TEST DRIVE MEME

[eluviomods]

// TEST DRIVE_ Welcome to Eluvio's first 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. Test drive threads can be used as game canon if both parties agree and the thread fits with what's going on currently in the game. 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, it might not be eligible for becoming game canon but it would still count as a sample. The most important thing is to have fun! ➣ SCENARIO 001. It's a normal day aboard the Eluvio. Maybe you're on your way to work. Maybe you're hanging out with friends. You can even be up to nefarious misdeeds. Whatever the case, you're having a relatively uneventful day. And then you see it. From a distance, it looks like a ball of fur. Up close, it looks like a ball of fur. If you touch it, it will chitter at you. It will vibrate and purr. Where this is coming from is anyone's guess because even if you turn it over, there's nothing to see but more fur. It's pretty harmless, though. Leave it there. Take it with you. The choice is yours. As you continue about your day, you'll begin to notice more of these little furballs. On the ground. Sitting on tables. Here and there at random intervals. By the end of the day, they're fucking everywhere. Good luck! If you get overwhelmed, maybe go talk to that bald starship captain who showed up last week. He might know something about the furry invaders. ➣ 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, NPC Captain Picard, there's no limit to what you can do on the TDM.

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Comments

[finethanks]

A nice character should be a little more believable, you know? I'd be interested in learning your flaws.

[He hasn't mentioned that heroes make him want to vomit yet, but he'll just casually be weird like this to an adult. He's curious! He can't help it.]

[existentialcrisis]

[ Ukoku hums dubiously. What flaws?? ]

I smoke; some people have told me that's bad. Um, I've been told I don't work hard enough. But life's short, right? [ He pauses, staring up at the ceiling. ]

Do I have any more? I don't think I have any more. What about you?

[finethanks]

[Life is very short... But this guy is lazy and killing himself? Noted. Eichi keeps on smiling as they walk.]

As an idol, I have to be very aware of my flaws. I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by people who fill in the gaps I leave, just as I make up for what they lack. The biggest flaw would have to be this weak body of mine, though.

[That's not a character flaw and he knows it... He's keeping those secret.] It's so pathetic, I can't help but laugh. [He coughs, instead of laughing... Cough cough.]

[existentialcrisis]

[ Well, it's not like he needs to state his major character flaw, anyway. Ukoku half-reaches for him, subtly, in case he needs an arm to lean on again. ]

I don't think it's pathetic! It's just bad luck. [ A pause. ] Or bad karma, maybe. [ Just saying! ] What does an idol do?

[finethanks]

[He chuckles, ignoring that arm to press on ahead. He's doing fine, just fine.]

Hmm. To express what it is that an idol does for people in so few words... it's a little difficult. [no it's not] It comes from the heart. Deep within every idol should be the desire to give it their all, to sing with everything, dance with everything, and move every soul of the audience watching.

We idols are putting on a grand show to brighten the lives of our dear fans. Like angels, we must guide them through tough times and encourage happiness. That's what it means to be an idol.

[He just SINGS AND DANCES...]

[existentialcrisis]

[ He withdraws his arm politely, as if he was just straightening his sleeve. ]

It sounds like you and I do the same thing!

[ Except Ukoku does not sing, or dance, or guide anyone through tough times, or encourage happiness, or move people (except maybe in an upsetting way), but you know. ]

Do you have a lot of fans?

[finethanks]

Is that so? I suppose if you do look at it in the right light, an idol could be compared to a doctor, or a priest. All of them are given the lives of others in their hands, made to bend things as they see right and keep things interesting.

[It seems like he has a strange understanding of all of these titles, from his words. But he's always smiling, all the same.] I do have a lot of fans. My unit, "Fine" is the top unit in the school. Fufu, I owe that to my amazing teammates, of course. They've been able to carry "Fine" on whenever my body has been too weak.

[existentialcrisis]

[ That's a terrible, weird comparison, and whatever's going on at this school sounds like a nightmare, and he's talking like he's the nightmare king. Conclusion: this kid is all right. ]

Wow! That sounds amazing. [ The kind of amazing it'd be rude to wish on someone. ] And now you're stuck here, huh? That's unlucky. What do you think you'll do now?

[finethanks]

I've been wondering that since I arrived here. It's just me, after all. It's very lonely. [Though his mouth is almost always smiling that same, calm smile, his eyes are very expressive and emotional. It's not hard to see that he's strangely excited about this. From that sort of spark, he must be thinking something like thank god those nuisances are cast aside for now. The nuisances being his family and probably Keito.]

But you know, Dr. Ni, I think this is actually an opportunity. Even with that title of "Emperor" as a thing of the past, the shadows of my actions have followed me up until now. Graduation is coming up, and I was beginning to worry that I might not be able to think of how I'd like to handle it in time. But something like this... It offers an experience unlike any other, doesn't it? In that way, can't someone like me, who is normally so isolated from everyone else, including my fans— can't I gain some perspective?

[Well, that's a really flowery way of putting it. But yes, he'd very much like to observe people and see how they act in this situation. It's so exciting, it's very interesting, it's nothing that he'd be allowed in normally and therefore it's great. Maybe he'll even be able to apply weirdly learned lessons to being an idol.]