// 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.

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[nakama]

[ Wherever this guy is sleeping or resting, he'll suddenly be confronted with a tall, white-haired man seemingly swirling into shape just above him.

Obito may be standing between his legs if he's laying down, or standing... on top of him. He hadn't sensed him before letting the kamui suck him back into reality, so... sorry. If you had chakra inside you, this wouldn't have happened.

He'll just stare down at the boy when he realizes what he's done where he teleported himself to. ]

i didn't ask to be attacked by two uchihas

[thornvine]

[ sachi, for the most part, is a fairly light sleeper. he doesn't typically sleep in conventional ways, instead on his side with back curled slightly, fingers always onto something like the handle of his mace-like weapon or the blankets or whatever.

the cause for his light sleep involves a mix of his dangerous occupation, as well as past trauma and remaining guilt that causes him to have recurring nightmares, but skipping the details -- what matters right now is that as soon as obito forms in close proximity to him, he snaps awake almost aggressively. a surge of shinsoo -- like a tidal wave of energy, almost -- spreads outward reflexively, and most people would be thrown backwards... or at least stumble. the man himself is also quickly up, scrabbling backwards to distance him and the weird stranger danger before him first, an advantage --

but wait a second. last he checked, he wasn't in the tower anymore.

so instead, adrenaline running, the most irritated kind of exhale escaping from his chest -- ]

What the hell!

[ he sounds a little pissed, just a little. ]

[nakama]

[ If it's tangible, it will phase right through his material form, thanks to the kamui. His eyes are vividly rimmed red, which seem to glow against the pale light of this planet's moon.

He won't hold the sudden attack against him. After all, it's Obito's fault for startling the poor kid.

He's interested in his power. But he has to be subtle about it.

Now, what to say? Sorry? ]

... [ There's nothing he really can say. And he doesn't want to explain the nature of his power. ]

[thornvine]

[ the expression he's got for you is defensive hostility, usual visible eye a sharp, almost fiery red -- and almost a piercing presence from where a second eye should be under the fringe of hair, analysing this... weird... man...

although it seems the other would be a powerful adversary, he doesn't seem to be looking out to harm.

but it still doesn't mean sachi's going to just let him stay in his tent because.

although it seems he's calmed down from the surprise a little, shoulders becoming less of a square, the look he gives him is now a critical squint. the other hasn't said a single word, and now he's stuck in a bit of a mini staring competition. ]

What do you want.

[ maybe a proper prompt will entice a proper response? ]

[nakama]

[ Sachi doesn't have much to analyze in terms of body language or an expression. If Obito seems perturbed at all, it will be noticeable only in the way his brow tenses.

His lips part, like he's about to say something, but he pauses and looks away.

He mutters, ]

Excuse the intrusion. [ IS THAT AN OKAY TRANSLATION OF THE JAPANESE SAYING? Anyway, it's all he offers before he heads for the exit. He can observe this guy later, if he really wants to learn about his powers. ]

[thornvine]

[ 'is that an okay translation' -- is anything about you okay, obito.

sachi's expression, still on the side of harsher and severe, only gets a little bit worse as he watches obito consider, then look away, then mutter like everything was a mistake. given, that was better than if obito had actually suddenly ghosted his way in and almost gave sachi a heart attack on purpose for about the same amount of reason (zero, absolutely zero).

still, he understands what you were trying to say perfectly on account of his little language cheat, which makes everything all only that much better, honestly. and his face kinda says it in the way it kind of falters from aggressively defensive, to... this kind of look like wh... what

you're just going to leave?!. ]

-- Why did you come in here in the first place!

[ he's going to bark that sharply at your back, but do not be mistaken, he doesn't want to keep you here either. life's a struggle. ]