Test Drive Meme 004

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to our Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab some samples and start having fun!

1. Post with your character. I’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they have been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action!

3. Have much fun!

Happy testing!

Crisis On… A Zoo!

The train has recently gained a game carriage and the VR video games are proving popular. A good way to relive boredom as well as teaching some good skills.

Crisis on...This game can be played with two to four players. It is essentially a crisis simulator mixed with an escape room. You can chose the scenario (the bridge of a space ship, a camp in a jungle, a high rise building, a sailing ship etc) and you are thrown into the middle of a crisis of some kind. Teamwork and a cool head are important as is using the surroundings wisely.

Ready? Your team is at a zoo where someone is sabotaging things. Animals keep escaping from their cages and you have to figure out ways to lure them back and make the pens secure. All that whilst finding and solving clues to find the culprit before the lions escape and it’s game over!

Dressing Up

Your upcoming mission involves infiltrating a courtly function so combat trousers and hoodies will not do! Fear not though, the dressing room provides.

Ball gowns, fancy suits, wigs, splendid capes. These are perhaps not the most historically accurate costumes but let’s hope no one notices the stitch is slightly wrong!

Be as fancy as you wish or try and keep it subtle, you are meant to be infiltrating after all. Help figure out fastenings. There are even some instructions for fancy hairstyles if you want to go all out!

Courtly Chaos

Someone is trying to assassinate a king at the biggest event in the kingdom. Your job, voidtreckers, is to stop this from happening. You are at court, there is a party. Food and wine are plentiful but you have a job to do.

Team One

Someone knows something. Investigate, question, follow suspicious characters. Be subtle but try and make contacts and foil this plot before it comes to fruition.

Team Two
Can the knights even be trusted? The king needs to be protected whatever the cost. Stay close. Try not to be too obvious. Watch for threats and try not to attack any innocent courtiers who approach the king!

Team Three

Almost as important as protecting the king is protecting his reputation. The show must go on, the courtiers must not know the king is in danger. It would cause panic, distrust, could rip the court apart.

Your job is distraction, keep the party goers’ attentions so they do not notice the work of the other teams!

Comments

/INCOHERENT SQUEAKING

[seawanderer]

Seeing her and hearing her voice and knowing it to be more than just his imagination will take more time. Having his father has been enough of a shock, then Maedhros, and Curufin.

But now she has joined the train's occupants.

Hearing her having trouble over picking out what to wear off the train draws him to her, a shy look settling over him as he carefully steps around to take a look for himself. Maybe he doesn't know much about dresses, but...This is his mother. She deserves the best. Always.

Eventually he pulls out another dress. One both simple and elegant, in a shade that doesn't clash with her hair. "What about this one, amme?"

LOL

[marriedanidiot]

"Makalaure?" She gasps softly as he steps into view, forgetting all about the dresses in favour of reaching for him.

"My Makalaure, my dear boy, oh!"

[seawanderer]

Maybe he shouldn't have kept himself hidden until now...but he'd been so afraid he was wrong. Again. That she wasn't here, now.

Now it just feels silly, when she reaches for him like that. He tries for a smile, for her, though knows it to be weak and uncertain. But he won't push her away. He can't. It would hurt even more than the first time.

He lets the dress drop to the side and shyly lets his arms curl around her. He knows he still looks fairly terrible, despite regular meals and people doing their best to make him rest. Coming back from almost Faded is not an easy thing.

"...I'm here."

[marriedanidiot]

She flings her arms around him and draws him close.

"Oh, my little songbird, what has been done to you? You're so thin... have you been eating? You don't look at all well"

[seawanderer]

He shudders in her arms and burrows closer, tucking his head against her shoulder. Her fussing is an echo from childhood, almost forgotten.

"...Yes, I've been eating, amme. There are good people here who have been making sure of it." She can probably feel the smile against her neck. "I looked worse, about a month ago."

[marriedanidiot]

She clucks, worried, soothing.

"Oh my boy, my poor boy. I'm here now my little love. My dear one... amme's here. Are you cold? Hungry?"