Test Drive Meme 001

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to our first 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!

Void Trecking

The thing about being on a train hurtling through void space is there’s not much to see. Outside the window lies an endless void of kaleidoscope colours shifting and swirling. It’s probably best not to stare at it too long. Do so and you might start to imagine order in it. Shapes, places, even figures. But your eyes shift... Back to chaos. Probably best you do something else other than stare out the window. Or convince your fellow passengers that void watching leads to headaches!

Sport Balls

Were you the unlucky person to first open the cupboard? Or were you sensible and let someone else deal with the avalanche of balls first? Either way there are now many many balls for every ball game you can imagine? Play one? Make up a new one? Wonder why there is a gymnasium on a train at all?

Aubergine Adventures

In the store rooms among the general ingredients for the month there seem to be an overabundance of aubergines. Why? Who knows. Perhaps the world where they last restocked had many to give, perhaps they’ve just been overlooked and now nearing the time where the stores need restocked these are the only things left.

What can you do with an aubergine? Can you make a tasty meal for everyone on this train? Or do you cook just for yourself?

A Whole New World

New worlds aren’t all about missions, sometimes there is time to explore, take in the sights, immerse yourself in local culture.

For example this huge covered market. Filled with people from across the stars, sales pitches called out, all translated by your Safety Control Apparatus.

A woman with three extra cyber arms is trying to convince you of the newest technology. “Just plugs right into the ports in your forehead, any information you need downloaded instantly. Never be stuck for an answer again!”

Or what about this stall selling strange gelatinous cubes in every colour you could ever imagine? Get haggling, avoid being dragged into strange stalls by over zealous trades people. Or actually try and get the lay of the land for the forthcoming mission.

Mission Time

You’ve arrived on a world with purple sheep. Everything else about it seems almost like earth, if that’s where you are from. But the sheep are definitely purple and these specific ones have escaped their pen and scattered across the fields.

To make it worse there are wolves about. The farmer has asked for your help!

Team One is to fend off the wolves, the farmer has some axes lying around but your best bet is to scare them off with burning torches.

Team Two is to play sheep-dog. Round up the sheep and lead them back to safety.

Team Three is to repair the pen, or this is going to happen all over again!

Pick a team, go wild!

Comments

Hibiki Shikyoin ♔ PriPara ♔ claiming the first top-level for REVOLUTION

[priforprince]

[ Void Trecking ]

....Nn.



[ Hurtling on a train through the puniverse where all amenities are self-service, hm? Hardly how Shikyoin Hibiki prefers to spend her time. Still, for the chance to spread the knowledge of her radiance throughout primensions, she shall shoulder this burden...

...Except. Her attempts to brood nobly while staring at her own reflection in the window (it is, you see, the only thing worth looking at on this train) have been thwarted by that....that....kaleidoscopic miasma serving as backdrop! The harder she tries to focus upon her own visage, the worse her head pounds. Her eyebrows twitch. Her jaw clenches.

She can bear this no more! ]

Rgh!

[ Getting up, Hibiki stalks down the corridor. This carriage is DISPLEASING! She is RETIRING SOMEWHERE MORE TRANQUIL!

And she DOES NOT CARE SHE JUST SHOVED PAST YOU, SAVE TO EXPERIENCE INDIGNATION YOU DARED BLOCK HER PATH! ]

[ A Whole New World ]



What....is this glutinous substance?!

[ Finally freed from the constraints of a train she considers sorely lacking in high-class amenities, Hibiki had cornered a local and ordered they bring her this primension's ultimate delicacy. What she has been handed, however....looks like gelatin.

Puce gelatin.

She shoves the bowl at her nearest fellow traveler, to get it out of her hands. ] Such an uninviting color and texture - whoever would consume such a thing?! I demand to speak to the chef!

[ If you try it, though, it's actually pretty good... ]

[ Mission Time ]

Mm. This, truly, is as a puniverse should be.

[ Hibiki's latest attempt at browbeating hapless NPCs has yielded a cup of what is, apparently, acceptable tea. She sits on a stump upon which she's had them spread a small cloth, sipping her tea and watching the purple sheep frolic. ]

The surroundings are disappointingly rustic, but - ah, well. The fauna's hue pleases me.



[ Sip. Completely apathetic to the fact that her teammates...might be expecting something of her. ]

Remaining here is best.

[knifewithnoname]

"Be looking where you do be going!"

The girl hates everyone on this train. The train had been magically excited for about one day before she realised that she really had left everything she knew. She was stuck here with people she didn't understand.

She hates the multicoloured swirling nothingness outside but most of all she hates being bored. This journey with very little to do and no known destination is boring indeed.

