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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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."

[motherofresistance]

"Fonons," Leia said thoughtfully, trying out the new term as she gently plucked a few more peaches. "They're not any kind of subatomic particle that I've ever head of, so I couldn't tell you whether or not such a thing exists in my universe. But then, particle and quantum physics aren't really my area of study."

"And to answer your question, yes this particular application of the Force is a form of telekinesis. Though the whole of it is far more complex than that. Telekinesis- while having any number of practical uses- is only a very minor aspect of it. Most 'physical' Force abilities are."

[scionsacredflame]

He nods thoughtfully, "Yeah, fonons. It's like another word for mana or the energy I need for my spells. And there's the basic elements too like fire, water, wind, earth, just to name a few. Ah, it exists on my planet. So being here on the train where there are others from different worlds is new to me."

Hearing that, "That's interesting. Is it an innate ability or can anyone learn it?" He's curious and he wonders if he's able to tap into this Force.

[motherofresistance]

"Yes, I know about those sorts of elements," Leia said. "Met a couple of them too." And she smiled a bit, but didn't immediately elaborate on that potentially odd statement.

"Force sensitivity is an innate ability," she said. "You either just have it, or you just don't. It happens to run particularly strongly in my biological family, but it can crop up in families with no history of Force sensitivity too. And even if you do have the innate connection to the Force, you still generally need some sort of training to be able to consciously tap into it."