voidtreckerooc | 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!

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Koumyou walked along at different points of their little train, hands folded together neatly inside the pocket of his hoodie. Sometimes he was with the villagers, sometimes ahead of them with Zechs, and sometimes he lingered a little behind.

The first ghost to try to stop the procession threw a branch at the civilians. Koumyou was suddenly there, swatting the branch out of the air and then running past it as it hit the dirt with a dull thud.

And... there. One arm thrown behind himself, the other thrust forward in a palm strike that the priest lunged forward into. The horrendous shriek that split the air showed he'd found his mark.

Zechs just reacted, dropping back as Koumyou stepped forward to intercept the projectile. Predictably, the villagers weren't reacting well. His voice was commanding, and steady - in times like this, there was comfort in a firm sense of authority.

"Stay together, stay down." Zechs made certain nobody bolted from the group. "The priest has this."

Though if anything got past the man, he'd block the projectile with his sword or body. Zechs was chiefly concerned with the opposite side of their group from Koumyou - the priest simply couldn't be in two places at once.

That Koumyou couldn't be in two places at once was technically true. At least, not without pulling out the big guns.

But he was starting to dial into the faint disruption of chi that marked an attacking ghost's location. It was like something invisible but solid sticking out of the water in a stream -- he couldn't see the ghosts, but he was starting to see the disruption in flow.

Only when the ghosts attacked, alas. Koumyou supposed it was their expenditure of energy to throw solid things that actually caused the ripple.

Still, he was very fast on his feet, and terribly nimble. As soon as something started to float, Koumyou was on his way, at one point vaulting over the huddled group of civilians. When he couldn't reach the projectile in time, it was up to Zechs, the priest sometimes prioritizing the ghost instead of the weapon.

When it was over and nothing had levitated for a few seconds, the priest straightened up out of his stance and ran a hand over his own hair. "Phew! Well, I for one am definitely awake now!"

"It's better than coffee," Zechs quipped. Nothing like a fight to get one's blood pumping, after all. But there's no real time to chit-chat - he had to make certain their flock of civilians were all right, and get them moving again. He wasn't exactly good at gentle but he could be patient, and of course he was commanding.

It didn't seem like they had any serious injuries, just a bit of a scare - so he got the train moving. When they'd finally return to the village, it'd be too soon.

"I suppose so. Maah, I could really use some tea right now, though..."

And a smoke.

Koumyou went back to wandering along with the group, but this time he mostly stuck near the front where he could talk to Zechs.

"We should get tea after this!"

Zechs glanced at him - he's still keeping an eye out for any wayward flying objects - but he's pretty certain by now that Koumyou had some magic thing he did to help see those coming. Reflexes like that during battle came from having some sort of advanced knowledge - Zechs would know.

"Tea would be lovely," Zechs agreed, though his tone was still a little dry. He nodded again, "Thank you once more for your help."

"So polite!" Koumyou reached over to try to ruffle the top of Zechs' head as they walked. "So you'll get tea with me?"

Unlike the boop on the nose - which, what - Zechs managed to dodge the hair ruffle. And looked at Koumyou like he'd grown a second head.

"Now I'm having second thoughts," Zechs quipped.

That, of course, just amused Koumyou. He trotted after him with his fingers wiggling at hair-ruffling height. "Oh, I missed! Come back here!"

"Will you -" Zechs found himself trying to play keep-away with his own hair, which was completely ridiculous, "- stop this at once."

He tried to make his tone commanding.

"Say you'll get tea with me!" Koumyou countered, now trying with both hands.

"Only if you leave my hair alone," Zechs shot back, and were some of the villagers snickering at them? Hell. His hair might be currently safe but his dignity has certainly become ruffled.

"Deal," for now. Koumyou winked at the villagers, and folded his hands back into his hoodie pocket.

"Do you suppose we're getting near the path soon?"

Zechs tried not to huff as he rolled his shoulders a little, trying to relax again. He allowed the change of subject. "Just a little bit further, if I'm judging where we are correctly. We should be back at the village itself within the half-hour."

Once they were on the path, it wouldn't be too long.

"Good, I really want that tea!" And that meant getting back to the train, which in turn meant getting these civilians back to their village. "--Ah, what's your name, anyway?"

"Zechs Merquise," Zechs offered easily enough. "I don't believe I'd gotten yours, either."

"Koumyou Sanzo," the priest held up a finger as they walked, issuing what had become an almost reflexive disclaimer to his name, "you have to either use the whole thing, or just Sanzo."

"Just Sanzo, then," Zechs agreed with a small nod. "Just Zechs is fine as well."

There's a hint of humor, very faint, since he was pretty deadpan, "I'll only use your full name when something has gone awry and you're at fault."

"Ohh, you think you're going to scold me, do you?" Koumyou chuckled at that, and... reached over to ruffle Zechs' hair after all. "How cute!"

Hair had been ruffled! Zechs backed away but it's too late. And now it's sticking up on the top a little, mussed up. It's a very different look than usual.

Flustered and annoyed, Zechs said without thinking, "I am not cute."

"Adorable!" Koumyou gushed, "Ahh, you remind me so much of little Kouryuu!"

"I am not -" Zechs threw up his hands a little, done with this. Of course insisting he wasn't adorable or cute would only make a man like Sanzo insist on it more. "We're done here, as soon as we have them returned to safety."

Koumyou pouted for a moment, and then laughed, "Worth it."

Test Drive 017

Pumpkin Patch

Movie Wars

Spookstown

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