Test Drive Meme 023

[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!

Dio's Legacy

In an alternate almost exactly like the one inhabited by the Voidtrecker Express, fate went another direction. Instead of the first addition to the train's structure being the games carriage, this train's passengers voted differently.

What makes them happy?

Crocodiles.

The Crocodile carriage isn't a misnomer. It's teeming with reptiles of various sizes, basking under sunlamps or floating lazily in the raised tank built across half of the available space. To be even better for morale, they're all perfectly tame, and unnervingly friendly; it's rare that a passenger is able to cross the carriage without being accosted by some crocodile or gharial looking for attention.

Harvest Void

The greenhouse is a surprisingly bright room, its vaulted ceiling made of a transparent, incredibly tough material that shows the light of the Void along the entire length of the room. The single metal support beam is bedecked in roses. The aisle of grass running through the centre of the carriage is riotous with strange plants and flowers, small stone paths leading off to this patch or that of vegetables or closely clustered fruit trees.

And all of them are laden with produce. Whether a stray spell or a particularly good mood from one of the resident forces of nature, every plant in the carriage has matured at once. Shrubs overflow with berries, rows of stalks groan under beans and tomatoes, apples threaten to fall from overhead branches at any moment.

You may not normally be a gardener, but today it's all hands on deck!

Cold Iron, Warm Hearts

The duchy of Yipre is one of several close-knit factions on one continent, known for both her expansive clockworks and strong links to the Fey. Central to the capital is the Clocktower, the palace home to both the Duchess Stomen and her court of scholars, diplomats and engineers. Home also to a key point in the Ley, where the mundane world and the Fey intersect just enough that one may cross from one to the other.


But the Clocktower is sundered, entire sections of iron and brass sheared away in a great earthquake, and neither world is faring well in the aftermath.

Team One

The gear sprites of the Clocktower are missing, running amok in the streets and squares of the duchy. They're tiny things, fluff, metal filings and dust made quicksilver-fast, with small, glowing eyes and bell-like voices. While normally they keep the machinery of their home running, they aren't nearly as talented with anything else, and are causing general chaos with all devices and machinery they run across. Find them, and herd them back to the Tower. Maybe get them out of the typewriter first.

Team Two

The gateway to the Fey realm is torn, and dreaming magic is spilling out from the Clocktower. Finding the Voidtreckers' minds fertile grounds for its taking, imagined creatures and realms are conjured forth from all kinds of worlds and all kinds of lives. There are many ways to combat these - play them through until the magic is satisfied, for example, or find the Voidtrecker whose mind is the source, and stop them dreaming. It's up to the Voidtreckers on this team to decide.

Team Three

The Clocktower isn't quite in ruins, but large sections are crumpled like tin foil. In other places, steam and magic spill out into the air in a chaotic mix, burning and twisting the air into glittering leaves or long ropes of thorn. And through this, those that called the palace home fight to free themselves from the wreckage. Courtiers, servants, engineers… and, somewhere, the Duchess herself. Help who you can, but find her.

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Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU)

[motherofresistance]

Harvest Void

You know what comes in really handy when you're short and need to harvest fruit from the upper branches of trees? Force powers. Particularly telekinesis. Leia stood beneath a peach tree, using the Force to delicately pluck peaches a few at a time and cause them to float gently down into waiting storage bins. She was quite capable of holding a conversation while doing this, though startling her while she was in the middle of it might not be the best idea if you don't like damaged fruit. Or if you also happen to be standing under the tree.

Cold Iron, Warm hearts- Team Three

Leia's time in Nautilus meant that she found the steam more of a hindrance than the chaotic magic amid the damaged tower. And she put her both her Bending and Force abilities to good use, not just helping keep the path for her fellow Voidtreckers free of magically generated plant life, but reaching out with her senses to help locate survivors amid the wreckage.

"Over there," she called out to whoever was nearby, indicating what looked like a section of partially collapsed ceiling with a large gear resting precariously on it. "There's someone trapped behind there. Probably injured, if I'm not mistaken."

Team Three

[blue_dove]

Edge nods, pulling up beside the gear. She grunts as she straightens her knees, slowly moving it inch by inch. After hauling it about a foot, she grunts.

"This gear seems a bit more bulky than heavy. Could use a bit of a lift, though."

Re: Team Three

[motherofresistance]

"Right," Leia said, taking a deep breath and shifting her focus. A moment later the gear floated a foot or so upward. With an expression of intense concentration, she shifted the gear over to one side and gently set it down on a stable portion of floor.

She breathed out a sigh as she released her Force hold on the gear then turned back to Edge, moving to assist with the rescue in a more mundane fashion. "If you can shift that rubble, I should be able to get them out."

[blue_dove]

Edge nods again - about as close to a salute as she could ever feel was appropriate. "Wilco."

She starts to clear the lighter debris - the fragments of roof that stand between them and the people they're meaning to rescue.

Harvest void

[scionsacredflame]

Luke is one of the new arrivals and he's helping out with the harvest in the greenhouse. He's works quietly, learning a new skill of being productive.

He tries to reach for the peaches standing beneath the tree, but the branches is too high. He quietly watches as she uses the Force to call forth the fruits.

