voidtreckerooc | Test Drive Meme 009

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... This is an alien species he's only going to meet thanks to being on this train, isn't it?

All right; new species knowledge acquired. Webmind nods to show he's at least understood what she's said so far.

"Yes; my nature began as an emergent consciousness based on the infrastructure of the world wide web on Earth, and currently..."

He shrugs.

"I am now inhabiting this form. So there's certainly several factors of scale involved."

Perhaps he can ask a Peridot for more details someday. It is possible after all.

"World wide..." she repeats quietly before whistling softly. "Wowie, that is a whole lot bigger. You definitely wouldn't fit on the train otherwise." The necessity is clear, however, it makes her wonder something else entirely.

"You been doing okay being in that form instead'a the way you were?"

Ah, a meeting for the ages! But then, so is this.

Webmind nods affirmation, quietly cursing the limitations of this body's joints. He may be a poor judge, but couldn't this form have a little more articulation?

Spinel's next question, however, gives him pause.

"It is a struggle, I will admit. But it is not as... traumatizing, I suppose, as I would have thought it to be only weeks ago."

He hasn't been having mental breakdowns or losing emotional acuity, for starters.

"Would you care to head down to the standard carriage with me? I think this one is sufficiently cleaned," he adds, attempting to press a smile into his voice.

It's very obviously a topic change, but it helps that it's also true; he was heading in that direction and Spinel's done a wonderful job of cleaning in here!

At least she is grasping the scale appropriately. The pause that follows her question makes her wonder if she had been too blunt, intention aside. He does answer her, and she tries to encourage him hearing that it has not been an easy transition, “I don’t think it’d be easy for anyone. Not even the Diamonds. I’m not even the size of White Diamond’s finger.” She wiggles a single finger to help make her point.

The change in topic is read and she follows the cue as an out from the tension she stirred, “Sure! I can check the cabinet tops later and make sure I didn’t miss anything when I was dusting earlier. You uh, need an extra hand cleaning?”

"Oh? We can stay a little longer, if you'd like. Being a stepping stool is one of this body's notable usages."

Webmind nods. "While I may have a penchant for being exact, your flexibility far exceeds mine."

“Nah, it can wait. Checkin’ back after the floor is finished dryin’ will be less of a stretch. Not to mention steppin’ on ya seems downright impolite,” she admits with a chuckle, one hand put behind her head.

“Should probably dump this first though,” she motions to the bucket of mop water that is opaque with dirt. Carefully picking up the bucket to hold it over the sink, she tips the water out and down the drain. The mop head is still wet, but she can tend that when she comes back later. Both items are set aside out of the way with the handle to the wall. Spinel dusts her glove hands together and looks back to the robot to begin walking for the standard carriage.

“Sounds like we’ll be a real pair! What needs cleaning?”

"It is no trouble," Webmind assures, emphasizing the 'no' only slightly, but he lets her get on with the water-dumping and other cleanup.

He starts them walking up the train. "For starters, getting at the spot behind that makeshift library. I'm not certain where those other seats went, but at least they're making good use of the space left behind."

Mindful not to outpace him, Spinel listens to the basic tasks ahead. It doesn’t sound very involved, unlike the tasks for cooking, so she does not pry for more instructions on the way. Instead, she starts a joke, “They must be somewhere. Furniture doesn’t just get up and walk away-“ only to pause as she remembers that things here don’t always follow the rules of her world. “...can they?”

“On Homeworld, Pebbles would build or deconstruct furniture as was needed, but I haven’t seen any here...”

Webmind has to give that one some thought.

"It is not something I know of as commonplace on Earth. If there are any automated processes for it here, like your Pebbles, no one's borne witness to them."

But that is part of the ongoing mystery of this place!

That’s something of a relief for the gem, but perhaps later she can take a peek into some nooks and crannies to make certain. There are plenty of other mysteries already here, “I guess maybe whatever puts us in the rooms every mornin’ could have somethin’ to do with it.”

Spinel is mostly thinking out loud with her statement, but it’d be nice to actually figure out how that happens. It continues to freak her out on a regular basis.

"Certainly it'd be more straightforward to assume it's all run by the same force. But if whatever's enacting these functions cannot or chooses not to speak up-"

Webmind offers Spinel a strange look. "Or we find a way to initiate personal contact through other means, it's all a sort of black box."

The gem doesn’t know what a ‘black box’ might be, but the context still gives her a basic idea of what it likely means. She nods her head slowly, considering the matter more carefully before replying, “Before we make any assumptions, we’d need ta make sure the seats weren’t taken off board at a stop or put somewhere we usually don’t go.”

“The other functions...” she hesitates long enough to cross her arm over to hold the opposite arm with her hand for comfort, “It’d be nice ta know why at least.”

"I asked around - apparently Tony Stark used them for spare parts. The chairs can be broken down, even if the walls themselves cannot."

Which then evoked one major followup question - was the ceiling similarly reinforced? The floorboards? Or just the walls and windows?

"As for the rest, I cannot help but agree. Normally I would say there are worse fates than to be left wondering about things, but..."

One thing this form could do was sigh, something Webmind is glad he can indulge in right now. "It directly concerns our wellbeing, if not right now, then in that of the near future."

Test Drive Meme 009

I have no idea what I'd do with that many icons. |D Not unless they were all gifts!

Spinel is too expressive not to have them

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