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TEST DRIVE MEME #13

Arrival
You remember a dream.

Or maybe nightmare is more accurate.

It was full of hellfire nipping at your skin and a sensation of being pulled down no matter how much you struggle or cry for help. There's a voice that feels like it's coming from all around you at once. Contrasting with the nightmare unfolding around you, it's smooth as silk. It makes you want to listen with every bit of attention you can muster in the moment.

"Judgement has come upon you, but not to worry. It can still be undone."

The voice promises you redemption for your sins. It promises you a better life and everything you could ever want, if only you just stop struggling so much.

And so you do.

Everyone wakes up in the same room initially. The room is done up in red with a cushy bed, a window, an old TV in the corner on a desk, and a few Hieronymus Bosch paintings lining the wall. There's a bathroom to clean up in and any belongings will be sat around the room to be gathered later. There's a duffel bag provided for your convenience.

After feeling a sensation of falling or dropping onto the bed, characters wake up feeling like they've just slept for a week. Their body will feel heavy and stiff, they'll have a massive headache at first.

They'll quickly notice the list of their sins written with their blood on a bedside table on an old piece of parchment. This will mean the list is tied to them and can't be changed or tampered with. They'll also receive their device to connect with others and the network. It won't be anything terribly fancy. As a matter of fact, it looks like a very old Blackberry type phone.

Once characters are ready to leave the room, they'll head down long, winding halls. They're dimly lit and ominous feeling. They may encounter fellow sinners or demonic staff that will direct the newcomer down to the lobby to get their actual room key to settle in. They may be pushy, they may border on courteous. It really just depends on the mood of the staff at the time and how they're treated in return. Eventually, everyone comes to stairs that lead downward.

Once down to the lobby, you'll notice the front desk manned by a demon who looks bored out of its mind. To the side of him is the door to the kitchen where guests may help themselves. To the right is a small duty free shop that seems to have a surprisingly normal, expected stock of items. Look around a bit further, there will be a tiny bar tucked in through a corner door. It seems pretty well-stocked and best of all, there's a demonic bartender who seems to know how to mix any drink you can imagine (and a few you can't). Of course there's some seating, bar games, and a jukebox tucked in the corner if you'd rather stay and socialize a bit. There's also a new addition of a karaoke machine.

Please note that all the songs on the jukebox are appropriately hell-themed. Hopefully Sympathy for the Devil is universally loved.


Welcome to My Nightmare
Familiar whispers are starting among the demons of Hell yet again! The big carnival is happening soon and it's going to be even bigger than before. Apparently the clowns are out, but special guests are in!

The names Bellas Mammon, and Verinne float around excitedly. Something about the angel is spat about with less enthusiasm from time to time. If the demons are pressed for additional information they'll just say that if the carnival guests are pleased, Hell is in for a grand expansion.

If asked how the carnival guests are to be pleased the demons will simply laugh and tell sinners not to worry. So, new denizen of Hell, guess what! Even with such little information to go on, you get to help the demons get everything ready for the upcoming event. Exciting!


Prompt I: We Built This City
WARNINGS: mentions of violence and drugs

Within the gates of our lovely Penance community a large portion of the area is currently in the process of being cleared away. Demons will be grabbing unsuspecting sinners and dragging them into the process without a care of whether they want to help or not. Sinners will work clearing charred debris, constructing stands, cleaning up dilapidated buildings, stringing lights and other decorations, and more.

Curiously, the only things that seem to be off-limits are rides and games, just like the last time. Hands off, buddy. Those are a surprise.

Unfortunately for all the guests involved, it seems like the demons are very serious about their role as supervisor. Cracking the whip isn't just a figure of speech is what we’re saying. If they catch anyone slacking off they will be punished accordingly. A swift hit, a hard shove, a good lashing with the whip for those who are particularly naughty. They may even just crack it if they think a sinner isn't working as fast or as hard as they could.

Well, now you know how serious they're taking this. After all, there's so much work to be done and such little time.

That said, the demons aren't entirely heartless. Just before a sinner collapses from exhaustion or dehydration, they'll be allowed to go treat themselves to some sandwiches and water. There's also an energy drink available simply called Speed Bull.

Knowing Hell, the 'healthy vitamins and minerals' contained in it are probably just code for actual speed. Ah, well, at least it keeps you going. Might want to be careful though. Drinking too many will lead you to, well, die (again). Might not be permanent, but isn’t fun or productive!

Those sinners who are especially resistant or otherwise naughty while constructing booths and other carnival necessities will find themselves put on porta potty duty. Arguably the worst duty of all, and they just might find themselves compelled to do so even if they hate it.

