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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2022-02-17 06:00 am
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Test Drive 033

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.


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[personal profile] ironchef 2022-02-21 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh oh, good. So. Does magic work on silicon? It'd be great if magic worked on silicon. Transforming non-stick materials would be amazing. Now, I understand if it can't. At least if you find out now, it'll let you have more options to carry potions and stuff."

He finds a silicon spoon and puts down on the countertop, a big stirring thing with slats.

"In my universe, magic and technology are pretty tied together. But it's still a form of energy, not something that just anyone can use and especially not without the right machinery. The idea of just being able to use it is wild to me, only the stuff you read in stories and maybe roll dice for."
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[personal profile] redprayer 2022-02-21 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
“I can certainly try.”

Silicon isn’t unknown to Rezo, although what he’s specifically familiar with is naturally occurring silica. At any rate it’s a mineral, so that calls for primarily earth shamanism.

Rezo takes the spoon and turns it over in his hands, running his fingers along the surface to get a good idea of the structure. He only listens with half an ear to what Hunk is saying; normally he’d be more interested in comparing magical systems but he is trying to compose a spell right now.

“If you could be quiet for a moment, so I may concentrate…”

He smiles, trying not to come off as too curt, then places the spoon back on the counter and holds out his hands. (His staff might be better for this, but it is also long and in a kitchen with limited space he’d be at risk of knocking things over.) Rezo casts forth his magic, and the spoon begins to float. Though Rezo can’t see it, it’s surrounded by the glow of magic at work.

The powers of earth and life reaching out to the mixture of elements within the spoon; fire and water mixed in to help the silicone reshape and mold itself to his will; for a few moments nothing happens except that the spoon continuing to float and glow as Rezo mutters partial incantations and slowly slips in more magical energy to coax the inert material into a response.

Then the spoon starts to soften and droop. Spatula… Rezo isn’t really much of a chef but he knows spatulas are flat things you use for lifting, so the bowl of the spoon flattens and smooths out. And Hunk had said he needed it to spread frosting, so maybe a knife like shape would work better? The slats fill themselves out, slightly thinning the overall thickness of the spatula’s blade in the process.

“Is this what you had in mind?”
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[personal profile] ironchef 2022-02-22 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! Right right right. Shhhh." He makes a shushing sound and motion, but it and the shifty eyes that accompany it are obviously meant to be directed at himself. Because yes, awesome, TOTALLY AWESOME there is a cleric transmutating a spoon into a spatula.

Look, this spatula? Coming with him after this mission. It's now a specially blessed holy relic in his mind.

"That's so cool, man! Wow. I know there are probably limits? But still, amazing work."

He takes it once its done and pokes at the newly formed spatuling side, or whatever the appropriate verb one relate to spatula is. Smoothing? Smearing? Whatever. It works, and that's the point. "It looks great! Thanks." And... well, now he sees the other spatula off in a different part of the cooking area. That's the way it works, right? But this one is by default better!