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

[stealsyourheart]

A shadow flicks across his eyes, there and gone - as KID Kaito has far more experience with the dark underbelly of the world than anyone his age should have, but his poker face never cracks.

"Just coz things can get bad doesn't mean they will." He shrugs. "No point in assuming the worst before it happens."

[mal_contented]

"If you are always expecting the worst, you are prepared when it happens and pleasantly surprised if it doesn't."

[stealsyourheart]

"Nah, that's just perparedness. Any good magician knows that - you gotta prepare for every eventuality! But! It doesn't mean you gotta be gloomy about it. That'd just be depressing."

[mal_contented]

"I'm not gloomy, I'm realistic."

[stealsyourheart]

"If I had my gear I'd be giving you a rose and telling you to cheer up at this point." He says wryly . "Because I hate to break it to you, but you kinda are a bit."

[mal_contented]

"Yeah, I know enough history to avoid taking roses from a stranger who thinks I need to make a fundamental change to who I am, thanks all the same," she said, dryly.

[stealsyourheart]

He places a hand on his heart dramatically, but he grins at her.

"Oh, but we've exchanged names, Miss Mal! I thought we weren't strangers!"

[mal_contented]

"Still not letting you turn me into a whatever it is you think I need to be transformed into to learn whatever lesson you think I need to learn."

[stealsyourheart]

"Wait what?" He blinks at her. "I've a magician, Miss Mal. You know. Sleight of hand. The only person with actual magic I know is Akako and she's... different. People do that in your world? Whoa."

[mal_contented]

"Well, the Enchantress did that to King Beast back when he was still a prince, for one. To teach him beauty isn't about how you look on the inside. Whereas FG transformed Cinderella so she could see how beautiful she always was. Let's see. Doc. F. transformed Naveen and his servant, but that was more an evil schemes thing..." She was really thinking about it now.

[stealsyourheart]

"..........................your world is really something." He says after a long moment staring.

[mal_contented]

"What is your world like that this is so surprising?"

[stealsyourheart]

"No real magic, for starters. Like. Even Akako... well. She has a broomstick, and she's used magic to do things like cast curses and see the future, or so she says. But like. Polymorph is a fictional thing in a game."

[mal_contented]

"That sounds like magic to me. Well, the curses and future sight. Not sure what a broom has to do with anything, though."

[stealsyourheart]

"She rides it." He shrugs at her - he doesn't get it either.

"Sometimes, anyway. Like I said, I dunno how much is real, and how much she's just ... saying things. But some of it's real, for sure."

[mal_contented]

"A broom? Like.. for sweeping floors? I mean, I've heard of them being enchanted to sweep or whatever on their own, but to... ride...?" This was confusing, sorry.

[stealsyourheart]

"A broom for sweeping floors." He confirms and shrugs. "I dunno either. I guess it's... some sort of aesthetic thing?"

[mal_contented]

"Not any aesthetic I've ever heard of."

[stealsyourheart]

He shrugs. "Akako's weird." He says matter-of-factly.

[mal_contented]

"Clearly."