test drive meme 1.

[awashmods]

Her Pa committed suicide By biting off his head. Her mother saw her uncle's ghost And died of fright, she said. So her unpleasant habits Seem most curious to me, Because she seems to come from such A happy family.

Prompt 1: he forest looms as ever, colorless but not at all dead. The leaves are full, fluttering in the silence, but there's no scent to them, no color. The effect is eerily hard to navigate, almost like an optical illusion, leaves, branches and trunk blending together with the small path -- which already disappears and reappears at a whim. But even so... If you brave the path, it seems as though there is something leading you onwards. A trail of... something, crumbs, maybe, the same shade of colorless as everything else, almost impossible to see. Following those might be a bad idea -- your chances of getting lost, tangled in random underbrush, or wandering aimlessly for hours are pretty high... to say nothing of what you might encounter if you stray too far (hint: even the small, fuzzy things have nasty bites). Still, it's there, and if you follow them... eventually you will come to a small house. It's decrepit, falling apart and in shambles... do you really want to go inside? Perhaps armed with one of the many convenient tree branches that have probably smacked you thus far? Prompt 2: hould you enter the house, you'll be greeted with a creepy, creepy doorman. Aw, how cute! And in that doll's hand, there's...a message. On a slip of paper, it reads, simply and plainly: The more you take, the more you leave behind. Curious! (And yeah, you can destroy the doll. It's just a normal doll. You may even come across said doll already crushed by an intrepid explorer.) Of course, it's a riddle, and the answer's a warning -- the longer you walk around and about the house, the less you'll remember about yourself, until you forget why you were there and why you should leave, and who you are at all, doomed to wander forever. Or someone saves you, that's fine too. Prompt 3: roblem: There are no fresh eggs in the Town. Solution: Catch a feral chicken, and keep it for eggs. That seems simple enough, right? You're totally up for the task... right? But why do all of the animals look so strange in the forest? Mutated, with teeth, or wings that don't belong, or claws. That's... a chicken, right? Catching it will allow you to get some eggs, but that beak looks pretty nasty -- it might be harder than it looks. But you're intrepid and clever, right? Why not demonstrate your Chicken Wrangling Skills that won you the championship so many years ago? Or try to serenade the savage beast? Or wuss out and form a coalition with which you draw lots to see who has to do battle with the chicken? There's safety in numbers! But the prize will surely be worth a bit of blood loss and fowl-related trauma. Do it for the eggs. Prompt 4: here's a new quest on the forum today, and it looks awfully easy! It's listed simply as: Quest XXII. Talk to someone you've never met about their childhood. Quest will be completed when you have reached an acceptable level of knowledge. On the other hand, that's a little vague, isn't it... ? How will you even know when you've completed a quest like that? Still, it looks easy! Maybe go give it a try. You could respond to the forum post to try to find people, or just go on outside, go harass someone about their past. If you're lucky, you'll drag it out of them with very little hassle and it won't take you a good chunk of the day. If you're unlucky, that's what highly persistent stalking is for! But don't forget, you'll likely have to return the favor. And your new friend might not be the only one listening. 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 first 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 March 1st, 9 PM EST, when Reserves will open, and March 7th, 9 PM EST when Applications will open. Keep an eye out for it! 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!

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[awashmods]

Please feel free to ask any questions about the TDM here.

John Egbert | Homestuck

[windeity]

I.

[So the forest is a little weird and when John looks up everything is dark and gray and blurred. It’s eerie and quiet and he’s not exactly afraid but he wonders where he’s going.

The solution is easy. He lifts up into the air and takes flight, staying above the ground while he moves forward to try and slip through leaves and—]

Ow! [A bunch of branches that are hard to avoid. He finds himself fighting off the branches before dropping back to the ground, probably right in front of you on this path. He doesn’t quite look up at you, but he does speak upon noticing someone approach.]

How big do you think the forest is?

II.

[Finally getting to the house John enters and he reads the message, a little perplexed before he gives a laugh. The simple solution, of course, is that he won’t take anything. Aware that he can probably just disappear if he has to he enters the house and begins to walk, exploring the various rooms within. He finds himself opening doors and drawers, exploring in general for any sign as to why this house is in the middle of the forest and who it belongs to.

