Test Drive 032

[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!

Culinary Containment

Every month, the train's stores are filled with crates of ingredients for use by its passengers. And every month, one ingredient is the focal point of all recipes. Potatoes, cinnamon, seaweed… but as the train pulls away from the station this month, there seems to have been a blip in the system when it comes to deciding on a biologically-appropriate foodstuff.

Spilling out from the storage carriage and into the kitchen are hundreds of live frogs. They're in the sinks, they're in the ovens, they're hopping alarmingly close to the transgates that link the area up to the sleepers...

Vote-Rigging

At the behest of its passengers, the train has instituted a voting system to allow for more carriage options and upgrades. Passengers are able to submit new ideas, or crowdfund those already suggested...

It's the night before platform, and all through the train, no one was stirring... Apart from your group, with your stockpile of a thousand points and the luminous voting panel you're all currently pouring them into. Bouncy castle carriage? Funded! Fishing carriage? Funded! Clocks? Eh... You have the points. Funded!

Then it's simply a matter of waiting for the morning, and seeing the chaos you've caused to the layout of the Voidtrecker Express. What new delights have you discovered?

Repo Train

The Void Ministry have another task for the Express: locating and repossessing the contents of a number of minor storage craft in an old mercantile zone. The coordinates are given, a small fleet of space-worthy craft and sufficient hazmat gear has been deposited at the meeting site for Voidtrecker use.

The main area is cushy enough, a round communal area surrounded by living pods renovated for basic Voidtrecker requirements. The hangar above allows for groups to head to the next assigned storage location, or to return with their piles of lawfully impounded gains.

Team One

High-risk storage locations are this team's priority. Potentially explosive material, artifacts or experiments without the requisite paperwork explaining how or why they were made, sometimes living creatures, the kind that shouldn't have been left in a large metal crate habitat for a decade. Opening these areas is a study in initiative and dealing with unpleasant surprises!

Team Two

This team are the back-up for the first group - once the artifacts, creatures or hazardous material has been made safe and brought back, they have to be recorded. Scanned. Studied, and compared to the extensive lists of potential contraband or lost goods. Sometimes, they're not quite as safe as you'd like.

Team Three

Some locations, rather than being used for the storage for which they were intended, have been repurposed by sapients who have developed within the system since the depot was created. Short, furred people with clever, webbed hands and high voices, they've turned crates and ships into cramped, partially-submerged warrens. This team is cleared to assess the damage done, and, if the current official owners of the stores will agree, process the change in ownership to the Su Samuru. Not all owners are happy with their squatters, however...

Comments

Let's go with shattered, wheee

[first_host]

[For someone that isn't a healer or tracker, you always have ways of finding out about things going on on the train. Whether that be through friends, or hearing rumors of things running wild. More of the latter in this particular case, but the names that had been yelled when she'd arrived half crazed was what had caught her attention the most. Someone that was from their world, or some semblance of it, she'd come to realize that time wasn't exactly the same everywhere.

Which might be why she's done her due diligence in hunting the girl down, wrapped in a more practical leather and fur coat that covers the majority of the red polo and a good bit of the cargo pants that go with it. Though her red hair is, for the time being, pulled up into the usual buns she tended to be depicted with.

She almost hopes she recognizes she's there before she speaks, but given the motions...

Well, she didn't.]

You gave everyone quite a fright out there, you know. Not exactly normal that someone ends up on the train acting like that. [Her voice remains soft, empathetic, not accusatory in the slightest.]

I take it that you lost some people very important before you ended up here? And that things weren't... in the best of circumstances? [Hey, if nothing else, she at least has kept up with storing her chakra much in the same way her granddaughter did, something to tie her to the familiar.]

HELLO!

[shatteredblossom]

[At first there was no reaction from Sakura to Mito's words. Not even a twitch in her direction as she stared at the ceiling in pain. Only a small hitch of breath every so often disturbed the silence. But a moment, a weak and hoarse voice came out of the unmoving girl.]

...I apologize for the disturbance I caused. I...I was not myself.

[She spoke in a distant tone, almost emotionless in it's entirety. Yet the shaking and quiet sobbing would fool no one. She went silent again before slightly tilting her head in Mito's direction and nodded slowly, almost like moving was too hard to do. More hitched breaths filled the silence before the same voice hesitantly replied again.]

Yes...my teammates...Th-they were my family.

[Part of her wanted to scream and lash out, both at the world and at herself for being weak but she was too tired to care. She continued staring mournfully at Mito in silence as she waited for her to leave. She just wanted to be alone.]

[first_host]

[If she expected her to leave, then she was sorely mistaken. Having been a mother, a grandmother, she knows better than to leave someone alone when they're like this. Particularly knowing it's someone that absolutely had to have been from her village, future or alternate future not mattering.

Though when she speaks, she nods slowly. Apologizing for something that made sense and it having been caused by the loss of her teammates? She could understand.]

You were of Konoha, were you not? [She moves to carefully move to the edge of the bed, to sit if there is room. To offer some sort of comfort if Sakura wishes to seek it out or use it, she's been in this position far too much in her long lifespan.]

I can understand how it is to lose people to close to me. I've lost family, time and time again, to both age and... other factors. Seen it happen to others. Whether in the right or wrong at the time. [She takes a deep breath to calm her nerves, knowing she needs to be more of a rock in this situation than she has been in years.]

Do you know what I did when my husband passed? [Because this is absolutely not her best moment, she will admit to that.]

[shatteredblossom]

[Sakura eyed Mito move closer to the edge of the bed blankly. She didn't understand. Why was this woman still here? Surely she had more important things to do than comfort someone like her? Especially after causing so much trouble for everyone...

Still, while Sakura didn't move closer to Mito, she didn't move away either, staring at the red-haired woman mournfully through puffy eyes. As she listened to Mito talk, some more tears slipped down her cheeks as she looked down at the ground in sorrow. Of course, she wasn't the only one suffering. Yet here she was being a bother to everyone and sniveling like a child. How pathetic.

Her inner self-loathing tirade was interrupted by the question Mito gave her, causing her to look up in curiosity. Her husband? After a moment of silent thought, Sakura spoke again with a small hesitant voice.]

What...

[She stopped before gathering herself to ask again.]

What did you do?