The woman's shove had sent her staggering into the wall and it is from there that the girl glared up at Hibiki.

[priforprince]

Hibiki snorts. “I’m unaccustomed to crowding.”

This pause is also enough to occasion the dramatic pressing of fingertips to one side of her forehead. Vertigo...? From the swirling colors still lodged in the echo chamber of her mind’s eye? Intolerable. And far more preoccupying than children who refuse to yield the floor. “My head pains me. Respite has grown necessary.”

Lucia ☾ Lunar: Eternal Blue

[eyesasblind]

[ Void Trecking ]

She stared out the window at the wild kaleidoscope of colors. She had a headache, yes, but she had somehow not actually deciphered the exact reason for it. So she just kept staring, wincing every so often at the pain in her head.

[ Sports Ball ]

As soon as Lucia opened the cabinet she was met with a deluge of balls. She barely had time to let out a frantic shriek before she was buried.

She flailed out from underneath the balls. A badminton birdie was tangled in her hair. She picked up a soccer ball and looked down at it in confusion. "What is this odd device?" she wondered.

[ A Whole New World ]

Anyone who's seen Lucia around on the train would immediately notice that she wasn't dressed in her usual ostentatious red gown. Somehow, the salespeople of this world had dragged her into their shops and stalls and talked her into buying whatever ridiculous clothing and jewelry they had for sale. Her arms were laden with shopping bags and she looked utterly lost.

Little One | OC

[knifewithnoname]

Void Trecking

There has to be something in all that chaos. This little girl can often be found with her nose to a window, staring into the multicoloured landscape. No landmarks, no knowledge of where she was except this was not her city, not even her world anymore.

It frightened and angered her equally though she figured if she ignored the fear it would go away and stop bothering her. She couldn't be afraid, not even her alone on this stupid train. "There has to be being something out there..." It couldn't just be nothing. Every now again she thought she saw... But then it was gone.

A Whole New World

The market was at least familiar territory, even if everything about it was different to what she knew. Weird colourful cubes? People with extra arms? All strange and unusual but she knows how markets work and smart children know how to negotiate their way round one without getting caught. Or at least she thinks so...

This child doesn't come from a world with surveillance technology, which is why she is currently running through one of the narrower walkways, a fist full of strange gelatinous cubes, a man running behind her angrily. Her eyes dart one way and then another, looking for somewhere to hide.

Mission Time

"Be coming here you stupid sheep." She hates sheep. They are stupid dull creatures who don't understand that wandering away from their pen is going to get them eaten by wolves!

"Shoo." She waved her arms at it, trying to make it turn around back to where it belonged. It ignored her, being a sheep. "Be moving!"

Urgh. Now it was going in the totally opposite direction. The girl marched over and tried to push it, trying to move it around. She's rather small though and the sheep is stubborn.

"If you do be getting eaten by a wolf it will be being your own stupid fault."

[ooc: Please just say if you want me to drop her dialect!]

[knifewithnoname]

"Well be getting used to it." This train didn't have much room. It was one of the reasons it was so boring, not many places to go and less places to go that weren't full of other people.

She wrinkled her nose, "Did you be hitting your head?"

The girl doesn't really know anything about fixing heads, nor does she really care but the woman seemed to think it was important to tell her.

[swordofzero]

"Are you alright?" Suzaku rushed into the carriage when he heard the clatter. There were balls everywhere, where had they even been? How had this happened? His attention is focused on the woman on the floor though. She doesn't look hurt from a brief glance but it is best to be sure.

"Are you hurt?"

Suzaku Kururugi | Code Geass

[swordofzero]

Voidtrecking

It was bad enough to have been stolen from his world, taken away just as they were on a path to bring peace. For the first time in his life Suzaku had been able to see the end goal, the peaceful world they sought to bring. Now he was here and long stretches of time with very little to do where not good when his mind was filled with worries and regrets.

He could often be found staring out of the windows, though it was rare he even saw the multicoloured void outside as lost in his thoughts as he was.

He cuts a stern figure, unsmiling staring into the void.

Sports Balls

Suzaku is someone who is used to being active and even if ball games aren't something he played a lot at before he ended up here, now they are the only thing availible he can be found in the gym a lot.

He mostly just runs around, sometimes shooting balls through the basket ball hoops at either end. Another person entering will get a polite nod though, if not a smile.

"My apologies, did you want to use the gym?"

[eyesasblind]

It took Lucia a moment to acknowledge Suzaku. She got to her feet and stared down at the ball she was holding.

"I am unhurt," she said simply. "What are these odd contraptions?"

[priforprince]

Urgh. The fingers press harder. “A verbal tic atop the commotion......This train is formidable.”