Other areas the guests will be able to help with include the tunnel of love, pens for a petting zoo, and the fun house, but they may not want to gaze into the mirrors too long...


Prompt II: The Maze of Mirrors
WARNINGS: mentions of mental health, addiction, violence, and sex

Those lucky enough to get a glimpse at the carnival’s fun house will notice an incomplete room full of mirrors. There’s no demons around cracking whips at the moment and there’s something about it that just feels like it’s calling to you. It’s clearly unfinished and they likely need some help, right? Might as well investigate.

If guests choose to enter this room, they will soon discover it's far larger than it seemed at first glance. Stranger yet, the room is a maze that seems to shift and change with every corner you turn. Didn’t you just enter from that direction? Well, looks like it’s a dead end now. Guess you’ll have to find another way out.

The longer someone stays trapped in this maze of mirrors the more they start to feel different. Sinners begin to change mentally and emotionally into their darkest nature. All the secret parts of themselves that they try to hide from everyone come rushing to the surface and this can also be actual secrets themselves!

Do you struggle with anger? Depression? Been holding yourself together by a thread for too long? Actually afraid of everything? Recovered addict? Jealous of that bitch Stacey? Itching to just murder someone? Maybe you’re a bit of a nymphomaniac or a compulsive liar. Perhaps you’ve been holding back on saying what’s really on your mind to some people or maybe you have a deep secret that’s itching to get out and you don’t care who hears it... like that one time you left someone to die, or when cheated on your significant other with their sibling.

Well good sinner, now feels like a great time to clear the air! Let people know who you really are. There might be someone else stuck in there with you who you can kill, or fuck, or yell all the things you’ve wanted to say to them (or just say in general) but haven’t. If not? Good thing there’s a network in Hell, and the reception seems to be excellent today.

This maddening desire to reveal secrets and become that which is often hidden grows stronger the longer a person remains in the maze of mirrors.

There are two ways someone can be brought back to their more normal selves: either by the acceptance and forgiveness from another person resulting in immediate relief, or by finally finding a way out. Although it may linger a few hours after exit until finally all returns to normal.




Something in the Air Tonight

Prompt I: Something In The Air
WARNINGS: mentions of body horror transformations

After everyone's fun time spent in the mental asylum earlier in the month, it looks as though the monster business isn’t quite done and over with. Perhaps sinners missed taking care of a small scratch or maybe the taint has just spread some other way, but sinners (old and new alike) may find themselves beginning to change, physically.

It may start out simple enough. An ache or a pain that could be blamed on a long day of construction or sleeping on the lumpy, uncomfortable beds, but it will soon progress. Fingernails may fall out as fingers turn to claws, legs may start melting together until a sinner is left with something that looks decidedly snake-like. It may feel like one's body is attempting to tear itself apart only to leave them with slimy tentacles.

Eventually, affected sinners might start to even think differently. Whether their physical mutations are big or small, are specific to one animal or several, or are the variety of horrific unidentified monsters from someone’s worst nightmare, the affected may begin to lose their higher state of consciousness for something more primal and animalistic.

Don't worry, Lucifer will reassure you all that this is only a temporary state of being! They’re working on getting everyone back to normal as we speak, so in the meantime just… try to enjoy it. It’s not all that bad, is it?


Prompt II: They Did The Monster Smash (nsfw)
WARNINGS: continued mentions of body horror

While under this transformation, some sinners may feel an innate desire for a night of debauchery. Whatever their monstrous state is, they find themselves wandering into the sex portion of the night club. While the mutations may be as small as claws and teeth, those experiencing it will also find themselves with an insatiable need to breed.

As the night goes on, people will find themselves more than just physically affected and begin displaying the following characteristics:

Alpha
  • Traditionally strong and dominant types. They are protective and extremely jealous once they’ve found a mate.
  • It is not uncommon for Alpha’s to fight over their chosen Omega with other Alphas.
  • When next to an omega in heat, they may enter into a rut state where their main concern will be claiming and mating with their chosen partner.
  • Ruts will send alphas into an extreme frenzy and cause them to be very aggressive.
  • They will be overwhelmed with the desire to dominate and have sex.

    When an Alpha is close to climax, their genitals will swell and knot or entrap their partner in order to further ensure breeding. This swelling locks two people together for up to thirty minutes. During this period, it is not possible to pull apart from one another and may result in several rounds of intercourse. Keep in mind, however, that the more sex you engage in the longer it will take for the swelling to ease.

