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voidtreckerooc2022-01-17 06:02 am
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Test Drive 032
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...
VOTE RIGGING time to send a pokemon crau oh boy
"Alrigh'," he eventually says.
"Th' hell's a sync stone then?" And why is there a whole??? Pile of them here, what's going on?? "Plannin' on makin' a killin' next stop or somethin'?" Because, obviously these are for resale right?
...
Right?
loud whooping HERE WE GO
Yet!
"Glad you asked!"
He snaps his fingers in what looks like a practiced gesture - this is definitely someone who's used to commanding attention.
"They're unique stones from the island of Pasio! They use the bonds between people and Pokemon to perform special moves that have been dubbed sync moves. Much about them is still not understood, but they seem to replicate the abilities of many other already existing objects..."
He laughs softly at this fellow's assumption of what he would do with them.
"Nothing so crass as that, I assure you! I have much grander designs in store!"
THIS TOOK ME SO LONG TO COME BACK TO I'M SORRY also excuse me while i mentally design synch looks,
This one. What better option for your defenseless buds, right?
"Pasio...never heard of it, but I didn' hear about too many places while in Alola so that figures," Katsuya laughs with a grin. "Still, these things are f'r pokemon huh...heh! You ain't kiddin' about grander then! That's way better than a quick buck around here!" Lear, suffice to say, is already looking pretty good in the blond's books.
"So how do they work..? Is it a one-at-a-time deal, like usin' Z-Crystals, or Megastones?"
ITS OK I wasn't expecting a lot of tags on this guy? BUT ALSO...OMG...SYGNA SUITS...YES.
"After all," he explains, gesturing grandly with his hands. "Pasio is an artificial island I created a few years ago in order to host the PML! For a while, the only people who knew about it were those that Hoopa brought over!"
hoopa did what now
"Even people from Galar like you only showed up recently, you know?"
From-oh. oh dear. it appears he has seen your team and made some Assumptions. Anyways he's continuing on.
"Sync stones enable the users to use special Sync Moves that have a lot of power behind them, and it's not once a match, either! Rather, it seems like they take some time to build up...and every single person who uses them has their own move! I mean..." He crosses his arms, grinning. "There are some standard ones based on type. But if the sync pairs bond enough, they gain an unique move. And those moves can often reflect abilities Pokemon already have, even being able to trigger things like Mega Evolution!"
So they're like...omni-stones of some sort? Absolutely terrifying.
"Naturally, we'd want to know more about these strange stones, no? So, I made these sync stones the focus of my PML -" what is a PML "- and I intend to do the same here by distributing them! After all, no matter if they have an effect here or not, I'll have plenty of information to bring back with me! It's brilliant, if I do say so myself!"
he's laughing again
please stop him
I HOPE YOU GET PLENTY OF TAGS TBH because Lear is GREAT
"Hoopa...takin' it tha's yer pokemon then? Huh!" It's fair enough that he'd think Galar, honestly. Heck, he fell to Galar in the first place. Katsuya will correct him later. For now-
Well for now this sounds awesome. "Huehhhhh...somethin' tha' huge... HAH!" He is not stopping the laughter. "Hey, no way t' know unless we try righ'?! It gives anyone here w'th pokemon a boost, an' helps you out with what they do! Seems win-win t' me!" he cheers.
If anyone wanted restraint, they should never have allowed these two to meet.
"Nyh, I should tell my friends then...Gettin' pokemon here ain't as hard as y'd think, so I bought a few for 'm t' help off th' train. Course...since I ain't from th' pokemon world t' begin with, I only know so much...heck, everyone kept tellin' me I was lucky I didn' get kidnapped by fairy types after fallin' int' Glimwood Tangle..."
thank you...i adore him...
"Hoopa is indeed my serv-no..." Lear visibly stumbles over his words for a few moments. "...My friend. It has the ability to bring things through dimensions, you see!" With that declaration, he's back to being pompous as ever. "An ideal partner for one such as myself!"
He's certainly gratified by Jounouchi's willingness to help, though, and nods thoughtfully to his own explanation.
"So you are from a world without Pokemon...even with everything Hoopa has shown me, I wouldn't have believed such a thing was possible before coming here. Even so!" He snaps his fingers. "That does make you an ideal candidate to test the efficacy of sync stones across dimensions! In fact..."
oh no.
oh no that tone of voice isnt good
hes planning something
"I'll make you one of my retainers! If you plan on assisting me with distributing sync stones, I should do at least this much!"
oh
points at this dweeb 'i care him your honor,'
Just a notch or two though.
But that stumble Does catch his ear. Ser...servant?? Friend?? "Nyh?" Wait is he dealing with some kind of rich shut in??
