Test Drive Meme 009

[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!

Dining Car

Situated above the kitchen the dining car has a large wooden table stretching the length of the carriage. Two long wooden benches run either side of it. At meal times it is inevitably crowded, chaotic and noisy without a doubt.

Try not to jostle your fellow diners as you navigate inter-universe table manners. Or is waiting better? Eating before or after everyone else so that you can eat in relative peace an entire table length from the next nearest person.

Or are you the rebel who starts a food fight?

Chores

Chores are part of life on board the Voidtrecker Express. Each team is assigned a task each month: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms, cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas, laundry and cooking.

Obviously the only thing enforcing these chores in a passengers own conscience and their fellow travellers.

Are you diligent or do you shirk? Do you try swapping your tasks with someone else? Or just outright bribing someone to do your work for you? Work together to get the task done or try and persuade a lazy team member to pull their weight.

Snow Way!

In a small village a copy-cat of the supervillain Professor Chill has struck! She has no weather machine but holds the same ability to control snow- and seems to be using natural winter to attack the village.

Team One

The village is being attacked by snowmen and ice golems. Magically animated ice creatures that attack with sticks and claws. Protect the village by fighting off the snow creatures!

Team Two

Many of the village have tried to escape through a mountain pass. Go and help them evacuate. Fend off monsters, carry children or luggage. Help the villagers through the snowdrifts.

Team Three

Our villain seems as fond of puns as her predecessor and finding her is made either easier or harder by the trail of clues left by her. Clues consist of puns, ice riddles and snow facts. Solve the clues and track her down to bring her to justice.

Snowball fight!

Of course once the monsters and villain have been defeated there is some time to have fun in the snow. If anyone can stand the sight of it any more. Snowballs, snow angels and snowmen (the non animated kind) are yours for the making.

Have fun!

Comments

Bai Lin | Original

[fistsofchange]

[Bai Lin is a warrior monk from 22nd century China, post world ending nuclear war. The whole setting is a sort of mashup of Fist of the North Star and Mad Max. Exiled from her temple by a corrupt abbot, Lin travels the wastelands battling gangs and warlords, armed with deep moral principles, an unsinkable optimism in humanity, and deadly martial arts that border on supernatural. A wuxia fighter with the personality of a golden retriever.]

[Dining car]

Whoever did the cooking tonight hadn't done a great job. The whole cabin was complaining about the flavorless stew that had been served up. Except for the travel worn woman sitting at one table, chowing down like she might not ever get to eat again.

She blinked and looked up when she noticed someone was staring at her, suddenly a bit self-conscious. She stopped to swallow her mouthful properly and looked around.

"What? I've had worse."

[Snow way, Team two]

Lin trudged through the snow, shivering. She'd be having a much better time of it if she didn't have a child on her back who had been straggling behind because he couldn't keep the pace up. She stopped when some of the snow goons came out of a thicket of trees and sighed.

"I'm going to put you down now, okay? Don't worry, I'll be right back once I deal with these."

Lin put him down, spent a few more seconds assuring him that everything would be okay, and then turned as the snow monsters started getting close. What happened next was hard to follow. It could only be described as an explosion of violence as she blurred between targets. Her strikes were lightning fast and caused explosions of ice and snow wherever they landed, and the way she moved made it almost look like she didn't weigh anything at all. She CLEARLY knew what she was doing, and against non-living opponents like these, she didn't have to worry about pulling her punches to not kill anyone.

Honestly, it didn't take very long at all for her to deal with the first wave by herself. There were more, though.

[Snowball fight]

You were holding your own when suddenly a big ol' lump of snow fell down on you from above. Looking up, you saw Lin way up in the tree you were standing next to, looking smug and balancing on a branch that didn't have any snow on it anymore.

"Gotcha!"

Team two.

[demonbloodblade]

"There's a bunch of them." Meliantha pauses.

"Do you want the ones on the right or the ones on the left?"

It's just casually said.

[fistsofchange]

She took a moment to shake snow and ice off of herself and glance at Meliantha. She wasn't sure what this gray woman was, but she didn't have time to ask questions just now.

"I'll take the ones on the left."

[demonbloodblade]

"Fine with me." She takes a deep breath, lets it out.

And with that, Meliantha is charging to the right, slamming one fist and then the other into the chest of an ice golem, cracking it diagonally, before one leg swung up and turned a snowman's head into a snowball, leaving it almost comically waving the sticks that served as arms through where the head had been.

She's not as fast, or as skilled, as Lin, but she's very, very strong.

[fistsofchange]

After a few minutes, the fight was over. Lin was panting for breath, but didn't seem to have been very seriously pushed.

"Whew. Thanks for the assist. They'll be back, though, so we better keep moving."

She picked the kid back up, who was looking at both of them with something like hero worship.