However, slowly he comes to a stop and he lingers in the doorway, staring blankly into a room and potentially blocking your way. You may wish to ask him to move, otherwise you’ll be stuck, too.]

Wildcard

[Hit me with whatever else you want! I’m open to people running into him around the setting or the other prompts.]

[hydrokinetics]

Hi! Just to confirm, characters and their clothes/items/etc all have color still and it's just the setting itself that's colorless?

[awashmods]

Hello! Yes, that's correct! The characters and everything they bring with them are fully colored as usual, it's only the setting that's totally lacking.

[hydrokinetics]

Thank you very much!

Akira Kurusu | Persona 5

[jokered]

Prompt 3;

[it seems like a good idea in theory—catch the chicken, get the eggs. profit for the delicious breakfast-y goodness. but there's one problem here. actually, there are a few problems here, and almost none of them seem to be quite on the level of "is that even a chicken?"

it's probably the fact that this guy does not look at all equipped for this situation at all. he's tall and lanky, with frizzy hair and massive, rimmed glasses—he looks like a huge nerd, and the way he's circling the maybe-chicken seems to indicate that he has no idea how to tame it. maybe it would help if he had something useful? but no, he's wielding a knife. that, while cool? is a replica, a model. it's not real, even a butter knife could do more damage than this thing. maybe that works because he's not trying to kill it, but that chicken(?) is trying to peck away at his toes, and all akira has going for him is that he's agile on his feet.

someone, help. someone tackle this chicken from behind. or just laugh at what a nerd he looks like, it's probably fine either way.]

Extra;

[today, akira is observing their surroundings, quietly as ever. is he curious? is he exasperated? it's kind of hard to tell, with his expression largely hidden behind frizzy hair and glasses. everything is so... grey. so colorless, so... weird. it hasn't been long since showing up here, but he already misses the duller colors of a tokyo winter compared to "ash grey water" and "old man grey hair grass."]

I don't think this is what they meant by "forty-nine tints of grey."

[it's never a bad time for a shitty joke, right?]

Extra 2;

[wilcard up your own scenario, if you'd like! or bully me into writing something for you, i can do that too.]

Minato Arisato | Persona 3

[messianic]

Prompt 1:

[Minato's a city boy.

Which means that creepy forest? Not exactly in his general grasp. He's wandering, hands shoved in his pocket and mp3 player and headphones around his neck, peering around thoughtfully. Hm...!!

Really, he's so distracted inspecting the weird, colorless trees that he doesn't even notice the small stream; he steps on a slick rock, and his heel slips right out from under him. Into the steam he goes with the tiniest of gasps and a far more unfortunate splash.

Oops.]

Prompt 3:

[Doing it for eggs seems reasonable to Minato. Eggs are delicious, and also they'll add some variety to a diet of like....berries and fish or what-have-you. It all seemed logical enough when he was signing up, but seeing the "chicken" now...

"""""Chicken""""", that is, he's starting to have some doubts.

He hesitates, hands in his pockets as the creature hisses at them, and then:]

Do you think it really lays eggs?

[Is that really the major concern here.]

dave strider | homestuck

[parodeity]

i. hansel and gretel

[ or just hansel, really. the world might be colorless, but there's someone in red, and while it's normally already fairly eye-catching as far as outfits go it's even moreso when the backdrop has nothing else. the dumb hood is down, though, and dave's hair is a pale enough blond it could nearly blend with the mood.

he's also got sunglasses he's apparently just not removing.

finding himself in a bullshit black and white forest after death isn't really surprising, since it fits the "maybe it's a dream bubble" possibility. he's not sure it really matters; he's somewhere, it's boring, he wants to go somewhere else. maybe find his sister, or one of his other friends.

so he's walking through the woods casually, hands in his pockets and shoulders slouched in a habitual way, kind of humming to himself.

he does start to follow the dumb maybe-crumbs when he spots them, but. ]

Man. If I'm gonna dream-die or double-die, I don't want to go the way of some witch in the woods eatin' kids? Like, I'm not even in the mood for gingerbread, so I'd literally be dyin' for no goddamn reason. I mean, maybe I wouldn't? I'm not sure I'm actually top quality meat in the "wow I want to eat him" kinda way. Like, really cannibal eat him. Maybe the other internet lewd way. Would also like to avoid stranger danger there, though? Christ this is boring as fuck, where's the ominous bgm when you need it? I could jam out to that...

