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

[ayao]

He sucks in a sharp breath and shudders. Being stabbed isn't exactly new - he knows what that feels like - but to be stabbed by Lan Xichen? That is a new agony.

"Do you wish...to repeat...that punishment?" he grips the fabric cover his chest, his knuckles turning white, "Even if you do, I cannot stay away from you, Zewu-Jun."

He is hopelessly attracted to both Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue. He doesn't want to be outside of their orbit.

[lanxichen]

"For crimes you have not yet committed... I could not."

Could he do it again at all?

Xichen recalls the way da ge had been, before and during the Guanyin temple. Recalls Qin Su's expression as she took her life.

And swallows.

"So long as your actions are guided by... Sect Leader Nie, I will have no cause to do so."

[ayao]

"If..." he begins, throat dry, "If I can bring you comfort in some way, I will not hesitate to do so. My life is as much yours as Nie Mingjue's."

Meng Yao doesn't want to die - that would be useless. How could he make anything better as a corpse? But it's hard for him to see those he loves struggling. Something deep inside of him wants to make it better. At any cost.

[lanxichen]

"You know that it would not." No matter how young Meng Yao might be, if he can make a statement like this last one, he must know that much about Xichen: bridging death will not bring him peace.

Huaisang would likely prefer differently. Da ge...

"He has not asked it of you either?"

[ayao]

"He did." he murmurs, head bowing in shame, "I begged for my life at his feet. He showed me mercy, choosing not to punish me for crimes I have not done yet." his lips twist bitterly, "We spoke long into the night and I have promised to keep nothing from him - no matter how inconsequential I might deem something."

Huaisang is different. That man wants his blood, however he won't move without Mingjue at his back.

[lanxichen]

Xichen closes his eyes again. He knows how that would have looked, too. He knows...

He knows far too much. And, as always, never enough.

"In this... when it comes to you. His judgement is sounder than mine. It is likely not easy for you, and it will not be, but... Once, he respected you as few others. Once, he swore to be your brother. He does care, young master Meng. That much, you can be certain of."

[ayao]

"Zewu-Jun..." he flushes, realizing that underneath the pain and the anger, Lan Xichen seems to...care...for him? He steps closer helplessly and holds out his hands so the other man knows he poses no threat.

"I care for him...and for you."

[lanxichen]

"I..." Not enough. Xichen takes a sharp breath, swallowing the words down. "I think it will be better if you do not make... commitments, just yet."

Breath out.

"Come, let us seek out those in need. You could - tell me about you time here?"

[ayao]

"I am not that man..." Meng Yao feels his desperation rising higher and he stumbles forward, gently, carefully, touching Lan Xichen's arms, "I don't know why he does any of those horrible things, Zewu-Jun. When I make you a promise, I intend to keep it."

He nods shakily and drops his hands back to his sides.

"I have mostly been doing chores."

[lanxichen]

Xichen tenses slightly, but neither pulls away from the touch nor looks away. He sighs, ever so softly.

"You said... you had no choice." A sharp, shattered intake of breath. "I know that you have not. I know right now you do not intend any of them. But I - I believed you, and believed you, and believed you, and other than one thing, I was wrong."

His eyelashes flutter, but then he raises his hand, slowly, to place it lightly on Meng Yao's shoulder. It trembles, but does not shy away.

"That is why I ask that you not promise me anything. Only... make reality what you wish me to believe. That is all." In a way, this is putting trust in him again. But Xichen hopes that it's. That it will be enough.

Then he blinks slightly.

"I... would it be possible for you to teach me how to do some of them? Not ... laundry, of course."