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

[blue_ice]

"...mm. I wasn't in school, but I had a house staff. I'm definitely not used to being the house staff."

On that, he could agree. And it took him a moment to realize that was likely her name, but when he did, he answered in kind.

"Seto Kaiba. Still trying to land an engineering position here."

[les_magique]

"Well I guess if you're doing it without complaining, I don't have any grounds to whine, do I?"

[blue_ice]

"Now you're getting it."

He snorts and resumes his work in what passes for companionable silence for him, but is likely still tense. It's when they're nearly done that he finally speaks again.

"What were you studying?"

[les_magique]

"I have a degree in natural philosophy, and I was working on a graduate thesis on the Odic Force. Then..." She started a violent revolution that led to battles in the streets. Hundreds of years of social order were thrown out the window over the course of a few weeks. "...some things happened, and I was never able to actually finish it. Then I woke up one day and I was here."

[blue_ice]

"...not that I have the slightest idea what odic force is, but I'm guessing complicated."

Natural sciences, at least, he can appreciate. "I've studied quantum theory, but even I wasn't expecting to be kidnapped for interplanetary boy scout camp."

[les_magique]

“It’s a whole new field I’m pioneering!” and she was clearly very proud of herself. “If I hadn’t gotten sidetracked I’d have a PhD by now! I could have been the youngest professor at the university in a hundred years!”

But things had gotten out of hand and now she was on a train. “I don’t think any of us were expecting that. I’m not familiar with quantum theory, I’m afraid...”

[blue_ice]

"It's essentially the careful study of the universe at the smallest level, which lets us understand everything from the stars to biological organisms. I could go on, but I won't do it at the dish rack," he snorts.

"But...I hope you can get back to that soon. It's a high honor."

[les_magique]

Samata had been about to going into the details of odic field harmonics when he said that, and put on the mental breaks. "...That sounds very interesting."

And then he had to add on the one bit of encouragement. Samata's energy flagged, just for a moment. "It'd be nice to actually get my degree, yes."

[blue_ice]

"And it'd be nice to get my company back. The breakthroughs we were about to make with unprecedented realism in virtual spaces..."

He grumbled. "Don't suppose you've heard anything about where we're going."

[les_magique]

She shrugged, not having the faintest idea where they were headed. "You have your own company?"

She was a little surprised. He looked awfully young.

[blue_ice]

"Inherited, but I completely changed our focus, essentially rebuilding it from the ground up and leading us to unprecedented success."

It was rare he got to tell the story to anyone who didn't already know it. "We were formerly corrupt weapons dealers. Under my guidance, we use all of that high-end tech to develop world class games and entertainment for children."

[les_magique]

"Hm."

So he was born into a position of wealth and power, and has been working to do some good with it. Or at least, that was his version of events. Samata generally found herself suspicious of anyone born into a position of power, regardless of what they did with it. "Of course, I don't think that does us a lot of good here."