[ he's also keeping up a running muttered commentary to himself, apparently perfectly content to speak to thin air if no one else joins in the conversation. idiot. ]

ii. no??? no

[ you know what. the doll's message probably definitely is important, but dave is standing like. fifteen feet back from the door looking very seriously Not About This Shit, arms crossed over his chest as he eyes the doll dubiously.

it's close enough to being a puppet that he has like zero interest in getting closer. ]

I think I can live a long, happy death without ever knowin' what's on that note.

[ HE'S CURIOUS BUT NOT THAT CURIOUS someone else read it for him, obviously. ]

iii. chickens?

[ that's not a chicken, is it? oh well. dave is at least...kind of trying to help? he doesn't appear to have any actual chicken wrangling #skillz, aside from being really fucking fast. flashstep looks like teleport spam, even though it isn't; so he gets up behind them pretty easy, and snags them even easier, but then he like.

doesn't...know what to do next...?

so he's kind of holding a weird clawed chicken out away from him and looking blank-faced in the way that means "what the fuck do i do now" from him.

what's step 2

does he kill it

he kinda doesn't want to kill it??? ]

iv. downvotes

[ while dave can be found probably sitting on one of the rusting spiral staircases in ruga, he'll also just post to the forum. it's charmingly old school and he doesn't bother to change how he usually types, although he might if he's nagged. ]

sweet more homework
man
you know what this needs
like by this i mean this forum in general
we need some blingee mspaint forum signatures
i do see a paint program in here
natch
granted theres like fuck all colors but i can maybe make very boring sparkles
not that they will sparkle as they would with the proper internet programs
but we can maybe make some magic happen
although fuck do these forums even allow image embedding
how old school even are we i genuinely cant tell
i cant downvote or upvote anything so were clearly in the internet dark ages
back when you had to follow geocities webrings to traverse the web
sign my guestbook please
yeah thats about the extent of my knowledge of those days
im from a better time
with google and 20 other search engines no one ever talks about
and filters for photos

i forget what i started this for hold on lemme scroll up
ok yeah right
someone i dont know what was your childhood like
lets sit in a circle and pretend were in kindergarten and i have to write a badly spelled report on you
maybe spice it up with some stick figure drawings
this is such a broad fucking question
even though it sounds deceptively small
like
how do you even answer it really
describe the pop culture icons of the era
sing some songs from the top 20 list
maybe do a dance
or i guess talk about what you used to like to eat
or drink
man FUCK my life when exactly do i get to eat and drink shit not from randomly apocalyptic or weirdly specific eras
like for three years its been well whatever you guys could make from what you had on you haha have fun kids
and now its just well maybe catch a monster chicken
if youre lucky the eggs will be safe we guess
why cant i just go to a store and buy some apple juice
what the fuck do i have to do to go to that timeline

anyway yeah hmu if you wanna chat

wildcard

[ or do w/e and i'll roll w it! ]

Maya Amano | Persona 2

[scooptimistic]

[ I. ]

[ Sure, an entirely colorless forest with no sound is a little unnerving, but for starters, Maya's seen some weird shit in her lifetime.

And secondly, she's an intrepid journalist/editor/fence-jumper so she's not about to be intimidated by a bunch of trees. If anything, Maya appears to be absolutely cheerful, striding along with a slight bounce in her step. ]

So, hey--! [ Hello, person who probably wasn't even engaged in conversation with her two seconds ago! ]

You wouldn't happen to have anything brightly colored with you, would you? Leaving a trail while following a... "trail" might not be a bad idea, especially with how so much of this looks the same.


[ III. ]

Okay. Okay.

[ Maya is staring down the chicken... "chicken"(????) with pursed lips, before she nods decisively and shoves her sleeves up to her elbow. ]

Well, this can't be too different from negotiations. Actually, thinking about it that way, it's sort of nostalgic...

[ A pause, and then she'll grin over at anyone nearby. ]

Maybe back up a little, though? Unless you want to try wrestling it, get the adrenaline out of its system first? There's probably some method that'll be absolutely foolproof-- I'm sure of it! It-- hey, wait!!

[ this chicken is definitely trying to olly out. ]

Percy Jackson | Heroes of Olympus

[hydrokinetics]

III.

