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

[shegypt]

[ She spreads her arms, does her best to look roguish (this does not take much.) ] Can you doubt it?

[writerkick]

[She eyes Bakura, and...

Somehow, she gives the impression of looking through her. Looking at more than her body.]

Not at all. But a thief would only reveal themselves as a thief if they stood to gain something from it. Is it a distraction? Manipulation? Or...

new hobby: finding ways to stick "ore-sama" into english

[shegypt]

[ Okay that's a little unsettling in a hot way. And she's even gonna play RHETORIC with Bakura!

This day keeps getting better. ]

You're thinkin' of a normal thief. I'm the King of Thieves, the mighty Bakura! I can declare myself and still get what I'm after every time!!

[writerkick]

[Kotoha just... folds her arms.

She's looking at Bakura much the same way she looks at misbehaving children in her store.]

Many have claimed that title in the past, Miss Bakura. Do you know how many of them ever got a happy ending?

[shegypt]

None of them were me.

[ HAH! ]

[writerkick]

If you were successful, then I would have heard your name before.

[JUST, INSTANTLY.]

[shegypt]

You thrill me. Now I want to rewrite your legends even more.....

[ there was a point to this conversation at one time

but behold! bakura is so mighty

that she has STOLEN it! ]

[writerkick]

[Rewrite.

She... laughs. It's a surprised laugh, taking mirth in the joke Bakura unknowingly told.]

You would find that difficult.

[shegypt]

How so......?

[ You know what's fun? Looming over people. Bakura thinks she shall attempt that now.

She doesn't even dislike this girl! But she wants to know what the joke was about! ]

[writerkick]

[Kotoha is... not nearly as tall. She's like, 5'5, she is built like a twig that almost failed every gym class it ever attended.

But she somehow, doesn't seem to be afraid.]

If I may be blunt, Miss Bakura, you simply do not have the power. If you did, you would already have done so.

[shegypt]

You're all so certain the future is set in stone.

[ Bakura leers, bending closer, closer......

THEN PIVOTS AND HEADS FOR THE CROC CAR, SOMEHOW MANAGING TO SWISH A HOODIE BEHIND HERSELF! DIDN'T EXPECT THAT TWIST, HUH?!

FOLLOW HER! ]

[writerkick]

You misunderstand me, miss.

The future is not set in stone. It is not that the future is immutable... Simply that you lack that power. As you are now, anyway.

[She's not following. She's not even speaking loudly, but somehow, she's certain Bakura can hear her anyway.

What kind of story would it be if Bakura missed those words, after all?]

[shegypt]

[ Oh, Bakura hears. Bakura knows a portentous statement when she hears one, too, so she will even pause to soak it in. Munificent is the King!

Then she smirks, thin and bitter. And says what she says, in words and actions, to everyone who discounts the King of Thieves. ]

Try me.

[writerkick]

I have no need to. The virtuous thief dies when they are betrayed, but the wicked thief is slain by their own hubris. This has been true since mankind began telling stories.

[She shakes her head.]

Though I wonder which you are?

[shegypt]

Hah!

[ Immediately followed by: ]

Don't make me laugh. Virtuous and wicked? According to whom? The narrator - in other words, the person in charge!

[ She flings open the door to the croc carriage. In a happy coincidence (?) the crocodiles are all looking that way, hungrily. Their predators' eyes agleam with the light as Bakura's. ]

It's the right to write the story I'm stealing, little girl. Look forward to a twist. Ha ha ha ha......

[ AND SHE STALKS RIGHT INTO A SEA OF HUNGRY REPT

OH FUCK THESE ARE DOCILE AREN'T THEY

WELL IT LOOKS BADASS, REGARDLESS ]

[writerkick]

[She just, shakes her head sadly.

And turns to leave herself. Sorry Bakura, she's not following you into croc cabin.]

[shegypt]

[ FINE, MORE CROCS FOR HER

Bakura scowls for a moment when she senses she's alone, but she lets it go. The future plays by the same rules as her present, after all. Humanity just becomes even more human, and even more convinced, therefore, that they're God.

Fine by her. Then when she succeeds, she'll be stealing the future as well.

GOOD. ]