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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[vitawny]

[Did you want help? Too bad, you're getting a snarky predator instead. At least she doesn't seem immediately interested in eating you.]

How do you things even survive? You're so helpless you should've all been eaten by other animals by now.

[Vitani's just going to sit down on top of the rock next to Jughead, watching the cow idly but doing nothing to discourage it from pursuing its prey. She can leave at any time the same way she arrived - by jumping from rock to rock - and she's not terribly concerned about whether or not the human can do the same.]

[slackbeard]

[Excuse you, lion lady, at least he has thumbs. He's the apex predator in his neighborhood! But he's not dumb enough to say that when he's caught between a cow and a hard place. Instead he just huffs and throws up his hands.]

I'm not helpless always. This is a special circumstance! This an anomaly. Normally I'm the one eating the cow.

[vitawny]

How, by nibbling it to death with your weird little square teeth? [This may sound like pure snark, but there's some genuine inquiry there too. How do you hapless squishy little things take care of yourselves without fangs or claws or horns or...anything? It is a mystery.]

Anyway, what's stopping you now? Do...whatever it is you primates do and eat it. It's only like three-quarters your size, you can take it.

[slackbeard]

I've got two whole teeth that aren't square and a determined spirit. [Too bad he lost his blaster, and his makeshift spear, and his useless tiny pocketknife. ]

The thing about it, is that little guy has more sharp stuff on him than I do right now. Plus a determined spirit. You wouldn't mess with-- like, a two-headed lion, would you? Do the math, that's double the teeth. The odds aren't great!

[vitawny]

[Admittedly this is more non-square teeth than Vitani had initially thought a human possessed. Still, she is perplexed as to how these ugly, hairless, vulnerable creatures make their way through the world.]

Wait, so do you need like a stick or something? Other monkeys use sticks to do things sometimes. Is that your big secret?

...and two-headed lions don't exist, what are you even talking about.

[slackbeard]

The stick's only half the secret. The other half? Is the sharpness of the stick.

[He sighs, gesturing to the planet around them.]

We're on another planet. Two-headed lions are probably the least weird thing we're gonna see in space.