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



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.
thisisourfuture: (...got to be kidding me.)

[personal profile] thisisourfuture 2017-02-06 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He had been about to present a counter argument about all the cases they've dealt with among the teams that came down. Hinata blinks.]

What?

No! You know what my face and head looks like!
thisisourfuture: (pic#10472142)

[personal profile] thisisourfuture 2017-02-06 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
U-um, yeah. [He has to take a minute to think about that. Hinata glances back the way he came. Ven had said his name is cool. He coughs, embarrassed by trying not to show it as he keeps talking.]

It's a bit of a trek back that way. I didn't bring any of it with me because I was afraid I'd drop it or something. I didn't want to waste the doctors efforts.

Maybe I should have.
yeshomo: (that you should survive as well as me)

[personal profile] yeshomo 2017-02-06 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
My list of things that are more fun than punching is very short.

[something on there might rhyme with duck]
wizardguard: (Default)

[personal profile] wizardguard 2017-02-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
maybe it's worth looking for her separately to find her quicker

I search one half
you the other
we meet in the middle


[ as much as he'd really like to see her immediately, the idea of a little witch wandering around with the power to turn people into stone whenever she feels threatened spells trouble. ]

is this place magic do you think?
wizardguard: (pic#11015251)

( video )

[personal profile] wizardguard 2017-02-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
What is an alien?

[ Sorry, he's unfamiliar with the word where he's from. And the sight of blood on the woman's cheek is worrying. ]

If you're hurt, my friend is a healer. [ She practically nursed him back to life. ] A talented one.
dollfie: (But you'll never know)

[personal profile] dollfie 2017-02-07 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a god?

[Look with everything else on this ship ad stuff she's seen in her world, it's a legitimate question]

Nope! Pino is Pino! A dollfie is a type of doll, I think? Which is rude, Pino is not a doll!

I'm an AutoRiev!
eggclipse: in reality i dont actually care (006)

[personal profile] eggclipse 2017-02-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Here I thought that cleaning up after said mistakes would suffice. How wrong I was.

Coffee is a good start toward anything. Perhaps you're not completely hopeless.

[personal profile] ex_forcechoke292 2017-02-07 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He thinks to keep pressing the point--were she someone he knew, he might have done so--but the admonishment is focusing. He doesn't know just what he can get away with quite yet, but coming up short and failing here is something he won't forgive himself for. The Order would likely call it unbecoming to fall into an acquaintance so easily, but they're not here to tell him no, and it's not their summation he worries about.

It's saving face...while maybe actually saving face.

For the first few moments, all he can hear is the quiet crunch of the planet beneath their feet, but he still can't shake the sense that something is there. Off a short distance away is another snap, coming from ahead of him, rather than behind. Was that it? He assumes he's being followed, so he doesn't stop to explain, and instead moves to follow the sound.

And suddenly stops short. Just ahead in a small clearing is, indeed, a small, fluffy "thing". It looks the way Gwen's described it, right down to the ridiculous ears that look like a furred relative of a gungan.

He scoffs lightly, and takes a moment to look back.]


That thing's your vicious biter?

[Gwen, it looks harmless.]
nodyinteam: (light hearted)

[personal profile] nodyinteam 2017-02-07 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He blinks for a moment and then guffaws.]

Gahahaha! I thought so! But Souda was trying to tell me otherwise... [He points towards a mop in the corner.

Of course, he still hasn't injected himself.]
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[personal profile] virtualbytes 2017-02-07 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm...

[ She can't help but hum to herself, hand rested on her chin, deep in thought as she tries to mull what exactly is going on with their situation. ]

If he's not after you, I wonder what he wants. You didn't see where he came from, did you? There might be clues as to what happened.
thecopper: (✴ the promise has been broken)

[personal profile] thecopper 2017-02-07 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gwen long ago embraced failing as a starting point for most of the changes in her life. Letting loose a killer alien the first day on your job proved to be a humbling experience, and Gwen was using to screwing up at Torchwood.

Granted, most of Torchwood was used to screwing up. Kind of part of the territory.

Another part of the territory is trusting other people's instincts, and Gwen isn't about to second-guess him. It's easy to follow his lead - there is an air of confidence around him that makes it easy - easier so when she hears something shift in front of them. She doesn't say anything, simply raising her eyebrows as if to ask Is that what you heard? before continuing to move in tandem with him. ]


Shit...

[ That is definitely it, maybe slightly smaller with a bit more fluff in the ears than the last one she saw. Maybe a male of the species? Right so, Gwen, pretending you are an expert on alien rabbit biology. ]

Don't get too close. It's far nastier than it looks.

[ Of course, right now, it looks absolutely adorable, munching on something in its cute little mouth as its ears twitched. ]
thecopper: <user site="livejournal.com" user="doras_icons"> (✴ the most innocent things)

[personal profile] thecopper 2017-02-07 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine, honestly. It's... not my blood.

[ That. Probably does not make it better. ]

Uh, an alien... It's something from another planet than your own. Could be any sort of thing, really, could look human or completely different.
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[personal profile] itssacrifice 2017-02-07 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I really need to work on broadening your horizons then.

We can start with something simple; grocery shopping.

