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

Pumpkins

[light_of_willpower]

It still weirded Trunks out at times, just how much his younger sister from another timeline looked like their mother. Then again, he probably shouldn't be surprised considering his own looks favored their mother, and grandfather. Still, it was new enough to give him a start every time.

He wasn't surprised at all however, to find Bulla preparing a LOT. "Someone warned you there are more than just two half-saiyans on the train, who eat a lot, huh?" Trunks is already on his way over to help. Granted he usually helps by doing the dishes.

[nutkrusher]

Cassie is right behind Trunks, having followed her nose rather than her boyfriend. It doesn't take Saiyan biology to smell this many things being baked and cooked. Her eyes light up at the sight.

"Ooh, I remember when Aunt Vera used to make these," she says. "Even six plain old humans can polish 'em off pretty quick at the end of a fall day."

She searches around for an apron to put on. As a kid she'd always liked helping Vera out however she could.

[fashionably_strong]

"I knew Allen Walker from another place that pulls people from their home worlds, and he's got a saiyan-level appetite, too," said Bulla with a little chuckle. "So I thought if I was going to help out, I should probably make a lot."

It was Bulla's first time making anything with pumpkin, but none of the recipes seemed too hard, and if she had two other people to help her, then it means someone was guaranteed to be able to take things out of the oven at the exact right time.

"This will go faster if we each pick something we're going to focus on. We'll need one person to make the pie crusts, one person to mash the pumpkins up, and one person to mix things together and put them on the pie crusts to bake. I can either mash the pumpkins or mix. I've never tried making a pie crust before."

[light_of_willpower]

"Cassie, I think you've probably had the more 'normal' upbringing of us, so maybe you should do pie-crusts? I'll either mash, or mix, depending on what you wanna do Bulla." Trunks usually did dishes, not cook, but mashing and mixing he was pretty sure he could do.

[nutkrusher]

"I was just gonna say you seem more like the mashing type," Cassie says.

"Haven't done it much myself, but I watched my aunt closely enough."

[fashionably_strong]

"Okay, then Trunks will mash, I'll mix, and Cassie will make the pie crusts, because someone who at least watched how to do it will definitely do that better than I will."

While she thought she could still make it edible, she had a feeling that if she handled the pie crusts, the pie might look more like pumpkin pudding with baked crust bits in it.

[light_of_willpower]

Trunks nodded, and went to find an apron of his own. "I think we have a chance of making something that is not only edible, but also looks like pie." Pulling the garment on, he took his place at the line Bulla had set up.

[nutkrusher]

Cassie pats his shoulder and grins.

"Aww, see, that's the spirit!"

She starts to wash her hands in the sink.