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voidtreckerooc2021-08-16 09:22 pm
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Test Drive Meme 027
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!
Hotel Notel
The hire carriage is the tiny hotel of the Voidtrecker Express. With a downstairs of meeting rooms and an upstairs of luxuries such as double beds, duvets and en-suites, it's in demand for the denizens of a train with so little privacy.
It might be surprising when you arrive at your booked room and someone's already in there. An awkward double booking? Someone abusing their abilities for a free night? Or maybe it's not such a suprise. A planned date night, a movie night, or just some peace and quiet between you. In any case, you're there now.
Our-moury
The downside of having a shared armoury is the maintenance. Weaponry, equipment, and the odd semi-sentient robot from a dozen different worlds make for an interesting time, and not everything has an instruction manual. The upside of having a shared armoury is, of course, the aforementioned weaponry, equipment and semi-sentient robots. Cleaning and polishing is more fun when there's a small metal insect chirping helpfully at you whenever it spots a patch of grime or carbon scoring.
Did you ask before trying out that laser rifle? Did someone leave their beloved spiritual weapon propped up on a rack, just asking for it to be manhandled? Or did the friendly AI autoturret wave hello and knock over a pile of magitech?
Prime Directive
The world of Magnitton has never been host to a Void traveller, nor will it ever. At least, not until the Voidtrecker Express calls for its crew to attend a Catastrophe-class event above it. Over the last few decades, the people of Magnitton have expanded into their local system, and begun mining asteroids and their two moons for much-needed resources.
The smaller moon, Ej, has broken apart far more easily than expected. Almost as if it wasn't a moon to begin with, but some great, hollow sphere... Aboard the train, those with prophetic gifts wake with visions of a planet ablaze, a night sky smeared with swathes of blood and the cries of some unknown young creature.Team One
Those Voidtreckers who have experience wrangling giant space dragons will do well here. Those who do not might want to buff up on this particular transferable skill. From within the shell that was the moon Ej emerges a trio of glowing, winged reptiles each roughly the size of the Voidtrecker Express. Confused, freshly-hatched and apparently hungry. For what? People? Nope.
Luckily, it's stories they're hungry for. Every tale and piece of information or history strengthens the dragonets. This team must nurture the trio enough that they can leave the system for their home under their own power. Ej has some degree of atmosphere, and the dragonets aren't immediately able or willing to fly about. It's storytime.Team Two
The larger of Magnitton's two moons, Dar, is surprisingly peaceful. At least until a writhing mass of plasmasnakes descend upon it from the system's star. Swarming aboard any ship within the moon's nearest lagrange points, these fiery serpents seek any route towards their prey, the dragonets born every thousand years. For those unable to naturally withstand the power of the sun or the vacuum of space, the Magnites have provided two squads of sturdy reconnaissance fighters for the Voidtreckers' efforts. Equipped with squad video links and a suite of weaponry and utility systems, as well as helpful AI companions, this tech should make fighting off the plasmasnakes a little easier for this team.Team Three
Down on the surface of Magnitton, it's a state of emergency. Not all of the pieces of what was the moon Ej have been caught in the planet's gravity, but enough are falling that civilisation is under threat. This team have been tasked with saving Magnitton. A large task, but one the planet has at least prepared for. The Astrological Expulsion via Gravitational Inversion System, or A.E.G.I.S, must be activated and manned to fling debris back into space. Smaller pieces of the moon may be dealt with more personally, if Voidtreckers have the skills for it. The A.E.G.I.S stations require two crew working in concert - one to target and one to adjust the gravitational inversion levels.
Dongfang Xianyun | My Sect Disciple Senior Brother has a Hole in his Head
How did he get on a train? How did he get keys to some comfortable suite? Where was he? What was going on? Should he care about those things? Should he worry about those things? Probably. But was he? Hell no! Head empty, only comfort before him!
Well, at least for the moment. He can worry about how he left one world to go into another later, right now he wanted to live it up.
Just... he wasn't expected to know English, was he? He hoped not. Oh well, no worries, no worries, just open the door and enjoy the luxury- Had he gotten the wrong room? This sort of thing could only end in one of two ways and he had to subvert it quickly!
"Ah! I'm sorry! They gave me this key! I was set up! Set up! I definitely did not come in here to look at anything private or secret or intimate, I have no cares for any sort of thing of that kind! I'll just turn around and leave right now and ask where my room is. Yes! Don't worry, just stay there," and he was turning around to run away before he flagged a potential death scene.
Our-moury
Was that a spiritual sword? Neat! It looked fancy. He probably shouldn't touch it, who knows what might happen....
...
But he totally wanted to.
A little bit wouldn't hurt, right?
He carefully looked from side to side to make sure he was alone, picked up the sword and started swinging it around like an idiot playing with a stick in the park. He even made swooshing noises.
"I almost wish I had trained harder so I could use something like this right now," since he didn't really have to worry about outshining... well, maybe he never had to worry about that, but what is done is done. At the moment all that mattered was the owner didn't walk in.
Please walk in.
Wildcard
Want him on a team? Something else in mind? Go for it!
Hotel Notel
He's only just gotten nestled in when someone opens the door. And for a moment, Terris blinks.
Had he gotten the instructions wrong? Maybe they can double-book without telling you. Well, he's not really bothered by it anyway. He just chalks it up to the fact that even a luxury on the train couldn't be perfect.. And then Dongfang seems to sputter something and begin running away.
"Hey, hang on a second. We can share, it's cool." He cocks a smile. "Just don't snore or flop around, and we'll get along fine."
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Who wants to share a room with another guy though?
Not that he wanted to share a room with a woman either!
"Seems a bit counter to the point of the nice room."
our-moury
Shen Qingqiu steps into the room in all his teenage fox-eared glory, sees a total stranger swinging his sword like an absolute idiot, and immediately...
Well.
Explodes.
"What the HELL do you think you're doing!?"
Just gonna charge over and grab that sword out of your hands, thanks. Or break your arm, that's also cool, he'd be happy to-
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"I didn't do it!"
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"Do what? Pick up the sword? Surely you can come up with a denial that actually makes sense...or is that too difficult an action for your malnourished brain?"
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"I meant no offense, it was an accident. I will never touch your sword again, or any sword," though how long that promise lasted, in general, was none binding. If he had to down the line he wasn't going to avoid it.
"But first, important questions. By any chance... are you... an orphan of any kind?" please don't be an orphan. "And what kind of spiritual root might you have?" please be something dirt common.
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"And why, exactly, would the parentage of the stranger you attempted to steal from be important to you in any way? Let alone the details of my cultivation."
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"And sorry if they're personal, it's fine! I don't need to know, you seem like a protagonist anyway, or something close, so don't mind me, I'm a nobody, a background character here to fill in the panel, nothing more." He even backed up a few steps to stand near a shelf, look, harmless background character. No need to be anyone who would be involved in dangerous things.
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"Perhaps you should find a doctor to check on that head of yours. Or an exorcist, for that matter." Seriously, something's wrong with you.