eluviomods: (Default)
ELUVIO MODS ([personal profile] eluviomods) wrote in [community profile] thespacebar2017-01-25 01:42 pm
Entry tags:

// 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.



Welcome to Oros! It's no vacation destination and you're in for an interesting ride. While the planet is big, there's not much to explore beyond the vast, stretching reaches of a boiling hot, red desert. Which means it's fun for the whole family!

There are hostile aliens on the planet who aren't taking kindly to you, an alien on their planet. They're stronger than you and you're out numbered. Likely out gunned, too. But, really, good luck! You'll be coming back alive.

For more information on the planet and things that may be found there, please go here and give it a read! There you can also find the missions completed in game should you need any additional prompt. Whatever you can imagine that fits with the setting itself works!

[ PLEASE NOTE: Threads taking place on Oros cannot be used as game canon, as they required prior signups to participate, but the setting is provided so that you can get an idea of just one of the kinds of events that will be in game! ]



➣ 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, there's no limit to what you can do on the TDM.
angele: (017. ❚)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'm directionally challenged right now.

[ Not lost. No one said she was lost! ]
jarred: (naudhiz.)

[personal profile] jarred 2017-01-26 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
And you need saving from that?
estrayer: (s t a r e)

002

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Beside her, there's a quick flash of pale light, before Jace brings his seraph blade down through those vines. The ends he cuts off blacken and shrivel as soon as they're separated, while the living ends retreat back up the tree. Jace's hard stare follows them.

They haven't been here long enough to get even half of what they need, and he's already sick of it. Already he can hear the vines rustling in the trees, like they're gearing up for a fresh attack. Moving quickly, he lowers the blade and turns to Dom, nodding his head forward.
]

You aren't wrong. This whole place is out to kill us. Anything that bites us once isn't staying alive to do it twice.

Are you coming?

[ He's already on the move, looking back to make sure she's coming. ]
angele: (035. ❚)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I need at least a door opened.

Just one, though.
jarred: (uruz.)

[personal profile] jarred 2017-01-26 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Admit you're lost first.
estrayer: (s a i n t l y)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Alec. ]

they'll be there no matter what. best way to protect them is showing them how

don't tell me you disapprove.
jarred: (naudhiz.)

[personal profile] jarred 2017-01-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ still pressed about clary, dnw repeats ]

How to move out of the way of the competent fighters.

Of inviting more liabilities onto the field?


[ what do you think, buddy ]
estrayer: (s m i l e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, if that's how she wants to play it, he needs to look no further. Jace turns around, lips curving in a little smirk. He's tall and stocky, and wearing a t-shirt that leaves his arms on show. Both they, and his neck, are peppered with runs. Aware of it, he lifts his chin. ]

That won't be a problem. You heard what I said about packing a punch?

[ Just to make sure. He's already loosening his shoulders, though, falling into an easy an natural stance. He's done this so many times before, he barely needs to think about it. ]
angele: DNT. (037. ❚)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I am maybe kinda a little bit


lost.
estrayer: (j u d g e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This feels familiar. He should have known. ]

we're not controlling this field, and the people we're working for don't restrict their intake to people like us. they're not the clave, alec.

we want to help these people, we have to do it ourselves.


[ He left their world in a mess. If there's nothing he can do about that right now, at least he can do something about this. ]
estrayer: (b r o o d y)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
both of them.

[ Which he'd taken for granted, actually. Clary obviously hadn't. Maybe she thinks Valentine would've taken them.

Maybe Valentine will take them. Jace's left hand curls into a fist. Don't think about it. Focus on what's at hand.
]

you know you have to keep up your training.

[personal profile] soldierseyes 2017-01-26 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Why should I tell you?
I don't even know you.


[Translation: He has no clue.]
jarred: (hagalaz.)

[personal profile] jarred 2017-01-26 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ off camera: the pettiest heheheheheh ]

Fine. Can you tell me anything that's going to help me find you, or should I get ready to search the entire ship?

[personal profile] soldierseyes 2017-01-26 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Glaring at it isn't going to do anything, idiot.

[The last thing Yuri had wanted was to go down onto the planet but he hadn't really gotten a say in the matter. And it sucked. What sucked even worse, though he'd never admit it, was that he didn't have anyone familiar with him. So when the storm had swept through? The angry blonde teen had been stuck with a more docile blonde teen.

Great.

Pushing his hair out of his face, the sopping wet locks not really wanting to stay where he puts them, Yuri glares at his companion though he is watching that fluffy thing warily.]


Just shoot it or something.
angele: (043. ❚)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of more than ever now.

We don't really know what we'll be dealing with here.
jarred: (kenaz.)

