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

[lackinginfaith]

You're... used to this.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I have prior experience, yeah. I mean, nothing I made a career out of, but, you know. Enough to get my feet wet.

[lackinginfaith]

Apparently literally, too. I'm Caren.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He thinks back on the profiles he looked over and snaps his fingers.]

Antarctica, right? [There's something like a glimmer of amusement there, even if he is SICK TO DEATH OF THESE DEATH GAMES.] Better to stay dry if you're from there, right?

[lackinginfaith]

[Caren glares at her PIP.] I don't know what they're thinking. Occupation: princess, species: mermaid, home: Antarctica, who would believe that?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I don't know why anyone thinks mermaids would live in Antarctica in the first place. Shouldn't they be in tropical lagoons, flapping their fins and drowning sailors?

[lackinginfaith]

Seriously? Ocean is ocean. Humans live just about everywhere, after all, so you'd think it would be the same for something like humans.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Come on. It's too cold to wear clamshell bras there, right? Their nipples would just freeze right off.

[lackinginfaith]

[Okay, she has to snicker at that one.]

Someone's a little open.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm just a good Samaritan looking out for all mermaids in need. Wouldn't want to see them in the frozen fish aisle.

[lackinginfaith]

Maybe they just have high cold tolerance.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Like seals? Wouldn't they need a ton of blubber for that?

[lackinginfaith]

Or it's magic, because we're already theorizing about mermaids and we've got these future phone things fused to our arms.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh. Magic.

[He waves the hand with the PIP carelessly.]

Magic's a little different from this shit, I'd assume.

[lackinginfaith]

I'd imagine you could just make up whatever.

[y'know, like the writing staff.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, sure, if we're still talking about mermaids and magic. But this?

[He taps the casing of his PIP.]

Still well within the realm of the possible. Barely even qualifies as sci-fi.

[lackinginfaith]

It's attached.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah, and? All that takes is a little surgery and a sick mind.