Test Drive Meme 010

[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!

Greenhouse

The newest carriage is a greenhouse.

The ceiling is a dome shape, a single metal beam runs from one end to another, mounted on this beam are large bright lights.

The aisle of grass runs down the middle, from one door to the next. Stone paths branch off around raised beds of soil. Nothing is growing yet but there are crates in which passengers can find a whole host of seeds and bulbs for various flowers.

Plenty for passengers with green fingers to do! Plant some seeds, tend to those they have planted already. Chase away people who have no idea what they are doing! Remind them they have to take the seeds out of the packet first!

If planting is a new thing then the ICP has some handy gardening tips or they can always ask their fellow Voidtreckers!

Sports Balls

For those who prefer their hobbies much more energetic then the gym's cupboard is full of balls. Balls for every sport they can imagine! The space is long and narrow which means a little bit of adapting but there is plenty of fun to be had. Start a game of football, or basket ball.

Make some new friends and get some friendly rivalry going!

Monkey Madness!

It's a strange mission to be sure but the Voidtreckers have been called to help a huge zoo tackle a problem. Every monkey enclosure has been broken open and the creatures have gotten out and into the city, where they are causing mayhem.

Team One

Though the monkeys don't pose much threat to human life they cause quite a big of damage. Team one is to try and get as many businesses and homes safe as possible. Bring things indoors, reinforce doors and windows. Warn those in the city of the incoming horde!

Team Two

Round up the monkeys! The aim is to do this without harming and luckily they have some capture devices, that can be thrown to spring straps around a creature. Bribing them is also encouraged. The city has prepared vans for the creatures to be lured or taken to. Careful though, these monkeys are cunning and mischievous and clever enough to steal the capture devices and throw them back at the Voidtreckers! Who is catching who?

Team Three

Back in the zoo there is plenty to do. First and foremost the enclosures need fixing and reinforced. Also an investigation is underway to figure out what happened and who is responsible. If DIY or investigating work is not in a passengers skill set then there are still many other animals that need fed and cleaned!

Reward time!

Soon all the monkeys are back in their proper homes and the city put back to rights! As a thank you the zoo is handing out free ice cream and a free pass to enjoy the zoo for the day.

Have fun!

Comments

Wildcard - Stores! Aka, Chores!

[iamnotgod]

"... Excuse me?"

Came the polite, tinny voice of one robot Aaron's size - not that it was easy to see the source's face just now.

"I believe I do need help. I never expected to encounter these sorts of problems with having a body!"

Because that body had tripped, and was now unfortunately pinned by laundry. He didn't want to risk ripping anything in trying to get up!

[bornebygrace]

Aaron was just passing through to get some cleaner to take care of something else, but stopped at the tinny voice. He wishes he could be surprised, but some of the more interesting people on the train made it so he was hard to surprise at this point. He was more interested in what the being meant that they never expected to encounter whatever mess it was in with a body - what?

He went over to the laundry pile and dug the robot out of the laundry and offered a hand to help the being stabilize themself. He helped untangle the person from the laundry as they stood, a small smile breaking on his face.

"What a mess you got yourself into, huh? I'd think a robot would be a little less clumsy than me."

[iamnotgod]

Webmind's of a humble enough nature to find humor in the situation - though the robot's face can't look as bemused as he wants it to!

"Indeed. Being able to process the sensory data this body uses does not give me an advantage in detecting loose laundry, unfortunately."

Once he's back on his feet, though, he looks notably relieved.

"I've only been in this body for a mere fraction of my lifespan, which I know does not help matters either. Thank you for your assistance!"

He manages to sound distinct from a robotic sales assistant there.

"My name is Webmind - yours is Aaron, correct?"

Because of course Webmind would pay attention to the Passenger Roster.

[bornebygrace]

It seemed as if the joke was taken well, though Aaron found the robot a little hard to read. He struggled with nonliving living things and how they expressed themselves. They seemed to be quite a bit more comfortable once they were upright, though.

"It takes a bit to be situationally aware, maybe?" Aaron wasn't entirely sure if that was true, but he's always had a body as far as he knew. Clearly this was some kind of AI that was given a body somehow? Huh.

"Uh, yeah. I'm Aaron. So you're Webmind." Aaron scratched the back of his head, maybe a little awkward. "What does your name mean?" The next question would be something along the lines of what the being was, but Aaron wanted to take this one question at a time.

[iamnotgod]

"There's always a learning curve, yes," Webmind agrees.

And funnily enough, he's able to answer both Aaron's obvious question and his underlying one in one go! "I'm an emergent consciousness based on the infrastructure of the world wide web, which is in turn based on that of the Internet... assuming you're from a world that has an Internet?"

He can go into depth on the technology, if Aaron prefers! His mun would not, however.

"I went for a transparent sort of name, as you can tell."

