🚕 TEST DRIVE 018

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Test Drive Meme

Considering apping to the City of Sin, but unsure of who to bring or if they'll fit? Feel free to give the setting a test drive here! These are a perfect way of getting your playing sample done for the application.

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→ Comment with the character you'd like to test drive in the setting, with name and canon in the subject line
→ Choose a scenario or create your own!
→ Tag around!

Possible Scenarios Please note that all characters will initially arrive in their assigned housing; they are free to explore the City to their heart's content after that! 01. A New Arrival: Hello, New Person! You seem to have found yourself on a sidewalk in the City of Sin with nothing but the clothes on your back and a stomach churning feeling of being displaced. Thankfully, the streets are full of people - Watch out that you don't get mugged! 02. Demonic Presences: You were just minding your own business, weren't you? But that's always when bad things seem to happen, and the City of Sin isn't really that friendly. Whatever bar or street you're hanging out in suddenly go dim, filling the area with an unnerving feeling as the shadows on the walls jump out into reality. We suggest you phone a friend for help, or maybe try running? 03. Party Hard: You've been invited to a massive, elegant party in the Tower District that spills out its doors in welcome. Obviously, this whole thing is weird and you don't know who your hosts are, but maybe you can get some free drinks and food out of it! This place might not be so bad. 04. Prominence: The City of Sin influences its population on a weekly basis. Too bad you came right smack dab in the middle of a heavy Prominence. Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, or Pride: choose your sin and be wicked. 05. Trouble: Not everyone is sunshine and roses here. Some people are violent and cruel, raised in the sludge of a sinful city. And they like to pick on people they think can't fight back. Are you that person? Or are you the Hero who can't stand to watch? Worse yet, could you be the person doing the instigating? Villain. 06. Carnival: The City has carnivals or festivals now and then; you're lucky to catch one! With its open booths filled with cork gun games and funnel cakes, how can someone not have any fun! Go win your darling a stuffed animal, or meet someone new on the spinning cup ride. You might even see someone you know being talked into sitting in the Dunk Tank. 07. Network: There's a network device in your pocket - or at least a familiar object that seems to work in mysterious ways. Perhaps you can take to that and ask for a bit of help? Or maybe you'd prefer to have a little fun with all of this. Surely someone will reply. 08. Wild Card:Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Comments

[preciselyoneofus]

"Little" being the operative word, Lucifer. There's no challenge here. Well, there wasn't much of one in LA either, but there's even less of one here.

[ Throws a dagger at something off screen while someone hollers 'HELP ME. PLEASE!'

[mockeryofthedivine]

[He ignores the screams for help, of course. This is Maze, after all. Screams for help when she's around are to be expected.]

Well considering that most of the people that live here are demons, I'm sure at least some kind of challenge is to be found. Even if the demons here are rather odd...

[preciselyoneofus]

[ Sighs - okay maybe ]

Why reinvent the wheel though? Let's do something we already know. Why not bring Lux here?

[mockeryofthedivine]

While an lovely idea, unfortunately I am rather lacking in resources at the moment.

I have to say, not being able to simply buy whatever I wish has been a rather new experience for me.

[preciselyoneofus]

Fine. Sit there and pout about how you're bored. I'll do it myself.

[ And she will, even if it takes a bit to gather the money. She hunts humans in LA, so why not money sources? Can't be too hard. ]

You just follow around Decker as you do.

[mockeryofthedivine]

[he snorts]

You don't have any more capital than I do, Mazikeen. Less, in fact. I'll have you know that I have employment. With a paycheque and everything. It's rather novel.

[preciselyoneofus]

[ Maze lets out a sardonic laugh. ]

And I have skills that get me paid once the job is done. Or once I put someone out.

[ She most certainly is talking about the fights at the Coliseum as one source of income. ]

But you save your bi-weekly paycheques, Lucifer. You'll be back in business in no time.

[ Take that. ]

[mockeryofthedivine]

Well there you have it, then. Really, I don't know why you're asking the humans how to acquire money. You're already more than capable.

And you know I'm more than capable of acquiring the necessary capital if I so desire, Maze. But that would imply that I wished to put down roots. Lovely as this city is, I'm willing to settle down and call it home just yet.

[preciselyoneofus]

Well, I'm bored.

[ Yes, even with a bound and gagged person sitting across from her. ]

Okay, so when are you going to find a way to get us out of here? At least in LA, I had room to move. Here? I keep getting bounced back into the Tower district if I try to leave.

But I still want to go home.

[mockeryofthedivine]

Well it's not like I haven't been trying. But my efforts so far have been sadly unsuccessful, as evidence by the fact that I'm still here. I even tried... [he pauses, then, before making an admittance that he's clearly not keen on] I even tried flying out of here, but the ability to fly between universes is beyond me.

