Test Drive 020

[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!

Crisis On... An Aeroplane

The train has a game carriage and the VR video games are always popular. A good way to relive boredom as well as teaching some good skills.

Crisis on...This game can be played with two to four players. It is essentially a crisis simulator mixed with an escape room. You can chose the scenario (the bridge of a space ship, a camp in a jungle, a high rise building, a sailing ship etc) and you are thrown into the middle of a crisis of some kind. Teamwork and a cool head are important as is using the surroundings wisely.

Here you are the crew of a small aeroplane in desperate trouble and attempting to land, the wind is strong, your engines are straining and the visibility is near zero. Can your crew land safely?

Dressing up

The Voidtreckers have a new mission and the dressing carriage is open for their convenience...

The mission is taking them to a circus and the clothes sure reflect that. Clown costumes, glittery leotards, many feathers and an overabundance of sequins.

There is make up and facepaint provided as well, hopefully there are enough voidtreckers with expertise to make it look convincing.

Clowning Around

Strange happenings have been happening in Kilpi, a monster ridden land and joining a performing troupe is the best bet of protection outside of the small settlements. The voidtreckers are masquerading as one such troupe, in order to help out a small settlement that has seen a spate of killings. Voidtreckers must put on the show of their lives, investigate the killings and bring peace back to the town.

Team One

Setting up the stage for the performance is a good time for building bonds with the towns people. Everyone knows something, no matter how small and they are more likely to gossip with stage hands than talk to the town guard.

Gather information, set up a stage and get ready for the show.

Team Two

The killings always happen in the evening or at night, always when people are alone. So making sure people are not alone is the task of team two. The show is ready, it is big, it is loud and hopefully enough to draw in the whole town.

Eat fire, juggle, walk that tightrope. Music plays, sequins glitter. The show is a distraction and their task is to be the best distraction they can be.

Team Three

Whilst team two are distracting it is team threes chance to catch the killer. The streets are deserted, quiet and stealth is necessary to remain undetected.

Most people are at the show, but not everyone. Are they in danger? Or are they potential suspects.

Comments

It's fine, *someone's* gotta be the himbo.

[helborn]

[Oh boy. He'll have to find a map at some point. The library probably has one, but...]

In a way. And yes. Arthur is a King of the Britons, a legendary leader said to return to his realm when the people have great need. Rama is an incarnation of the god Vishnu, a very famous one. He's from India. Gilgamesh is from Mesopotamia, and he's a part-god king who had a number of adventures and sought true immortality and failed. Lucifer is the devil, a being seen as the adversary and everything evil in the world.

[He looks Zagreus up and down. Underworld, and Father, and... ah. There's something trying to click in his brain - didn't he hear about some very obscure son of Hades? He'll have to think about it.]

Unfortunately whenever Greek myth is put into fiction, Hades tends to get put in the Lucifer-like role, which really isn't fair. If anyon'e sa jerk, it's Ares... mm. Never mind, there's a whole story with that.

[At the word 'snow' he seems to light up, bouncing on the balls of his feet.]

That's right. I can't make snow proper, but...

[He holds his hand out as if grabbing something and with a puff of snow, a spear made of ice forms in his grip.]

This ice is technically magical, so it won't melt, but something like that. I guess technically if I made water and then made the temperature around me drop, that would work. Maybe. I'd have to try!

[dyingpro]

Ohh, Arthur is a King. So the impressions I got from the Infernal Arms were correct. This blade I have, Stygius, it's supposed to go to him at some point. Or... has gone to him? I'm not quite sure of the timeline, here, visions are like that.

[He motions to the broadsword he has with him.]

Although I think he names it Holy Excalibur, whenever he wields it.

[Zagreus actually snorts when Casper mentions Hades.]

If anything, I'm more like Lucifer, at least if what Lord Uncle Zeus told me is true about attacking his Lord Father. But they're right about my Father's disposition. He's not exactly known for being warm and inviting, is he? Especially not to his son.

[His eyes light up at the spear of ice, so easily formed in Casper's hands.] That's amazing! Has your version of Demeter granted you her Boon, or can you just do that by yourself? Either way, that seems really useful.

[helborn]

Excalibur's correct. The legend is that he pulled it from a stone, signifying him as the one true king of England.

[Eh. Time is soup, so he doesn't worry about the temporal issues.]

I haven't met the god myself, though someone I traveled with for a time was one of his daughters.

[He'd... rather not think about Aiden, actually.]

Oh, no, this is more from my mother than anything. Her Underworld is a bit... cold. And the pantheon I'm from is far more northern than yours... though why would her boon be cold-based? Has Persephone gone missing, again?

[dyingpro]

Hmm... the waking-phrase Nyx gave me says something about that. "I see your kingly pardon from a prison of stone." [He specifically has his hands off his weapon so that it doesn't turn into a blinding white holy blade when he says the waking-phrase.] Though I wonder how Stygius got stuck in a stone in the first place.

My Underworld is, too - at least parts of it. I heard Asphodel was fairly mild, once, before the Phlegethon flooded it entirely. Elysium is colder, and the Temple colder still, though I think that the cold leeches in from the surface world.

[Something Casper says immediately puts Zagreus on edge, his muscles tensing and his tone shifting from casual, friendly banter to a harder, more defensive tone.]

Wait, again? What do you mean again?

[helborn]

[He lets the spear disappear in a puff of snow that doesn't make it to the ground. Ah, shit. Did he fuck up?]

Ugh... the Phlegethon flooding sounds awful. But... um. Maybe that was a poor choice of words. In the myths I know, when she got to the underworld she ate some of a pomegranate, and so she has to spend six months of the year in the Underworld with Hades and the other six months with her mother. And Demeter grieves when she has to go to the Underworld, so that's why the plants die and the weather gets cold.

But if she's stuck in permanent cold... oh. Um. That's an issue not only for the gods, but for the humans that will die in the cold without enough warmth or food.

[dyingpro]

I try not to let it get to me when I'm passing through, or stand in it for too long. I'm flame-resistant, not flame-proof.

[Zagreus listens patiently to Casper's explanation, and a part of it makes him wonder if perhaps maybe... maybe... it's the will of the Fates for her to return home. That small possibility lightens his heart.]

... so that's what Demeter meant. Blood and Darkness, no wonder we've been getting such an influx of shades lately. And I doubt the Olympians can persuade her from her course.

[Well, the situation at home just got more complicated. Awesome. 8| Zagreus makes a mental note to check on that when he gets home... whenever that is.]