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Test Drive Meme

Prompts Arrival: So you've just arrived in Nyoi-Cho. Congratulations! You must be so excited about having your wish granted. Or maybe you're upset that the result wasn't quite what you expected? If that's the case, then that's too bad! There are no take backs and no redoes, so you're stuck with what you have! Maybe you should have been more careful about how you worded that wish... Oh well. There's no use in dwelling on it. You're a magi now, and that means adjusting to a whole new lifestyle! Maybe one of the townspeople can help you out. Only... they're acting a bit strangely, aren't they? They're all too happy to show you around, but there's something unsettling about the way they're behaving. Almost cheerfully dissonant. Any questions about the history of the town are met with blank stares and brief silence, before they plaster a smile onto their faces and change the subject. Any attempts to tell them about your duties as a magi or anything else that relates to the magical will get similar reactions. Isn't there anyone normal here that you can talk to at all? Home Improvement: The houses that the magi are given access to really are something, aren't they? There's almost no limit to what they can do! Why don't you create the house of your dreams, or maybe recreate and relive your favorite childhood scenes? Invite some spectators over to marvel! A Corrupted Soul Gem: You neglected to take care of your soul gem, and now you don't feel quite yourself anymore. You feel like you're losing your sense of self - all you seem to be able to focus on is your old regrets and past failures. What's happening to you? A Day in the Life: Everyday hero by day, magician by night! You've got a busy day ahead of you and no time to waste! Maybe it's school, or maybe it's work, maybe it's both! Being magical doesn't make you exempt from paying those shopping bills! May Day: Uh-oh. This magical girl stuff looked easier on TV. You're in some serious trouble! Or maybe you see someone else who is! It's time to pull up your socks and show them what you have. Be the hero you've always wanted to be, or give in and be that damsel in distress. There's no shame in needing a little help now and then. A Successful Mission: Congratulations! You met up with your first Nightmare, and you fought valiantly. You even mastered that tricky power of yours! What sort of power did you get? Is it a useful one, or is it not so useful? Maybe you've mastered it beautifully, and now you're showing off to all of your friends. Maybe you're having a hard time keeping it under wraps, and now you're wreaking havoc across the town without meaning to! A Dreadful Nightmare: You had an absolutely horrid day. As you drift off to sleep, your mind dwells on all the injustices you've had to endure. In response, your bed swallows you up, and your room shifts into a horrific Nightmarescape. What sort of Nightmare are you? What kind of Nightmarescape do you create? Hopefully your fellow magi can stop you before you cause too much damage! Wildcard: Feel free to use any information from the FAQ or the World Info page to make your own prompt!

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[deadendchaos]

A Demon's Arrival

Well isn't this a giant drag. How do people really live in a dump like this? No one's even fighting or anything.

[ Compared to the Netherworld, this really is different. Everyone looks so creepily similar, everything is almost impeccably clean, and worst of all it's just so impossibly quiet! Honestly, how could anyone get any sleep with it as quiet as it is?!

Of course, to a human, this place might be not all that bad, but Etna can't stand it! It's so.... ]

BORING!! When it something exciting going to happen here?!

[ Whoever might be around might have to question why a young looking girl baring far more skin than probably is necessary for even the beach is exclaiming such things. But she doesn't seem to care. ]

Hey you! Fight or something! I'm bored here!

Magical Girl Etna To The Rescue!

Now this is what I'm talking about!

[ After spending a few days of boredom in Nyoi-Choi, she's actually glad to be fighting again. Her usual spear spins as she swipes at a giant stapler flying at her head. Who knows why a stationery themed Nightmare has appeared, she certainly has no interest in figuring out the why of anything, no, she's more than happy to swing her spear into the nearest scissor-monster, slicing it in half.

But helping other people... that she couldn't care less about. ]

If you can't fight then you might as well die, right? Or maybe just go grind a some levels against weaker enemies. But I guess if you pay me ten million hell, then maybe I'll think about helping.

[ That's a fair price right? Etna doesn't care either way though~. ]

But if you're gonna die, can you make sure you don't do it near me? That smell never goes away, you know?

Etna's Q&A Corner!

Hello there citizens of Earth and whatever other weird places you all are from who can hear this! It's me, the number one beauty and strongest demon in the Netherworld, Etna!

