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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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[ Luke snorts and runs a hand through his hair. The idea of Vader trying to trap him on Bespin is unnerving, but he's not sure why. To finish what he started? Kill him so that he can finally snuff out the Skywalker family tree? Wasn't killing his father enough for the monster? ]
Don't know why Vader would be after you. Not when he'd probably rather catch the rest of the fleet, first. I was going to Bespin to find you. I thought you were in danger. So... maybe that part about Bespin being a trap is true. Was true.
[ He turns to start walking. Pacing, almost as he runs through the options in his head. ]
Why didn't you and Han make it to the rendezvous, anyway?
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She has to wonder: Was it about Luke all along? He did destroy the Death Star, after all, and he's special. ]
Long story. The Falcon's hyperdrive was damaged, and we ended up too close to the Imperial Fleet to do anything other than find somewhere to hide. [ Wait. She tilts her chin up, curious. ] How did you know we were on Bespin? [ Had the alliance noticed their absence? Did he sense it? ]
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[ He sounds a bit sheepish about that. As if it's not something he's entirely willing to share yet. ]
I had a vision of you in the clouds and that you were in danger. So... I left to go find you. All of you.
[ Basically he ditched his training to go be a big damn hero, because that's what Luke does. ]
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Thank you, Luke. [ To have a friend like Luke, willing to endanger himself, almost lifts her mouth into a smile, if not for his gesture leading him to loss. Well. Potential loss, she reminds herself, though Lando's tale seems more and more true with every detail they piece together. ] In the vision, did you see — was it just danger or was it Vader?
[ How does the force work, anyway?? ]
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[ Luke frowns and tries to remember the vision and the sense that had drawn him away from his training and dashing straight into danger. ]
Just that you were in danger and that there was pain. Yoda told me I should wait, but I wasn't about to sit around while you were all in trouble!
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[ whatever may or may not come — it has to be less relevant than everything before them in this moment. ]
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[ Luke nods firmly. That is important. Leia, at least, is here and safe. Now he just gets to worry about Han and Chewie - especially after hearing about the whole carbonite freeze thing. ]
We'll figure a way out of this. We always do, right?
[ And there's that boyish, incredibly optimistic grin. ]