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

[nojohnyouare]

I'll be fine. You should protect yourself.

[brokencode]

[Back home, she might have responded that her self-preservation protocols had been disabled. It was far easier than saying that she had forgotten how to put herself first.]

[But that wasn't possible, here.]

I can do both, don't you think? Worry about you and protect myself?

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai shifts in her seat uncomfortably. She frowns.]

There's no need, though.

[brokencode]

[Sensing the mood shift, Angel let the subject go.]

Have you been settling in well?

[nojohnyouare]

It's okay. They feed us. But I should get home.

You?

[brokencode]

Food isn't the only key to being comfortable... [Angel was going to carefully ignore the third and fourth parts of Mai's sentence. Home was a foreign concept, and she certainly didn't want to get into why.]

[nojohnyouare]

There are people, too. ...They're all right. Kind, mostly.

[brokencode]

I agree. [Surprising, considering the way her father described outsiders. She supposed that it helped that none of them really knew who or what she was.]

[nojohnyouare]

I don't know what to make of that.

[brokencode]

Of people being nice? It's... odd, isn't it? Very odd, even.

[nojohnyouare]

At home, I...

[Mai trails off. But, well, "Champion Scapegoat."]

It shouldn't be odd.

[brokencode]

That's just the way of things though. [The siren was quick to shrug. She'd seen the way others had reacted. For a lot of people. a friendly face was practically unheard of.]

Much as I hope we aren't here much longer, I also hope we all find a way to get used to the kindness of others.

[Her hopes were two-fold, of course. If everyone learned to be kind, there would be no need to fear the looming threat of murder.]