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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.

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About as safe as a ventilation shaft can be.

He can't reach me.

It's probably not safe to be in there for long, Hinata-kun. After all, in horror games, that's where the monster pops up and tries to kill you, somehow.

But if you say that he can't reach you... I'll trust in you, Hinata-kun. We should probably meet up, though. They say that you shouldn't go alone, after all.

[...why did she have to put it that way. He glances towards the vent opening and slowly eases away from it.]

I think you're right. Let me see if he's following just me first. I don't want to lead him to you.

[Hinata glances behind him and checks his map. If he makes it for the elevator he can get on an upper floor. If he's being targeted...might not be the best idea. He'll think of something else then.

With a shake of his head he starts moving south.]

[ Do you really have to ask that question? It's simply because she's a gamer that she would say something like that. Especially since it is a pretty common trope in horror games. ]

Be careful, Hinata-kun. I'll make sure to be careful as well. If anything goes wrong, you have to make sure to contact somebody. Even if it isn't me.

[ It would be bad if something happened to him and nobody realized it, after all. ]

Don't worry, I'd get the word out.

[It's a few minutes before he texts her again. The sounds of what had been Mark has receded the further away he's slipped into another ventilation shaft. It had broken through the bulkhead before. Maybe if he stays quiet...

Luck is on his side so far...]

I'm okay still. It doesn't seem to be following me. Do you know if security are on their way to deal with him, yet?

Alright, I believe in you. After all, this means that Hinata-kun is the horror game, protagonist, right? That means you'll definitely make it, even if you don't have the arsenal against whatever Mark-san has become.

[ There's a few moments where she finds herself pausing for a moment, clearly deep in thought to his question, although she's also rather relieved that he's alright, honestly. Even if she is making those game references. ]

I don't know... I haven't heard anything from them.

[He was relieved up until he read the mention of horror games again. He has played some in his time.

...don't horror game protagonists never make it out quite, right? He decides not to think about that and continues until he reaches the end of the shaft. No sounds of pursuit.

...

Definitely not thinking about it.]

I'll take a look in a minute.

Let's try not to think of this like a horror game. We know Mark might have gotten sick from something. Some sort of space virus.

Where are you right now?

If it's a virus, then it's definitely like Biohazard.

[ Except in space. ]

But if there's some sort of space virus, there might be a cure... don't you think? And I'm in one of the cabins right now.

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What floor?

[He ignores the rest of her talk this time. A moment and he lands inside the corridor with a relieved breath. One check and the security team are indeed heading towards where he'd told them he was.

It takes a moment to tell them he escaped, but he thinks Mark is still there. That done, he returns to talking to Nanami.]

There should be a cure. If there isn't, they'll find one. I'm boarding the elevator.

It's the first floor.

[ She'll be direct this time, at least... since it's an emergency and he needs to get to her. ]

Hopefully they find one soon. I wouldn't wish an infection on anyone. And with viruses like these, they tend to be the kind where if left alone for too long, it will be unable to be cured.

[That is...

He ends up thinking about viruses and hopeless cases the whole way up in the elevator. It's horrifying how common place that kind of thing has become. He'll never be used to it. Kind of like murder never got less terrible.

The doors chime and he steps out onto the first floor. Checking her directions he pads up to her door and sends her a quick message that he's arrived.]

[ It's definitely a horrifying thing to think about. That much is definitely certain. And while it's definitely better than murder - if you could even call it better, really - Nanami still doesn't like the idea that there's something out there that's taking over people's bodies and makes them anything less than what they're meant to be. She would rather have it happen to her, if anything. If it means she can protect them...

But she's soon drawn out of thoughts like that when she gets the message, shaking her head to make absolutely certain that this is fine before opening the door. ]

Come in, Hinata-kun. Did anything happen before you got here...? [ Besides what she was told, she means. ]

...He punched through a bulkhead. I don't think he's after me exactly. [Or he wouldn't have come this way. He slips inside and turns to face her. Again, he feels an instant kind of relief at the sight of her.

She's here. Alive. Just like Nidai is. It gives him hope that eventually they might all find their way here. Safe and away from all the troubles they'd faced.]

...But it was definitely Mark. The glasses on its face. It wouldn't make sense for them to be there and trapped like they were there for any other reason.

He didn't need to lure me in. He was watching me from the hole he punched in the bulkhead.

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.

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.

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