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// TEST DRIVE MEME_
// TEST DRIVE_  Welcome to Eluvio's Test Drive Meme! Whether you'd like to try out a character in the setting, get some samples for your application, or just mess around and have fun, this is the place to do it. If you're getting samples together, remember that you need at least four comments made by you in the thread for it to count. Pick any of the scenarios below or make up any of your own. This is space! There are infinite worlds and possibilities. If you'd like to thread out hijacking a ship, do it! If you'd like to get stuck on a remote planet with only one other person for company, do it! Take the wheel and guide your own adventure! The most important thing is to have fun! ➣ SCENARIO 001.  It's a normal day aboard the Eluvio. Maybe you're on your way to work. Maybe you're hanging out with friends. You can even be up to nefarious misdeeds. Whatever the case, you're having a relatively uneventful day. And then you see it. From a distance, it looks like a ball of fur. Up close, it looks like a ball of fur. If you touch it, it will chitter at you. It will vibrate and purr. Where this is coming from is anyone's guess because even if you turn it over, there's nothing to see but more fur. It's pretty harmless, though. Leave it there. Take it with you. The choice is yours. As you continue about your day, you'll begin to notice more of these little furballs. On the ground. Sitting on tables. Here and there at random intervals. By the end of the day, they're fucking everywhere. Good luck! If you get overwhelmed, maybe go talk to that bald starship captain who showed up last week. He might know something about the furry invaders. ➣ SCENARIO 002.  Congratulations! You've been selected to be part of the team being sent down to the planet around which the fleet is currently orbiting. Initial scans of the surface show that oxygen is in abundance, temperatures support carbon-based life-forms, and there aren't any large quantities of poisonous gases that might pose problems. Your mission is to secure a landing site, set up a camp, and locate edible flora and fauna. Stores aboard ship are running a bit low on food and it's projected to be another three weeks before the fleet reaches a station large enough to replenish supplies. Once identified, larger parties will be sent to the surface to help hunt and gather. The good news is, scans show fruits, vegetables, and animals are plentiful. The bad news is that once your ship lands on the planet, everything goes sideways. An unexpected ion storm sweeps through the solar system, shorting out communications between the fleet and the team. It wreaks havoc with the electronics planet-side too, temporarily shorting out the smaller craft's navigational array. Until it passes, about six standard days, you're stuck down there. And the bountiful harvest isn't without its dangers. Even the most docile looking animal will attack. Sampling the fruits and vegetables will cause temporary paralysis, hallucinations, and psychosis. Inhaling pollen will bring out a person's baser instincts. The planet itself is predatory, you see. Everything on it has evolved to entice visitors from nearby systems and kill them. And the fleet's unwittingly taken the bait. ➣ SCENARIO 003.  It's been a rough day. Everything's going wrong. Machines are breaking down everywhere. The owner of your favorite business wasn't there today and the store was closed when you stopped by to pick something up. A coworker didn't show up for work, leaving you with an interested workload. And now it feels like you're being watched. It started about ten minutes ago, but whenever you turn to look, there's no one there. The feeling doesn't go away, though. No matter where you are, it feels like eyes are watching. Did you hear something? A quiet, scuffling scratching sound just for a second? Maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. But it came from the misshapen monstrosity that just punched a hole through the bulkhead right beside you. The creature makes a low, wet gargling noises and darts toward you: six to seven feet tall, vaguely humanoid, and covered in strange growths over which is stretched bubbling grayish-brown skin. Maybe you notice tatters of familiar clothing hanging off of it. Or there's enough left of its eyes to recognize the shape and color. Or maybe something about the noises it's making sound familiar. It's your missing coworker and it looks like the unfortunate soul ran afoul of that weird slimy creature the science team brought back from that jungle planet a month ago. The good news: you can kill it. The bad news: it can kill you. It's fast, it's hungry, and it reproduces at an alarming rate. A single bite can transfer the parasites in its bloodstream to you. Then you'll be just like your buddy. And that shop owner you like so much. And all of the people on Level 12. And... ➣ SCENARIO 004.  You're welcomed and encouraged to make up your own scenarios. As you can see, there will be a wide variety of the types of things your character will encounter in this game. So feel free to make your starters as horrific, sexy, lighthearted, action-packed, or slice of life as you'd like. Make up a planet, make up a location on the Eluvio, make up a ship in the fleet, fight off a zombie alien invasion, NPC Captain Picard, there's no limit to what you can do on the TDM. |
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That thing? Which thing? [ Koumyou straightens up some, looking around for something out of place. Did he have another hitchhiking fluffball? ] I don't think I have a thing, do I?
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That thing! On your shoulders! [Says the boy whose shoulders are covered by fluffballs.] The sutra! That's a sutra, right?
[The more he thinks about it, the more certain he is. This guy doesn't really act like any of the Sanzos Goku's met, but he's got the uniform down pat (and, honestly, better than Sharak does). The others are all supposed to be dead but hey, weirder shit has happened!]
