Test Drive Meme 013

[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!

Training Gym

Fight club have finally gotten a gym to train in. Train carriages make strange gyms, long narrow spaces. But this has mats, balance beams, climbing apparatus. Pads and training dummies for punching. It also has large blocks that look a little like what you might find in a children's play centre but can be used to make obstacle courses or provide cover in training exercises.

Set up a course, practice fighting or try and learn how to throw a punch! There are plenty who will help, people who take training super seriously and let's face it, people who want to ambush others from behind oversized foam blocks.

Games

For those for whom fighting is not an idea of fun, or those wanting more relaxation, the games carriage has a whole collection of different games. Board games, card games, dice games. There are many games about trains but they aren't the only type.

There are low tables in the carriage to set a game up on and plenty of beanbags and cushions to sit on. Grab a game, grab a friend or a complete stranger and get playing!

Water Maze

The latest mission has taken the voidtreckers to an underwater maze. They have been given wet suits, helmets and breathing apparatus- lightweight boxes that strap to their back, connect to their helmet and filter air from the water. A powerful and dangerous artifact has been stolen and the race is on to get it back before it is used for ill.

Team One

Plenty of monsters and foes have been sent to try and retrieve the item. Giant crabs, strange eels. Even people with fish tails and the ability to breathe underwater. All are dangerous foes and fighting underwater is difficult.

But team one are the vanguard, keeping the monster levels low to allow team two to push on through the maze.

Team Two

Hopefully team one will deal with the monsters, but the odd one might sneak through. Team two's main job is to solve the maze, because the thief is in the centre in order to perform his ritual.

It's a race against time, the maze is made of coral and walls of seaweed that are impossible to cut through. Solving it requires a quick mind and some determined swimming.

Team Three

For those not wishing to brave the water, or those whose skills lie more in helping others. The island where the artefact was stolen from needs help. The temple was ransacked and some of the islanders were injured. Help them fix their homes, put the temple back to rights, tend to the injured.

Cleaning the temple is a big job, but hopefully by the time the artefact has been retrieved it will be able to be restored to it's rightful place.

Comments

Ran!

[tactlesstantei]

[Masumi jerked back as best she could on realizing she nearly bumped into Ran, though thankfully it didn't seem to be needed.]

"Yeah, another dead end..." [The frustration was edging into her tone, as much as she was trying to keep calm about the maze. This was her first mission, and she didn't exactly know what to expect from any of this.]

"...There isn't much to do besides go back and try another way. Maybe the next path will turn out better."

[She's trying to stay calm and not cave to the pressure, despite the dead ends and backtracking.]

B

[zenryokubatankyu]

[Honestly, after he'd walked into the games carriage, he'd been watching her for a bit. So this girl was just eating...dice. You know what, he's never tried it.]

...Are these like, special dice or something? That you can eat?

[At any rate, he finds a pair of blue dice and hands it to her. He then picks up a pair of red dice and stares at it himself questionably. The forbidden crunch.]

Training

[sizedoesntmatter]

[You would think at some point Yugi would stop being so surprised at things that happen. It was normal for something not necessarily normal to happen on this train.

But nope. A floating friend was still something admittedly surprising.]

This is new. You okay up there?

[Because what else could he do except definitely make sure there is a soft landing.]

Game Room

[zenryokubatankyu]

So he wasn't entirely familiar with the people at this table. So what? Poker was poker and Osomatsu kiiiinda had a gambling addiction. More or less. Who was counting? Well. Apart from what he was counting, which were his cards and the beans up for play. The literal beans.

Eh, still a good reward.

The girl sitting across from him, however? Obvious tells. Blatantly obvious tells that made a smirk form on his own face despite his own pitiful hand. "Call." He replied. Maybe he should let her know after the game how obvious she was...

Training gym (Gods, it has been ages since I watched this...)

[sell_tickets]

Something caught the upper part just before it could hit the wall. It floated over to sit beside the base of it, as a male voice spoke from the doorway to the carriage. He sounded amused. "This is why some of us prefer forms," He was leaning casually against the door, hands in his pockets, blue eyes twinkling with amusement. "But if you were looking to spar...."

SQUEE!! Also, Training gym

[sell_tickets]

He had just been entering, himself, when he heard her comment. Eyes twinkling with mischief he grinned and spoke from behind her. "If you asked it as a favor, some of us might be willing to oblige in providing you with targets. Especially if you would be so kind as to share use of the bow. Sadly mine did not arrive with me."

Wild card, cause I can! Mwa ha ha ha

[death_from_above]

Spark looked up as someone entered the dining car. Human girl. Shocker. Half the train nearly seemed to be human, or human enough, and most of them seemed to be girls. Well at least he could usually charm them into feeding him by being soft and cute. Humans liked soft and cute.

