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

[tenkofan]

...

[In that case, what choice is there?]

I will run to the med bay for a sedative. Hold out.

[If she's survived this long, she can survive a few minutes more. He doesn't wait around for an answer.

Hayatori takes off at a sprint, with all the speed and agility a talented shinobi can possess. Having memorised the layout of the ship previously he knows where he is heading. He's seen what the doctors use on their patients. It will be quicker for him to simply take what they need and explain after. Jiraiya should allow him to boost the potency of the sedative when he wields it.

Hopefully it will be enough.]

[claymost]

Got it! [She calls out after him but so long as he comes back, she isn't worried about being able to give an answer; they're low on spare time, and getting this done while they can matters most.

So long as this corridor stays empty, it's safest to keep the thing here so she's jumping back and forth in front of it, raising her sword to catch swinging limbs, and snapping jaws, lunging and trying to feint her way around it—aaand getting smacked into a wall.

Her fairy's force field, springing up at her back when her fairy appears by her in a short flash of light and disappearing once she's hit the bulkhead, takes the worst of the blow (and leaves an impressive dent in its wake, oops), and she's back to her feet and lunging right at it again.

When Hayatori comes back he'll find Fu right where he left her, the corridor walls and fixtures a little worse for wear overall and Fu's fairy hovering cautiously by her head while she gets right up in the mutant's face, springing up and about like she's weightless.]

—maybe if you ever took the trash out at the end of your shift!

[aaalso she's yelling at it. which probably means she's doing fine?? excellent situation-handling there, Fu, way to go.]

[tenkofan]

[The yelling he hears on his return makes Hayatori's mouth momentarily twitch into a small smile beneath his mask. It's like being back in Utakata, amidst his Slayer comrades. Hatsuho in particular.

This girl is strong.

Still, he does not let nostalgia slow him. Judging his angle and aim in motion, Hayatori simply runs up and leaps, striking the sedative straight into the mutant's neck. There is no need for channelling: his Mitama Jiraiya's affliction boost automatically intensifies the drug's natural effect. Kicking off the mutant's back, he backflips off of it and lands on his feet a few metres away.

Let it suffice.

When the mutant staggers and crumples into an unconscious heap a few second later, Hayatori doesn't outwardly show his relief, but he nonetheless feels it.]

We must move him swiftly.

[There's no telling how long they have to work with.]

[claymost]

[She has just enough time when she sees him coming to give Hayatori as wide a berth as she can, sword raised to shield him. Her fairy only lingers for seconds after the mutant collapses, and Fu takes that as a signal of safety solid enough to let her sword to just sort of vanish in her fairy's same flash of light.]

Nice shot! [She's a little breathless, but she can't be slowed down; they aren't done just yet.] I'll get his legs. [Even though she's struggling a little to lift them... Mutant people are heavier than magical people-sized swords, apparently? But she's got her face scrunched up in determined concentration.]