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

[xue_yang]

Xue Yang shrugs and watches him closely, wanting to observe any change or impact his words may have. "The medicine here will be a bit different from what you are used to. And so will the types of healing. You'll have a lot to learn if you expect to be useful. Not everyone on this train is human."

Or have the typical abilities and some are capable of harming others in ways they have never seen before. Xue Yang knows that his sister is even trying to continue to learn things to be able to further assist.

[raddishpeddler]

"Then I will learn. Being a healer means you are constantly learning. There's always new medicine, new methods, and new techniques." Wen Ning listed. His right hand clinched slightly in reference to being deemed useful.

"I am not just Wei WuXian's sword!" he shouted and inwardly berated himself for showing a sign of weakness in front of him. Some of the black veins started to creep up his neck and into his face more as he tried to calm his rising anger. He was no longer that weak little boy they would pick on and say he would never be useful to his sect. Nor would he forever be a sword. He was his own person.

[xue_yang]

Xue Yang can't help but be amused. He can see the other is getting riled up and he loves to be the one to poke the snake. "Did I say that? Clearly you must have some unresolved feelings if you feel like yelling at me about it. He does seem to treat you more like a weapon though, doesn't he?"

Xue Yang had obviously tried to be the one to do that as well but he wasn't particularly successful in getting Wen Ning to do his bidding. He might be shifting slightly, one of his swords concealed near him in case he needs it.

[raddishpeddler]

Giving a strangled cry in frustration, Wen Ning slammed a fist into the wall near Xue Yang. He purposely struck the wall instead, even though it took great effort to do so. His body was trembling with anger as he moved toward the medical cart door.

He paused in front of it appearing to inwardly struggle before slamming his fist into the door of the cart. Instead of going inside, he turned and stormed away from it.

He had no right to be there right now not with how easily Xue Yang had riled him up. Nor, could he allow his sister see him like this especially when he hadn't seen her in a long time. The knowledge that she was there only seemed to upset him more instead of sooth him.

He left the cart, ignoring what Xue Yang had said. The damage was done and he needed to get away before his anger could be used against him.