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

[hashtagparkerluck]

Whoa, really? Awesome!

[ Okay. Okay so there's a lot to unpack here but he's gonna save them both some time and just store the whole suitcase away for later. ]

Y-Yeah, definitely. Bludgers seem like they would.

[ He moves over to the crate and opens one up to start piling some of the balls in. ]

So, there's definitely a multiverse then? I mean look at where we are, I guess? That kinda confirms multiverse-so... uh... Spider bite?

[hibana_incursa]

Yeah. There are many universes in the multiverse and they’re all different. For example; I’m the Spider-person in mine. In another, it’s a cartoon pig, complete with giant hammer in his pocket. There’s an entire black and white world where the Spider-Man there wears a trench coat and thinks a Rubiks Cube is a miracle and a wonder.


[ There isn’t a single thing about her posture or tone or speech patterns that would suggest this is a lie. Every word the truth, every one spoken with sincerity. She starts picking up balls as well, dropping them in the crate and then holding still. Her head tilts again and she puts a finger up to her lips. There is a faint buzzing in the air, in the direction of the cabinet. ]

Am I hearing things, or do you hear that, too?

[hashtagparkerluck]

Okay uh-so this suit case is apparently a bag of holding because there just seems to be more and more to unpack.

[ But there's a lot here he really wants to ask about-a lot. However, at her signal, he frowns and tilts his head in the direction of the cabinet. There's definitely something in there. ]

[ And he doesn't seem to have learned his lesson at all because he goes over to the cabinet and pulls it open-eyes widening and suddenly ducking to avoid being smacked in the face with something small and gold. ]

Uh... do I get points for just seeing the Snitch?

[hibana_incursa]

[ Gwen has ducked as the Snitch flew at her face, grinning and almost laughing at how suddenly stupid and ridiculous this whole thing is. The Snitch dives at her again and it's a graceful gymnast's flip that puts her on the ceiling, crouched and ready to make a grab at the thing, hair coming out of her ponytail holder. She'll fix it later. For now? She has a golden ball with wings to catch. ]

If I remember my Harry Potter lore correctly, I think it's just points if you catch it. One-fifty, I believe. Oh! By your left, my right!

[ This shouldn't be too hard, right? It's just a small ball, and they're two Spider-kids. ]

[hashtagparkerluck]

Yeah! I see it!

[ Peter affirms quickly, firing a web at it, only to miss it by mere milimeters. His web sticks to the ceiling and he pulls himself up, latching on to it and glancing around. Now where did that stupid thing go? ]

I mean, we should be the best seekers ever, advanced senses and all.

[hibana_incursa]

And yet...

[ Gwen has just fired her own webbing from her own webshooters, the design a fair bit different from his. They're sleeker, for starters, and there's no obvious place for a canister of web fluid. Another shot is fired off and then a grab and she misses. ]

This just borders on embarrassing.

[ It borders on hilarious. Embarrassing is the last word she'd use for this. She's having too much fun. ]

[hashtagparkerluck]

[ Well, how many kids can say they chased after a real-honest-to-god snitch? Other than like.. HP and co. But even Harry Potter didn't chase a snitch in a train car! They can do this. It's just one stupid gold ball with wings. ]

Oh shit! The door's open!

[ Peter realizes, firing a web at the compartment door and yanking it closed so they don't have to chase it throughout the whole train. ]

Aha!

[ He spies it again and fires another web, only to miss again. ]

Maybe there's a reason this isn't how it's played in the books?

[hibana_incursa]

[ The Snitch seems to have been angered by the door shutting, as it's movements have become faster. A tad more aggressive. It zooms at Gwen's face again and Gwen flattens herself against the ceiling with a faint shriek. And now there's a small glare on her face.

To partially quote Willow Rosenburg from Buffy; this is her resolve face. Returning to the crouch she'd been in previously, she looks around for the Snitch and doesn't spot it. But she hears it. It's around and it's obnoxious buzzing will probably ring in her ears.

Motioning again for Peter to be quiet, she shifts her position so the only things she's sticking to the ceiling with are the bottoms of her shoes and her fingertips. Her eyes are closed again and she seems to just be waiting. ]