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

[elevatoravatar]

"I was in the haunted house for a bit. I tired of the more hostile beasts once they stopped getting up."

She shrugs at that.

"Still painting the walls with their entrails left an acceptable ambiance in their absence I believe. Sometimes one demon placed in a propper place is far more frightening than a simple mob. The mob tends to destroy hope and what is fear without hope?"

Then the word fried food registers and she claps her hands together in excitement.

"Oh! I remember my guest showing me a fried takoyaki shop that used the most fascinating improvised ingredients!"

[ironchef]

Wow. She is a little bit crazy, isn't she? But who knows what kind of monstrous background Elizabeth comes from? Even if the Velvet Room kind of sounds like a club of some sort.

"Yeah, but entrails covering the walls don't usually leave me feeling hopeful. Just nauseous. But I would be scared, so, I guess you still would hit the mark with someone like me."

As he is, at his core, a very normal boy. If a large, sturdy one. With a big soft heart and a fragile stomach made queasy by disgusting things. Though he's gotten much, much better about that.

"There was a Japanese place in Oahu that I used to visit that had great takoyaki. I really want to open up my own place when I get back home and I'm not stuck on universe saving detail." This time is lame. He doesn't even get to fight in his giant robot.

[elevatoravatar]

"Universe saving detail.... I have only supported one who was saving humanity. To be such a warrior, you seem... Different than I would have expected."

She tilts her head and thinks. No, this one talks far too much and his personality is less of a fool than something else. She could probably figure out the card with time, but honestly, this food is too good to care.

"The combat chef of Oahu.... I am pleased to meet you."

[ironchef]

"Yeah, I get that a lot. And I tend to agree. My friends are way more into fighting than me. But I can fight by them and take blows they can't." He's after all, a sturdy boy. And his Lion had been sturdy to match. He's just, you know, very human here. Which could prove a problem but hey! That's the other good thing of world saving.

"And I get to cook and help fix and build tech for them. Combat chef of Oahu though? I like the sound of that."

He's just a support class world saver. The tank who'd love to be a healer. "I'm definitely happy to have people around who got stronger stomachs for fighting undead. It's worth the extra food."

[elevatoravatar]

"Really? I would think fighting a foe who is not alive would make it easier. I was always told my willingness to end lives was what was stopping me from understanding his sacrifice...."

She shakes her head and sighs, "Still, everyone fights in the way their soul dictates. Either by force, wit, or allowing others to fight knowing their back is safe. The important thing is that one finds their own path and abides by it."