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

[misterbriefs]

His mouth turns up in disgust; how dare she suggest he has nothing to do, he has plenty to do. Like being angry about having nothing to do, or complaining to himself that everything on this train is completely inadequate in every way to have something to do. It's not his fault.

He stomps into the kitchen farther, looking around for an apron to avoid looking like a sloppy mess after this ordeal is over. If he must, he'll cook with dignity, and no amount of flour will keep him from achieving that.

"Fine, fine. I'll help. But I won't forget this."

He picks up a whisk and shakes it at her, to drive the point in, even if he never holds her accountable for this obvious transgression.

[fashionably_strong]

"Great!" She gestures to the pumpkins that she's cut open but hasn't scooped out all the guts and seeds. "You can start with scooping out all the seeds and stuff."

While triumphant, she decides she might as well offer him some form of thanks for his help.

"We can train together for a little while after we're done and have had something to eat."

Though she's hardly strong enough to push him to his limits, she's at least strong enough to make him exert some effort. Which reminds her...she hasn't really gone into details about the other worlds she'd been to beyond the one they'd been on together. Only that she'd been to more worlds than just the one where they'd fought the Third Party and dealt with the shenanigans of the Malnosso. Focusing on their present circumstances seemed like the best thing for now.

"I'm stronger than the last time we sparred."

[misterbriefs]

He stares down at the pumpkins. How far has he truly fallen to have found himself scooping out the innards of vegetables. He jams the biggest metal spoon he can find into the first one with such force that it almost threatens to explode the entire pumpkin.

"Are you now. I'll be the judge of that."

Another chunk of pumpkin goes flying into the trash. He won't pretend to like it.

[fashionably_strong]

"At the very least, I know some moves now that you've never seen me use before. One of the other worlds I was in had a military school that taught magic and lots of other combat styles. You'll be happy to know that I got really good grades in everything except for magic. I specialized in hand to hand combat and communications!"

Maybe he'll be a little less grumpy about helping with the pumpkins if she tells him about the adventures she's had in those other worlds. At the very least, it's something to talk about that doesn't highlight their current situation.

"It's really fascinating how these little pockets of the multiverse exist, isn't it?"

[misterbriefs]

"Good to know that not every universe is as much as a hell as the last one I was in."

Fascinating, sure, but welcome is another story. Wherever he is now is much more favorable in some ways, but that was never certain- he truly didn't know what he could expect from this situation.

"But to even to go as far as force you to go to military school- how amusing. The one place I could never imagine you being in. We'll see if their education was any good."

Not that he doubted that she'd do incredibly well, because he knew she would and is not surprised at all that she got good grades. She's a saiyan after all, his daughter of all things, destined for greatness just as much as he was. It put him in a slightly better mood, a subtle smirk on his face as he almost completely destroys another pumpkin.

[fashionably_strong]

"I started a Fashion Club there, too!" Because of course she did. "I was also the head of Fight Club until I graduated. Some of my friends kept getting in trouble for fighting, so I went and got official approval from the Headmaster to run the club. It was a big hit!"

Pun fully intended, but she is genuinely proud of how much she put into the clubs she'd founded, and their impact on her peers.

"There were monsters in that world that we had to fight sometimes. Some even crashed our school dance! I wound up using a folding chair to fight with because doing martial arts in a ballgown is super awkward."

[misterbriefs]

That's his royal bloodline alright. Had she been on Planet Vegeta, the fight club would have been royal warriors fit to be led by the saiyan princess...but that was a lifetime ago now, and a reality never experienced. He couldn't be more proud of her for being a leader, even if he feels like she wasted her time with something like Fashion Club.

"A warrior is always prepared for anything," he scolds, "so perhaps you should of thought of that ahead of time. A folding chair, hah...I thought you said it was military school, not wrestling school."

[fashionably_strong]

"A warrior knows how to adapt and improvise," Bulla counters. "Although I did learn my lesson. The uniform for women who graduated included a pencil skirt, which is totally stupid, so I modified mine. I sewed in shorts underneath that were the same material as the skirt, and put slits up the sides so I could kick in it."

This critical design error is just one example of why she feels Fashion Club was essential.

"So what happened in that other universe you were in that made it so bad?"

[misterbriefs]

His eyes dart away from her at the question. He doesn't want to answer. Some is too embarrassing to recount, some are just horrors that he didn't want to remember at all. She was even there for it, and doesn't seem to remember. Better that way, he thinks.

"It's none of your concern. It's in the past."

He leaves it at that. It's not worth her worrying about it, or asking too many questions about either.