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

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[daughterofthemark]

Good afternoon.

[What a fascinating environment! Arianna has no idea what any of this is, but it sure looks interesting.]

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai looks over at Arianna quickly, then focuses back on the end of the hall.]

Be careful. I'm training.

[daughterofthemark]

Of course. I'll simply observe.

[She's REALLY CURIOUS about what kid of training is involved here.]

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai's just going to stand, wait... and then rush down the hallway as something moves toward her. It's unclear what it is, transparent but shifting and then moving all at once. It's like if a giant amorphous blob used the invisibility item from Super Smash Bros, the way the air and light distorts around it.

Even if Mai's sword is weak plastic, she runs at the thing and jumps up, bringing the sword down in a full-body flip to cleave it in two.]

[daughterofthemark]

My!

[Homophone unintended. Arianna's not entirely sure what she just watched, but Mai's moves were impressive!]

[nojohnyouare]

[She lands on her feet and turns to look at Arianna.]

...Just in case.

[daughterofthemark]

Yes, you seem very prepared. Though I hope it won't be necessary for you to defend yourself.

[nojohnyouare]

It might. What about you?

[Mai doesn't really talk much, but she's levelling a serious gaze on her.]

[daughterofthemark]

I can fight if necessary. I normally use a staff, but I don't know if that's really an option here.

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai hesitates. She goes to turn off the simulation.]

What do you think of this place?

[daughterofthemark]

It's strange. Comfortable, but... [She's searching for a word...] lifeless.

[nojohnyouare]

...[Mai nods.] You're used to nature.

[daughterofthemark]

I suppose I have been spending a lot of time in the forest lately.

[Honestly, even what Arianna thinks of as a developed urban center is more nature-y than what some people are used to.]

Or... had been, at least.

[nojohnyouare]

I don't know.

[Mai doesn't say a lot, usually. She's still keeping her expression blank, but she looks towards the door.]

Arianna. Wouldn't kidnapping people to another world be enough? Why space?

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps... to isolate us?

[Arianna only barely understands how space works, which is reasonable since up until [REDACTED] ago she didn't really have an understanding of space as a thing that existed in the first place. But "we're really far away from absolutely everything," at least, is a concept she was able to wrap her head around.]

[nojohnyouare]

From even the people of this world.

...I don't know.

[daughterofthemark]

If the other people of this world knew of our predicament,
they would come to our rescue.

[Or, you know, watch it on TV every night.]

[nojohnyouare]

I hope so. ...Most people can't go to space back home.

...where did that linebreak come from

[daughterofthemark]

Have you ever been to space before, Dame Mai?

[nojohnyouare]

No. Even Sayuri hasn't. Only astronauts.

[daughterofthemark]

Astronauts? Astro... ah! Star sailors! [The etymology of this word is totally useless information that will only ever be good for going off on tangents, so naturally Arianna is able to figure it out pretty easily.] What a poetic word!

[nojohnyouare]

...I never thought of it that way.

[daughterofthemark]

I suppose we're all "astronauts" now.

[It's her new favorite word!]

[nojohnyouare]

Not willingly.

[way to be a downer, mai]

[daughterofthemark]

We've been star shanghaied!

[Once Arianna is in a good mood, she is exceptionally difficult to remove from it.]