Test Drive Meme 026

[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!

Stand Back

The long-awaited laboratory carriage is a place of many delights. And by delights, we mean 'unsafe thaumo-scientific practices'. Whether the chemistry stores, the machine shop and its welding station, the magitech benches sat right next to the physics research area... or the panic showers.

A strange, earthy smell is coming from the biology room. Green smoke is curling under the door of chemistry. The machine shop is eerily quiet, and within a metre of the physics room, things appear to be levitating. At least one of the showers is running, but who knows which room the erstwhile scientist came from? Dare ye investigate?

Autobiography

The library carriage is normally a place of quiet, two storeys of shelves and comfy seating. The shelves are normally a little empty, filled only with what the Voidtreckers have bought themselves... but today, every shelf is filled.

Some books are normal - that one novel you'd been thinking of last week, or the tome of old family recipes you wistfully mentioned to your friend. The lower shelves are replete with activity books for small children, covering topics such as anatomy (for kids! non-human kids, mostly!), holiday activities for familiar and unfamiliar national holidays, and an unnerving number of sticker books that bodes ill for the walls of the train.

Others are larger, gilt or bound in strange covers. Like this one, coloured in a familiar hue, its spine reading only your name.

Fools' Gold

The Voidtrecker Express has landed on the world of Pamsar. More specifically, it has stopped, floating and untraceable, above the mountains holding the castle and surrounding town of the Pale Marquess's march.

It would have landed, but the forests and gardens of the march have petrified. Trees are sweeping spikes and clusters of sharp, smooth jade. Gemstone flowers dot the meadows and twine up walls and around window frames. Mosses have taken on the rough texture of granite. Beautiful as it is, it threatens the march's survival.

Team One

What were cultivated fields of grain are now rows upon rows of pure gold. Blinding, shimmering in the morning light coming over the mountains, but useless for the people of the Pale March. Panic is spreading. This team is tasked with protecting the granaries and food stores from panicked citizens.

Team Two

When pressed, many people appear to know the source of their misfortune. Living at the frontier, the people of their march have grown envious of the palaces and styles of the inner kingdom, and their prayers the last year have been for wealth and prosperity above all else. A wandering deity granted these wishes, to the peoples' regret. This team is to locate the deity's temple in the outlands, and convince them to reverse the blessing. Or else find another of the outsider gods to repair the damage.

Team Three

The forests across the march are now gorgeous, sharped prison bars for the people and creatures that live within them. This team must ingress into the jade woodlands, and rescue those trapped within. For some, a discovery is made: living blood shed on the petrified plants slowly dispels the effect.

Comments

[flameinthedarkness]

"Ehe!" Idia jumps as soon as Kokoro starts speaking, partly due to not noticing her wandering over, and partly due to just someone coming up to speak with him. His entire form tensed up, almost looking like a cat caught doing something it shouldn't be doing, Idia forcing on getting his heart rate to go back down to normal from the shock. "I-I don't know." He managed to get out eventually, stumbling over his words before Idia is able to compose himself again. "I came here to work and it's like... well..." He half-heartedly waving a hand towards it all.

[adolescenthope]

Idia's reaction was somewhat puzzling to Kokoro; her approach hadn't been that discreet, had it? She noticed how much they tensed up and felt slightly guilty for startling them so much. Somewhat sheepishly, she donned a separate mask than what she had arrived with prior to express some form of guilt.

"Sorry..."

Her attention once again turned towards the scientific mess that was spewing out into the hall. It didn't necessarily surprise her; she's been involved in stranger incidents before. Usually something, or someone, was behind them however. And seeing as Idia was the only other person here she was aware of...

"Did your work cause this?"

[flameinthedarkness]

Those masks were a little weird... but Idia's ok with that. Honestly, he liked masks, it was nice to be able to hide behind one and be seen at the surface level, not past that. Shame he can really only get away with in on Halloween... and they could be a little hard to breath in. "It's ok." He mumbled out, realizing that there was no avoiding bumping into people around here. Ughhhh...

"No," Idia's next answer was a bit more forceful, though still as soft spoken in his naturally quieter tone. "I'm more than aware of the dangers of leaving hazardous projects unsupervised. Clearly who did this is not educated in such matters." What a pain, really. It just impacted everyone who wanted to use the lab. How irresponsible could someone be?

[adolescenthope]

Okay, so it wasn't him; that was good to know and all, but the true culprit still eluded them, and that bothered Kokoro a little. Things could likely get worse if they kept being this irresponsible and left bypassers to clean up the mess. Although, why they would abandon their projects like this to begin with was a total mystery to her.

"Clearly! How could someone be so irresponsible!?" Yeah, she didn't entirely understand the dangers herself, but from what she was seeing, it was a believable statement. "Are you able to actually go inside? This might get worse if it's just left alone."

[flameinthedarkness]

That was a point, what if that gas, whatever it was, leaked out? The floating tools were an issue, but that smoke could be seriously dangerous if it was hazardous to health or was corrosive to objects. Idia mulls it over for a moment before realizing what he could do. It was a risk if it did turn out to effect objects... but at least Idia could repair the item, motioning his hand for his floating skull to bob on over to them.

"I can send in my computer to analyze what it is and see if it's dangerous or not." If it was, then they would have to find a way to deal with it. If it wasn't, well... then they can find out what is going on. A slight wave of his hand and the skull makes it way into the lab, dropping down to float into the smoke.