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

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[persona_non_ratta]

"I don't know," Bruno admitted. "I mean, no one else really has much of their family on board. At least not the one they were born into; I know there's some people who met here on the train and became family, but..." He sighed. "It might be just you and me for awhile, Tonito."

And changing the subject slightly, because that's not one he particularly wants to think about himself. "Besides, we couldn't just go digging up the greenhouse however we felt like it. There's a lot of people on the train, and if we were gonna make something that's big enough for all these little guys, we'd have to make sure they said it was OK first."

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[animal_magicisim]

"Why wouldn't they say it's okay? We're helping everyone by helping the frogs, right? I mean, Abeula says we must always use our powers to help the people, so we're just helping!"

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[persona_non_ratta]

"Well, yeah, but there's only so much space in the greenhouse, and a lot of it is already being used for other things. Plus, what if other people wanted to use the space that the frogs would need for things like growing extra food? Helping the frogs would help other people on the train, sure, but there's other things that might help them more. We'd have to actually find out what everyone wanted, not just guess, you know?"

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[animal_magicisim]

"Oh..." he said considering that. "I guess I didn't think of that. Um... if Mama and papa and Abuela aren't here, who tells us what we need to do then?"

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[persona_non_ratta]

"I guess since I'm your tio, I'd be the one telling you things like that," Bruno said. "Though you should probably listen to the other grownups on the train too, unless they're telling you to do something you know is wrong or dangerous. But there's really no one like that here for me." Which, having lived under his mother's authority for so long in one form or another, was a rather liberating if also very strange thought.

Re: Bruno Madrigal | Encanto

[animal_magicisim]

"Um...." he considered. "I know! My jaguar is super old!" he said, excited. "Ten whole years old!" That's ancient, right? "So maybe my Jaguar could tell you what to do and you tell me what to do and we can all help out and make Abuela proud of us when we go home and tell her about our adventure!"