[Percy Jackson is tired. Percy’s tired and he’s a little too Fed Up with this stupid town and this stupid forest and this isn’t the first time he’s wound up in a completely foreign area, but it’s the first time he’s realized he actually doesn’t know how he got here and he remembers who he is. There’s a brief blip of annoyance (assuming somehow he managed to make one of the gods (Hera, most likely)) but it doesn’t stop him from venturing and exploring.

It’s how he comes across the feral chicken and he eyeballs it, aware that chickens lay eggs and that solution seems really simple.

This is how you come across a teenage boy holding a ballpoint pen in his hand and in a staring contest with a monstrous chicken, eyeing the beast carefully before he twirls the pen in his hand.]

Question for you. [Whomever you may be.] How hard do chickens peck if you attack them?

IV.

[Quests are normal. He understands quests very well and so while browsing the forum he comes across this particular quest and it seems…really simple. It’s a bit confusing how straightforward it is and the longer he reads it the more he realizes he doesn’t want to be tied to a computer all day. It’s much faster to get this done in person and Percy sets out again to head outside and see who else is around. With his hands in his pockets, he finds himself walking and checking out the area, eyeing people as he goes.

You look interesting enough! He approaches with a half-smile, tilting his head just a bit to look as friendly as possible.]

Hey. Have you checked out the forum yet? [That’s a start, anyway.]

Wildcard

[Hit me with whatever else you want! I’m open to people running into him around the setting or the other prompts.]

3!

[jokered]

[can you really negotiate with a maybe-possibly-but-possibly-not chicken? it's not like a shadow.

he doesn't... think...

actually, maybe it is kind of just like that.]

Maybe we need to wear it down before we try negotiating with it. [though, akira, what you're going to with a model knife and a model gun to beat it up is probably a mystery.

uh.

at least he seems willing to help, right?]

[teratias]

The Forest
The world around Waver filled him with a sense of unease that showed plainly on his face. His eyebrows were narrowed, his face was pale, his lips were thin, his eyes flashed with panic. He didn't know where he was and wherever he was was wrong.

With no one else around, Waver crouched himself down along the path to examine the colorless world. Carefully, he extended his hand forward, touching a soft fern that ought to be green. Ought to, but wasn't. It felt right, it even smelled right, but it...it wasn't. He hated it.

"What the hell is going on here?" he asked to the air, confident the question was rhetorical. "An unrecorded albino forest?"

Chickens
Chickens. It always had to be chickens, didn't it? Waver was pretty sure that as important as a protein source as eggs were, they were not worth going after chickens. Especialy not chickens that had the word feral as an adjective.

Foraging seemed way safer. Less likely to result in a chicken encounter, and yielding something more delicious than eggs. Using a basket he had found (it was probably for eggs), Waver walked through the forest slowly, his attention taken by a raspberry bush.

At least he thought it was. It was hard to determine without color, and he stared at it carefully. "No, those are blackberries," he said. All the while, Waver strained his ears for any sign of feral chickens, or people foolish enough to engage with them.

prompt 3

[spinatalltale]

[sorry, did you say help or heckle because both of those are h-words and someone just might be getting them confused, maybe???]

[which is to say, there's a young (???) girl totally sitting on the edge of a giant paper doll (?????) that is floating in the air (??????) some several feet away from Akira and his worthy opponent, legs crossed and hands cupped around her mouth. also, she is yelling]

Good ladies and esteemed gentlemen, your attention please! Innnnnn this corner, we have the Ferociously Furious Feathered Fowl of Legend, Beak-A-Boo!

[no]

Annnnnd in this corner, we have. . . well, let's just call him Scruffy.

[n o]

Place your bets, everyone. ☆ I accept wagers in the form of gald and-or other precious and expensive items. Gambling isn't cheap, you knoooow.

three!

[subvassal]

[ Fun fact: Anri is small enough to crawl inside of a coop. Of course, feral cuccoos are far preferable to domestic, pliable chickens. Apparently. Stomach rumbling with hunger - a common thing for an orphan - she lingers a bit behind Minato, curious but a bit non-committal. (It's just how her face is.) ]

Um... If it's a rooster, it can't.

[ She's helping. ]

[faultsofcourage]

I

[Honestly, when he fell into that ravine, he wasn't sure where he might have ended up. But it can be a safe guess to say that it wasn't here - wherever this place is.

