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]

It's fine.

[ She says it so quickly that she very nearly cuts him off. Her smile doesn't shift at all but the way she answered was probably a little telling. ]

I wouldn't be offering if I didn't want to show you. It's just... strange. Seeing it so normal again and I'm... here.

[tacomeme]

No... I think I understand.

[He looks away, face pinched]

I saw my home in here too, before you came in. It wasn't very nice but I think waking up and being back here was what really ... set me off. I don't know.

[serrata]

[ She's quiet for a long while before she says anything. The room's not silent by any means with all the commotion from the yard filtering up to the roof but it doesn't hit her ears quite as right this time. It sounds fake. The air's too still. She can't feel the sun.

Her home is a total disaster. But she still misses it.

She gives a considering little hum before finally deciding to admit something. ]

This is the first time I've pulled up an image home in here, you know. I didn't want to let myself do it before now. I didn't... trust myself with it.

[tacomeme]

Ngh, I didn't even THINK of that before asking you to do it. Damn it... I'm sorry, Yuuri.

[His hand clenches, digging his blunt nails into the meat of his palm. Stupid, stupid. Of course everyone else was just as sensitive about their homes as he was]

Well... we could pull up something else?

[serrata]

It's my own fault. I was imagining myself wallowing in here all day with school going on around me. You don't have to apologize.

[ She doesn't exactly trust herself to not pull up what the school actually looks like either and she really doesn't want to traumatize her poor fellow captives even more. ]

But... well, something else apart from home would probably be better for both of us. We'll be going back there soon enough so mooning over it in here is a bit silly.

[ is she really that optimistic or telling herself that so she doesn't totally lose her shit? you decide. ]

Any ideas?

[tacomeme]

Well... why not make something new?

[He had only seen people pull up places they knew on this thing. But maybe they could create something?]