To be fair, a dialect or other such alternative phrasing is hardly as large an issue as a sentence ender. Under standard circumstances, Hibiki may be bathed in them quite safely. The combination, at this juncture, however....

The colors outside lurch. Hibiki begins listing to one side, unable to support herself.

nameless spider | so i'm a spider, so what? (light novel)

[kumoko]

[ Mission Time - Team One ]

[ so 'scaring monsters away' is absolutely in her skillset and, hey, these wolves aren't too strong on their own, especially when there's a bunch of people distracting half the pack with torches, but she'd admittedly be done by now if they weren't so delicious. Violence done with, she's sat in a messy pile of canine limbs and fur, stuffing parts into her waiting fanged maw with unnerving speed. If she pauses now and then, it's only to shiver with delight and savour a particularly good bite.

Should she be helping with the rest? No way, they've got it handled. Slurp. ]

SPORTS BALLLLLL

[kumoko]

The trick of navigating the train is to 1. not get your scythe limbs stuck in any of the furnishings 2. wait until doors are fully open to try and fit your body through and 3. avoid everyone so there's not a repeat of The Incident.

Ah, two and three: fail. She doesn't smile back. She stares, while swivelling her head and stealthily wiggling her back pair of legs until the door unsticks from her thread-bedecked abdomen. The gym had been a great place to relearn her Hit skill, but this human... no way... maybe her usual tactic will work even if he's looking this way. Ignore me, human! Ignore me picking up these balls and scuttling over to face the basketball hoops!

A Whole New World

[kumoko]

[ W-what an extraordinarily generous human! Don't mind if she does! The bowl of cubes disappears into her mouth, and she licks her lips - or would if she had a tongue or lips. Really she's just wiggling her pedipalps to clear the residue from around her mouth, but shut up! It's definitely the same thing!

She was going to keep edging through the crowd, but those cubes were amaziiiing. More, please. ]

A Whole New World

[enthunder]

Light would have charitably thought Lucia was dressed like that to purposefully blend in, except she looks so damn uncomfortable. And overburdened. She hesitated for just a second before brushing off the most recent vendor, changing direction, and heading for the other traveller.

"Hey, do you need any help?"

[priforprince]

Wh—

[ The creature from the train? Well, Hibiki is no stranger to non-human company. A spider is a new experience, but so be it. Someone who has kissed a sentient vacuum cleaner twice isn’t phased by a few extra appendages.

Rather.... ]

....Your palate is beyond salvation.

[ And where is that chef?! ]

[swordofzero]

"I'm glad." He looked her over once more, to check that she was indeed unhurt and rose to his feet.

"Contraptions? You mean the balls?"

There are people from many places on this train, but the idea of a place where even a simple thing as this does not exist is strange to Suzaku.

[swordofzero]

Ah it is the spider.

She's not a threat. Not now anyways but Suzaku still has a wariness around her. It's less that she is a spider and more that it's difficult to understand what she is thinking.

Her motives today are clear though, she wants to play basketball.

Suzaku mostly ignores the part of his mind that tells him that spiders playing basketball is ridiculous. Many impossible things are true, it seems.

He should probably leave, it's clear she doesn't want company. Maybe. He is no expert in spider body language. But he stays, to see what she will do.

[knifewithnoname]

If only she had listed to the other side, that way the girl could have let her fall and been on her way. But instead Hibiki had fallen into the girl, pinning her against her and the carriage wall.

"Be getting off me."

Small finger prod firmly into Hibiki's side. Poking hard to try and make her move, being trapped under stupid people is stupid.

o: Hi have a giant woman! Whole new world prompt.

[practicemakesimperfect]

[ Pink knew inter-galactic hubs when she saw them. Or...sort of. She knew of them and what they should look like. Details..!! The important part was that she knew she was free to be at her full height of, oh, sixteen feet. She could've made herself smaller if she wanted. She could be average-human-height! But sometimes Pink just liked to be a giant woman and tease the tiny humans for fun.

Said giant woman was only looking down at this loud little Hibiki with a patient smile, one that bordered playful, and watched her shove the bowl at someone else. That was when the smile broke into laughter, and Pink knelt down to gently nudge the refused bowl back towards Hibiki, her voice sounding like an amused sister poking fun at their picky sibling. ]

But it smells so good! How can you call yourself a connoisseur if you don't even eat it?

[ The longer the silence that pervaded as Pink waited for Hibiki to answer dragged on, the more Pink's smile grew into something loud and bright and playful. And, more importantly, full of the suggestion that she'd let Hibiki sit on her shoulder and be carried around. If she asked it of Pink, anyway. ]

Voidtrecking!

