Test Drive Meme 008

[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!

Knight Quest

Upstairs in the games carriage there is a VR game set. There are enough headsets and controllers for four people to play. One of the games is Knight Quest!

A game that can either be played on single adventure mode or with the other three headsets in a campaign mode. It is a typical fantasy rpg about a young hero who is searching for a magical item to save the world. The story is simple but fun and engaging. The hero has a sword and shield and fighting in this game requires some physical skill, but practice makes perfect!

Games are a good way of gaining skills so team up and save the world, fighting monsters and practising fighting in a safe controlled environment! Just… Don’t bash into each other.

Making your own Fun

The standard coach doesn’t have all that much in it. Just rows of seats, though at the front of the carriage seats have been ripped up and bookshelves installed.

It’s a good place to read or write in their journals. Or annoy other passengers by climbing from one side of the carriage to the other without touching the floor.

Rehabilitation

The train has arrived at a collection of planets. That is good because your task is finding a place for the lindusi (large lizard creatures, recently rescued from a dying planet) to be settled and the more choices the better.

Team One

The first job is predominantly scouting. The scientists in charge of the lindusi relocation project have given the team a list of important features for a planet to have.

It’s like a scavenger hunt but for running water, certain types of plants, prey animals and other features. They have lent the void treckers some basic scientific equipment for testing the environment.

Team Two

Not all of these planets are going to be empty of hostile creatures. The second teams task is to accompany the first team and keep them safe. They have been given shielding devices, easy to use energy shields large enough to fit two people behind. They are handheld and a quick press of a button will activate the shield.

There are plenty of predators, from bears to strange flying aliens that want to eat you. Good luck!

Team Three

Once a suitable planet has been found the third team are to get the lindusi there. In shuttle ships. They aren’t too difficult to pilot, which is good because the lindusi relocation program is very short staffed.

Once they are safely landed it is a case of releasing them into the wild, in safe locations away from any immediate danger. The lindusi are still recovering from their trip through space after all.

Comments

[longforgottenpromise]

He shook his head. "Not like this."

He's never heard it called a void before, but he actually knows very little of crossing from one place to another. Despite the fact he had done it multiple times.

"But in my world we know there is another world. Though that world is unaware of ours. To cross between them it is possible to open a gate from one to the other. I do not know if that is the void."

He doesn't think it is this void. This seems different. This man had travelled in the void as well, before this train. Taiki is curious about that but unsure at asking questions of this stranger.

[so_dark_a_road]

"If that other world is in a separate universe, then you must cross the Void to get to it. How do you open the gate? Is that by technological means or arcane means?" Because such crossings may occur by science, or they may occur by what many cultures would call magic.

Taiki's curiosity will be met with openness, if he should want to ask questions. Curufin is fascinated by this topic himself, and he will gladly share whatever he has experienced.

"I didn't introduce myself, by the way. I'm Curufin Fëanorion, and I'm of the Elven race." That last might not have been obvious, since Curufin's ears are not particularly pointed, only slightly tipped, but no more so than are the ears of some mortals. He does have an aura of otherworldliness, however. Like all his relatives.

[longforgottenpromise]

"Magic." He confirmed. He accepted that if there indeed was this void between universes then going from one place to another required crossing this void. That there were places that could do so with magic similar to the gogou gate and there were places that could cross by technological means.

Actually that last one was more impressive, the crossing of universes was in his head an altogether magical phenomenon so the idea of it being recreated with science was interesting.

His train of thought is interrupted as the man introduced himself. The name isn't like any he has heard before but then again the man doesn't look like anyone he's ever seen before either in his world or on earth.

Elven race? He knows of elves from mythology, his research on earth had taken him to many old stories from all over earth. Elves often turned up in European folklore. But they were often small, mischievous creatures and this man is neither of those things.

"It is nice to meet you Curufin Fëanorion." He had given his full name so using it was probably correct. He knows that addressing people politely is different across cultures even in the same world never mind different universes. "I'm Taiki. Um. What manner of people are the elven race?"

[so_dark_a_road]

Rather than resembling the miniaturized fairies of the stories told in Elizabethan times, Curufin is more like the ancient and legendary Tuatha de Danann of Ireland, a magical race of warriors, poets, and famous rulers. But they were from a different Earth than Curufin's.

Taiki is right about polite address among the Elves. Curufin Fëanorion means Curufin son of Fëanor, and that is how Elves address each other on first meeting, by given name and surname. Taiki hasn't given himself a last name, however, so Curufin simply speaks his first name with the utmost formality.

"I am pleased to meet you too, Taiki. If you have any questions about this train or its passengers, I'm happy to give whatever information I have. And as for the Elven race, we're very long-lived compared to the mortal races. We aren't actually immortal, we simply age very, very slowly. We live for thousands of year, and could theoretically live for hundreds of thousands, though I've never known of any Elves who actually lived that long. We're powerful and energetic, and we love the arts and crafts, and we have our own sciences. We have a different fate than mortals do. They leave the Earth when they die, and we do not know where they go. We, on the other hand, can never leave the Earth. We are bound to it forever. When we die, we journey from our chosen home, Middle-earth, traveling as spirits over the Great Sea to the land of our gods, and there in the halls of our death god we dwell either until the world ends or until the gods decide we're worthy of reincarnation. Those they allow to re-embody and leave those dark halls sometimes return to Middle-earth and sometimes remain in the gods' country." He laughs softly. "Except a few of us, myself included, have figured out how to re-embody ourselves without the help of the gods. I refused the summons of the death god, stayed in Middle-earth, and returned myself to life. I broke all the rules."

He smiles. "That may be more than you wanted to know. Forgive me, I'm something of a compulsive talker."

[longforgottenpromise]

He was sure he would have many questions and he is glad to have someone who doesn't mind answering them. He listened silently whilst Curufin spoke. Honestly it was a good thing to find someone who have so much information when asked limited questions.

A longed lived race who loved arts and science, who did not die but went to the lands of the gods.

He knew of earth ideas of heaven. In his world there wasn't really an idea of an afterlife. The dead were just dead, in Tai especially people were very pragmatic about such things.

Yet this man had defied his gods, returned himself to life. Broke all the rules. It sat with him uneasily, though they were not his gods and not his world, and clearly Curufin was here now, his gods had not destroyed him.

"I don't mind." He really doesn't, what Curufin had said was interesting. "It is very different to what I know."

[so_dark_a_road]

Being someone who loves language and the language arts, including simple, factual description of a situation or an environment. So he doesn't mind answering questions about the train, and rather enjoys it. Likewise, answering questions about himself. But he also likes asking questions and listening to the answers.

The afterlife in Curufin's world isn't heaven. It's the dark Halls of Mandos, in which spirits drift about without aim, and in which they tend to be solitary unless there are particular people they wish to meet again after death. Curufn had no affinity for such an afterlife, and he was afraid that his gods would judge him harshly for his actions during life, and never allow him to leave those dim Halls. So he didn't take the chance. Whether these gods would have destroyed him for such disobedience or not, he did not know. He had cleverly escaped the disapproval of his gods by making himself unobtrusive until such time as he was snatched into another world. Maybe the gods had known where to find him and never exercised their power to do so. Or maybe they had not really disapproved; maybe they had understood that he had returned to the land of the living in order to make amends to some people whom he had harmed during his first life. There was no way of knowing that now.

"Tell me of your world? Do your people have an afterlife?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"No." He shook his head. "They don't." Curufin's world sounded very different from his own and also earth.

"I spent time on another world though. They have many religions and many ideas of the afterlife."

He had come across quite a lot, in his search for understanding anything about what could have happened to him in the year he had forgotten.

(Continued here