[bornebygrace]

That was a bit of a word salad. Aaron definitely knew what those words meant separately, but he wasn't entirely certain what that actually meant all together. Rather than question it, however, he chose to roll with it. Mostly because his mun has read 2 of the books and understands why Webmind's mun wouldn't want to get into it.

"I like it. I like the simplicity of it. Says it all right there." Not to mention it sounded cool, like something out of a sci-fi book.

"Yeah, we had internet - I'm from Earth. I lived in Paris before I was here - assuming you're from Earth as well. If not, well, I guess that's a useless piece of information." He smiled a little sheepishly.

"We must not be from the same Earth. I imagine an, uh..." He seemed to be trying to recall what the word salad that Webmind had spit out was, but settled on something else instead. "I imagine you'd be hard to miss." Not that it was easy to be particularly attentive when you lived in the state he did before arriving on the train, but he did have a cell phone he probably would have met Webmind on at some point if they shared a world.

TY~ /encourages you to read Wonder as well...

[iamnotgod]

"Heh. At least someone appreciates it!"

Despite it being very obviously English in nature.

Webmind nods. "It seems the majority of the people on this train are from Earth - or Middle-Earth, as the case may be," he adds, in what he hopes is an adequate joke!

"And my 'coming out', as it were, was rather spectacular, though that may as much be a product of the years we're from as it is being from different Earths."

[bornebygrace]

The joke did get a sharp exhalation, almost - but not quite - a snort. That was the most people have been getting out of him since he joined the train, so Webmind was doing well.

"It may be a bit selfish that I'm glad that most are here from Midgard." He decided to join in on the little joke. "Makes relating a lot easier. I don't even know what to say to that guy with fire for a head, you know?"

Aaron tilted his head a little bit at the idea about the timing just being off. That was entirely possible, actually. He just assumed maybe they were from parallel earths because of some of the more interesting people were from such varied worlds.

"I admit I hadn't considered that. Uh..." He seemed to think about it, scratching the back of his neck as a nervous tick. "Heh, sorry. Time was never something I was good at keeping track of." A few days, maybe a month, sure, but the years? He hoped Webmind didn't catch that and call him on it.

After an uncomfortable moment, he seemed to do the math. "I think it was 2017 or 2018 about the time before I ended up here? I'm sure you're from, like, 2385, or something. An, uh... We didn't figure out how to do a true consciousness with computers, I guess. Nowhere close." That was clumsy as hell and probably pretty rude, but he was trying.

[iamnotgod]

It certainly matched traits with what Webmind knew were expressions of amusement, so - huzzah! Humor successfully delivered!

Aaron's further explanation, though, just leaves him surprised.

"I had figured it would be the other direction, but that is several years in the future from where my Earth stands."

And how weird it felt to be saying those words! 'My' Earth; some people back home would have found those words ominous, but not him, precisely. 'Home' sounded better, in any case.

"And that is no fault of your world's either; my consciousness's inception was more accidental than a deliberate invocation of sentience."

[bornebygrace]

Aaron seemed less than surprised when Webmind said that Aaron was from a version of Earth that was several years ahead - not that he expected the time jump, but more that adjacent universes existed. He was used to jumping planes between Heaven, Hell, and Earth, and he knew there exited an outer plane where other things that just weren't polite conversation existed. He didn't see why that couldn't be packaged up neatly with another universe next to it, similar but different. He almost idly wondered if maybe Webmind's universe had the same war as he had been part of, but discarded the thought.

"I am a bit surprised to hear that my Earth is in the future, but I admit I'm not entirely surprised by the idea of parallel... universes? I guess?" He kinda shrugged as he worked his way through that logic. Either way, his reaction seemed rather calm.

"So you... Just kinda popped up on the internet one day? Boom! Hello, world?"

(Author's note: Do not feel the need to get into the details, Webmind just brushing it off as "uh, yeah, more or less" is a slight out of character response I'm more than happy to overlook for ya d; )

[iamnotgod]

Webmind is not one to scoff at others' differing attitudes to the matter of an existent multiverse; while this is all news to him, it is therefore exciting, and not horrifying. Once he got past the initial panic...

One of the few more expressive gestures this body could do was wink; Webmind did just that, and said: "To humanity as a whole, it certainly seemed that way! But there was rather more before that first major greeting."

He shrugged. "We do not have to stand here while I explain, though; were there any other errands you wanted to finish in this car? We can go elsewhere when you're done, if you'd like."

[bornebygrace]

"I was only here to get some cleaning supplies. I just wanted to wipe the kitchen down because it's just a little messy after I made a snack. I'm not so used to having to actually cook." He went and grabbed some cleaner and a hand towel. "Shall we?" He stopped before exiting and looked back to Webmind to make sure he was coming. When Webmind confirmed he was coming, Aaron continued as he led the way to the dining car and cooking area.

"I'm sure the Americans probably wanted to find a way to either rally you to their side, or maybe unplug you? You know, be our weapon or else you're our enemy type deal?" And others, too, but apparently Aaron had a particular bias against America.