Test Drive 035

[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!

Stable Duties

The latest carriage to have been added to the Voidtreckers express is one for large animals. It contains stables downstairs and smaller places for animals upstairs.

Until now the bottom half of the carriage has been mostly empty, with large animals new to the options of creatures voidtreckers can purchase from the shop. But as voidtreckers wake up one morning those going through the carriage will find they each have a creature in them. Large as a warhorse, with six legs, long necks and longer noses. What are they? What do they eat? Why are they here?

No answers are readily available but anyone who gets close will get a nose in their face and then an enthusiastic giant nuzzling them. They are friendly it seems. Very friendly.

Friendly Competition

The lower floor of this carriage is open and sprawling, with two wide, low tables and plenty of cushions and beanbags. The walls are lined with shelves and wooden chests, both filled with games. Board games, card games, you name it, though train themes feature heavily. On a shelf of its own sits a case of Duel Monsters cards.

The upper floor is split into two. One half has a pile of oversized games - lawn jenga, twister, giant connect4 - and the other, sectioned off with soft rope barriers, hosts a screen, a console, and a variety of video game controllers, including four VR headsets.

Perhaps you’re testing yourself in one of the VR Crisis simulators. Perhaps you’re learning the rules of a competitive card game a little too well, and your friendships are suffering accordingly. Perhaps you’ve convinced someone to play twister with you..?

Eggageration of Harm

The mission the voidtreckers are sent on seems like a very strange one. The annual spring festival of the kingdom of Fahr is in ruins after a hoard of raiders wearing rabbit masks wreaked destruction, smashing up festival stalls and stealing the intricately carved eggs that had been dedicated to the goddess of spring.

The king of Fahr suspects the raiders come from across the border from the neighbouring kingdom Fehl and has amassed his army to take the eggs back. The king of Fahl denies everything but has been given an ultimatum, if the eggs are not returned the two kingdoms will go to war.

Team One

Investigate what really happened. Are the rabbit masked raiders from the kingdom of Fahl or were they just opportunist criminals? Is war their aim or did they just steal for profit? Try and find out what really happened and, perhaps even more difficult, report the correct findings to the king.

Team Two

Find those eggs! The bunny raiders left clues of course, footprints and trails. Follow them and try and find the eggs before time runs out. The raiders it seems hid most of them, perhaps to return for later, perhaps once they realised they would be caught eventually. Recover the eggs and get them back to the shrines before time runs out.

Team Three

Even though the eggs are the crime the king of Fahr is concentrating on many people had their stalls and livelihoods wrecked. Help them by fixing up the stalls, recovering merchandise and even re-baking their cakes and other spring treats.

Comments

Team two

[flameinthedarkness]

[This is not the type of easter eggs he wasn't to be hunting! It was far better when they were hidden items in games! Not... this! And certainly not with... him.

He's so loud...

How did Idia get teamed up with him? Every time Sebek raises his voice it makes Idia jump, he pulling up the hood of his hoodie even more to try and block some of it out. He should had brought and worn his headphones, he could had cancelled all of this out.

Then again, with Sebek no doubt that would just make him yell louder for Idia to hear him.]

Who cares... the goal of the mission is to find the items, not track down who did it. [Idia's going to regret saying this, isn't he?]

[zigajoule]

[ Sebek will be heard. He'll probably break any noise-canceling feature on those headphones. Taking the carved egg into his hand, he turns around to level a disapproving look at Idia. ]

If they do not see the error of their ways, they will only steal these eggs again!

[ A housewarden should understand the need to keep order and make sure everyone behaves properly. This is no different. ]

[flameinthedarkness]

[...Sebek really has no clue how Ignihyde worked, did he? They were mostly well behaved enough that Idia didn't have to step in that often at all, mostly since they kept to themselves more often than other dorms. As long as they didn't get caught doing anything and didn't half ass whatever they did, Idia didn't care. Ortho spent more time with the dorm students than Idia did.]

