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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!
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Taichi, meanwhile, also blinked. And then a few more times. And then he just stared, before sitting back and shaking his head.
"Oooooh-kay, that's way different from what I was assuming. I'm not really sure what to say to that."
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But it's worth prying, isn't it? If it helps their situation make sense. He isn't close to Taichi-senpai like Daisuke is. And he can't help but be...
Oh. He's curious. Other people's opinions of him still matter to him this much, then. Or is it - Taichi-senpai's opinion of him matters. Why? Because they're from the same world (if not the same time) on a train full of new experiences?
No. Ken admires Taichi-senpai. But that same admiration may have lulled him into not seeing the other Chosen Child as a person with struggles. Ken can fix that, though.
Now that he's realized it, he has to.
"May I ask what you were expecting?"
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But answer he does. "I guess," he said, "I was worried that you still held it against me and the others for letting you all stay captured."
He sighed, before continuing. "I realize that it's been a couple years for you, but for me, that's all still recent."
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"So that weighed on you." Ken passes the other popcorn container to Wormmon so he can lean over and lace his hands together, contemplating.
"To be honest, any resentment I might have felt was fainter than my own guilt. If we'd been able to stand up to Alphamon, you might not have had to endure so much..."
He's made his peace with the fact that they did the best they could. But if Taichi was looking for Ichijouji Ken to blame anyone but Ichijouji Ken for a bad thing happening, well,
middle school Ichijouji Ken did not have a mind that caught itself as easily as he can now.
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"... If it makes you feel better, none of us actually beat Alphamon," he said. "Even Omegamon was only enough to drive him off, and who knows what would have happened if we fought to the bitter end."
There'd been so much destruction from their battles. Taichi didn't like the idea of what'd happen if one of them had actually been brought to a conclusion.
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"But you did stop Yggdrasil." That time, anyway. They'll never be able to eradicate a force like that - no light without darkness. That doesn't mean they can't stand up against it. "Without our warning. I'm grateful."
He won't lie: being absent for that much of his own life, again, had been difficult. Leaving aside the recovery in the hospital, there were the normal everyday realities to consider: school had kept meeting, soccer had kept playing. His parents had once more been left unsure where he was.
Knowing all that, he would have made the same choice then and he'd make the same choice now. Ichijouji Ken will never stand by and let darkness have its way. There are many things he can still do.
He thinks - he might even want to build his life around that.
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"But there was too high a price for a lot of it. Meicoomon. Nishijima-sensei. I don't know. That's what I was talking about earlier. It's not like we didn't lose people before, it's just..."
He looked away. "... I wanted to do more for all of them. For you, and Daisuke and the others. Isn't that what I'm supposed to do? Get everyone home safely?"
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Ken contemplates this, adds it to the puzzle in his mind named "Yagami Taichi". He'd respected this boy for a long time, but now...
....Somehow, this makes Ken respect him even more. Because he's more of a person than a flawless ideal. Taichi-senpai lets himself down and broods on it. But he still achieves so much.
...Huh.
Ken chuckles, but it's light enough that it's clearly not meant to be laughing at Taichi's plight. "You know - someone very wise gave me some advice, once."
Wormmon looks over. He suspects he knows where this is going but would like to be the someone very wise instead. So he will listen.
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"What advice was that?" he asked.
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He puts his thoughts in order, since just that out of context might send a different impression than he's going for. "Assuming it's fine to say this, your concerns and sense of responsibility aren't wrong. I feel at ease following you, knowing that you have them. Because you'll only choose sacrifice when it's necessary."
It's hard. Taichi-senpai has had to make harder decisions in battle than Ken ever has, hasn't he? He's had to lose people. Because of decisions he's made. Ken knows what an awful sensation that is.
But he also knows how much worse he'd feel if his own worries kept him from actually fulfilling what he needs to do again.
"--Maybe I'm out of turn," he adds, though, realizing he just talked big to his senior. Still his senior, even when younger.
Ichijouji Ken will never catch up to Yagami Taichi.
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Honestly, hadn't he been the one telling Ken's group they needed to make hard decisions once upon a time?
"You're not out of turn," Taichi said, quietly. "In fact, I think you said exactly what I needed to hear."
He smiled at the older young man, now. "You really have grown up a lot, haven't you Ken?"
all the media on the train is haunted by this ghost now. i say so. so there.
He'd like to know Taichi better, he realizes. He'd like to see more objects of distant admiration as people. It keeps making them more real, and more precious.
Wormmon tugs on Ken's sleeve. "Ken-chan, look. Captain Kheli's eyes are colored like me."
And so they are. What a dashing young person, that Captain Kheli. Saving the day with their silver hair and green eyes.