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

[blue_ice]

"I have a laptop. Hold on."

Luckily, he stores it in his rucksack, which he carries most places. It's propped up on the table, everything emblazoned with his logo.

"But it might take some work to establish compatibility. This doesn't look like my tech."

He pulls out his own duel disk, strapping it on his arm just for show.

[digitalism]

"These are meant to be hooked up anywhere, to be honest, mostly for charging capabilities," Yusaku shook his head. "A USB-C cord is the only requirement, if you don't mind letting me drive, I can set it up on your laptop."

If this guy was from another version of Earth, with duel monster cards and all that, then it shouldn't be too hard to set up a card reading program. If he already had a program, then he could just modify it. It was no big deal for a hacker like himself.

Huh, that was a duel disk he certainly hadn't seen before, although could see some of the similarities. It reminded him more of Ryoken's or any of the other duelists who used the latest models.

[blue_ice]

"Oh, that's all? Go for it."

So their worlds weren't that different, he supposed. But he allowed Yusaku access...no worries, he had encryption and backups to protect anything truly valuable.

"Who developed this duel disk?"

[digitalism]

"Were you expecting more?"

He pulled the laptop over and opened the small compartment that held the USB-C cable, pulling it out finding the port on the laptop to plug it in. His eyes easily took in all the icons already on the screen. The laptop was an old model, it seemed, as was the desktop. Although he refrained from saying as much, maybe it was the latest back home for him. Yusaku wasn't unfamiliar with this though, even before the Lost Incident he had dabbled on his parent's computer all the time. It didn't take long before he found the card reading program and set out modifying it to become compatible with his duel disk.

He also made sure not to include his Cyberse deck in the list of cards that would download. Different world, but he didn't want to take the risk for someone he just met.

"SOL Technologies," He answered as he watched the list load up. "They created LINK VRAINS as well."

[blue_ice]

"It's all new."

He's done a decent job with future-proofing, so it was possible, at least...but he folds his arms and frowns as the download goes on. Interesting...

"...never heard of them. I'm Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corporation. Are you familiar with us at all?"