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

[intelinside]

(Him being called old was going to be revenge for him referring to every teenager on the train as a kid, wasn't it?)

Phineas's smile was pleased with himself, and he folded his hands behind his back. "I can make it more sophisticated later, but it looked like it would be better to have it in a hurry," he explained, as if there was something lacking about it and Kasuga wasn't waving around underneath it like it was amazing. He did brilliant work and he liked to be appreciated, but he could also do better than this.

"Right now it still needs someone at the other end to unload it, and I hope I can get it controlled via the SCA... But there's so much here that this should save a lot of time and effort getting things from Point A to Point B."

[likeadragonfish]

(The ironic part was that Ichiban was no spring chicken himself anymore and many a kid and teenager referred to him as old these days. But, yeah, sorry gramps!)

Kasuga wouldn't have known the difference! It was pretty amazing as it was. "More sophisticated, huh? I can't imagine how but that's why your the genius and I'm not. I'll look forward to seeing what else you come up with."

He sounded as genuine as could be. He looked up at Phineas with a smile. He really did think this was pretty cool.

"So, uh, how does it work?" He looked at the controls as he said it, wondering how complicated it may or may not have been.

[intelinside]

The compliment was casual and did felt completely sincere, and Kasuga got a more open smile in return. "I won't disappoint," he assured, and knelt down as well.

"Here. This is the simplest I could possibly make it," Tinkerer explained. "This is the power button, and the other tells it to head to the storeroom. Once the weight is removed from it, it should automatically come back here to the greenhouse. At some point, I'm hoping to make a version that can be controlled by the SCA, be capable of unloading itself, head to different carriages... but this is a start."

He straightened up again, admitting, "At this point, it's mostly untested, but the worst it will do is get stuck before getting to where it needs to go." It didn't move fast enough to be a hazard, luckily.

[likeadragonfish]

"That's a lot of future improvements to make. I'm pretty good at gathering supplies for stuff like this so if you need any help, let me know. This thing could be really useful."

In the meantime, Kasuga was inspecting the controls. Certainly did seem simple enough currently.

"All right, let's test it!"

If he was lucky, it wouldn't even turn into an impromptu fight!

He went to lug his crate over and set it on the platform. "So I just press this button..." And he pressed the button.

[intelinside]

"I like to keep working on something until it's perfect," Phineas admitted. He brightened a bit when Kasuga offered that, straightening up and looking at him with interest. "Apparently passengers are allowed to salvage technical equipment from more advanced worlds... or so I've been told. That would certainly come in handy."

He added, "And for the record, a lot of what I make, I make on commission. Since money's pretty much useless here, I was going to charge at least in part the cost of materials. If you actually gathered them yourself, though..." He smiled. "It's just an offer." Kasuga might not even be interested, but if he was going to volunteer to gather supplies, the Tinkerer was not at all opposed to rewarding that.

Phineas folded his hands behind his back, pleased, as the platform responded to the button press by heading to the path and then along in towards the carriage door, the one leading to the garden carriage. "You see? --I'll need to follow it, make sure it doesn't have any trouble getting there." And probably unload it, unless someone was there to do it. "I appreciate the help testing it."