Test Drive 033

[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!

Colour Wheels

The passengers of the Voidtrecker Express have been requesting an art carriage for over a year, and now that one has been provided, it's overflowing with supplies. Not just the paints, minerals, fabric and other materials that came with the carriage itself, but the cases and bags full of arts and crafts materials from a variety of passenger worlds.



Some are mundane - oil pastels, bright skeins of cotton thread, primed canvases and blocks of white clay. Others are enchanted - sparkling squares of soft fabric, wooden beads that hum a note when strung with others. Talismans that animate the mannequins– hm, those shouldn't be here. In any case, there's more than enough here to be getting on with!

Second-Hand Embarrassment

Valentine's Day isn't generally celebrated among Void-capable peoples. The literature is divided as to why this might be, but when the Voidtreckers awaken one day to find the entire train bedecked in pinks and reds, paper hearts littering the aisles, they might be closer to working it out. Someone must have suggested it to the train.



Not only has the train embraced the concept, but throughout the day, the ICPs ring out with announcements - valentines messages between Voidtreckers. Did either Voidtrecker ask for this announcement? Unknown. "Attention, passengers. It has come to my attention that [name] has strong feelings for [name]."

Minor Inconvenience

The Voidtreckers have been landed on Fero Minor, a small, out-of-the-way world, with the sole brief of ensuring that the Fero High School festival is a resounding success. The brief is also entirely up-front about why this is so important - Fero Minor exists as a prison for a being so powerful that their wishes become reality and their dislikes are immediately unmade. Or, rather, an infant form of one. While not quite that powerful yet, the being has developed a fixation on a cultural school festival, and if it doesn't go as they hope, the world will collapse in on itself and all life will end.


The instability of the Fero entity has led many of the hired citizens of the world to leave before their contracts are up, and the festival is chronically short-staffed.

Team One

This team is responsible for manning the haunted house. Or, in fact, the actual pit of ghouls and ghasts that a section of the compound has become under the force of the entity's enthusiasm. The monsters must be kept within their area, kept under control… or perhaps slain, and the Voidtreckers replace them as the terrifying haunts of this attraction.

Team Two

For a festival running out of staff, there sure are a lot of food stalls, and just as many game kiosks. Team two must man both of these - there are ingredients and materials aplenty, at least. Pick something you can cook, or set up a trial or minigame. Or, instead, mill around and try out other stalls. The festival would look weird without customers, after all!

Team Three

Of course, the triumphant finale of any festival - the entity has decided - is the performance. Team three must plan, rehearse and put on a show to be remembered, whether that be a play, a gig, a talent show, or something entirely different. Stage fright need not apply - if this show is a bust, it's bye-bye Fero Minor.

Comments

[likeyouknow]

That gets a snort of laughter from her, and a shake of her head. "I think I will take this over my last few experiences with trains, even if it is half-arsed. No one is trying to kill me this time, including the train itself."

Her last two experiences hadn't exactly been... friendly, one might say.

[healerscorned]

Can't say I've been on a train before. Most Titans aren't big enough for them to be practical, and they move too much to set up anything between them.

[likeyouknow]

“Titans?” Oh gods are there more than one? “I… think I am imaging something. Quite different from what you mean.” But she gestures for the other to explain, interested.

[healerscorned]

Oh yeah, Titans are where most life on Alrest lives. They're giants that roam the Cloud Sea, offering refuge where they go. Most aren't big enough to carry more than a ship, but some can hold entire kingdoms. I lived on Gormott, myself.

[likeyouknow]

"You live on... stone giants?" Pahja asks, intensely curious. "I have never heard of anyone doing such a thing, let alone enjoying the travel at the same time." Gesturing for the other woman to continue, Pahja settles herself into a seat, tail curling around her.

[healerscorned]

Who said anything about stone? Titans are living breathing things, which is why we had so much trouble when the bigger ones started dying off.

[One of Nia's - backwards to a Miqo'te - ears twitches as she deadpans.]

[likeyouknow]

( Pahja throws her hands up in surrender, taking a step backwards. )

Titans imply stone, do they not? ( At least the ones she's been dealing with! It's not her fault, she swears. ) How do you live on them and not hurt them-- and what do you mean, dying off?

[healerscorned]

Don't know how you got that idea, but whatever. Titans are big enough to have entire ecosystems on them, and their ether forms dirt and stuff on stable areas. You'd have to have either a battleship or a real powerful Blade to do enough to one to actually hurt it.

As for the dying part, they live a long time, but not forever. The Titans currently around have started reaching the ends of their lifespans, but new ones haven't been being born.