It's been three months, people...

[pitiedthefool]

TEST DRIVE MEME how have we not had one of these in a while?

You want to join the game with a (new) character? Maybe you’re simply curious about the premise? Or maybe you just need a sample. Well that’s the meme for you to try and test your character as if they were already in the tower! The meme is open to anyone!

• Reply to this entry with a character you consider apping! Put your character’s name and fandom- Your usual meme thing. • Comment around with your pups. You can also post and tag with characters already in-game of course! • Most importantly, have fun!! • Then feel free to go and reserve/app your character since the reserves are opening on the 24th.

Comments

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

...Hah, yeah. Let's just say that nothing conventional would even work.

[warriorscribe]

...What are they?

*If they're demons, why isn't God helping? That would be the one instance where it'd be warranted! And if they're not...well, what else is there?*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[Weeeeeeeeeeeeeell, that's a little tough to answer because it takes a bit more to explain Septentriones than "they're from space i guess," and judging from how the young man is looking down at his phone, this is gonna be tough!]

Hmm...maybe it'd be better to show you? [Did he manage to catch a video of at least Dubhe on here or not?] Oh, umm...

[...Yes, he is just now noticing the blood spatters.]

You got some, uh... [His hand makes a vague "there's crap all over you" gesture, wow sorry he didn't notice sooner, dude!]

[warriorscribe]

*He just nods. Yeah, he knows.*

One of the... *...is it a monster at all? It seems to appear at random just like them but...* ...things that can be found here.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[He nods. Just making sure of it before trying to find the video again. Let's see...okay, this should be it, Sunday the week before...

Replacing the images on his screen is a new one, an apparent recording. It's a little shaky, but the focus is suddenly on this...weird...colorful cone thing. It's very large, considering that there are curious bystanders surrounding it, so it's easy to see that it towers over the average person by at least a few heads.

There's a pink, sponge-like thing on the top of it, and it's obvious the people staring at it are curious. It doesn't seem dangerous, but the sponge seems to be getting bigger. At least the talking amongst the bystanders is quiet.

This isn't really the case for the person holding the camera.

Don't touch it! It sounded like he was desperate, trying to at least get them to get away, but they don't listen, just some man turning to look at the camera and asking what his problem is.

Some unnatural sound interrupts, though, some...reverberating, tonal sounds that are almost words but not quite, and with the sponge thing expanding again, it's clear where the sound came from. Somebody closer, not in camera shot, is starting to panic, and the holder starts to back away really fast, hand down to the side with the phone pointed at the ground.

There's a bright flash and there's a sound so loud the speakers almost blow out. The young man looks like he fell because he's suddenly lower, like he's sitting, and the camera goes up again.

There's no one left but that thing and...those aren't ashes, are they?

...Those people! The panicking teen again, followed by what sounded like a young woman, but she's very quiet and yeah, those were ashes. The camera holder stands up, backs away, somehow with his phone still trained on whatever that is but it lurches closer.

And the top gets bigger.

Run! As soon as he's on his feet, the feed ends and that's the end of the video.

There...is really nothing to say to explain that, is there.]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch watches the thing in curiosity, tense only because it's the emotion in the air in the video.

Until the people were obliterated.*

What was that...? What could have so much power?

*...It reminds him in a way of the projectiles Azazel's machines had, but...somehow worse.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

...That was the weakest one.

[Y E A H.

Let's just let that fact sink in for a bit.]

They're called Septentriones.

[warriorscribe]

*He does let it sink in for a while, stepping back and nearly slipping on his own blood trail for a moment.

At least the jolt of the near-fall is enough to get his mind working at full speed after the shock of seeing that.*

It's good you had intervention, then...

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

...Sorry. Trying to explain them is...it's hard.

[Nevermind explaining why they're there in the first place.]

[warriorscribe]

...I'd imagine...

*He may have it together enough to say that, but he's still...a bit dazed by all that.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[...Quick, lighten the situation!]

Hah, it wasnt that bad when we had to fight it. Turns out it's weak to trucks.

[warriorscribe]

...What?

*He gets the joking tone. But he doesn't get even the gist of the joke. Such is the problem with not knowing what a truck is.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

You know, trucks. The things you drive when you need to transport a bunch of stuff? Daichi slammed right into it with one, it was awesome.

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch doubts a cart could cause that much damage. However, if a motorcycle was comparable to a horse...*

...Is this the same sort of thing as a motorcycle?

*Except his mental image is now a large cart pulled by people on motorcycles. He didn't exactly get to see other vehicles...or if he did, he didn't have the capability to learn what they were.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[...Well that's odd, but he'll take it!]

Bigger. Waaaaay bigger, with four wheels instead of two.

[warriorscribe]

*Well, Enoch's pretty fast on the uptake, at least.*

Oh...I see. It's self-propelled the same way, then...

*Pretty ingenious of the future!*

...You're taking my lack of knowledge well. Have you needed to explain these things before?

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

Kind of, yeah.

[If he guessed that he did this with Saiduq a lot, you would win a million yen.

...If he had any.]

Are you, like...just not from a place with a lot of vehicles or what?

[warriorscribe]

Most likely, far into your past.

*An apologetic smile goes here. You kind of got roped into explaining things to a Bronze Age dude, Kaito. Sorry.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[...Well, that's new.]

...How far back?

[warriorscribe]

*How is he supposed to know how to answer this question? Why do people always expect him to know? It confuses him every time.*

...I am the sixth from Adam. *It's the only answer he can give.*

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[Well he doesn't know how else to ask!

At any rate, when Enoch says that, he just gives a blank stare.]

...What.

[Apparently he either doesn't know what that means or it's taking a bit to wrap his brain around.]

[warriorscribe]

*...What.*

Ah...of the seventh generation of humanity. Though it's been three hundred years since.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

...And you know what a motorcycle is.

[Care to explain that part to him, dude?]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch actually seems at a loss for words for a little while. Does he tell him the whole story, or...? It's hard to separate that experience from its context and still make sense.*

The explanation is a long one. I had the opportunity to ride one, though...I wish it had been under better circumstances.

*Pause.* ...I know that isn't much. They were part of a fallen angel's attempts at a false evolution, with a...ah, a large city of metal and lights. It was so large, I needed such a vehicle to search for him.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[...Fallen angels? False evolution? What the heck? Was this guy from the Bible or something? And how can an evolution be "false"?]

Wh... [Okay, one thing at a time here.] So you got to ride around on a motorcycle in some kind of future city?

[IS THIS THE BASIC GIST OF WHAT HAPPENED?]