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

[daughterofthemark]

[With most people, Finn would just be making things worse by asking that question, because that totally sounds like an insult and not something someone would ask as an actual question. But this is Arianna we're talking about, so it wraps back around to her taking it entirely seriously.]

Earth, of course!

[cameupshort]

Earth?

[At least they're both treating the question seriously, if for entirely different reasons.]

That's. .. not anywhere I've heard of, sorry.

[daughterofthemark]

[WELL. That is not a response she was expecting!]

You don't mean to say--you're from another planet?

[cameupshort]

Yes?

[Is. There a reason he shouldn't be?]

There's- I don't know how many inhabited planets, exactly, but it's a lot.

[daughterofthemark]

[!!! !!!!! !!!!!!!!!!]

People living on other planets! To think such a thing was true!

[cameupshort]

Do you, um-

[This conversation seems more surreal than waking up here to begin with.]

Do you know what part of the galaxy this 'Earth' is in?

[daughterofthemark]

I'm afraid not. I've never entirely understood astronomy or astrology.

[Although she can probably shock everyone working in either field with this new information.]

[cameupshort]

Probably some really remote part of the Outer Rim, if you've never had contact with the rest of the galaxy. Sorry.

[He didn't even think it was possible, really.]

...Earth doesn't even have hyperdrive tech, then?

[daughterofthemark]

[...I mean Earth is pretty far from the center of the Milky Way.]

I've never heard of such a thing.

[cameupshort]

[It also has more than one type of weather, which is clearly impossible.]

It's- probably part of how we all got here? It's what makes FTL travel possible.

[He thinks for a second.]

...that's Faster Than Light travel, I mean.

[daughterofthemark]

[Hey! There was a planet in Rogue One that had both "light rain" and "heavy rain!"

Arianna considers this for a moment. She's never really thought of light having a speed, but now that the subject has come up, it's intuitive that it would have to be pretty fast.]

One who could move faster than light would certainly have an easier time moving us here without being detected.

[...she's trying her best, okay?]

[cameupshort]

Probably? There's tons of ships going in and out of lightspeed at any one time, I don't think anyone would notice one more or less.

The confusing part is how they got us in the first place, people can't really just come and go on- where I was.

[There is less than zero chance Arianna has heard of the First Order, but that's still not something he wants to toss around just yet.]

...were there a lot of people where you were? Before this.