But I promise if I find a way, I will take you with me, Maze. You and the Detective.

[preciselyoneofus]

You better.

[ Because if you didn't... ]

So, what you're saying is that you really pissed off your father and until we know how, we're here indefinitely.

Great.

[mockeryofthedivine]

Well. That's a distinct possibility, yes.

[he pauses for a moment]

It may be that He's...not pleased about me giving Mum Her own universe.

[preciselyoneofus]

You think? She was down in Hell for a reason, Lucifer, and then you go and give her a brand new universe to create chaos in.

Do you really think she's capable of "starting over"? Because I don't. In fact, if we're in a holding cell of sorts now? I can only imagine what kind of punishment your father will give us all if she starts with the massacres and plagues somewhere else.

[mockeryofthedivine]

I made my judgement, Maze. And regardless of whether or not it was what Dear Old Dad wanted, I was not going to destroy my Mother.

And besides, I imagine the plagues and the rivers of blood won't be necessary. It was humanity that She objected to, and She can solve that problem quite easily by simply never creating them in the first place. Will make for a rather more boring universe, of course, but that's Her choice.

[preciselyoneofus]

Yeah, okay. Whatever.

[ It still pisses her off, but there was no sense in arguing the matter with him now. They were here and going nowhere for the time being. She had other things she wanted to talk to him about but she also needed a drink. ]

So, are you going to tell me where you are? Or are you going to make me hunt you down?

[mockeryofthedivine]

Oooh, a hunt! That does sound rather exciting. It's been far too long since we last had one of those.

[at least, with the two of them. Maze has had more than a few hunts of her own]

[preciselyoneofus]

[ She loves that thrill that comes with hunting him and it's been awhile. ]

Yes, it has. Alright then, ready.. set..

[mockeryofthedivine]

Go.

Lucifer doesn't particularly make himself hard to find. No changes in routine, no attempts to dodge or hide. But he doesn't help, either. He doesn't give her any clues or hints.

Given Maze's skillset, however, it won't be long until she discovers Lucifer's usual haunts. His room at the Red Currant. A high-end tailor's shop. Several classy bars and establishments. But it's at his new place of work that she eventually finds him: Le Rideau Ridge.

He's at the piano, playing a soft, saucy tune.

[preciselyoneofus]

Even in a city as big as Los Angeles, Lucifer wasn't much of a challenge to find. That's why she was there, after all; to protect him, be there whenever he needed her. So, it was a given that it would take less time to find him now. And that she did after only fifteen minutes, though it would have been less had she not found a shop that sold her kind of clothing.

Maze walks in, eyes widening in delight as she meanders slowly through the main entrance taking in the decor. All the while, she can hear the sound of a piano somewhere nearby and a soft, thoughtful smile spreads on her lips.

To her, it feels like it's been forever since she last heard him play.

After finding the entrance to the stage, Mazikeen watches for a few minutes before making her presence known by walking towards him.

[mockeryofthedivine]

He'd been engrossed in the music, eyes closed as he played. But as Maze comes close, his eyes open and he offers her a lazy grin. While still playing, of course. He can talk and play. He's multi-talented like that.

"Mazikeen," he says. "Fancy meeting you here. And so quickly! I think this must be a record, even for you."

[preciselyoneofus]

"I think we covered already that this place was little," Maze starts, taking the small staircase on the side to join him on stage. "I didn't realize how small until I started looking for you."

And she'd told him once before that she would always be there for him. Even across universes, it seems.

She leans up against the side of the piano and looks at Lucifer's face as if trying to read it. If she had to guess, there was a lot on his mind.

"Not that finding you was ever a problem." she grins arrogantly.

[mockeryofthedivine]

"Well. It could be worse. At least we're not stuck in some tiny human village that doesn't even have a strip club." That would be roughing it. Now there was was true torture.

"And no, that's never been the problem, has it Maze?" he says, but he seems a little distracted. Like there is, indeed, other things on his mind. He seems...quieter, today.

[preciselyoneofus]

Thinking about that outcome certainly made something crawl up Maze's spine hard enough to make her shudder. Her and boredom did not mix well at all and her greatest fear, not that she would tell anyone, was to die from it. Be it literally or metaphorically.

The demon lets him have a few long seconds but that pensive look on his face, the same one he's had in the past when something involving Chloe came up, finally pushes her to ask.

"What's going on? Why do you look like someone just stole your pitchfork?" Mazikeen questions, her tone firm because she knows he wants to talk about it.

He always wants to talk about his problems.

[mockeryofthedivine]

He pauses, then, the music coming to a halt as his fingers still.

"...The Detective knows," he says. "She knows, and she...believes."

[preciselyoneofus]

This is bigger than anything she expected him to tell her and one scarred eyebrow rises slowly in surprise.

"How does she know, Lucifer? Did she see your face?"