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

[tacomeme]

I'm not going to stab anyone, damn it! I'm trying to avoid stabbing.

[want_a_vacation]

[The wall is indeed a good friend. Allen puts a hand out to control his stop and turns around.]

A robot is...ah...it's a sort of artificial being, made entirely out of mechanical parts, that can move and act like a living creature, either based on an artificial intelligence or by remote control.

D

[get_gone]

[Jim's a little on edge when he steps into the holodeck. Settling into his chair, even if in the back of his mind he knows it's not real, is a really good way of focusing. The reassurance of his rank makes it easier to deal with this shit.

He pauses just inside the door, brows rising and a wicked grin pulling at his lips.]

Well, shit. [A huff of a laugh.] I know they're encouraging the whole romance thing but you might have more privacy in a room y'know.

[tacomeme]

... no.

[He stirs his food morosely]

I just don't want to die. It isn't very smart to just start being buddy-buddy with everyone here.

[daughterofthemark]

I... see.

[Lies.]

It sounds quite complex.

[What's an artificial intelligence? Remote control? Like a living creature? Weren't they talking about a person?]

[tacomeme]

[A voice calls out from the dark, sounding both scandalized and... honestly a little terrified.]

Th-that's not what it is! Get out of here-!

[want_a_vacation]

Well what do you expect me to think when you pointed a knife at me just for trying to go into the kitchen?! People usually don't point knives unless they're thinking of stabbing someone! I really don't need this today...

[daughterofthemark]

I'm sure none of the others want to die, either. Surely our chances for survival are best if we cooperate?

[What's cynicism? What's distrust? Are they tasty?]

Finn "FN-2187" | Champion Resistance | Star Wars

[cameupshort]

A - Arrival
[This is not his beautiful- actually, this room is a lot nicer than any barracks he's ever been assigned. It's too clean, too private, and the bed seems designed for actual comfort instead of utilitarianism. Did he actually manage to escape somehow? ...In his sleep. Without remembering.]

[Had he been caught, suspected of defection? Maybe, but this wasn't any kind of cell he’d ever seen, First Order or otherwise.]

[And what was up with these clothes?]

[Once he leaves the bedroom it becomes much clearer that this definitely isn't the Finalizer, or anywhere else he knows. He can be found hurriedly moving through the corridors, looking for an exit.]

[Or you might find him looking over his own profile on the PIP, looking confused and quietly mouthing his own name.]

[Or he might just approach you on his own.]

Hey, do you know where the docking bay is?


B - Mealtime
[Finn is looking over the multitude of food packets available, looking halfway between awe and suspicion. He's turning one over in his hands slowly.]

...We're really allowed to just take them?


C - Holodeck
What the hell- no.

[Finn's standing at the controls to the holodeck, looking wide-eyed and wondrous at the simulation he's called up; for about a second, before turning back to the controls and trying to banish the desert landscape.]

No, no, just- no.

[The scenery flickers as Finn picks at and then smashes at the controls,but the desert just keeps reasserting itself. Help?]


D - Wildcard
[Choose your own adventure!]

[tacomeme]

I didn't point it! I just have it!

[It's splitting hairs but Takumi doesn't care]

[get_gone]

[He recognizes the terrified part of it and, honestly, scandalized is better than scared so he's gonna roll with that.]

Suuuure it's not. Y'know I could give you a hand~ [He doesn't even know for sure who he's talking to but if he needs to apologize later he can do that. Mostly.]

[tacomeme]

I don't know any of you well enough to cooperate with you. For all I know you could be working with the Overseers.

[want_a_vacation]

Oh...I guess it seems like that to someone outside the field. Building KOS-MOS has been the focus of my job for practically my entire career, so it's easy to forget what it must seem like to people who aren't part of the project.

[Let's see about getting back to the wall with the exit, shall we? Instead of kicking off again, he's just going to move along the wall he's landed on.]

[tacomeme]

Sh-shut up! You're not funny, you know!

[want_a_vacation]

You have it while blocking a doorway, it's close enough.

[Mumble grumble something about having had enough of something. He's going to go ahead and grab his silverware (he picked something he won't need to cut for the sake of avoiding being stabbed for picking up a steak knife) and get some hot water for coffee. Still not taking his eyes off Takumi for more than a couple seconds.]

[tacomeme]

I'm not going to apologize for wanting to be able to defend myself.

[He stares at the food]

...what is that?

A

[daughterofthemark]

[Hopefully Finn won't mind having some random girl watching him intently as he inspects his PIP. Arianna's world doesn't even have electric lighting, she has no idea what to do with this thing on her arm. In fact she's only just realized that there was anything to do with it.]

[daughterofthemark]

...why? They want us to die.

[tacomeme]

As far as they told us. You know, people lie all the time. Spies are a thing.

[want_a_vacation]

Wanting to defend yourself doesn't explain blocking people off from the kitchen. You're gonna give someone a heart attack like that. Like me, for instance.

[You know, he's almost tempted not to answer. Or to give some sort of sarcastic answer like, 'it's food.' But his survival instinct says it's a bad idea to be deliberately difficult with someone holding a sharp weapon.]

This? It's supposed to be spaghetti, but they've probably freeze dried all the flavor out of it.

I feel like I should apologize for this tag

[daughterofthemark]

Well... I suppose. But nobody here seems like a spy.

I feel called out

[tacomeme]

...well yeah, that's what spies do. If they were obvious they'd be pretty awful at their job.

[tacomeme]

People panic! If anyone can just come grab a knife then someone could come do something stupid, that's all.

... spa... getti?

[What the fuck is a freeze dry]

[daughterofthemark]

[Yeah, that seems a lot easier. Maybe they could turn the gravity back on, too? Although actually the controls are probably by the door anyway.]

That much, I do understand. It's likely that there are subjects like that for each of us, that the rest wouldn't understand.

I feel good! danananananana

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps, but I'm certain everyone here is trustworthy.