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

[unfavorableinstigation]

That merits Ai an eyebrow-raise, but not much more than that.

'Alright then. I've got you-' she says, letting herself fall back more completely and seize the younger girl.

It's not quite as ungraceful as it would be if she were shooting for, say, football-style, but it's something.

'Better hold on!'

Because those sure are some bad mermish folk that have snuck their way into the maze! Nita doesn't literally hit the gas to send the Voidtreckers on, but it will feel like she is!

[deage]

Honestly, Ai's been through a lot worse than this. She's held on for dear life from over the side of a car flying between the tops of two buildings, that was worse.

Still, she's gripping Nita's arm with all the strength her child body can muster. Being through worse doesn't make this any better, especially now that she sees something that can only be described as 'definitely not human, and also angry-looking' enter the maze with them.

"I hope you have some plan for this," she intones with deadpan inflection. Don't look at Ai, she's just a kid.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita can't reach her charm bracelet - but, as she grits her teeth in response, she knows she's got a bit more than that in store...

Thank goodness there isn't anything on this planet limiting the Speech!

/A bit more distance between us and them, please?/ she said, the sudden depth in her words swiftly followed by the water around them forming into a zip current.

'Sorry about this. Hold on...!' she says, falling back on the SCA-translation.

If one looks back, one can see the expressions on the mermish turning to shock.

[deage]

Hold on--- OH.

Ai holds on for dear life, the current suddenly pulling them along like a riptide. Unfortunately, Ai's grip strength is on par with a 1st grade girl's, which is to say mostly nonexistent. Her grip is rapidly loosening - hopefully Nita can get a good grip on Ai instead, or else Ai's going to be relying on that current alone very shortly.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita follows the current around bends in the maze - this better be the right way, or at least the way towards the rest of the group, because they're going plenty fast now - all the while pulling Ai in and using both arms to brace her.

'We're coming up from behind!'

That being a warning for the comms to the people ahead.

[deage]

Ai's doing what she can, which is nothing much. But being supported and not concentrating on holding on herself gives her the clarity of mind needed to keep an aye on where the current's taking them. It's a closed maze, so if the current's taking them to a dead end, there should be water being displaced all around the path they're on, water rushing back around the current as it has nowhere else to go.

That way she can give some warning to this.... magic-user? Water speaker?

If anybody told Ai just a week ago that she'd be in this situation, she'd have called them crazy. But this was her reality now.

"This should be the right way," she comments over the comms to Nita. Hopefully that won't change.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Ai giving her hints is definitely a help - though the direction she points out might not be the direction everyone else went...

'Gotcha,' Nita says to Ai, then:

'If you made a left instead of a straight where there was a triple-path, you're going the wrong way! Try and backtrack.'

Meanwhile, they continue surging on.