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

Demyx | Kingdom Hearts

[melodiouspacifist]

Heated Debate

[ There was a car, a whole car dedicated to relaxation, why would anyone find him anywhere else? It didn't really matter what team he was on, he swiped a pair of blue shorts and settled himself in one of the pools and to occupy his time, he was playing with the water, almost idly, wiggling his fingers as the water floated upward out of the pool and made a few shapes. A musical note, a heart, a cat...he could do this all day, and just might in fact do that.

Interruption won't dispel the light magic at all, but Demyx will offer a grin. ]

Hey, what's up! [ Is this a chance to get some attention? He loves attention. ]

Team One

[ He blinks a little bit at being offered a pistol or an axe and he shakes his head. ]

Nah, I'm good, I've got my own.

[ His 'own' weapon appears to be a sitar as big as he is. ]

I just have to sink the ships, right?

[ How hard could that be? He could just make the water do the work for him. ]

Team Three

[ Oh. A sea serpent. That was less than an ideal creature, because presumably, it was used to the water it came out of. He stares a moment, and offers a confident smile! ]

I'm sure you've got this handled!

[ Is he really just going to bail on a teammate? Possibly. ]

[[OOC: I'll match prose/brackets]]

Team Ine

[inquisitor_lavellan]

"Well, I'm definitely not going to get on that boat if you're going to attack it," Alleyana grunted, her voice as rough as sandpaper. "So I suggest hurrying before the people on it come say 'hi'."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Yeah, yeah, I'm getting to it!" Demyx said with a bit of a nervous laugh and he pulled his instrument into place.

For something this tumultuous, he needed a series of notes that were fast paced and loud.

He took a breath and began to play. It might not look like much at first, but were there bigger waves around that ship?

[inquisitor_lavellan]

Alley just latched onto the railing with her singular hand, watching the waves rise and fall and rise even higher again. "Are you trying to tip it?"

At least magic wasn't a foreign concept to her, but she'd never seen someone use an instrument for it. Huh.

[melodiouspacifist]

"Seems like the easiest way to do it." Demyx grinned, he could play and talk at the same time.

Those waves were getting a little dangerous now, rising up higher on the side of the ship.

[inquisitor_lavellan]

Watching this was making the floor under Alley's feet feel even more unstable. The Inquisitor turned her back on the enemy ship, still gripping the rail with her only hand. Did she look a little green? Just a touch.

"Maker's breath... just tell me if it looks like they're going to reach us."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Don't worry about it, it won't even get close!" Demyx told her with a bit of a laugh and he used the waves to shove it a little further away.

A big wave crashed over the deck, sending their opponents scrambling, trying to find a way out of this sudden, localized storm.

Heated Debate

[fun_thementalist]

Gen had come in, and was drawn to the person who appeared to be manipulating the water using magic - because of course he was.

He grinned at the other man. "Fancy trick you've got there. What else can you do with the water?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh, you know, this and that." Demyx said with a dismissive grin and changed the water into a ball. "I can make all kinds of shapes!"

He was literally just playing in the water.

[fun_thementalist]

"Can you make a face?" Gen asked, leaning in to look a little. "That's really extraordinary."

Of course, he wanted to know if it's a sort of thing that could be taught, but he'd let the new guy play around and show off first.

[melodiouspacifist]

"I mean, sure?" Did this guy mean like a happy face, like a water emoticon? That was what he got when he morphed the water in something else.

[fun_thementalist]

"Cool," Gen said, honestly, even if some of his cheer was his facade. He sat down near the hot tub and grinned hugely. "Can I see?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Sure, sure." Demyx chuckled a bit and morphed the water as requested. "Ta-da!"

heated debate

[catti]

[A larger cat is watching those water shapes intently, wondering if they were to disappear if he were to poke one.

He's about to when Demyx speaks up, and looks guilty when the attention is on him instead.]

I--naught. I've not seen water magic like that before.

[melodiouspacifist]

Why not? Don't people with water magic that you know, play with it?

[ Fooling around seemed like a much better thing to do than doing anything constructive, and it's not like he needed to defend himself on the train, at the moment. ]

[catti]

I suppose they might. I'm not much for conjury.

[If the shapes haven't disappeared or moved out of arm's reach, he's going to poke the cat one to see what happens.]

[melodiouspacifist]

[ The water isn't solid, his finger will go into it and get wet, but he's keeping the shape so it won't burst like a bubble or anything. ]

What's the point of having powers if you can't have fun with them? [ He grins. ]

[catti]

[That's really cool.]

I see no problem with it. Can you form the water into aught else?

[melodiouspacifist]

Sure, I can make it pretty much into whatever I want. It's just moving the water around. Maybe a cooler trick is this...

[ He'll drop those shapes back into the water and instead of drawing water up from the pool, it starts to appear out of nowhere in the air, this time in the shape of a randrop. ]

Heated Debate

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Where else would Demyx be indeed? Unfortunately, it's not where he's supposed to be, which- while hardly unusual- is still annoying.]

What's up is the laundry, no thanks to you. The last of it is hung up and drying, finally, though it would've been done sooner if you'd helped.

[Probly not the kind of attention you were hoping for, huh Demyx?]

[melodiouspacifist]

[ Oh, was it his turn to do the laundry? He lets out a bit of a laugh and waves his hand. ]

I totally forgot! [ Was he lying? Probably. ]

You should check out this spa!

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Yeah, he's probably lying. Not there's really anything Lea can do about it. This time, anyway.]

Whatever. Just get it memorized next time, or I might just forget something of yours.

[Namely washing anything of Demyx's. He can at least try and make him do his own laundry. Or failing that, he could make Demyx's next hot tub stay a bit too hot to handle.]

And it is pretty nice. Not really a place I hang out a lot, but given the limitations of having to fit inside a train car, it's pretty nice.

[melodiouspacifist]

[ Demyx offered him a sheepish smile. ]

Yeah, sure. [ He didn't sound the least bit sincere, but if Lea made him do his own laundry, he'd probably have to suck it up and do it. Messing wiht the hot tub though, well that might start a prank war. ]

Why not? Don't you like relaxing? [ He's mildly curious about that, because who didn't enjoy soaking in a warm tub. ]

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Nothing motivates a man like realizing he's out of clean underwear.]

Well yeah, but... I dunno. [shrugs] Just not really a spa type of guy I guess. If I wanna relax I usually read a book or see what's playing in the cinema car. Or just find someone to hang out with and talk.

[melodiouspacifist]

[ It's unsurprising by the way he's playing with the water idly why he found the spa car so interesting. It's relaxing at the very least, to sit in the warm water. ]

I'm not much for reading. [ This is probably the least surprising thing he's ever said. ] I did see the music car though, as soon as I figure out how to put music on my arm thingy, that's what I'll be doing.