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

Arianna de Caledonia | Champion Sovereign | Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold

[daughterofthemark]

A

[Well. This definitely isn't where Arianna was last night. In fact, it isn't anything like anywhere she can recall being, ever. Obviously this situation calls for caution, as she's clearly been kidnapped and it's anyone's guess who is or isn't trustworthy.]

Hello? Is there anybody here?

[Well, it's obvious to some people, anyway. Arianna is not one of them.]

C

Excuse me. Could you perhaps assist me?

[...yep, there's Arianna, floating almost exactly in the center of the room. She's drifting gradually and she'll reach a surface sooner or later, but it might take a while.]

D

[Arianna has gotten the hang of the holodeck surprisingly quickly. Today she's recreated an underground ruin, which was a temple once but now it's more of a crumbling stone labyrinth (monsters deliberately not included, she's not that dumb). She hasn't noticed anyone else come in, as she's busy messing around with various spots, changing their appearances in an attempt to recreate what this place might have originally looked like.]

E

[Alternatively, suggest a different scenario and I'll play along.]

C

[want_a_vacation]

[He was really just passing by, but when he hears someone calling to him, he looks into the Zero-G room, and...oh.]

Ah...moving in zero gravity isn't really my strong suit, but I can give it a try.

[daughterofthemark]

Thank you, Sir Allen! I'm sure you'll be most helpful.

[This is going to end in tears.]

[want_a_vacation]

[Or at least flailing. He's not entirely unfamiliar with zero gravity, but he's not nearly as graceful as some people he knows. So when he kicks off, he drifts slightly off his planned course and ends up having to swat at the air to adjust himself.]

I don't know how KOS-MOS makes this look easy...

[daughterofthemark]

[He's going in vaguely the right direction, though! That's better than she managed!]

It's probably a matter of practice. I had hoped to develop my own skill, but...

[want_a_vacation]

And I guess being an android helps with the weight distribution part.

[Really, he looks kind of like he's swimming, with the way he adjusts himself. Luckily, grace is ultimately less important than actually getting where he's trying to go, and he manages to stay on course at least enough to reach out to her as he passes.]

Here, grab my hand.

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps! Although... what is an android?

[She takes his hand. YAY FRIENDSHIP! I mean, YAY NOT BEING STUCK ANYMORE!]

c

[gotadealforyou]

[Garfield, spotting Arianna's predicament, has decided to pop into the room himself, and is currently floating casually next to the door, tail wrapped around the handle to keep himself in place. He's smiling in her direction, sharp teeth giving him an almost hungry look]

I could, certainly~! I'd be more than pleased to, in fact. But first--[and his grin widens]--you must make an attempt to best me in a contest of Mercantile Wit!

[daughterofthemark]

[What a clever technique! Arianna has already had to remind herself that she doesn't have a tail so there's no point in trying to learn how to do that herself.]

Oh! I'll give it my best!

[Even though she has absolutely no idea what that could possibly even refer to.]

[gotadealforyou]

Wonderful~! [if a cat can beam, then Garfield is doing just that] Now, let us establish just what is on the table, shall we? [and so saying, he starts to drift along the wall, slowly floating himself towards her] What is it, exactly, that you seek?

[daughterofthemark]

What I seek...

[...well she knows what she wants, but putting it into words is a little weird.]

Contact with the ground, I suppose.

[gotadealforyou]

Good, good! That's an excellent place to start, seeing as that is a thing I can most certainly provide. [he stops his movement along the wall once he's gotten parallel with the spot where Arianna is hanging out, and regards her with interest] Now...what do you have to offer in return?

[daughterofthemark]

[...shit. She probably should have seen that question coming.]

I don't... none of my possessions were brought here with me...

D

[protectandselfserve]

[Well, this was a surprisingly fun holodeck romp! It's a nice way to spend an afternoon, anyway, navigating some labyrinthine ruin. Although, it was starting to get a little... overly solitary, perhaps?

... though, that didn't appear to be a problem anymore!]

My! Is this all your work, then?

[daughterofthemark]

[Yeah, she thought she was alone, which is why she jumps up at the sound of a voice. Oh, but never mind, it's fine, it's just the Entirely Trustworthy Man whose job is something similar to a guard captain if she understands correctly.]

Oh, no, these ruins existed centuries before I was even born.

[That's... probably not what he meant...]

[protectandselfserve]

[...luckily, he can at least follow the logic train here...]

Oh, so they're based on a real place, then? I suppose that takes a few originality points off, then.

[daughterofthemark]

[Typically Arianna's problem is that the logic train is late leaving the station in the first place.]

It's called the Ginnungagap. I've been trying to reconstruct what it might have looked like in the past.

[protectandselfserve]

...I see!

...

Well, I'd hope for your that doesn't include having to figure out how to spell that, haha!

[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.

A

[ebonyknight]

[How about this large woman? Surely she's friendly--]

...You can see, can't you?

[daughterofthemark]

[The largest and friendliest!]

I do now. That makes at least two of us here, then.

[ebonyknight]

[She's even the Champion Childhood Friend!]

Hmph... There's others about. Don't be so inattentive to your surroundings.

[daughterofthemark]

[A cuddly buddy.]

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

[ebonyknight]

Considering that both of us were kidnapped, yes.

[...This girl is an idiot.]

[daughterofthemark]

Are you certain we haven't merely been transported to another location?

[Arianna. If they don't have your permission, that's called kidnapping.]