You're not Sanzo, are you?
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[ This is exciting! He hasn't met anyone from Shangri-la besides Ukoku, and that's was a very unique case. He didn't expect how comforted he'd be to see another person from his homeland. Belatedly, he realizes he hasn't answered the question, and he doesn't give him a chance to answer his own questions before adding hastily, ] I'm a Sanzo, yes. It's nice to meet someone from home.
[ He definitely doesn't sound like a proper Sanzo in the least. ]
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[Honestly, at this point, Goku would be more suspicious if he did sound like a proper Sanzo. Between Genjo, Sharak and Ukoku, he's really starting to wonder where the rest of the monks all got their idea of how Sanzos are supposed to act. Though, absentminded is probably better than pointing loaded guns at people or actively trying to kill him so Koumyou still has a leg up on the competition there.]
I guess it's nice to meet you too, but I thought there weren't any other Sanzos except my Sanzo 'n Sharak 'n- [that crow bastard] ... that other guy. Who the hell are you?
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Later, maybe, he'll have to think on what that might mean, if it meant anything at all. ] There are supposed to be five, though... some other circumstances here might make that less true than usual.
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[Goku doesn't know a lot about Sanzo's old master. Like a lot of things, Genjo Sanzo doesn't like to talk about him much. Goku's heard a little bit of second and third-hand temple gossip, some vague nonsense about how wise and illustrious he was and the basic overview of his connection to Genjo. Nothing that really painted a picture of an actual person. But there was the occasional, rare, brief story or quote from Sanzo that felt more real. Goku knows he loved him- which is enough for Goku to think he would have liked to meet the man.
But that doesn't mean he was expecting to.] No way!
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Now that I think of it, a name is hard to prove, isn't it?
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[Goku scrambles to his feet when Koumyou reaches down to him, sending one of the tribbles flying until Goku fumbles to catch it. Why is he having this conversation covered in tiny balls of fluff. Well, he's careful not to let any of them fall before resuming his disbelief.]
Koumyou Sanzo died ages ago. [Tactful. Goku's never been good with secrets, even when he does know he's supposed to keep them.] Sanzo told me!
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He is not left on nearly as unstable ground as he d been with the revelation that Ukoku was from a time of beyond his own. Outwardly, he takes it in stride, for all the questions it raises. Sanzo told him? A successor of Tenkai's legacy, maybe, given that this Sanzo has a youkai companion.
Or... ] You might be right. [ His voice is softer now. ] Was it my successor that told you?
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I know I'm right! [Or, well, he's pretty sure. Be kind of weird for Sanzo and Ukoku and everyone else to be lying about it. Still, Goku pauses. Koumyou doesn't feel like he's lying either...] Um, yeah, but...
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Then I am. I wouldn't ask you to doubt what you know. [ Not that, anyway. It's not the most reassuring statement to make, he's sure. ] You aren't too uncomfortable with ghosts, are you?
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[This is confusing. Is this really Koumyou? How? How could Goku possibly tell for sure? He wishes Sanzo was here, he'd know what was going on. He'd know what to do.]
... Man, I really don't get what's going on. Are ya sure you're Koumyou?
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He has to wonder what would happen if thIs heralded the arrival of his successor. Would they arrive without the sutra? Would there suddenly be more than one Seiten sutra? Playing fast and loose with the fabric of the universe was usually a bad idea, but now he's curious. Instead, he focuses on more important matters, ] But I'm not sure of your name.
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(That Genjo Sanzo might not show up, eventually, is just impossible.)]
I'm Goku. I've been friends with Sanzo for a while.
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Let's get your little friends settled in somewhere, and maybe you can tell me about your Sanzo.
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Yeah... [Obediently kneels down and starts collecting tribbles, holding his shirt out from his chest to carry them in.] Don't you already know Sanzo though?
[He knows Sanzo was pretty young when he got picked, but he did get picked. Koumyou was involved in that, as far as he knows.]
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[Koumyou obviously isn't dead (Goku sneakily tries to check for yellow eyes) and Goku knows what a person ripped to pieces by youkai looks like. Koumyou doesn't remember picking Genjo as his successor. What else doesn't he remember?]
... Hey, do ya know a kid called- um- [What was it what was it he's sure someone mentioned it once-] Kouryuu?
[This is a downright cunning way of gathering information, okay?]
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[ Which is a firm "no" to Goku's question. Koumyou is utterly enchanted by the thought that he might meet his successor when he's a young child, and he doesn't even try to keep the delight from his face. ]
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You know what, Sanzo's are already so weird this may as well happen too.]
Um, nah, I'd never call Sanzo cute. [To his face.] He'd probably hit me with his fan if I did. Sharak called him cute though! [Does that count? (Sanzo is going to reach through time and space to hit Goku)]