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

Moondust

[stonefvced]

( Her arrival had been quite a fuss but all things considered the majority of people on this train were good people, she was in good hands. He chose a more quiet time to seek her out and, though noted differences, she was still Haruno Sakura. Tobirama could easily track her down to the carriage she had come to sit in.

A place like this, for them he imagines, took some getting used to. Its the lack of freedom, the lack of green, nature and space to occupy, that the Senju felt the most, personally. Still, with tea in hand he approaches light-footed as always and offers her a cup. She looked younger, too. A little more worn but from what he could tell... she hadn't been taken from extraordinarily good circumstances. )

Those who may know have not been forthcoming ( its not a great encouragement but he's a blunt man and would rather be honest than lie for sake of kindness. ) Although there are attempts to understand our situation, so... ( Tobirama moves to sit not to far from her with his own tea ) hard to say, presently. More importantly ( a nod toward Sakura ) how are you fairing?

Hello! (Forgive my attempt at of japanese honorifics and/or words)

[shatteredblossom]

[After a moment of hesitance, Sakura turned her head towards the voice to properly see them. When she took in the sight of the Senju Tobirama in the flesh, her eyes widened in shock. The Nidaime Hokage was here?

Stunned but remembering her manners, she quickly adjusted into a better position and took the offered tea from Tobirama. Offering a small thank you, she took a small sip of her tea and let out a sigh of resigned acceptance.]

I see...That is to be expected I suppose.

[Silence filled the air again as she looked away to look outside. After a moment of faraway thoughts, she looked back at her superior, before staring at her drink's surface.]

...I've been better. Still not used to all this...

[She motioned to the train car around her vaguely before continuing.]

I'm just...still reeling from everything.

Hello, and no worries!

[stonefvced]

( While honest, he wasn't entirely tactless. Tobirama knew that the best way for them to all be prepared was to relay the full extent of the current known truth, and he would in time, but only in time. Considering her health first. He'd argue that this situation is anything but to be suspected. Someone with honest motives wouldn't be quite as... well, you know. It was his nature to be critical, he supposed. At first, it just rewards her with a hum. Eyes not leaving Sakura for a moment. )

Understandably. It's a lot to accept. ( Some may view this as a second chance, a new beginning -- some were brought back from the edge of their lives to start anew. He wouldn't want to take that from anyone but the principle or lack thereof of all this was what got him. And how... muddy things were. ) Allow me to offer you what I can, when you're ready to ask.