[ Winking into the mirror and blowing a kiss is one self-described beauty queen, apparently come to the other magical girls and boys today for some narcissistic ego boosting. ]

I know you've all been dying to ask me questions and stuff, so here it is, Etna's Q and A corner! Just hit me with whatever you got and I'll answer it! But just know if you ask me something stupid I'll have to end your life or make you my slave in retribution, just so you know!

aaaaaarrival

[dokkans]

[ Of course she wouldn't question it. One of her dear, dear "friends" didn't wear that much. That dear dear friend of hers also happened to be a demon, and seeing another one just out in the open like this... she couldn't tell if she were getting lucky or if this were starting to turn into Hell.

Might be both. She hid her face momentarily with a soft snicker, before she glanced back at Etna with a sullen, worried look on her face. An innocent bystander, struck by the sight of a demon speaking to her. ]

F...Fight? Goodness, why ever would I want to do that? Do you really want a sweet young girl like me to get hurt for your amusement? How cruel!

[ Hilarious. ]

[deadendchaos]

[ A person who is less self-centered might have a reason to distrust this girl. To make look a little closer, check her stats and see they they are definitely not in the "normal human girl" range. Maybe check what class she is.

But Etna is not that person. She's just fingering the circular metal loop around her neck with a grin, with her other hand on her hip. ]

I won't deny that it would be more fun to see people fighting or at least being less boring in general, but I wouldn't say that makes me a sadist.

[ She waves her hand dismissively, a grim smirk firmly planted on her lips. ] I'd say the fact that I love to be the one to makes idiotic things feel pain is what makes me a sadist.

But if you're really that weak then you don't really matter to me, so you're safe for now.

[dokkans]

[ How like a demon, to not look into these things that closely. Bonnie fiddles with her tie nervously, deer in the headlights expression stuck on her face until she's started to clarify. This was giving her so many flashbacks, she couldn't help but break character and let a smile start to creep through, fist clenched in front of her chest. ]

Is that how you talk to all humans, or just humans that look like me? [ A quick giggle, and she almost looks like she's sparkling. ]

Gee, miss. Only idiots would fight each other for someone else's amusement. If there's no stakes, there's no fun!

[deadendchaos]

[ Well, no one in the world is more important than Etna, though perhaps a couple have come close in the past. So why should she care about some rando she just met on the street?

Arms crossed over her (nonexistant) chest, Etna leans back a little, clearly unimpressed still. ]

Pretty much all of 'em. [ Unrepentant. ]

See, that's why humans will never understand demons.

[dokkans]

I guess you're right, miss. The thing is... ooh, can I tell you a secret?

[ She'll do it anyway. That smile turns into a little bit of a smirk. ]

I don't mind fighting anyone here. But, I don't fight for free, is the thing. I especially wouldn't fight just because a demon told me to. That goes against everything I stand for, you know. Only beasts start battles just because.

Sad. I don't think demons will understand humans either.

[deadendchaos]

Of course I'm right, I'm always right. You'll learn that sooner or later.

[ Does she want to? No, not really, but it seems like the other girl is going to anyway. What a chore.

Except, she didn't expect that. It has Etna a little on the defense, eyeing the other girl closely now. ]

...You seem to be a very... opinionated girl. Just who are you anyway?

[dokkans]

[ Wow, how insufferable. She's got a certain top-heavy succubus's arrogance in the other one's body.

With a pep in her voice, she beams happily and proclaims. ]

B.B. Hood! Special S-Class Darkhunter. I've met quite a lot of demons, juuuust liiiiiike you. Bet you can't guess what I used to do with them~!

[ It's clear. ]

But, lucky you! I'm out of the business right now. Plus, I don't recognize you, so I don't think your head's worth anything anyway.

[deadendchaos]

[ You can't trust topheavy girls though. You never know what they are hiding in there! Take a look at Rozalin in her other thread for example. Super untrustworthy.

But this cute girl act is really wearing thin of Etna, who's moved to cross her arms over her chest, clearly unimpressed. ]

...Darkhunter?

[ Oh. ....Oh. That. Is problematic. Etna's eyes narrow dangerously, one of her hands hidden balling into a fist. If she's going to have to fight when she's level 1, this is going to be trouble.

