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( the test drive meme )

This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the applications open, see what clicks. Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.

Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun! Feel free to consult the institute tour and dorm guide for setting info. We also encourage you to check out the "!!event" tag on the IC comms to brush up on the story so far.

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ooc request: Please use prose if responding to this with ACTION, or commentspam if having your character call her out on the NETWORK during the day; I'd like to have the option of using this for both 1st- and 3rd-person samples.
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The rumors had started about two weeks ago: after sundown but before curfew, a strange shadowy creature could be seen—but never heard—lurking within the hedge maze.

While it had the look of a fantasy novel monster each and every time, it was never the same creature twice according to the students who claimed to have seen it. While the younger and easily-frightened never drew close enough to find out for certain what it was, the older and more-daring would approach the creature only to watch it vanish immediately, leaving behind not a single trace of its existence.

Those who were savvy enough, however, were quick to realize that the cause of the hedge maze monsters was likely one of the newer students, possibly seeking to practice with his or her power without other people nearby to serve as a distraction. Or, perhaps, they wanted to be alone and were using their power in an effort to intimidate others into staying away.

The grown man wandering the maze that night was not a savvy student, nor was he a daring thrill-seeker. Instead, the exhausted man making his way through the hedges in the dark was none other than Yasuhiro Hagakure: Janitor.

He had gotten lost in the hedge maze somewhere around 11 AM and had remained lost throughout the day. Long since having given up any hope of being rescued, the tired custodian feebly walked aimlessly for hours.

That is, of course, until he turned a corner and practically bumped right into tonight's fantasy novel monster.

His scream is surprisingly high-pitched for such a tall guy.

It was quite a feat, really, both being lost in the hedge maze—which wasn't an excessively large one—and the scream. Almost immediately, the 'monster' vanished into nothing by quickly melting away into the shadows, only to be replaced moments later by Ashley turning the nearby corner and coming into view. Judging by her expression, she was kind of amused, especially by how the person reacting was an adult rather than one of her fellow students, but at the same time she was also kind of not.

"Do you mind? The screaming is a bit distracting."

She would have preferred to remain uninterrupted, honestly.

It really was. Hagakure knows full well how small the maze is, but he had been relying on his premonitions to guide him out of there. His powers of precognition being what they were, he ended up more wrong turns than right ones.

Hagakure stares in terror at the place where the beast previously was for a few moments, as if it might reappear as quickly as it had vanished, before even acknowledging the girl's presence. Only then does he stop shrieking.

"O-Oh! Oh, that was just you, then, right? Sorry." His voice had regained a bit of its depth. "Are you a student? Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm glad I'm not the only one lost in here."

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"Lost?" She parroted. "That's impressive. You know you could just hug one of the walls and you'd eventually make it out, right? I'd imagine it shouldn't take more than ten minutes."

Seriously, lost in the school's own hedge maze. That either required skill, or an incredible lack of attention. And this guy was...? No, it would have spoken volumes if this man was one of the teachers, and though Ashley's opinion of the place was still bordering on DO NOT WANT, she actually didn't want more reason to think less of it.

"Do you need me to lead the way?" Her tone here is completely deadpan. Not bothering to feign sympathy. Not bothering to show an interest in helping. Making the offer anyway, however, mostly so he can be not here to start screaming again at the next bit of shadow she decides to animate.

[He wouldn't have normally thought about it, but since John's post about ghost walks...]

That thing everyone keeps seeing in the maze... It's a student, right? There's no way it's something like a ghost or a monster!

...Right?

[Ashley takes a moment before responding, trying to decide if she wants to accept the blame immediately or let this drag on for awhile. She's well aware that some people have seen her out there—or rather, what she's doing out there, so a message like this one was pretty inevitable.

She settles on letting it drag on, to keep people guessing for a bit.]

It has to be a student. Ghosts and monsters aren't real.

[phew, someone who wasn't going to mess with him! Or so he thinks]

That's what I thought! But I wonder who that student is. Do you think they make actual things or just shadows?

[she might not like dealing with people, but the last thing she needs is to cause another incident here when causing incidents at her last school was what brought her here to begin with. Alhough...that previous school's incident was from creating her shadow constructs right there in the classroom, as opposed to simply discussing it on a school-operated message board, one where topics like this were probably pretty normal.

So, she won't mess with him here. Not yet, at least.]

Who knows, it could be both for all anyone knows. Actual things made out of shadows? What do you think?

[Give him a while to think about it]

I think that is cool. As long as they don't hurt anyone, they could have all the pets they want!

[There's a noticeable pause before the next response comes. Admitting that he thought it was cool caught her a bit off-guard and made her decide it might be best not to mess with him much further than just playing the part of a curious fellow student like this. That statement about pets also reminded her that she misses her cat, which is back home all the way over in Colorado.]

I'm sure we'd be hearing a lot more about it if they were actually hurting anybody. The faculty would be keeping an eye out and everything if that were the case, and the student would probably be in a lot of trouble once they were caught.

I guess that's true. But I still wonder why they're in the maze. That just makes it scary.

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