anima_ooc | Test Drive The First

Our first, pre-game test drive! Feel free to backtag into this to your heart’s content. You may also (with permission from other players) have this be canon to your character’s RP if you wish; you can also tag without concerns of continuity too! Related to this, your Anima companion, spells, elements, etc, can/will change around from the test drive and game-proper.

Be sure to include a starter in your response, so people have something to build off of and tag into; try and tag around different threads too, as players may want to use these threads for RP samples!

1. Monster Hunting

Worried murmurs trace through the settlement of Scholar’s Rest. And the reason is due to rumors of a Bulette spotted nearby, close enough that the land shark poses a town devouring threat. You’ve been asked to scout out, and warned repeatedly not to engage without proper backup. Maybe that’s why the Chivalrous Guild has insisted you take at least one companion along with you. The magic you both carry, and your Anima, will hopefully see you through.

2. Filling In The Blanks

A branch from the Diplomats Guild has approached you with a map. A patch work, incomplete map, but still a map. It illustrates a passage along the Salt Step Range, and several empty points are circled. The Diplomats want you to journey there, fill out the map, and return the completed document. Just watch for shifting passages, rock crumbling, and pack a good meal; you may be out for a bit.

3. Shrine Tending

Ripple is a half sunken ruin, and some of these ruins carry old carvings suggesting shrines. Many of them are covered in marine plants, obscuring images of a sea serpent and various minor gods. The Devout hope to clear some of these carvings and unearth new shrines, and thus receive the blessings of the gods depicted in them. The one complication is in the amount of swimming and potential attention of marine life to reach these shrines in the first place, or needing to crawl down through crumbing passages. But with luck, you and the others they’ve brought along don’t mind getting your feet wet.

4. Searching For Ingredients

The Discoverer’s Guild is running short on items for their alchemy, and one potion in high demand is a brew that strengthens one’s immune system. One of the key ingredients is fruit from the forest around Sun Rise, and an expedition ship has been sent out and anchored near the shore. And with a storm growling in, time is running short, and you may need to brave a blazing forest to find the ingredients.

5. Training Wheels

It’s not an easy task, finding yourself bonded to a new creature and finding your feet in a strange place; there’s any number of growing pains for the two of you. That sometimes means bursts of wild magic, and an Anima creature ready to experiment and test its limits. Maybe your creature is curious, destructive, craving attention, or ready to run off and do whatever it wants. Good thing Haven is big enough for this much chaos… but you might need some help with managing a new Anima.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Drac, that was the third time you've run off now!" Seras said with a sigh as she knelt down in front of a rather large black puppy. The pup looked nothing like any breed known. It was rather large and had blood red eyes and rather sharp teeth.

"You can't just go running after birds like that," She added reaching out to pet the pup with an arm that was as dark as the dog. Drac just looked at her, grinned, and licked her face.

Seras could only laugh as she fastened a red collar around the creature's neck and stood up, a line of what appeared to be shadows connecting the collar to her hand as some sort of lead.

"If only Master and Master Integra could see you," She said as she headed back to the house she was staying in.

Of course the dog decided to run off again, causing her to call out and set off again, nearly running right into someone.

"I'm so sorry."

"Dog!?" Comes a startled, one word squeak. Followed by a fast rustle of cloth and footsteps as someone tries to sidestep the puppy, and the person following it.

Lyon looks more than a little startled at all this blind siding, but if nothing else it shows that the yank across worlds hasn't messed with her reflexes too badly.

At first she just blinks in confusion at the puppy barreling by, keeping her hands wrapped tight around the egg she's carrying. Then she frees up one hand so she can point between the newcomer and the dog... And then starts trying to run after the black blur.

"D-don't mention it! Is that your dog though? And... does it always run this fast?"

Test Drive The First

Seras Victoria || Hellsing || Training Wheels

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