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

Jade -- bOoks of the Raksura

[bluejade]

An Apple a Day
Jade is never going to complain about how long a mentor's healing takes again. Raksura heal quickly, but there's a limit to it, and Jade is stuck in her Arbora form unless she wants the bruised ribs to transfer to flight muscles. (Not that her winged form really fits well in the train, but it is the principle.)

She's been pacing and her claws would be wearing gouges in the material of the floor if it wasn't made of tough stuff. She looks up as soon as someone comes near the sickroom door. "What?"

Sprockets and Skysong -- Team Two
Raksura don't make flying boats, but Jade has seen a number of different designs in the Three Worlds. Which means she's happy to carry a non-flying passenger over to hijack one of them. "We can remove the pilot, and then take the flying boat. Can you figure out how to fly one?"

OOC: Have a prompt for Jade? (I also have visual references if you need them. But blue-silver scaled humanoid person who doesn't usually bother with clothing, and can shapeshift to get taller and with 20-feet span wings.

an apple a day

[purifyings]

The next room was going to be the infirmary and next spot of her own personal tour. She was determined to find the perfect spot to rest and relax. But instead of going inside, she'll notice a new sound from behind her. She'll turn to find another individual heading in the same direction. Their claw was responsible for the noise.

It was clear by her reaction that she was clearly curious about the newcomer. Maybe that's what the other individual noticed too. The next inquiry will snap Nike out of her thoughts as she says without thinking,

"I was just wondering if you were okay." After some thought, she'll add, "...and that you kinda look like a dragon. I never saw one before. Except for one who was mostly in human form." The only thing they stood out about them was the horns, symbols on their face, and their language being of bell chimes instead of speech. It made her wonder if the individual beside her was a dragon or something else. She couldn't help feeling curious.

Re: an apple a day

[bluejade]

"I'm not a dragon, I'm a Raksura. But... they're another sort of shifter?" That was interesting, and Jade was willing to pursue it. Moon had mentioned wolf-like shifters as part of his travels, but Jade had only ever seen the Raksura and the Fell.

Unless dragon was another word for Raksura. Anyone other than a queen (as Jade was) would be in a groundling form that looked like the sort that were called 'humans' here.

[purifyings]

"Shifter?" asked Nike tilting her head, curiously. It was a interesting word. Was it the name of another race? Then again, she did mention the word "Raksura" to describe herself. Could it be something else entirely?

"Sorry! Someone once told me about dragons. You fit the description, so I thought you might be one but guess I was wrong," added Nike apologetically while awkwardly chuckling before continuing on, "Where are you from? Did you arrive recently?"

[bluejade]

"Shifter. This isn't my only shape." She scowled, the spines and frills on her head flaring to show they weren't actually hair. "But I can't show you, because I can't shift while injured. Well, I can; it's a terrible idea. But there are groundlings, and sealings, and skylings, and shifters, even if there's a number of different types of those. You're a groundling, probably, even if I don't know what type you are. You don't have wings or gills or anything at least."

"But I'm from the Forest Reaches of the Three Worlds. And, yes, I just arrived here." She could give her court name, but if the girl didn't know what a Raksura was, it wouldn't mean anything to her.

[purifyings]

Witnessing the way her hair(?) was moving along with the explanation about shifters will open Nike's eyes, it finally dawned on her -- she really was from a completely different world. Everything she was describing and explaining, it all flew over Nike's head. All of it. This may be the first time she has ever been so lost and couldn't use her knowledge to put head or tails on anything.

Shaking her head softly, Nike will add, "I don't have wings or gills, but I'm not entirely human neither." How to explain this? "I'm human. Or rather, I was born one, but just recently I gave up my humanity in order to become a guardian spirit for my world," began to explain Nike before adding, "I now reside in my world's core. It's a separate dimension from the living world." With all that said, Nike will ask, "Does that still make me a grounding?" She was trying to understand the terms described earlier. A piece of her hopes to learn more about the "skylings". It sounds like it is connected to the sky. Could it be a bird species?

But it won't be long until Nike realizes, "Is that the reason your hand is sliding on the ground?" Was her arm hurt? Should she help her into the infirmary instead of asking so many questions? Nike will open the door without a second thought, stepping aside to let her through.

[bluejade]

"I have no idea what that makes you," Jade said. "It's beyond my experience." Spirits weren't really a thing in the Three Worlds, outside of tales and the occasional peculiar situation, and Jade assumed her conversation partner was having the same trouble. "And I bruised my ribs, but I'm sick of staying still."

[purifyings]

It was difficult not to offer a weak smile after hearing the other woman's response. Her current dilemma was difficult to explain all around. Even Nike was still processing it all. The only reason her mind wasn't entirely consumed was due to a greater issue at hand -- being on the train. Shouldn't she be home right now? There may be one other guardian spirit, who was older and wiser but had no power. Why was she here when she had a purpose now? As happy as she is to be human and given the opportunity to travel to other worlds and meet new people, she was still uncertain if it was okay to feel this way...

With that said, her smile will turn to an understanding one as she lets out another chuckle, "Oh, I totally empathize! I'm not a very good patient neither." Whenever she was sick, the moment she felt better, she already wanted to sprint out the door (or window) and play on the grass or watch the sky. Entering the informatory, Nike will wave her hand to invite her in, "Frome one bad patient to another, do you mind if I help you out? I know basic first aid. You can let me know where everything else and we can do from there?"

[bluejade]

"Fine. I heal quickly, it's just a matter of keeping from it healing wrongly." Jade followed her in. "And normally we have mentors who can put people in healing sleep. Back home, I mean."

She wasn't sure how that would work with a non-Raksura; it hadn't come up.

[purifyings]

"Put people into a healing sleep?" asked Nike realizing they may have found the common point between their societies. That is, if the healing sleep is similar to her kingdom's version. "How is it done? Do you heal after being sung to sleep or is there a process to it all?"

[bluejade]

"You'd have to ask a mentor," Jade said. "I'd guess it was through the bond we all have with the rest of the court, given how much trouble they sometimes had with Moon at first."

Which meant it wasn't something that could be done by a mentor to anyone else. Good answer. Useless, but good to know.

"It's not a power queens have."

[purifyings]

A good answer, but may not be so useless. The way she is describing mentors and their connection with others to help heal reminds her of a great deal of a Rain Summoner's duty. One she has promised to keep close to her heart after becoming her country's best vocalist.

"By bond, are you speaking of a telepathic one?" asked Nike next wondering if it was telepathic or an emotional one which both fits the description of her rain partnerships. But then the last remark will leave her confused, wondering, "Not a power a queen has? What do you mean?"