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

Harvest Void

[dog_of_the_sun]

Ammy liked apples. Of course most of the fruit that were hanging were too high for her to properly reach. She's about to use her powerslash brush technique, when she hears the boy start to ramble. Huh--health and future happiness huh? Yoichi the former city guard would've been pleased to hear it.

[signseeker]

Something about the dog in front of him whispered to Will of other times and places, of the ancient and wild magics that still lingered in the forgotten places of his world.

He inclines his head. Not deeply, for an Old One had no need to bow to anyone. But with respect.

"In the name of the Light, and of the Old World before the Dark came, I greet you."

[dog_of_the_sun]

For one, she was a very big 'dog'. For another, he could likely see the red markings against her fur. So his guess was a good one.

She tilted her head with the greeting, then very deliberately got to her feet. Being sure she was obvious, and then bending her front paws and head down towards the ground. Very much in a 'bow' action--and Will might even get the sense that it was an elegant lady actually bowing to him.

[signseeker]

When meeting people of other magics, Will usually stuck to the habit of being very polite. It was only courtesy, when one wasn't sure what would offend.

"Pleasure to meet you," he says in response to the bow. "I am Will Stanton, an Old One of the Light."

[dog_of_the_sun]

Ammy went back to sitting, but started to scratch something in the dirt. It looked like archaic characters--asian, at a glance. But thanks to the Train's translation magic, Will understood them to read "Amaterasu".

[signseeker]

It was one of the gifts of Will's kind to speak all human languages. (A very important skill when one was walking through other times.) And so he easily reads the name.

"Well met," he says.

And then he says with his mind. Would it be easier for you to speak like this?