Test Drive Meme 2.

[awashmods]

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! Important dates to remember are May 1st, 9 PM EST, when Reserves will open, and May 7th, 9 PM EST when Applications will open. Keep an eye out for it! As a side note, TDM threads are not canon, so please feel free to assume established CR for the sake of the TDM if it will make threading or showing off your character's voice easier. 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!

Comments

[robosmith]

[ he won’t call jake out on it, but he’ll be privately amused. he’s not sure what they would have done if someone did get shot in jake’s rampage so it’s a good thing they won’t have to find out. except if it had been an evil children-eating witch, it would have been fine. probably. he kind of doubts there even is a prison in this antiquated place and if there is, then jake is right and it’s unlikely it could hold them for long.

but hey, no prison breaks necessary. they can get their needless destruction on in peace. ]

Yeah. If you’re good on ammo, let’s start from the top.

[ normally ammo is not much of a concern, but who knows how jake would get his hands on more if he ever ran out in this place.

dirk doesn’t have to deal with that problem though so he’ll fly up and touch down on the roof before seemingly vanishing again, this time leaving cal floating in his wake. cal who proceeds to go to town on the roof. you’d think a soft puppet hitting a harder surface would not be effective... but there goes the nice gingerbread chimney, falling apart with a few of cal’s flailing plush punches and kicks. ]

[kringlefuck]

Pshaw. You hardly know me, pal. I've got ammo out the wazoo here. Just what do you think I am, ill-prepared?

<sub>[ Jake doesn't know what to expect from a puppetkind, but it certainly wasn't anything like that. He watches, baffled for a moment that a stuffed animal can do so much damage, but in a few seconds he stows away his golden Beretta to a double pistolkind. You guessed it, two identical Berettas. They aren't golden like the one he just put away, but they're his classic go to back on hell island. He'll leap into the air and fly about, whizzing through the air and firing shot after shot. He stays on his side of the house. Dirk is so fast, he doesn't want to accidentally shoot him by firing too close to his side.

It's a little alarming, but the upward crooks in his mouth seem a bit unnerving. He loves shooting way too much. ]</sub>

[robosmith]

[ he's not even gonna argue. if jake says he has enough ammo, dirk believes him. he probably doesn't even want to know how many bullets and guns he's got stashed away in his sylladex. knowing him it's likely enough to arm a whole army so dirk will take his word for it.

maybe they shouldn't be doing this, he feels like there's going to be consequences to their act of mindless destruction, but there's definitely something cathartic to wrecking the suspicious candy house. not to mention it feels good to be reunited with cal and getting to use puppetkind again. jake looks like he's enjoying himself as well. (a little too much, perhaps.) so fuck it all, he's throwing caution to the wind and doing the thing he's supposedly meant to do as a prince, only being mindful to stick to his side and stay out of jake's range to avoid getting hit.

between the three (counting cal) of them, they're making short work of the roof. even though they started from the top, it's unlikely the house will be lasting for very long at all. oops. ]