[practicemakesimperfect]

[ Pink Diamond could make her body appear smaller if she so chose--doing so and holding the form didn't put any such stress on her as it might do to other gems, thus for the time spent on the train, she was often barely taller than the average human man. It made it easier to move around and spend time with humans. Particularly this one.

She liked his company though. He understood the price of freedom.

Pink had been trying(and failing) to practice her knitting(that things could be made from two giant needles sounded like a fun challenge! And kept her hands busy) while seated not too far from him on a pile of stolen pillows, but she stopped upon actually noticing him. She watched him for a little while, giving him his space until she caught a glimpse of his reflection in the window.

She then perked up, and started making silly faces at the window until he caught her reflection. ]

You're gonna get your face stuck like that if you keep staring all the time.

Pink Diamond | Steven Universe

[practicemakesimperfect]

[ Aubergine Adventures ]

[ Pink, having no need for food, easily forgot that humans did need food when she got swept up by just how silly these little purple things looked sitting there in the pantries.

There was a few of these aubergines in her arms, and she was hurrying from the dining car excitedly. The first poor soul to run into Pink as she bounced out would be faced with a hundred questions from an excitable, and broadly smiling gem.]

Hi! I found these in the dining car! What are they? What do you do with them? Where do you normally get them from!


[ A Whole New World ]

[ Stepping off of the train always came with a mixture of anxiety and excitement. One the one hand, she was finally able to see new places, experience new things and explore! But on the other, she worried someone just might recognize her as a gem. Or what's more, recognize her as Pink Diamond, and from there, it was only a hop, skip, and a jump before Blue, Yellow, or White were on her again with lectures and disappointment.

She'd linger at the station, peeking out into the light and watching the crowd shuffle by, all on their way to the market where delightful scents and sounds were coming from.

Pink wanted to go--she gripped the railings tightly--if only she had a little push. ]

Ohhh..


[ Mission Time ]

[ Sheep!!! Look how cute!!!

Despite her initial squeal of delight, she hadn't forgotten about the mission! Having a sixteen foot tall woman with the ability to create shields that could stand in for walls, turns out, really helped with the efforts of rounding the stubborn flock up.

She, however, was not at all taking this seriously, and treated it more like a game. Point in case, one of the sheep was sitting in her fluffy hair the entire time like some kind of matching fluffy accessory while everyone ran around. Pink was also spending the whole time laughing and giggling at those who had to chase the sheep around, but at least she was yelling which way they should try going. ]

That's it, you almost got it!

[ If someone approached her, Pink would point, coo, and giggle at one of the helpers trying to stalk down a wayward sheep. With one of the sheep still just. Chillin'. In her hair. ]

[kumoko]

Not having the Stealth skill sucks. Maybe it's a natural consequence of being stuck in a place built for humans rather than monsters, but it's ridiculously hard to avoid detection here as a spider! She reaches her usual spot for throwing, and freezes. Wasn't that guy playing too? Has she just stolen the room from him? Well, she won't back down! She's gonna become the best shot there is, or bust!

She's gotten a 50% accuracy rate recently, so this time for sure. The ball flies in an arc... and hits the wall to the right of the hoop with a sharp thud.

Nooooo.

[kumoko]

[ Beyond salvation, how rude. And true. It's just that the bar is so low, y'know? It's not poisonous frogs, she'll take it. She'll absolutely eat all of these cubes. She'd eat the vacuum cleaner too-- not. Wait, twice? It's a good thing she has no telepathy abilities and has no idea about Hibiki's romantic history, right? Definitely.

Oh yeah. Quickly, she extrudes some non-sticky thread and weaves it into a series of letters just as another human in a weird white hat approaches the table. ]

T H A N K S

[priforprince]

Hibiki feels similarly about trapping stupid people. Particularly when their fingers assail her person.

“I hardly desire-“ An attempt is made to remove herself from this unpleasant position, but her knees rebel and even trying to catch herself on the seats can’t stop her from falling against the child again.

No. It can’t be....! Is her refined celebrity body shutting down in protest? Can it not even last until the quiet car before constructing its physiological barricades...?

“Rgh!” Another attempt, but this close to the window, it’s for naught. Hibiki slumps. Curse....curse this...

Interprimensional....prixpress.......

[priforprince]

[ In Hibiki’s defense, she feels no particular way about the vacuum cleaner. When one behaves as befits the ultimate Prince, one grants tokens of amore to all manner of mesdemoiselles.

The weaving is impressive enough to merit a snort, but the arrival of someone appropriately-attired for running a kitchen arrests Hibiki’s attention. Heedless of the fact that a giant spider who looks hungry for seconds may not be the ideal backdrop for lodging a complaint, she turns to the newcomer.

With an imperious point, for good measure! ]

You - what sort of establishment are you attempting to run?