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

Re: Wen Ning | The Untamed | OTA

[only_one_wei]

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"Wen Ning!" Wei Wuxian grinned and surged out of the tier with the hottest water. "Come on in! Did you get a suit?"

Now that he was out of the water, his own suit, a pair of black swim briefs could be seen. His own skin, normally almost as pale, was pink from the heat. It had taken some time for him to be okay with the strange clothes on the train, but for something like the spa, he embraced the local traditions.

[deadwenwalking]

"A... a suit?" Wen Ning stares at the other man, confused and wide-eyed. Has he done this all wrong? He'd assumed this place was like a bathhouse and no one would be wearing anything at all. If it didn't take extreme circumstances to get him blushing in this body he would be just as pink as his friend.

He shakes his head, his hands tightening around the towel protecting his modesty. He could back out now, make some excuse. If he's going to embarrass both himself and Wei Wuxian by not being prepared he'd rather not be there at all.

"I'll go find one," he says hastily, feet already taking him a few steps in reverse.

[only_one_wei]

"No, no, not that way," Wei Wuxian said with a smile. For all his bravado, once out of the water he quickly wraps himself in his inner robe, hanging nearby.

Once covered up properly, he beckoned Wen Ning over to the nearer of the two closets. "They have suits here. I know, it is a little odd, but it is a cultural thing. Something about the children?" He really didn't understand it himself, but if it kept the peace he would wear the briefs into the water.

"Would you prefer something like I'm wearing, or something longer?" he asked his friend.

[deadwenwalking]

The quick glance at what Wei Wuxian is wearing was all he needed to see for him to decide he wanted a different option if one was available. And he most definitely doesn't want to be the only one not wearing anything in the room. Respecting other cultures is important! With a body like his he'd like to show off as little as he can get away with while still getting clean.

"Something... something longer." He pauses, then adds: "Please." He only hopes the other man doesn't take his preference as an insult to his own choice in bathing wear.

Even if he's new, that isn't going to keep him from being embarrassed about being unprepared. He should have asked in advance, and that's on him!

[only_one_wei]

He had been pretty sure that Wen Ning would opt for more coverage. Bold and in-your-face was not his friend's style.

He pulled out a couple of pairs of 'board shorts' as they were called by some others on the train. One was bright purple, the other was black and red, but the pattern reminded Wei Wuxian of the lines on Wen Ning's skin.

"First, do you like either of these?" he offered.

[deadwenwalking]

There's an odd expression on Wen Ning's face as he looks over both options. It's somewhere between confused and... something else. Disgusted? Insulted? But also trying not to appear that way because this is Wei Wuxian.

He wants the red and black one, but it also makes him mildly uncomfortable with how fitting it is, so he points at the purple one instead. It's just something to wear while he's bathing, it can't matter that much.

"Th-that one's fine."

[only_one_wei]

Hiding his disappointment, because he wanted Wen Ning to look as awesome as Wei Wuxian thought he was, he handed him the purple pair.

"Excellent. Do you want me to hold up the robe and stand in the closet door so you can change?" It completely eluded him who would design the spa not to have any changing rooms, but there was a lot about the train he didn't understand. But he was fairly certain that if he suggested his friend go back to his cabin to change, he might not return.

"Do you want to soak in the water first, or try the sauna?" he asked over his shoulder, as he moved to the door without waiting for an answer.