With a childlike wonder, "Wow, how did you do that?"

Re: Harvest void

[motherofresistance]

Leia smiled at the wonder on the young man's face. Living in Nautilus for so long, she sometimes forgot that not everyone was used to seeing the fantastic in a relatively mundane setting. "The Force," she said. "It's a type of energy field created by all life that certain people from my galaxy are able to tap into. Though doing so consciously requires a good deal of focus, training, and practice."

[scionsacredflame]

Luke is trying to get used to the idea that people comes from different worlds and their powers work differently than his own. He managed to pluck a few peaches on the lower branches to be collected into the crate. He listens, "The Force. What you did, is it something like telekinesis? From where I'm from, people with that ability to tap into energy fields, including myself, I can wield fonons."

Ah, it's a term she probably don't understand, so he has to explain. "Fonons is a word for atoms that is the building block of elements and matter. Once I gather them with a great deal of focus, I can cast my spells."

Harvest Void

[yondu]

"Hey, you reckon I could borrow you for a sec-"

He starts the question, and it's not really Leia's fault, but a peach lands directly on his head in that time. That craggy face of his goes deadpan and he sighs deeply.

Then two more peaches punctuate that previous bonk, both landing on his shoulder.

"...Well, I was gonna ask if you could help me out with damn orange tree." He doesn't know what this one had against him.

Re: Harvest Void

[motherofresistance]

OK, Leia can't help smiling a bit at that, if only because the results are largely harmless. "For the record, those weren't my doing," she said. "But sure. Just give me a moment to get the last few on the top branches, and I'll join you."

[yondu]

He doesn't look mad at her or anything, but he has that set expression of a man that's been singled out by a few trees today.

"I didn't figure it. I think it's just nature hatin' me." No wonder he'd spent the better hung of his life on spaceships. But like a beleaguered old space pirate he just sighs and grabs up one of the full baskets.

"Gonna haul this over there. I'll catch up with ya in a bit."

Harvest Void

[dog_of_the_sun]

You! You do similar to what Ammy does, but not; so she's been watching you. Trying to figure out how, as it doesn't seem to be a celestial brush technique...

After watching for a bit, while sitting, Ammy will let out a quiet inquisitive whine. Hopefully Leia won't be too started by the big white wolf sitting nearby and watching her.

Re: Harvest Void

[motherofresistance]

Having been aware of the canine for awhile- it was difficult not to be, given her surprisingly powerful presence in the Force- Leia wasn't surprised. She was curious though, and since Ammy apparently was as well, she figured now might be a good time to strike up a conversation of a sort.

"Well hello," she said, smiling at the wolf. "Curious about my fruit-picking technique? Or just looking to help out and needing a hand, literally or metaphorically?"

Re: Harvest Void

[dog_of_the_sun]

"Wuff" Ammy said with a tail wag, and a canine grin. It had definitely sounded like an affirmative--for both questions asked.

Team Three is go!

[light_of_willpower]

It had been hard to sense people's ki, although Trunks had been using it to locate people in general. Leia had seemed more reliable a lot of times, and he trusted her when she pointed it out. "On it!" Trunks called, moving towards where she indicated. "Do you think it's safe to move the gear?" Because he was sure he could do that, and the ceiling--he just didn't want to make it all collapse any more.

Re: Team Three is go!

[motherofresistance]

Leia moved carefully to get a better angle to examine the situation, looking over the wreckage and how it was situated. "We should be able to," she said. "Good thing too; I'm fairly sure that trying to move the rubble without moving the gear first would just destabilize it more."

"I'll use the Force to put the gear somewhere relatively safe, then you shift the rubble. Alright?"

Re: Team Three is go!

[light_of_willpower]

"I could get both? Or do you think we need to be faster than that?" Trunks asked.

Harvest

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link did a double take. Less at the use of telekinesis, and more at the person using it.

"Leia? Is that you?" The hero gave a small wave. "I, uh, don't know if you remember me...but, I know a version of you, or at least, I did when we were both in a city called Nautilus---"

He'd grown a bit since Nautilus, and the resemblance between himself and Shadow was even more pronounced.

Re: Harvest

[motherofresistance]

From the way Leia smiled, it was clear even before she spoke that she recognized him. "Link," she said. "It's good to see you. You've grown since you left Nautilus, haven't you?"

Re: Harvest

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link's face lit up. "It's so good to see you again! Yeah, I've aged a bit. I'm looking like I used to as a hero! Seven years takes a lot longer when you're awake."

Team 3

[creepyoldguy]

"....do you want me to finish them off?"

It was a legit question, no malice in his tone, merely a demon asking for clarification. But, even as he said it, he didn't think that was the woman actually wanted. Beetlejuice wasn't entirely certain, however.

"....or, uh, just get them out? I'm not really much into healing."

Re: Team 3

[motherofresistance]

The question earned him a very flat look, but she did clarify. "Get them out," Leia said. "And possibly help them get to someone who can do healing if they can't get there themselves."

