// 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

[relieable]

[just going to ignore that, even though he feels that Karamatsu is being extra painful today. he should be stopped. even for someone like Osomatsu, who is used to Karamatsu's painfulness, this is a bit much]

Ah, actually, I've got an idea.

[Osomatsu begins walking away, just leaving Karamatsu in the hot spring. he disappears behind some trees and is gone for several minutes]

[glitterpants]

_{[ Sorry. He hasn't been around somebody who is used to his painful behavior, so he's been holding back until now. Karamatsu seems a little nervous to be left alone and only rises slightly from his seat once it takes Osomatsu awhile. ]}

O..oi, Osomatsu-niisan..!?
_{[ should he be afraid... ]}

[relieable]

[whenever Osomatsu gets an idea, it's probably okay to be afraid.

fortunately, he comes back, tugging a large thick vine behind him. and he's ditched the stick apparently. he first ties a noose at the end of the vine, then tosses the other end up over a tree branch. he adjusts the loop so that it is laying flat on the ground while he hums his own theme song.

then he moves back to the other side, grabs the end of the vine, and hides behind the tree]

[glitterpants]

_{[ SCREAMING. ]}

OSOMATSU-NIISAN, DON'T DO IT!!
I didn't mean give into death that easily..!!

_{[ RUNS OUT OF THE WATER, OH NO...
he has no idea what you're doing, nope.. ]}

[relieable]

[hfskjdhkj! Osomatsu pokes his head out from around the tree]

Hey, Dummymatsu! Be quiet! There's no way we'll catch something with you squawking like that!

[glitterpants]

I don't understand! Why is there all of this hate..!?
Why can't we just eat fruit and vegetables— you don't have to kill those things..!
_{[ says??? the man?? who loves meat wrapped in meat....
ok well just the idea of using a noose is just coming across as cruel to him.. ]}

If you are going to kill, kill delicately!
_{[ ?....
also he's just going to stand there in the nude.... no problem.. ]}

[relieable]

[could you think of a better idea, Karamatsu? hey, why don't you pull out all your guns? then they could hunt for real]

...How does one kill delicately?

1.2

[glitterpants]

By shooting an arrow—
_{[ HOE, DON'T DO IT ]}

[glitterpants]

—through the heart.
_{[ NO. ]}

[relieable]

[mmmmmboy. you're so...]

Yeah, well. I don't have an arrow. Or a bow.

[glitterpants]

Oh.. weaponry?
_{[ a pause. ]}
I have something I think we could use... that would probably kill something quickly, at least.

_{[ WHY DIDN'T HE SAY ANYTHING EARLIER... ]}

[relieable]

[Osomatsu jumps to his feet, still holding onto the end of the vine]

WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING SOONER?

[probably because Osomatsu said he would handle it, right? but he even asked Karamatsu for something sharp just minutes ago...]

[glitterpants]

Why didn't you ask sooner?
_{[ you asked for something sharp or a knife.. which isn't what he has. ]}

[relieable]

[MORE SQUINTING. just. trying to bore holes through Karamatsu's face with his gaze. Osomatsu feels like socking him, but maybe he should wait until Karamatsu has revealed what he has]

Don't just argue with me! Let's have it!

[glitterpants]

Ah.. sure! Let me go get it.
<sub>[ ok.. so he's turning and lightly jogging back to the hot spring, bare ass simply just out there. Was he going to get dressed too? Maybe.
He's going back to his things, which consisted on his body suit and.. what appeared to be a gun.

A revolver, actually. A cool one.
When he returns so Osomatsu, he's ... still naked, but he has this gun. ]</sub>

Heh.. do you think this would be useful?
_{[ screams....... ]}

[relieable]

[um. holy shit!

Osomatsu stares at it. like he doesn't know quite what to do with it. then lifts his gaze back up to his brother's face]

...Where the hell did you get that? [actually, the question is more like, WHO LET YOU HAVE A GUN]

[glitterpants]

Heh. A hot girl took me to the market _{[ the black market, he almost died ]} and assisted with obtaining one for me.
Aren't you jealous?

[relieable]

I'm having a hard time believing a hot girl took you anywhere. Liar.

[he's totally jealous. jealousy is coming out of his pores]

[glitterpants]

You honestly believe that I got this all by myself, then?

[relieable]

[...........]

I didn't say that either. [after a moment, Osomatsu takes the gun with both hands, carefully looking it over] So you got this at the market, huh?

[glitterpants]

Oh.. yes! The black market, if I remember the name correctly.
_{[ ah, there it goes.. ]}

[relieable]

[oh. that makes... a little more sense. though, the thought of Karamatsu going to the black market just seems so... off to Osomatsu. well, whatever. they've got a gun! so now he can go hunting]

You, uh... You know that the black market means the stuff they're selling there is illegal, right?

[glitterpants]

_{[ oh.. OH NO..
Karamatsu looks offended and splays his hand over his .. bare chest.. ]}

Are you saying that.. I'm a criminal now..!? Moi!?

[relieable]

...How could you not know what the black market is, Karamatsu? This is, like, common knowledge!

[not... really...]

[glitterpants]

That doesn't matter that I didn't know..!
Does it mean I'm a bad guy now..!?