Test Drive Meme 002

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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!

Luggage Handling

The last carriage of the train is full of luggage. It’s all empty but there sure is a lot of it. Suitcases, old fashioned travelling trunks, rucksacks. And they are scattered everywhere, a safety concern to be sure.

Or perhaps the most fun place on the train, if you are thinking about it right. These cases could be anything, a fort, a bunker. How many can you stack up until they are too high to reach or they tumble down on top of you?

Let out your inner child and relieve some of the boredom of being stuck on a train by creating the luggage castle of your dreams, or step in before disaster strikes and attempt to bring some organisation to this chaos.

Scavenger Hunt

You’ve found yourself on a world that seems to be one huge scrap yard. At least all the parts you can see are and you aren’t the only ones there. A small fighter craft has crash landed here and the pilot needs help fixing their craft to get out of here!

Team One The parts needed must be around here somewhere! This place has all sorts and so it’s just a matter of trying to sort through all the junk to find what you are looking for.

Team Two Some parts from the actual ship are salvageable but it’s going to take a team to get this thing sky worthy again. Fix what can be fixed and get the craft ready for the spare parts that will hopefully be found.

Team Three This planet is not without its nuisances. Most prominent are some strange cyborg rats that have a taste for wiring. Fend them off before they get into the craft and render all the hard work undone.

A picnic with a view

Heroes deserve rewards every now and again and after a few days of protecting a settlement from strange shape shifting alien blobs there is a moment to relax before boarding the train once more.

What a place to relax in. High up on a cliff overlooking a vast plain of crystal stalagmites. The light of two suns reflects of them creating a dazzling prism mirror effect of colour, it’s almost like hovering above a sea of rainbows.

A picnic has been provided by some grateful villagers, the food is strange but delicious and a perfect way to unwind after a stressful few days.

Comments

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin chuckles. "Oh well, I did get answers to those questions. Because you answered them. And now I still have a million questions, but they're mostly a lot harder to answer than my childish questions were!"

He stands up and puts his weight on the injured foot. It hurts, but not much. He'll be able to walk on it. And he smiles at his grumbly older brother.

"Didn't you even have questions like that? I guess if you did, you'd have pestered Tyelko and Kano and Nelyo with them. Or did you just figure it all out yourself?"

[grumpycatanthir]

"Hmph."

Caranthir watches him with a critical eye, nodding when Curufin walks on it.

"I know how to use a library." He snaps gruffly.

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin gives his brother a kindly look, for taking such good care of Curufin in the past and in the present.

"I know you do. I helped you study for your mastery, remember?" He had come to the library to "help" his brother, clambering up on a chair and sitting down at the big table with his crayons and paper, chattering and asking questions and making flash cards out of the answers Moryo gave him.

[grumpycatanthir]

"'Help'. Yeah." Caranthir rolls his eyes, remembering. But despite the growl, the cuff is fond.

"How's the foot." He changes subject, not wanting to dwell on the mushy stuff.

[so_dark_a_road]

"Some of those flashcards were for you, remember? And you aced your exam." So, it must have been Curvo's 'help' that was responsible, right? He grins at his brother's eye roll and tries unsuccessfully to dodge the cuff. It makes him laugh.

"My foot is all right. It doesn't hurt very much, and you did an excellent job of bandaging it. I'm sure it will heal quickly."

[grumpycatanthir]

Caranthir eyes him beadily, trying to work out if he's being flippant to hide pain.

"Hmph." He opinions, electing to trust that Curufin is fine.

"We had best find you a proper healer, just in case."

[so_dark_a_road]

A good thing to wonder about, considering Curufin's history of cracking jokes while limping or being carried to the healer's tent.

But this time, he is fine, so Caranthir need not worry about him.

"I suppose there must be a doctor on this train. They've supplied us with practically everything else. But tell me, Moryo, how are you doing? What did you think when you found yourself on the platform and had to get on one of the carriages?"

[grumpycatanthir]

He shrugs, putting his kit away and getting up.

"I was bored." He says succinctly. "This is a welcome change."

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin looks around to see if there is anything else he ought to be doing at this minute, considers the junk heaps, and then decides he can take the time to talk to his brother. He hasn't seen him in, like, forever!

"Did you come from the Halls of Mandos? Or from some other world?"

[grumpycatanthir]

Caranthir raises an eyebrow at him.

