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Test Drive 034
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!
Touching the Void
All Voidcraft are built to withstand the tremendous forces at work within the Void. Even craft with as strange a shape as the Express, its shell protecting the passengers from all manner of ill effects. Memory loss, sickness, hallucinations... However, the train-like design includes both large windows and inter-carriage couplings, both of which are weak points.
The shimmering, shifting colours of the Void are visible through the windows for half of the day. Calling, luring-- a familiar face almost visible from one angle, a lost home from another. Hours can be lost, staring out at it, as your headache grows and every nerve in your body flickers with strange sensation. Between the carriages nothing can be seen, but the walls seem thinner, and beyond them you can hear sounds that could almost be called a song.
Friends and Friendly Beasts
Despite various attempts, there is no dedicated carriage for animals and companions on-board the Voidtrecker Express. Small pets room with their owners, battle familiars of various kinds can be sealed in capsules, cards, staffs, souls... and the assortment of cats go where they will. Opening a door and almost stepping on an animal, magical or otherwise, is common. So is almost batting a robotic drone out of the air with a gesture, or squeezing past a spirit communing with her summoner on your way to dinner.
The important question is: whose creature are you holding right now?
Heart of the Valley
Mundos is, the Voidtreckers have been informed, the seventh least habitable world still registered as viable. Ninety percent of its surface is uneven, treacherous swampland, and thanks to the Ongi, huge, pale creatures that graze, mate and die there, that swampland is also highly toxic. Breathing masks and protective suits are advised for any Voidtrecker not immune to air- and waterborne toxins.
Disaster struck - the main bubbled city on Mundus experienced a reactor explosion. While the city was unharmed - all reactors are built outside of the main sectors - a passing herd of Ongi wasn't so lucky, and the gases and chemicals released by their decaying bodies so close is overwhelming the city's filters.
Team One
The chemicals can be absorbed out of the air by a particular substance native to the world known locally as bloodstone. A now abandoned sister city held reserves of the stuff that could be used to shore up the filters. This team is tasked with travelling to that city, and searching it for bloodstone stores.Team Two
The outer ring of the city has been exposed, and those that live or work there are in serious danger. This team must help evacuate the ring while providing emergency treatment to the affected citizens. Vehicles and medical supplies can be provided.Team Three
The dead Ongi are being dragged away by emergency services, wrapped in great steel ropes and pulled by any vehicle capable of navigating the swamps. But scavengers - large, solitary reptiles and misshapen pack-hunting dogs - are threatening to overrun them in their hunt for meat. The third team is assigned to each vehicle, to protect them and to keep the scavengers from tearing the bodies apart so close to the city.
Thomas Price | InCryptid
Friends and Friendly Beasts
Thomas spent a decade living with a tailypo, which are remarkably raccoon-like in their ability to get into things. Which means someone’s pet has gotten into the kitchen and Thomas is trying to fend them off as he cooks.
“I’m sure you have your own food. Do you even eat tomatoes?”
He was pretty sure these were tomatoes. Some of the train’s produce was a bit weird this month. Or it could be not having Earth produce since the 1960s.
Rescue your pet? Or maybe Thomas needs to apologize to a non-humanoid member of the train.
Team One — en Route
Honestly, Thomas Price generally felt like the hostility of Mundos was overstated. Sure, the air and water required either filtration or protective suits, and it was mostly a swamp, but there was clearly a thriving ecosystem of plants and animals here. Thomas Price was also aware his standards had dropped quite a bit, and was reconsidering his stance after running a boat aground, as what he thought was a patch of swamp weed also held enough mud to trap the boat, but not solid enough to easily stand on. So he was waist deep in swamp muck, hoping his gear was water-tight so that he didn’t poison himself from the water, and considering the problem
He was debating if it was worth just going at it with a shovel and machete, or if it was time to consider magic. The problem was, of course, that while sympathy meant there was a connection between the mud here and the mud over there, there was also mud everywhere that would just flow back in.
“Any ideas?”
Friends and Friendly Beasts
Sorry, Thomas, but it looks like you've insulted a crew member.
"I can eat things like you guys, though I'm not a tomato person."
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Clearly, he was already making wonderful impressions on the locals.
"My apologies. There was someone's cat in the kitchen earlier, and I thought it had returned because I was clearly paying too much attention to the tomatos. I should have seen that someone else had come in."
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"Don't worry, we all have our moments." Mina admitted. "At least it wasn't a dog."
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Friends and Friendly Beasts
And to call him Saki's "pet" might be a bit a stretch too, mascot might be a bit closer to the truth. Leaning back on a nearby wall, she's not gonna turn down someone willing to wrangle him for her, that said she's on standby...just in case
"I'd be more careful if I were you, little guy hasn't bitten anyone yet but I wouldn't want to test him"
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On the other hand, this one seems to be the young woman's pet, and he can't tell if that is because she is also infected by whatever this is, it is relatively tame, or that he's a teenager with terrible abilities to judge risk. It could be a combination. What fun.
"Before I do anything, then, how does one treat a bite from... him?" Also, what is it, why is it in the kitchen, and how much food will they need to throw out and surfaces will they need to sterilize?
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Romero has been mostly tame, acting like any other dog but it pays to be on the side of caution when it counts.
"Hell if I know, he hasn't bitten anyone yet and has been pretty good about it. Doesn't mean I want him to though"
She looks at Thomas and raises an eyebrow, bit of a dweeb, but suprisingly he's got a little bit of muscle on him too. But that just tells her his ability to read the room might be a bit..limited to say the least and in situations like these that's less than ideal, might be in her best interest to smooth over the situation just a tad.
"You got any dried squid? He likes that"
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"Me personally? No. But the kitchen might." Thomas might have grown up with English food, but he was well-traveled enough that it wasn't the weirdest thing. And probably better for this creature than the tomatoes. "What is he, if you don't mind me asking?"
He does set things aside, and move to what food storage is there, rather than elsewhere in the train. He's still not putting his back to the pet, or making sudden movements, but it's more caution than fear -- he's not hesitating or anything, just being deliberate. Things look fine, but animals are not the same as humans, and might not read his movements correctly. Of course, if the pet thinks he might get a treat, he might well be mobbed with slobber rather than attacked.
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His question causes a moment of pause, mostly out of how...stupid it is, for lack of a better word
"...A dog. What else does he look like?"
And hey; it's that lack of reading siuations coming into play again. Intentional or otherwise there's implications to that question she doesn't appreciate and is going to stomp out before it has the chance grow
"Do you think I don't look like a human either?"
Annoyance and offense written clear on her face, being subtle isn't gonna get the point across, and luckily being blunt is something she's very good at.
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Thomas isn't quite getting the idea of alternate Earths. Possibly because his own was so full of things that it is hard to find something that stands out as weird.
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"A human, I'm a goddamn human. Doesn't matter if I'm a zombie now, I was alive once and so was he"
She points down at Ramero as he looks up at Thomas scratching his ear with backleg
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A rummage through the cabinets has turned up something that smells like it could be dried squid. Thomas hasn't been near an ocean in sixty years, so he may be wildly wrong. "Will this work for your dog?"
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A harsh lesson, but a nerdboy like him needed to learn it sooner or later and better from her than someone considerably more hostile
She reaches for the object in his hands and opens the bag, it looks like what she's looking for, tentacles and all, but only one way find out, as Romero makes his way over to her, tail wagging in excitment
"This what you were after?"
She tosses a few pieces to the ground and the zombie dog savagely pounces on it, snarling as he tears the squid pieces apart with reckless abandon, soon all but disspearing as it seems to eaten its full and happily makes his way out of the kitchen.
"...I think he liked it"
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