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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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. ]

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. ]

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

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

[ but!!!!! ]

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

[ no! down, lance. ]

There's a public pool.

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

[ BUT DAD PLS ]

Pretty big. And there's a diving board. I think it's heated, but it's not really hot.

w h a t
SHIRO SHOW ME RIGHT NOW LETS GO

All right, all right.

YES!!!!!!

[ and then, a few seconds later. ]

wait where am i supposed to find you

Do you know where the hangar is?

our hanger????
like on our ship??? slash castle???
yeah
that one?

The castle is here. But I actually meant the hangar of the Eluvio.

oh
uh
well

yeah no i got nothing

All right. Where are you? I'll find you.

um

[ give him a collection of seconds, before some kind of location is sent over to shiro. ]

did that work????

It did. Give me ten minutes?

sure thing thanks shiro!!!!

[ wherever it is that lance is, shiro will make his way there. he won't even need the full ten minutes; some seven or so later, there is a space dad coming at you, lance. he's — frankly, he's just glad to see lance, healthy and whole, and the relief is obvious in his features where it hadn't been in his messages. ]

Hey.

[ okay so, lance had been doing a pretty bang-up job with the situation as a whole. considering when he's coming from, what all just happened, the fact that they managed to do the impossible and were barely together to get out of it, and suddenly. suddenly. he's looking up and shiro is walking towards him and lance just...he brightens. ]

Shiro! [ and okay, it might be a little much, but lance jumps off from where he'd been sitting and rushes towards him, kind of diving at his chest in a hug.

let him have this, okay. just for a second. ] Man it's good to see you.

[ shiro doesn't know everything that has happened yet, but neither does he know that more things have happened for lance than for him. for shiro, the last thing that happened before he'd been transported to the eluvio was the wormhole, the lions falling —

so he's just as glad to see lance, but for different reasons. the hug still surprises him, but it's the good kind of surprise, and he opens his arms and wraps them around lance with barely a moment of hesitation. ]

It's good to see you, too. Are you all right?

[ so while both of their experiences have them from different periods of time, the reaction is the same. plus, lance isn't exactly feeling the whole hey so what happened to you scenario, he'll just squeeze shiro a bit tightly before pulling back again. ]

Yeah? I mean, that last...thing with Zarkon has me a bit stiff, but I'm not complaining. [ he gives him a shrug. ] So...pool?

[ the thing with zarkon — it could be anything, but shiro doesn't think to ask what lance means. the possibility that their experiences don't line up doesn't cross his mind just yet. ]

Pool it is. Come on. [ shiro hasn't actually been in the pool yet, but he's made plenty of use of the training facilities on board the eluvio as well as on board of the castle itself. some days, he'd just rather spar with a real person than with the gladiator. ]

[ probably for the best. lance doesn't really want to talk about them all getting their butts kicked anyway? plus, it makes sense that shiro would just kind of plow through. ]

Pool! [ lance fistbumps excitedly, before running for a couple of steps to catch up with where shiro had already walked off.

if this place was anything close to what shiro was saying, it was going to be legit. ] So do you know this whole place already? [ lance's eyes are a bit large as they walk through. ] Or just the pool? You seem like to type to swim laps by yourself.

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