voidtreckerooc | Test Drive 018

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"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?"

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

Why, so she could beat you with it to spare everyone? ... No, no, Della, hold back.

"At least there's no one here you can threaten to cut out of the will."

"Nonsense, I haven't made that threat in ages."

A brief twinge of bad memories but NOPE NOT GONNA FOCUS ON IT RIGHT NOW.

"Besides, every time I made that threat, I didn't make good on it. Otherwise, Donald would've been cut out ages ago."

At this, Della did have to pause and nod in agreement. "True... you two always made a surprisingly good team, though. Sometimes I felt like I had to fight you to have him."

"And you'll be pleased to know that Team Uncle has kept its crown back home." He paused. "You know, if we get back home, we should have another game night."

"When we do," she corrected, "I'm sure I won't have a say in it. But it would be nice to take down Agent 22, for once."

"Or perhaps you'd like to team up with her next time?" Scrooge asked, raising a brow.

"Uncle Scrooge, I love you, but being your enemy is terrifying." He never showed her any mercy, not even as a kid.

"As it should be!" Scrooge said with not an ounce of regret. "Besides, it will make victory all the sweeter should you ever manage to dethrone me. As unlikely as that is."

Baiting his niece? Yes. Absolutely yes.

... Della knew she was being baited. She knew it. She really did.

And yet.

"What's that supposed to mean, old man?"

"I'm just saying the likelihood of you besting me within the next century or two is exceptionally slim."

Part of her sighed, knowing how this would end, and mentally noted she'd need a good dose of hot chocolate after this.

The other part? Slammed both hands down on the nearest table. "CALL ME A TIME-TRAVELER, CAUSE THAT AGE IS NOW, SCROOGE! BRING IT ON!"

"That's the spirit!" Scrooge grinned toothily. "What shall we play, eh? Cards? Something a bit more interesting?"

"Define interesting." Oh, this wouldn't end well for either of them.

"Something with a bit more bite. Not trivia given we can't be sure which world the cards are from, but something that'll really push us to our limits."

"In that case... may I suggest a game of wit, mechanics, and deadly imprisonment." She pulled one game board out of the pile.

"I present to you, good sir... MOUSE TRAP."

Scrooge steepled his fingers. "Mouse Trap it is then! I hope you enjoy the cheese when you're under the net!"

"And I hope you enjoy the... thing with the... shut up." She grumbled, beginning to open up the board and set it up.

Scrooge picked the red mouse, setting it down on start. The game required building the trap over the course of the game, so initially there wasn't much to set up.

"How about we roll to see who goes first?"

Della snatched the dice, and began shaking vigorously in her hand. "C'mon, Mama needs a new pair of VICTORY SHOES!"

She rolled.

And got a 1.

"Ooh, that'll be tough to beat."

He tossed the die.

"Lucky me! That's a five!"

Della was already having all the regrets.

"Is there any way we can play without sass?"

"Do you honestly think you could keep to that rule?" Scrooge teased.

Honestly, Della could be just as bad as him sometimes.

Where do you think she got it from? "You're supposed to be a good influence on me. Then I can be a good influence on the kids. So, when I screw up, it's your fault."

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