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]

[he huffs, then finally]

Fine! Whatever.

[He puts the knife down on the counter]

Better?

[want_a_vacation]

[He actually does relax slightly. At least if someone decides to swing a punch at him, a strength debuff will make a real difference.]

It beats standing here wondering if the jumpy guy with a knife is going to attack me if I make one move he doesn't like. You're seriously not the only one on edge here.

[tacomeme]

I... I know that.

[He actually looks a little sheepish at that]

I guess if no one has started attacking anyone yet it might be okay for now.

[want_a_vacation]

No sane person's immediate response to this is going to be to follow the order to kill a fellow prisoner...and I somehow doubt a lack of knives is going to discourage a violent psychopath, especially if they're good with Ether.

[He leans back against a wall to drink some more of his coffee while waiting for the freeze dried food to finish heating up. No way is he sitting down when he has yet to make sure there aren't any of the aforementioned violent psychopaths with powerful Ethers around.]

What I'm most worried about right now is that someone who didn't read those profiles might jump to conclusions and attack someone thinking they're to blame for all this, or assume someone's going to attack them and swing preemptively.

[tacomeme]

Yeah, that makes sense. And honestly if one person starts swinging it might just end up a riot in here, and I doubt whoever set this up wants that either.

[Though the word 'Ether' gets his attention...]

[want_a_vacation]

There's too many rules set up to think they're fans of chaotic situations...especially the one about a maximum number of victims per culprit. They definitely want structure, to make someone plan to kill someone and get away with it. I'm not exactly counting on them to break it up if it does turn into a riot, though...

[Sorry Taco, if you want to know more about this 'Ether' thing, you'll have to ask.]