Test Drive Meme 021

[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!

Spring Cleaning

Chores aren’t for everyone. And, as the morning reaches a close, it turns out that they are especially not for wizards.

That is to say, someone may have cast a spell animating all of the mops, brooms and dishcloths on-board, which are now sweeping their way up and down the carriages, cleaning everything - and everyone - they can reach. And animating anything else they can find, for maximum efficiency. Books, clothing, cutlery-

This isn’t so bad in the bathrooms. In the library, however? The armory? Bang, and the dirt is gone.

Open Mic

The ground floor of the music carriage is usually a mess of instruments, but tonight they’ve all been tucked away neatly at one end of the room. Chairs from the upper floor have been carried down en masse, all facing towards the jukeboxes and screens at the other end.

You might not be entirely sure who rigged them for karaoke, but you know one thing: you’re here now, a drink in one hand and a list of popular (by someone’s standards) songs in the other. If people aren’t singing or waiting to sing, they’re cheering friends on, or skulking and trying everything in their power not to be called up, or even escaping upstairs to talk more comfortably.

’Til Death Do Us Part

The world of Abarranz is ruled by the Undying Lords, and has been for almost two thousand years. The civilisation has stagnated - not only due to the immortal council, but also because the majority of its citizens are undead. Some, the rich, the powerful, are able to undergo great rituals to maintain their consciousness and skill even in death; others are unfortunate enough to be dragged into death with neither, and exist as shells of themselves. The greatest necromancers of the planet are harnessing the death of a minor star in the system to fuel a mass conversion of the remaining populace, but the remaining living citizens are those who have already refused the change. Voidtreckers, they cannot resist alone.

Team One

Pockets of the living survive in hiding, but are split off from one another and unable to unify under the overwhelming forces surrounding their enclaves. This first team is tasked with clearing the mindless hordes threatening them, so that they might establish communications, venture out, and join the fight.

Team Two

The best way to escape the ritual is to remove the remaining living to another colony in the system - but the rituals and spells able to do so are all jealously guarded by the eternal council in their libraries and vaults. A viable target has been identified - the treasure rooms of the Viscount Eldermann holds a tome rumoured to contain a mass teleportation ritual. Infiltrating and securing this tome is this team’s task, and while the mission is possible, the traps and guards won’t make it easy.

Team Three

Even with these plans in motion, every second counts. This third team is given the role of saboteur - to interrupt, delay or otherwise slow the Grand Ritual of a Star’s Demise from within the stronghold of the Undying Lords. The dressing carriage - and their SCA wristbands - are at their disposal, the former for appropriate Abarranz costume and pallor, the latter to hide the telltale signs of life, should they have any.

Comments

[flowersinmyparadise]

"The one that took my fish!" As if it's obvious. It's not.. But he does give a clarifying pointing arm towards one that bounces itself towards the next door, stopping to clean a stain on a wall along the way.

He's also less concerned about the other ones that are causing trouble - they didn't take his fish. But he can see what Mami is doing, and he pauses. He gives a small headtilt as he looks her over, but settles on that she must be human, and therefore this is a good thing. Protecc appease the human!

"Hey, if you help me catch that one, I'll help you gather up the other ones. It'll be easy!" He smiles.

Says... the one who hasn't caught his offender yet. But that's not the point.

[magicurls]

"Your fish? Won't it be ruined if it got soap on it?"

All the more reason to hurry! Mami charges into action, shooting out another ribbon to try to claim the fish. First one misses----time to try again, jumping over a dustpan.

"That'd be great! It's really hard to move through here now."

[flowersinmyparadise]

"No." He pauses on that thought for a second. "...Maybe. I'm still willing to try it when I get it back."

He will, too. Someone please stop him from eating the fish if and when he gets it back.

But his bribe seems to have worked, as Mami jumps right into action - shooting ribbons, launching herself over dustpans. It's a great thing to see, really. Tobari follows and tries to stay out of the way of Mami's ribbons. Not that it would particularly suck for him to get caught in them, but it would be detrimental to both of their missions right now.

Meanwhile, on his way over, he'll grab a broom and a dust cloth on his way. Might as well prove he's good for his word.

"Hey, are your ribbons unlimited?"

Not everybody has unlimited magic, and he doesn't want Mami to push herself if she doesn't.

[magicurls]

"...with Rosetta's help, they should be?"

The small green hedgehog nervously chirps agreement from her shoulder. Mami fires off a few more to tie them down.

"How much further to go from your side?" The way she's facing...not too much longer, hopefully.

[flowersinmyparadise]

Tobari blinks at the green hedgehog. What kind of yokai is that??

He has to tell himself to focus on that later; they've got fish a mop to catch, first.

"Should be only a little more," he grins. When Mami shoots her latest wave of ribbons, Tobari launches himself upward and over her... annnd bonks his head on the top of the train, tumbling to the floor.

However, instead of whining about his injury, he just gets up and bolts like nothing happened. He'll have to make a mental note that there's not all the room in a train like there is in the great outdoors. He manages to block off the mop, which halts and abruptly turns the other way to flee, towards Mami.

[magicurls]

Mami has enough time to react and snag the mop in time, and in that pause she leans toward the other.

"Are you all right?" she calls.