// 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. 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.

Comments

un: rhy5-w1nz

[agenda]

constellations get waaaay old when you live on a space station for too long my dude

planetwise, most places i've been to are total hellholes (like think of the worst place ever? add endless desert. fill it with bandits. cannibal bandits. now, whatever you're imaging? make it worse) but eden-6 is supposed to be sweet! actually, all the edens are super expensive vacation locales. i assume they'll be my favorite eventually!

[ when he's super rich and vacationing there nonstop!! ]

[bayarm]

[ at least it's a distraction from insomnia? ]

The others will probably go back. [ shiro, too. though he could also imagine that pidge will only go back after she's found her father and brother, that hunk might want to visit shay again first. ]

[juniberries]

[Lord help me having to come up with Altea headcanons...

A handful of ticks later.]

I am actually curious about hearing more about Earth. YOUR Earth. I realize that I have never asked any of you much about your homeplanet.

[juniberries]

The quad? Might I ask what that is?

lance - voltron

[cargoed]

• S C E N A R I O 002

[ see, the thing is, lance was prepared for this.

he's a paladin of freaking voltron, after all! which means he's got experience, he's got knowledge, and he's got freaking talent to do this kind of thing and do it well. he and blue could take on entire armes, have taken on entire armies, so what was the harm in going on a mission to a seemingly peaceful planet and securing a landing site?

easy peasy.

you know, until it's not.

but that's the thing - lance is also used to seemingly peaceful planets turning around and kind of totally freaking destroying you. granted, his experience with that tends to lend towards galra fighters and galra ships and galra armies, a whole crew of aliens he's pretty decently awesome at actually fighting. but the planet itself? from the grass to the trees to the actual air around him? all trying to kill him?

that was new.

new, but not impossible. because nothing is impossible. even if it's just him and a couple of other people who are way in out of their league on a murderous angry planet and- you know, suddenly he understands what hunk meant when he said that killer food was his worst nightmare. never in his life did he think that an entire planet's flora and fauna would both, simultaneously, try to kill him. and yet here they are. ]

Hey- hey! [ lance stumbles a bit as he kicks at a vine reaching out to wrap around his leg. they're trying to check down the next ridge, looking for something - anything - that could be a little cleaner. so far, nothing. but lance is about to let the rest of the crew continue on without him. ] Hold on a sec!

• N E T W O R K

username: bluesthenewblack

so!

[ there is no rhyme or reason to when this post will get sent out to the rest of the network. no actual pattern to a time of day or night or place in the universe. it is just sent, because someone seems to have a few extra minutes, and apparently is bored enough to actually try. ]

pool party? anyone? yes? hello?
its way too boring around here and parties work great for the whole
~stuck in space forever~ downers :D
especially ones in pools, or with pools, when they aren't trying to kill you.

so. party. whos with me?????

AGNIESZKA | uprooted

[ariose]

TWO
[Being given the mission had practically been a dream. A chance to get her feet on real soil. But something had felt off as soon as they'd landed. A foreboding that felt dreadfully familiar.

She's beginning to recognise it now, closed away in the shelter of the ship, checking over what few crates they'd managed to fill with fruit and vegetables before the storm rolled in. Scanning over them with the devices they've been provided haven't given her cohesive answers, and eventually the feeling of unease guides her to pulling a glove off. Picking one of the fruits up. Just in time.]

Don't eat that!

[Immediate, reaching to knock a piece of the fruit out of the hands of whoever's nearest.]

It's poison. [She stares at the crates in horror.] All of it's poison.

[It's like the Wood. It's like she's back in the heart of the Wood, malice in the seeds and roots and blood of everything around them.]

FOUR (REUSING TRIBBLES FROM LAST TDM)
[The first creature, as odd as it was, had been a welcome sight. Aside from the atrium - where she spent as much time as possible - everything here felt cold and unnatural. Coming back to her assigned room to find the ball of fur, had seemed like a comfort. A little warm spot of life outside of the other crew.

But that had been the first one.

Now she's in disarray, hair tugged loose from her braid and suit scuffed and covered in fur, hauling two great armfuls of the fluffy things out of her room. The corridor outside already has a sizeable pile, and she pauses to stare it in dismay. She's certain it had been smaller only a moment ago.]

Why do you keep breeding?

[She can almost hear Sarkan's voice in her mind, dryly asking if she, Agnieszka of Dvernik, was demanding a living creature make sense.]

But it doesn't make sense. [Objecting to a man who isn't there, but she's beyond caring if she looks crazy. She's a witch who lives in the wood. She's been beyond it for a while.] It doesn't make any sense at all.

WILDCARD
[Hit me with whatever! Agnieszka's likely to spend a lot of time in the atrium (you might even find her "singing" to the plants), or learning (slowly) about the science and technology available on the ship (so she'll be a bit shaky on network usage, but I'm open to that too!)]

