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]

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

[get_gone]

I'm just callin it as I see it. [And now that he's pretty sure he's not going to see something he wasn't prepared for he steps out of the dim light coming in from the doorway to access the control panel, just bringing up the lights for now.]

You do know how to work this thing, yeah?

[tacomeme]

[Takumi is sitting on the floor against the far wall, his knees pulled up to his chest. The lights make him wince and hide his face against said knees.

But in the moments before he does it's clear his eyes are red and his face blotchy]

...I figured it out.

[get_gone]

[This was one of those moments where he wished he was better with people... or at least had some booze on hand. He just kinda blows out a breath and slides down the wall next to Takumi.]

40 Eridani System [And the room comes alive with the swirling patterns of a star system that likely doesn't even exist in Takumi's world. The lighting leaves them mostly in darkness with the warm glow of Vulcan and it's surrounding planets. It means Takumi doesn't need to hide his face to hide the fact that he was crying.]

That's where I was before we got here.

[tacomeme]

[He startles at the change, eyes wide and almost glowing as the amber absorbs the low light.]

You... came from space?

[get_gone]

[He flashes Takumi a grin, trying not to be too obvious that he's incredibly pleased with himself for distracting the younger man from whatever had him hiding in a dark holodeck.]

More or less. I was uh- a starship when all this craziness went down. Things just keep getting weirder.

[tacomeme]

A starship...

[There's a tone of wonder in his voice, partially like a child's, of course. But also a man that is eager to learn something]

I've read books about stars- mostly for navigation. But it's so hard to think of them as actual things you can travel to. That they are their own suns with their own worlds around them.

[The fact that he understands even that small fact is rather impressive, considering the level of advancement his world is clearly at still. Someone has been reading at the little library they were provided]

There's poems about the sky being like a sea... but I guess I never thought of it being so literal before coming here.

[get_gone]

[Jim just grins at him, leaning over to nudge their shoulders together.]

Oh, yeah, it's just absolutely mind-blowing what we still don't know. Even in my time. [The things he could teach you, Takumi. And, even if he isn't the most patient person, he loves learning and helping others learn so... he might be up for that, if you wanted.]

Hell, I was born out there.

[tacomeme]

Born in the stars... huh. If I was more creative that'd be something worth writing about.

[After all, poetry was part of a samurai's training. But that was more his brother's thing then his. He's rather write about the ethical ramifications of being born outside any nations]

[get_gone]

Actually it's not that unusual. [And just because he was born in space didn't mean no politics were in play. He was, after all, aboard a Federation vessel.]

[tacomeme]

Really? I guess it's all about perspective, huh?

[get_gone]

Definitely. Hell of a lot better than being stuck planetside, that's for sure.