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. Lost in the temple
2. Trapped in a cloak room
3. Stargazing on a balcony
4. In the bathroom
5. In a bedroom
6. Swimming in a courtyard pool

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. You can only speak in rhyme
2. You are naked
3. You suddenly cannot verbally communicate
4. There’s a lot of alcohol/drugs here!
5. You are gender swapped
6. You have amnesia

Comments

[magicink]

Oh right, sorry.

[He had forgotten about the game briefly. He sets up his shot and it goes left of center.]

All that waiting for that? That's pathetic.

[artistwithasickness]

What's that supposed to mean?

[She stepped up to the table, hand shifting up and down her cue stick as she lines her shot, bent to see the line down her stick. A glance is given to Julian before she shoot, sinking her ball.]

Sake works quickly and well, and I don't get that bitter beer face.

[magicink]

My shot. It was pathetic.

[He watches her and smirks when she looks back at him.]

Sake is an excellent choice. Beer is an acquired taste and some people just never get it. I'll admit so far, I haven't found anything I don't care for. From wine to whiskey to beer, I can appreciate it.

[artistwithasickness]

Ah.

[She finds another suitable shot and takes it, speaking as the ball rolls in.]

I'll drink most anything from México too. Including beer. I just don't care for darker brews.

[Another shot is taken and it glances sending Devi stepping back for his turn.]

[magicink]

They have some good stuff. Never been but always wanted to see it. Of course I lived a lot closer to the other border. I've checked out Canada just to say I did.

[He goes and sets up his shot.]

Where are you from? And when?

[artistwithasickness]

I was pulled from San Jose, mid nineties. But the Nysgods took me from somewhere else so this isn't a new kind of rodeo.

What about you?

[magicink]

Same here. I am originally from Ohio, but I just came from Bete Noire. Heard of it?

[artistwithasickness]

Can't say I have. I'd tell you where I was, but I know you won't have a clue, so...

[She shrugs.]

Does Ohio count as part of the great Midwest? I've heard horror stories about corn fields and little blond children to trust going over the continental divide.

[magicink]

It was called the City of Sin and had some strange Biblical references. Mostly it was just a run down city with high crime and could mess with your mind and emotions. Still... I'm hoping to find a way for this Grasp to send me back.

[He chuckles and shakes his hair at her.]

Have a problem with blondes? And yes it is. There are a lot of corn fields, but Columbus was a decent sized city.

[artistwithasickness]

Sounds like Vegas with a twist. You have family there or something?

[She chuckled.]

No, no problem with blondes but if you go all Village of the Damned on me..

[magicink]

[Julian smiles fondly.]

Yeah, something like that.

Well I'll at least warn you first, how about that?

[He misses his shot again and lets her have her turn.]

[artistwithasickness]

Deal.

[She steps around the table again, eyeing her last three balls.]

Good thing we don't have money on this. You're not half bad.

[magicink]

Really? I was kind of thinking you were kicking my ass.

[He laughs.]

It's hard to gamble though when we're given everything we could possibly want.

[artistwithasickness]

If you don't want my generosity..

[She smirked and sunk a ball, as though to prove a point.]

They can never give us everything we possibly want. This is all just a nice window dressing.

[She bends again, lining and taking her shot, which missed.]

And they will take as much as they give.

[magicink]

Is that what that was? Well, then I'm being terribly ungrateful aren't I?

And yeah, I was just meaning material-wise. There's a lot they can't give us...

[He trails off as he focuses on her ass as she bends over. She was hot. He misses that last thing she says.]

Hm?

[artistwithasickness]

Terribly so, yes.

Even material wise. I had to hunt for a few days before I found black paint. They said they didn't know and advised me to go looking.

[He's lucky she didn't notice. She steps back and tilts her head.]

What'd you say your name was again?

[magicink]

Huh, that's odd. People told me when I arrived they would give you anything. You're a painter?

[He gives her a mischievous smile.]

I didn't. And neither did you. I was wondering how long we were going to keep that up.

I'm Julian Reed.

[artistwithasickness]

I am. Mostly.

[Devi grinned. She didn't expect to be called on it.]

We held out for a while at least. My name is Devi.

[magicink]

Yeah? What kind of style do you like?

Nice to meet you Devi. So tell me, is it common around here for people to admit what they are if they aren't human or is that sort of kept on the down low?

[artistwithasickness]

[Devi laughed.]

There isn't a label that adequately covers everything I paint. So I'm not going to try.

Some of them will admit to it. You'll just have to ask but if I were you, I wouldn't bet on getting a straight answer from a few of them.

[Her eyes narrowed.]

What's a bartender from Ohio know about non-humans?

[magicink]

All us artists have themes and trends in our work. Let's start with the easy question then- do you prefer oils or acrylics or watercolors? Scratch that, I can already tell you aren't a watercolor girl.

Hm. [He was going to leave it at that. He grins at her question though.]

Bete Noire had all kinds of crazy beings there. There were vampires, aliens, werewolves, you name it we had it. I had an alien and a vampire as roommates and was dating a half Time Lord. It opened my eyes quite a bit.

[Not a complete lie.]

[artistwithasickness]

It depends on what I'm doing. I usually stick to acrylic for basic things though.

Ah, good to know that the universe equally fucks people across dimension travel. We had... interesting people too.


You said all us artists. What's your schtick?

[magicink]

Do you have anything you particularly like to paint?

[He snickers at that.]

Yes. Doesn't seem like anyone gets a free pass. What was the place you were at before like?

I am a tattoo artist by profession and a sketch artist. I do paint sometimes, but not very often.

[artistwithasickness]

Landscapes, portraits and half naked space women.

[Words that were lined with apathy, the bare hint of mischief in her eyes.]

Insane. It was an island of stable reality in a chaos storm. It was a main road. Called Twisted Street. We had a little bit of everything. Robots, Saiyans, angels and dragons. Shadow puppets. Regular people too. I feel like I'm telling you about a Nam flashback...

[She frowned a little then.]

'Course I had all of my skill set there.

[magicink]

Naked space women, huh? I like the sound of that.

What's a Saiyan? Shadow puppets, what are they like? Heh, well when you survive crazy shit it usually does.

What kind of skills?