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

welcome, giant woman! have a trash prince.

[priforprince]

[ The bowl is abruptly retuned to Hibiki from on high, and she looks up to berate this person, whoever they may be, for their cheek. Just because there’s over ten feet of height difference doesn’t mean Shikyoin Hibiki can’t still manage to look down on someone! ] My palate is demanding! Nothing but top-class ingredients may pass through my-

[ But then she focuses on the person’s visage and drops the bowl. Such....unexpected regality....!

Could this person possibly be worthy of their exaggerated stature...? ]

Aubergine Adventures

[alchepistol]

Aubergines. Also called “eggplant” or “nasubi”.

[ Saint-Germain meets this barrage of questions without flinching. Or much expounding, really. ]

Humans eat them.

Saint-Germain | Senki Zesshou Symphogear

[alchepistol]

[ Aubergine Adventures ]

Matter and energy. The two components of organic material.

[ If it’s possible to loom over an aubergine, Saint-Germain is doing just that in the dining car. She raises a hand, and a mystic symbol blossoms just past her palm. The aubergine glows, dissolves, begins to reform. ]

Reconstructing those components in a more perfect form is alchemy’s goal.

[ The light gives way to a loaf of bread. Saint-Germain picks it up, pulls off a piece. Chews. ]

...Dry.

[ A Whole New World ]

[ Saint-Germain has been cornered by the aggressive salesperson hawking brain mods. Rather than this bothering her, however, she seems intrigued. ]

I see. Lacking heretical technology, you pursue your ideals thus...

[ Yes, indeed they do! And that ideal can be yours as well, for the low price of only....

Someone may need to interfere. It’s hard to tell, since Saint-Germain refuses to emote. ]

[ Mission Time ]

[ Saint-Germain has been assigned to the team dealing with wolves. But, upon being offered an axe - ]

I don’t need it.

[ She points an arm, palm outward, at a nearby bush. A ball of light fires from her hand, smoking out a wolf that runs for cover. ]

As long as I have fists to raise in anger, oppressors’ fangs won’t sink into their prey.

sorry for the late comment, life sure is a thing!

[swordofzero]

[It took a moment for Suzaku to even notice, so lost in his thoughts and the swirling colours of the void. But he is aware of someone behind him, not strange on a train full of people and then slowly realises there is a reflection pulling faces at him.

He turned to face Pink, he didn't smile but his face did soften, losing the stern look.]

My apologies, I didn't realise you were there.

[He stepped away from the window, only just realising the headache that was beginning to form.]

Knitting again?

[swordofzero]

The ball hits the hoop and bounces back, rolling towards Suzaku. He's still... It's clear the spider can understand humans even if she can't talk back. If anything she seems... shy. A strange trait for a spider.

But then again until arriving on this train Suzaku had had no real conceptions of what a spider might feel or which traits they might have. Perhaps all spiders were shy.

He picked up the ball and threw it in a steady arc towards her.

[eyesasblind]

"They are called 'balls'?" She tilted her head at Suzaku and then looked back down at the one she was holding. "What do they do?"

[eyesasblind]

Her eyes landed on Lightning and she looked a bit relieved to see someone else from the train. Even if she didn't really know her. She was still familiar in a way these aliens were not.

"Yes," Lucia said simply. She didn't elaborate. She assumed it was obvious enough.

[knifewithnoname]

"Urgh." Legs kick out as the girl tries to scramble out from beneath the body falling on top of her. Why is this happening? Why isn't this woman getting up.

Kicking might work where poking was not insistent enough. "I will be stabbing you, be getting up right now."

She has her dagger, but it is trapped in it's sheath. Kant would be displeased at her, getting into this ridiculous situation, unable to even reach her weapon.

But maybe bluff will work.

[swordofzero]

"Do?" He blinked at her, "On their own they don't do anything. But they are used for games, primarily."

Hopefully she knew what games were. He's not sure how he's even going to start explaining things if he has to start that basically.

[priforprince]

Alas, Hibiki already feels stabbed: by the thorns lining this bitter path she has been allotted, riding a train full of idiots through a headache factory. Thus distracted, she grunts, trying not to be overwhelmed and failing.

“My...limit....”

The bright side: she might free Little One when all the tension leaves her body, sliding down to the floor.

The flip side: She’s passed out.

[knifewithnoname]

For a moment the weight is worse and the girl can't even breathe as her chest is pressed down upon. But then it slides to the side and the woman is off her and down.

She's dead? No. The girl prods her with a foot. Just passed out.

How had she managed that? No matter. The girl got to her feet and brushed off her clothes.

No point in stabbing her anymore. Besides it's too risky when people can just come back from the dead. Angry people who should be dead are incredibly stupid.

But she makes to leave, why should she care that a stupid woman has passed out for no reason?

[priforprince]

“Mhrf.”

