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

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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[kumoko]

She'd given that ball up for lost, readying another and staring with laserlike focus at the offending hoop, when Suzaku's movement catches one of her eyes and she barely skitters diagonally in enough time to avoid the missile. Ball. Whatever. Is he trying to get her to leave? Well, she won't! She shoots out a weak section of non-sticky thread to catch the ball before it can hit the floor, then she spins back, takes aim, and slings it right back at his head.

[swordofzero]

Had he offended her? Suzaku dodged the ball as it flew towards his head. She is dangerous with those webs, which makes sense, seeing as she is a giant spider.

"I'm sorry. I was only passing it to you."

[kumoko]

Huh? Really? Well, too late, she's already launched a second ball by the time he's got the 'sorry' out.

[swordofzero]

He dodges that one as well. Right. Apology not accepted it seemed. He began moving towards the door. "I apologise. I am leaving."

Before those balls turn into something more dangerous. He's not too worried about himself but he doesn't want to anger the giant spider. Not on an enclosed train where no one can escape.