Test Drive Meme 014

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab samples and have fun!

1. Post with your character, including their name and series in the subject. We’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they've been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action.

3. Have lots of fun. Mandatory, mod-sanctioned fun.

Happy testing!

Making Music

The latest addition to the train is the Music Carriage, a double-decker space with reasonable acoustics and more tambourines than you can shake a drumstick at.

Upstairs, a small stage in the middle holds a piano, and seating aisles on either side run back to the ends of the carriage and the stairs back down. Curtains and basic stage lighting give some control over the performance space, or act as tools to annoy your fellow 'treckers.

Downstairs, boxes and racks of acoustic instruments up to the size of a guitar litter one side, along with sheet music, manuals, music stands and stools for the budding musician. The other end has several screens set into the wall, through which you can access either a jukebox or an extensive but ecclectic music library from millions of unknown worlds. Your SCA can store up to a hundred tracks for your personal enjoyment, so find your favourites. Or maybe you're the unfortunate soul who found that entire crate of recorders...

Green Fingers

The greenhouse is a surprisingly bright room, its vaulted ceiling made of a transparent, incredibly tough material that shows the light of the Void along the entire length of the room. The single metal support beams is bedecked in roses. The aisle of grass running through the centre of the carriage is riotous with strange plants and flowers, small stone paths leading off to this flowerbed or that.

Usually, this is a fairly calm place to be. Usually, someone hasn't smuggled a bag full of magical seeds back from a mission, and planted them all through the greenhouse. Seemingly overnight, the room has filled with a multitude of strange and wonderful plants. Dare you investigate?

Unplugged

The latest mission has the Voidtreckers in a strangely barren city, its citizens wearing skinsuits, wired gloves and headsets. Just like the ones the dressing car put you all in..? It makes more sense when you turn on the visor and the world comes alive around you. Welcome to Amp Online! The danger this time is in the virtual world overlaid with the physical, as a wave of animal-themed viruses sweep through the cyberscape, destroying livelihoods, and perhaps lives.

Team One

Primarily the fighting is limited to the virtual world. The locals are happy to upload basic combat software into Team One's gear, but the good stuff is locked behind paywalls. Hackable paywalls, definitely, but, luckily, the viruses seem to be dropping something called amp-cred when slain. Which... is apparently money, because the balance in the corner of your vision just ticked up. Time to grind. Wait, are those... limited edition skins?

Team Two

The technicians and sysads insist that the viruses are totally foreign to Amp Online. So... where did they come from? Team Two is tasked with deep-diving into the network, through back-end servers rendered by their gear into dungeon-like labyrinths. The 'monster' viruses are fewer here, but instead, paths are blocked by worms and barrier-like popups. You all have tracking apps and hacking software that looks oddly gamified. Go!

Team Three

Not all threats are online - after a while, a virus manages to follow a link back to the real world, and hijack something. A combat drone, a refridgerator, someone's car... Another follows, and another. Team Three are ejected from Amp Online to troubleshoot in the physical world, protecting data centers and civilian housing stacks from rogue machinery... or their own smart-homes. Ever fought a toaster? Alexa, play Ride of the Valkyries.

Comments

Music

[infestedcouncilpresident]

"Bloody violent murder where you go crazy with an axe, or sneaky professional murder where you're half a city away before anyone even notices they're dead?"

Someone overheard him, apparently. Fortunately, she understood the need for odd playlists.

[wherewoof]

Whoops. Oh well, could have been a lot worse.

"Sneaky professional murder," he clarified, looking over. He wasn't a crazed axe murderer--just the thought made his stomach clench in unpleasant ways. "Like something...espionage-y." Or something electronic, that would work, too.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

"So something like..."

Poking through the list of songs for a few seconds...ah, here we go.

"Something like this?"

[wherewoof]

You know, that does fit the criteria he gave exactly, but it hadn't quite been what he'd been thinking of.

"Not quite what I'd been thinking of? But it's good 'the job is done, now I'm on my way out' music."

He scrolled through the list of music, pausing here and there before settling on a song. "Maybe more like this."

[infestedcouncilpresident]

"So maybe more like this then..."

Another song played.

[wherewoof]

"Yeah, like that. Maybe with a little more energy, but that's good, too."

Lower energy or not, he added it to his SCA anyway. "Thanks, by the way."

[infestedcouncilpresident]

"No problem. You're not actually planning to go and assassinate someone, are you?"

Just...double checking. She was in a strange situation right now.

[wherewoof]

"Pfft, no. Not unless someone plans on paying up." He paused for a moment, then added, in case it wasn't obvious, "I'm joking. I'm not going to murder anyone."