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

[screwtherulesihavehoopa]

No! Lear refuses to be adopted! He does the adopting around here (ignore the times with Sawyer, Rachel, Cheren, Hoopa, etc.)!

"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?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

Lightning cannot possibly strike more than four times! ...Not at all!

"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.

[screwtherulesihavehoopa]

"Oh, it came, but it made a sync pair with Leon or something, so it's fine! There was a minor panic around Pokemon suddenly dynamaxing, but it wasn't anything Pasio couldn't handle!"

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?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"NYH-!?! LEON!??"

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."

[screwtherulesihavehoopa]

"Indeed! It was an admirable display on his part, so much that the elusive designer gave him a custom sygna suit for it!"

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-

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Sygna Suit..?"

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??

[screwtherulesihavehoopa]

"You mean...I could make this a default function in the SCA? Glorious, indeed!"

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?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Yeah, supposin' th' train likes th' idea. Literally I mean th' train by th' way, whole thing's got like...a weird AI deal goin' onn."

So, authority on the train, is the Train.

[screwtherulesihavehoopa]

"...The train itself has a sentient AI?"

He muses, thinking to what they used on Pasio.

"Like a Porygon?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Yeah! ...I mean kinda like Porygon. Pr'tty sure it's smarter than a Porygon, at least."

One would hope at least...