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

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[protectandselfserve]

[Well, this was a surprisingly fun holodeck romp! It's a nice way to spend an afternoon, anyway, navigating some labyrinthine ruin. Although, it was starting to get a little... overly solitary, perhaps?

... though, that didn't appear to be a problem anymore!]

My! Is this all your work, then?

[daughterofthemark]

[Yeah, she thought she was alone, which is why she jumps up at the sound of a voice. Oh, but never mind, it's fine, it's just the Entirely Trustworthy Man whose job is something similar to a guard captain if she understands correctly.]

Oh, no, these ruins existed centuries before I was even born.

[That's... probably not what he meant...]

[protectandselfserve]

[...luckily, he can at least follow the logic train here...]

Oh, so they're based on a real place, then? I suppose that takes a few originality points off, then.

[daughterofthemark]

[Typically Arianna's problem is that the logic train is late leaving the station in the first place.]

It's called the Ginnungagap. I've been trying to reconstruct what it might have looked like in the past.

[protectandselfserve]

...I see!

...

Well, I'd hope for your that doesn't include having to figure out how to spell that, haha!

[daughterofthemark]

G-I-N-N-U-N-G-A-G-A-P.

[She's very proud of this!]

I already had to learn it when I was younger.

[protectandselfserve]

Well, it would make you the star of any spelling bee.

So what's the story behind this place, anyway?

[daughterofthemark]

A ritual is held here once every hundred years. The eldest daughter of the Duke of Caledonia travels to the Temple of Ginnungagap with her most trusted knight, and recites certain words. This ensures the safety of the surrounding lands.

[protectandselfserve]

Oh, I see! Well, that seems like an awfully easy way to protect the peace.