    Omega
  • Traditionally submissive types who aim to please. They are physically inferior to alphas and have an innate urge to be claimed and possessed.
  • When in heat, omegas experience fevers that can be dangerous if allowed to rise. The only cure for this is an orgasm.
  • Heats may last up to three days. During this time period, omegas will be insatiable. So much so it might become painful the longer they don’t mate.
  • They will be drawn towards the strongest alpha. Omegas put off a scent that will attract mates, particularly during heat, that often encourages alphas to fight for the right to breed with them among other alphas.
  • Bites to the neck may calm a feisty omega, but keep in mind that this may also cause a mating bond with them.
  • Omega’s during heat often become extremely self-lubricated.

    Both Alpha and Omega may experience intense lasting orgasms with excessive amounts of cum to further ensure breeding. If an Omega cannot find a suitable mate they will find themselves incapable of satiation. Nothing is enough until a mate is found and even then, heat might hit them again soon after climax.

    There’s another category, the Beta. These are those who aren’t really affected either way. Some of these patrons are still experiencing physical mutations but don’t seem to have the same heat and desire to breed. Others might not even be physically changed at all.

    This can make things a little bit awkward, though. Especially when even the succubi and incubi are affected along with other demonic staff and guests. They may be eagerly dragging people, staff and sinners alike, off for a rough breeding session.

    Of course, because it’s a sex club there’s plenty of other things to do. As always, no guest is safe from the potential of being dragged on stage for a demo or two. There are plenty of rooms with various themes for your delight including all sorts of toys and fucking machines. Anything you could imagine, really!

    More information on what to find in the sex club here.


    IMPORTANT NOTE: The mods recognize that abo is considered a slur against aboriginal peoples in Australia. It is important to us that we recognize this and clarify that such a term outside of alpha/beta/omega context is harmful and uncool. Stay groovy, and have fun!


    Wildcard
    Not looking for debauchery or looking for a different kind? That’s alright! The club itself has plenty of other options such as a separate side explicitly for dancing. Drink up, maybe do a few lines, and dance the night away. There’s also a spa, a pool, a library, and all sorts of other areas for your character to explore now that they’re in hell.

    You can find more information on the various locations here





    Misc.
    Hey, guys! Welcome to our new TDM for the June 1st app round! As always, feel free to jump right on in, potential appers and current members alike! This TDM counts as an additional game event, as well as game canon for those coming into the game. Please have fun and don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have down below!

    If you have questions, comments, suggestions, etc., go here.


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  • polydeukes: (22)

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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-05-28 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
    [Josie's been in here a little too long.

    The fear has ebbed away at this point into a kind of lazy confidence, mirrored by the other version of her that sometimes flickers over her own reflection in the mirror. She's been wandering, one finger trailing against the mirrors as she walks, keeping that connection between herself and where the magic is.

    She doesn't even scream when Klaus grabs hold of her, only flattens her hand against it so that she can pull in more magic more quickly. Her hand glows before he relents and pulls back, and she raises an eyebrow.]


    Guess you're feeling merciful today.
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    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-01 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
    ( so has klaus—

    the electric motivation of his own fear has grown static in the wake of his anger. that is usually par for the course, or it would be if not for the uncontrollable, volatile thirst that has accompanied his rage. that again, is not uncharacteristic, but there's an edge to it, a twist of darkness in his insidious thoughts that renders him cautious against its changeability.

    cautious but allured.

    the truth is: all he's wanted from the beginning of his sentence here is to tear it all apart. to assuage his temper, his grief, his helplessness. to feed his thirst for something, anything that may make him feel; not feel; all of it at once.

    what he doesn't want to tear apart is her. josette, one the few here he's bound to shield. it's the maze, he tells himself, the indignation bristling at the back of his neck, her face in his sights. he blinks away what he sees in his mind's eye: his daughter's desolation among her burned past. among him.
    )

    More perhaps than you deserve. ( the soft words are filled with bite, but he moves past her without pause, his better sense leading him away. )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-02 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
    [She laughs. She shouldn't but she does, bright and bitter all at the same time.]

    Oh, right. I'm the mean girl who hurt your poor precious Hope. It is a little like kicking a puppy in the face, isn't it?

    [she shrugs as she starts to follow him. Because continuing to further poke the dangerous hybrid is a great idea when you're feeling over confident of the magic on your side.]

    But then again, Hope doesn't really consider other people's feelings so I guess it all evens out.
    Edited 2020-06-02 01:02 (UTC)
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    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-02 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
    ( it would be better for her were she not to talk. were she not to follow him, but here she is insistent upon both, and at the ringing insolence of her laugh and the mocking tone that proceeds it, he stops in his tracks, his fingers curling into fists.

    he's not quite right. neither is she. if he were in any frame of mind, that would matter to him. it would be clear to him. instead her careless grin sets him on edge. the words she speaks of his daughter broils his insides.

