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. In the Serpent's Head (aka the pub)
2. In the candidate house kitchen
3. At the rooftop garden in the Waiting Room
4. In the bathroom
5. Your bedroom
6. Someone else’s bedroom

You’re feeling...

1. Happy
2. Tired
3. Angry
4. Nostalgic
5. Like someone stabbed you—oh, hey, they did, fancy that
6. Horny

Somewhat unusually...

1. The room has been destroyed.
2. There are carnival games set up.
3. You suddenly cannot verbally communicate.
4. There’s a lot of alcohol here!
5. There is a box of adorable kittens here.
6. There is a dead body on the floor.

Comments

[braveandstupid]

[She frowns]

Nysgod? The people who brought us here?

[so_far_away]

Yes.

[She relaxes her hold on the bow, taking the arrow out and tapping it against her lower lip.]

They are the only ones who can get up here without using stairs. Or get down.

[braveandstupid]

[her head tips to the side.]

The only ones? There aren't -- [a pause] -- there aren't people who could survive it?

[so_far_away]

[In response, she notches an arrow and shoots it over the side of the roof. Only it doesn't go over the side. It hits some kind of invisible wall and clatters to the ground.]

[braveandstupid]

[ ............ well then.]

Never mind.

[so_far_away]

[She lowers her bow, spitting into the grass in disgust. And then she turns to Elena. Lucky Elena.]

Who are you?

[braveandstupid]

Elena. Gilbert. I'm ... new.

[a beat]

I got here yesterday.

[so_far_away]

Elenagilbert? I am Insa.

[She touches a burn mark on her forehead and bows her head.]

[braveandstupid]

Just ... Elena is fine.

[she gives a half smile, trying to give a bit of a bow herself? Is that the formal thing to do here? She has no idea. But she's going to try and follow people's leads and maybe learn a little if she can.]

It's nice to meet you, Insa.

[so_far_away]

Justelena? As you wish.

[Welcome to the fun house, Miss Gilbert.]

You are human, no?

[braveandstupid]

[She opens her mouth to correct her again, but decides to let it go. It's better this way.]

Yeah. Very, very human.

[except for when she's a doppelganger but that's not important to most people here.]

[so_far_away]

I can tell. Human emotions are always on the surface.

[braveandstupid]

I think that depends on the human.

[so_far_away]

Not as much as you would think.

[braveandstupid]

I know some pretty inexpressive humans.

[so_far_away]

I never said anything about expression. Even if you do not show it, you humans feel more than almost any other species.

[braveandstupid]

Oh. I guess you're right.

[it's certainly true about Elena.]

[so_far_away]

Of course I am.

I am always right.

[braveandstupid]

[She raises an eyebrow.]

Oh really?

[so_far_away]

[She smirks.]

About feelings, anyway.

[braveandstupid]

Does your people have a lot of them too?

[so_far_away]

Oh yes. Perhaps even stronger than humans. But we are more disciplined. We must be.

[braveandstupid]

Disciplined how?

[so_far_away]

As warriors. There is a time and a place for every emotion. You must separate those.

[braveandstupid]

I see. What kind of battle are you fighting?