Hibiki’s body twitches more than is strictly necessary (or expected) if stepped upon, but she remains out cold. A small bell might even be heard to sound - fighter down, victory to the opposite party!

Con....gratulations?

Gwen Stacy: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OTA

[hibana_incursa]

[1: Stare at the void and...it gives you a migraine. ]


[ Gwen wasn't feeling too great, staring out into the void as it rushed past, but she was curious. She wanted to know what was out there. Shapes swirled and changed, colors flashed, but it wasn't enough to go on. Not enough information to give her any clue.

All it did was make her head hurt, and that headache led to nausea. Mild nausea, sure, but enough so that she leans down some, head below the window frame and eyes closed as she fought both headache and stomach-ache. ]

...ooof.

[ That's it. That's all the girl with bleach blonde hair can muster. Just a groan. When she hears someone enter the car she's in, she speaks to them without looking. ]

Don't...ugh...don't look outside too long. You'll get motion sick.

[2: SPORTS! ALL THE SPORTS...balls. ]

[ It wasn't Gwen that opened the cabinets. She didn't want to know what was in them just yet. What she wanted was to see if she knew anyone else on board, so she's taken to doing as much wandering as possible. Unfortunately, that means wandering into the train car with the cabinets. Seeing someone reach up for the latch, something in her head buzzes just slightly. Not a full on DANGER RUN MOVE GET AWAY, more a gentle 'this will be interesting'. ]

I wouldn't open ---

[ Too late. Whoever it is opened the cabinets and now there are tennis balls and golfballs and something that looks like a Quaffle bouncing around the cabin. Gwen has jumped backwards onto a crate, landing in a spider-like crouch and watching the balls roll around the floor, more of them falling out of the cabinet as the train rocks too and fro every so lightly. ]

Okay...well...let's start cleaning this up before someone gets hurt, I guess.

[ This may not be a mess she's responsible for, but she's certainly going to help fix it. It's just what she does. ]

2. of course it's 2

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Peter's spent a large majority of his time exploring. He's been on the train a few days and hasn't even quite managed to reach the other end yet-there's too much going on! Too many people to talk to! ]

[ He's a curious kid by nature and the fact that the doors to the cabinet look slightly bowed had him inching a little closer-he can feel the light buzzing at the back his neck. His spidey sense has been going off off and on since he got on the train though so he just ignores it for the most part and opens the doors- ]

[ Every kind of ball to ever have existed ever comes cascading down on him much like one of those really old cartoons when someone's just shoved everything in the closet. ]

[ He lets out a startled yelp and backs away quickly, only to start to lose his balance before regaining it at an almost lightening speed. ]

Y-yeah. Whoops. [ He says awkwardly, glancing back at the girl in the train car with him. There's something about her-there's a buzzing at the back his head that tell him-and then there's that pose. She's like him? ] I mean, who even puts that many balls in a cabinet, anyway? How did they all fit in there?

Peter Parker | MCU

[hashtagparkerluck]

{ Sports ball! }

[ It would be him that made the mistake and did the thing to cause an avalanche of balls. Who puts that many balls in a cabinet anyway? How did they all fit in there? He lets out a short yelp as the balls start to cascade down and jumps to the side faster than humanly possible. He may not have been taken down by the avalanche but now there's balls everywhere rolling in every direction. ]

Aw man, now I have to clean all this up.

[ He sighs, mentally trying to keep up with just how many balls there are to keep track of. ]


{ A Whole New World~♪ }

[ Peter's all for these little excursions-they're fascinating and he gets to meet so many new and interesting people. He's off by one of the market stands talking to a merchant's selling something that looks suspiciously like jello cubes. Not the minds, he likes jello okay.However, he's just there to talk it seems as he's in the middle of an animated story about something as the merchant just smiles and nods. ]

Yeah-so I was like-hey man you can't be doing that-there's things called laws? Ever heard of them-so he freaked out because I guess he hadn't heard of laws? That was a joke by the way-anyways I stopped that guy and he's in jail now-so anything interesting happen around here?



{ Mission Time! }

[ The sheep seem to have all gotten themselves stuck in some kind of spiderweb and here's Peter, sitting on a fence post looking quite proud of himself. All in a day's work for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. ]

[ Except... ]

Aw man, really!?

[ He shouts in exasperation as he notices there's still three sheep out in the field. ]

Yeah, okay. You guys chill here, I'm gonna go get your friends-Oh my god! Don't eat that! Eat the grass!

[ Peter yelps as he sees one of the sheep chew experimentally on the webbing. ]

Whole new world

[knifewithnoname]

[Markets are one of the places where she feels at home. Not properly at home of course, it's very different. Her home didn't have people with metal arms or strange creatures that weren't mindless monsters.

It didn't have brightly coloured cubes. Little One had been eyeing up this stall for a little while now and she saw her opportunity. That boy from the train was talking and talking and the stall keeper seemed fully occupied in listening to his story and so she took her chance, slowly creeping up from behind and reaching out to snaffle some of the cubes for herself.

