Test Drive Meme 006

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to our Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab some samples and start having fun!

1. Post with your character. I’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they have been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action!

3. Have much fun!

Happy testing!

Void Trecking

The thing about being on a train hurtling through void space is there’s not much to see. Outside the window lies an endless void of kaleidoscope colours shifting and swirling. It’s probably best not to stare at it too long. Do so and you might start to imagine order in it. Shapes, places, even figures. But your eyes shift... Back to chaos. Probably best you do something else other than stare out the window. Or convince your fellow passengers that void watching leads to headaches!

Relaxing

The newest carriage to be added to the Voidtrecker Express is a rock garden. In a glass domed carriage, flickering with the light of the void the rock garden is a peaceful and medative space, full of mosaics, a pond, fountains and small stony bridges.

It's also the closest to an outside space you have and so is likely to be used for less than peacful activities. Splash in the rivers, race around the paths. Or try and relax on a bench and read amongst the chaos.

Goblin Town

Goblins riding wolves, everyone's favourite foe. The wolves fly, obviously and the goblins fight with short spears, almost like knights on horseback if the knights were terrifying and demonic looking. They are causing trouble by harassing a small village.

Team One

Fight the goblins. A handful of weapons have been provided but mostly you need to try and outsmart the goblins. They can come from any direction, including up. Try and keep the village safe from their attacks.

Team Two

Protect the villagers, help them barricade their houses. Deal with any goblins that get through team one's defences. Some of the villagers want to help and that's alright, some of the villagers want to help and are still in single digits, that's probably less alright. Keep everyone safe!

Team Three

The thing with sieges is, some things still need to happen. People still need to eat. Babies need fed and looked after. Animals need tended. Try and help with the logistics of everything in the heart of the village, as far away from the fighting as possible.

Pick a team, go wild!

Comments

[stealsyourheart]

"What's a cultivator?" Kaito asks curiously.

"And are you saying your monsters puppet people?"

[yilingdaddy]

Wei Ying grins and shrugs. "It's what we call ourselves. The path we take for using our spiritual cores." Nevermind the fact this body of his has a very weak core...

"There are monsters, and then there are puppets made from corpses."

[stealsyourheart]

"Huh." He considers.

"So you're like the miko and houshi in my world, I guess."

He blinks. "EW?!"

[yilingdaddy]

"Eh? Only the newly dead can be used as puppets!" Which...He knows. First hand. "Less smell!"

[stealsyourheart]

"Dude, that's even worse!" Kaito gestures animatedly.

"Do you want to start a zombie apocalypse?!"

[yilingdaddy]

Wei Ying laughs, having to lean against a wall to stay upright. He doesn't have to know what the word zombie means to understand.

"They're not that difficult to deal with!"

[stealsyourheart]

Kaito points a finger at him and wags it.

"Oh no. You magic wizard people might find it easy, but anyone whose played a few games or watched the right movies know that it's the literal Worst Thing Ever! You can't kill what's already dead!"

[yilingdaddy]

giggle

Wei Ying struggles to contain his laughter, but Kaito is just adding fuel to his amusement! Just. Gonna. Slide on down to the floor.

BUT.

FOCUSING.

He wipes his eyes with another couple laughs. "What's a...movie?"

[stealsyourheart]

Kaito is not upset at this reaction, clearly!.

He mimes a shocked gasp.

"You... don't know what a movie is? MY FRIEND, YOU ARE IN FOR AN EDUCATION"

He points dramatically.

"To the entertainment car! Although there's not a great selection, we should still be able to find you something."

A teeny bit more seriously. "Movies are basically plays - you know what they are, yeah? But we record them - capture pictures over and over and play them back so fast it looks like they're moving. Add sound over the top and special effects, and BOOM."

[yilingdaddy]

Oh. He likes you, Kaito~

Wei Ying laughs and scrambles back to his feet and dares to get close enough to sling an arm casually across Kaito's shoulders.

"Aah. That must take a lot of time!"

Definitely will be dragging Lan Zhan to see these 'movies'!

[stealsyourheart]

Thank you, thank you, he's here all week.

He grins back.

"For the guys who make em? Oh yes. Months and months and months! Years, sometimes. But they're getting really damn impressive, these days. C'mon, I'll show you."

COMMENCE DRAGGING.

[yilingdaddy]

Only a week? Aww...

He's definitely impressed by the amount of time people spend on one of these movie things. Kaito won't have any trouble dragging him along, though Wei Ying lets him take the lead as he doesn't know what each of these train compartment things are called just yet.

"Don't they get bored doing one thing over and over again though?"

[stealsyourheart]

After a week his services can be paid for by the hour~

"I figure they must like it, or they wouldn't keep doing it, right?"

He briefly names the carriages as they walk.

[yilingdaddy]

.....THAT'S NOT ANY BETTER

....Trade?

Wei Ying gives him a playful little shove of the shoulder as he lets go, and links his arms at his back as they walk. He makes note of each carriage and what Kaito calls them, knowing his husband will want to hear all he's learned.

"Ahh, I guess so."

[stealsyourheart]

Whaddoyougot for trade~?

He grins at him. "Well. They get paid too. And pretty handsomely, from what I hear!"

[yilingdaddy]

...His dazzling company?

Wei Ying laughs. "Aaah, I see! Do you make a lot being a...magician?"

[stealsyourheart]

Bzzt try again!

"Nah. I'm still a student. Once I graduate, mebbe."

[yilingdaddy]

OH COME ON! That's all he has right now! Lan Zhan doesn't even have his money bag here!

Oh! What about music? He promises not to summon any dead that might be haunting the train.

"Aah? How much longer do you have?"

[stealsyourheart]

Deal!

"I graduate high school next year. After that....well, most people go on to uni, but I might not."

[yilingdaddy]

Excellent~

What a wha...? Wei Ying is just. Gonna give Kaito a perplexed look. "H-high school? Uni?" BWAH?

[stealsyourheart]

"Yeah." He eyes his confusion. "Lemme guess, you don't have those where you're from? The government mandates compulsory education up until you're 15. After that, though, most people keep going until at least 18, and most will go on to university - higher education, that is. University's more for... vocational type training though. School teaches basic stuff, you know - reading, writing, history, add a bit of art and exercise for proper roundedness. University, you're studying for the job you want later. But me, I want to be a magician. Suppose I could do a degree in Performing Art, but I could just as easily just start working too."

Of course, in Kaito's case it's more because he's planning on spending those years aggressively hunting down Pandora...

[yilingdaddy]

Wei Ying only shakes his head to confirm Kaito's comment, and listens to the explanation.

"Our families, clans, and sects take care of schooling. Sometimes we're sent to other clans for lectures and extra teachings. If you're in a cultivation clan and can form a golden core, you already know what you're going to be doing. The average people have their own system, but it generally stays in the family."

[stealsyourheart]

"Yeah, we used to have something similar."

Until the Meiji Revolution, cough.

"But this way, everyone is guarunteed a base level of education, and you can go on to do pretty much anything you're good enough to learn, irregardless of clan or class."

Unless you're the Emperor, anyway.