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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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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-05-12 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
It's way bigger on the inside than it looks like on the outside. It would've been a bitch and a half to get out of if a bunch of us couldn't fly. Or like. Rappel. Some people rappelled out.

[ he flaps a hand like that wasn't a huge deal which overall it was probably the smallest problem they faced. ]

Honestly I just assume "it was magic" if shit gets weird at this point in my life.
observitude: (c - how naive)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose...

[He trails off with a sardonic laugh, fingering the seams in one glove with the other hand.]

Names are just letters. If "I" can be a person, then "C" can, as well.
whichcraft: mankind invented houses for a reason, okay (NATURE ♚ wow thanks i hate it)

[personal profile] whichcraft 2018-05-12 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside — I'm pretty sure I saw that on a TV show once.

[Okay, so the well is a pocket dimension of some variety. That's useful information. Memo to self: convince somebody to jump into it sometime and do a little reconnaissance about how that thing even works.]

So how'd you get out? Rappel or fly?
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-05-12 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm one of the flying assholes.

[ he demonstrates by hovering an inch up for about ten seconds before simply standing again. john tends to hover more than dave does by far. ]</small. And yeah, a lot of shit that happens here is tv-worthy? Seems to flip genres a lot. Some Twilight Zone bullshit, some more "okay I guess this is fairy tale-esque" bullshit.
whichcraft: murder, arson, and jaywalking, presumably (INNOCENT ♚ what can one little girl do)

[personal profile] whichcraft 2018-05-12 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
You look like a flying asshole. Except when you're not flying, then presumably you're just the regular variety.

[She's starting to grin, however, which takes some of the edge off of the remark. So does her tone, which suggests the term "asshole" is essentially as generic a noun in her vocabulary as "person" or "friend" or "homeboy".

She nods, however, jerking a thumb at the candy house behind them.]


Yeah, I kinda got the sense of that, what with Dame Edna's Big Ol' House O' Diabetes over there. So does that mean I can get the trees to stop kicking my ass if I'm nice to them and tie a ribbon around their branches, or something?
observitude: (c - come with me)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a good, respectable distance. He likes this distance. He wouldn't object to taking this distance out to dinner.]

Oh, most likely. I haven't actually seen one in person, never mind this close. It certainly is blue.

[Yeah, he's done with that nonsense. Topping canary would just end up with him being incredibly pretentious.]
whichcraft: god the killers truly understand my soul (BURN ♚ on the back of a hurricane)

[personal profile] whichcraft 2018-05-12 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Really stands out in the middle of all this gray.

[She frowns a little, though, flicking a glance at him with evident curiosity.]

How've you seen them, then? You mean like in books or something?
observitude: (c - would you kindly)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Some. Mostly the internet, though.

[boy he loves the internet]
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
That....ain't how that works, is it? I is... ( No, don't ask Kanata to explain adverbs and pronouns and modifiers and shit like that!!! ) Well, maybe if it's..."sea." Or "see." Those aren't names either...

( Whatever, though. He doesn't feel particularly argumentative about it. This person is just Weird but not in the weird way that pisses him off, just kind of....in the weird way that gives him the heebie-jeebies. )

Not like I care what your name is. Call yourself D, E, F and G for all I care. But I'm Kanata, and that's a normal name.
whichcraft: that's kind of bullshit but i believe it (LISTEN ♚ like watching paint dry)

[personal profile] whichcraft 2018-05-12 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah, I guess that's how it is, one minute you're just looking for some random fact on Wikipedia and the next thing you know you're three hours and forty pages down the rabbit hole.

[Presumably he is not the only one who loves the internet.]
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[personal profile] lonered 2018-05-12 12:48 am (UTC)(link)

[It was a compliment, Hunk! But no seriously be careful or Keith will make you spar with him that's what will happen. He's got to keep his training up, okay? Okay.]

Hunk in a rage sounds like something we want to avoid, yeah.

[Honestly he kind of has trouble picturing it where the other paladin is usually so even-keeled (when he's not panicking) and easy going.]

observitude: (c - since it falls unto my lot)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah yes. This is familiar.]

I haven't heard it before, but I believe you. Do you like your name?
observitude: (c - on the contrary)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, that is a relief. Scarlett hated those times with a passion and made sure he knew it, but this girl Got It.]

Only forty pages? You must be better at rabbit holing than I am, it feels like I never find things interesting enough to linger on for too long. Tumblr is a trash heap, but there have been photography blogs with good aesthetics. That's probably the most common place I've seen them.
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's my name. So yeah. ( It's...certainly not something he's thought super strongly about. But it's his name, so it's a good one!!

This isn't his usual conversation fodder, so he feels a palpable awkwardness nest in his chest. )
How does it feel to be just a letter? Seems kinda...short.
observitude: (c - lol)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh~? Do you think if I added more letters, I would grow?

[because Vincent was fuckin short so now C is, get it]
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Uhhh. How old are you?

( He's fuckin' taken it seriously. )
observitude: (c - oho)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Mmn?

[ohhh. for a punk, he could say amusing things sometimes.]

Now I'm curious. How old do you think I am?
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know! You don't look like an adult or anything! Are you some middle schooler?

( A question like this, where he can't give an absolute answer to feel confident about!!! Damn you! )
observitude: (c - safety in isolation)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[MIDDLE SCHOOLER...]

The truth is I don't know, but certainly older than that. Thank goodness. I really don't feel like reliving middle school.
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
The hell? How do you not know how old you are?

( Kanata gives him a look up and down, observing him carefully....ahh. Hmm. )

Ahhh...so you are some middle school kid, trying to be cute. Like your name could be a letter...I'm your senior, so don't think you can pull that kind of crap with me!

( In a few steps, a noogie might be coming his way. )
observitude: (c - infirmary)

[personal profile] observitude 2018-05-12 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Charles has been focusing on leading the way, so he's unfortunately unaware of that possible fate...]

It isn't surprising you'd see things that way. I've just never been a fan of my birthday, and when you've been around for as long as I have... Well, I never really tried to keep track. It'd be a waste of time.
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[personal profile] tsuns 2018-05-12 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Don't act like you're some old soul when you're a thirteen year old squirt! ( This is at least a kind of weird that's familiar to him, even if he's not into the whole chuuni thing.

Instead of a noogie, Kanata places his hand on one of C's shoulders rather forcefully. That same hand that was licked by that nasty ass ashy tongue. Bacteria, ash, germs everywhere. )
What, your folks not get you good gifts?
Edited 2018-05-12 02:58 (UTC)
good_ideas: (angry || never forgive never forget)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-05-12 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She's judging him for the treatment of his wound first.]

....Why are all you perverts so unsanitary?
queenofminiskirts: (teasing || idrk)

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[personal profile] queenofminiskirts 2018-05-12 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[...wow that is a very yellow shirt.]

At least it doesn't clash with your hair.

[Also, what sort of animal was that even? Some kind of dog...?]
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[personal profile] costaliris 2018-05-12 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Sivally is a wonderful creature of... dubious origins. Yup.]

... what sort of observation is that?

[He might be a bit annoyed. And grumpy. Always grumpy.]