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

[nobodys_puppet]

"It can sometimes. I don't understand why."

She looked at her gloves. "407 days...." she whispered. "I tried to count for you, but I messed up. But Axel figured it out."

[terribletwos]

"407... How's that even possible?" That's more than a year! Did this train do something to time? He shakes his head at her next comment. "Don't feel bad. It's hard to keep track of that much time without a journal or something." He offers another unsure smile. "Thanks for trying though. I just can't believe we've been separated for that long..." Even longer than the last time the trio was separated!

[nobodys_puppet]

She nodded. "Axel says I should say that.. I missed you," she said, softly.

[terribletwos]

Roxas lifts an eyebrow. "Axel said?" He shakes off his confusion in favor of what's more important right now. "Sorry for making you wait..."

[nobodys_puppet]

"I didn't know what I should say, so he said i should say that since it is true." And well... he's Axel.

"It isn't your fault, Roxas."

[terribletwos]

"Oh. You don't have to say anything." He rubs at the back of his hair. "It's just nice to know you were thinking of me. I wish you didn't have to wait at all."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Of course we were thinking of you! Every day!"

[terribletwos]

"Xion..." There's a soft emotion in his voice, unsure how to even process the tremendous warmth he feels now. Even if he'd rather not put Xion through such longing, it's another stunning reminder of how none of them have to worry about being forgotten ever again. They really have been given a second chance.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Yes?" she asked, not sure why he had said her name.

[terribletwos]

He shakes his head again, voice a bit choked. "Nothing. I'm just glad we're together."

[nobodys_puppet]

She nodded. "Me too!"