That's weirdly endearing actually...not that he'd know to put it that way, but he can't help but think of Atem somehow..."Hoh!! So this guy jus' up an' teleports people!? Dang!!" Sounds like a legendary if you ask him-"But yep, fell righ' through an 'ultra wormhole'. Apparently most of 'm went t' Alola, but I had t' get there by plane after fallin' to Galar instead," he snorts, grinning. "An' Kaseri here followed me all th' way there, no pokeball or anythin'!"
The ponyta whinnies happily.
"Heheheeee- Nyh?" Wait, what-
"...Retainer..?" Excuse him while he scratches his head. "That's like...O-Oi, ain't those th' assistin' sorts? I mean I've done security, but-"
Kaseri interrupts with another whinny, which is fortunately or unfortunately enough to have the blond just mutely nod as a sort of 'welp, Okay Then'.
All he can see in his head is Isono though.
He's not an Isono!! He's not made for that!! This can't end well at all can it!
me, pointing at Lear: baby boy. baby.
"Pretty much! There doesn't seem to be any limit to what Hoopa can grab through its rings! I suppose it's not dissimilar to what I've heard about Ultra Holes..."
Still. Back to business.
"Well you wouldn't be on the same level as Rachel or Sawyer, obviously," or even Cheren, to be honest, but Cheren had to do quite a lot to get to the level he's at, "so you wouldn't be doing as much. Just helping me distribute the sync stones and reporting any phenomenon you observe to me is enough!"
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He's pretty sure this guy's his age at least...
"Sounds about righ'," he agrees for the meantime as they briefly gloss over the topic of interdimensional teleportation. "And hey, that I can handle! Consider me signed up then! Jonouchi Katsuya, at yer service!" As long as he's not replacing someone's figurative Isono, he's' great. Save that kind of stuff for people who know a guy more than a day. Or a year, for that matter.
"MeeEEEEEEH!" says Amar the Wooloo, only somewhat helpfully.
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First order of business: cataloging and distributing these to everyone on the train, including those without Pokemon!"
...wait. Everyone?
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"Hohh! Everyone no matter what? Y' figure these things'll do somethin' without then?"
Eh, distributing among the train isn't that hard. It's as easy as making an announcement and hunting down the stragglers, he figures- not That many on the train after all.
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"It's not certain, but...sync stones have proven to hold some sort of adaptive capacity. When Eternatus showed up on Pasio, the sync stones gained the ability to enable Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing, despite such a thing only being available in Galar through those bands of theirs..."
He taps his foot impatiently, like he's got too many ideas stuffed in that thin frame of his.
"So, the possibility that these sync stones could resonate with other abilities exist, don't you think?"
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"NYH- E-ETERNATUS!?!" Now that's a name he recognizes. "Geeze, an' it brought that all th' way there huh..."
Rubbing his head, he has to nod. "Man, when y' put it like that, it seems like th' bigger chance..." Well! With a steadier nod, he crosses his arms to grin. "Well, if it's jus' a matter of gettin' these stones t' everyone, should be easy as pie! We're lucky we're all stuck on a train, means no one can try avoidin' it hehehe~"
He sounds far too happy about the prospect of hassling people to make them take synch stones.
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but you didn't do anything
"I imagine getting the word out shouldn't be hard. At the very least, there should be some sort of paging system on this train, yes?"
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THE GUY WHO GETS LOST BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO TOWNS?! THAT LEON!?! "...maybe havin' a 'mon tha' big will help everyone find th' guy next time he wanders off th' planet..."
Ah, well. "Hn? Yeah, here, see tha' watch thing we all get?" He holds up his SCA. Please, tell him you did not remove yours Lear, "Got a radio in 'm. Train's got tablet-spots at each door we can use too."
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okay but enough about Leon. Back to Lear.
"Ah! Of course!" These things are so much like Poryphones that he'd forgotten! "Perhaps we can make something like a Poryphone case for them to hold the sync stone, then, if everyone has one..."
hold up hold up child. child. you do not have your usual infrastructure at your beck and call, hold up-
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No, Lear! Back to Lear, Katsuya! The blond looks back over his SCA a moment before humming. "Nyhhh...shouldn't be too hard I guess? Could even get th' train t' pop 'm out with a spot I bet..."
Unfortunately, the infrastructure is apparently extremely easy to manipulate! Or...Fortunately??
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let's not think about how he only used his points to get the sync stones and not on a way to distribute them
"I assume there's some authority on this train we'd need to appeal to in order to make this happen, yes?"
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So, authority on the train, is the Train.
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He muses, thinking to what they used on Pasio.
"Like a Porygon?"
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One would hope at least...