Come with and I'll make you whatever you want for dinner.
itssacrifice: (Capture15)

[personal profile] itssacrifice 2017-02-07 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Depends who you ask.]

Not exactly. But I do have some...special abilities.

Sorry. I didn't mean any offense.

What's an AutoRiev?
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[personal profile] itssacrifice 2017-02-07 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well there wouldn't be much to clean up if you never made any mistakes in the first place. What's the fun in that?

Keep up the sweet talk and I'll rescind my offer.
fujita: (— 007)

[personal profile] fujita 2017-02-07 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
okay, we'll do that

[ dorothy wants to see him, too — to make sure that he's not hiding any new injuries, that he isn't about to keel over, that he's really here and okay and she isn't alone. but she can wait; sylvie can't if she's on board, alone and probably scared. ]

no, this is science. technology.

[ science, not magic. it reminds her of the moments before their first kiss, of how she'd told lucas that the science behind her phone playing music was magic, too. it had felt magical, in that moment. this place? it doesn't feel like that at all. ]
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[personal profile] partyleader 2017-02-07 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[She makes a noise of agreement and nods.] It'll be new actually moving my body instead of a controller... But I won't back down from a challenge. I'm looking forward to it!

[Nanami is so much smaller that she has to take two steps to Nidai's one, but she keeps pace with him without too much issue.] This ship is pretty incredible... They have so much here. It's a shame it's so hard to find games here, but even the place itself is still interesting. Reminds me a little bit of that one American game series where you have to save the galaxy from being exterminated, but that ship was much smaller. [She could talk about that game for a while, but she tries to shift her focus back to the conversation's original starting point.] Is the training center below or above us?
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[personal profile] partyleader 2017-02-07 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[The pace has breath painfully sawing through her lungs, but she forces herself to keep up. She won't let anything happen to Hinata because she couldn't keep up with him. And something will happen if they don't hurry - Hinata's hand on her and the fact that she's forcing herself not to think about the snarling thing behind them is the only thing that keeps her as calm as she is.

But her eyes are good, if she has nothing else going for her right now, even with tears burning at the corners, and Nanami spots what he's talking about easily. A stab of relief shoots through her.]
I see it, we're almost there...! [Forming coherent words is hard right now, but she forces them out anyway.] Hinata-kun, is there- Can we lock the doors from the other side?!
wizardguard: (pic#11015228)

[personal profile] wizardguard 2017-02-07 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
it's impressive

[ a little overwhelming but at least they're away from anyone who wants to kill Dorothy here.

he almost says something along the lines of looks like we're both a long way from home now but he isn't sure he has a home anymore. can he call somewhere home if he remembers nothing about growing up there? he isn't sure he belongs anywhere...

the only place he's felt a semblance of belonging is by Dorothy's side. ]


at least I have my sword

do you have your gun?
[ the weapon he hates but at least it will protect her. ]
wizardguard: (pic#11015255)

[personal profile] wizardguard 2017-02-07 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... Did you kill it?

[ Or should Lucas be at the ready with his sword? ]

That description fits my friend.

[ He may need to have a conversation with said friend later. ]
fujita: (— 005)

[personal profile] fujita 2017-02-07 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ lucas is home — not the person but the town, that's what they'd both meant at the time. she still thinks that, and she still wants to go home, but if she can't have that? having lucas here is something. she's not sure how it can mean so much already when she's known him for such a short time period, but it does. ]

it is
this is a lot more technology than i'm used to, too


[ dorothy doesn't like the gun, either. it scares her how dangerous it's made her in oz, how powerful, and she hates that she's hurt people, that she's killed. ]

yeah, i have it with me

i'll put a message on this network to ask if anyone's seen sylvie
and that they shouldn't approach her if she's scared but call one of us
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[personal profile] catphishing 2017-02-07 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'd heard shouting, but everything's been so peaceful here. He'd been assuming kids.

And now... well, Gwen's the most dangerous looking person here. He looks around carefully, trying to see if he can make out whoever's been chasing her. There's no one there that even remotely matches that description.]


Are you sure...?
thisisourfuture: (...is this really how it ends?)

[personal profile] thisisourfuture 2017-02-07 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw the hole. He was to my left when I realized he was there. [Hinata sits down in her spare chair as he runs back over his morning. He doesn't know the layout of the ship well enough to guess.]

...I can show you. It might be safe to go back there with him occupied by security.
thisisourfuture: (...if you say so.)

[personal profile] thisisourfuture 2017-02-07 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I see that? [He indicates the injector tool while sighing. Of course. It isn't Nidai's fault. Other than injecting the fruit in the first place, but details.]
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[personal profile] thisisourfuture 2017-02-07 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It won't matter. He punched a hole through a wall! We'll have to think of something once we shut the doors behind us.

[If he remembers right there is a panel to read dog tags on the left side of doors. Maybe next time he's running for his life he'll keep his on his wrist for easier access. Hinata tugs his dog tags out with a quick jerk of two fingers. It's lucky the cord around his neck didn't snap.]

I'm going to stop the moment we reach the panel. I'll let it read my dog tags and sling you inside.

[This could go okay. Or terrible. His biggest priority is making sure they make it out of this alive.]