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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2020-10-17 07:30 am
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Test Drive 017

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!

lanxichen: (Greet)

[personal profile] lanxichen 2020-10-19 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Xichen only bows again. Seeing Huaisang's reaction...

He suspects his words will not be welcome, or wanted, not right now. Not unless asked for. But over the months in seclusion, he has had time to consider... many things. And the awareness of Huaisang, alone in his knowledge, without allies he could trust, for so long - he thinks that this is information he needs, more than silence.
eternalgrief: (Default)

[personal profile] eternalgrief 2020-10-19 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)

Huaisang can’t help but be curious but want to have something that felt like proof especially in the face of a Meng Yao who claims innocence. He finally relaxes his hands, the one with the fan coming to the front again, effortlessly opening.

“Even you saw the truth?”

Huaisang lifts the fan a little like a shield.

“Is he dead?”

lanxichen: (Serious)

cw: canon typical violence and gore mention.

[personal profile] lanxichen 2020-10-19 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Xichen lowers his head again.

"He is sealed in a coffin for a hundred years, his neck broken after his arm was cut off and he was run through with a sword." His voice is quiet, toneless.

He can understand the need for revenge.

There is no part of him left that can rejoice. But if he can bring this small relief to Huaisang, would it not be good?
Edited 2020-10-19 21:37 (UTC)
eternalgrief: (048)

[personal profile] eternalgrief 2020-10-19 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Huaisang looks down as he hears that. It is far more gory than his imagination currently. Right now he wants revenge and justice.

"How long did it take?"

He is not particularly happy. He doesn't take joy in the revenge, it just was necessary. It wouldn't bring Mingjue back, it wouldn't bring Zonghui back or anyone else that suffered because of Meng Yao. His ability to mask himself slips, just a little and he sounds sad and tired as much as he's trying to keep up appearances in the face of Lan Xichen.
lanxichen: (Sad look)

[personal profile] lanxichen 2020-10-20 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It almost brings relief, the absence of joy, of gloating, at the thoroughness of the revenge, but the cuts are still too deep. There is only a slight easing around his heart, which immediately gets halted by the thought: is Huaisang pretending?

He demonstrably cannot tell, after all.

"More than ten years."
eternalgrief: (027)

[personal profile] eternalgrief 2020-10-21 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess I used my patience for something useful for once," Huaisang says and he tries to smile but well, it is more like a grimace.

"Did I somehow get you tangled up in it...?"
lanxichen: (Serious)

[personal profile] lanxichen 2020-10-21 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Xichen ... hesitates a moment. Probably the most telling, with him, as he considers his words.

"It could not happen unless everyone knew, so everyone was involved."

Which is true.
eternalgrief: (078)

[personal profile] eternalgrief 2020-10-24 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Huaisang looks down and he supposes that that makes sense.

"I wish I was wrong."
lanxichen: (Sad look)

[personal profile] lanxichen 2020-10-25 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Xichen swallows. This...

(I don't know.)

This is what Xichen's own deliberate ignorance broke. This young man who needed support, but knew he could not trust either of the men he had left alive whom he called ge.

"Not you. It would have been ... different if he had not done it. Your being right - in the end, it stopped him from doing more ill."
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[personal profile] eternalgrief 2020-10-25 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Huaisang shakes his head and he snaps the fan shut and just grips it between his fingers, his thumb rubbing over the design. "I wish it hadn't be him. I wish I was wrong about it," Huaisang says and it's stupid. It's very stupid but he's still young, still newly grieving, newly angry and betrayed and desperately wishing that he was wrong about everything... that there was no way...

He knew better that there is no chance he is wrong but it still hurt, he had loved Jin Guangyao, he still did as terrible as it is.

Huaisang forces a smile then. "But wishes mean nothing."