Taichi's eyebrows furrow, doing a cursory scan to see if he was even anywhere in the Digital World.

If he was, then it's a different area than any of them had explored. What's worse: Mr. Nijishima isn't around either.

This doesn't make him feel any better.]

Guess it's worth a shot... [He isn't the Bearer of Courage for nothing.

But if he hears someone approaching, he glances over at them.]

Wanna go in with me?

III

Are we sure this is a chicken?!

[This question has been yelled - loudly.

But good news! He seems to be doing a great job so far in being bait for this weird...chicken....monster.

With years of soccer and having to pull of death-defying moves in the past, Taichi skillfully rolls out of the way when the chicken swipes its talons at him.]

Go get the eggs already!

Wildcard

[Got an idea? Hit me up!]

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia

[inheritance]

One

[With everything around them leeched of color, the green of Izuku's hair and hero costume probably comes as a shock. At first, he remains crouched down, staring at the forest ground with a frown. But as soon as he hears someone approaching, Izuku looks up sharply.]

There was a path here just now, but it's gone. [There's a tension in his frame, like he's ready to fight if it looks like there's a threat.] Were you trying to follow it, too?

Three

[How are these chickens so fast?? The way he's chasing after the chickens--they're chickens, right?--and continuously coming up empty-handed, Izuku's started to feel pretty ridiculous. Finally, he manages to grab a hold of one, only to have his hand savaged for his troubles.] Ow!!

[At least he's not the only one having trouble, though, he thinks as he stops to watch the others in their attempts. He perks up when he catches someone's eye, raising a hand as he jogs over to them.] Hey, are you having any luck? Maybe we should team up.

Four

[After several attempts to access anything similar to the internet on the laptop (and failing), Izuku finds a shady spot under the trees and hunches over his notebook. It's a familiar sight to those who know him, as is the mumbling when anyone gets close enough to hear it.]

...but what does it mean by acceptable level of knowledge? The post itself doesn't specify how we're supposed to be sharing this knowledge either, or how we're supposed to submit the information to them when we think we've gathered enough. Does this mean they have some other means to track what we've already learned from the people around us, or is there something more to it? They can't really expect us to post to the forum and share our stories with everyone that way, can they? Then again, we don't know anything about who's posting these quests and what their motives are....

[Someone please interrupt him before he thinks himself into a deeper hole.]

dal dal choi | girls of the wild's

[canoodle]

prompt two.

[ so first thing's first: this place is creepy as fuck. it hadn't been dal dal's idea to go in here — or maybe it had? — but even if it had, she's definitely all too ready to blame you for it. with an impatient stamping of her foot, she folds her arms across her chest and throws a disgruntled look outside one of the broken windows. ]

How the hell does someone get lost in a house??

[ fairly easily, apparently. it doesn't help that each corner she turns, she forgets how she got there. she whirls on you, the unfortunate dumpster for all of her agitation and growing panic. ]

Go jump out this window and see if it's safe already. I wanna go back!

prompt three.

[ if her mother could see her now...

actually, she'd probably be pretty proud. it isn't often dal dal has to work hard for things, given how ~naturally talented~ she can be at the things she bothers with in the first place, so there might definitely be some motherily pride in the form of tears happening here. if, you know, her mom was around.

sadly she is not, and so there is no one to encourage dal dal on as she runs after some freak chicken, swinging around a large kitchen knife, the straps of her drab apron fluttering wildly behind her. ]

GET OVER HERE YOU FREAK HAPPY MEAL!!

prompt four.

[ talk to someone about their childhood? EASY PEASY. dal dal's a great conversationalist (no), and also totally approachable (not at all). this quest's in the bag (help her). ( A ) catch her wandering out into the main streets, determination in her steps. if you just so happen to meet her gaze, she will grin and march on over, practically cornering you (despite not even reaching 5') with all the bolster of a sales person that's been following you around the store for the past five minutes and you just can't shake them off. ]

Hey! What're your parents like?

[ that should be a nice, safe start, right? right.

( B ) OR, she could also just be loitering around the well, waiting for some unsuspecting newbie to suddenly appear there. hope you don't mind your welcoming committee casually leaning over the edge of the well to casually ask, ]

So what was school like for you?

