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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.
estrayer: (f o l d e d)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well that's unexpected. Most people don't know Shadowhunters exist at all, much less that there's a Jace Wayland among them.

This isn't good. Given what happened right before he appeared here, it could be very bad. He looks at that username, artsy, again. Artsy. His stomach sinks. At the same time his heart lifts, for no good reason at all.

Don't. It might not even be her.
]

who are you?
i wasn't exactly expecting to be recognized here
angele: (oo9)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well....


moment of truth then. ]


It's Clary, Jace.
estrayer: (s a i n t l y)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ That he does. Of course this tells him nothing about what strength level this person might be, but if he has to work that out for himself, he's up to it. ]

i'm game. i'll take it you're not a novice?
mullet: (005)

[personal profile] mullet 2017-01-26 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
what? how did that not damage everything?

[ why is altean stuff so weird? ]

no, the rain doesn't come all at once. rain showers can last a couple of seconds to days at a time. just depends on the storm.
estrayer: (w o r r i e d)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Is it dead.

Yeah, that's a good question. Jace's expression probably won't inspire a lot of confidence.
]

Wounded. Badly.

[ Though, not badly enough that it couldn't lift him clean off his feet and toss him. He has no idea how much he's weakened it. The strength could've just been an adrenaline rush, although that's assuming that faceless alien parasites still have things like adrenaline...

He looks around when another crash thuds against the wall, and the creature itself comes into view. Long-limbed, bleeding darkly on one side. Jace glances at Rey's staff.
]

You know how to use that? It's strong.
indecisions: icontrol (ictfa_092)

into the woods (ง •̀_•́)ง

[personal profile] indecisions 2017-01-26 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
( there's no subtlety to the way that rey stomps around the forest. she's grumpy, she's just come off of like an hour of horrible pins and needles all the way up her arm, and she's ready to fight. hence the absolute lack of care as she draws attention to herself -- rey is jonesing for a fight at this point, sorry world.

what she comes across instead is a person though, and she pauses momentarily as she stares at the other girl. )


You'll get yourself killed out here.

( she finally offers by way of oh so kind advice, delivered in an oh so irritable fashion. she's very helpful, really. )
juniberries: (mmmmMMMMMMMMno.)

network! un: altea

[personal profile] juniberries 2017-01-26 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Pidge, how familiar are you with Earthling plantlife?
estrayer: (s t a r e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Was he asking about sparring? Because that couldn't be further from his head right now.

Jace feels cold.
]

clary.

when did you get here? i left you at camille's.


[ And unlike him, she hadn't been going through a portal at the time. ]
angele: (o11)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I remember.

[ She distinctly remembers. ]

I don't know what I'm doing here, but...

Jace.

I didn't know when I'd see you again.

You shouldn't have left!
juniberries: (GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM)

[personal profile] juniberries 2017-01-26 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Altean architecture was built to be able to withstand such storms, and we would stay inside until the it passed. Otherwise you would get severely injured.

[like 'hole in the head' injured.]

Your storms sound much more peaceful. I believe I have been on planets with similar phenomena.
Does anything else ever fall from the sky? Besides water?
estrayer: (f r o w n)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, this sure is a conversation he didn't think he'd be having.

Jace stares at his watch. Irritated, he pulls it off to use it like a miniature tablet. He misses his damned phone. He misses home.

He misses Clary, and she's the one person he shouldn't. So of course, she's the one person who's here, reminding him of it.
]

are you kidding me right now?
i had to. you know i did, and i'm not arguing about this clary

how long have you been on the ship? have you been safe?
angele: (o28)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to argue.

She could keep arguing.

She knows he's right. To an extent. To another extent, they would have figured out. He didn't even give them a chance to figure it out. It was too fast. It looked bad, and he made a choice too soon for them to counter it.

Then he was gone.

She swallows that memory down as she types back. ]


About a week.

I'm fine, Jace.

When did you get here?
juniberries: (uh....)

network, un: altea

[personal profile] juniberries 2017-01-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I would not say a particular PERSON took your carrots, per se...
Edited 2017-01-26 03:12 (UTC)
estrayer: (s t a r e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ There wasn't any choice. He was backed into a corner and he made the only decision he could.

And then he stepped through the portal and Valentine was gone, and wherever he should have ended up didn't matter, because he'd ended up here instead.

None of them will even know. Alec, Izzy, all the others. They'll just think they can't find him because he's with Valentine, when really he's here. And now Clary is too. For a whole week, apparently.
]

a few weeks. not long but long enough
alec and izzy?
angele: (o22)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
They're fine.

They're not the ones who went with Valentine.


[ He's worrying about all the wrong things. ]
vodkatwist: (m)

[personal profile] vodkatwist 2017-01-26 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Kinda rude to talk about space aliens that way, js.
estrayer: (w o r r i e d)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's worrying about him. He's the last thing she should care about. ]

because i had to
but it doesn't matter. i never got wherever we were going. i landed here without him

what happens to me doesn't matter. we need to get you back and you have to wake jocelyn, clary
that's what matters.
angele: (oo8)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I did.

We already woke her up.

If I'm stuck here at least I know we got that far.
estrayer: (j u d g e)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's more than he'd known.

Is she ahead of him, somehow? This whole place makes him feel like he's been shot into the future, so it's not that unreasonable.
]

you mean it worked?

good. i'm glad for you


[ He wants to say, how are you? How was she, are you relieved, what have you told her about me? He says none of them. ]

did she know anything that could help?
angele: (o10)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't get that far. She just woke up.

[ No. She has no answers. She has so many questions, and still she wasn't able to get any of the answers she needed.

She wanted. ]
juniberries: (90% grumpy face.)

[personal profile] juniberries 2017-01-26 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I was talking about my mice. It might have been them.

I have been wondering why they were acting so odd today.
estrayer: (s h a d o w)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ So they haven't asked. ]

maybe it's better i don't know what she'd say, anyway

[ Because if he ever manages to find a route back home, he'll be right back where he started. He'll be with Valentine and not the Clave. He'll be with their enemies.

He does not want to think about this right now.
]

look i'm glad you got her back, clary. i know how much it meant.
angele: (o29)

[personal profile] angele 2017-01-26 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Except now we have to get you back.

So we just traded one of us for another of us.

Yay. Huge win right there.


[ She's not usually so pessimistic, but since Jace won't let her yell at him about it... ]
Edited 2017-01-26 03:35 (UTC)
vodkatwist: (c)

[personal profile] vodkatwist 2017-01-26 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Goddammit are you kidding me.

You have pet mice and now they're tripping balls?!

Balls I should be tripping!
estrayer: (a l a r m e d)

[personal profile] estrayer 2017-01-26 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ This isn't better, Clary. ]

you aren't getting me back.
you're going to find a way to stop him and you're not going to think about me.

I'm not your responsibility.