She has no idea what they are but they are interesting and she wants to know more, talking-boy makes a good partner in crime.]

[knifewithnoname]

[Too late, not that this girl would have listened anyways to a random person telling her not to do anything. No one was the boss here, as far as she could work out. Everyone was as confused and far from home as she was.

But perhaps, in this instance, she should have. The balls hit her and she flung her arms up tp protect her head as they rained down on her. She wasn't hurt, outside a few bruises but still she glared at the woman.]

Did you be knowing that would be happening?

(OOC: If you need me to drop her dialect/speech pattern please let me know)

Re: 2. of course it's 2

[hibana_incursa]

[ The second the guy turns around, it hits her like a small jolt of electricity. That sudden knowing that shoots through her and causes a visible twitch of her shoulder, a faint shiver up her spine. He’s like her. There’s no question about it. And the second she sees his face, she could bet good money on his name and probably come out the winner. ]

Huh.

[ Its graceful the way she moves from a crouch to sitting, still watching the other spider person with curiosity. It’s a practiced move. One she doesn’t have to think about. As still as she’s trying to be, however, for as much as she wants to come off as calm? Her fingers don’t atop drumming on the side of the box she finds herself on. ]

How did they get them in there at all is a good question, too. I’m sure we can figure something out, but then someone else is gonna open it and it’ll be a mess again.

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Peter continues his casual conversation and making friends with the merchant as one does, listening to the merchant's response before a slight tingling at the back of his neck alerts him that something's coming-it's not a danger sense more like a soft prickle. ]

[ What now? He can't help to think to himself because his sense has just been going off and on all over the place since that day at the train station he has no idea how he got to. ]

[ He glances around for a second before he sees a little girl creeping a little closer and frowns. ]

You can't just take things that don't belong to you, you know. Kra'gar here works hard to earn a living selling jello cubes.

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Peter watches her carefully, unsure exactly what his senses are telling him but he gets the feeling he's right in thinking she's like him-that crouch was a bit of a give-away. ]

[ He ignores the obvious nervousness because honestly, he can be quite nervous himself-especially in a situation like being on a train traveling through the void or whatever this thing is. ]

Y-yeah, good point.

uh...

[ He glances around the train car. ]

Anywhere else we can put them so this doesn't happen to someone else?

[hibana_incursa]

Not that I’ve noticed.

[ Another drumming of fingers on the box but then she tilts her head some. Listening carefully. Now the drumming is more purposeful for a moment before she stands and looks st the crate again. ]

Crates empty. It’s not big enough for all of the mess, but...

[ She chews her lower lip a moment before reaching down and removing the lid. It was nailed on but taking it off the box really didn’t take much. And a moment later she’s working the nails out by hand. ]

What if we use this as a barrier to keep the balls in the cabinet? It’s roughly the right size, yeah?

[knifewithnoname]

[She froze. How had she been caught. She knew she was quiet, the men were distracted. She was the best thief in Gauig! Her patch of Gauig at least...

She wrinkled her nose and tried to look casual.] I did no be taking any! I did no even be thinking it! [She tried to sound affronted even as she lied. She didn't care about Kra'gar and his hard work, selling jello cubes sounded like a stupid job.]

(OOC: Lmk if you need the dialect dropped!)

keep the speech patterns! I love it.

[hibana_incursa]

I had an instinct about it.

[ Gwen heads over to the girl as she speaks, her concern evident as she crouches and tries to check the girl for injuries without touching the child. She didn't know who this kid was, what her life was like, or if she had people here looking out for her. She wasn't going to upset her if she could avoid it. ]

Are you okay, kiddo? Should we get you some ice or something for those bruises?

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ If not for his spideysense then he probably wouldn't have known but the feeling of someone creeping up on him was enough for him to check things out. He frowns a little more at the girl, glances back to Kra'gar and then back to the little girl. He certainly wouldn't disagree that selling jello cubes was stupid but people have to make a living somehow. ]

Uh-huh.

[ He doesn't believe her but maybe he's wrong-he did accidentally assume someone was stealing a car once only to find it belonged to the guy. That was embarrassing. ]

Did you want some jello? I'll uh.. pay for yours? I guess?

[ He freezes and pats himself down for his wallet. ]

uh... assuming I've got any money on me, anyway.


( ooc: Aww, I think it's cute! )

how about a spider-teen?

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Peter makes a face from where he's successfully wrangled all the sheep up while the pin is being fixed-wrangled-webbed them all together-same difference. The point is he has all the sheep in one spot. His face pales considerably when he realises that this uh, spider, seems to have just eaten the wolves. ]

Well.. uh... I guess that's... one way to deal with them...

[ His appetite is officially lost. Thanks for that. He won't be eating for a good long time-well, long time for a spider-teen anyway. ]