Test Drive Meme 016

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab samples and have fun!

1. Post with your character, including their name and series in the subject. We’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they've been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action.

3. Have lots of fun. Mandatory, mod-sanctioned fun.

Happy testing!

Silence in the Library

The library is a double carriage. Downstairs is brightly-coloured, with cover posters across the walls, tables and chairs in the strong colours of the team uniforms, and a wooden model train placed as though winding its way through the carriage with carriages of shelves in tow. The walls are shelving, and beanbags litter the floor. Upstairs is quieter, rows of nonfiction shelves with private desks at the end of each row; the sound up here is muffled.

You don't know who, you don't know why, but someone or something has had a bad power day. How do you know? Well, the fact that the characters of any book you read keep coming to life as tiny versions of themselves and running riot around the carriage... that might have been a clue.

You just wish you'd picked a different book before realising it.

An Apple a Day

Medical is another double carriage, though it boasts one of the few person-sized lifts on the train as well as stairs. On the bottom floor, two of the three rooms are examination rooms, with simple beds, equipment and first-aid capacity. The third is a surgical bay, albeit a simpler one than some passengers may anticipate. All three rooms have ICPs with instructions and manuals for all equipment and a number of medical procedures.

Upstairs, there are four private recovery rooms, with a medical bed and an accessible en-suite. It's possible to check a passenger into one of these rooms, at which point they cannot leave until discharged by the person who checked them in.

Which, unfortunately, you are entirely aware of. You've been here for three days, and you're climbing the walls. But that'll teach you to get injured in such a stupid way. Or so they hope.

Sprockets and Skysong

In which a train arrives among the smokestacks of Little Underpool with some unexpected visitors.

Little Underpool is a township on Void world #30630687444. Caught up in the middle of what appears to be a series of industrial revolutions, the world is in a state of constant, chaotic innovation. Currently, that means that there is a power struggle going on between the skywhaling megacorporation Scrimshaw Inc and the Zephyr Company, an airship manufacturer, over control of the skies above Underpool, and the rapidly diminishing population of skywhales, whose bones are used in most modern airships, and whose blood is a key fuel source for a great number of new devices and engines. The voidtreckers are, this mission, to rescue the whales, rather than any humanoids.

Team One

Infiltrating Scrimshaw Inc, this team's job is to sabotage the tracking drones used to locate the whale pods, to allow the great beasts to migrate successfully away from Underpool. The offices of the corporation are in a series of spiralling brass and bone towers in the centre of the town, connected by exposed cable bridges that run to dizzying heights. Their clockwork guards are numerous, but often faulty, and highly vulnerable to tinkering.

Team Two

This team's job is to hijack some of the Zephyr Company's airships, and use them to defend the whale pods closest to Underpool. Several pods contain whale calves, and cannot evacuate as fast as the larger bachelor groups. The airships are light, and handle well, but their oddly organic design can be rather unsettling. The primary weapons are harpoons and short-range bomb slings, both as deadly against other airships as they are against their original targets.

Team Three

The final team's task is less direct - they must go among the populace of Underpool and spread unrest, redirecting the attention of the people towards the plight of their nonhuman neighbours in the sky, and the wrongdoings of their resident megacorporations. The people are not aware that the whales are an entirely sentient species, which appears to be a deliberate obfuscation by the town's council and sponsors. Your job is to change that.

Comments

Sprockets - Team Two

[tactlesstantei]

"I'm doing my best here, but it's different from what I know how to steer."

[The most Masumi had ever steered was a motorcycle, so this was very much new for her. She was figuring it out though, even if it was slow going and awkward.]

"I need to focus on controlling this thing, so just tell me where to go and I'll do it."

[zechs_isonfire]

[ Readjusts his expectations; someone at least brave enough to try something as alien as these craft, to defend helpless creatures. But unskilled. ]

Keep to my left wing and try to follow my lead. I'll lead the first assault - if they dodge or try to evade to approach the pod, destroy them.

I'll be your point of reference, but let me know if you get vertigo.

[tactlesstantei]

"Got it." [Masumi eyes the opposing airships and the pod, her main focus on just following along for the moment.

Of course, there was that discomfort with potentially having to shoot down the airships rather than just holding them up long enough for the pod to get away, but hopefully she wouldn't have to do that.]

[zechs_isonfire]

[ Zechs, however, had no qualms taking out their enemy. There were people in those ships, yes. There was little chance they'd survive being fired upon by their weapons. But, it's either them, or the sentient and defenseless innocents they were tasked to protect. ]

[ If Masumi didn't actually take her enemies out, he'd cover for her - but sooner or later, if she didn't actually shoot anyone down ... ]

[tactlesstantei]

[It soon becomes clear that the sky whalers are going to do their best to get to the whales regardless of being blocked, so in an effort to keep them away from the pod, Masumi decides to hurriedly launch a harpoon at the closest opposing airship.

It connects, but now there's the problem of the two ships being connected unless she does something else.]

"I've got one, but..."

[zechs_isonfire]

[ Zechs took a brief glance back at his monitors - she's stuck. He thought quickly. ]

Reverse thrusters full, then pull a hard spin starbord.

[ The force should yank the harpoon clear out of the enemy ship - but just in case, Zechs swung back around to give her an assist. ]