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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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If you have any questions about the TDM, feel free to ask us here. If there are any other questions, you can catch us via PM, the FAQ or the contact page. Thank you for your interest in Awash!

recommending: (sᴛᴏᴏᴅ still but i'm feeling fine)

[personal profile] recommending 2018-05-12 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Look, Tenn, there's sexily putting things in your mouth, and there's haphazard cramming found food in your mouth. Gaku knows the difference.

The gummy candy responds like... well, gummy candy. It bends easily, then slowly oozes back into it original position. Tenn's comment at least gets a faint smile from Gaku.
]

And a trail of breadcrumbs leading it - I didn't find anything like that, though. If it wasn't real candy I'd think this was the set for some drama or commercial.
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[personal profile] perfectennist 2018-05-12 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It looks like a pop music set. [ Like, some sort of weird up and coming girl band who are going to sing about happiness and cotton candy being the true meaning of friendship or something.

Basically, the antithesis of a Trigger song. ]


It makes about as much sense as everything else here. [ The weird, colorless areas, the people, the... bad wallpaper in the houses... ]
recommending: (ɪ get broke as the city glows)

[personal profile] recommending 2018-05-12 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pop music - exactly. Granted, someone might call TRIGGER pop group, but they're not this kind of pop. Though speaking of weird, Gaku suddenly frowns. ]

I haven't seen Ryuu at all since I got here.

[ The really weird part is that the three of them aren't together. ]
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[personal profile] perfectennist 2018-05-12 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Can it be a trap if there isn't even an oven?

[ If a person gets trapped in a forest when there's no one around to hear it -- that sort of thing, maybe. ]

It isn't a very good one. [ At least not for Tenn, it seems like, but he's not sure he can speak for everyone. He's pretty sure he knows someone who would be eating through the house at first sight. ]
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[personal profile] perfectennist 2018-05-12 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't, either. [ Tenn frowns, but it isn't visible with the mask up. Despite that, the slight knit in his brows makes his feelings on the matter easily apparent to anyone who knows him as well as Gaku does, at this point. ]

It might be for the best. [ Ryuu might be trying to eat the wallpaper, but Tenn sounds harsher than he means to even to his own ears, and he relents a little: ]

I'd rather he was here.
recommending: (ᴛᴏᴏ much gravity to feel the highs)

[personal profile] recommending 2018-05-12 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ryuu would absolutely be eating the wallpaper - but even so, Gaku agrees with Tenn's amended commentary. It might be best if Ryuu's not here, but Gaku hopes he is. ]

We'll look for him. Even if he can be careless, I don't think he'll do something dumb before we find him.
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[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-05-13 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He's definitely improved over the years. Guren taught him as much technique as he could, and now that raw power inside of him has a way to be channeled— but this is just technique, just punches, not the creature(s) fighting for dominance inside of him.

So, he can catch that other punch, as well, gripping tight on both limbs to keep him in place.]


Yuu! [This is just concerning, now, since Yuu hasn't said a word. This isn't some ambush over wanting a snack, or trying to test his strength.] What's going on?
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[personal profile] eusford 2018-05-13 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Listen... at the end of the day it's just obvious that Crowley's got a majority of his stats in strength and not intelligence. ]

I mean... I don't really want to. [ He shrugs his shoulders. ] But I'm the one that got you there, so it's only my responsibility to lend a hand if things go off course. I'm used to cleaning up messes, anyway, especially the ones that aren't mine.

[ Except he's fully aware that this situation in particular is his fault.

So, without so much as a verbal warning, his hand land to rest on Guren briefly before he's taking a step forward. The human hardly weighs anything compared to what Crowley is capable of lifting, but taking his words as advise he knows exactly how to tune his strength before launching the individual in the air. ]
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[personal profile] eusford 2018-05-13 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ He chuckles at that, however brief as he's using his free hand to snag a couple of berries. Hardly enough to actually fill the beast but hey... they just said to feed it. ] Here. [ --and promptly hands it to her. ]

So I'll toss and you'll feed 'im, now the landing... you can do that on your own, can't you?
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[personal profile] eusford 2018-05-13 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's a lot of work~ I don't wanna.

[ Just making the effort to toss it in the trash made him want to take a nap--but joking aside he decides that if someone were to see it it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. ]

It's not like I'm trying to make that part of my life a secret. If someone sees, they see, the man they shown there has been dead for a long time. [ And while it's stated as a fact, his tone nonchalant, the look in his eye is... distant. Neither pleasant or sad with the turn of events. ] So are you gonna go burn yours?
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Wait wait wait you have magic<\i>?! Like...real magic?

[she almost drops the berries because OH.]

What kind of magic do you have? Is it warlock magic, or mage magic or...
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[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-05-13 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hey—

[He would have liked a little more warning!! Especially after hearing Crowley essentially tell him he doesn't want to catch him, thanks— but he's being thrown, and it's a large reminder of the vampire's strength. At least Shinya isn't on the other end of it, this time.

