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TEST DRIVE MEME
// 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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Mei-Ling Zhou | Overwatch
Mei is thrilled she can spend some time off ship to explore this new world. Back home she was a climatologist who was studying the drastic changes in environment around the world in the hopes of saving the planet for future generations. Now that she's found herself aboard the Eluvio there hasn't been an opportunity to continue her work. Here on this lush, beautiful planet, it doesn't look like it's in danger of going through a massive climate shift, but she's still interested in getting samples to study. The ship needs supplies too and she's happy to oblige, marking areas on her electronic map for others to come and collect plants in containers while she sticks to scanning. It's unfortunate that the storm is keeping them from returning, but Mei likes making do out here. She's an adventurer at heart and she likes camping out. Besides, being cooped up indoors for too long tends to make her antsy. Blame being stranded at a research facility in Antarctica for that.
While they wait for the storm to pass, she works, converses with others on the mission, and makes sure they all have enough food and water. Unfortunately, the food is doing strange things. At first she thinks she's just seeing another crew mate out of the corner of her eye, but every time she glances up, the person she thought she saw is gone. Next come the whispers. She thinks it's simply two people having a hushed conversation, but then she hears "Zhou," right beside her ear and she leaps to her feet. The worst part comes when she spots someone familiar and goes racing off into the dense woods after them, only anyone can see that Mei is running off after no one.
"Torres, wait! Please! How are you here?"
( scenario 004 )
a. atrium
Here in the zen gardens, Mei sits and doodles in a notebook she's recently purchased for herself. Her artwork would never make it on to a gallery wall, but perhaps it would be worthy of hanging on someone's fridge someday. She sketches a gorilla in glasses, a woman with a halo and wings, and a giant knight with a shield. As she sits, she shoves her toes into the warm sand and sticks her tongue between her teeth in concentration. Eventually she looks up at the pools covered in lily pads and lotus blossoms before she lowers her head to try and sketch those too.
b. shopping center
She really has no need for anything beyond what they gave her when she arrived, but nevertheless, Mei walks around the shopping area of the ship, stopping at windows and looking in at the displays of clothes, electronics, and specialty items. At one point she heads into a jewelry store and asks if they have anything with snowflakes. When she's told they don't, she merely shrugs and continues on. There's a brief stop at a place that sells noodles in a cup before she keeps going, slurping up noodles with her chopsticks and window shopping. Maybe she'll find another jewelry store that sells necklaces with snowflakes. It's kind of her aesthetic.
(scenario 004a)
The young woman with the sketchbook wouldn't be totally unexpected in a park or on a beach back on Earth, but in an alien spaceship in the far-flung reaches of whatever galaxy this happens to be, it's a little weird to see just because it's so familiar. So Marco walks over, drops down onto the sand beside her, about a foot away.
Glancing over, he grins when he sees the drawing of a gorilla wearing glasses, "Aw, you got my good side."
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"Did I?" she asks, playing along. "That's lucky. I was just guessing and it seems I picked the right one."
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"I mean, if I'm being honest, every side is my good side, but that's definitely the best one."
Leaning over, he nudges his shoulder lightly against hers, glancing at the other drawings, "Wow, these are cool. Where do you get the ideas for them?"
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"And I'm Mei."
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"Nice to meet you, Mei. I'm Marco."
He holds out a slim brown hand for a shake, and then continues on after a moment, "So you know a talking gorilla, huh? Is he like, always a gorilla, or does he go back and forth?"