Test Drive 018

[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.

Happy testing!

Heated Debate

The spa carriage, the newest addition to the train, boasts sunlamps and loungers, massage tables stocked with fluffy towels and a variety of oils and lotions, an enclosed sauna… Soothing birdsong fills the warm, scented air, and the terminals offer several masseuse courses or a playlist of relaxing music.

In pride of place, a three-tiered heated bath in the centre of the room, each tier able to fit five people comfortably.

‘Comfortably’? Well, it could definitely fit more, but it might get a little awkward, depending on your feelings on personal space. Ditto with the sauna, really. But the important thing is, you got here first.

Didn’t you?

Getting Draughty In Here

The lower floor of this carriage is open and sprawling, with two wide, low tables and plenty of cushions and beanbags. The walls are lined with shelves and wooden chests, both filled with games. Board games, card games, you name it, though train themes feature heavily. On a shelf of its own sits a case of Duel Monsters cards.

The upper floor is split into two. One half has a pile of oversized games - lawn jenga, twister, giant connect4 - and the other, sectioned off with soft rope barriers, hosts a screen, a console, and a variety of video game controllers, including four VR headsets.

Perhaps you’re testing yourself in one of the VR Crisis simulators. Perhaps you’re learning the rules of a competitive card game a little too well, and your friendships are suffering accordingly. Perhaps you’ve convinced someone to play twister with you..?

Shiver Me Timbers

You are aboard the PNV Vexation, a first-rate ship accompanied by several escort vessels currently halfway through a voyage across the Sunsea of Yarra, AKA #59352110. The cargo she carries is of utmost importance, and must reach the Shining Port intact.

The pirates who sail the Sunsea have other plans.

Team One

The Vexation has several sloops in tow - the best of which are the Gemstone Heart, the Fallen Lord and the Duckling. Team One is split across the three sloops, and can use their greater speed to good effect in boarding actions. Your job is simple - sink every unmarked ship that approaches the Vexation. The captains are cooperative and daring, and happy to lend out boarding axes and pistols. The pirates are less happy.

Team Two

Back aboard the Vexation, it seems that either the crew are playing tricks, or something more sinister is going on - whispers of spirits roaming the deck at night, strange screams or whimpers in the hold. Lights off the starboard bow. The day holds no such terrors, and shipboard life is mostly ropes, deckwork and stints on the masts, but as the mission continues, the crew are getting more and more restless… Team Two needs to figure out the source of these strange events, before they incite the crew to mutiny.

Team Three

Unbeknownst to the crew, on the second day of the mission, the precious cargo is loaded onto the fourth and fastest of the Vexation’s escorts, the Sun’s Edge, and sent ahead, while the fleet remains as as a decoy. Team Three are sent aboard the Edge to crew the ship and keep the treasure - something sealed in a large, padded steel pyramid - safe. The pirates don’t notice the deception, but the sea serpents definitely do, and with just one serpent able to wrap its entire length around the Edge, the third day is a harrowing one.

Comments

[its_dad_sanzo]

[ Koumyou grabs the 'scorpion' hand, too! ]

No! I can't let you sacrifice yourself!

[subcircuits]

[Devero gasps dramatically, and turns said hand to grip Sanzo's.] Koumyou Sanzo, no! What have you done!

[its_dad_sanzo]

[ And Koumyou pretend-'throws' the scorpion away, before snatching at Dev's other hand and shouting-- ]

Run!

[ Here he goes! Don't get dragged! ]

[subcircuits]

[Devero lets Sanzo drag him up off the bench, breaking character only to pull one of his hands free and snag his shirt and hoodie. But the other hand stays firmly in the priest's, and--]

Before they get us!

[--he runs with him. Laughter spills out of him, and rings all the way up to the transparent roof arching overhead.]

[richestduck]

Scrooge rolled the dice, the cubes landing on eight. His mouth twitched with memory at how in some cultures, eight was a lucky number. Not that he believed in luck as far as business went.

[richestduck]

Nobody thought to use snacks or candies in place of money?

"Old Maid's more fun with three or more players. That way it's less obvious who's holding the queen," Scrooge pointed out. He picked up a deck of cards and started shuffling them. "Go Fish would work better."

[richestduck]

"Do you honestly think you could keep to that rule?" Scrooge teased.

Honestly, Della could be just as bad as him sometimes.

