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

[myblueskies]

"Um it was just one I learned in the heavens." So it was less branching out perhaps and more... Having spent most the time he remembered before this train in a Japanese-styled heaven.

"But I sort of remember. There was a man and a woman and they found a girl who was teeny tiny in some bamboo but she grew up to be a real girl and then a princess and some men wanted to marry her and um..."

What had happened at the end?

[unbrokenpride]

Alfredo blinked, then smiled a apologetically. He should have guessed!
“Oh… it’s still good to learn something new.”

“She gave each of the men who wanted to marry her impossible tasks. She asked for the Buddha’s stone begging bowl, a jeweled branch, a robe of the fire-rat, a colored jewel from a dragon's neck, and a cowry shell born from a swallow…

“And then, of course, they failed to get them. They either made fakes, gave up, or died trying.

“The last suitor was the emperor, but she rejected him too, even as she gave him gifts... she started to watch the moon sadly…”

Did Romeo remember how it ended?

[myblueskies]

"Yes!" He nodded thinking for a moment.

Oh wait he remembered. "Then a carriage came down right? Because she was a moon princess and she had been bad so sent to the world to live for a bit and then they came to take her back to the moon."

It was a very interesting story!

[unbrokenpride]

“Yes… the emperor tried to send his men to the top of the mountain, to shoot down her carriage and burn her letter and gift, but they couldn’t stop her from going home.”

He smiled. “You told it well, so I’ll write it down, then you can practice reading it out to everyone, okay, Romeo?”

A nice, clear voice, like when calling out spazacamino! Except no need to shout, they have a microphone, probably.

[myblueskies]

He beamed at that. He wasn't sure he had actually told it very well, he was sure he might have forgotten a detail or too but it made him happy to get praised by Alfredo.

"Okay! I'll practice real hard! Do we need to get people to play the parts as well. Like in a movie. Do you know what a movie is?"

He hadn't, when he had first come across them so it might be that Alfredo wouldn't either.

[unbrokenpride]

“No, I haven’t…” Alfredo said, looking curious. “What’s a movie? Please explain.

“A play will definitely need actors, yes. Is there anyone you think might like to act? We should recruit!”

[myblueskies]

"It's like a play! It's a story and people play different characters except it is on a screen. So the people don't have to be there but it can be watched again and again and again! And it looks really real like it's actually happening even if it's just made up!"

Miss Hibiki wasn't on the train anymore or she'd be the first one he would suggest. "I know some people! I bet some of my friends would like acting!"

[unbrokenpride]

"So, like the screens they have here? That makes sense... I'm sure it'd be amazing," Alfredo said with a smile, imagining it as best as he could.

"Oh, which friends, Romeo? We'll need all the help we can get, so tell me."

[myblueskies]

"Madoka will like it! She'd be really good and we could ask Mina or miss Nell or Ken..."

Lots of people would help he is sure!