    (it's not only flippant spite of them. it's jealousy that she knows hope well enough to insult her at all. that life truly has gone on without him, and what could he possibly say to combat that?)

    he turns around instead to face her; advances with intentioned intimidation.
    ) Hope cares more than you could possibly imagine.

    I, on the other hand, do not. ( a clear warning. )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-02 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
    Oh, she cares, sure. She cares about being the big hero and in control of everything. Hope saves the day. Hope kills the monster.

    [She toys with the edge of the truth she could tell him, of the real cost of what his daughter with a martyr complex has done to herself, but part of her also wants to twist it a little bit.

    Just for fun.]


    You know, I never really figured out if it was because she just likes being in control all the time or if her martyr complex came from being so desperate to prove she wasn't you. Then again she also did some really shady magic, so maybe it's fifty-fifty.
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    cw violence

    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
    ( the thin strand holding him together snaps. his fangs fill his mouth, their points sharpening and lengthening in time with the thud of his pulse. gold flecks emerge in his irises before consuming every hue of blue. it's the taunt in her tone, beckoning his wrath, the presumption of her opinions —

    and it's that, truly, that strikes his ire irreparably: so desperate to prove she wasn't you hangs in his mind, the terrible, heartbreaking, shameful truth of it ripping him in two. his hand shoots up to encircle her thin neck, bringing her up to the tips of her toes. he wants to squeeze the life out of her, stop her from saying another word; he wants to rip her throat out for daring to speak at all.
    )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-02 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
    Is it really me you're mad at?

    [Forcing her voice past his hand takes away some of the bite to it, but she gets it out all the same before she acts. She's already flattening a palm against the mirrors. She siphons some of the magic before pulling the oldest witch trick in the book.

    Making vampire brains explode with your mind is Witchcraft 101.

    And if he doesn't back off then, she'll kick things up a notch and set him on fire, but she won't if she doesn't have to.]
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    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-02 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
    ( the answer is obviously not. in a clearer mind, he knows this: there is only one who truly is the object of his wrath, and it's not the girl in front of him. it's not even the hollow who was the cause of all this destruction and separation and death, though he would certainly spare a bit for her —

    perhaps the question fuels his rage, though it's difficult to tell if it could possibly burn brighter. particularly when her magic touches him, brings him to his knees with an echoing bellow. his hands lift to his head; the retaliation only makes him angrier.

    he's on his feet and lunging for her throat in no time at all.
    )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
    [She's ready for him this time. The fireball erupts from her fingertips, intending to shy him back more than actually burn him. She's not done playing yet, and she can't do that if he tears her throat out.

    Another few steps backwards, and she speaks again, finally ready to drive that knife in.]


    Look, it's not my fault she was so desperate to save the world that she erased herself from it. She finally found her purpose in the grand design. You could almost be jealous.
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    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-02 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    ( it's only the fire in her hands that awakens in him some primal, calculating self-preservation. he growls at her, lips curling into a sneer, from behind the flames; if she thinks she can win this situation with her words, she's surely mistaken: he hears them, and all they do is break his sanity further, render him hopeless to the madness permeating every inch of him.

    anyway. what can a little fire do to him?

    he's behind her in an instant, her wrists shackled in his grasp; he shoves her shoulder into the wall, the mirror cracking under the force.
    )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-03 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
    [Ow.

    Okay, fair, she didn't see that coming. She should have remembered that he was fast and a barrier spell would have been more effective. But it's not like she tangles with an Original every day, particularly not an Original hybrid.

    Still, Klaus should know better than to put his hands on a siphon. The second she recovers from the blow, she starts pulling in whatever magic she can. She know she can't take it all and desiccate him with a touch. But she can definitely make him feel it all the same.]
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    [personal profile] poppycock 2020-06-04 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
    ( the pull of her magic feels like wood in his chest, fire in his veins, the burn of death. his barked cry follows the weakening of his knees, but he growls through the next moment with one thought: no way is this child witch going to best him. he twists her clutching wrist and throws her away from him, snarling even after the release. )
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    [personal profile] polydeukes 2020-06-06 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
    [It's still a rush, just like she thought it would be. Her hands are still glowing when he releases her, and the power lingers as she twists her hands, throwing up a casual barrier spell just in case he tries to come at her again.

    Never let it be said she doesn't learn.]


    Did you honestly think her only purpose was to save you, and once that was done she would get on to live a normal life? Magic doesn't allow anything without consequence. You of all people should know better.

    [And with that she's going to exit, holding the barrier until she rounds the corner and disappears into the darkness.]