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

[serrata]

That's one way of getting it in your stomach a little quicker.

[ were you expecting horror. a lecture about proper eating, perhaps.

Nope. Yuuri's just watching him with a bemused smile on her face as she peers somewhat suspiciously at her own freeze-dried meal. It claims on the packet to be wagyu but you'll forgive her for not immediately trusting the weird dehydrated space food. ]

Does it even taste that much different dry?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Mmh...

[Hold on, hold on. He's chewing. He raises a hand for Yuuri to wait, and then, when the abominable bite has been swallowed, he reports:]

Dunno. I don't have a control sandwich for a proper scientific comparison. [With a considering hum, he tries another, smaller bite.] Off the cuff, I'd say, yeah, a little? I mean, obviously these meals have been salted to hell and back to get here. But probably mostly it's a difference of texture.

[serrata]

Hm.

[ That gets a considering little noise from her as she peers down at the beef she's been inspecting.

...

still inspecting.

...

welp. you only live once. at least she has a witness in case she drops dead and her body needs investigating. She takes a bite of the dehydrated wagyu and... makes a bit of a face. It definitely loses something without the texture but it's not as bad as she was expecting.

She makes herself swallow it but her face doesn't unscrunch. ]

It's definitely... edible. Which I suppose is good if we ever have to conserve water for whatever reason. Dry beef is one thing, but this...

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He keeps chewing away at his meal without interest, watching her reactions to her own. He made this bed so he'll lie in it, but he's intrigued that she's actually, like. Following his lead, when clearly eating freeze-dried food straight out of the package is a boneheaded idea. And that she didn't spit it out when that became clear. Proving something? Resigned?

Junpei gestures dismissively with the hand holding his sand--and sand is right--his sandwich.]

If we're ever in a position where conserving water's a concern, we're probably boned. Just saying. Not like we're going to find a public fountain out in the literal vacuum.