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

[redmeguca]

It won't happen to me. The Fissures changed my Soul Gem, now something called a Doppel comes out instead. Ophelia's felt different since I left, but I can tell she's still there. As for you, well, you've got Rosetta, right? So neither of us have to worry about that. As long as we don't give in to despair, we'll be fine. Just so long as we're not idiots like her...

[magicurls]

But...if I get separated from her, or something happens to me...everyone will be in danger!

[ She can't let that happen. ]

Everyone was so kind to me. I can't do that to them. And...

...Miki-san?

[ That's the missing piece Madoka didn't tell her. ]

[redmeguca]

...I had to watch. She gave up and turned into a Witch before my very eyes, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. I tried so hard to find any trace of Sayaka left, but she was just gone. If that stubborn idiot had only used a Grief Seed once that entire week it wouldn't have happened, but that hardheaded moron convinced herself that stretching herself thin and being a self sacrificing fool was what you would have wanted her to do!

[Kyoko's hand grasps around empty air, her snack supply exhausted. She's still not looking at Mami, but she's trembling and not doing a good job of hiding it.]

[magicurls]

...that I would have...

[ It was her fault. Mami crumbled, slumping against the ground. ]

I...no, I. I'm so sorry. All I've done is led you all down this path of destruction.

[ She holds the gem up, watching the shine dim with her hopes. Rosetta does her best to keep it glowing, and it'll be all right for a bit, but...]

I know it's too late to atone. But you won't have to worry about me hurting anyone else.

I'll turn myself in.

[redmeguca]

[Kyoko's trembling stops, and then starts again for an entirely different reason. She turns and storms over to Mami, grabbing her by the collar.]

God damn it, this is exactly what I had you promise you wouldn't do! If Sayaka wanted to put some bullshit sacrificial symbolism on your death that's her own damn choice, but don't you dare buy into it too! I'm sick and tired of everyone I care about leaving me!

[She's outright crying at this point, rage and sadness both contributing to her loss of composure.]

I'll truss you up like a god damn fly in a web if I have to, so get your head out of your own ass and accept that you don't have to take responsibility for everything!

[magicurls]

Sakura-san...

[ Mami shudders, but otherwise stays quiet to listen. It's hard to focus through her own racing fear, but. ]

I'm sorry I left you, before. I should have fought harder. But I don't want to leave you now. Or hurt you. Or anyone!

[ Rosetta is curled around her gem hand, pumping purifying magic into it. ]

You'll stop me if I need to be stopped?

[redmeguca]

Come on Mami, we both know I did my best to drive you away that time. Us separating like that was my fault, not yours.

[Kyoko lets Mami go, and wraps her arms around her in a hug.]

I still don't think I'll need to, but sure. If you ever become a Witch I'll stop it, and even before that I'll slap some sense into you if I feel like you need it. So, you can just trust in your kouhai, alright?