// 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

[ashighasidare]

It is getting to be so! We are now working with the warriors to try and help the galaxy be freed from the Empire. It will no doubt be a long task, and my people are not fighters, but we will do what we can to help our new friends.

So yes, it is getting better!

[yokunaru]

That's great. [The smile returns, a little more hesitant but no less genuine.] I'm sure your friends appreciate any help they can get.

Oh, my name's Yuuri. In case you need anything.

[ashighasidare]

Just as I appreciate everything they have done for us. It is the least we can do to repay that.

[She's smiling more now, especially at the introduction.}] This One is Shay. I am pleased to speak with you, Yuuri.

You said that space travel was new for you? Where do you come from?

[yokunaru]

Nice to meet you, Shay.

I'm from a planet called Earth. Some people on board are from there, too, but I don't know if you've ever heard of it. [He smiles softly, sheepishly.] It still throws me off when I remember just how many universes or worlds there are, when I wasn't even aware of them before.

[ashighasidare]

[She smiles while taking a breath, surprised but happy.] I think I have! That sounds of the place my friends are from! Do you know Hunk? [It will take her a moment to realize the absurdness of that question, seeing as how even she doesn't know every Balmeran from home. But she couldn't help it.]

[yokunaru]

[Yuuri blinks in surprise, then breaks into another smile.]

Really? I wasn't expecting that at all. [He tilts his head. Even if Earth has so many people, it couldn't hurt to ask anyway.] I don't think I know a Hunk, but... who are the others?

[ashighasidare]

[This is wonderful news. Even if he doesn't know Hunk it is nice to meet someone else from his home. How fortuitous to run into them here. Little does she know how many of them are all from a version of Earth]

It is all right. Hunk is one of the warriors I mentioned. He is the yellow one. Paladin, I believe they were called. There was Hunk, Keith. Lance, Pidge... Shiro. The Princess Allura, and Fuzzy Lip--I mean Coran! [Her hand covered her mouth as if surprised with herself for saying the name Rax called him. Whoops. She chuckled a moment after.] They are all so very brave.

[yokunaru]

"Yellow"...? [Confusion makes his brows scrunch together. But it clears a moment later when he hears the rest of the names.]

Oh! Shiro and Princess Allura--I know them. They're here on this ship, too. [He chuckles, amused at the nickname that she'd let slip.] I'm guessing this Coran doesn't like being called "Fuzzy Lip"?