Test Drive Meme 027

[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!

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.

Comments

1, clothing

[codenametesla]

Althea was still trying to adjust to things herself, in this new environment, so she had brought her own clothes to wash in order to lighten the loads of others, and give her a way to learn where things were before it was her turn, so it wasn't entirely surprising to see another person in the car who seemed to also be preparing to do laundry.

What was surprising was the manner they were doing so. Had no one bothered to teach new arrivals that came from places without these sorts of machines how to use them? She placed her own basket by one, hoping the movement in would alert Sheyra to her presence so as not to startle her.

"Um... do you.. not know how to use the washer? It might be faster that way."

[consumerse]

The machines were an oddity. They rumbled or they didn't, clothes coming in and out, a more common sight than other people working at their own laundry, or with the soaps and cleaners that were more common in the washrooms.

Sheyra, for her focus on her task, doesn't miss the other that enters the upper carriage with her. Her fingers submerged in the water, the gentle rubbing of stains that she works at. A task she continues at even when Althea speaks, a glance taken at her, but then returned to the washing.

"The washers are those tools?" she asks, in way of confirmation. "Is anyone on this vessel free to use them? I'm not sure of any rules there might be. I did not wish to assume."

[codenametesla]

"That's what I've been told, but I definitely understand not wanting to assume.." she agreed, leaning slightly to see what the other person was working on, perhaps a little too amazed given the simplicity of it.

"I... could show you how, if you wanted, but if hand washing works for you, or you have things that have to be washed delicately, then that's fine. I mean, I'm not trying to be a bother, I just thought I'd ask since there's so many different people around..." Althea trailed off, starting to get a bit embarrassed with herself for saying anything when this person clearly was taking care of things fine on their own.