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

[happyends]

[ That's a big decision to suddenly make. Knowing about what's going to happen in the future or not.

It's why she goes silent for a moment, unsure of what to say, but then the girl briefly shakes her head. ]

.. It's okay. I don't have to know. [ Especially since what Kyoko already said is so mind-blowing. Her, a goddess..? ] I'm really just glad to know already that things would turn out fine somehow. I was really worried someone like me wouldn't be able to set everything right..

[redmeguca]

I mean, things still aren't perfect. Magical Girls still fight and die, just not against Witches. Although, getting power from Wraith Cores instead of Grief Seeds does mean that it'll actually be in Kyubey's best interests to keep us happy and healthy instead of sabotaging us at every turn.

[happyends]

[ .. Wraith.. Cores? Are that what the things magical girls fight will be called then? Madoka didn't even think if anything would replace the witches, really. She only thought about helping all the magical girls who had turned into witches, who would yet still turn into witches.. ]

Well.. As long as everyone is even just a little bit happier, then I'm already a bit relieved..

[ No matter what she has to sacrifice for her. She clasps her hands together. ]

Do you come from a world like that..? Or is it just one of the timelines you saw?

[redmeguca]

Nah, it's just something I heard about. I'm from the old timeline, though maybe time knot is closer to the truth. Speaking of, keep an eye on Akemi. She keeps her memories of the old timeline and does something stupid: telling Kyubey about it. Including about Witches, which are way more energy efficient than Wraiths. You can probably guess how that turns out.

[happyends]

.. Homura-chan did..?

[ She sounds a bit confused. ]

Why would she do something like that though? She was the first one out of all of us to suspect him.. [ So Madoka really doubts the girl would bother talking much with Kyubey at all, let alone spill the secret about witches to him in a world where only she (because of the time travel powers?) would remember those. ]

[redmeguca]

Tch. That... ties in to the thing you didn't want me to tell you. Aside from that, I think she just plain lost a few brain cells in the change.

[happyends]

[ Well, she can't say much to the first part.

But the second part.. her smile turns a little more awkward. ]

Kyoko-chan, you shouldn't say stuff like that about Homura-chan.. I-I think it's important that we all get along, especially here!

[redmeguca]

Hey, I see stupid, I call it out. Especially when the stupid is coming from someone I know is smarter than that. And you know she'd do the same thing if it were me.

[happyends]

I would tell her the same if she said it about you!

[ Hey, she's stood up against Homura before when the other girl was being mean about Sayaka, okay. This is all about equal defending rights. And while Madoka sure hasn't known neither Kyoko nor Homura as long as she has known Sayaka, they're all from the same world. All magical girls-- well, Madoka not really, not yet, but still.

It feels like they have to at least be able to rely on each other. ]

[redmeguca]

Don't bother, Akemi's earned call out rights. If anyone had actually listened to her, things might not have gone to shit as badly as they did.