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

[brokencode]

[Rather than feeling uneasy, a fresh wave of embarrassment worked its way through Angel. Glancing toward her own PIP, Angel let out a nervous laugh, before nodding.]

Right. Yes, you are correct. [She held out her hand, like her father did during business meeting. Smile through it, Jack.]

[plugout]

[ Oh, crap. Did he do that? Make her feel nervous? Because he can tell, from the way she laughs. ... It'll probably be fine. Then again, she's a kid...

... Uh, right, handshake. Rhys grips her hand with his human hand and gives it a light shake. He even offers her a smile. ]

Nice to meet you. Guess we're... stuck here a while, huh? So.... we should probably get to know each other! Probably.

[ Smooth, Rhys. ]

[brokencode]

[She might have bristled, if she had any way of knowing what he was thinking. She was... an adult, mostly. Probably. Sometimes it was a bit hard to remember her own age.]

It would seem that we are. [Smooth or not, it managed to net a laugh out of the girl.] That seems like a good idea, though. Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking?

[plugout]

[ Rhys puts his foot in his mouth all the time. It's fine. ]

Well... I live and work on a space station, kinda like this. Uh, Helios is way bigger though.

[brokencode]

Helios? [Angel recalled a pair of blueprints with a similar name. She'd come across them in the Hyperion databases, during a fit of insomnia.]

Funny. The corporation I... work for is in the process of building a similar station. Maybe we stole the idea from you guys?

[plugout]

Huh. Really?

[ He looks... mildly disturbed for a second. ]

When I get out of here, I'll keep my mouth shut. Preeeeeetty sure Hyperion wouldn't be happy to know that.

[brokencode]

[ A surprised cough emanated from Angel's threat. it was a good thing, Angel thought, that she had taken a break from her food, lest Rhys have thought she was choking.]

Hyperion? You don't mean the weapons and technology manufacturing company, right? [ That would be impossible, wouldn't it? Her Hyperion was still in the drafting phase of Helios, after all. ]

[plugout]

[ whoa what a coincidence am i right

it's fine. ]

Uh-- yeah, that's the one. You know Hyperion, seriously?

[brokencode]

Well, yes... [She reached up, scratching at her temple as she tried to make sense of what he was saying.]

I suppose you could say I work for them as well? Before I arrived here I was... helping to survey Pandora, to see if we could find something that Dahl and Atlas missed. If we found succeeded, then my... superior was looking to move some operations out that way.

[plugout]

[ ...

Oh, god, his head hurts so bad right now. Rhys pinches the bridge of his nose. ]

Oooookay, I'm really confused. Uh, couple questions... Who's in charge of Hyperion? And is Atlas still a thing? Like, a functioning thing.

[brokencode]

[Those were some... pretty odd questions. At least odd for a so-called Hyperion employee to ask. But maybe that was the point.]

The Board of Directors. I believe Harold Tassiter is the chair? [Was he implying that Atlas wasn't a functioning thing? Hard to imagine.]

Yes, Atlas is "alive" and well. The bulk of Pandora-based forces are led by Commandant Steele, with another outpost headed by General Knoxx.