test drive meme

[airlockedmods]

Since we know a lot of people are ready and eager to start playing around in this setting, welcome to the official Airlocked Test Drive! For this test drive, we do have a posting format:

In the header of your comment, put your Character's Name and their Champion title. You don't have to put in the canon if you don't want, but you can if you feel the need.

And the guidelines we ask you to follow are, please try to include at least one prompt in your top-level to reply to, and if you make a top-level try to tag out to at least one other person. We want everyone to get a chance to give their choices a fair shake, after all.

Here are some examples to get you started:

A - Arrival
You wake up in a bed that's not your own, in a shiny chrome room that has bright fluorescent lights that light up along the floor as soon as your feet hit it and glowing sconces on the walls. Whether it's much different from what you're used to or not different at all, it's time to figure out where you are and more importantly, whether you're alone.

B - Mealtime
Well sweet, at least there's a cafeteria! But wait, it seems like there's only hot food during certain times of day. The rest of the time if you go foraging in the kitchen you can find weird silver packages with the name of food on the side that...definitely don't seem big enough to hold the food in question. If you open it up, it seems oddly dry...

C - Zero G
A zero gravity room! Awesome! The walls and floor are textured to give you something to hang onto to crawl across back to the control panel, but if you're floating in the middle of the room you might need someone to give you a push.

D - Holo Deck
A room where all your dreams come true. Kind of. In a photorealistic display of light and sound.

E - Anything else!
Or Create your own!

This is not an official reserve, nor does it guarantee a slot in the game, but if you do choose to app a character that you test drove, you can use two minimum 20-comment threads or one minimum 40-comment thread (so at least 20 total comments from your character) in place of writing a sample. So have fun with it!

Comments

[goteachother]

[And Queenie actually looks a bit startled, confusion and frustration flickering across her expression briefly before she smiles, nodding enthusiastically. Her mind has never been so silent.]

Oh I hear ya. I keep expectin my sister to come swooping in with a lecture about the statute of secrecy. I mean... before this I ain't really even talked to a no-maj before.

[goteachother]

[It would be so much easier if she could just peek into his mind and figure out what a Jedi is so she could answer the question. But her mind is infuriatingly empty of the thoughts of the others around her.

So she'll just have to ask like anyone else. It's kind of a novel idea and she's probably more excited than she should be.]

I don't think so? What is a Jedi?

[sadsaofthesun]

Tcha- [That same dismissive sound and he steps forward as though he's going to just push past her and go about his business. He pauses and breathes out a sigh. It is not her fault he is removed from the god's eye here.]

No. I do not.

[sadsaofthesun]

I am Warlord, I must be... amazing.

[Not a word he would usually use but it works well enough.]

[daughterofthemark]

Astronauts? Astro... ah! Star sailors! [The etymology of this word is totally useless information that will only ever be good for going off on tangents, so naturally Arianna is able to figure it out pretty easily.] What a poetic word!

[daughterofthemark]

[Hey! There was a planet in Rogue One that had both "light rain" and "heavy rain!"

Arianna considers this for a moment. She's never really thought of light having a speed, but now that the subject has come up, it's intuitive that it would have to be pretty fast.]

One who could move faster than light would certainly have an easier time moving us here without being detected.

[...she's trying her best, okay?]

C

[goteachother]

[The holodeck was apparently very "high tech". Queenie just thought it reminded her of the spells they used to review evidence in Major Investigations. But even those spells were nothing compared to what she walked into now.]

Oh, golly... [She's not even really paying attention to who is in here, she's just staring with wide-eyed awe. City girl has never seen anything like this.]

[nojohnyouare]

And more burnt?

[nojohnyouare]

...I don't want to marry them.

[If a lineface can look perplexed and grossed out but still muted, Mai has that completely under control.]

[nojohnyouare]

[Just a nod, as if she isn't even insulted.]

Stay safe.

[nojohnyouare]

...I never thought of it that way.

[daughterofthemark]

[Ouch. She's not arguing, though.]

...well, thank you for the first part.

[daughterofthemark]

G-I-N-N-U-N-G-A-G-A-P.

[She's very proud of this!]

I already had to learn it when I was younger.

[daughterofthemark]

[A cuddly buddy.]

...oh, you're right. This could be a dangerous environment.

[daughterofthemark]

I suppose we're all "astronauts" now.

[It's her new favorite word!]

[nojohnyouare]

Not willingly.

[way to be a downer, mai]

[daughterofthemark]

We've been star shanghaied!

[Once Arianna is in a good mood, she is exceptionally difficult to remove from it.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna probably shouldn't just agree to something that open-ended--]

Yes, it's a deal!

[...sigh.]

[nojohnyouare]

I guess. Only to die, not... I'm not sure.

[daughterofthemark]

I have no intention of allowing any of us to die. We shall prevail, and become true star sailors.

[everylittlesecret]

Yep. Burnt is better than bland.

[everylittlesecret]

It's a forest in Quinault.

[She looks up long enough to see who it is before going back to her book.]

Pretty close to where I live back home. Never seen a forest?

[toneverbetray]

Certainly nothing compared to the usual kidnappings for ransom and such. Makes you wonder about their motives, doesn't it?

[goteachother]

Oh no... [A soft, breathless laugh as she makes her way over to where the other woman is sitting. It's not very easy in a dress but she manages.] Not unless you count Central Park.

[toneverbetray]

[Well, this sure reminds him of the Space Yakuza™ at home.]

I'm afraid not, although I've encountered a similar organization albeit in the Outer Spheres. I've become rather well-acquainted with one of their subsidiaries by now.

[Whatever that means. Although he doesn't seem too bothered about it either way, so. He looks a little amused at the thought of fighting while buzzed, though.]

I make it a point to stay sober when I'm on duty. Strategizing and mobile suit piloting aren't things that should be done with an unclear mind.