lostplayers | Test Drive Meme

Comment here with your characters that you're thinking of bringing into LR, and tag around with other people to see how suitable they'd be for the game!

As a note, these threads may be used for application samples, which are opening August 11th. So get your samples ready ahead of time with this meme! However, even if all participants are accepted with those characters, these threads will not be game canon.

This meme is taking place in the setting of Darstone, so while you may leave your comment blank, I'd like to recommend you set up a scene or two in your initial comment. Some suggested settings are provided below, but make up whatever you'd like based off the setting pages!

⑴ Marketplace. There's a lot to do in the market-- not just buying goods and window shopping, but sitting down for a cup of coffee at an outdoor table, or getting a drink at a bar.

⑵ Housing. You've just gotten here and finally made it to your assigned apartment, but it turns out you have roommates, and they're one of them.

⑶ Adventuring. Whether out into the surrounding caves or taking a boat onto the lake, you're adventuring, maybe on a quest. Whoever's with you might be a member of your party-- or they might be trying to beat you to the reward.

⑷ Snow. What's snow doing in a cave? Isn't this weird? Well, Darstone is situated under a frosty mountain peak, and from time to time the local mages like to simulate the weather that's going on up above. That means there's some very light, fluffy snow falling from the cave ceiling right now.

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[Oh, hale NAH!]

[The instant Darkleer feels psionics beginning to tighten around him, he throws himself into frenetic, surging motion, trying to explode outward and away from their suffocating grasp. The young troll might look like a goofy nobody, but that could be part of his assassin's disguise, and Darkleer won't let himself be taken like this. He hasn't fought for survival for all these years to let it be taken away so easily.]

[Gamzee jerks a little in surprise when he feels the other strain against his psionics. Partially cause he seriously wasn't expecting the reaction and partially because this dude is feeling pretty huge and powerful.

His psionics peter away quickly, and he just holds up his hands in a mild placating gesture.]

Woah, shit, easy there, big guy. I weren't meaning any fuckin' harm. We cool, right?

[Released, Darkleer stands at his full height and just looms at the younger troll. His height is around seven feet tall, his horns adding another foot, and he knows exactly how to make the most of it and make himself look extremely intimidating.]

[Oh shit.

Oh fuckin shit.

Gamzee might be fairly tall for his age, but he is no seven feet. And he has no rack like that to add even more height. Lets not even start on how his scrawny all-made-of-elbows look is utterly pathetic next to Darkleer's rolling muscles.

Holy shit. This guy is an adult. A real adult. A real highblooded adult that he may have accidentally pissed off. Perhaps if it was a calmer time, he'd recognize that sign for one he knows. For one that puts a lot of fear of just about everybody in the Alternian empire, though it's colour on the adult's armour is utterly wrong. Still, it is hard to think of things like that when you are scared out of your fuckin' pan.

Oh god, if he hadn't gone before he came, he would be pissing himself right now.]

Fuck. Don't eat me, bro. I'm sorry, aight. Sorry.

[All right, definitely not an assassin.]

[Darkleer keeps looming, and suddenly Archermedes is in his hand, the legendary bow thrumming quietly in his grip. The weapon is almost as tall as he is, taller than Gamzee. Never taking his eyes off the young troll, Darkleer reaches behind him, towards his quiver and an arrow.]

[It's all a bluff; he wouldn't really shoot the young troll, not unless he had to. But he's hoping the wiggler will get the message he's trying very clearly to send: Run.]

[Why is his goat not here? His goat could've dealt with this dude no problem.

Gamzee doesn't run though. It is not some misplaced form of bravery keeping him there. Instead, he is really scared, and also showing his vulnerable back to an adult already notching an arrow on his bow seems like a bad shitty idea even to him.

Instead, he just goes into instinctive defence mode, tossing his arms half over his face as if to defend it, his psionics flaring into life, much more strongly than before, coiling around him, teasing at the loose snow and the rocks underneath it, raising them into the air.]

[Whelp.]

[What another troll might recognize as defensive, Darkleer takes as aggressive, and now his arrow is notched and ready, aimed directly at Gamzee's chest. He might get smashed by rocks, but he'll manage to get at least one arrow off before he does.]

Stand down.

[you know who have trouble reacting in a logical manner? Kids. Especially kids who have never really encountered a true battle. Gamzee does notice that Darkleer is yelling something, but between his adrenaline and the blood pounding in his ears, it's really hard to exactly understand what the adult is shouting.]

Don't fuckin' hurt me.

[Is this kid slow or what?]

[Darkleer keeps his arrow notched and aimed, and repeats himself, speaking slowly and enunciating, raising his rasp to as loud as he can make it. Which, admittedly, isn't very loud.]

Stand. Down!

[In other words: put down those rocks, bro, and we'll both run in opposite directions and this will all be cool.]

[His lusus says he is special!

This time he comprehends the words better and though the rocks lower a fraction, they aren't completely down yet. What if this guy is just gonna shoot him when he lays down? He's heard things about adults! They are frightening and eat kids.

Yeah.

He's pretty sure they eat kids. That one forum post had seemed really reliable.]

On the ground!

[Darkleer is getting fed up here, and he gestures with his arrow, motioning towards the rocks and then towards the ground.]

You first.

[He's not actually suicidal. He's not killing his psionics while some dude still has an arrow pointed at him.]

[Infuriating little brat! Good instincts, though. Darkleer will give him that.]

[He lowers his arrow a fraction.]

Same time.

[You don't grow up as a lowblood on Alternia without learning some survival skills. He didn't exactly have his bloodcolour to protect him]

To the count of three?

[Darkleer lowers his arrow a little more.]

One.

Two.

[Look he can count too!

The rocks tremble a little, lowering themselves.]

Three.

[And the arrow is pointing at the ground now, a few feet away from Gamzee's sneakers.]

Test Drive Meme

you said "casual hold," so let me know if this isn't okay and I'll change it

GOD HOW DARE YOU.. naw it's cool.

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