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

Re: Dining Car

[springforth]

"What--no? I don't bite?" Persephone eyes the mostly full plate in front of the girl and makes a firm motion to set her things down.

"What a kabane?"

[noname_mosquito]

Mumei sits up.

"You're from a world without Kabane too? Everyone here... so lucky... "

She frowns a little as she tries to explain. "Kabane are... not alive. Undead? They have an Iron Cage, and they are infectious. They bite."

And tear people apart and drink the blood and....

[springforth]

Suddenly, Persephone is not quite so hungry. The peice of fruit speared on her fork is carefully pushed back off and on to the plate once more. Undead who bite. Hades would never allow it.

"Are they creatures or normal mortal humans who escaped from the Underworld?"

[noname_mosquito]

"Underworld?" She looks curious.

"No. Kabane are... they're a virus. They kill the human, and only the kabane is left behind."

[springforth]

"You know, where mortal..." Oh this is probably a human. Well. She's bright pink, there's not much to hide it at this point. Right, subject change time.

"So it's a sickness. Or more like a parasite? Sometimes you get that in the natural world, things that attach and suck the life out of something to feed itself?"

[noname_mosquito]

"Something like that?" She shrugs. "I don't know. The virus infects you when the Kabane bites you, or sometimes through a cut. And then it kills you."

[springforth]

So more like a disease. A horrifying one. Mortals seem to deal with so many horrifying things in their short lives.

"But no one here has it, right? You're safe?"

[noname_mosquito]

She shrugs. "Well, if I bite someone I could spread it."

=D?

[springforth]

Her earnest concern still seems etched on her face for a beat too long. Then she pulls back just a touch, her expression shifting into...something. A different concern. She's not going to eat a thing today is she?

"Do you have it? I thought it would kill you?"

[noname_mosquito]

"I'm kabaneri." She says cheerfully. "Neither kabane nor human. We're existences in between."

She tugs down her shirt to reveal the glowing heart cage.

"A kabane body, but a human mind."

[springforth]

"... Well. I don't really understand at all what's going on then."

There's something about the glowing heart that makes her...uneasy. A squeamish horror of seeing it shine through, something about the way it pulses gold, like her own might. She can only imagine her own pulsing her chest, glowing through her skin. Tearing her eyes away, she pushes piles of peas together with her spoon, pretending hunger.

"Does it hurt?"

[noname_mosquito]

Shrugging the jacket back on she shakes her head.

"Not any more. When the scientists made me I guess it hurt? But I don't really remember that."

[springforth]

"Someone did that to you?"

Her distress colors her tone, her body language as she turns to the girl. It's made worse by her... nonchalance about the whole thing. Like it was a shot, not something that left her with a glowing heart in her chest.

[noname_mosquito]

"Yeah." She blinks at her, confused by her distress. "Big Brother told me that the Strong Live, and the Weak Die. To fight Kabane, I needed to be strong. So I volunteered."

[springforth]

"That's not..."

Persephone sits back, hard. Her hair is tumbling over her shoulders when a minute or two ago it brushed her ears, but she doesn't seem to notice.

"That's awful." She curls her hands on her lap, looking down for a long moment, then up with determination. "There were other ways to be strong."

[noname_mosquito]

Mumei does, and leans over to look at it curiously. "Your hair is growing!" She sniffs, curiously. "You smell like flowers."

Oh, yes, there was a statement there.

"Well, yeah. Takumi and Ikoma and Kaijika taught me that. But Big Brother needed volunteers, and I wanted to be strong."

[springforth]

Oh, her hair-- right. She twists a handful back behind her ear, giving a little shrug as a poor explanation. It's not important right now.

And, if she's honest, there's some projection with her distress. But it still sounds ... Not great.

"Did it actually make you stronger, in the end?"

[noname_mosquito]

Mumei sniffs her again, leaning in close.

"I can kill kabane now so yeah. How do you do that? You don't smell human, or kabane, or kabaneri."

[springforth]

Awkward but Perse has dealt with far less personal space. She smiles uncertainly.

"You can smell the difference between all those? Are they that distinct?"

[noname_mosquito]

"Yep!" She grins. "Kabane smell dead."

[springforth]

"And do Kaba..kabaniri? Do they smell different as well?"

It's as much a distraction tactic as it is genuine curiosity. Who defined a person based on smell?

[noname_mosquito]

"Yep! You can smell the kabane, but they never stop smelling human too."

She nods. "Once the iron cage forms, the scent changes."