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]

Why?

[want_a_vacation]

So hide the knives or something. You don't have to make people think you're going to kill them because they want a snack.

[Mutter grumble okay he is putting way more instant coffee in that hot water than any person ever should. And ignoring that questioning repeat of the name of the food, he is not feeling helpful right now.]

[daughterofthemark]

It's just the impression I get from everyone. I am an excellent judge of character.

[This is false.]

[want_a_vacation]

Probably. Everyone has their own areas of interest, and you can't expect anyone to understand everything.

[They're also a bit high up...getting to the floor can happen when they're closer to the door.]

[tacomeme]

...good idea.

[So now he's gonna take all the knives]

[daughterofthemark]

[Well, the door was already opened, so it makes sense to get on the floor next. Then they just need to walk the dinosaur.]

I've certainly encountered my share of things I didn't understand.

[...but maybe she's a little too cheerful about that.]

[want_a_vacation]

Hey, leave the small ones for eating! Some of this stuff actually needs to be cut, you know!

[What is he doing, why is he arguing with a person holding lots of stabby things. Why is his life such that he has to ask himself why he's arguing with someone holding lots of stabby things?]

[want_a_vacation]

Same here. I'm not even sure I want to understand some of the things I've encountered...

[They can get on the floor and then stay close to the wall. At least having two surfaces to brace against makes moving easier.]

[tacomeme]

[He scoffs]

Alright then, what would you say about my character?

[tacomeme]

[Weak Nohrians and their need to all these utensils]

You can't have it both ways.

[daughterofthemark]

You're a good person, and despite how you've been acting, I believe you're very concerned for everyone's safety.

[daughterofthemark]

[And it means Arianna can catch herself when she inevitably pushes a little too hard and starts floating away again.]

...still, such situations could easily lead to trouble.

[want_a_vacation]

I don't think a steak knife is going to make a very good weapon. They're not made for that sort of thing.

[tacomeme]

[He blushes and looks away]

I mean, I don't want anyone here to die...

[want_a_vacation]

[He also reaches out to catch her, to make sure she doesn't float off.]

Or be caused by trouble. This whole thing is in the 'not sure I want to understand it' category.

[daughterofthemark]

[ARIANNA IS A WINNER TODAY.]

Then we just need to make sure nobody does, right?

[daughterofthemark]

[She won't be taking to the air again anytime soon, that's for sure.]

I have to agree. I'm probably happier not having any insight into the thought process that led to all this.

[tacomeme]

...fine. But if anyone gets stabbed with one I'm blaming you.

[tacomeme]

Well, yeah. Ideally. But it's not that simple!

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps it is. We have no way of knowing until we've tried.

[want_a_vacation]

I don't think most people's thought with a steak knife is going to be 'this is good for stabbing someone.'

[Adding way too much sugar to his way too strong coffee.]

And at this rate, if anyone gets stabbed in a panic, it's probably going to be the guy who seems the most dangerous.

Felix | Red vs Blue | Champion Space Pirate

[spacehans]

C: Holo Deck

[ Wow, Felix actually looks like he's having fun here. Bouncing from one end of the room to the other, he goes around the room as though practicing for a routine. But this is surely innocent and fine and there is no reason to expect any kind of foul play from him! I mean, he seems really nice? ]

Oh, hey! You wanna join in? Beats Jazzersizing or whatever.

[ So friendly! He is definitely not planning anything. ]

E: Motive: A Date With Your Worst Nightmare

[ Motive day! Who's it gonna be? Felix has been enjoying the weirdly ridiculous murders that have so far graced their weird, romance-themed space mansion, and while it's been mostly a nuisance (and he doesn't take super well to being threatened, thanks,) it hasn't been all that bad. At least it's just him. If any of those stupid Freelancers were here, he'd probably have killed one of them by now.

Then he hears the motive: If any Champion cannot find love and does not kill one of their fellow Bachelors, then they will be forced to go on a date with their worst enemy.

Felix's face falls. ]

Ohhh, shit.

[ Locus is gonna fucking kill him. ]

Haha... what a dumb motive, right?

[want_a_vacation]

At least everything I went through before, I could see a reasonable motivation for it. This is just sick.

Boris Karlock | Champion Grave Robber | Neopets OC

[angrybori]

Option A: Wake up

[Boris must have stared at the chrome for nearly a whole minute before a sudden realization hit him like a train: this is clearly not his modest bedroom at the Von Lupin estate.]

Huh?! What the-?!

[He quickly stumbled out of bed, nearly tripping over his tail as he glanced about his surroundings. Everything's chrome, the view from the window has planets in it, there are fluorescent lights in the ceiling, he's wearing some kind of jumpsuit thing... Did Dr. Sloth kidnap him and have him imprisoned in the Virtupets Space Station?!]

[No, this place is way too clean. Plus, he'd put up a fight before that villian starts force feeding him transmogrification potions.]

Option C: Walking on Air

[Whelp, Boris just found the anti gravity room. He has never been without gravity before, and boy does it feel good.]

[So here's a furry, blue armadillo thing just floating around and chilling. He's relaxing at the moment, perfectly content with this state. Feel free to ask him things like "so, what are you exactly" or "why is your tail bent like that."]

Ardyn Izunia | Champion of Lucis | FFXV (endgame spoilers)

[scourgingstars]

[a; arrival]

[...Well, this was new. Neither Insomnia nor Niflheim had building structures quite like this, and he was more than reasonably certain the latter was the peak of magitechnology while the former was nothing to take lightly either. Whatever this room was (not to mention how he came to be there) was something entirely foreign.]

[...Leviathan's fucking tailfin, what was he wearing?]

[Ardyn stepped out of his room as collected and relaxed as though he had complete control of the situation (he most certainly did not), looking like a disheveled mess in a neatly kept suit that he imagined probably cost as much as the Regalia.]

If you would but humor me a moment- [He spoke up at the first person to pass by, speaking with antiquated phrases in a lazily ambling tone.] -could you perhaps enlighten me as to what may be transpiring here?

[c; i think i'll try defying gravity]

[Of all the strange things he encountered, this seemed the least disorienting. Ardyn managed to keep himself mostly upright, 'standing' on nothing with a look of what could only be called smug amusement.]

That is certainly remarkable.

[It felt like the split instant between warping from one point to another, except for an extended period of time and without the need to dematerialize in one place and rematerialize in another. But that did pose a slight problem, didn't it?]

[As laid back and calm as he looked, Ardyn had no idea on heaven or earth how to move from that spot.]

[d; holodeck]

[When one such as Ardyn (that is to say, completely indifferent to the word 'consequences') came across a lot of buttons and whatnot on a control panel, he practically felt compelled to mess around with it just a bit.]

[The result came into focus as a wide and expansive room, ornate and beautifully lit by the sunlight streaming in from massive windows...]

[...and completely empty.]

[It was, he had to admit with a quiet and derisive laugh, suitable.]