"But first we need to clear some of that rubble. The bit of ceiling doesn't look like it'll be too difficult to shift if we're careful, but moving that gear without destabilizing things further is going to be tricky."

Re: Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU)

[immortal_cohort]

(OOC note: given how Teela is dressed there is NO WAY to know if this is a male Barrani or female. I'll be using the female pronouns because OOC we both know who this is, but wanted to put the note out there. :D)

Not everyone labored under the difficulty of a lack of height. Then again, Barrani could often be found around plants. Not that Kaylin had shared all that many of those memories. But she shared enough that the tall figure would be, to Leia's eye, unmistakably Barrani. But there was yet a question as to which Barrani was before her.

Her hair was long and black, a perfect raven fall down her back, which ruled out the only two blond Barrani Kaylin might have ever shared memories of - the Consort and the former Consort. The outfit was of little help since the Barrani before her wore the same clothing as they were given to start. With a difference. On her? It looked better than good. The hoodie somehow managed to look refined and elegant, and it appeared as though it had been custom tailored to her. Even the pants that looked just like the pants everyone else wore seemed designed specifically to accentuate lean height and slender limbs.

A perfect pale hand reached up for a fruit and with surprising delicacy, plucked it. Eyes that were a mix of emerald and sapphire observed the fruit a moment before tossing it aside. Blue eyes, as Leia probably recalled indicated anger, suspicion, fear, and other similar emotions. Green was for happiness and ease. It wasn't that a mix was uncommon, but given what Leia knew from Kaylin, the presence of any green at all in their current situation could be surprising.

As for further narrowing down who this was... The clothing revealed nothing of gender. Kaylin swore that Lord Nightshade was recognizable - albeit not in a good way in the least - just by presence alone. But without a basis to compare with, that gave Leia little. There was only one Barrani present, after all. Likewise Everram was usually marked in Kaylin's memory with an abundance of red. He wore the red of the Arcanum, and usually a tiara with a huge red ruby over his brow. Was the absence an artifact of the train, or a way to further narrow down the list of possible suspects?

But then she turned to examine another tree and Leia would have a pretty effective hint, for the hoodie had actually been modified in one significant way. Significant, at least, to one who understood the meaning behind the hand stitched addition of a predator bird with its wings spread, added to the shoulder of the hoodie. Not just any bird. Picked out in gold was a hawk in flight.

That potentially narrowed the list to about a dozen Barrani. Because that was about how many chose to fly under the rule of the Hawklord. Not many immortals of either stripe would serve the merely mortal, after all. And fewer Barrani would serve the Emperor, even one step removed.

Of the Barrani Hawks, there would be two that Leia would know of above all others, because they were the two that Kaylin knew best, and thought of most often. Teela and Tain. Tain had been the first Barrani Kaylin could identify on sight, because when he spoke his one and only physical flaw was shown. A single chipped tooth. But this Barrani, who was now plucking down another fruit, had not opened her mouth. She could be any of the dozen or so who wore the Hawk. But the way the universe tended to work, she was likely either Teela or Tain.

She was aware of the others also harvesting of course, but had no cause to single Leia out or to think of her as one to be approached. She had no way to know they were connected through Kaylin. But Leia knew. Leia had seen countless borrowed memories of Kaylin with the Hawks, with the Barrani, and with the Barrani Hawks specifically. The question remained, however, what would Leia do with that knowledge?

Re: Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU)

[motherofresistance]

For the moment, Leia was simply observing... her? Him? Them? Did those of Kaylin's world have a concept of genders outside of male and female? In any case, to someone familiar with non-human humanoids the way the being moved seemed vaguely feminine to Leia, so she was tentatively guessing 'her', for the moment.

The being's species was easy to guess from what she'd seen in Kaylin's memories. But those weren't quite solid enough for her to be able to identify whether on not this Barrani was one of those whom Kaylin knew personally, or simply one of the others who worked with Kaylin as members of the Hawks. At least the hawk symbol that had been added to her hoodie narrowed it down to those few, rather than having to try to guess from among a whole species.

After a few more moments of consideration, she moved a bit closer into conversation range ostensibly to get a better angle for picking the next batch of peaches. "Excuse me," Leia said as she resumed her Force-fruit picking, "I couldn't help but notice the symbol on your hoodie. You're a member of the Hawks, correct?"

Re: Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU)

[elianne]

Also Harvest Void

Leia would see a little hiding behind a plant, watching someone else's basket. How she missed seeing the familiar child on the platform is anyone's guess. But she was here now. When the person whose basket it was turned away, Eli darted out, snatched as much fruit as she could grab and darted to the next hiding place. This one far closer to Leia as she started shoving the fruit into her pockets, eyeing the distance to the door, and trying to figure out if she should try to snatch more, or just run with what she had.

The growling of her stomach was a very familiar sound...

Re: Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU)

[motherofresistance]

Leia had noticed the familiar presence nearby, but hadn't actually seen her until now. Well, that explained a few things. And raised a few more questions. But at least she had a fairly good idea how to handle the young girl.

"You know," Leia said, looking in the direction of Kaylin's hiding place, "I don't think that's quite what was meant by 'picking fruit'. And I can hear your stomach from here, so you may as well come out."