Test Drive 017

[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!

Pumpkin Patch

It seems the ingredient of the month is pumpkins. The store room is full of them, in all sort of sizes all ready to be made into delicious meals. Pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin seeds, stuffed pumpkin, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin pie. All the recipes are on the ICP and are easy enough to follow, even for those who have never seen a pumpkin before in their life.

Get cooking or perhaps passengers from worlds with Halloween festivals wish to carve the pumpkins first, creating grotesque faces or fancy works of art.

Hopefully no one eats a masterpiece!

Movie Wars

The Cinema carriage is as tall as a double carriage, but has only the one floor. Instead it features sloped seating. To enter the carriage from the sleeper carriage side you must first go upstairs. You enter at the top of the carriage, in the centre aisle with paired seating sloping downwards on either side. On the opposite wall there is a large screen and there is a door to the left of the screen once you get to ground level, to allow you into the next carriage.

On the right of the screen there is an ICP and in this carriage it has a catalogue of films and TV series. There are hundreds to chose from.

Hundreds of films to chose from and hundreds of passengers to share it with. Choosing what to watch can be difficult, agreeing what to watch can be impossible.

Are they a fan of Merry Little Voidtrain- the long running cartoon series about a Voidtrain and captain Kheli. Or perhaps a hard hitting drama about cross alien-species romance. Or an action film? A heal tapping musical about robot mice?

Choose a film, try not to argue, grab some popcorn and hope your fellow cinema goers understand cinema etiquette...

Spookstown

A series of mysterious events have struck a small town. The Voidtreckers are in need of help.

The train has brought the Voidtreckers to the town of Carcel. It is a small town with a small population in a world that is low in technology. A town of cobbled streets lined with gas lanterns. The occasional carriage drawn by strange creatures with six legs and long necks. The town is far away from any of the larger population centres of the world and yet it is here where the Voidtreckers must help.

A series of strange disappearances have rocked the town. People vanishing, sometimes from the streets but more recently from their own homes. To make matters worse the town is plagued by ghosts, invisible yet dangerous. They attack by manipulating the environment, throwing knives, tables and even people across a room. The town has descended into chaos and are in desperate need of help.

Team One

There has been some investigation into the missing people and there have been rumours of cries for help in the woods.

A thick, dark, slightly scary woods. The townspeople who are left have lanterns to borrow and promises that the path is safe and easy to follow. Don't worry about that howling, it's just the wind...

Team One must make their way through the woods to find the missing townspeople. Unfortunately for the Voidtreckers the cries and calls for help don't come from the safe paths and so they must move through the undergrowth to find the lost and confused townspeople. What's that creaking noise? Is that a shadow? What lurks in the bushes?

Team Two

Back in the village team two must try and help the villagers who are plagued by ghosts. The ghosts roam around unhindered by walls or doors. Sometimes they are just mischievous, blowing out lanterns, knocking books off shelves. Other times they are violent, throwing objects, throwing people, locking people in or out of their houses.

Protecting people against invisible enemies is no easy task. Help the town gather together, set up barricades, try and hide any dangerous objects before they can be used against the townspeople.

Or perhaps try out some traditional ghostbusting techniques. What harm can it do?

Team Three

Of course all this must have been caused by something. It seems some of the towns teenagers had found a strange cave in their ramblings not a week before. It had been full of strange objects, small gems, daggers, ancient books.

All the sort of things that probably should not be taken from their ancient resting place but of course someone had taken something. Maybe. Few of the teenagers are willing to talk and those that do are unwilling to get their friends into trouble.

Investigate, try and convince them to do the right thing. Round up the items that have been taken and return them to the cave. Hopefully that will end this nightmare!

Comments

lan wangji (rule 63) | the untamed

[lanerguniang]

Spookstown: Team One
Lantern in one hand and Bichen in another, Lan Zhan makes her way into the woods. It seems simple enough: retrieve the missing people. Whatever creatures that lay in wait, she's ready. Her footsteps are light as she walks off the beaten paths to follow the cries of help.

The warm glow of the lantern lights up against her pale skin as she walks, perhaps giving her her own ghostly visage to those who wouldn't know any better. Her eyes are sharp, trying to peer through the darkness to see if there are any humans.

Spookstown: Team Two
When they are tasked with helping with the ghosts in town, Lan Zhan is comforted by the prospect of doing something familiar. While barricades are being set up around and dangerous objects are being hidden, she finds a spot that is clear and sits down, setting Bichen down beside her.

With a graceful swoop of her arms, Wangji appears before her. Graceful fingers reach over the strings to start to pluck out Inquiry, a song she knows all too well. Perhaps they could speak with the spirits and settle them that way. The sounds of Qin echo through and, she hopes, these ghosts resonate with it as well as the spirits back home.

Wildcard!
[OOC: Always open to a wildcard option! Just send me a message :)]

Team One

[comefadeaway]

Lan Zhan may hear him coming, if only because he wanted her to, seeing her more as a teammate for the time being than someone he should be concerned with.

Yoite will walk up beside her, but offer her little else than his presence, however he was watching her. He held out his hand in front of them, two fingers that were permanently stained black with splotches of an unknown substance.

"I will assist."

team two;

[deferences]

It's not only a song she knows well, but also one her (???) son knows, too.

Sizhui stays where he's at for the moment, watching intently, glancing between this bizarrely familiar person, the guqin she's now holding and the sword she'd set down moments ago. Both instruments are also recognizable, though as much as that is, he's not sure what he should do with this knowledge. He's well-aware people come from different worlds, even those he knows, considering his two fathers, the information he has about others; all the people he knows to be dead in his world being alive once more is the main thing he's considering.

He takes a deep, steeling breath, squares his shoulders and approaches from the side, hoping it doesn't surprise her too much (although his appearance is sure to be enough). “Ah, excuse me?”

[lanerguniang]

She stops when she hears the footsteps approaching and slowly looks up from the instrument. The young man that approaches her looks...vaguely familiar.

A sweep of her arm and Wangji returns to the pouch hidden on her person. Lan Wangji picks up Bichen and stands, her free hand behind her and resting at her lower back. A Lan disciple? Here? Her brows knit in concern. She doesn't...quite recognize him but he looks...his features are very similar to her daughter.

Wangji nods to allow him to speak.

[deferences]

Even the way her instrument disappears again is just like Hanguang-jun's. What sort of witchcraft magic is this?

He doesn't realize he's holding his breath until she's already standing and facing him more properly. Sizhui lets the breath out, slow and steady, clenches his fingers around his own sword then gives a polite bow of his head before inquiring, “If I may ask, how... how do you know that song?”

Deep, deep down a part of him is already well-aware of otherworldly shenanigans.

[lanerguniang]

"I learned it as a part of my studies as a Lan disciple."

Wangji watches him carefully and takes another step forward. That face. In her mind's eye, she sees the toddler she bought toys for; that she took home; that she raised into the beautiful young woman she had just seen learn of her origins. The child that longs for. He looks just like her. But is clearly not her daughter.

"Those who study the guqin learn the Qin language."

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[thornylotus]

[ to avoid confusion, not planning to app as I already have CQL Wen Qing here, but I couldn't resist the temptation to throw my rule 63 at yours! ]

Jiang Cheng walks beside her, though at a good arm length's distance, a deep frown on her face, her sharp eyes narrowing at every crack of a twig or suspicious rustle of leaves.

"I don't trust this," she hisses, low under her breath, her fingers tight on Sandu's hilt, ready to unsheathe the sword at a moment's notice, "It's too peaceful."

Missions never go well, least of all when they seem to be going well, that's the first thing she had learned on the train.