TEST DRIVE 02

[modmachine]

Test Drive meme Welcome to the Test Drive for Hex! Unlike most test drives, the scenarios included here also feature things that you can investigate with mod interaction. If at any point in your test thread, your character(s) want to investigate something further, please put a "HEY MODS" in your subject line to make it easy to find. Don't feel limited to the scenarios presented - make up your own prompts as much as you want! Reserves and Applications are always open! scenario one - i'd like to buy a towel? Oh no! Somehow, you've been cornered by the pesky booth-runners for some weird church at an outdoor event, and strong-armed into playing their spin-the-wheel trivia game. And who are you facing off against in this battle of wits? Only the absolute palest twelve-year-old girl you've ever seen in your life, with skin and hair so white it seems almost supernatural. No matter what it is you've studied up on, though, or how much or little you're willing to let her win, the questions are clearly biased in her favor. And, indeed, it quickly becomes clear that the whole thing is a shill to get you thinking about religion and feeling like whatever one you belong to is wrong, as the questions turn to things like 'salvation of the soul' and 'your place in the grand design.' When the person working the booth decides you either look confused enough or runs out of questions, they give the girl a trio of free prize vouchers to a local ice cream parlor. You, on the other hand, get handed a pamphlet. But, on the bright side, they also give you a free towel as a consolation prize. scenario two - the goblin market Somehow or another, a walk in the park lead you to a strangely bustling network of tents and stalls. It looks like a farmer's market or a swap meet - until you start looking closer. Then you begin to realize that the people aren't normal, the wares aren't normal - heck, sometimes even the tents aren't normal. Full details on the Winter Goblin Market can be found in the Week 4 Update.

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[june_heat]

Akane is standing there with her arms crossed, pouting as she watches others go through the trivia game. She doesn't like it when games are stacked and she doesn't like it when she can't beat them anyway. The towel is insult to injury, salt on the wound. She feels like throwing it to the ground and stomping on it. She is not, however, five. She is a grown woman of 21 years old, thank you very much, and therefore she will keep it. It can be a future reminder of how she's been played on this day.

In the meantime, she's read the pamphlet over and over and over, studying it until it becomes dogeared from how many times she's folded and unfolded it in a mere few minutes. How silly of her. It's sticking out of her back pocket right now, she's unceremoniously crumpled it up and stuffed it back there.

"Does anyone else think this is bull?" she asks loudly, finally opening her mouth. "Are we supposed to keep our mouths quiet because we're playing against a child?"

[helborn]

"No." There's a blond young man who's watching Akane, rubbing the back of his head. A raven is circling above the pair, but he doesn't look up at it. Not yet. "But I don't think yelling at them is going to change much. I mean... people are really stubborn when they think they're in the right, even when they're not actually in the right..."

[june_heat]

Akane lets her sight drift upwards without raising her head, looking at the bird for a moment before flickering her eyes back to his face. "I know what it's like to be stubborn," she says. "But generally, I'm also actually right."

A small smile is on her face, the kind of smile of someone who thinks they're being funny.

[helborn]

"Well, even a ninety nine percent certainty rate still has that one percent, right?" Casper... Casper has missed the joke, unfortunately. "But at least the people here seem fairly harmless about this kind of thing?"

[june_heat]

"Nobody's fairly harmless," Akane says, her smile falling into a frown. "Someone, somewhere, has been affected by..." She waves a hand dismissively around them. "...this, and is going to do something about it. Everything has a consequence."

How foreboding.

[helborn]

"Eh?" He tilts his head, trying to think. "How so? I don't see where this would be that harmful..." Then again, he has no idea what the status of any of the gods here is.

[movingon]

"It's a good trick, though, isn't it? Most people would yell at an adult much sooner than they would yell at a child." She only started to figure such things out once she was already a teenager, though, and assumes that this kid doesn't quite realize why it's there, either. Or maybe does because it's been told.