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

People only honor things when it suits their purposes. I wouldn't think that the environment is much of an exception to that.

[There's nothing particularly surprising about the forest - not when people are particularly fond of recreating places to take back a small piece of their home, even if it was an illusion. Still, it's not hard to see that there's something a little more significant to this place than just that, in Roland's case.]

... I suppose that tends to be true of most people, yes.

[ Yeah, it's. Something he doesn't see often. Roland will turn. ]

Putting people first all the time causes problems at the best of times for the earth; expecting it to live through numerous wars and other things is asking too much. I like to think the planet just finally ran out of patience for humanity's stupidity when it dried up.

["When it dried up"... well, that explains the projection, presumably. The idea of war ravaging both the land and the people isn't foreign to him and his own world, and yet, it doesn't quite match the scope of what Roland's implying.]

That's a rather pessimistic view you have. Isn't it times like those when human ingenuity shines? Especially if it threatens their own survival.

... Is it?

[ Whoops you caught him it's VERY pessimistic. ]

It might only be natural for a select few to emerge that are decent in all that, I suppose. There's a lot of potential for good in people, but I've noticed we have a tendency to waste that.

Sometimes, belief that things will change for the better may very well be the only motivation for action. I won't be so presumptuous as to say that you should keep your chin up, but people with no hope stagnate.

[Maybe you could even go as far as saying they stop living after a while...]

Oh? What would you consider wasted potential for good?

Believe me, I already know. Sometimes you have to create that hope yourself.

[ Speaking from experience, here. ]

... For me, I'd define wasting your potential as... knowing you could do what's right, and most likely deciding against it anyway. At any point. If at some point you finally decide to pick up where you should have to begin with... that's different.

[ For example, knowing you could definitely not be eating poor innocent children if you're a soldier of Karma City. He's still angry about it. But he wonders if he's any better, given what he is, too. ]

I'm glad to hear it, then.

[While he seems approving of that, his expression quickly changes to something more thoughtful.]

I see. Then I suppose being paralyzed in inaction counts against someone as well, if we're using that definition.

[He seems... vaguely satisfied with that? For some reason.]

[ He gives a small smile. Oh, he counts that. He WAS that person. Drinking himself into an early grave because of it. ]

Of course it does. You could be doing something. Even if it's something small.

And yet, small actions can only have so much impact on the world. Even if the motive may be noble, without changing the underlying cause, it's far too easy to wipe away any meaningful results that arise from doing such a thing.

I can't agree with that, exactly. What one person considers meaningful, another person is going to find "small" and less than that. I mean, a friend of mine would go into enemy territory with a mobile shop unit so that we could keep well-stocked. To us, that was huge, but to him, it wasn't a big deal at all. It was just business. A way to help his family.

[ See what he's saying? Life's relative. ]

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