Test Drive Meme 022

[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!

Mix It Up

Normally, the morning announcement has you waking up in your designated bed, in your designated cabin, with your three designated roommates. This morning, something's wrong - you're waking up in a bed, in a cabin, with three roommates. But it isn't your bed, your cabin, or your roommates.

It looks like you've all been shuffled during the night. Pity no one's belongings got the memo, you don't recognise any of this stuff. At least you're in your own pyjamas.

Let Slip The Hot Dogs Of War

The carriage-length table and benches of the dining carriage are practical. Sturdy. Easy to clean. It's a good thing, too, because roughly thirty seconds ago, a handful of boiled vegetables went flying across the room and hit someone with a wet splat.

Twenty-nine seconds ago, war was declared.

One overturned bench and three pots of cabbage later, you've picked a side. Or a side has picked you, with a projectile sailing towards your face.

Follow Your Heart

The glittering, futuristic world of Tresques has long been protected by the Ciel Maidens, young women who wield their mighty empathic abilities to subdue and pilot gigantic mechanical monsters called Arc Frames. Now, with disaster on the horizon, their powers have vanished.

Team One

The primary foes of the Ciel Maidens are the Morne, hulking many-limbed shadows born from the nightmares and fears of the people of Tresques. Intangible, they roam the cities feeding on heightened emotions and stirring ill thoughts. Granted emergency Ciel badges and the use of the Arc Frames, team one are to combat the Morne wielding happiness, friendship and love as their weapons. Miniskirts are optional.

Team Two

Camille, ace of the Ciel Maidens, has disappeared, after sealing the empathic powers of the entire order to avoid the loss of any more Maidens to tragedy such as that killed her partner and destroyed their Arc Frame. Team two, based in the order headquarters, are to find out as much as they can about the fate of her beloved, find Camille, and convince her to unseal the powers of the Ciel Maidens.

Team Three

The Ciel Maidens have scattered to the far reaches of Tresques, seeking to restore their own powers and their confidence in themselves and each other. Some are so affected as to have birthed Morne of their own, the creatures possessing the Arc Frames and wreaking havoc. Team three are to search for the Maidens and bring them home.

Comments

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[labcatte]

"Look," Bacon calls back, "I didn't start this food fight. I'm just going to be the one to finish it. Also biologically speaking, as long as they have water, most sentient species can go a day without eating."

They punctuate this statement by throwing another hotdog, dart fashion, at the guy with the metal arm.

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[worthallthis]

"Just because they can doesn't mean it's a good idea," Soldat counters. This time they just knock the hot dog out of the air, with said metal arm. It's halfway covered by a shirt, sleeves rolled up from where they'd been dealing with food all morning.

Food which is now all over the damn dining car.

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[labcatte]

"Never said that it was," Bacon says, with a huff. Look, they get that Soldat isn't happy with the whole food fight, but it wasn't their idea. They're just playing along. Anyway, at least Soldat won't have to clean anything out of fur.

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[worthallthis]

They're not angry at Bacon. Though it'd be nice if they stopped throwing the food. The fight can't continue if people stop throwing food. "Then why'd you even bring it up?" they call back, looking sadly at the hot dog on the floor.

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[labcatte]

"You sounded concerned?" they say after a moment. And also, sometimes they just liked sharing stupid trivia that they knew. It was something they hadn't really grown out.

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[worthallthis]

"We have a finite amount of food on this train," Soldat explains. "Wasting it isn't in our best interests." And, to complete the logical connection here that Bacon didn't seem to catch: "Why are you still throwing things if you admit it's not a good idea?"

Re: Hot Dogs of War

[labcatte]

"I don't know," says Bacon, who actually hasn't thrown anything since that last hot dog. "Because I'd had a long few months before getting here and a stupid food fight let me blow off steam? About the only good thing that happened is World War Three didn't actually occur when I thought it did and there's every chance that it still will if Sekh's friends can't take down a bunch of homegrown Nazis."