It doesn't even make sense in the first place... how are these things even valuable? [Then again maybe they just stole them for the sake of causing chaos. And it was working! Idia didn't want to be out here dealing with this!

Also, who cares?! They weren't going to stick around afterwards!] They should clean up their own messes instead of relying on others to do it... [All of this is of course spoken in Idia's naturally soft tone, quite the opposite of Sebek's normal speaking volume.]

[zigajoule]

[ No, no Sebek doesn't. He's not a complete idiot, but he can have a major case of tunnel vision. He has probably seen Ortho more than Idia too. Wasn't the latter a flying tablet at orientation? ]

Can you not see it? The skill needed to carve such intricate details while still preserving the structure is immense! These are treasures that would befit kings!

[ Sebek stands a little straighter. To think he'd have to lecture one of his upperclassmen on how to properly act. ]

If they could retrieve these themselves, then there would be no need for us to be here. We will show them by example!

[flameinthedarkness]

[...Idia hates to admit it but Sebek has a point there, they were well made. Idia can appreciate the craftsmanship of them, they would make lovely display items, and if you're going to make something you make it right the first time, not half-ass it. Ok, maybe they did have a value.

But it still seemed like too much of a hassle to do this.]

You just got suckered into doing their work for them. [Idia grumbled, his slouched form equally in contrast to Sebek's proud pose. Stop playing the hero, Sebek.] Didn't think Diasomnia carried other people's weight. [Then again Sebek was... Sebek, he would do anything Malleus said, or even what he didn't say. Silver too really. Maybe it was a Diasomina thing... weird.]

[zigajoule]

[ He does have good points if people would just listen to him! Really! In fact, Sebek thinks that if Malleus was here, he would have the whole situation solved, and the thieves would already be punished. ]

Diasomnia carries the Thorn Fairy's spirit of nobility! We are hospitable to other dorms and lands. Isn't your dorm supposed to carry the King of the Underworld's spirit of diligence?

[ Not exacting justice is hardly diligence! ]

[flameinthedarkness]

[Oh gods, what has Idia started, he sinking deeper into his hood to try and hide within it, as if it would get him away from Sebek's ramblings.

And if Malleus was here he would had just vanished off somewhere without telling anyone!]

Diligence doesn't mean favoritism, [Don't you go pulling this on him, Sebek, don't use that crap about his own dorm against him. It's not the same as Diasomnia. The Lord of the Underworld did what he had to do, he didn't choose to do it.] Everyone is equal in the eyes of the Underworld, doesn't matter who they are. [After all, death takes all eventually, it doesn't pick and choose. All are equal. Nobility means little in the end.]

The only reason we're even doing this is because they were the first contact we had here. If we had ran into the thieves first they could had done a whole thing about how they needed the eggs for... something. [It's a classic trope; the good guys aren't really the good guys and will turn on those trying to help them only to find out the bad guys were really suffering in the first place. A bit over done now days, but if done well it was still good.

Then again... the faster they got this done the sooner they can get back.] Fine... [Idia sighed out, waving his hand to send his computer a little higher and for it to start scanning the area for any signs of where those eggs were, or the direction those thieves ran off to.] I just want this done...

[zigajoule]

[ Thanatos would disagree with everyone being equal in the Underworld. Has he not heard of the different levels? The ones favored by gods to be granted immortality or turned into constellations?

Equal? That is something Sebek doesn't have any experience with. Not back home. He had to prove himself worthy every day in Briar Valley. He was chosen to be one of Master Malleus's bodyguards, the heir to the throne, and he will not let him down! ]

It is still theft! And by retrieving these items, we are preventing a war. If they truly needed the eggs for some reason, then they can negotiate with the king instead of attacking his people!

[ He tucks the egg under his arm and marches forward. Idia didn't have to come on the mission in the first place if he didn't want to do anything. However, he's here now, so it's time to do the task properly! ]