It takes him just a few seconds to regain control of himself in the air, and as the cockatrice looks towards him him curiosity, he chucks the food, bag and all, into its mouth. It snaps at it without a thought.

But now, Guren has to worry about landing this without getting eaten himself. The throw was perfect, but the creature is in motion, and it's already finished its first meal and looking to Guren. He grabs onto the feathers at the top of its head, but as he's about to shift and kick off, the rest of his body freezes like dead weight. He's managed to keep a grip on one arm, but he's barely hanging on, and the cockatrice is angry now, trying to shake him off.]


Crowley!! [HELP??]
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[personal profile] eusford 2018-05-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah. Now it's just a cockatrice at the other end... which isn't any better, apparently, as while there's fortunately no collision there is a sudden halt to their initial intentions. Obviously not a good thing, especially when his name is called with an orderly tone and gives him the obvious signs that things weren't going exactly as planned.

Fortunately the vampire had a running start after he had thrown Guren, so by the time he notices that he'll need to step up he jumps. Not so subtly stepping on the cockatrice's head before pulling the human by his collar and off the creature entirely. ]


Ah, this suck... [ Because it's obviously pissed. ] We're gonna have to run after all. Why'd you have to go and mess it up?
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[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-05-13 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Shut up and keep moving.

[Because he sure can't, at all. Even as he's grabbed, only his head and that one arm seem to be working, and he's trying to think of why. The cockatrice is definitely angry, making some weird, ungodly bird noise and running after them.] I didn't make eye contact, which means that this thing can freeze you in place some other way. Go into the trees!

[Bossy, bossy...]
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[personal profile] whenitsgone 2018-05-13 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm the Warlock of the West. [ He draws himself up taller and looks proud as he states his title.] I can heal and make shields, for example.
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god. He's so dramatic. She loves him already.]

I could tell by the hair.

I think it's cool.

[Her hand is now in front of him, fingers fluttering a bit. Shake her hand. Do it!]

I'm Max.
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[personal profile] costaliris 2018-05-13 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[So extra.

There's a moment of hesitation before he takes the offered hand with the one that had been over his face.]


Gladion.

[Sivally lets out a whine and nudges up against his side. Don't forget them!]

And this is Sivally.
good_ideas: (geez || you keep it)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-05-13 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
They could poison the candy.

[And then trap them in the forest forever after that?]

Besides no one said that this witch was clever.
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[You would fit right in at her artsy boarding school Gladion, come to Oregon.

Max has kind of a weak handshake but she smiles nonetheless.]


Cool name, too. I've never met or even heard of anyone named something like that.

[Sivally gets its own smile form her, and the corners of her lips twitch a bit because WHAT ARE YOU? Would it be impolite to ask why this half-cute, half-utterly-mortifying creature is and what it's doing here?

Probably, right?]


And...hello to you, too.

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[personal profile] costaliris 2018-05-13 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Oregon has a distinct lack of Pokemon, though.

Unless Bigfoot is a Pokemon.]


My mother is... esoteric, to say the least.

[Lillie has a halfway normal name, but by meanings they were both named after flowers of all things...

Sivally is happy to be acknowledged, letting out a excited, chittering cry that's somewhere between synthetic and animal-like.]
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Moms, right? [says the girl whose mom isn't a scary antagonist]

Is Sivally from back home? Wherever "home" may be for you? Sivally is...certainly different from most of the animals back home.

We have mostly squirrels. And a few deer here and there.
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[personal profile] costaliris 2018-05-13 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[You don't even know, Max.]

Alola. I've learned that I'm the only one here from a world with Pokemon. Truthfully Sivally is the result of experiments rather than a naturally occuring Pokemon. That doesn't make them any less powerful and important to me, though.
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
The Warlock of the west?

[UNSURE IF SHE SHOULD BELIEVE HIM OR NOT so she's just smiling wryly.]

Doesn't healing and making shields make you more of a Paladin?
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[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-13 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Sure, she can think he understands the concept of consequence. It might be more he's literally terrified of everything, but the ideas aren't mutually exclusive.]

Yeah, I'm from a world called Eos. Where, you know, we have actual colors. And food that doesn't taste like crap.

[:(]

Honestly, though, I dunno what it could be that brought us here. You hear about traveling to other dimensions in comic books and stuff, but, like, in real life? I'm totally lost. It feels like there's got to be a reason, though, right?

[A bleak, colorless landscape and an empty town filled suddenly with people who don't know what's going on, prisoners of their own confusion and fears. Prompto rocks a little on his feet, hands clasped nervously together in front of him.]

Like, with all of us here, something's just waiting to happen.
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[personal profile] reshoot 2018-05-13 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Right, right, sorry...I'm still getting used to the "different worlds" thing...I guess my world is probably pretty boring in comparison.

[She'll take this opportunity to get a bit closer to Sivally, though.]

They look like they really like you.

Even if you're the only one from your home, at least you have each other, right?