voidtreckerooc | Test Drive Meme 009

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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

"I see."

Then it was something localized to them. So unless they deliberately spread it, then others didn't have to worry about it, even though this Ikoma seemed to have some thoughts on how it spread.

"That is good then."

"It is! We can fight the kabane now." She nods, cheerful. "Being kabaneri makes us strong!"

"That is also good. Being able to fight, for yourself and for others."

WangJi held a very strong sense of justice. It was admirable to him that others were willing to fight where possible, even if it was only a small group and not something larger.

"Yep!" She grins. "Big Brother always said, the strong live and the weak die. So now I'm strong."

"Or the strong must defend those who cannot defend themselves. That is what I do."

He may not necessarily seem like it at the moment, but he was quite formidable.

"Your brother sounds to be wise."

She sobers, a sad look in her eyes.

"He...he took care of me, when my station was swallowed. But... "

But he turned her into a weapon, as he did all the other girls, used her and discarded her, all for the sake of his revenge.

"He lied to me." She says softly. "He wasn't wrong about being strong. But Ikoma and Kajika and the rest of the Kotetsujo, they taught me there's a better way."

"Oh... I see. That is not the way a brother should be."

His own brother had taken good care of him, had always supported him. Ever since he could remember, he'd had XiChen on his side. Even when he did something against their sect in the name of the person he loved, XiChen was willing to take him back with appropriate punishment of course and help sweep it under the proverbial rug so no one who hadn't been there didn't know what he had done.

Not that he regretted it. He would do it again if he had the choice. But XiChen still had made it so the juniors and younger disciples didn't know.

"It is good you found others."

"No." She says sadly. "But he gave me my name, and he made me strong... so... I cannot... I can't really hate him."

Even though he DID name her "nothing"

"I suppose that is something." He suspected it was more negative, but it was not his place to pass further judgment unless she told him more about her brother. He had already said what he could say based on what he had been told.

"I am Lan WangJi."

So very very negative.

"Nice to meetcha, Lan WangJi! You sure you can't spare me a bit?"

After a moment, Wangji gave one nod. If she could not eat the food, then there didn't seem as much point to her staying to help. And it was not so hard of a chore.

"I can handle it, Maiden."

Since she had not told him her name.

"Booo." She sighs. "It's so hard to find people who will help me with food. Why's everyone so squeamish? I only need a bit. And I'll only get hungrier, at this rate."

She blinks. "I'm Mumei, not Maiden."

Oh... "I apologize. I... misunderstood your question."

He was quiet a moment after that before answering. "What would that entail?"

He hadn't completely agreed, but he was willing to consider.

"Maiden is a proper way of referring to a young woman where I am from."

"Up to you." She shrugs. "I really just need a little bit. Most people make a small cut and drip it into a cup or something."

"Oooooh." She nods. "Like how Lady Ayame talks! All polite. You're noble, then?"

"I suppose... I can help you with that. We would need something put it in."

He wasn't going to cut himself with a knife used for food, but he had Bichen sitting nearby. It was easy enough to cut his finger just enough. The good thing about cultivators healing quickly.

He gave a single nod. "I am the second master of Gusu Lan. My brother is the sect leader."

Mumei obligingly fetches him a cup to use.

"Whoa, that sounds important. Does your world have Stations and Master Keys too?"

"I have not heard of those. What are they?"

He was genuinely curious if they had anything similar in their world even if they weren't called by the same name.

But he did step away from the cooking, moving to pick up his sword. Without even touching the handle, the sword unsheathed a few inches, which was plenty. With that, he nicked his finger on the blade, not even flinching before moving his hand over the cup, letting the blood drip slowly into it.

She waits politely, and curls around the cup when he offers it the way someone might curl around a cup of tea.

"Stations are where people stay - we need the walls to keep the Kabane out. But because space is limited, the Stations rely on trade - so the Iron Fortresses travel from Station to Station, and the Nobles hold the Master Key to start the engines."

Once she took the cup which had a few drops of his blood, he cleaned his cut so that it could start to heal. The good thing with being a cultivator. Injuries healed surprisingly fast.

"We don't have anywhere specific. Homes and villages have safeguards against ghosts, such as the step into the courtyard since ghosts cannot lift their feet high enough to cross the barrier. No Iron Fortresses or keys."

She sips and listens.

"It sounds really nice." She says wistfully. "We don't have ghosts, only Kabane. They can't swim, so all the stations have moats, but if you don't have a wall, then it isn't safe. The Iron Fortressess are the only way to move around."

"I see. So you can't leave the secure area without risking being attacked by Kabane?"

They sounded rather dangerous to him, but then again, dangerous was subjective. He considered danger to himself differently than he did to normal people. This sounded dangerous to non-cultivators.

"Yep." She nods.

"I mean, they tend to stick to places with people, because they're always hungry. So if you're quick and clever and lucky, MAYBE you could make it between stations without the Iron Fortresses? Ikoma and Kurusu did it once, but they didn't go from one station to another, just from the train lines. But no one would let you in anyway, just in case you were carrying the virus."

"Hmm... that would be logical yes. If they let you in, there would the chance everyone would have it in short order. In our world, we typically don't have to deal with ghosts during the day and even so it is hard for a ghost to pretend to be living."

"Yep!" She nods. "The slow infections are the worst, because without a kabaneri you wouldn't know someone's infected until the Iron Cage forms and they try to eat you."

He looked at her curiously. "Iron Cage? What is the Iron Cage?"

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I meant *along* the train lines damnit

aww

I meant along the train lines damnit