Test Drive 031

[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!

Winter Wonderland

Experienced Voidtreckers will be the first to recognise when the announcement of a stop comes over the speakers: “Arriving at world 9126110 in ten, nine, eight…”

The doors don’t open, the train doesn’t stop. Instead, it slows, and the garden carriage opens its curved, clear roof as though it were a convertible, both sides folding back until the carriage is open to the air. The world is a picture of snow-covered mountains and sparse conifers, and within minutes the garden’s fountain and streams have iced over, soft snow coating the cobbles and benches.

The stop lasts all day, the vending machines dispense free hot chocolate, and the dressing carriage is filled with thick coats, wooly hats, and warm gloves.

Void Santa Is Coming To Town

It’s a day like any other, except that the morning announcement has a rider.

“There are packages in the luggage car for all passengers. Enjoy. ”

And indeed, it seems that something has visited during the night - the carriage at the back of the train is unusually neat, the piles of empty luggage stacked carefully near the back to make room for a huge array of wrapped objects. Void Santa, maybe? The difference between Void Santa and, say, one of the many Earth Santas or the Gyueran Spirit of Generosity, is that Void Santa doesn’t give you what you asked for.

It gives you something you wouldn’t have dared to ask for. That nerdy figurine that you eyed in the window of the store, the dress you weren’t brave enough to try on, the device you decided was too expensive. The poster of your favourite holostar, the latest risque novel from the local printworks… the list goes on.

You’ve got a present in here, better find it before someone else does!

Meltdown

You have arrived in a place which might remind you of Victoria London if Victoria London had floating palaces and was ruled by wizards.

Their rule is strict and any kind of Winter celebration is banned. You have been called by a group of rebels to help with an underground celebration.

Team One

Distraction. Be out in the city, keep watch. If the guards get anywhere near the secret entrances distract them. Perhaps by being a lost tourist. Perhaps by causing mayhem. Make sure the organisers and party goers can arrive without a hitch.

Team Two

A party is not complete without food. The party is being held underground and there isn't much in the way of kitchens and do help bake in people's houses and smuggle the food across the city. Careful of guards.

Team Three

The venue needs decorating and the presents need wrapped. It might be an underground bunker but everyone is determined to make it the best festival ever, despite the risks. Help make it happen!

Party

Mission complete it is of course time to party! Eat drink and be merry before you return to the void once more.

Comments

[strings_theory]

Shit I can do! [That explains nothing, but if she won't explain the emotion thing then she's not gonna explain that.

But she can take advantage of the situation and get another snowball together to send at her and going for as close as she can get to her throat without hitting her actual throat. She's pretty certain that'll be enough to put an end to all of this.

If she's going to play dirty, might as well win as dirty as possible.]

[tactlesstantei]

[That last shot his her squarely just below her throat, sending Masumi to the ground with a squawk of surprise. It does indeed put an end to all this, mainly because she's stunned on the ground and trying to recover from that.]

That was a cheap shot there... [Then again, so was Masumi using her calming ability to get Jolyne off guard, so she has little room to complain here.]

[strings_theory]

[Perfect.

She moves to stand properly again, stretching her arms above her head with a nice sound that's probably a shoulder popping.]

I think that's enough. Hey, at least that shot was entirely my own doing. Ain't my fault I got good aim, is it? [No one can say she's a bad sport while heading over there and reaching down to offer her a hand up.]

Been a while since someone's managed to catch me off guard, though, so I'll give you that. Whatever the fuck you did was new.

[tactlesstantei]

I guess not. You didn't have to aim there, though. [Masumi takes her hand anyway, accepting the help in standing back up after that shot.

As for what she did, Masumi looks genuinely apologetic, even as she takes note that her little trick is something she can use in actual fights.]

Sorry about that, I was just trying to even the odds out since you had a huge advantage there. I wasn't even sure if that would work or not.