"Obviously I came from the Halls. Unlike some of us, I do actually have a sense of self-preservation."

Necromancer maia you idiot baby brother.

[so_dark_a_road]

"No wonder you were bored." He raises an eyebrow right back at his brother.

"I intended to preserve my sanity, actually. I'd have gone crazy if I were shut into those dark Halls. But I'm sorry you woke there to find me not there."

That necromancer Maia was too thick-headed to catch sneaky Curufin.

[grumpycatanthir]

"There's only so much you can do without a body." Caranthir agrees.

He snorts. "You worried us." He says frankly. "Grandmother Miriel couldn't find you in the tapestries for a while."

[so_dark_a_road]

Of course, Moryo would have had a chance to visit Míriel -- she was working in Vairë's weaving shop! One more person Curufin had missed, not having gone to the Halls.

"I'm sad not to have met her. I've always been curious about her. And I'm very sorry to have worried you. You looked for me in Grandmother's tapestries? Did she ever find me there at all? Or was I just. . . absent."

[grumpycatanthir]

"When I said we couldn't find you, did you think I was joking?" He snaps at him crossly.

"I have never seen Father so distressed as when he thought that Sauron got you."

After all, death was just death. By now, everyone knew what capture meant.

[so_dark_a_road]

"No, brother, I didn't think you were joking. I am sorry to have worried Father, too."

[grumpycatanthir]

"You're supposed to be the smart one." Caranthir cuffs him.

"Next time, think!"

[so_dark_a_road]

Ouch!

"I did think. I thought that if I went to the Halls of Mandos, I'd NEVER be let out again. I wasn't even sure I'd be allowed to be with my kin."

[grumpycatanthir]

"I know Namo and Morgoth share the same favourite color but they aren't that alike." He snorts. "Did Luthien walk in and find herself penned in? And don't you start that she was half-maia. She was half-elf, too, and bound to our rules as well as theirs. More even! We're fenced out of Valinor, you idiot, not from each other. Kinda hard for 'all who ye have wronged' to pity you if they aren't there to do it."

[so_dark_a_road]

"I should hope Námo and Morgoth aren't alike, but I feared that I'd be cast into some dark cell and never allowed even the comfort of my family. I'm not exactly innocent, you know, and Námo did threaten us when we were leaving Aman. And the rumor is that those who have done great evil are never returned to life. What do the Valar care, even if I repented? And you know me, I bristle like a dog when somebody other than my brothers tells me I have to do something. I'm not exactly meek and biddable."

[grumpycatanthir]

"He's not cruel." Caranthir says. "Just really really boring. And I don't expect to return to life - what, do you honestly think anyone in safe Valinor would let us come back? Other than Uncle Arafinwe. But you worried us, idiot."

[so_dark_a_road]

"I couldn't bear the thought of not returning to life. After I refused the summons, I spent some time in contemplation, and then I started to work on re-embodying myself without the help of the Valar. I was having some success, too. And that's because I'm sure you're right, the Valar would never let us come back to Valinor, and even if they did, we wouldn't exactly be welcome!"

But he looks affectionately upon his brother. "I really am sorry I worried you. I was trying to work out a way to get a message to you without getting caught, but I hadn't yet figured out how."

[grumpycatanthir]

"As long as you don't get into trouble." Caranthir says severely, and cuffs him again, lightly.

[so_dark_a_road]

Oh those grumpy kitty cuffs! snicker

"Oh well, you know I'm smart enough not to get caught. I had an idea that I would sneak over via the Path of Dreams and give a message to Irmo to give to you. I don't think he'd give me away. I made wonderful dreams for him after I started to work on my music, and I feel almost as though he and I are friends."

[grumpycatanthir]

DON'T MAKE HIM BITE YOU!!!

Caranthir gives him the most dubious of dubious looks.

"Right. Sure. You realise they are brothers, right?"

[so_dark_a_road]

NO BITING, NO BITING! HAAAAAALP!

And oooh, that dubious look! Nobody can look dubious like Caranthir.

"Of course, the Fëanturi, the Masters of Spirits. Irmo is Námo's brother. But Irmo is a bit on the secretive side, and he loves the dreamers, especially the artists and musicians. I was guessing that if he mentioned the matter to Námo at all, he'd mention it after the fact. And then it would be too late for Námo to catch me, because I'd be gone like a streak of lightening."

He laughs a little.

"But I didn't get the chance to try it, so who knows?"