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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. |
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( ... which means he's walking there right now, since any ping will be sent from his physical location, since... that's what he knows how to do. )
Brussels, who wants to be in Brussels? Though I can't say "the colonies" means anything to me. You might be timed later than 2016, or from another universe altogether. Most everything's been colonized and reclaimed or traded off on Earth from what I know.
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You're a savior, man. A burger savior. Yuy would sit and fume a tme if he saw the mass of fries and meat I'm about to shove in my face but what the hell do I care?
I mean.. Preventers is gonna be based there and probably the ESUN too so.. anyone who's anyone in government? You know, the chubby old guy who have pretentious waxed mustaches and lots of pins for their jackets.
Side note - you're from the stone age man. 2016 was forever ago.. way before the space colonies got sent up. Year's A.C. 196 last I checked.
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( walking, strolling, reaching down to pet Makkachin and — hah! tiny delicious burger place he'd gone to with Eichi and Yuuri weeks before. he sends the ping to his present location to Duo's username. )
AC does not stand for Air Conditioning, correct. 2016 was A.D., for what that's worth. Before that, the Gregorian calendar referred to the world as B.C.
It's amusing to think of Brussels as being the governmental seat. For what? Has Earth unified by then?
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Nah - Heero's not here that I could tell. I haven't seen Wing around either.
Thanks for the ping, I'll check it out!
After Colony = AC.
Well, Earth and Space have. ESUN = Earth Sphere Unified Nation. So far as I know Earth's countries are still their own individual power houses.
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You're welcome. Anyway, After Colony. Less Latin, more literal. Kind of everyone in that future.
Did they officially maintain international space at that point? Or those colonies... the colonies are in space?
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His Gundam was called Wing Zero... you guys probably don't have those around but that ain't a bad thing.
The colonies are in space. There's L1 through L5... Lagrangian points, you know? Each one has a lot of citizens from certain places on Earth ... L2 is lot of Americans and Canadians.. that kind thing... L4 is Arabia and the lot..
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Hm. What about the Russian Federation?
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It's a big ass fighting robot, if you wanna boil it down to the basics. A mobile suit.
Yeah, so far as I know that's still a thing too. I dunno if the name is exactly the same or anything like that - can't say I paid much attention to that kinda stuff when I was down on Earth. I was born on the colonies so like.. we didn't learn a whole hell of a lot about Earth. At least as far as I went in school.
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( why is it that every cool thing the future has is also, technically, tied to war in some capacity. OR FIGHTING. FUTURE, GET MORE INVENTIVE. he is, however, well past the future and living in one himself. ah... )
Ah, I meant if the Russian Federation had helped sponsor one of the colonies you mentioned. We've been part of the push toward space for decades, alongside the United States and China.
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Trust me you're not alone on that... As cool as Scythe, and piloting Scythe is like... it won't be a bad day when I won't need him anymore. As weird as that sounds. Still, I don't think I'd ever want him destroyed. Just in case, you know? War and Peace are never a forever type of thing..
I mean, possibly L3? Not gonna lie, I haven't been to a formal school since I was maybe 10 years old so I'm not really sure where each colony originates from? I know L2 is the Americas because I'm from there...
Trowa's all tall and acrobatic so I wouldn't rule it out...
[ Yes, he's going off of physical features to gauge Trowa's nationality. No one ever said Duo does particularly intelligent things. ]
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( not all ships, Victor, but most the ones he knows offhand have always been referred to as "her." )
I... am absolutely not certain that being tall or acrobatic are Russian traits, if that's what you're saying about your acquainted? This Trowa individual.
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I call mine male - pretty sure Quatre does too. But another guy who has one calls it Nataku which I'm pretty sure is female sooooo... not really sure what the answer is here other than we just call them by whatever we want, really? Deathscythe I definitely call a guy, though.
Yuy probably just calls his Wing and there's no consideration of male or female.
Yeah. He performs in a circus and I swear to God may be part dolphin or something. I have literally never seen someone else do a thousand flips like it's nothing and it's disturbing.
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Got it. Then you have one called Deathscythe. Sounds appropriately metal.
Wow! That's amazing. His endurance must be incredible!
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Deathscythe Hell Custom, technically. If you ever wanna take a look I can show you to him in the hangars.
I guess so? I haven't been around Trowa all that much compared to Heero... Heero is a tank, but then again I guess we all kind of are in our own ways. It's weird.. sorry I just realized I keep talking about these guys like you know them... there's five of us.. one from each colony cluster.
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Yes please! I'd love to meet him. Look at him?
It's fine, fine. I can tell they're people who are important to you, one way or another. Even if they're part dolphin sometimes. Or a tank. Not talking about them would be as strange. This way, I'm meeting the idea of them through you.