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voidtreckerooc2020-07-15 06:00 am
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Test Drive Meme 014
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.
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Well, really, she just came in here looking for fruit she could eat.
But that was before she got distracted by this guy doing... something? And now the plant looked almost like a rock. Huh.]
Caw.
[... yeah, she caws, like a crow, before speaking up again.]
Hey, what are you doing? Stop that. You can't eat it if you do that to it. I dunno if you could eat it before but you definitely can't now.
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I am also unsure whether it was edible before.
[For Mairon, food is optional, so whether the plant tasted good had not been one of his primary concerns.]
If someone wishes to consume it, there is a great deal more of it growing here.
[Problem: solved.]
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[She stares at the plant, original and new version, back and forth.]
You didn't answer my question, though. What are you doing to it? It looks kinda gross now. Can you make it shiny instead? Like gold?
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Oh, would you prefer it that way? Yes, I can do that.
[It's really only a small thing, changing the appearance of a plant. He focuses his attention on it, and the narrow, darkened leaves grow broad and bright. Finally, they begin to shine like gold.]
You're right, it does look better like this. As for your question, it was an experiment. An exploration of the nature of life here, you might say.
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[She's... bouncing up and down on her feet, dashing around to peer at this leaf from all angles.]
It's shiny! But is that okay? Making treasure seems weird, but I want it. Hey, can I have it?
[It's interesting to note, if Mairon can sense these things, that Enna isn't motivated by greed whatsoever. It's more like she's a kid who has been shown a magic trick, that same sort of pure curiosity and admiration.
It's lucky she doesn't know what's really going on with him.]
An... exploration? The 'nature of life'? You're experimenting for the nature of life?
[There's a pause, and then.]
Cawww. Are you dumb? That's pretty obvious.
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[He smiles at her. He's slightly amused by her cawing. It's best for him to engage peacefully with the others here, for now. Antagonizing them won't earn him anything now, not when he has to interact with them in such close quarters.]
Of course, you may have it, if you like it.
[Mairon hands it to her without hesitation. The plant was useful to him only as an experiment. The end result wasn't as important as confirmation of the fact that his powers still affect living things in a similar way. Which they do.
Like the plant, Enna's childish joy in the treasure doesn't seem particularly useful, either, unlike greed or envy. But he also sees no need to stifle it.]
Obvious? That's fortunate. If so, then tell me what its nature is.
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Duh. Life is life.
[.... yeah, that's all she's got to say.]
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[He might have expected a little more reasoning, but it seems that is all he's going to get.]
So it is. And I wanted to see whether life here was similar to life in my own world—it seems to be so, further proving your point.
[Also, making things easier for him. It doesn't seem like his powers are greatly impacted.]