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

[goodflerken]

Goose hops down off the bench and follows in the girl's footsteps all the way back to the store room. She hasn't been to this part of the train yet. It's full of interesting smells. She likes it.

Cats are incredibly picky eaters, as a rule, but a flerken? Whole different story. Goose will eat anything. Even an aubergine, if that's what the girl wants to try and feed her. In the mean time, she's content to just wind herself around Little One's ankles, mewing occasionally and just acting like a cat. She's had a lot of time to practice. She's gotten quite good at it.

[knifewithnoname]

"Hey. Be behaving yourself." Little One grumbles as the cat winds around her ankles. She grabs a knife and the aubergine and begins chopping it into chunks. "You will be getting food soon. You do no be needing to be begging so hard."

Silly cat.

[goodflerken]

Goose has definitely been thought of as worse than a silly cat. She'll take it.

When Little One moves herself over to the counter area, Goose follows. If winding around her ankles is distracting to the girl (and she certainly doesn't want to distract her while she's holding a knife in case she hurts herself) then she will find another way to be close. She does this by hopping up onto the counter, well out of the way of the chopping area, and settling herself into a comfortable sprawl on top of what appears to be a large tin of crackers, observing. See? She can behave.

[knifewithnoname]

Good. Good cat. The girl grinned at her as she continued chopping up aubergine. Since the cat was being so good she passed over a piece of her early cuttings. Good cats deserved treats. Or at least, giving treats when a cat was good showed it how to be good. They were too stupid to understand rules.

"It will be being ready in a moment."

[goodflerken]

A normal cat might not be interested in a chunk of aubergine. Or maybe it would. Who's to say? Cats are mysterious and fickle creatures.

Goose is all about it, though. Of course, Goose is also all about not frightening small children. So she takes the chunk into her mouth with her delicately pointed and very feline teeth. Only when her lips have closed around it entirely does a tentacle emerge from the void, hidden in the darkness of her mouth, the take the chunk of veggie down into the void. It's nice. The spongy texture. She decides that she likes it, and mews her approval, stretching out three of her four limbs and purring loudly.

[knifewithnoname]

The girl doesn't have much idea what cats would be interested in. Most the ones she has ever seen have been street cats, who would eat most things. They were mostly a nuisance, but this one was being good and wasn't trying to steal her honey cakes.

Not that there were honey cakes on the train. But at least this cat likes aubergine because soon it was cut up and in a bowl and being presented to the cat. "There you do be going."