Test Drive Meme 003

[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!

What to do on a train.

The problem with trains is you are unable to get off them. Whilst hurtling through an ever changing void that’s probably a good thing all told but it can lead to boredom. Or at least it does if you don’t think creatively enough!

What can you do in a standard coach? Well the obvious, most practical use is a comfy place to sit, in relative solitude as long as no one sits too close. Read a book if you’ve the points to buy one, or write in your journal.

But thinking outside the box a standard coach is also a pretty good climbing course, up and down over the rows of seats, there’s even gaps under the seats if you want to add to the challenge. Or you could just play the floor is lava.

Escorting Dralite

Dralite: Small, bat like creatures. As chicks they are about the size of a beach ball, however it soon becomes apparent that they are predominantly made of wings. Unfurled the creature is tiny with massive wings, spanning a meter long each. It is obvious why they need an escort, they cannot yet fly and their movement is severely hampered by their disproportionate wing size. They will happily cling to any friendly creatures.

Adult dralite are about the size of a sheep with large wings and large claws. They are teritorial but not overtly hostile unless provoked.

Dralite have a screech that will floor most creatures, knocking them down disoriented. As chicks their screech will stun, giving them time to escape from danger.

This world has a sizable colony and a group of humans who preserve and look after the huge dralite nests. However it seems like a group of chicks have gone missing, poachers are suspected, probably planning on selling the chicks off world.

Team One Is to track down the missing dralite. There are clues, footprints, other tracks and rumours of an unauthorised camp of humans in the area. Follow the tracks, check out the camp, see if you can find who took the dralite chicks and where they are being kept.

Team Two Is to rescue the chicks by any means necessary. Be that sneaking in and stealing them back or bursting in to challenge the poachers and put an end to their operation once and for all.

Team Three The remaining chicks still need looked after, especially with many of the volunteers helping hunt down the missing ones. They are needy creatures that cannot mover very far on their own so rely on clinging to other species to get around. You might just find yourself with a new dralite hat or cloak clinging to you, trying to get comfy. They shriek whenever they are afraid or don’t get their way and are likely to wrap their wings around your head if things get too scary. Good luck!

Around the Campfire

Once the chicks are back safe and sound it is time for a celebration. A huge BBQ and campfire is set up for a tasty feast. Just remember to share the meat with your new dralite friends or they will get sad and sulky and that could lead to trouble.

There’s lots of food and afterwards the dralite conservationists will tell stories around the fire, inviting the trekkers to do the same. Wanting to know of the different worlds they have been to, the adventures they’ve been on. Or if real life tale telling is not for you then they will settle for a good ghost story.

Comments

[dredefulchilde]

Joss rolls his eyes as the story reaches its climax. “What nonsense. That’s not even how ghosts work,” he mutters to no one in particular.

[schrodingersghost]

"No kidding," Danny muttered back. He'd spent most of the story wondering whether to laugh or be concerned. Anyone who tried that on one of the ghosts back home would have been in for a seriously bad time.

[dredefulchilde]

Joscelin snorts, eyeing the (physically) older boy. “Are you a medium, then? Or a witch, perhaps?”

Normal humans can’t see or hear ghosts. Only those with supernatural abilities can. Or the previously human. As a member of the army of the undead, Joss has been talking to ghosts for centuries. (Often the conversations tend to be rather dull and one-sided—most spirits tend to lose their ability to make small talk fairly quickly after death.)

[schrodingersghost]

"Uh, none of the above?" He grins with more than a little awkwardness. What kind of question was that?

[dredefulchilde]

Joscelin shrugs. “You implied that you know what ghosts are really like. Normal humans can’t see ghosts.”

[schrodingersghost]

"Since when? Back home we've got so many ghosts they have their own segment on the nightly news."

Granted, Amity Park probably did qualify as the most haunted town in America these days.

[dredefulchilde]

Joss snorts. “I suppose I’m still getting my head around all this multiple worlds nonsense. In my, ah, world, a human has to have preternatural abilities to commune with the spirits. Or be dead themselves. The nonhuman races have a rather easier time of it.”

He smirks (is that a hint of fang glinting in the firelight?) and holds out a hand.

“Joss Fitzthomas. And you are...?”

[schrodingersghost]

"What, seriously?" Danny winces a little at how the ghosts he knew back home would react to that. They didn't like being ignored.

"Danny Fenton." He reaches out and shakes with a hand that was just a little too cold to the touch.

[dredefulchilde]

“Mmm. Many ghosts go mad. If you were stuck haunting dear old mum and she couldn’t see you for years and years because she was a perfectly boring, regular human and then she popped off to her rest eternal whilst you’re tied to the place you died for the rest of time, I think you’d get a bit bloodthirsty too. I’ve met too many like that. They’re all a bit one track; not very interesting. All anger and nothing else.”

If Joscelin notices how cold Danny’s hand is, he doesn’t mention it. After all, he also runs quite cool. Benefit of being a vampire.

“What’s it like in your world?”

[schrodingersghost]

"Uh, well I'm not sure if you'd call the ghosts sane? But they're not really insane like that?" Danny frowns as he tries to figure out how to explain without giving away too much of his own ghostly nature.

"A lot of ghosts just want to be left alone. But some of the others attack the human world for different reasons." He grins nervously. "Like conquering the world or getting attention or changing back the school menu."