Test Drive Meme

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Throne of Shadows
TEST DRIVE MEME!!!

New to Throne of Shadows? Long time player thinking of apping a new character? Welcome to our test drive meme! Experiment with active and potential muses! Here is a place where you can test out characters for the setting and accrue samples for your applications! Roll on the scenarios provided below, or come up with your own!

Scenario Builder

You are...

1. Working in the lava lamp factory
2. Watching "The History of Twine" in the cinema
3. Admiring the fish in the barracks tunnel
4. Lost in a topiary maze
5. Riding the shuttle between buildings
6. Trying to sneak into the administrative offices

You’re feeling...

1. Inexplicably happy
2. Like you could fall asleep at any moment
3. Angry enough to punch someone
4. Nostalgic or sentimental
5. Like someone stabbed you—oh, hey, they did, fancy that
6. As if life really ought to be more like a Broadway musical

Somewhat unusually...

1. You can only speak in rhyme
2. The room is full of old-fashioned toys
3. A box covered in runes drops down from the sky and lands at your feet
4. You hear the voice of your worst enemy in the walls
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

[horncrown]

It was not her species that he was particularly interested in. She looked human and yet he knew that she was not. She was neither Jedi nor Sith; she was neither Lightside nor Darkside. She had a presence but it felt different from a Force user. She spoke with a calmness, not arrogance. There was confirmation that she was not trying to be anything more or less than what she was, he felt.

Someone simply and truly themselves.

"The trouble with power, I think, is that it is vibrant and loud." Unless measures are taken to conceal it. This was not something Maul enjoyed doing but he had long since come accustomed to the need for it.

"I am Maul," he introduces. "I am an Iridonian and a Sith. I can guess that these hold no meaning to you?"

The longer he is away from his Master the more he leans toward the former as an identity than the latter. Although such a shift may very well not be conscious.

[thelastmonster]

Maul? Was that like Fire for her, perhaps? A name given for a superficial characteristic? Or was there something more to it? He did radiate confidence and he had an edge to him, Fire could not outline it fully yet, but it was there. It did make her wary as one should of a stranger.

She held her name in reserve for the time being.

She tossed the words ‘Iridonian’ and ‘Sith’ around her mind. They did, indeed, sound foreign to her, and as the device in her ear did not translate them to something corresponding in Dellian, Fire assumed they must be from Maul’s language.

She shook her head and determined to ask. He did seem quite willing to talk to her about himself, she could feel he carried some sort of pride for this identity, and for her inability to understand him fully she was apologetic. “I’m sorry, I have no understanding of those other words. What do they mean?”

[horncrown]

He did not know, honestly. He remembers the names of his so called brothers being quite similar to him. Savage and Feral. Perhaps their family was noted for such characteristics. Whatever the reason behind his naming, it hardly mattered.

She does not offer her name back to him or introduce herself at all. Normally he would not care, frankly. Most people he comes to cross do not pique his interest quite enough for him to even consider them individual enough for a name. She was an exception, and so: "Have you no name?"

The ridge where brows would normally be rises just a touch.

"Iridonian is a people; Sith is a philosophy," well, technically it was also a people but those people were long gone and their ideals carried on. There was much more politics to that matter of the old days but he knew it not.

[thelastmonster]

Fire couldn’t explain why she was hesitant to give this man her name, she just suddenly felt caution was the key, and she’d long since learned listening to her gut paid off. But now that he asked, she couldn’t see a reason not to tell him. “I’m named Fire.”

Despite her hesitancy, his explanations interest her, she liked politics and history even when presented in dry manuscripts that could put even the most studious scholars to sleep. “Where are the Iridonian from? And I’ve never heard of the Sith philosophy.”