Then he spotted Kitten and stood up, much more alert. Okay, baby dragon was interesting. That... was a dragon, right?

games

[najaran]

Najran totally wasn't list this time. She wasn't! She was just... ah... showing Goligan around. Right...

The girl came in with her man headed staff. "See, games car," she said.

"Yes," the staff replied, dryly. "But we were looking for the greenhouse."

"Oh stop being such an old worry wart," she said. "Look, there is a new friend here for us to meet!" She walked over with a bright smile, hitching the staff to her belt. "Hullo! I'm Najaran. This is Goligan."

Team one

[nobodys_puppet]

Why did Somebodies all have to talk so much during missions? But she saw the girl yelling at a crab. Like that ever worked. She raised her Keyblade and shot off an ice spell. "BLIZZAGA!" aimed at the crab. As the spell was on its way she was startled to see that the crab had listened. Had they frightened it off...?

The spell clipped its back as it went, since it was no longer where she had expected it when she fired off the spell. Expecting it to come after her she took aim again. And yes, she has her coat on over the wet suit. Yes it looks odd. No it doesn't close.

Gym

[sell_tickets]

Okay, that was an interesting bit of Craft. Khary put off his own training to stop and watch. He shifted position as the other finished, which seemed to draw his attention. Good thing Kaelas wasn't there. The large cat would never let him hear the end of it for making a sound like that.

Of course, that just meant it would be amusing to tell him once he was rescued.

"Not at all," he said as an answer to the question. "Actually if you are up for a bit more, I could use a sparring partner..."

Re: Zuko | ATLA

[death_from_above]

Fighting not far from him was a a truly odd thing. A patchwork man wearing two pirate hats, one inside his bubble helm, the other was somehow affected to the outside. As was a brightly colored patchwork coat worn over the suit.

"Water you, kitten me?" he asked of a creature that vaguely resembled a cat fish. If you squinted. He seemed to expect something to happen other than getting charged by the creature. He huffed. "Hey, if you attack me all on your own, that other monster is gonna get crabby." Sure enough one of the crabs came and attacked the catfish thing.

"Okay, note to self, ocean puns are less effective when ocean is all around you. I sea I'll have my work cut out for me..." something sliced at both monsters. "Oh hey cool, that worked!" Then they were both charging at him. "**** that worked!" he turned and started swimming away as fast as he could.

[grannyofthebolt]

"There is no shame in it. A good warrior will pick 3 or 4 weapons that work for them and get really good with them. Over generalization can be a real killer."

"Honestly, I only know a bow and whip. My sister said I was too young to learn firearms, and rods and staves are for magic, not actual fighting. You look really at ease with that form, have you considered trying to draw from the engine of this train thing instead of the sun, or is it a symbiotic spiritual connection?"

01.

[death_from_above]

"But you're not alone now..." the small orange cat said, looking up at her. "What you are, is in the dining room, without any fish," he added as if that was the worst thing ever.

C

[death_from_above]

While walking through the halls, an orange cat up in the luggage racks peered down at him. "Oh cool! Another duck. Do you like fish any better than the other one does?" he asked. No he wasn't an upright cat, he looked like someone's pet.

B

[sell_tickets]

Khary looked up when addressed. "Hello," he replied. He was playing a game that might seem familiar, while at the same time being very much not. It almost looked like chess. Almost. The board in black and white squares could have been a chessboard no problem, and the pieces were in the right style made of what looked like black opal and white opal. But the configuration of pieces were wrong, with the wrong number of what looked to be pawns, and nothing easily identifiable as the king. Only the rooks looked right, really. And, for some reason, he had dice sitting next to the board...

Satou Kuroneko | Original Character (crau)

[stubbornhope]

(a) Fight Practice

[Magic isn't all Satou expects of herself. She needs to know how to fight without it too. So on that day, she had made plans to meet with other train passengers and learn some new techniques. The magical girl is just finishing her stretches when she sees a familiar face approaching.]

Ah! You made it! [Giggling energetically, Satou walks up to her friend.] I'm all~llll ready to learn!

(b) Games

[Satou is not a child. She repeats that to herself over and over, as if the mental repetition will make it true. As a Guardian in Genessia and a Magical Girl back home, she has no time anymore for things like games. Instead, she would normally busy herself with training, with paperwork, with survival--

But the train has her spoiled. There's a gap in her self-set schedule and a whole carriage full of board games. Under the guise of organizing them, Satou begins sorting through the various board games. Her mind wanders, imagining how much fun it would have been to play some of these games with her previous 'family.' Being with them was the one time in her life when she felt safe as a 'child.'
Up until that lively and noisy household became empty and silent. She can't be a child, she reminds herself. Because she will never have a home to feel safe in, she must always be her own mature provider and protector.

