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.

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K'xhezi Tia | Final Fantasy XIV WoL OC | OTA

[catti]

Heated Debate

I. [There is a very confused cat in the spa carriage.

Getting over the train was one hurdle to adapting to life on said train, and the spa is a whole other one. Xhezi here has seen hot springs and even been in said hot springs, but never before has he seen hot springs contained in a moving vehicle, and so he's just a little trepidatious about...well, everything in the car.

Currently, he's examining the towels and massage oils by one of the tables, tail twitching in interest.]

II. [He's finally figured out the water is safe and decided to go in. Feel free to admire his tattoos when he's not submerged in the hot water up to his ears.]


Team One

[He's been offered a pistol and axe and has refused them both. Instead, he's got a pair of kitchen knives from...somewhere. Maybe they came from the ship, maybe not. All you need to know is that he has them and not to give him a reason to stick them in you.

He wishes he had a bow, but this is the next best thing.]

You ready to go?


Getting Draughty

[The game room is yet another baffling experience. Card games, he knows those, though he's gone through all the decks he can find and hasn't found a single Triple Triad card. Very disappointing.

The video games are a type of magitek he doesn't even want to start with yet, so he's found a game to test his speed.

It's called Odds and Ends, and the goal is to get all the pieces into their slots before time is up. What he doesn't know is that when the timer reaches zero, the game suddenly ejects all the pieces put in.

This happens, and he nearly hits the roof of the carriage in surprise. It's obvious that he was startled--if his expression didn't give it away, his tail being twice it's normal size has--and he glances around to see if anyone else noticed.]

Team One

[inquisitor_lavellan]

[ And here was an extremely scarred-up elf. She was kneeling on the deck, working on bolting a borrowed shield to the black bar that stood in for her missing left forearm. ]

Almost.

[ And then she cursed, ]

If these fucking bolts would just line up.

[catti]

[Well, that's certainly an interesting method of using a shield. He's not sure what she's trying to do, but he's willing to offer a hand; at the very least he can follow instructions if needed.]

Do you need a hand?

[inquisitor_lavellan]

[ Alley's left arm ended abruptly just below the elbow, her clothing cinched tightly closed around the base of the flat, blackened metal bar that protruded from the stump.

This was the bar she was trying to bolt the shield onto. The shield had been modified to have a pair of bolts that lined up with the holes in the bar, but the elf was struggling with the wingnuts that were supposed to seal the deal.

In short, her remaining hand -- clad in soft leather, and the shape wasn't quite right -- couldn't seem to manage tiny little wingnuts easily. She glanced up with a grimace as one of the nuts went skittering away across the deck. Great! Good! Fantastic! ]

--Yeah, the stupid nuts are too small and shitty. Where did that one even go?

team one

[lightsmith]

[When addressed, Scintilla froze in the middle of what she was doing--that being 'also leaving the kitchen with a pair of mysteriously acquired knives'. Her ears pinned back as if she was well aware she'd been caught, looking over him warily.]

Er...aye, should be?

Heated Debate

[subcircuits]

[He doesn't have the bath to himself for long. Here comes a rather big fellow, wearing-- well, his boxers, in lieu of a proper bathing suit. He's distracted by the act of putting his hair up in a short tail at the nape of his neck and doesn't notice the other bather at first.

This dude is no stranger to tattoos, so the first thing he notices when he does look up is the design on his skin. Devero nods his appreciation.] Hey. Nice ink.

[His eyes continue naturally up from the other person's face and he visibly startles when he sees the ears. He looks away quickly so he doesn't stare, and slides down into the water.]