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// 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.

PLEASE USE OUR NEW TDM HERE!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Ax looks at him with something like awe.]

Yes. You are the first person I've met to also appreciate the properties of this planet.

[He gestures to sort of emphasize his point, but then gets distracted by watching his own hand move.]

You're right. It's. It's very swirly.

[Jamie, too, is mesmerized by the motion of Ax's hand, staring at it slackjawed for several long moments. He nods very slowly, his eyes glued to the moving appendage.]

It's like...like, why didn't we see it before, y'know? Why doesn't anybody else see it?

[His head swivels toward Ax, and Jamie fixes him with a look of wonder, as though he's suddenly thought of something deeply profound.] D - d'you think every planet is like this, or is - is this one, like, special?

[Ax decides he likes Jamie. Everybody else has so little patience with his natural curiosity but this stuff is, like, so interesting, man.

He leans in close, almost conspiratorially, just to make sure Jamie can hear him.]

I have been to [he pauses to think] several different planets, and some amount of hallucinogenic flora has been present on each. You are human, correct? There was a plant on Earth called cannabis. Have you heard of it? It had a similar effect to this, but much less potent.

[With that he sort of...slowly collapses into the grass, all while maintaining contact with Jamie. After he's lying on his side, he says:] Pohhhh. Ten-tuh.

[Nobody understands a stoned teenager like another stoned teenager. This is truly a magical bond that is forming.

Jamie is so intent on the words coming out of Ax's mouth (and the way his lips are moving - like, dude, why hadn't he ever paid more attention to this kind of thing before? it's amazing) he doesn't even realize he's being pulled to the ground. Slumped over on his side, his legs half-pinned beneath Ax, he stares at his new friend with a look of childlike wonder, pupils enormously dilated.]

Cannabis is like - it's, it's like you - you smoke it, right? I've never had it. Never had it. What's Earth like? I've never been.

[Something occurs to him just then and he pats the grass in front of his face curiously.] ...the ground moved.

No, we moved. [Though Ax has shakily propped himself up and is now kind of staring at Jamie in a way that's almost lucid. Almost. Well, he may more be looking at a spot over Jamie's left shoulder.] Are you not human? To my knowledge, humans as a species were unaware of other intelligent lifeforms until a few of your years ago. How old are you?

[A pause, as another explanation occurs to him.] Are you from the future? [Look, he's time traveled before, it's not that weird.]

[Jamie rolls onto his back, one arm flopped lazily over his head and the other draped over his stomach, and for a moment looks even more vacant than previously.] How old are any of us, really? What if, like, the past and the future don't exist? Maybe there's only now. A-and every second of now moves int - look, were in a new now, right now. And now we're in another one. And it just keeps goi - now we're in another one. It just keeps going like that forever. Time is just a. A thing we made up because we couldn't handle the idea of being, y'know, lost in a big...empty...blob of...

[He trails off, staring up into the leaves of the tree, and then blinks and turns back to Ax.] I'm fourteen. And - and I'm human. Are you...are you saying you're not human?

[Ax follows Jamie's speech with glassy incomprehension. It sounds pretty deep, though. He's so focused on trying to follow it that it's a few moments before he realizes Jamie asked him a question.]

Oh. No, I am not human. I am an Andalite. I have only taken this form temporarily. Rarily. Rararilily.

[He's not having a stroke, promise, but that's apparently all the explanation Jamie's getting for the moment.]

[It's okay man everyone can't be as attuned to the ways of the universe as stoned!Jamie is. And Jamie himself probably isn't even going to remember what he was carrying on about five minutes from now anyway. He does, however, seem fascinated by this revelation from Ax.]

What's - what's an Andalite? How come you only look human now?

[He squirms on his back a little to scoot closer to Ax and fix him with a rapt stare.] Are you a ghost?

No, I am definitely alive.

[Though. Actually, now that he considers it, he doesn't actually know what happened on the Blade ship, or have idea where he is now relative to the part of the universe he knows. Maybe he is dead and this is the afterlife?

...But in that case, wouldn't everyone here also be dead? That doesn't make any sense.]

I think, at least. But an Andalite is certainly not a ghost. [He might sound a little offended, actually.] I will show you.

[...And he's gonna just start turning into a blue centaur thing in the grossest way possible right in front of Jamie, have fun with that!!]

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i'm so sorry about this tag

never apologize, this is the kind of nonsense i signed up for

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