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 a city-wide parade!
4. In the bathroom
5. Your bedroom
6. Someone else’s bedroom

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. Seriously horny. Must be something in the water.

Somewhat unusually...

1. There is a fight breaking out nearby
2. You are naked
3. You suddenly cannot verbally communicate
4. There’s a lot of alcohol/drugs here!
5. There is a box of adorable kittens here
6. There is a dead body on the floor

Comments

[stranger_to_the_rain]

[She watches him for a moment, without blinking. Like a lizard.]

Are you an idiot?

[woodenbadboy]

No, I'm just staring at a woman with a knife squatting over a dead body and really not sure what to do.

[there you go, honest answer]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Mmm.

[Congrats. She now likes you a little bit more.]

Be a dear and shut the door?

[woodenbadboy]

[actually, he felt better with the door open. less chance of him being on the floor. Of course, depending on where she would try to stab him would depend on the give from his flesh. If she hit wood...]

And what side of the door do you want me on, if I'm allowed to ask?

[light and playful tone of voice, but the question was very serious]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

That would depend largely on your sense of adventure, I suppose.

[She kneels down, rolling over the body. Although the man's face is kind of smooshed, long, deadly canines are very, very evident.

Artemis uses her knife to cut his shirt open in one flawless, autopsy slice.]

Do you have a sense of adventure?

[woodenbadboy]

Oh, I have a great sense of adventure. However, I have a larger sense of self preservation and I'd rather not end up being the next guy on the floor you're holding a knife over.

[his gut told him that she wouldn't hurt him with that kind of answer, so he closed the door and leaned up against it so no one else could wander in]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Do I have a reason to gut you?

[Surprisingly matter-of-fact and straightforward for a woman holding what looks like a knife out of a horror movie.

For a woman who then proceeds to plunge the knife into the werewolf's chest, pulling the blade down to his navel.]

[woodenbadboy]

Not that I can think of, but seeing that you're the one holding the knife, again, that's more something that you determine than I.

[he winces just a bit. Good thing the guy... werewolf... whatever was already dead]

So what are you looking for?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

I don't like gutting people. It gets filth on my shoes.

[She shoves her left hand into the chest cavity, simple as you please, feeling around until she pulls it out, bloody and damp and triumphantly holding what appears to be a computer chip.]

I seek illumination.

[woodenbadboy]

[okay, that catches his interest. Was the werewolf really a cyborg? Was he chiped like a normal puppy someone adopted from the shelter? GPS? All the ideas just started to fly through his head]

Looks like you'd do better with a computer motherboard.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Would I?

[She wipes off her hands on the werewolf's trousers. And cleans off her knife as well, before standing up.]

We all play with the toys the gods give us.

[woodenbadboy]

Seeing that you're holding a computer chip in your hand, I don't think godly illumination is going to be much help.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

You would be surprised.

[Neatly, she wipes off the chip, putting it in the pocket of her long, tan duster. Ever so innocently smiling at him.]

[woodenbadboy]

If you tell me next that Jesus is actually operating his own Facebook page, I think that'll be the cue for me to call in some help for you of the white jacket variety.

If they have those here.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Never, never under-appreciate the value of insanity. Lunacy allows us to see things we could not see otherwise. Thinks we would not see otherwise.

Smell, too.

[woodenbadboy]

... so what are you seeing then.

[because yeah, totally lunatic talking]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

About you? Probably more than you'd like me to see.

[She shrugs.]

As for the chip, I'll need a motherboard. You wouldn't happen to have one, would you?

[woodenbadboy]

[he just raised an eyebrow at that. She'd see a lot more if he wasn't wearing his pants, that's for sure and not in the naughty way.]

Unfortunately, I left them in my other pants before I was kidnapped here. But I'm sure you could ask around...?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Asking means other people. I don't need other people right now. I like you just fine.

[woodenbadboy]

So I take it you want me to ask around for you...?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

[She giggles.]

Silly boy.

[woodenbadboy]

I think I'm missing a few pages in this story...

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Of course you are. Because they haven't been written yet. They're still...

[She makes a vague gesture to the air around them, her fingers rippling.]

[woodenbadboy]

Alright. Then let's finish this chapter. How is it you think I can help you with finding a motherboard?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

I'm much more interested in what I can do for you right now.

Is there something you would like?