livestudioaudience | test drive meme

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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Scotty?! [Not where he was supposed to be. Shit. This was probably not the enterprise? Not unless the crew quarters had gone through a serious upgrade. Which, well she was new so who knows but it didn't seem like Starfleet's style.]

Scotty!? C'mon![Dammit he has a Vulcan to piss off... He heads out of the room quick and determined, looking for a console so he can determine the fastest route to the bridge. Except he can't find a console and the adrenaline starts to wear down at that point, leaving him standing there, leaning against a wall with his lips pressed together thoughtfully.]

What the hell did you screw up, old man?

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[This at least was normal for Jim. Food at certain times, things that were easy to make in a ship's galley. See the main difference was that the staff of the Enterprise was well aware that they could actually probably kill their Captain with misplaced ingredients.

He had no idea who made this stuff but food was food and, baring some relatively unlikely ingredients considering it was mac & cheese, he wasn't going to go into anaphylactic shock. Hopefully.]

Here goes nothin'

[ The door opens and she pauses to watch him eat, staring. Is that edible? She's not sure. What the hell is he doing. Sorry, she seems to be frozen in shock a moment. ]

S-Sorry, am I interrupting?

[He pauses with the fork halfway to his mouth and leans back, setting the bowl of decidedly questionable "pasta" down so he can flash her his best panty-dropping smile.]

Nah. No, come on there's plenty to go around. [Jim gestures to the space at the table beside him.]

Just... don't be alarmed if my throat closes up. It'll be fine. [A laugh and a shrug.] Probably.

[ Unfortunately for Kirk and his smile, he's met his match: a lesbian. ]

Wh-What!? Wh-Why would it do that!?

[Match? Nonsense. That just means she's a challenge. Champion of Winning remember? He refuses to accept defeat. Even if he embarrasses himself trying.]

Well it's not like they posted an ingredient list. [Even as he takes a deep breath to test his reaction and picks the bowl back up to shovel another forkful in his mouth.]

[ Good luck, she has zero interest in men. ]

Wh-What!? Wh-What does that have to d-do with anything!?

[ ...She's from the equivalent of Marie Antoinette's reign, allergies are not a concept she has. ]

[He'll keep trying and embarrassing himself. Sometimes he's just too determined for his own good.]

I can't exactly tell if it has something I'm allergic to in it if there's no list. I mean there's obviously no tomatoes so that's already a good sign.

[Does his tongue itch or is he hyper sensitive because he's thinking about it? Meeting a Spock from 130 years in the future was one thing but from that far in the past? It's hard for him to comprehend sometimes and definitely hard to remember what science they did and didn't have.]

You don't like tomatoes do you? [playful suspicion... now if only he realized just how confused she is.]

...Allergic...?

[ This is the face of someone not understanding something. ]

[He lifts his brows at her, expression going incredulous for a moment.]

Uh... right. [He huffs a laugh and tries to recover that flirtatious smile.] It's when your body thinks something is attacking you when it's really not. Bee stings, certain foods, stuff like that.

I happen to have a lot of them.

[there is an orange cat-like creature licking it's paws in the corner and watching Kirk consider the food with amusement. A similar-looking empty bag lays on the table in front of him]

It's quite delicious, I assure you!

[Talking cat-dude. Not the weirdest alien race he's seen. Still he just kinda shrugs and comes over to drop into a seat across from him.]

Not worried about the flavor so much as what's in it.

Does it really matter? It's not as though you will be able to eat anything else!

Well I'm pretty fond of breathing so there's that.

[Even so he just shrugs and shovels a forkful of lukewarm re-hydrated mac & cheese into his mouth.]

I don't understand what two separate body systems have to do with it, but okay! [cheerfully, without a trace of sarcasm]

Does no one else here have allergies?! [Everyone seems so surprised about his uncertainty over the food. What the hell?]

test drive meme

James T. Kirk | Champion of Winning

...That title is so NuKirk it hurts. B.

I couldn't help myself.

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