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

[plugout]

Oh, uhhh. I'm Rhys. You're Angel, right? [ ... he realizes that sounds creepy, that he knows who she is, so he lifts his arm. ] The, uh-- the-- the thing, the profiles, said so.

[brokencode]

[Rather than feeling uneasy, a fresh wave of embarrassment worked its way through Angel. Glancing toward her own PIP, Angel let out a nervous laugh, before nodding.]

Right. Yes, you are correct. [She held out her hand, like her father did during business meeting. Smile through it, Jack.]

[plugout]

[ Oh, crap. Did he do that? Make her feel nervous? Because he can tell, from the way she laughs. ... It'll probably be fine. Then again, she's a kid...

... Uh, right, handshake. Rhys grips her hand with his human hand and gives it a light shake. He even offers her a smile. ]

Nice to meet you. Guess we're... stuck here a while, huh? So.... we should probably get to know each other! Probably.

[ Smooth, Rhys. ]

[brokencode]

[She might have bristled, if she had any way of knowing what he was thinking. She was... an adult, mostly. Probably. Sometimes it was a bit hard to remember her own age.]

It would seem that we are. [Smooth or not, it managed to net a laugh out of the girl.] That seems like a good idea, though. Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking?

[serrata]

[ ... well, she's slowed down a bit there probably won't need to be a trial today. Probably. ]

I was just wondering if you wouldn't want to make a proper meal out of that. I'm sure there should be something in the kitchen you can rehydrate to go with it...?

[ are you a bad enough dude to eat the space food, angel ]

[honoraryembryon]

Just Earth. Place isn't exactly much for trees. Are you not accustomed to that, too?

[ He's curious now, himself. ]

[scourgingstars]

My, how thoughtful of you.

[scourgingstars]

My fondest of greetings to you. Whatever the reason, it would appear that we are in this unfortunate situation together.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I know, I'm Mother Teresa.

[And with that, he uses his leverage to shove himself--a little clumsily, admittedly--back to solid, gravity-enabled ground. Before he leaves though, he can't help but hesitate and glance back over his shoulder.]

Last chance.

[scourgingstars]

For what, exactly? [He tilted his head, with the same insufferably punchable smirk.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

All forces in the universe occur in equal but oppositely directed pairs. If you want to move, you need something to push against. Right now, you're floating in the middle of fucking nothing, and if another object doesn't drift along, you're just gonna be stuck there forever.

[brokencode]

[Angel... blinked. Re-hydrating food was a bit of a primitive concept, long since abandoned by her time. Why re-hydrate, when you can digistruct.]

[Was that where her current meal came from? Awful, just awful.]

Really, this is fine. I... am not a very picky eater.

[plugout]

[ Rhys puts his foot in his mouth all the time. It's fine. ]

Well... I live and work on a space station, kinda like this. Uh, Helios is way bigger though.

[plugout]

[ Luckily, he's close enough to the wall still to grab onto it. ]

Not-- not what I'm used to!

[cameupshort]

...I don't know what those are either, but they sound terrible.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Not my favorite place on Earth, no. [...] Where are you from?

[Who hasn't heard of America????]

[cameupshort]

It was broken when I got here! ...I think.

[This thing is pretty amazing by his own technical standards, but if this is all it can produce it's clearly just another tool of evil.]

[cameupshort]

Never heard of an Earth system, either. Is that somewhere in the Outer Rim?

[And, right. Most people had an actual place of origin. Think of a planet, Finn.]

[...]

Coruscant. Originally, I mean. I've been kind of. Traveling a lot?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[What...]

Outer Rim of what? ...Do you mean, like, the Pacific Rim?

[DA NA NA, DA NA--DA! NA! NA! NA NA! No. No kaijuu here.]

[cameupshort]

Someone who can do things like that? And - hear thoughts, things like that.

[The First Order didn't cover the fine details of the Force, presumably.]

I mean, I'd think you'd know if you were?

[cameupshort]

It sort of sounded like that.

[Like a lot. Stabbing and cutting are both pretty good at getting blood to be where it's not supposed to be.]

[cameupshort]

Of the galaxy?

[What's a Pa- you get the idea at this point.]

c

[plugout]

[ Real talk: Rhys has never seen a tree, like... in the ground. It's pretty awesome. It's definitely pretty, too, and there are so many of them here? And it's so green. Rhys is used to seeing a lot of yellow and metal, black and technology, so this is... ]

Whoa, [ he breathes. He doesn't move from his spot. Just... just let him take in all this nature for, like, a minute or five. ]

[brokencode]

Helios? [Angel recalled a pair of blueprints with a similar name. She'd come across them in the Hyperion databases, during a fit of insomnia.]

Funny. The corporation I... work for is in the process of building a similar station. Maybe we stole the idea from you guys?

[plugout]

Huh. Really?

[ He looks... mildly disturbed for a second. ]

When I get out of here, I'll keep my mouth shut. Preeeeeetty sure Hyperion wouldn't be happy to know that.