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.

Comments

Korra | The Legend of Korra | OTA

[avatar_state]

Harvest Void

When she'd been told there was a situation, this was not what she'd imagined. It was, in every way, much, much better. And rare, too - collecting produce was a new one to her.

Best of all, she didn't need to use any of her powers as the Avatar; she simply stood, bare feet happily on the grass, reaching up to pick apples and put them in the increasingly full basket under her other arm, rested on her hip. It smelled nice in here. She liked that.

She passes the basket to waiting hands, taking an empty one, and starting again, a smile on her face.

Later, the work done, she can be found under one of the trees, turning over a peach in her hands. She rests back a bit, sniffing it. All that would make this moment better were Asami here to share it with, laughing together and curled up under the shade.

Normal moments in her life have been precious and rare - and there are few enough people she'd want to share them with.

Cold Iron - Team One

She dives at the sprite, hands closing on nothing more than empty air. She looked up with a huff, watching the thing speed off again.

"Ok," she says, getting up, "now we do it my way."

She'd been avoiding using her abilities - they often caused a disturbance among those unfamiliar with them - but enough was enough.

She took a solid, heavy step forward, closing her hands into fists. A column of stone rose suddenly up under the sprite, sending it into the air. She rushed underneath it, moving her hands in a more graceful pattern to create an air cushion as it fell.

"I got it, I got it!"

Harvest Void

[jesture]

The small jester floated on over, only when they observed Korra was finished, and sat crosslegged in the air, with curiosity.

"You looked as though you were having so much fun before." Nights observed by way of greeting, "I liked to see that! I was considering it a chore before I saw your smile, and then I realized it didn't have to be one. So thank you!"

[avatar_state]

"Oh, hello!" she said, reaching over and offering them another apple.

"I was. It was a nice, productive task and nobody got hurt and that's pretty rare for my usual job descriptions. So you're welcome, but it's really me who's thankful."

[jesture]

Nights took it with the gratitude more of someone used to receiving gifts, but not used to considering any of those gifts edible. "Hello - and thank you!" It went right into their pocket, for some reason. That's a souvenir, now.

"It's not easy to keep being high-stakes heroic, is it. It's much nicer to think if you fail, all that happens is the green top parts keep snapping off and leaving the part people want still in the ground." Nights was earnestly sympathetic, "I hope you get more missions like this one. And if you don't... Well-... I'd like to be around. So that at worst, we just fail together?"

[avatar_state]

She smiled, taking a bite of her apple.

"I've saved the world a couple times. It's not what I'd call fun. And the best part about this? Nobody gets hurt! We just all get tasty fruit out of it."

She nodded along.

"Gosh, me too. And that's...well, it's a nice sentiment."

[jesture]

"Wow! That's great. The entire world..." Nights whistled softly. "And I see why it's a burden."

Nights paused. "Oh, tasty--! You're supposed to eat these. Right." They settled down on the grass nearby, taking the apple out again and examining it closely. Then they looked up at her again.

"Giving people need the most protection of all, because they'll just give until they don't have anything left." Nights sort-of explained, awkwardly, "It must feel normal to do that."

[avatar_state]

"Yep," she replied, taking a triumphant bite.

"And I like the fruit here," she said, "there's so many kinds I've never gotten to try before."

"Normal? Maybe."

Re: Korra | The Legend of Korra | OTA

[dog_of_the_sun]

Ammy let out a yelp of sorts, as she hadn't expected that! She couldn't really manipulate Earth, so it was definitely a surprise. As soon as Korra has the sprite in her hands, there is a nose attached to a large white wolf, sniffing at it. Hoping it's okay.

[avatar_state]

The wolf made for an unusual partner in this endeavor, but a good one. Namely because it meant one of them was a lot better at following the sprites when they were out of sight.

"It's ok," he reassures, slowly pushing to her feet. Just had to give it a push, not so much a punch."

She looked around for where she'd left the small box to hold the sprites they found.

[dog_of_the_sun]

Ammy snorted, as Korra got to her feet. There were easier ways to push it, but maybe Ammy'd show her that with the next sprite. As it was, she went for the box and nudged it closer.

[avatar_state]

"Ah, there it is, thank you," she replied, lifting the lid and gently sliding the sprite inside before quickly closing it again.

She straightened up, after checking to make sure the sprite was moving around.

"Well, that's one down."

cold iron

[writerkick]

[Kotoha pauses, from where she's been trying to find a little sprite herself, to... little success.]

What was that?

[avatar_state]

[She smiles up at Kotoha, gently cradling the sprite as she gets to her feet.]

It's called bending. It's...well, it's a long story.

[writerkick]

Bending...?

[Kotoha looks at the pillar of earth, then back to Korra.]

It doesn't look bent to me. I'd say it's more... impressively straight, even.

[avatar_state]

[She smiles.]

Well, it's more a term for how...people like me make energy flow, turning the elements to our purposes.

[writerkick]

Energy... Turning the elements...

[She taps the side of her head, thinking.]

Is it sorcery? No, something more natural... The natural elements of the world...

[She's looking from the stone column, to the sprite, to Korra.]

I would love to hear more about it later, if you have the time.

[avatar_state]

[Well, this was an interesting person. And probably a very natural process.]

No, not sorcery at all - it's about...well, matching energy to form, blending ourselves into the wider world's energy field in specific ways. And sure, though it's a long story - but we have more sprites to catch.

[She looks down at the one she's holding.]

What do I do with this one?

[writerkick]

Oh, right.

[SHE GOT SO DISTRACTED SHE KIND OF... FORGOT...]

Let's see... An infestation of small pests... They're in places that are hard to reach, and might be inaccessible...

I don't suppose you know how to play the flute?

[avatar_state]

[That provokes a confused look.]

Oh, um, no, I'm not exactly musical. And why would a flute...work?

[writerkick]

Ah, well... [She shrugs, sheepishly.] This place is deeply related to the fairies, isn't it? So I thought, maybe, recreating a fairy tale might help.

Have you never heard of the Pied Piper of Hamelin?

[avatar_state]

Umm.

[She looks a bit off-put, which given her strength and abilities might seem...incongruous. But she hates just not knowing what people are talking about.]

Unless you're talking about the kind of pie you eat, I don't know any of those words. Well, 'of', of course.

[writerkick]

[She smiles at Korra, and reaches behind her, pulling out... a book? Large, leather, embossed in gold. If Korra's paying close attention, Kotoha didn't really... have a place she could have possibly been holding that. But don't worry about it.

She flips through the book, to a specific bookmark.]

It's a famous fairy tale from long ago, about a greedy mayor and a town learning to always pay what it owes. Would you like to hear it?

[avatar_state]

[She's pointing, vaguely, with furrowed brows, when she starts reading, distracting her.]

Umm...sure. Do we have time?

[writerkick]

Of course. It's a rule of storytelling. Once you begin to tell a story, you will always be allowed to finish it.

[It's... said like it's a joke. But it's definitely a cryptic one- Something she and only she can find funny. Sorry, Korra?]

[avatar_state]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[As she takes it completely seriously. She sits on the pillar she made earlier, crossing her legs.]