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

[existentialcrisis]

[ It's so not actually broken, but Ukoku takes his arm anyway, checking politely. (The lack of any space mutant discoloration or other weirdness is a worthwhile thing to look for.) ]

Does it hurt if—

[ He interrupts himself, listening, expression gone smooth. Voices outside—three or four of them, concerned and excited, coming to see what all the noise was. ]

[straycloud]

Owwwww- [ But he stops the whining and cocks his head like he's listening. ] What if we just went this way?

[ There's more than one way out. There's the hole the dead lady tore through a wall, and he's pretty sure he knows where that goes. He pulls away and, after a second of thought, abruptly grabs for Ukoku's wrist so he can lead him along.

The reality is that their presence here wasn't about to go entirely unknown, but it's easier to dodge people for the moment. He'll shamelessly avoid complications if he can afford to, and the possibility that he didn't have a willing confederate doesn't occur to him. ]

[existentialcrisis]

[ It doesn't really matter where the hole in the wall goes—Ukoku could get himself, at least, out of anywhere at any time—but it's gratifying to see Koumyou take the path of least effort.

Wherever they're going is eerily quiet and probably full of more mutants waiting for the perfect jump scare timing, but that's fine. Ukoku's just letting Koumyou drag him wherever. ]

Your arm is not broken.

[ It's not an argument; it's a professional opinion, cheerfully delivered. ]

[straycloud]

It feels broken.

[ It's telling that, as they escape through the damaged wall down into an inexplicably ill-lit room, that his voice drops in volume. It's not an active exercise of caution, instead a subconscious response to the change in their surroundings.

Ultimately, it's better if any mutants run into them as opposed to other people, at least. He looks dubiously at his partner in absurd, horrifying spaceship adventures. Something seems to catch Koumyou attention, and he stops to look at him directly. ]

Ah, even worse, I forgot- [ He'd been a little distracted. ] Thanks for dropping by to help.

[ He certainly sounds sincere. ]

[existentialcrisis]

Oh, not at all! [ He's lowered his voice, too. It does add to the atmosphere. ] I was just in the right place at the right time.

[ It's not like he was stalking him, or anything. ]

I didn't even do anything useful. You were much better than me.

[ He's absolutely complimenting him on dropping that previously-nice mutant lady, this is normal. ]