// 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

[wizardguard]

I have just learnt the meaning of the word

it wouldn't matter if you were

unless you are the kind that eats people

[ she's had plenty of opportunities to eat him, though. ]

[wizardguard]

Have you been through this before? You sound experienced.

[ He offers her a smile in return. ]

I'm from Oz. [ Maybe she's from where Dorothy's from... ] Where is home for you?

[fujita]

really, lucas?
i don't eat people

[wizardguard]

I figured

although you never did finish your sentence that day...

"you're very..." tasty looking?

[fujita]

that's not what i was going to say

[ don't tease!! ]

[wizardguard]

[ it's so fun to tease her, though. it's been a while since they've had banter like this. ]

toto is more likely to eat me more than you

[fujita]

[ it's fun, and it's a welcome distraction from the worry about sylvie while dorothy starts searching, toto by her side. ]

toto wouldn't eat you either
you're safe

[ from them, at least. she hopes it's true in more ways than just this. ]

[catphishing]

[Oliver's starting to feel nervous himself. He looks distinctly uncomfortable. He isn't armed. He doesn't know much about defending himself. All of this is still very new to him.]

I'm sorry. I'm still getting used to the whole alien thing. I thought at least here there wouldn't be any dangerous ones.

[The area looks safe enough still, but there's a sound from behind a cluster of trees ahead of them, and now he's been alerted to possible danger... he seems a lot more aware of his surroundings. He looks away from Gwen, startled, to see if it's the missing alien.]

Chirrut Imwe | Rogue One

[astheforcewills]

Scenario 1

[ Despite so many familiar traits of the landscape, it is the burning heat that saves Chirrut from the dangers of feeling homesickness. A hot desert, of all things. It feels entirely absurd, though he won't lie to himself that the hints of semi-familiar scents and sounds on an alien world are surprisingly pleasant.

All in all, it's enough that Chirrut is glad that he volunteered to help scout out the area. It's only the terrain changes, steep and rocky to the point where hiking is more like climbing, he has to wonder if, just this once, he'd made a call more quickly than he should have. ]

Tell me. [ His voice is light, good humor showing through the physical strain. He isn't a young man anymore, but he's more than willing to keep up with the best of them without taking a hit to his positive outlook. ] Should I be glad I cannot see how much further we have to reach the summit?

[whatchoice]

[ look. wanda firmly believes in the unknown and scrawny men turning SUDDENLY HUGE, okay. she is all up on this train of not taking things at first glance. but chirrut is blind. and he is scouting. she's willing at least see it play out.

she huffs out a breath, pushing her long curls over her shoulder for the umpteenth time because she has nothing to tie it up with. ]

Yes. [ her answer is shorter than it has to be, the crinkle of her nose as practically audible has the faint wheeze. why is it so hot? this is terrible. how do people live like this. ] I think it's getting further away.

[kshatrisu]

[ There is 37% more water in the atmosphere than on Vulcan, the gravity is only .85 that of his birth world, and there's a heady 16% oxygen (at least, so far as he can assess without any tools other than his own body at his disposal). It's one of the easier hikes Spock has made, though of course he's hardly surprised when his human-appearing companion begins to show signs of fatigue. ]

Why would ignorance of your destination be desireable?

[astheforcewills]

Ah. [ Chirrut huffs a sigh, slowing his pace as he tested a new grip to be sure that it would hold. He had thought that sounded right, though the real value lied in how she said it. ] You do know that I would not be able to tell if you lied to me.

[ Well, that wasn't entirely true, but it was close enough to make for a worthwhile retort. ]

[astheforcewills]

To know the Force asks me to walk a single step is surely simpler than to climb a mountain.

[ He's managing well enough for now, enough so that he's comfortable with carrying a conversation. He places his feet carefully but confidently, easily avoiding unseen obstacles. ]

[whatchoice]

You can hear me, can't you? [ he doesn't need to see the horizon to hear her honesty. she does think the summit is getting further away. ]

It's probably... a trick of the light or... [ her shoulders lift in a shrug, giving up trying to explain it after approximately zero effort. she isn't a scientist or a maths prodigy, she doesn't need to know things like that. idly, her fingers twist out, a ribbon of her magic swirling through the sand and burning a mark into it. another glass star like breadcrumbs in case they get lost on the way back. ]

Suppose it doesn't matter as long as we keep going up.

[kshatrisu]

The Force? I am not familiar with that concept.

[ That most likely religious and therefore irrational concept... but then again, he is moving as though he can perceive the path ahead. ]

[astheforcewills]

There are many names for it. [ It had always been so interesting to learn the different ways that other cultures viewed the Force. Through the countless pilgrims he had met, he had heard tales of amphibious gods and binary codes that defined the universe. The name wasn't important in the least. ]

In the Force, there is life, In life, there is the Force. And the Force is eternal. [ The fragment of a prayer is said with the air of an old quote. ]

[astheforcewills]

I might have liked you to lie to me. [ Really, he doen't know entirely what to do to combat a changing landscape, not in this sense, so to know it might be doing so leaves him with little recourse.

All he can do now is attune himself to his surroundings as best he is able. If it is her sight betraying her, perhaps his hearing stands a better chance to find the truth. He turns his head towards her as she does something odd, expression curious, but then he turns his attention back to the business at hand. ] But you're right. As long as we keep going, the Force will bring us to where we need to be.

[whatchoice]

You mentioned the Force earlier, [ wanda notes, a thread of curiosity twirling through the heavy lilt of her accent. there's a question there, but she doesn't shy away from asking it. ]

What's the Force?

[glitterpants]

Oh.. yes! The black market, if I remember the name correctly.
_{[ ah, there it goes.. ]}

[kshatrisu]

[ So. He was right, of course. Spock's tone gets just a hair drier, and he slows his pace another .2 meters per second, out of consideration of his companion's obvious disability. ]

You speak of religion. Some supernatural deity.

[cargoed]

Jobs.

[ w t f ]

So they kidnap us across universes and then make us work? What kind of place is this anyway? Isn't saving the world enough?! [ as he dramatically throws his hands up in the air. ]

[bayarm]

I'm not sure yet. [ what kind of place this is, he means. but also — ] We haven't saved the world yet.

[avicula]

One way or another. It's got a few different functions. Audio, video, text. You found the video one already.

[ kicking arse is definitely par for the course. except dutch doesn't know what "par for the course" means since there's no golf in her universe i assume ]

[relieable]

[oh. that makes... a little more sense. though, the thought of Karamatsu going to the black market just seems so... off to Osomatsu. well, whatever. they've got a gun! so now he can go hunting]

You, uh... You know that the black market means the stuff they're selling there is illegal, right?

[astheforcewills]

[ Ah, a skeptic. He is not at all unaccustomed to that phenomenon. ]

Supernatural? No. [ He takes no offense. In fact, his lips quirk with an unguarded, fond smile. He did not have these conversations nearly as often as he once had. ] There is nothing more natural than the Force, for it is a part of us and it binds us. And we honor the Force by acting according to our natures.