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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

[ Uchiha Sasuke had a lot of hate in his heart well before he ever had to deal with space, excepting a particularly headache-inducing lunar event that he'd rather not speak of again. But when the shock of being inter-dimensionally teleported onto a ship traveling at lightspeed wears off -- and it does, far faster than it should to a desensitized teenager -- he's left to combat the little day to day challenges of a life completely unlike his own back home.

For example... ]

[ 4a. ]

[ Paying attention during the introductory video means he knows there's a training area, which to him is the holy grail. Less pleasing is the Olympic-sized pool he comes across, and if your character happens to enter at the same time he's visiting they'll find a surly dark-haired man quite literally standing on the surface of the water in the middle of the pool, staring intently down into the depths of it. It's clear he's searching for something, but what that something is is not immediately apparent, and he isn't moving. ]

[ 4b. ]

[ If your character is instead one to frequent the shopping center, they may find Sasuke in one of two states of duress.

First, staring intently at a vending machine he has no idea how to operate. Where is he meant to insert the money? Does it pair with the dog tags?

Second, if you arrive a little later, you'll find him sitting at a table in front of a smoking and half-destroyed vending machine instead, staring equally intently at a bottle of water. The lid is affixed extremely tightly and he's already tried removing it one-handed -- his left sleeve is tucked and folded up just beneath his shoulder, arm visibly missing -- and is now considering his next step. It probably involves knives. ]

Edited 2017-02-12 19:45 (UTC)

(eyes blink into being on the surface of the water before the rest of his head follows suit, rising from the water like it's rejecting it. which would be very unobservant, when ripples of it are rushing to give him form.)

I just had the worst day— (cuts himself off, though, spotting sasuke's steady stare.) Uh, hey, were you looking for me?

(obviously someone pointlessly watching the surface of the water is searching for him, that's the only deduction he has for this situation.)

[ There's a split second wherein one of his brows lifts momentarily, showcasing the sum total of his surprise. ]

No.

[ And he's back to scanning the water. ]

...

(staring up at him, then down. then back up, hands slapping the surface of the water.)

Ah— you're finally taking my advice and using suiton!

my soulmate

eyeforaneye - 2017-02-12 22:21 (UTC) - Expand

BATS EYELASHES AT

liquidate - 2017-02-12 22:28 (UTC) - Expand

;)

eyeforaneye - 2017-02-12 22:32 (UTC) - Expand

uchiha sasuke | naruto (post-war)

4a obviously

who are you 1/3

2/3

3/3

a loser

4b

no subject

no subject

4b

no subject

no subject

4b because lol that's too funny to pass up

you're too funny to pass up

d-dokis EMILY PLS