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

[hisblueskies]

[Morgan looked nothing like Bianca - which had helped him from plunging into memory and kept him engaged with the beautiful melody she was playing - but moreso the... bird? If that's what it was, had held his attention, its graceful moves fascinating him as well.
When she stops, Alfredo startles, giving a rueful grin at the proceeding question.]

No! Not in the least, madam. I was entranced, even; you both possess wonderful skill.

[Taking a few steps forward and to the piano's side, Alfredo bows.]

Please, continue.

[He is content to listen.]

Though, may I ask where you learned this melody?

[spectralblossom]

[A small flush sneaks across her cheeks, the compliment graciously accepted on hers and Kanna's behalf, all the years of experience being put to use. Her smile widens and she nods at the boy's wish to continue.]

Many thanks, I believe I shall then. I learnt that one from a movie back in my world that my younger sister enjoyed, she begged me to learn it on the piano.

[She continues with another soft one, this one shorter than the other. For this one, Kanna is just content to sit and preen herself on Morgan's shoulder until she finishes.]

This one I learned after hearing it from an artist named Rin.

Assuming they at least know each others' names from the Roster/handwaved conversation...

[hisblueskies]

A movie?

[Forgive him, he's from the 1800s. Movies aren't exactly commonplace in Italy yet!

The next part captures more of his attention, anyhow.]

You have a younger sister as well? What is her name?

[While shorter, this next piece has something almost... majestic about it. Alfredo appreciates!]

Rin... do you believe any of her arrangements are archived on this train?

[The database is VERY large here; it's worth the asking!]

I'd say they could/would!

[spectralblossom]

[She gives him a puzzled look, then looks down at the piano briefly before looking back up with a nod.]

Yes, a movie. An, err... Moving picture? [A pause before a small sigh, she's not sure herself if others call them movies or if she has it translated right.] As for a sister, yes I do, three years my junior. Her name is Haruko, and if I translate it right, means 'spring child'.

I'm unsure if any of hers are, but if they were I would love to listen to them. Many of the songs I know have been turned into piano pieces, so not all of them are originally on one.

[Off to searching they must go!

[hisblueskies]

[Alfredo nods, though by this point he's grateful for the newly-opened topics to distract him.]

Haruko... A lovely name.

[Now he's wondering why Morgan's called Morgan, just a little. He doesn't voice that thought, though, in case it might be rude.]

Bianca isn't as younger than me as that, but I understand what it's like to have one. I love her dearly.

[He smiles, remembering.]

Even when she was teasing me...

[Topic change again!]

Should there be any other modifiers to look for? Er, planet of origin and so forth?