Test Drive 21 (October & November)

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Prompts

1. STAYING POWER - Go down to the bunker, they said. You can get yourself amazing powers from the vending machine, they said. Well, you've done that, and you've made your choice, but one thing nobody told you was that unless it's a power you're familiar with, you might be on a teensy bit of a learning curve when it comes to keeping it under control. You have a week to figure it out without killing anyone; have fun!


2. FORGIVE AND... - You poor thing, you've gotten into some dust moths. Not that you can remember that, because depending on how big that swarm was and how quickly you got out of it, you might not remember much at all. Better hope somebody's got some Forget Me Nots on hand.


3. HIT & RUN - Life in the village can be pretty sleepy... until suddenly, it's not. Were you being a troublemaker? Were you disturbing the local wildlife? Because it's now disturbing you, chasing you down the street in front of everyone. Maybe it's a herd of chupapaca or a swarm of fireflies. Or maybe you went old school and it's just a really pissed off badger. Godspeed and good luck.


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Texts

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text messages to other villagers.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
- Display names may be changed by characters on the fly, but anyone can tap to see someone's real full name

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

Loki | Marvel 616

[godofbadideas]

C-c-c-COMBO! Hit & Run/Forgive and...

Have you been hit by dust moths recently? And cured or not, had no clue as to where and how it happened?

Well now.

See: Loki of Asgard. Trickster god and professional troublemaker; occasional rake, frequent rascal, continuous cause in the chain of cause-and-effect. See him run, wide-eyed, but definitely not panicking, thankyouverymuch, right down the main drag, the dust moths fluttering in his wake not at all obscured by the dust kicked up by his passage.

If asked, he would say that none of this is his fault. It would be a lie, of course, but he would still insist. Maybe he has no idea what he did; there is a faint dusting clinging to the ends of his hair. Maybe he really thinks that it actually isn't his fault; there is, after all, a first time for everything.

This isn't the first time he's grabbed the hand of a bystander and shouted "RUN!!" but it happens so seldom that it almost might as well be.

Text UN: Loki of Asgard

Hey who wants to go on an adventure of taste with me?? :))))

Hit & Run Combo

[championofsnark]

Hawke's just minding her own business at the time, but this isn't at all the first time someone's grabbed her in the middle of something ridiculous. And dragged her right in. Sometimes those things ended up wonderful though, and bizarre, and occasionally (often) bloody, so she was up for a lot of it. After all, it only happened when she agreed to it. She saw Loki coming out of the corner of her eye, and it was already suspicious, yeah, because that kind of running only came from something bad.

Her eyebrows went up and she saw the creepy as all creatures apparently following him. Andraste's tits, what were they? Terrifying to an extent, even if she'd gone up against dragons. So she let him grab her hand and ran along. Trouble was back on her doorstep. Typical. She was fast though, especially when running away from things. "What are they?" she managed to say to him through her deep running breathing.

[godofbadideas]

"Would you believe I don't know?" Loki grumbles. He throws a glance back over his shoulder, brow furrowing a moment, before he shakes his head. (Some of the dust clinging to his hair comes off at that.) "I saw someone run right through them though, and it left them in a daze. That sort of thing is dangerous around here, you know."

[championofsnark]

"There's a lot of things dangerous about here, mate, but I didn't think creepy looking insects would crawl to the top of the list." She clearly does believe it's true though, otherwise she wouldn't be running. Venomous bugs caused her more than a few troubled nights in her own past, so it's not unheard of. "This is the worst time not to travel with a mage, they'd just go boom and they'd be gone." Hawke misses her sister for a lot of reasons, but readily available magic's certainly at the top of the list.

[godofbadideas]

Loki snorts, and shakes his head.

"Normally, I am a mage, and a very good one at that," he says. "This place seems to have sucked it right out of me, somehow. Hel, for all I know, those moths are responsible for it."

It is, after all, as good an explanation as any, and better than some hypotheses he's had.

"Alas, at the moment, even the simplest cantrip is beyond me, and thus: fleeing from literal insects."

sorry wrong comment lol <3

[championofsnark]

"Really? Damn the lack of powers then. My sister's a mage." Bethany would hate to be in a place without her magic, despite the fact that magic's been a bane for her and the others. But it's a part of her, or so she'd say. Hawke tries to think of a clever way to get rid of the moths. She hooks a finger at him and dodges to the right, pivoting to see how long they'd follow zig zaggers.

She's used to running for her life so this is like old times. "It's not the insects, otherwise I'd hear everyone complaining about them. However we're here, it was done at the time. I heard some rumors about something called clones, never heard of it before, but that's one of the ongoing theories." Hawke saw demons mimicking humans, but not duplicating humans.

Lol no worries :3

[godofbadideas]

Loki zags while she zigs, actually, and that seems to confuse the moths enough for them to gain some distance. It leaves an unfortunate quantity of dust in the road behind them. Oops. Oh well.

