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

[scorpionsect]

[The bad joke earned a slight smirk from Xie'er. It did give a small insight of what the other was like. He was curious about the other.]

I appreciate you asking. Most...wouldn't. This garden reminded me a bit of home and it was perfect for meditating...something I've been practicing of late...

[kallig]

You were here first.

[It was said in a manner of fact sort of way, like the question should be a natural one.

Though no one could lay claim to the garden given that it was a communal area, Altair could respect another's space enough at least ask before imposing his presence on someone. Not very typical of a Sith Lord, but then, he was no typical Sith and this was no typical situation where everyone knew what a Sith was, either.

And so he chose neutral politeness over the blind entitlement that so often plagued his peers at home. He found that it served him well.] I'm somewhat of a novice to meditation myself, though I've found it to be a worthwhile activity.

[This sort of meditation he was a novice at, anyway. Usually there was a lot more pacing involved when he meditated. A lot of seething to properly focus his abilities. But right now he sought to root himself in discomfort, rather than work himself into the necessary fury to channel the Force.] I imagine a reminder of home is both a joy and a sorrow.

[Joy of familiarity, and sorrow in being apart from it all.]

[scorpionsect]

It helps keeps our energy aligned in the martial arts world. I'll admit I have a hard time focusing myself. Especially on these....trains...they're so noisy. I just hear everything...

[Xie'er can't help back flop back onto his back even if he was laying on various stones.]

I can't say I really miss home. But this is all very foreign to me.

[kallig]

I imagine it would be, if these are unfamiliar noises to you.

[Altair is so used to both living in close quarters with others and with the noises of machines that he easily tunes them out, and while he misses the more familiar sounds and feelings of a ship traveling through hyperspace, the train and its movements are similar enough that they barely register.

The rustle of fabric as the other man flopped over onto his back made him turn his head to look briefly, before settling again. It didn't look comfortable, but then, he too was seated in a way that would be uncomfortable.

For him, that was the point.

Maybe it was the same for his new acquaintance.] Your home must be very different from mine then, if this is foreign.

[A faint hint of curiosity in his voice, because if there is something that Altair often is, it's painfully curious about everything.] Though I hope getting used to it will eventually come easy to you. Being unable to focus oneself for long is certainly not ideal.

[By which he means uncomfortable, really. Being able to settle down properly during downtime is important.]

[scorpionsect]

We dont' have alot of these things. We use horses to travel on land and boats for water. This place is extremely...advanced.

[Reluctantly he pulled himself back up and properly sat in a meditative position.]

There's so much to learn here.