Shiver Me Timbers

[fashionably_strong]

Well, he certainly looked eager to investigate, and Bulla was entirely content to let him take the lead on this. She was here to solve a problem and was generally curious about the situation.

"So...not your first time investigating something like this, I take it?"

[saveas]

[Or they're just idiots scaring themselves with ghost stories.

...he shouldn't say that.]

...maybe. Here...

[Just...just be helpful for once, okay? Asriel cups his paws, and makes a bullet - a little rainbow star that casts a gently shifting multicolored light. He could do fire; maybe he should do fire. That's what his parents taught him. All the stars-and-rainbows stuff is...well, the nicest thing you could say is that it's kinda self-taught.

He likes it, though. And it's not...it can still be okay, right?]

[consider8]

[It's enough to catch Eight's attention. Though she doesn't know what the bullet is exactly, she could tell that is an expression of the heart. Its form seemed designed to be eye catching and spectacular... yet, it also somehow felt a little distant and lonely?]

A light source?

[She's not trying to diminish, but she was curious what made him create this in the first place.]

[sos_pilot]

Where do you think she got it from? "You're supposed to be a good influence on me. Then I can be a good influence on the kids. So, when I screw up, it's your fault."

[richestduck]

"Absolutely not! I've got quite a few stories should we ever get the time to sit down for me to share them. I'm just wondering what sort of sadistic specter might be waiting for us!"

[richestduck]

"I see. Passing the buck, eh?" He chuckled. "Now I see where Louie gets it from."

He motioned to the colored mice. "Choose your fate."

[sos_pilot]

"Then in his honor, green is mine! The color of victory!"

Pause, then a low whisper.

"But don't tell the boys, I don't want them thinking I play favorites. Like how I'm yours."

[melodiouspacifist]

Demyx rewarded Gen with a chuckle. "Good one." He grinned, it wasn't too bad, actually.

[saveas]

[Shrug.]

It's just a bullet. Maybe it won't even come if it thinks we can see it. Stuff like that doesn't want to be seen.

[Asriel knows a little bit about causing problems from the shadows.]

[consider8]

[That was a bullet?]

What happens if something touches it...?

[She's used to unusual weaponry, but that's one of the more interesting.]

[10billionpercent]

If he were a superstitious sort, he might have paid him some mind and his dice, but he didn't, he merely picked them up without comment and rolled himself a combined five.

"Looks like it's your turn first."

[fashionably_strong]

Bulla found his enthusiasm encouraging.

"I'll look forward to hearing them. Ghosts aren't really my area of expertise. Do you think an energy attack would be enough to stop one if it tried to hurt us?"

She was fairly certain punching it wouldn't work unless the 'ghost' was just a sneaky person pretending to be a ghost, but ki? Ki might do the job. To demonstrate, she held out her palm and produced a small glowing orb.

"Something like this, only bigger and more forceful."

[saveas]

.....it depends. It can do damage, if I want it to. Some can do healing magic instead, but I don't know how to make those.

[There's the kind monsters use to communicate, too, not meant to hurt anyone. But it's been so long. Asriel feels like he might just not be able to, anymore - and who'd want to touch anything that came from his soul, anyway?

There's no other monsters here, anyway. It doesn't matter.]

[consider8]

[She of course knows none of that, and is instead looking transfixed at it.]

So, it's like magic?

[Magic too is a thing she had no real understanding of. Oh sure she had projectile ink, but that was more of a manifestation of her own physicality than it was an extension of her SOUL.]

[deferences]

Somewhat, but people on the train have been very kind and helpful!

[another reason why he feels the need to pay it forward and so on— but wow, if sizhui knew anything about that, he'd wonder the opposite: why wouldn't they want to explore what's out beyond the stars?

a brief pause to consider then he shyly inquires,] You... are not human? [she sure looks like one! pink hair and enormous height aside, he'd maybe think rose was magical in some way, but much prefers straightforward answers rather than guessing or making assumptions about things he knows nothing of.]

[lovelikeyou]

Mmmm. No. I'm a Gem. We come from a different planet, originally.

[That's why you shouldn't go into space! There's bad stuff out there!]

[saveas]

[Asriel blinks at her for a second. Maybe he should've started a little more basic.]

Oh, yeah. All monsters can do magic. We use it to fight, or show our feelings.

[consider8]

[Eight nods.]

There are a few humans that know how to use magic. I never quite understood it. But it's always impresses me whenever I see it.

[She does offer a consolatory smile.] But I guess that also proves that I'm not a monster. I'm sorry.