

[personal profile] girod 2018-05-02 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't know. My time here has been relatively short, all told.

[ He starts dusting himself off. ]

Yourself?
windeity: (ANNOYED ♫ so about that)

[personal profile] windeity 2018-05-02 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
that's pretty much how a lot of people feel right now.

[Jake holy shit why.]

anyway being a leader has nothing to do with analyzing people's typing styles, i just have talked to all of them way too much.
we haven't found the f guy yet though. just a heads up.
windeity: (UNSURE ♫ how that works?)

[personal profile] windeity 2018-05-02 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't say I am a huge fan of orange soda, but I accept IOUs. What's with the book? [John. Hasn't been home today so he hasn't found his own, but give him a second to rifle through his sylladex.

A stray singular soy bean falls out. That's probably not helpful. Markers, markers...come on, seriously? He's just going to do that while waiting for an answer from Dirk.]
unfatalist: looks more like a midlife crisis on wheels to be honest (JUDGE ⚔ is that really his car)

[personal profile] unfatalist 2018-05-02 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
My — eyes?

[Absently, he raises a hand halfway to his face, halfway wondering if the reaction is to something ridiculous like a lack of his glasses, but no, he's got them on again, thanks to the spare pair in the armiger. So — what, then? Have they lost their color? Is this some new trick of the town?]

What about my eyes?