She stares down at the game that she's holding. When someone approaches, Satou abruptly notices them due to her empathy. Surprised, she throws the box in the air and empties all of the box's contents on the ground.]

Oh-- Fiddlehecks! I'm so sorry! Please, I'll pick it up! It's my fault, sorry!

(c) Team One

[With no doubt, Satou has magically turned her wet suit to a hot pink shade. She holds her wand in a tight grip, eyes attentive to the situation. Not yet in the water, but about to leap in with the team. Used to being a leader, she accidentally tosses out some bossy orders.]

Are you better at close or ranged combat? I can do both, but I need to know where you'll be first.

[iamnotgod]

Half in response, and half because that's the hand Webmind has the cleaning rag he's using in, he holds up his orange-colored SCA.

"Fortunately, seeing as it was a recent addition, people can use these for communication, though only on missions."

Continuing to remove debris-dust from the walls in even sweeps, he says, "Missions thus far have lasted a week using the train's metrics, but targeted goals like this should be completed in far less time. A day, two at most."

It wasn't as if this could be done at quicklife-speed!

[luckydragonsfoot]

Nyh?

[It's tricky to do, but Katsuya manages to turn around somewhat from where he's being levitated. With a grin, he waves.] Hey Yugi-!

I'm doin' great! Me 'n Kaseri are practicin', see?

[They seem to be doing great so far- it's a good thing there's so many foam cubes though, because that's still a pretty decent height.]

[luckydragonsfoot]

Yeah-!

[He says it, but he sounds a bit winded. Even so he does appear to be groggily fumbling his way off the cubes.] Jus'...gotta get back up....

[Kaseri seems entirely oblivious to the issue at hand. There's far more important things, like nice ladies who can give her pets.]

[luckydragonsfoot]

Nyhhhh.... [He seems to ponder it, even while launching himself along the eel's length by way of grasping at the thing's scaled hide roughly and pulling it. The eel isn't especially pleased, but it's even less pleased with the sword, giving Katsuya a bit of an advantage.]

Maybe..? I mean, Koach wasn' really... [He trails off, and if it wasn't for the fact that he was in the middle of doing his best impression of a ragdoll and a test dummy, one would wonder if he was handling things more casually.

Unfortunately, he really isn't, his words sound more like a shout, and also it's getting really hard to not fly off of this angry eel.] NNYYYYHHH...Hold more still dammit..!

[He just needs to get to the eye! Just needs to get to the eye!]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[Good news is he's definitely breathing. Bad news is he's also definitely out of it, though the bonking is...helping?] Nnnnhhh...nh...

[Bonk. Bonk bonk bonk-] NnnhhHHH-!! Quit tha'! [he shouts on reflex, swatting at the witch and others. It's then, while rubbing his head, that he starts to realize something.] Yeesh...tha' hurts dang it, I-

[Oh.

Now, they're by no means someone like say...Necrofear. Necrofear is way creepier. But the ghost. The mummy! The mummy even has horns!

And honestly he's freaking tired!] Ny...Nyhhihhhhhhhh...

[Don't pass out don't pass out don't pass out-]

Water Maze- Team 3 (<3)

[really_sketchy]

[She turns towards Lea and nods her head with her usual warm smile.] I can do it for you. You should eat too. [Naminé brushes her fingers against the front of her hoodie before deciding that she should just wash her hands. When she's done, she gathers some bowls and spoons and moves over to stand next to Lea.

She doesn't dislike the water but Naminé also has had very little interaction with it. She might have joined the others in the missions in the maze but she doesn't know how to swim. Kairi does --and Naminé might have a knack for it-- but it makes her a little nervous.]

I'll serve the patients first. The food might help cheer them up.

[ooc: I will eventually fix and/or purchase my icons again. Until then they might be a little weird.]

[crossedstars]

[Kei makes a soft, thoughtful sound, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. it's strange to try and decide where to stand on this -- naturally, someone being hurt is less-than ideal, but what is the scope of all this?

without looking over:] When these missions are assigned...or, perhaps, after they're done... Is anything more said of them? What they were for, why they're done...

Who benefits, ultimately?

[crossedstars]

Kei blinks a few times, staring down at the talking cat. Were she not paying proper attention, she could've mistaken it for Doctor Zero's own feline companion...except for the talking part.

"My...!" This place is interesting, isn't it.

She turns away from the window partway, a hand on her hip, staring down at this fuzzy oddity.

"You're right on both counts. Should I perhaps be looking for fish here, hm?"

A)

[mynameisallen]

I'm not exactly sure what exactly I can teach you unless hand to hand is okay.

[It was that or sword and he was fully aware that they didn't have wooden swords on board... At least he didn't think to actually check they had any.]

Just make sure to go easy on me, okay?