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

[chocobosnap]

"Hmm, that's a tough one Noct." Prompto said, holding both hands up and level.

"On one hand, I can be clubbed to death. On the other we can maybe stop this." He raised one hand then the other and then grinned.

"On it buddy, let's sneak back outta here and see if we can find the culprit."

[canyounoct]

"Nerd," Noctis said, accusing and a bit fond of his giant dork of a friend. "I meant if you had a different -"

THUD. A book whacked heavily against the top of the table. Shaking his head, Noctis said, "Let's just go. Crouching, I look forward and you cover my back? Worse case and I can try and warp us out of here."

... Trying to warp with two people never really worked well, but it's not like they were facing a whole unit of MTs or something.

[chocobosnap]

"Takes one to know one." Prompto quipped without missing a beat.

"Uhhh, yeah, okay." He wasn't sure about being warped because really, he hadn't done that before.

"Is warping with you better or worse than getting hit with a book?" He teased.

Prompto tilted his head to suggest Noctis go. "Got your back, buddy."

[canyounoct]

Noctis snorted, "I'm very cool, everyone knows that, I'm not a nerd at all."

A pretty bald-faced lie and he knew it. He began to sneak forward, keeping his eye out for dive-bombing books. Even if he had to react to that teasing, Prompto.

"I'm going to leave you to get dogpiled by a bunch of magazines," Noctis quipped back. "See you turn me down for good warping in the future."

His eyes went wide - "Duck left!"

[chocobosnap]

"I want to believe you Noct, but I have a whole set of stories from the last five years that disprove your theory." Prompto said dramatically, hand on his chest.

"You wouldn't leave me here!" Prompto protested, but he did as Noctis suggest and ducked left. Despite his looks, he had pretty good reflexes.

"I think you did that on purpose somehow! If I get hurt I'll make you nurse me back to health." Prompto complained.

[canyounoct]

"Blackmailing me is treason!" Noctis objected, but he was grinning ear to ear. "Would serve you right after you dug up my dirty secrets and ruined my cool persona."

Noctis rolled his eyes at Prompto and said, "I'm an awful nurse. But I'd drag your injured body over to the cinema carriage and we'll find the worst move to watch, how about that?"

They're nearly to the door, fortunately. Though Noctis didn't realize that it wasn't only the library affected by the spell.

[chocobosnap]

"Dig up nothing, I was there!" Prompto protested amid a bit of chuckling. "No matter how hard a book hits me in the head, I'm not gonna forget every embarrassing thing you've done over the past few years."

He was about to retort when he had to reach out for Noctis' shirt and yank him out of the way of another volume.

"Good deal. I love trashy movies."

[canyounoct]

Noctis couldn't pout and chuckle at the same time. He just couldn't make his face do it. He peered back over his shoulder as he grinned - "Yeah, well, if you start in on all the embarrassing things I've done, I'll fire right back since I was also there for yours - "

He let himself be yanked out of the way, feeling relieved when he saw that heavy hardcover thump on the ground. "Somewhere, Specs would be saying that he wanted me to hit the books, not the other way around."

[chocobosnap]

"Low blow dude!" Prompto whined a little bit, but at the crack he chuckled.

"Yeah, well don't you think we've outgrown the need to hit the books by now? I have no wish to relive high school. Gross."

[canyounoct]

"Super gross. You know, I have nightmares about that?" Noctis claimed, though those had stopped after ... well. After the Empire attacked, obviously. "Like they've lost my transcript, and I need to repeat highschool, except I've already forgotten all of calculus."

[chocobosnap]

The door to the menace that was the library was shut decisively by Prompto.

"Ugh, not calculus!" He groaned loudly. "Quick, run away from the library before someone forces us to study for finals again!"

[canyounoct]

"Flee!" Noctis agreed. "Flee the responsibility! We're done with thee, evil books of studying - aapph!"

Apparently, flying through he hallway, cleaning the floors, were those dry-mops for dust - and one of them, apparently, thought Noctis was filthy.

So it was now dusting Noctis' face, as he tried to beat it away with his hands. "Mpph im wmoorse!"

[chocobosnap]

Prompto did the only thing a best friend could do. He doubled over and laughed his ass off.

"Ahahaha, what, can't wipe your own face anymore, your highness?" He managed through giggles.

It was funny, until a feather duster started in on his hair. "Wait, hey!"

[canyounoct]

"Mrreeson!" he claimed, even if it wasn't very clear. Still, he had a feeling Prompto knew what he was saying. Since he was being a great awful friend by laughing instead of helping.

But it'd only take a minute. Noctis finally grabbed the mop by the handle, and crowed a little, "Ha! Got it."

He looked over at Prompto and - just because he laughed at him - he had to snigger at his best friend as well. "You had that coming - wait, do you think the magic knows you're ticklish?"

[chocobosnap]

"Don't even think about it, or I'll make you pay!" Prompto protested, ducking the feather duster and then running to hide behind Noctis.

"No no, dust him! He's way more messy than me!"

[canyounoct]

"Take that!" Firmly keeping a hold on the long dust mop, Noctis brandished it at the flying feather duster and knocked it down the hall with a firm SMACK. It went flying, a bit comically, and Noctis allowed himself just a second to feel smug.

Then, he looked over his shoulder at his friend, eyebrows raised. "I'm so bringing this up to Gladio if he's ever brought here."

[chocobosnap]

"Heh, would you really rat me out?" Prompto lamented a little bit. "I'd never rat you out!"

[canyounoct]

"You were threatening to expose my nerdiness to everyone," Noctis reminded him, "and I'm sure if Specs ever aaaaaash!"

Now the mop had apparently decided it was quite finished being used as an impromptu weapon, thank you, and was trying to yank itself free. This meant that it was jerking Noctis around, leading him into a tug-of-war with thin air. "Prom? A little help?!"

[chocobosnap]

"Dude. Bro. Hate to tell you." Prompto said dramatically. "Everyone knows."

He smirked, but at the ask for help, he agreed, swooping in front of Noctis to grip the mop handle.

"Calm down, mop!...I'm talking to things now." He marvelled a little bit. "My life's getting weird."

[canyounoct]

"I've got a very cool reputation!" Noctis claimed, but really that was dispelled as soon as anyone watched them playing together in the games carriage.

Noctis was pretty strong for his size, fortunately, especially after walking and chocobo-riding and driving and fighting across half of Eos. Still, the magic itself was pretty powerful - the mop was giving them a run for their money.

His eyebrows raised and he quipped despite his struggling - "Prom, buddy - your life has probably been super weird since you've met me."

[chocobosnap]

Prompto gave him a long stare. "Whatever you say buddy."

He didn't believe him for a moment.

"Well yeah, but I mean this is like...more weird."

[canyounoct]

"We were kidnapped by a space train, so, yeah, a lot more weird," Noctis would agree to that. He yanked the broom hard, but then it just pulled back in equal measure, causing his boots to skid across the floor a little with a squeak.

Noctis scowled at it. "... Is there any point to this?"

What if they just let the mop go and run?