[ ( C ) OOOOR, she's a child of technology, so she can totally rock a forum. even if it's all kinds of outdated and whack. ]

Post by: #FF69B4
hey!! anybody around??
come talk to meeeeeee (　￣д￣;)

[jokered]

[see, there's only one really problem with this, and that's the fact that akira isn't the easiest person to heckle. magilou's going to meet her shitposting match on this one, possibly.

he doesn't seem very taken aback by any of it; if anything "beak-a-boo" wins some points in his book for being appropriately dumb and punny all at once. there are probably a lot of questions to ask about what she's floating on, but he's seen some pretty weird stuff. so instead? he'll be distracted from the chicken(?) for a moment, looking up at her with head tilted to one side.

and then, without any hesitation beyond the moment he needed to process everything else she said before offering a very dry:]

Place my bet on red, odds, 1-19.

[akira, this isn't roulette, probably. why do you even know how this works, you're like, sixteen.

this is probably also a good way to get distracted and beat up by a chicken-creature, though he seems to be dodging it's oddly aggressive motions just fine for now.]

[reingenium]

Hello! I understand from the premise page that characters awake at the bottom of the well in the middle of the town. Is this still true for the TDM, or for prompt 1, do we assume that they wake up in the forest instead? Or are there other circumstances for them being in the forest? Thank you very much!

[scooptimistic]

The soften 'em up and wear 'em down approach, then? I can get behind that.

... Quickly.

[ yeah, this chicken doesn't look like it's going to want to linger. ]

Kale | Dragonball Super

[lssj]

1.

Hello?

[It might sound strange, but while she's calling out in a way that suggests she'd like to be heard, it still carries a quietness to it that suggests she's also trying to avoid being discovered by anyone. A bizarre contradiction it might be, but she's certainly pulling it off.

Unfortunately this place is terribly difficult to navigate. When you come across Kale, you won't come across her initially, but you'll hear her calling for you from above.]

...u-um. [No, wait. Califula always said they have to be tough!! Forceful!! Domineering!!] I mean...hey, you. Stop right there...p-please.

[Look up to the source of her voice and see she's caught in a bunch of tree branches.]

2.

[While she's been in this house far longer than she should have been, she's just about forgotten her identity, where she came from and the warning of impending doom that'd befall anyone who doesn't heed the doll's warning that'd filled her with dread the moment she read it.

But one thing remains. There's one thing that Kale could never forget, that held more importance to her than something as worthless to her as her identity or sense of self.]

Big sis...I...I have to find...big sis...where is she...

[She continues wandering the house almost in a state of mindlessness, muttering that to herself over and over like some bizarre mantra.]

3.

[Now, you might expect a member of a warrior race to show a little competency when it comes to wrestling chickens, monstrous as they may be.

Unfortunately of all the saiyans in the universe(s), this one isn't especially remarkable in the fighting department.

Not yet anyway.

For now, despite her strong start of actually approaching one, the moment it goes nuts and charges her she turns tail and flies off...directly into you.

Not only that but even if you manage to avoid being knocked over (because she sure won't, stumbling in midair and landing face first) that chicken from before is still headed your way and hers.

HELP???]

[awashmods]

Hello! Thank you for your question; that was very unclear of us! Characters do wake up at the bottom of the well still; the TDM will not be considered game canon, as the first intro log will be making use of that aspect!

Please feel free to assume that they woke up there and were able to drag themselves out of the well for the actual TDM prompts, if that helps!

[reingenium]

It helps a lot! Thank you!

I.

[belovedrobin]

[ She's sure she's read a story like this. Two children, lost in the woods, using bread crumbs to find their way back. They find a cottage in the woods made of sweets, and then...

Oh. Hmm.

This might not be the same thing, and it's not the first time she's happened upon a house in the woods—but that was different, and it didn't set a very good precedence. Hopefully this stranger will forgive her for being reluctant, or for being surprised that he's actually talking to her in this instance, with no sign of hesitance or wariness. It causes her to blink in a flutter before pausing herself.

Bright green eyes flicking up, her voice is soft. ]

Are you sure?

[ You know what they're potentially getting themselves into, don't you? ]

I

[scooptimistic]

Sure.

[ said easily enough-- which could just be because she doesn't want a kid venturing into some creepy-looking place by himself, but more likely, it's just Maya being as curious as ever. ]

Who knows, maybe we'll make some incredible discovery!