And then she says the thing that Etna can't stand to hear. ]

What?! I'm the Future Overlord of the Netherworld, Beauty Queen Etna! My name is known in a hundred different worlds! Kids pee the bed when they hear my name! Clearly you just have had your head under a rock or something!!

Q&A

[gunsnrozy]

[Rozalin is idly writing with lipstick on the mirror as she connects, and stops to give a self-satisfied little laugh as she finishes. The smear doesn't come through on the image, but judging from the motion she was probably drawing a mustache on Etna's face or something extremely sophisticated like that.]

To begin with... how many times does this make you've been reduced to level one? I believe I've lost count.

[deadendchaos]

[ Oh god it's her. This big boobed obnoxious daddy's girl. Really. Couldn't someone else have shown up? What a giant pain. Worse.. is that she's right, and it doesn't take a genius to see that she's back at level one.

Again. ]

Haven't you fallen into a deep pit yet somewhere after being unable to look down?

[gunsnrozy]

[A condescending chuckle.] That's impossible. I've learned a special technique only used by the highest-class demons: if you use the tip of your nose as a focus, you can see the world as it truly is!

[deadendchaos]

That must be pretty easy for you, given how big your your nose is.

[ Is it really that big? Who knows, but no girl likes to hear that about herself! ]

[gunsnrozy]

[An indignant huff. She has her doubts, but appearance is one of those areas where her ironclad conviction in her own superiority has no weaknesses.]

My nose is perfect. The only reason it looks big to you is because you're used to seeing the world in miniature.

[She pointed a finger at Etna, indicating, well, all of her.]

Between you and that atrocious prince you're about as tall as one normal demon?

[deadendchaos]

[ Good, she managed to hit Rozalin somewhere it hurts apparently. The spoiled girl could stand being knocked down a peg or twenty.

But HOW. DARE. SHE. Etna clenches her teeth so much that she might start splitting them in two. But she's... smiling? ]

....Will you give me one second, dear? I have to take care of something.

[ Standing up from her mirror, she turns to the wall and makes a nice new window with the sound of splintering wood. And then promptly sits back down. ]

I'm just going to pretend you weren't stupid enough to say what I think you were saying.

[gunsnrozy]

[Unfortunately Rozalin was of a similar mind. Sure, she'd had to beg Etna for mercy when the vassal had hundreds of levels on her, but here? Listening Etna vent her rage at that simple slight just confirmed to Rozalin that she was now superior in all the ways that really counted, like poise.]

While you're at it you might as well pretend I don't show more skin in a low-cut dress than you do in your underwear.

[deadendchaos]

[ She's going to grind and grind until she gets all her items level 100, with perfect stats, and every ability...

Actually, that's going to take forever, isn't it? She really doesn't have that kind of time! ]

Oh, so you're saying you enjoy looking at me, Princess? I'm flattered, but you're not my type. [ Mostly because she's annoying, that's really the only reason why not. ]

Q & A!

[cyclicalconcept]

S-so, if you're a demon, does that mean you're from hell?

[deadendchaos]

[ Another angel girl from Celestia? Looks it. ]

We call it the Netherworld, but to Angels or Humans you could probably just call it Hell. It's even better than you've heard though.

[cyclicalconcept]

[Hahaha...if only she knew.]

How is it better?

[deadendchaos]

[ Then again, the angels that she has met actually haven't been all that angelic deep down. ]

Well, it's less boring for one thing! Isn't it more exciting to live in a place that's full of people fighting and backstabbing and trying to take over the world?

[cyclicalconcept]

U-um, well, I don't know if I find that exciting...though you're right, it probably wouldn't be boring...wouldn't that be unstable? Not knowing who's in charge or who you're supposed to pay taxes to and all that?

[deadendchaos]

Oh, well that's easy! Who's ever in charge is probably just going to force everyone to pay her anyway. That's what vassals are for.

...Kinda. [ They are not for beating up people to collect taxes... but they aren't not for that purpose. ]

[cyclicalconcept]

I don't know...I think it would be important to make sure things are going to be in order, before just taking over like that.

[Look, taxes are important for a functioning society! Mama made sure to let her know that!]

[deadendchaos]

Let me guess, you're a regular human right? I wouldn't expect you to understand how things work in the Netherworld, but it's pretty much only the strongest survive.

[ Taxes are just an excuse to take money from people, it never actually goes into anything worthwhile like education or public works where she's from! ]