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!

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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

[woodenbadboy]

Well, the parade was... something different that was for sure. Reminded him more of Puckett in a way in how everyone was just indulging and enjoying themselves for nothing else than their own pleasure.

And then there was a naked girl beckoning him to join. Playing dumb, he just pointed at himself all confused and mouthed the word me?

[diana_abel]

Being a world-class flirter, Diana loved it when guys played dumb. Admittedly, he wasn't her type. The scruff was just...ugh. But he had really nice eyes. Diana loved guys with nice eyes. And it was a party. Everyone ought to be welcomed and have a fun time at a party.

Grinning, she nodded, pointing to him again.

[woodenbadboy]

He looked left and right, but no one else was paying attention to her. So he shrugged and made his way into the parade, trying not to let his limp on his left side show.

"Hey."

[diana_abel]

"You're new," she said cheerfully, reaching out to grab his hands and pull him into the parade. To one side, a confetti canon exploded, showering them with wet, weighed down confetti. And Diana utterly squealed with delight.

Man did she miss the 1960s.

"Welcome to Thurisaz!"

[woodenbadboy]

"Darn, my secret is out." He ducked a bit at the sound of the canon, then laughed at the confetti. "But I wasn't expecting a parade to welcome me."

[diana_abel]

"Well, obviously, you're totes a VIP," Diana replied, lifting his arm up and twirling beneath it.

There was always a part of some kind in Thurisaz, she supposed. But why ruin the guy's delightful banter? He was good at it. And Diana definitely appreciated a good banter.

"What's your name anyway?"

[woodenbadboy]

"I'm touched. I must think of a way to thank all of them personally for such a touching welcome."

He spun her, laughing a bit. "Well, I'm August. And you?"

[diana_abel]

Shaggy Doo could dance. Nice. She leaned her head back as she spun, her hair, damp and bedraggled, whipping around her face. Above her, that beautiful, purple sky spiraled, dotted with spots of pink and yellow and blue confetti.

"Diana," she replied, looking up at him again.

[woodenbadboy]

She was very easy on the eyes. Especially since, you know, the only thing she was wearing was pieces of confetti that stuck to her body as it came down from the sky.

"Well, it's a pleasure, Diana. I have to say, you're an amazing dancer. Can't keep my eyes off you."

[diana_abel]

"That's probably because I'm naked," she replied.

Diana knew she was pretty. She owned mirrors. And what's more, she carried herself in an unapologetic way. Lady Gaga would be so very proud of her.

"For the record, not a frequent event, unless you buy me dinner first. But it's a special occasion."

[woodenbadboy]

"You are giving me incentive to quickly settle in and find myself a job just to afford fancy dinners to take you out to."

He was teasing. Unless she meant it. Because August was not good at resisting temptation and boy was she tempting him in all the right ways.

[diana_abel]

Damn. He was good.

She laughed softly, twirling around a little bit more, water and confetti flying off of her in all directions. "Is that so?" she asked. "And what is it you do for a living? In your civilian life, when you're not playing a contestant on the intergalactic Bachelor?"

[woodenbadboy]

He started to move to the music a bit as well as his leg would let him. He had spent a fair part of his young adult life partying when he wasn't stalking Emma from afar, so the dancing part wasn't really hard at all.

"I'm actually a writer. Do things here and there, but I have a talent for revamping fairy tales from the so called Disney versions to a much more realistic style."

[diana_abel]

She tilted her head curiously. "Why would someone want realism in a fairy tale?" she asked. "Isn't the whole point a little bit of escapism?"

Okay, maybe that wasn't entirely accurate. Her father would kill her for saying something like that. She knew the real purpose of myth. It was meant to explain the unexplainable. To demonstrate morality.

But those were the old days. Modern times meant modern mythology.

[woodenbadboy]

"Well, it's still a fairy tale. But Disney tends to make it all safe for kids and the Grimm brothers I think just like to gore everything up. I like to treat the characters like they are just someone you could meet on the street. It lets you relate to them. Gives adults a reason to still enjoy and believe in magic with their kids."

[diana_abel]

She smiled a little bit. "Nothing wrong with that," she decided. "It's a problem really. When adults stop believing in magic. I dunno. I kinda feel like...well...what's the point of living if you don't believe in magic of some kind?"

[woodenbadboy]

"I feel the exact same way. Though all magic does come with a price."

He spun her around a bit more as the canon went off again, this time sending brightly colored bubbles into the air.

[diana_abel]

Diana let out a delighted laugh, both at the twirling and at the bubbles. She could live in this moment forever. She was happy, surrounded by colors, cheerful people, dancing. It was everything she loved out of life.

Almost.

"I don't know if that's true," she replied when she finally stopped spinning for a moment. "That all magic comes with a price. Although, I suppose it depends on how you define magic. Or price."

[woodenbadboy]

"You always have to give something to make magic. Ingredients, the price to the provider of the magic... and sometimes payment from the soul."

The last bit is a bit more intimate in his voice. It's a price he's paid a few times over.

"So what about you, Ms. Diana? Do you really believe in magic?"

[diana_abel]

"I've fallen in love over a dozen times. Of course I believe in magic. Particularly of the Platonic kind. The whole 'origins of love' story." She grinned. "But I see what you mean about payment being a part of your soul."

[woodenbadboy]

"Do I need to fear about a current beau coming out to hit me for dancing with his beautiful and quite naked female friend?"

[diana_abel]

She smirked. "If I were you, I'd be more concerned about my scary older sister with the baseball bat," she replied.

[woodenbadboy]

He laughed at that. "So noted!"

I'm so sorry...

[diana_abel]

"But no. No beau." Unless you counted the bathtub which...Diana didn't count.

no you're really not :P

[woodenbadboy]

"Did those dozen men wear you out, or just needed some time away?"

He may be pulling her a bit closer. It was to avoid that large group of people trying to push through behind her, he swears!