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

[nocawsforconcern]

Treasure doesn't mold!

I found a weird thing. It makes smells.

[She's holding it, but...]

It's really loud, though. I should keep it but I want it to stop smelling.

[sunbloom]

[She's about to go on a tangent about extravagant clothing or something, when she sees what the other girl is holding and stops cold.]

-where did you find that? [So much for operational security.] It looks like a perfume bottle, so of course it'd smell.

[nocawsforconcern]

Caw... On the floor? I stepped on it. It didn't break, though! So it's sturdy. I've never seen perfume like this.

[She's staring at it again, though.]

Smells weird, too. Why would you make perfume treasure?

[sunbloom]

[Itsuki lets out a tiny breath. She'd be absolutely doomed if her Perfume were damaged. It's not like she can take it to Kaoruko or the Tree or something...]

Well, what if it's magic perfume? And spraying it did something special, besides just smelling?

[...how long is she going to be able to pass this stuff off as hypothetical...]

[nocawsforconcern]

[Well. Enna's squinting, but she's not saying anything. Yet.]

What would perfume magic do? Smell more?

[sunbloom]

Maybe it lets you do something special? Makes you faster, or tougher, or stronger...? See, there's something in it. Maybe that changes the scent or something?

[She knows that's her Precure Seed, and moreover that she could make it do any of those things if she had more Seeds from the Heart Pot. Of course, the Pot's with Yuri, and even then she never bothered to check if there were Seeds in it other than Yuri's own. That seems like a small tactical error, in retrospect. And she's sweating a little as she realizes it.]

[nocawsforconcern]

Cawww. So it's one of those 'magic with a cost' thingies. You get powerful, but it makes you smelly?

[She's giving the perfume a dubious look, now.]

[sunbloom]

If it makes you strong enough, you wouldn't mind the drawback, right? I think that's probably the idea.

[Now, how to get it back from her...? On the one hand, she found it and Itsuki appreciates that a lot; on the other, she found it and so is unlikely to part with it without explanation. Making a snap decision, she sighs.]

It does one other thing too, but I'm not supposed to talk about that one. It could put people in danger knowing it if the wrong people start asking about it. Those bad people should all be gone now, but I don't want to take chances with anyone's safety.

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna pauses. That suddenly sounds a lot less hypothetical. Which, she figured, but.]

It's yours?

[That's the most important detail.]

[sunbloom]

Mm. I was looking for it when I found you and realized you had it. I was just trying to get out of explaining what it was. It's called a Shiny Perfume, by the way.

[And she still feels a little like she screwed up having to admit that much, but. What Yuri doesn't know probably won't hurt her? Or Tsubomi, for that matter, although that would probably just be a disappointed look and that might be worse?]

[nocawsforconcern]

Hmmm... Cawwwww.... Hmmmmm.

[She's pouting, staring at it.]

It's really loud, but.... Caw.

[She tosses it casually back to Itsuki.]