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...

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Lucien 👁 Critical Role

[concentrated_dick]

Culinary Containment:

The Nonagon was currently doing something he was real good at. Sneaking into a place he shouldn't be and picking through belongings that he had no right to be picking through in the first place.

It was a simple desire he was trying to sate, one for food and sustenance. He didn't want to wait until he was supposed to eat and like hell did he want to have to eat a meal around other people. No, his was that of a private affair. Meal for one and all that.

Lucien, while simply wanting to satisfy the needs created by his eyes, found the chaos that was unfolding before him, far too entertaining to simply pass by. Opening a door to free more frogs, he even scooped a handful up and ushered them through some vents in the wall, y'know because he's just that kinda helpful guy.

That's when he heard you coming in, while he was midway sneaking back out of the kitchen with a pocket full of food that didn't belong to him. Catching your gaze amidst the madness unraveling, he gave his most innocent expression (which wasn't that innocent, let's be honest.) "Would ya look at that?" Came his thick, Irish accent, rolling off that silver tongue of his. "Good luck finding your Prince in this lot."

Repo Train: Team Three

You know who really didn't want to be on this team? That's right, the Purple Tiefling who was bringing up the rear of the group. Casual and without any try desire to be taking part, Lucien found himself a nice spot to stop and watch the rest of his team hard at work, unlike him.

It would have been nice for a heads up wouldn't it? Seeing as he saw the furry little things creeping around in the shadows, in and out of crates That was none of his business though was it? Heck, he even snapped off a part of a supply he was currently nibbling on, handing it out to one of the creatures, admitting those webbed little hands.

"I for one like them. Who are we to evict them? If life is smart enough to find a way on its own, should we really be interfering?" He's just stirring the pot, he's not exactly an advocate for their rights or anything.

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