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// 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Okay something's not right here. He knows he and Luke aren't exactly close without Han and Leia around, but the guy should at least know him. ]

Luke, it's me. Lando. You hit your head or something?

[ Luke shifts the tribble in his arms so it's a little more out of the way. His right hand is free now - he's run into more than enough bounty hunters and Imperial agents to know that things can get ugly really fast. ]

Sorry, but I don't know anyone named Lando. And last time I checked, the Millennium Falcon belonged to Han Solo.

And before it belonged to him, it belonged to me.

[ Something's obviously messed with Luke's head here. This isn't right. ]

I'm only borrowing it while you, Han, and Leia are leading the attack on Endor. I was about to go join you, before I got pulled here. Don't you remember any of that?

Funny, I don't remember him ever mentioning a friend named "Lando".

[ Luke grimaces. He's feeling more than a little on edge now, especially with this Lando guy talking about some sort of attack on a planet he's never heard of in his life. ]

I've never heard of Endor - I was on my way to Bespin to find them. So maybe you can explain how you picked up their ship.

[ Lando rolls his eyes. So it's time that's been messed with, not Luke. ]

They came to Bespin to find me. That all happened a year ago. Look, I can explain everything if you'll just trust me.

[ He can't explain why Luke doesn't remember the last year, but... ] Wait... Show me your hands.

Find you-?

[ Luke's voice sparks with disbelief, confusion, and more than a touch of anger. His brow furrows and his voice starts to rise until Lando asks him an incredibly silly question. He blinks, taken aback and then glances down at his own hands. ]

My hands? Why?

[ Lando sighs. Guess they're doing this here and now. ]

When you came to Bespin, Vader... he was there waiting for you. It was all a trap. You two fought, you came away in pretty bad shape. You'd lost your right hand and were hanging off the bottom of Cloud City by the time we found you.

This is some kind of joke, right?

[ He holds out his right hand and flexes his fingers at Lando. ]

My right hand is fine and I haven't even set foot on Bespin yet. Probably never will now, thanks to this side-trip.

[ The idea that Lando is somehow from his future is too weird to contemplate. ]

How do I know this isn't just some weird story you're making up? [ Although, to be fair, what would making something like that up actually gain Lando? ]

Why would I joke about something like that?

[ All this would be easier if Luke was just a little more trusting. Lando can understand why he isn't, but it's no fun to be on the receiving end of all that skepticism. ]

I know you don't want to believe me, but I'm telling you it happened. I was there. I pulled you into the Falcon myself.

[ Luke's face is still set in a disbelieving scowl, but he's also trying to stretch out with the force. He's still not that great at this, but he's not really picking up anything deceitful from Lando. Just confusion and disbelief, at least on the surface. After a long moment of staring, he finally sighs. ]

You know how crazy that sounds, right? I don't remember any of that. If what you're saying is true, it hasn't even happened yet.

For you, maybe, but it's happened for me.

[ He rubs a hand over his forehead, frowning. ]

I don't know what the deal is with these "anomalies" that bring us here, but it looks like it's messing with our memories or something. [ Or maybe just time, because Luke's hand sure doesn't look like a prosthetic. ]

I don't know all that much about subspace, but you really think that my memory's been altered? I feel like something would be more... "off" if I really was forgetting all this stuff you're talking about!

[ Luke really doesn't want to buy into the idea that he might somehow be missing whole chunks of time. There's no way he's been that badly affected by whatever sub-space-whatsit brought him here. ]

Well something's wrong. We'd been working together for a whole year trying to get Han back, and now you don't even know who I am!

[ If it wasn't the anomalies messing with them, Lando didn't know what to blame it on. ]

Wait, get Han back? What's that supposed to mean? What happened?

[ This is very alarming, why is Han in danger? ]

[ Of course, Luke wouldn't know. ]

Vader sold Han out to the bounty hunters Jabba sent after him. Froze him in carbonite and shipped him off to Tattooine.

[ He raises a hand, anticipating a bad reaction to this news. ] Don't worry, though, between the four of us, you, me, Leia, and Chewie, we got him unfrozen.

He what? That's crazy!

[ Luke looks a bit stunned and more than a little weirded out. ]

You know how insane this all sounds, right?

Look, kid, we got caught up in some "anomaly" and shipped off to who knows where, and you think I'd lie about this? What point would that even serve?

[ He can't deny it sounds a little larger than life, but hey, that's just the way things have been lately. ]

I don't know...!

[ Lando does make a good point. Why would he make it all up? ]

It's just hard to think of that as real, OK? You're talking about stuff that hasn't happened - might not even happen at all!

[ Always in motion, the future is. ]

[ Lando just takes a deep breath. ]

Believe what you want. It doesn't change what happened-- or what will happen. I wish I could prove it to you, I really do, but I can't. So you'll just have to take my word. For whatever that's worth to you.

[ Luke sucks in a deep breath and gives Lando a long, hard look. He's not that used to reading people with the force. Not yet. He can sort of sense some of the turbulent emotions that roll off of Lando, but he can't really do any deep diving. Not that he wants to, either. Finally, Luke does what he usually does - goes with his gut and takes a chance. ]

Well - it's just hard to believe. That's all. So I guess I'll take your word for it, but if everything works out... maybe I can change that future.

[ Lando chuckles. He's relieved that Luke seems to have accepted what he's told him, and that optimism is just as expected from the young Jedi. ]

Heh. Who knows, kid, maybe you can.

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