livestudioaudience | test drive meme

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Jesus, someone who isn't Donut saying golly. It's so weird...] Nope. I'd take grass first, personally, but to each their own. I'll eat just about anything, but I wish we had Oreos. Some fatass back home always ate them all.

Is there any food from home you miss? Maybe they got that reconstituted in one of these bags.

[Thankfully, we don't have to see Donut and Mary in a room together. The world as we know it might implode.] I know the feeling. I knew a... friend obsessed with the things. [really, her brothers friend. maybe not friend? who knows.]

Do you think they've got strawberry shortcake in a bag? That would be just wonderful!

Hmmm...I mean, wouldn't hurt to look, right? C'mon, let's raid the kitchen more. Reconstitute whatever we like and then, I dunno, have a buffet?

[Though he rubs his chin at the thought, and man is he still getting used to having a hairy chinny-chin-chin.] Could be nice, though, to have a party. Like, sure, we get three squares a day, hot and fresh-ish, and that's great and all, but we could do something for ourselves for once. It might not be much, and it might not taste great, but it's like a symbol, or something.

Unless someone's found something to actually cook with. [WHO IS GOING TO BE THE JANE OF R2??]

[Chin hair! How grown up!] Golly, I hope so. It would be nice to not have to depend on our captors so much. And cooking for yourself seems so adventurous! Like something out of Little House on the Prairie! [which is a basis for all things adventurous, clearly.]

[He's a big boy! He has to stare at her. Just a little bit. Because...there are things coming out of her mouth that baffle him senseless.] Okay, sorry, hi, I don't know everything about you, but like, are you from the 50's? The 1950's? Also the 2050's, that apparently was a bumpy spot in terms of housewife-ery--listen, you just seem really out of place here, and I gotta wonder...uh...why you'd get picked for this super special interdimensional whatever-the-fuck-this-is-apalooza.

You got, like...any special abilities or something? Promise I won't tell if it's a secret.

I get that a lot. [Which probably isn't surprising for him to hear, but at least he isn't calling her Mary Poppins!] I suppose you could say I grew up a little sheltered. I was adopted by a very wealthy family. I've been trying to become more urban, but gosh, it's hard!

No. I'm completely normal right now. What about you?

Edited 2017-05-13 16:57 (UTC)

Huh. I can't...really relate to that, but I wish you had a better chance to do that that's not in a McMurder Mansion In Space. That's hard.

So um. Hold on, wait, completely normal right now, as opposed to what? [Cuz that seems like an important detail! He's got one hand in the cupboard-o-space-man-foods rummaging around, trying to act normal. It's not like he didn't used to be able to do some wild shit.] I mean, same here, normal as fuck right now, far as I can tell. It's kind of nice but also? Also kind of sucks. Do you know how much easier it'd be to avoid getting murdered if I was already dead and a ghost? So much easier when bullets can pass right through you and all you have to worry about is getting a new robot body.

McMurder Mansion In Space isn't the worst, but it's not my top pick, you're right.

Oh, I don't know, as opposed to-- did you just say you're dead and a ghost?

Yep! [He barely glances at the generic food names on some of the packets as he pulls them out, but at least he puts them on the counter instead of throwing them around.] I mean, not here, obviously. Back home. Haunted the shit out of my team. It's not a bad afterlife if you've got a kickass robot body to inhabit.

Were you a friendly ghost, like Casper? [Look, we gotta focus on the important things here.]

...Sure. Friendly like Casper. Let's go with that.

Haunting just made it sound so terrible! I'm glad you were a friendly ghost. I would be completely spooked if you told me you had been a mean, scary ghost.

[Wow. There is literally no way that's not fully deliberately intended to make him feel bad. And it's working. He groans a little in frustration at himself and hands her one of the crinkly packs of space-food.]

Will strawberry cheesecake do? [SO HE DOESN'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HIS SHITTY ASSHOLE GHOST SELF.]

[She would feel terrible if she had any idea- but she doesn't, so she beams instead.]

Oh! That's perfect! Thank you!

...Say. Do you think we'll be stuck up here very long?

Dunno. McMurder Mansion, remember? I think the idea is we stay, we live, we...I dunno, find love, and/or we kill each other.

So, I mean, unless you're a murderer or really want to die, or are expecting a breakout by a competent team of space marines [the word of note in that sentence is competent], then yeah.

Stuck.

For a while.

[And then he's going to enjoy his spacefood because this idea doesn't seem to bother him too much. Maybe he got all his freaking out done beforehand. Honestly? Weirder shit has happened. ...Okay, weirder shit hasn't happened, this is the weirdest, but he's had some weird shit happen. So.]

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