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

[achickenformylove]

[Ah, what WangJi was hearing that neither of them was wholly innocent, but neither of them was wholly guilty as well. One had antagonized another, which had prompted him to react in a way that was probably more violent than it needed to be.

He did watch as the new arrival put his weapons away. Interesting collection there, he thought, as he put Bichen back in its sheath]

Gusu Lan's family rules state that one should make sure to act virtuously and maintain your own discipline. Harmony among others is also important. There is enough space that one spot is not something that needs to argued over.

[Sorry Xue Yang, he is quoting sect rules at you again. But he carefully attempts to put it so it applies to both of them and not blame one more than the other]

[xue_yang]

I never once said I wanted the spot.

[And he will maintain his innocence on that. The thought might have been in his head but he never let it leave his lips. He isn't lying. He merely evades the truth. There might be a slight eye roll at once again hearing more rules.]

I was being helpful and suggesting a better place.

[scorpionsect]

[Xie'er frowned a bit listening to what the cultivator had to say. In ways he appreciated how the cultivator handled the situation. He didn't signal any of them out as the one at fault and didn't treat anyone better then the other.

He bristled slightly at Xue Yang's comment but didn't raise to the bait. Instead he focused on the cultivator. He gave a slight nod and balled up his right fist and pressed it against his palm on his left hand. It was their variation of a bow and acknowleding.

He also did the same gesture toward Xue Yang as well, not leaving him out. Even though he really didn't want to apologize or felt he should. He could behave when needed.]

I apologize for creating a scene. I'm new here and didn't want to be pushed around and seen as weak. However, I believe that perhaps I should have been gracious instead and offered to share.

I'm Xie'er from the Tai Hu Sect. My godfather Zhao Jing is the sect leader. Our sect is also affiliated with the Five Lakes Alliance.

[Xie'er wasn't sure where the cultivator or Xue Yang stood if they would recognize any of the names. He felt this way they may gain some kind of understanding of were he ws from.]

[achickenformylove]

[WangJi was just going to stare at Xue Yang for a long moment with his normal expressionless gaze. WangJi already knew about Xue Yang. Why else would he - of all people - antagonize someone enough to make them fight if all he wanted was to make a suggestion? There was a lot of effort put into that. Clearly, whether he said it or not, WangJi definitely believed he had been trying to make the other leave the spot so he could use it.

But since he had already decided to not place blame on either one of them, he decided to turn his attention then to Xie'er. He gave Xie'er as much of a bow as he ever gave anyone - the unspoken privilege of being high ranked in his own sect]

I am Lan WangJi, Second Master of Gusu Lan. [In case you couldn't guess by his quoting their family rules. Whether he knew of he sect or the alliance, he didn't let on, but it at least gave him and idea of the world Xie'er was from] It can be difficult when you first arrive on the train as the world is very different from our own.

[xue_yang]

[There is an eye roll when the introductions are made. He doesn't have any such title or sect and he doesn't want one. He is a tool that sects like to use to do their dirty work. And he has a great distaste for any sect leader since they all seem to think they are better then everyone else. And that is what he hates the most in any world.

He also doesn't offer any sort of bow or introduction himself. He doesn't see any reason to. Instead he goes to the vacated spot and plops himself down onto it. Since he got what he wanted out of the ordeal that is all that matters.]

[scorpionsect]

[Xie'er noted the lack of introduction and the eyeroll. He gave an inward sigh but didn't say anything toward it. He merely shook his head.]

It is an honor to meet you. I will be sure to remember the rules.

[Xie'er then gave a brief bow excusing himself before he moved to a different area in the stone garden. Let the other one continue to act like child, but he certainly wasn't going to leave either. He made sure he was enough distance away, but at an angle to where he could still see the other. He pulled out his qaikun bag to bring out his pipa instead. Meditation wasn't going to be a focal point now. Instead of focused on playing his instructment.]