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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.
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[She does not see. Or maybe she does??? Potato, curious fuzzy thing that she is, strokes her chin.] Mnhhh...well I know now I guess! People keep a lot of stuff here! Someone said it's because there's more space than in the cubies we all have, and it's definitely true!
[To that end, she bounces...slightly, not too much, because while she's doing her best to help out, her locker is still at reasonable Potato level-
Annnnnd she unlocks it and oh god-
So much. Vacation gear, coming out,
That's a beach ball. A sandcastle kit. Ah-] Like my stuff!
[Ahem.] It's good to know that barber hair stuff doesn't happen here though, I'll make really sure to remember! [she declares seriously.]
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Though he turns his attention to watch Potato for a brief moment, a brow slowly raising in question. Even if he's not going to voice any of that aloud, merely observing to maybe figure out what she even is. Animal, person, some kind of combination? He's not terribly sure.
Nor does he get to ponder on it for too long before there's a deluge of things.
Very... very leisurely things.
It's very hard for him to not pull a grimace, why is any of that necessary to have stored away?]
There's... not even a body of water or beach in this place, I assume. What is all of that even necessary to have stored away like that? It's... frivolous.
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The train said 'Everything was really super bad, so all of you need a break', and then it gave us stuff that we could use to pay for things there and do stuff! [Technically the train said this in very different words, but, y'know,]
There's not a lot of water here, but....I can probably use it if there's water at our next stop! Or the next one...or oh!! [She beams.] If the train....had a whole carriage with water! Instead of just the spa one with the hot tub...
[She closes the locker, holding her bucket.] There's sand though!! It's in the 'garden' one, which I think's a weird name, since it's not really a garden. [It's a rock garden....] I'm gonna make sand castles!
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For a moment he frowns to himself as he turns everything over in his mind. Swimming is training and a necessity, boats are necessary travel, climbing also extremely important... That sounds more like necessity than some sort of fun activity as far as he's concerned. But this is also the same man that prefers to defy what should be done in medical and science fields for funsies. Or most would just call him a mad scientist or doctor, either/or.]
I... how old are you? [This seems like a necessary piece of information. She seems child-sized so he's assuming a child of some description. But even then most children are less... this as far as he's aware.
Truly, he's at a loss of words with near everything in this particular situation.]
Having an entire train carriage of water sounds like a terrible and impractical idea even in the best case scenario. How would you even keep all of it in and not flood the next ones over every time the door opens? [He... might have a point there, actually.]
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Oh, that's a good point...Maybe you'd have to set it up weird, like how the theatre is- with a pool at the bottom, and a bunch of stairs at the side...and the door at the stairs, instead of the pool...
[Hmmm hmm...hmmmm....] It'd be cool though, and people can exercise with pools too! ...That's not as fun as just swimming, but I know people would like it!!
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She can sound older but then there's other bits that are... very much childish. Something isn't right here and it's not going to leave him alone until he finds some way to consolidate the information.]
Why would you need to pick a birthday? I suppose if you didn't know when you were born... [He leaves that specifically open ended to see what she might do or go with that information. As for the rest, well.]
It would still be a lot of upkeep that would go with a body of water, particularly something of that caliber. But, I'm assuming, that isn't something anyone has to do. [This train is odd, he's concluded. And he's too tired to question how it even works.]
Swimming is a fairly good way to get exercise in without putting too much strain on the joints and muscles of the body. While simultaneously helping build them up to get to something that has more impact in the future... [He can't help but think in medical, sorry, Potato.]
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Granny said it could be the day she made me if I wanted, but that if I had a favorite day, it could be that instead! [A...Ah??? Okay then??? Well.
Potato, ever helpful, moves her arms back and forth as Kabuto talks about joints and muscles.] ...I don't know if I have muscles...
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...I don't know who cleans the water stuff either! I never saw 'hot tub cleaning' on the train chores list, so maybe the train does that one.
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Waitwaitwait.
So much for mostly ignoring her, he's just sort of staring now. In morbid curiosity and wanting to know what on Earth she means by "created".]
"Made me"? Elaborate, if you would. [The rest of this isn't important, he needs to know this right now and then worry about the no muscles situation. What is this. What unearthly act of bullshit nature is this.
This is not okay for him to not know!]
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[Eh??? Ehhh???] Granny made me? [She's not sure what needs elaborating.] I don't know how, she just did! When we got to go to the Clocktower, she said it was to make people happy, which got them all pretty mad too! [So very mad...] I didn't listen to a lot, mostly it was stuff like, [...and she comically lowers her voice and fakes a scowl-] 'Defying reason' and 'that's a useless reason', and 'what do you mean lifespan unknown'..!
[She doesn't get the last one.
Potato shrugs.] Anyway Granny just kinda smiled so I guess I'll never know!
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Most people are born from others. Do you mean... like that or something more akin to cloning or being made out of something else? [He needs information here, child!] That's not a common practice where I'm from, so it's... interesting to know what exactly that means. For my own curious mind, of course, nothing else. [Nothing nefarious.
For now.]
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Just a shrug.] No, she just made me. I'm a 'homunculus'..! I didn't come from anything except Granny's ideas..! [She cheers, grinning wide.]
And I guess a bunch of stuff she put together. But that's it!~
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He'll file that word away for later and... whatever else is going on here. But he's absolutely fascinated as it is. It sounds almost like cloning but without an actual need for a physical source. Without needing a host cell to work from.
It was already a difficult process from what he'd seen and worked from himself. Hell, it was easier to bring back the dead and use them for that sort of nonsense. But to create something from "a bunch of stuff" and ideas...
That seems so simple.]
And I take it you don't know the details of how that process works? [A man can hope, even if he's almost entirely certain he's hit an absolute dead end on the subject.]
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As in you'll have a longer life or are immortal? [This is important to know for Reasons that absolutely do not deal with his own interests. What do you mean. That's crazy.] I can't say I know what a "springhare" is, but if that's what you're modeled after, then so be it. [That's not even important.
It doesn't matter what she's modeled on. It matters what makes her work.
Times where he truly, truly wishes it would be possible to just take this one apart. But morals. Probably.]
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I dunno how much is there, but it's definitely a lot! I can't use it for anything like mages can, though.
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Different places, different terms, same concepts.]
Do you just store it, or is it accessible or something your body needs to use...? [What would happen if he tried to take her apart...
Wait, no.]
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[Well that's good news right???] I'm definitely kinda using it though, since that's why I'm alive-!
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Hm... I can see how that would be rather useful, given most people have a finite amount of energy before they need to recover... [Which takes quite a while under natural means.]
I wonder, then, if it keeps you alive how far you could go until your body shuts that off. The being able to use it for others bit, that is. Or if there is a wall at all... [Would it mean death instantly? There has to be some sort of self preservation instinct built in, he's sure.]
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To that end, she's starting to move slowly toward the exit so she can get to sandcastle building.] Hmnh, who knows...I don't know how using it works, so I don't know how many people can do that anyway, [She determines. For that matter she'd probably just start leeching it back from the air while everyone's using it, creating a tiny perpetual engine.] It'd probably be really hard to figure out though! [She adds, looking up for a moment.]