"I doubt we're clones," he says, shaking his head.

but also come to us just saying ;)

[championofsnark]

The dust could very well be helpful, it isn't a bad way to cover tracks. Hawke looks around to try and see if they could hide. It'd be pointless to climb a tree, they could fly, and she didn't know of any caves. Oh! She had an idea.

"Follow me." She'd been here long enough to get a sense of the place. She might be doing fine so far, but sooner or later she was going to need to breathe. "I don't know, can't think of any theories myself." Hawke's running with specific tunnel vision now, and she doesn't really warn him. She's led them right to one of the deeper parts of the river and jumped in without a moment's hesitation. Clothes can dry. Crazy insects probably can't.

ngl wynonna's player is seriously enabling me rn it's all her fault

[godofbadideas]

And then before Loki can answer, they're plunging into pleasantly cold water, and oh yeah, that's a good idea! He flashes his new friend a thumbs-up, and points downstream before starting to swim himself.

He's not terribly buoyant, but he's not a bad swimmer at all.

saw the hold yay sorry late response

[championofsnark]

Hawke grins and flashes him a thumbs-up too, swimming easily a fair enough distance before she peeks her head above water to see if the moths followed them. It looks like they're hovering where the two were before, and then finally start to buzz off. Phew! She waves at him and toward the shore, climbing up on it and wringing her hair out. It becomes a wet mat if she doesn't get to it.

"Adding those buggers to a list of animals to avoid and wish death upon around here." She'd really only met a few, and none of them as strangely menacing as the moths. Since they were following them everywhere. "I'm Hawke. Nice to flee for our lives meet you."

:3c no worries

[godofbadideas]

Loki drags himself up beside her, water streaming off of him, and grins.

"Loki of Asgard," he says. "I'm not sure we were fleeing for our lives, per se, but definitely fleeing for our somethings."

Network. UN: W. Earp

[unraisehell]

The last time I agreed to that I ended up at a vegan restaurant.

You'll have to be a little more specific there.

[godofbadideas]

Well it wouldn't be an adventure if I was specific but I promise no vegan???

[unraisehell]

Why am I getting the feeling I'd actually be the responsible one in this situation? I've never had that feeling before.

[godofbadideas]

Perhaps you've read your Eddas?

[unraisehell]

I'd assume you were fucking with me if I hadn't learned to just take everything here at face value.

But I know my mythology well enough to not accept candy from gods of chaos. More than once, anyway, and I've been to two Burning Mans, so someone beat you to that one.

[godofbadideas]

Smart of you. You'd be amazed how many people don't take me seriously, and then get mad later.

[unraisehell]

I'm also Wyatt Earp's demon-hunting great-great granddaughter.

I tend to assume the whatever's weirder is probably the true thing. Saves me a lot of time both here and at home.

[godofbadideas]

Well now that sounds like one Hel of a story. Or would that be Hell of a story? ;D

[unraisehell]

Definitely the latter. Things are pretty Abrahamic in Purgatory.

combo!

[expeditiousness]

It's probably a good thing that Tommy can't do his usual zoomy thing here in the village, because a) he probably wouldn't have even been bystanding in the first place, and 2) it would've been difficult for Loki to keep up with him once he started running. Which is what Tommy does, with very little prompting; he's been in enough trouble to know that when someone tells you to run, you don't stand around and ask questions.

Questions can be asked while running, though. Tommy's entirely capable of multitasking.

"What are we running from?!" is shouted over his shoulder as his feet get to moving - much slower than he'd like, but moving nonetheless.

[godofbadideas]

"Evil moths?" Loki offers, along with a too-bright grin. "No, I don't know where they came from," he adds. "One minute, I was minding my own business, and the next thing I knew I was running away from them. Since me-from-the-past thought running was a good idea, I concluded that me-from-now should keep doing that. And now you're all caught up!"

It's even mostly the truth. (He wasn't minding his own business. He never minds his own business, that would be boring.)

[expeditiousness]

Tommy's not big on heavy thinking, but the logic Loki offers seems sound enough for Tommy to keep running. He does, however, now have some follow-up questions.

"How d'ya know the moths are evil? I'm guessing they did something more than chew a hole in your sweater, right?"

Hit & running

[cryptoherpetology]

Alex has been in the family business long enough to know that when someone grabs your hand and tells you to run, you do it without question, and if it turns out that person is leading you into a trap, you worry about that when you have higher ground and somewhere to hide the body.

He also knows enough to look at what they're running from before they get anywhere with too many obstacles. "Oh shit-" he mutters once he registers the moths. Nope nope there is way too much new, fresh information in his head that he refuses to give up because some nocturnal insect decides he's a threat. Within a few moments, he's the one pulling Loki along in a sudden change of direction towards the door of an empty house.

[godofbadideas]

Oh, will you look at that, what an excellent idea! Loki goes easily with the pull, and picks up speed again, long legs eating ground and easily keeping pace.

"That looks like a good idea," he comments, voicing the thought aloud, since even under normal circumstances telepathy isn't exactly his strong point. Oh, he can manage if he has to, or wants to, but it takes a spell, unlike his more normal and natural abilities.