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 (find the setting information here)...

1. Trapped by a giant Venus fly trap! Oh no!
2. Watching the evening light show at the beach
3. Admiring the magical castle the candidates have created in the meadow
4. Lost the desert, near the pixie dust canyon
5. Freezing your buns off on the tundra
6. Up high in the mountains and unsure how to get back down

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 area 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 air
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

Daryl Dixon | The Walking Dead SPOILERS AHOY

[livewiththelove]

There's a castle that Daryl could give a crap about, but it's there and he may not be in awe of said castle, but he is stalking around it, cataloguing defense points and advantages as well as any weaknesses it might hold against a horde of walkers.

Right. He's also angry. Seriously? He's here because some guy thinks he might be a potential mate? First of all, he could care less what floats this Prince's boat, but his boat isn't even remotely bobbed by a guy. Second, he's got things to do at home. Beth is probably on her own. He needs to get them both back to the rest of the group safely. You know what he doesn't need to be doing? Auditioning for The Bachelor.

Third: He really wants a grilled cheese sandwich, which is ridiculous. He hasn't had one of those since the world went crazy. He's pretty sure any cheese (including velveeta) that might be out in his world has gone moldy by now and he doesn't trust any of the food here, even if they do have grilled cheese sandwiches.

Maybe.

He might try one.

Re: Daryl Dixon | The Walking Dead SPOILERS AHOY

[element_wizard]

Not eating a grilled cheese sandwich, but definitely sitting on a rock and being harassed by a small kitten, is a guy who looks like he probably belongs to a castle more than most people. Well, at least he's got pointy ears and a sword. Which is probably more castle related than most people. The kitten is prowling around and trying to destroy the guy's shoelaces.

"Go... bugger off you little monster..." the guy growls before sneezing hard.

[livewiththelove]

Daryl leans over, scooping the kitten up by the scruff of the neck, holding it up and looking at it a moment.

"You allergic?"

[element_wizard]

Another sneeze. "Yes. Annoyingly."

The kitten meeps pathetically. HOW COULD THIS HUMAN HATE HIM!?!

[livewiththelove]

"Huh." He glances around. "They got any medicine for that 'round here?"

He's still holding the kitten, but now he's got it cradled in the crook of his arm instead of holding it up by it's scruff.

[element_wizard]

"Not that I know of," Alec says with a sigh. "I've yet to really find anything that works on it."

The kitten gets a stink eye.

The kitten doesn't seem to care as it seems to like its new position.

Numbers are overrated

[littledhampir]

Hi Daryl. That brunette standing about fifteen feet away with her arms folded across her chest? She might be judging you. She also might just be watching you with a furrowed brow and trying to work out what the hell you are doing but if we're being honest here, it's probably a little of both.

"You know... You can just walk right in?! Storming the castle isn't really a thing you need to do here." Says the girl who had already done exactly what he was doing right now. The girl who notably, didn't go in the castle much despite the fact that she missed little things like, walls. It was a magic castle in a weird place and knowing Rose, it would collapse on top of her the first time she decided to go in.

So overrated

[livewiththelove]

At least she's not overly cheery and bubbly. It's not that Daryl minds people who're cheery and bubbly, but he's not in the mood for it at the moment. He scowls at the brunette's words.

"Don't want to go in. How the hell I know it ain't full of somethin' that wants to eat me?"

Yup. When he finds out about the magic, he's going to sleep outside too.

[littledhampir]

Does she really need to state the obvious?! It's Rose, of course she does.

"And um... How do you know here - " Gesturing around the Wyld. "Isn't full of a whole bunch of somethings that want to eat you?"

[livewiththelove]

Does he really need to state the obvious? Apparently yes and his irritation at having to state the obvious is clear on his face.

"Out in the open, I can see 'em comin'."

[littledhampir]

That irritation was probably a hint to most people to oh, maybe, stop being such a smartass? Rose wasn't stupid mind, she got the hint she just, promptly ignored it.

"Yeah..." Eyes narrowing. "We're in a place that changes seasons depending on where you're standing." She pauses, as if to allow him to consider that for a moment. "Pretty sure if they can pull that off? Invisible monsters wouldn't be too hard... But then I was around for the shadow-wolf thing." A beat. "They literally appeared out of nowhere."

[livewiththelove]

Daryl gave her a look that said he clearly thought she was full of shit. Crazy was a given, but crazy and full of shit.

"If you can kill it, you can track it."

Everything alive and undead makes noise, has a smell, leaves a trail. You just have to figure out the clues they leave behind.

Forever this face at you Daryl

[littledhampir]

Wow. Was Daryl in for a rude surprise. She'll take that apology for his look in person or in writing. Whatever works.

