// TEST DRIVE MEME_

[eluviomods]

// 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.

Comments

[canadese]

[Here to distract Tobias from his introspection is the one person on the ship least likely to ever pay attention to edible toxicity warnings. Meaning: he definitely has still been ingesting the berries, and he doesn't even the excuse that it came from prey animals.

He actually was looking for Tobias, specifically, but with the hallucinogenics wreaking havoc on his senses it's only accident that he stumbles across him now. Stumbles literally, because he still doesn't have the best balance on two legs at the best of times. And he only sees him because of the obvious spectacle he's making of himself.

At least he doesn't currently have the brain cells to rub together and register how anxious Tobias seems. It's enough that Tobias is here! Ax likes when he is around, and right now that is crowding out all other details. He attempts the human wave gesture and only succeeds in tipping himself over to lean on the nearby tree.

He also forgot how to speak a bit ago, so thought-speak it is.]

<Hello, Tobias. Have you already surveyed this area?>

[bird_boy]

[ Ax's behavior when he is in his human morph is usually a bit... odd, but Tobias has never seen him quite like this, before. It's enough to detach his mind from worrying about how Taylor could have possibly gotten here, on some unnamed unknown planet, and what she might be planning, what she might want from him. Tobias drops down to a lower branch, just a few feet above where Ax is leaning.

Tobias' head tilts to the side slightly when he notices how loose and uncoordinated that wave is. Besides, it's not trouble at this distance for him to see that Ax's pupils are extremely dilated. He should ask Cassie what that means-

But, no. Cassie isn't here. He'd forgotten, for a moment. ]

<Why? Did you see something, Ax-man?>

literally a month later

[canadese]

[At first Ax just nods in response, mostly because he knows it's the appropriate human response to such a question, and playing along sounds like a really entertaining thing to do right now. Then he gets distracted by the physical sensation of nodding. After a few seconds, he remembers he's in the middle of a conversation.]

<Yes. I mean, no. I have not seen anything that would cause alarm. I was asking because you are already here. But I did find a number of berries that hadn't been catalogued yet.>

[He sounds as serious as it is possible to be about mysterious berries that he may or may not have eaten.]

[bird_boy]

[ Ax nodding isn't really worthy of note - he'd picked that up quickly as a gesture humans used and understood. But him just standing there and nodding for a solid thirty seconds, grinning at himself and seeming to forget Tobias is even there? That's pretty weird, even for his Andalite friend. ]

<Ax? Buddy? You didn't eat any of the, uh, 'uncatalogued' berries, by any chance, did you?>

[ He doesn't know why he even bothers asking. Since when has Ax in human morph been able to resist stuffing his face with whatever is around him, edible or no? Can Tobias really expect a guy who will happily chomp down cigarette butts to restrain himself around some shiny berries, particularly when supplies have been so tight on the ship lately? ]

[canadese]

[He manages to keep his head steady, but the concentration it takes means he can't quite keep standing and ends up sliding slowly down the tree until he's sitting on the ground. He doesn't seem to have noticed; he keeps eye contact with Tobias as steadily as possible.]

<There was no more efficient way to catalogue them.>

[Come on, Tobias, what are you even doing with your time.]