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

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[malignantly]

.... how dare you cower behind me and call yourself beautiful with how weak you are. Only the strong can be called beautiful!

[ ah, but the monster is clearly ignoring karamatsu in favour of the big yellow man, and the big yellow man is not amused by these turn of events.

DIO eyes the monster. those things attached to it are clearly not its own; was it something else before? can it transform? it is not an enemy stand, but he'd rather not let it touch The World when he doesn't even know what it can do -

- he doesn't get to decide that, however. the monster rears, charges towards them, and DIO picks up karamatsu and throws him as far as he can before splitting in the opposite direction. after all, if all the man can do is scream and cry, he would likely be of no use to him. meanwhile, the world hovers behind DIO. as the monster runs towards him and into the world's range, his stand comes and rushes it with a barrage of fists -

- which would look impressive if only he weren't the one seeing it. as it stands, DIO just ... stands at a distance to observe the monster being pummeled by his stand. he looks at it thoughtfully. as it hasn't shown anything impressive worthy of his battleycry or his wrryys, he waits for it to do something more than charging and snapping at his stand. ]

Ridiculous. The research team has seen fit to bring something not even worthy of my Stand.

[ and on its slender neck, imprints of a hand appear. it keeps trying to bite his stand; that won't do, he'll have to break off its head now. ]

[glitterpants]

_{[ How dare the monster ignore Karamatsu? He's gorgeous.
But no, Karamatsu is .. thankful that this tall and broad shouldered man (???) is on his side (????). ]}

A—ah, you're a fighter? Heh, that is wonderful! I punched my brother once! _{[ he sounds to proud of himself ]} but I do not think I would be able to—
<sub>[ okay, well. He's picked up and lets out a startled noise, stammering slightly. Before he knows it, he's thrown across the opposite side of the hallway like a sack of useless garbage, the wind whizzing through his ears as both tears and blood leak from the corners of his eyes, shrieking impressively. Karamatsu is very small in comparison to his new company, and very lightweight, so it's no doubt he goes flying with ease.

His yelling stops once his skull bashes through the completely opposite side of the hallway, plummeting through the metal wall and hanging there rather lifelessly. You're right, Dio. Karamatsu is no use to you.

Great job! You're his he...ro! ]</sub>