[avicula]

it's a planetary system in the j cluster
let me guess, you've never heard of it?

network, un: altea

[juniberries]

And just where is this pool party being held, Lance?

• N E T W O R K (un: paladin)

[bayarm]

Please tell me you're not intending to host a pool party in the Castle.

[ isn't the pool upside down there, anyway?? ]

[cargoed]

/details/ princess
they'll all come together when the stars align
and there are a LOT of stars out here
someones just gotta be ready to get it all there and bring it over the finish line
i am prepared to make that sacrifice

[cargoed]

im not
NOT
intending to host a pool party in the castle
:D

un: elijah

[cogere]

How intense are your rounds, usually?

[avicula]

depends
how intense a round can you handle?

Pidge Gunderson | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[sweatysometimes]

002

Today is not a good day, as far as Pidge is concerned. Sure, it'd start off normally enough--go check out the alien planet! Easy enough, right? Not like she's not done this kind of thing before. She's lingering next to the transport ship, neck deep in wiring and compare parts as she tries to get something working again after the ion storm has fried their systems. Muttering to herself, she plugs another set of wires in and waits as she stares at he diagnostic display. Her face lights up with a hopeful little smile as the screen chimes into life, glowing green for the briefest of moments before it goes red with an annoying, all too familiar buzzing klaxon, a bright red 'X' blinking consistently.

"Quiznak!" She curses and tugs the wiring free, searching for an alternative set.

"There's gotta be some way to break through the storm, right? Will you hand me the bag over there?" She gestures back behind her towards a utility bag, a few wires and other bits sticking free.

"I think I can get this working if I just have a little more time."

Wild card!

Got another idea for interacting with Pidge? Just throw it up here and I'll get to it.

[bayarm]

Allura might have something to say about that.
Not to mention the potential security risks.

[ honestly? he likes most of the people aboard the eluvio that he's gotten to know so far, but it's a matter of principle. ]

[juniberries]

[I mean she's not necessarily against the idea of hosting a party...despite what happened the last time they did so, buuuut...]

So what you are essentially saying is that you are calling for this party to be held on the Castle-ship. Without having asked me first.

Yuri Plisetsky | Yuri!!! on Ice

[soldierseyes]

[Three.]

[It was a damn good thing that Yuri was fast. The instant he'd come face to face with the monstrous thing that was most definitely wearing shredded pieces of his employer's clothing, he'd turned tail and run away. The beast wasn't so easily thrown off though and had clambered after Yuri, causing the teen to panic a bit as he tried to figure out where to go, where to hide--]

Out of the way!

[The words are barked out at a woman that was starting to come through a doorway and she immediately stumbled back and hit the door lock.

Well. Great for her.

Yuri cursed under his breath and turned quickly down a hallway, skidding slightly as he went before scrambling to duck into room, not caring who's it was or what was inside. He slammed his hand against the door controls and the door slid shut just as the monster lunged and Yuri stumbled backwards just as the door closed on the creature's outstretched hand, taking off a few digits in the process.]

Gross. [Frowning as he kicked at one of the digits while scooting backwards on his butt, Yuri finally let himself relax. At least momentarily.

What the hell was going on??]


[Wildcard. NETWORK]

So when can we get off this stupid ship?

Getting chased around by mutated freaks isn't something I want a repeat of.


[Wildcard.]

(Got something else in mind? Throw it my way!)

[cargoed]

allura kept the pool a secret from us all this time
really she kind of brought this on herself
PLUS
it's huge
have you seen it? cause i have. H U G E

[ listen, it may be on the ceiling but they'll figure something out.

lance wants to go swimming. he needs to go swimming, shiro. ]

network ► un: killjoy

[avicula]

[ the woman looking back at special agent dale cooper is not named diane, nor has she ever heard of truman, the bureau or even planet earth. she's also wearing a rather amused smile. ]

You do realise you're broadcasting a bit too broadly, don't you?

[bayarm]

You didn't bother to check if there's a public pool, did you?

[ no playing with the gravity controls on the castle!! ]

[cargoed]

[ but!!!!! ]

..........
there's a public pool?

[bayarm]

[ no! down, lance. ]

There's a public pool.

[cargoed]

i wasnt going to ask once i knew there was interest!
you are an important part of this party!!!!
but i didnt want to get your hopes up until i had some attendees to speak for it :D

[ blah blah blah its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission ]

[cargoed]

how big is this public pool
is it heated
is there a diving board

[ BUT DAD PLS ]

network. un: elijah.

[cogere]

[ for a moment, elijah considers ignoring this rather personal broadcast. however, in the interest of decorum, he deigns to reply, voice even. ]

Apologies for the intrusion. I believe you've made a technical error. [ his mouth tilts slightly — not a smile, but perhaps the beginning of one. ] Although I do look like a Diane.

[ jokes!! ]