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

Scrooge McDuck | Ducktales 2017

[richestduck]

[Heated Debate]

Scrooge groaned with pleasure as the masseuse worked out the knots in his back. He had a century's worth of kinks from stress, stress, and more stress, not even getting into the numerous injuries over those years.

"Bless me bagpipes, I could get used to this..." he sighed as he got up and headed towards the sauna. Maybe there really was something to this "vacation" concept...

[Getting Draughty in Here GAME NIGHT]

Video games? Maybe if someone convinced him. No, what he was into were card and board games. The more the better. No Scroogeopoly (sadly) but there were plenty of other games to entertain himself with.

His tail wagged with delight and anticipation for competition. Gods help whoever he competed against...

[Shiver Me Timbers - Team Two]

Uncovering a mystery? Rewriting history? Yes please!

Scrooge had immediately volunteered to go into the hold, cane and lantern at the ready. His eyes glittered with anticipation. Perhaps it was a distant relative of Captain Peg Hook!

Game Night

[sos_pilot]

Della was glad her dear uncle was getting used to the train and its antics. Oh look, he's in the... game... room...

Oh no.

With panic written all over her face, Della tried to make a beeline for the exit without being seen.

"If Scroogyopoly is here, I may eat my scarf." She muttered under her breath.

[richestduck]

"Della!" Scrooge called happily, holding a giant stack of board games. "Look at what all they've got!"

All of the electronic doohickeys couldn't have sparked such delight in the old man. This would be fun! He was going to crush his opponents!

[sos_pilot]

"Aw, phooey." Della winced, turning around and trying to mask her fear.

"You found the game room!" Della said cheerfully, chuckling a bit nervously. "Nice! ... Have you... seen the other rooms? How about the music room? It's so amazing, you can listen to concerts from other worlds!"

[richestduck]

"Oh, aye. I've been getting familiar with the place. I'll be looking at the spa next," Scrooge said, rolling his eyes. Then he brightened again. "But I just had to stop here when I saw all of the board games! It'll be like old times, eh?"

[sos_pilot]

Man, she really wasn't getting out of it, was she?

"Yeah, just like old times." She repeated dryly, glancing away. "You getting super-competitive, winning every single game, traumatizing Donald so that every time he hears the worlds 'it was the candlestick in the library' he drops into a fetal position ..."

[richestduck]

"It was 'the knife in the kitchen'," Scrooge corrected, searching eagerly for an empty table. Ooh, where would be a good place to set up?

[sos_pilot]

"Good to know some things never changed." Hoo boy.

"Uncle Scrooge, I know you... really enjoy playing these games, but a lot of the people on the train are still getting to know you." What was the gentlest way she could say, "this would be a really awful first impression"?

She rolled her shoulders. "Maybe you could... tone it down, just a teeny tiny bit?"

[richestduck]

"Nonsense! Nothing like a bit of healthy competition to build up camaraderie! Now help me find a table!"

Game Night

[10billionpercent]

He was just passing through as one does, and huh a new passenger sitting and waiting beside a pile of games.

"What are you trying to play?" Senku asked, figuring he'd be curious, after all he'd played Parcheesi before.

[richestduck]

"Anything really!" Scrooge said eagerly. "I love board games and card games!" He glanced at the video games and snorted. "Don't need any of those fancy video graphical games."

[10billionpercent]

"I can play anything you want, you just have to explain the rules to me, unless it's chess or shougi." Senku answered, moving over to take a seat. He'd played a few video games in his time too, but not the kind that would lend well to competition.

[richestduck]

You fool!

"Let's see..." He looked through the board games before his eyes lighted on one. "Aha! This one looks promising!"

He pulled out a very neglected box of the one game known to destroy faith and trust among blood kin: Monopoly.

[10billionpercent]

If only him and his dad had taken the opportunity to truly test their relationship with such a game, alas, it hadn't happened and so Senku would have to win on the fly, that was his plan.

"Are you familiar with the rules already?" He asked. "If not, we can just read them, I'm sure they're in the box somewhere."

He leaned forward, carefully, he couldn't possibly let on that he was a competitive soul just yet.

[richestduck]

"I'll only need a moment. We have something similar back in my world, and I've never lost," Scrooge said walking the box over to a table.

[10billionpercent]

Senku smirked. "First time for everything." He quipped back, he intended to be a fiery challenger.

[richestduck]

Scrooge grinned toothily, his tail wagging faster with anticipation. "Then let's see if you can be the first person in almost a hundred years to throw me off my game."

Game Night

[hotheadwarmheart]

It just so happened that someone else was also looking to pass the time. "Hey there, Mr. McDuck," Lea said as he approached the racks of various games along the wall. "See anything here that looks good for killing a few minutes between rounds of chores?"

[richestduck]

"Depends on what you're interested I suppose," Scrooge said. His tail wagged eagerly. "Honestly, I'm not sure where to start!"

Run, Lee. Run while you can.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Hey it can't be any worse than getting trounced by Luxord at poker, especially given the lack of transferable currency on the train. Lea considered a moment. "Something that won't take too long to play," he said. "I've still got stuff to do today, so any Demyx-level attempts to avoid work will have to wait. So any number of your basic card games could probably fit the bill. Plus they wouldn't really take much time to set up. Maybe something like 'Go Fish' or 'Old Maid'?"

[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."

[hotheadwarmheart]

Maybe occasionally, but most of them just get eaten. They need a less tasty money substitute if gambling is ever going to be a thing on the train.

"True," Lea said. "Go Fish it is then." He took a seat at the nearest free table. "Since it looks like you're planning on dealing, ready when you are."

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?"

[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!"

[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."