"Normally. Sure. But you were kidnapped as part of some creepy arranged marriage lottery. Do you really think that the normal rules apply in this place?"

[talisamaegyr]

[Talisa awakens to the sound of waves crashing and the sensation of sand underneath her. She opens her eyes and sits up with a start, her mind flashing to her last memory. The wedding. That knife. The sudden pain and then...

It is night, and strange lights dance in the sky. She doesn't understand what they are but her hands ball into fists as anger surges through her. She starts backing away from the water, slowly, nearly growling she's so overwhelmed with her own rage. Amongst the lights she hears a voice - one she is not likely to ever forget. Walder Frey. That lecherous murderer. She shouts at the sky as if he is actually there.]

You will pay for what you've done, you bastard!

[thekittenqueen]

That is an accent that I recognize. Valryian? You must not be from Westeros then.

[It was by chance that she would find the young woman, but it was a welcome thing that she did. Any reminder of home was a happy relief to her.

The world that she had been queen.]

Who are you?

[talisamaegyr]

[Talisa didn't understand why her anger was not tempered by the arrival of a stranger. She clenched her teeth against the desire to scream an answer.]

Yes. I was born in Volantis, but I have lived in Westeros for the past two years. My name is Talisa.

Where am I? What are those lights and, and can you hear that? That voice?

[thekittenqueen]

[She knew that name and all at once, the face was familiar to her. The memories and the dream she had seen before. This was Robb's wife. Margaery's throat constricted, though she could not say why.]

You...you are in a place called the Wyld. A voice? I don't hear a voice.

[talisamaegyr]

[Suddenly it stopped, the haunting drone of Walder Frey, and she could think through the red haze in her mind. Her hands dropped to her belly and she was horrified to find it flat and empty. No child. Their little Eddard did not survive her death. Her voice was shaky as she tried to regain herself, for it seemed that herself was all that she had in this strange place, alone.]

I beg your pardon, my lady. I'm afraid I am not myself at the moment. I don't suppose you know how I came to be here?

[ka_mai]

M'lady? Are you alright?

[Cuthbert knows the answer to that is likely 'no'. It's been nearly a year since he was first pulled into this strange world, but he remembers his own fear and anger and confusion quite well. But still he asks, because he'll help if he can. If she wants it.

There's something familiar about the lass, too. Or mayhap it's just the way she forms her words, more familiar than the common American accents that sounded so flat and odd to his ears.]

[talisamaegyr]

[She scrambles to her feet at the sound of the voice, the ire inside her driving her instincts into overdrive. Never again would she be taken by surprise.]

Who are you? Where am I?

I am most certainly not alright! Can't you hear that?

[Now he was laughing, laughing at her, laughing as she lay on the ground with her life's blood pouring onto the floor. She clapped her hands over her ears.]

By the gods, make it stop!

[ka_mai]

[Bert holds his hands out, low, palms facing the young woman. He's unarmed and wants her to know that.]

My name's Cuthbert Allgood, but everyone just calls me Bert. And this place...is difficult to explain, I'm afraid. Also ripe with magic, some of which can be quite cruel. Whatever yeh hear, it's not real.

[And here he is, an idiot in the ways of magic and Touch-dumb at that.]

[talisamaegyr]

[Magic? That makes no sense and all of the sense in the world at the same time. She does not believe in magic, yet there is no other ready explanation for what she is feeling and hearing.]

Please, pardon me, ser. Bert. I find myself overwhelmed.

[And as quickly as she rose to her feet, she is looking for somewhere to sit down, so she can try and get her bearings.]

What is this strange place?

[ka_mai]

No pardon needed at all, m'lady. It takes everyone much the same, suddenly being snatched away from wherever you were. Here, let's sit you down, let you get accustomed to it all.

[Bert offers his arm, politely, knowing full well how disorienting it can be. And he'd no idea what she had been taken from.]

This place is a realm called Niflheim. It may sound like madness, but this world's not the one you know.

[talisamaegyr]

[She takes the offered arm, her hands beginning to tremble. She had not just be snatched from her home, but from the very void of death itself. The last thing she remembers is Robb's face as she'd drawn her final breath.]

This place, this.. Niflheim, it is very different from Westeros. Am I... safe here?

[ka_mai]

[Westeros? Bert knows that place, it's Robb's home. And from what little he knows, he can be relatively confident that yes, this place is safer than there.]

Aye, m'lady, you're safe as houses, swear it on the face of my father. And my oath is a knight's oath, and a right honorable one at that. I've been here some time, I can answer what questions as have answers.