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// 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ do you need something ]

[ zahard almighty, no one can leave him alone, ever, no matter how much "leave me alone" he could emanate.

and so it continues, and for a brief moment, sachi has this kind of look on his face as you would when you see a bug in the corner of your room and you don't really like it all that much, but you're also at that point in your semester where you're not sure whether you can bring yourself to care...

he feels a vague "whaddyawant" type vibe break through the not-really-strong-at-all tension, and minutely, just minutely, his brow furrows... ]

[ ugh, fine, he'll bother to break it -- it's better than sitting around doing nothing all night but this, he needs a break. yes, he's fully aware he's just stared out into space for presumably about five hours straight.

so in a slow, a little rough but clear, neutral voice, he asks -- ]

Do you need something.

[ indeed. ]

[ At least a bug flying by would add some life to the moment. Sasuke looks wholly as if he wants to communicate a point with his eyes, though if the desire were a little stronger he certainly could. Any lack of understanding is firmly on his shoulders.

Ah, but Sachi's spoken first. That's a victory of some kind, though he's not sure over what. Silence reigns a second or two longer before he offers up an answer. ]

Not really.

Do you need something?

[ look at the cast. it's you and him. any life that enters this place would just get sucked out like a bug in an airlock. sachi has this look on his face right back that says he doesn't feel like playing eye charades -- you'd win anyway, you have two of them. and also, probable twice the patience, if not even more.

he gives sasuke this look back that's not exactly incredulous, but more along the lines of really, is this happening, in a sense. and it looks faintly annoyed, although the layer of it is very thin and more inconvenienced than anything. ]

It's not really a "need", but I'd prefer less company.

[ simple enough request, right... ]

[ I don't wanna' look at the cast; this thread is a travesty already because it's us.

Sasuke reassesses him with this new information, finally nodding a single time to confirm his understanding. His own expression still has yet to shift in any way whatsoever. ]

Aa. I got it.

[ before he turns his head back to just keep looking out the window ]

[ you started it, man. you brought it on.

and though sasuke has turned away first, sachi is still looking at him, one red eye looking at the other's side profile intently for a moment.

another short bout of silence ensues. ]

I don't think you got anything at all.

[ when will he finally be free from this hell. ]

It wasn't hard to get. I understand you. [ To his limited credit there's zero malice there. It's much more like he's just stating a fact about the weather. ]

I guess... I just don't care about what you want.

[ he continues to give sasuke that impassive look. he doesn't really seem bothered per se, taking this situation into consideration.

sachi wants to be left alone.

sasuke apparently wants to sit here and look at space.

sasuke doesn't care about sachi's opinion.

theres one other path he can take. ]

Fine. I've overstayed my welcome in this spot, anyway -- it's yours.

[ if you'll excuse him, he'll stand and head to leave, those swirling lights of gold disappearing into nothing as he does. ]

[ Initially he'd come over here to investigate Sachi's apparent fascination with this spot. Just one overlooking space, like any other, and that's how it'd seemed.

But now that he's sat here, he actually appreciates that it's not a bad spot. In fact, it may even be a good spot. Straining credulity he might go so far as to say he likes this spot.

Oh, Sachi is speaking. ]

[ oh nooo, don't gooo ]

Okay. Later.

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