[personal profile] jarred 2017-01-26 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ someday, someday jace will listen to him. ]

That doesn't mean inviting them into harm's way when we know they aren't capable.
backwatertrooper: (determined - things happen then)

[personal profile] backwatertrooper 2017-01-26 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Stiffening at the tone, Cloud glances over at the other boy, a grimace briefly on his face. He doesn't really turn towards Yuri, which is only... partly because he doesn't want to take his attention off the creature. Mostly because that tone doesn't really do anything for Cloud's mood and it's very... familiar. In a bad way.]

... Don't even know if it's dangerous. [A look to the thing, which tilts its head and blinks at them. It's definitely taken a step or two closer to them, though... Cloud's frown deepens and he shakes his head, but while his spikes are still mostly standing despite being sodden, his bangs are slicked to his forehead.]

And it'd be stupid, to waste ammunition if it's harmless.
estrayer: (g e n t l e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That stings. Frustration rolls through Jace. ]

i'm not the one inviting them into harm's way

but if that's where they're at, because they're on an alien planet with no way home, i want them to know how to deal with it
you could help me do it, you know.
angele: (048. ❚)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If I wasn't stuck, I would almost be tempted to let that happen.

I took a right down a hall by a stall called "Beat Our Meats" (it's a butcher's shop) and thought I saw what looked like a sign for a bathroom. Then there was a door and now we're here.
nodyinteam: (watch my back)

[personal profile] nodyinteam 2017-01-26 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right! [He moves along with gusto.]

And not just any old team manager... I'm a Super High School Level Team Manager! That's my talent! I've worked with countless athletes over the years!
cargoed: (Default)

[personal profile] cargoed 2017-01-27 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
our hanger????
like on our ship??? slash castle???
yeah
that one?
ashighasidare: (1)

Shay | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[personal profile] ashighasidare 2017-01-27 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
(Scenario 3)
[First of all, her job was strange as it was, but now she had to sew an entire stack of work for three people all on her own. She wasn't upset at the task but concerned that getting it all done would be a problem. People who expected these back today were going to be upset. She might look bad but so were her dear co-workers.]

[Shay was enjoying her life on this ship, even if it hadn't been long at all. it was so... different! So lively! The ship itself didn't talk to her like a Balmera did, but everything else did.]

[Thus when sounds echoed in behind the wall she was working near she had been surprised. Pressing her hand to it, she spoke so softly.]
Are you unwell, ship? Is someone there?

[She felt the hit on the other side, and just as she drew back something broke through the bulkhead, trying it's hardest to grab for her.]

[Someone dressed in the same uniform as her co-worker. Someone with the same bright eye (only one now) as the person she had been working with.]


Oh no... [She spoke out softly, drawing back in surprise.] What has happened to you, my friend...

[It attacked and she tried her best to dodge it. The large stone woman moved well enough for someone with her stature, slipping past tables and carefully throwing large objects back behind her as she ran out a door into a corridor. She had barely managed to slap the door closed behind her, hearing the creature hit the door with impressive force.]

[Hand to her chest she sucked in a deep breath. Shay was a pacifist at all times possible. She never wanted to hurt anyone, but that was scary.]

[The lights in this hall flickered, and the scraping sound of something moving at the other end was growing louder. Floor 12 seemed to have a problem, and she needed to move.]





(Scenario: Network)
[Video | un: balmeranheart]

[The video shows bright yellow eyes and dark stone like skin looking down into the video. A kindhearted smile is given.]

I have only been here for a few days but I have decided one thing is for sure. Communicating this way is new for me, but I find the face to face communications, even if you are not in the same location, to be interesting. Fun, perhaps.

Is it like this for everyone? Back in their homes, I mean. I know of such technologies but I have rare the chance to use them.

[She smiles larger now, hoping to make contact with others some how. This is all new for her, all of it, and she looks forward to widening her universal views.]
sweatysometimes: (:|a)

Re: 2!

[personal profile] sweatysometimes 2017-01-27 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Pidge is comfortable with her skills and seems entirely unphased by the task before her. Reaching into the bag she begins to rummage around and pulls out a fresh cable which she sets to swapping into the ship's communication array, nearly half her (admittedly diminutive) body into the tangle of wiring and circuitry.

"Yeah, the ion storm's gone but it's really messed with our electronics. I haven't been able to get a solid connection with the fleet since it went through. Hoping it's just residual interference, but I'm trying new parts, just in case. She grunts and shimmies free.

"Where's Hunk to do engineering stuff when I need him, huh?" She glances at Cloud. "You wouldn't know anything about starship systems, would you?"
mullet: (002)

[personal profile] mullet 2017-01-27 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ w h at ]

i...never really thought about that. but, kind of, i guess.
mullet: (007)

[personal profile] mullet 2017-01-27 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
no
it
is
not.