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voidtreckerooc2020-09-15 05:45 am
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Test Drive Meme 016
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.
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[Rei... isn't necessarily graceful under pressure. Which means, when Wormmon flails, Rei just sort of... tosses him. At Ken.
Sorry, Wormmon.]
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Ken-chaaaaaaaaaannnnnn---!!!
Wha--
[ Ken had hoped to retrieve his worm as well, but this is somewhat more sudden than expected. Safe catch!
Off-balance!
...And that would be Ken knocking over Rei's cards as he sits back suddenly.
WHAT HAS HE DONE. ]
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Rei's just. Going to stare in dismay at this now-mess.]
I have to start from the top again.....
[The despair in her voice is just. Palpable.]
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[ Ken doesn't look much better. He. When trying not to be a nuisance. He.
...No. It doesn't matter how old he gets. When he causes deliberate inconvenience, it's still awful. ]
What were your categories? Can I help?
[ Wormmon looks around, confused. What's going on? He missed something. ]
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[she looks so hopeful, ken.]
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Ahh....
[ ...The context he knows for this term and the context she's using are not matching up. What's worse, her categories were subjective.
He's really messed up, hasn't he. ]
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... Guess not, huh. It's okay, it shouldn't take too long to resort!
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Think. ]
Maybe if you told me what effects you find "useful", I could make a first pass.
[ That way she'd only be looking for what didn't belong, not having to consider each card from scratch. ]
--Though if you'd rather I stay out, I'll understand.
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[She sighs...]
Maybe I should teach you the game's basics! That might help.
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Okay, seiza. He's sitting seiza. About card games.
Someone goes to tea ceremonies with a friend sometimes, nowadays. ]
I'm in your care.
[ Wormmon crawls up Ken's ramrod-straight back and sticks his head atop Ken's head. He will watch the lesson from here. ]
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[Oddly, that doesn't seem too weird to her. She knows about the weird duel dojos out there, so someone sitting seiza doesn't seem too weird.
She starts to lecture Ken about duel monsters, then! Monsters, magic, traps, etc. The basics of dueling! And also she's. pretty good at explaining, considering she's the top of the class at Duel Academy. It's an extremely basic explanation, though!]
There's a lot more depth to it, but these are the basics... You getting it so far?
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Yes, that's a satisfying notion. ]
The basic rules don't change, but the strategy does depending on which cards you place in your deck. How you use them in combination is key to winning, as well.
Ken-chan could probably play now! He's really clever!
[ Wormmon receives a brief smile for this before Ken returns to focusing on Rei. ] What tends to be your preference?
[ Do you like using these....trap and spell cards, or do you use them mostly as support for your monsters.....?
That's nice. Being able to support your monsters. ]
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[Rei taps her chin, thinking. if you wanna support your monsters just get a d3 ken]
I guess it depends on what I'm doing. I change up my deck depending on what I want out of the duel, I guess? When I use my Maiden in Love deck, it's a control-heavy deck that uses a lot of magic and traps, but playing seriously... My Mystic deck was fun, but really random, but I've been tinkering with Lightsworn, which is a super-heavy blitz set...
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[ Ken thinks this over. Is her sorting system really going to be so specialized to her that he can't be of any assistance...? Even in some little way, he'd like to help if he can.
Wormmon sees Ken's brow furrow, and hops down. Grabbing a green card, he stacks it on a green card. Then he takes a purple card, and stacks it on a purple card.
He is not smart like Ken-chan. But he can match colors!
-Huh. ]
Ken-chan, see. The brown ones DO look like Digimon.
....They do.
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Sorting them by type might be useful, too...
Hey, can you tell me about 'Digimon' now? You don't seem like Duel Monster spirits...
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As Ken sorts, he talks. ]
They're not spirits. [ Unlike Wormmon's piles, which...get everything in the same stack and that's about it....Ken is placing each card with gentle, deliberate care precisely atop its appropriate pile. ] Much remains a mystery, but they come from a world where everything's made of data, the same way you or I are made of cells. Certain children are "partnered" with Digimon, and share an unbreakable bond.
Myself...and my friends.
[ He happens to begin a Fusion pile as he says that. ]
People all over the world.
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... I don't think I'd believe that if I hadn't been to the world of Duel Monsters already. Partners...
[Looking down at Wormmon!]
So this guy would be your partner, then?
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[ Wormmon looks up from examining Needle Worm, though he seems hesitant to place this card on the pile. ] Nice to meet you!
And I'm Ken.
[ Who doesn't always remember to introduce himself unless prompted. And who is also smiling. At Rei. ] It's a pleasure.
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[She's watching Wormmon, though... What's the term for this? Ugly-cute? She won't say that out loud, though...]
If you want to keep the card, you can, Wormmon.
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[ Wormmon's eyes get even rounder. ] Thank you!!
[ Ken is now watching Wormmon too, and smiling. ] We can display it in our bunk.
Gyaheheee....
[ Wormmon giggles to himself and puts Needle Worm down somewhere it won't accidentally get sorted away. Then he starts "helping" again. ] Ken-chan, you should make a deck and win with it!
[ Ken blinks. ]
...of Duel Monsters?
[ Nod nod nod nod. Wormmon wants to watch Ken-chan beat everyone at this game! With BUGS!
That would be cool, and totally a possible thing to do! RIGHT, REI?!??!??!?! ]
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Oh, aren't you confident? I'm pret-ty strong, you know.
If you want, though, I'll even make a new deck for playing you. Since it would be really unfair to use my deck against cards this old...
[She just. Gonna pat Wormmon's head. Cute bug.]
You don't have a Duel Disk, though, right? Maybe we can borrow one from the others for you.
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Wait. More importantly. ]
The others?
[ WORMMON GOT A PAT! IT WAS NOT AS GOOD AS A KEN-CHAN PAT BUT IT WAS STILL A PAT! TODAY IS GOOD AFTER ALL! ]
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[And then there's Wester, too, she guesses? Who she'd never heard of. The others, though.]
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[ Ken considers these implications. The Voidtrecker Express can grab people from any world - and, what's more, from any point on the chronology of that word. It truly is a powerful force.
And it thinks there's something that all of them can do. That he can do, alongside this group. Ken will live up to that. ]
It's good you have each other.
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[She's a bit too honest, but it's how she feels.]
I mean... I never met any of them before this? And they're super famous. So, 'have each other'... Doesn't seem right? We just happen to be from the same place.
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