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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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[ Obito's eyes may darken but Sasuke's stay a stubborn crimson, well aware that the blade in his hand is essentially useless -- any battle between them would start and end with visual prowess. He remembers the condition he'd last seen him in, vividly, but it does little to relax him either. His memory's quite a bit longer than just that.

The obvious allusion to his loss causes him to tense nigh imperceptibly, eyes retaining only veins of red now as he activates the mangekyou as further precaution. ]

I'm still alive and we finished what you started, if you meant to actually phrase any of that as a real question.

[ ~~Well he's not wrong~~

Obito holds Sasuke's stare, unwavering and steady as he confronts the fury welling up in his eyes head on. It isn't so much challenging as it is his way of showing respect, because turning away would be too easy. Just as dying had been.

Sorry would be too empty of an offering, even pointless in the grand scheme of things. His past actions are irrevocable and showing remorse or regret might even seem like a slap in the face for someone so affected. Sasuke was -- is a victim and to approach him like this is bold, maybe even selfish, but he has done so partly out of concern for the boy. Having gotten to know him, he can just imagine what kind of headspace he's in. ]

I wasn't sure if you'd confirm whether or not my assumptions were correct. I thought I'd be positive.

[ A bit of ironic humour, but it's muted. ]

What now, Sasuke?

[ He's well aware that Sasuke doesn't owe it to him to share his plans. He's prepared for the likely scenario where he doesn't receive a concrete answer.

Maybe even Sasuke doesn't know what he's going to do. That wouldn't be surprising. ]

[ Be smart and don't call him a "victim" out loud, Obito. ]

Glad you expended the effort to show your positivity. [ And of course "glad" is a word choice that's so far off the mark as to be laughable, but then again so is Obito's response. Highlighting that doesn't really give him any kind of joy but he can at least endeavor to clarify their positions. This is not a friendly relationship. ]

You're asking me that? The burden of that decision shouldn't be on me, and it's not anything you're owed. You're the one being given a more drastic second chance here.

Understand that if you use it poorly, you'll be corrected. [ This is a very not subtle threat, too. ]

[ ~~Obito wrote the book on being a touchy Uchiha, okay.~~

Being lectured by another person is strange to say the least, especially when that person happens to be someone who he'd manipulated in the past. But the threat is well-deserved, all things considered. Sasuke doesn't have an obligation to trust him, let alone tolerate his presence.

To let his threat have its intended impact, he stays quiet, letting the silence drag out (he bows his head at one point, looking away before turning his attention back to Sasuke) before he speaks up again. ]

I suppose you could call it that; a second chance, that is. But I happen to think that it's only borrowed time. I'm still a dead man, Sasuke. I know what lies ahead of me after all of this.

[ The afterlife, if you could call it that. He tries not to let regret saturate his expression too much, but it's there. He doesn't want to be here. ]

I won't waste this opportunity, though. I'll see to it that you're returned home shortly. If that's what you want.

Until then, you can rely on my strength should you ever need to. I only exist now to continue to repent for what I've done. [ It's an offering, one that he expects will be ignored. Sasuke is a proud man, which is exactly why Obito will have to work in the shadows if he intends to help him at all. If he does a good job, Sasuke won't notice he's done anything at all. ]

I might be able to do something about your arm, if you're interested

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[ In some ways it sounds familiar, an offer of a temporary alliance, but supposedly this time with no strings attached. Just as familiar is a helping hand from beyond the grave but that isn't a mental comparison he wants to make, even if Obito is family.

He'd resigned himself to the fact that he'd be the only Uchiha left and had been, supposedly, only seeming to learn of new extensions along the family tree when it had become necessary for him to kill them. Obito, Madara... It'd be easier for his family's skeletons to stay buried but they keep coming back to haunt him, trapped in the past even when he's finally trying to look to the future. It's infuriating. ]

Is that how it is?

Is that why you chose to appear here, to have this conversation with me? I'm not here to help you sort out your guilt but if I need to use any skills that you have that I don't, I don't doubt my ability to find you. Although...

Have you noticed any limitations placed upon your jutsu? Crossing dimensions may not be so simple a task. [ Because that's a fuckin' simple task; I hate Naruto. ]

[ Obito's eyes drift to the floor, eyelashes curtaining red irises as he allows remorse to be readable in his expression. He's fully aware that doing the right thing now would only serve to lift his guilt and not actually make up for anything he's done. He can't begin to comprehend being forgiven by those affected by him.

Being alive now isn't a gift. It's more like a curse, and one that will haunt his victims rather than give them any peace or closure. He can only hope that other ninja from their world won't have to be brought here and be confronted with his existence.

There are more pressing matters to tend to than the heavy weight of guilt on his shoulders, however. And Obito trusts that Sasuke is capable of distancing himself from their past enough that he can make use of a potential alliance. Just as they had before, they now have a common enemy. ]

Yes. It's quite impressive, actually. Whoever has placed these limitations must be formidable. It's something we should keep in mind before doing anything hasty. [ He fully expects Sasuke to give him some kind of retort, pointing out that he doesn't need to be directed or coddled.

He's pretty predictable. Which worries Obito, unless he's had some convenient character development since the last he saw him. ]

Finding a way to lift those limitations will take patience, for one thing. If I discover anything that may be of use or value to you, I will be sure to contact you.

For now, I suppose it would be wise to cooperate...

[ It's an impossibly difficult place to be in and Sasuke understands that now, sandwiched between the intense and selfish compulsion to indulge in guilt and the need to focus instead on duty, which feels like it'd be letting either of them off too easy. Maybe this is part of his real penance... the fact that there's no easy and straight road to redemption.

Obito got the easier deal by dying and they both know it. ]

I'm not blind to that even if I'm not in the mood to compliment whoever or whatever brought us here. [ It's not the response Obito predicted but it certainly isn't absent a certain level of expected ire. ]

Do what you have to. If you're employing a passive method, you're doing that on your own. I'll be more direct in looking for a way out. [ He anticipates that it might be a while, sure, but he doesn't expect it. He's been trapped in worse places in the past and forced his way through. ]

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