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

[cosmomemoryxiii]

"Your choice," Nanaki replied, but he was only reoffering what he had already asked. He didn't mind a passenger. But when the choice was final, Nanaki waited a moment with neck craned as he watched the bird gain height. It didn't look as easy as it seemed like it should have but the feline knew nothing of flight.

He took off shortly after. The red feline was probably as fast as Tobias would expect, traveling at about the familiar speed of a tiger. But he clearly could keep up the speed for far longer than an earth cat's short bursts and thus appeared to have the endurance more akin to a wolf. And he certainly didn't seem to mind any gaps in terrain as he easily leapt over large obstructions without hesitance and even bounced off tree trunks mid-leap to clear thick foliage. He was used to this sort of thing.

The big cat didn't slow until there were clear signs of the water ahead. The sound was obvious to the animal's ears and the scent grew in intensity. Once he slowed his pace he could smell the rodents the bird had mentioned, too. This might very well be the place they were looking for, or at least one good choice.

Ignoring the vegetation for now, Nanaki padded all the way up to the stream and sniffed at it. It seemed safe. He lapped up some of the water cautiously. Still seemed fine. His thirst quenched, he turned to look at the area around the stream. Was it good for the lizards they were transporting?

[bluetailedhawk]

Tobias was glad to reach the water, dropping back down again and gliding in for a relatively smooth landing next to Nanaki. It was always awkward, landing on the ground instead of a branch or a rodent, but he managed it without much issue. He ducked his beak into the water, giving it a little taste test, even though he didn't have the ability to taste it in quite the way a human would -- or Nanaki, for that matter.

<You sure you're actually a cat?> he asks, picking his head back up and peering around. His head darts this way and that, eyes finding movement. He's tempted, sorely, to have a little hunt, but he knows people wouldn't appreciate seeing that kind of thing.

[cosmomemoryxiii]

It wouldn't have bothered Nanaki. It was a natural part of life, after all. He'd hunted down worse things than rodents. He looked down at the hawk.

"I have been called and labeled as many things. A cat is fine." He shifted slightly, curled his tail in a little, tilted his head a bit. "I am the last of my species, as far as I know. Other than that..." He attempted what might have been a shrug were he human. A trait he had most definitely picked up from his previous travel companions.

[bluetailedhawk]

<That must be lonely,> Tobias replies, head tilting as he watches a tiny minnow-like fish wiggling its way down the stream. <You look like a cat, but you seem to have more stamina than they normally would.> He's half-tempted to ask if the guy's a nothlit, but he's pretty sure no one else on the train actually knows what that means. <So do you think these are the right plants?> he plucks a leaf off a nearby plant, as if Nanaki couldn't have seen it from where it was.

[cosmomemoryxiii]

"I have family and friends," he replied. But the truth was that his first thought was 'a bit' and that it was simply easier not to think about it. So instead he thought back to his adventures and the friends he made.

If there were anymore of his kind left out there he hoped he would find them in his continued travels. Perhaps one of them had escaped all of Shinra's horrible efforts at...all of their horribleness. His shook his mane out, clearing his head in the process.

"Hmm, let's see." Nanaki sniffed at the leave in Tobias's beak and then at the plant in question itself. Not that he actually knew what it was supposed to smell like, they hadn't been given that detailed of information, sadly Nanaki thought. But it was a familiar action and besides the closer his nose was to the plant the easier it was to see with his one good eye. "It could be. The leaves look similar to what they showed us."

[bluetailedhawk]

He knows that body language well enough to know he's poked a sore spot, and he makes a mental note to avoid bringing it up in the future. He puts the plant on the sandy edge of the water, pushing the broken end of it down into the soil, even though it probably wasn't going to save the plant. <I'm better at identifying animals than plants,> he admits. <And it's been a long time since I've worked with a team,> he hops, turning himself around to see if he could see the rest of their assigned group. <It probably wasn't a great idea to leave the humans behind, huh?>

[cosmomemoryxiii]

"Animals are definitely easier to identify by sight," Nanaki said agreeably. He was still gazing at the plants, tilting his head slightly, trying to decide if they really were the right species. Leaves were hard to classify as far as he was concerned.

He glanced away and to Tobias then to the far distance. He couldn't see anything but he wondered if the hawk's eyes could make people out back there. "They can take care of themselves," he said reassuringly. He wasn't certain if that's what Tobias was worried about but it felt like the right thing to say. Besides, it instilled confidence of their own abilities and ease to progress. "The only problem I see, is the wait. Though we can always go back and point them in the right direction."

[bluetailedhawk]

Tobias would've been able to see them, if he weren't shorter than some of the grasses between them and the rest. <Yeah, and this place doesn't exactly seem to be all that dangerous. I mean, no more than this kind of area on my home world,> he agrees, shuffling his wings against his back, leaning over to take another drink, since the water is there, and all.

<So do you find balls of string irresistible?> Totally normal bird and cat conversation. It's not lost on him that an earth cat Nanaki's size would normally be entirely willing to eat a bird like him if it had the chance. If anything, he finds it kind of amusing.

[cosmomemoryxiii]

For his own part, Nanaki flopped down on the grass to wait since they seemed to be doing such a thing. It wasn't like it would take much for him to get up if they changed their minds or some wild thing attacked them.

For the question the feline gave the bird a look. He was a big feline and one with the intelligence of a human and lifespan much greater, not a little house cat. A smaller wild cat might go after such a thing in lieu of small prey but not him. Besides, he wasn't much into playing. He was a noble warrior!

He huffed softly. "No, balls of string are only as useful as a two-legged can make it with their nimble hands," he replied as neutrally as he could manage. He meant for sewing or other artful things. Something an old lady might do.

[bluetailedhawk]

Tobias chuckled when he got the look. <I guess your fur package didn't come with all the instincts,> he replies. <Whenever I change into another animal, I get all the instincts that come with it. Even this body comes with some weird instincts. I've had to fight off the urge to find a mate every spring for years.>

He didn't want to give up the last shreds of his humanity and make little hawk babies. It just seemed weird.

[cosmomemoryxiii]

That wasn't true. Nanaki had plenty of animal instincts. He liked a good hunt every now and again to satiate the predatory instincts. Big cats just did not chase after small prey. It was also true though that he had to curb some instincts since his intellectual mind warred with his animal side. Humans would always see him as a wild animal, but his mind worked as sharp as theirs. Sometimes life could be cruel without physical pain.

Nanaki tilted his head in curiosity. "You change species?" A shapeshifter was very unusual. His tail flicked. "I wonder what that is like."

[bluetailedhawk]

Tobias bobbs his head up and down. <It's super gross, when I'm actually morphing between. It's really weird to be in a new body the first time -- the instincts are overpowering at first. Most of them are pretty enjoyable, though. Bugs and humans are the worst.>