THE DECEMBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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THE TEST DRIVE MEME

Got someone you want to try out before you app? Well this is the post for it! Feel free to use anything that fits in the setting of Drift Fleet! Want to play bumper shuttles? Want to go wild in a med bay? Play around with the current plot? Have at it!

Threads from the Test-Drive may be made game "canon" but DO NOT count toward AC!

FOR NEW PLAYERS: You DO NOT NEED an invite to participate in the TEST DRIVE! If you decide to APP into the game, ONLY THEN will you need an invite from a current player!

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[heavenonearth]

Interesting.

[ cursed and haunted objects aren't unfamiliar to him, though she'd used the word enchanted, and this thing certainly doesn't feel aggressive - but then, some tricky things often don't, and kind as she might seem he is not wont to trust easily. objects like these are often more trouble than they're worth.

so, soft and good as it might feel to put his fingers on (and tactile a creature castiel has become, recently), he still lets it drop, stuffing his hands back into the pockets of his canvas jacket. ]

It certainly has that effect.

[child_of_bhaal]

[ Well, that's a far more familiar reaction than how she's usually been given by people in the Fleet. She takes no offense, and slings the cloak back around her shoulders. Because it's freezing on this planet.]

It's just a little helping hand for sticky situations. It won't hurt you, and neither will I.

[ She appeals with a calm sincerity of one who's said this sort of thing before. ]

My name is Syeira. I'm one of the captains of the Red Fish.

[heavenonearth]

[ she doesn't press the issue, which is a step in the right direction as far as he's concerned; cas might be chilled to the bone, but he'll manage. so long as he doesn't, you know, spend the night out here, he'll find his way back indoors soon enough, so it's best that at least one of them is using that spooky thing. ]

Castiel. [ captain of.. nada. his dark brows lift curiously, shoulders hunched for warmth as he moves a pace or two nearer to ease the conversation. he's glad of the distraction, this place isn't giving him any answers anyway, feels cold and vacuous and hollow in a way that chafes him. so smalltalk it is. ]

You been here long? With this whole.. [ gesturing to generally everything with his shoulders and head. ] .. fleet, thing?

[child_of_bhaal]

[She is well versed on when to back off.]

Eight months now. Which is longer than some, not half so long as others. Sorry you got dragged here when we got to the planet of frostbite. A couple months back it was a coastal place. Very warm. And very abruptly rainy.

[heavenonearth]

[ castiel's brows shoot up a little higher. eight months, huh? and twice as long for others. considering his age, that's really a blip in time, but cas is all but mortal now, has been gauging time by human standards for years now, and that's perhaps a little longer than he'd expected to hear, but hey. ]

Fair enough.

[ an easy shrug, and he snorts softly. ]

Nah, it seems in line with my sort of luck, anyway. So that's how it works? We sail around the cosmos, hop onto planets and mingle awhile?

[child_of_bhaal]

That's the surface of it, yes. Supposedly we're being watched, but no person we ever run into outside the fleet has ever heard of Atroma or this 'show' we're on.

[She crosses her arms around her middle. Because she gets tetchy when talking about Atroma, and also because it's freaking cold.]

But sometimes we get shot at in the middle of the void- er space. So there's that to look forward to.

[Sarcasm. Tasty tasty sarcasm.]

[heavenonearth]

[ funny how.. familiar that all sounds. being watched. dancing to someone else's tune, at the mercy of the whims of invisible powers. it puts a bitter taste in his mouth. ]

Right, right. [ he says, with a grin that doesn't entirely reach his eyes, and an easy, breathless laugh. ] Well, I'll worry about crossing that bridge when I come to it. Meantime.. [ rolling his shoulder toward the exit. ] Might want to find some heat, I'm freezing my ass off in here. [ and she's not looking particularly comfortable, either. ]

[child_of_bhaal]

The whole planet is like this. It's almost enough to make you want to stay on your ship, but I'm willing to freeze a little in exchange for some actual sky over my head and ground under my feet.

[But walking will help, surely. Keep her their feet from freezing off.]

May I ask where you're from, Castiel?

[heavenonearth]

I hear you.

[ cas isn't particularly fond of tight, inescapable spaces, for the same reasons any soldier might be, and he values his freedom more than almost anything - so yeah. biting cold or not, the fresh air and open space is still preferable. at any rate, he balls his hands into fists in his pockets and starts moving, back toward the temple's entrance. ]

Well.. [ what an oddly complicated question, for him, when it should really be so simple. but then, he supposes that's to be expected. ] Earth, most recently. Nice planet. Greener than this place. [ the state of humanity notwithstanding. ]

[ after a beat: ]

You can call me Cas.

[ it's rare enough that he has to introduce himself to anyone these days, and even though he'd offered it, he finds that the sound of his full name itches uncomfortably under his skin. ]

[child_of_bhaal]

[Nods at his request. She'll call him whatever he's comfortable with.]

Oh, but you're not actually a Terran?

[Very intrigued! Do go on!]

It's not often to meet someone who's been to Earth, but isn't actually from there.

[heavenonearth]

[ terran isn't a word he's familiar with, but the context is easy enough to understand. chuckling slow and easy, castiel rakes a hand back through his messy hair almost nervously. ]

Yeah, there aren't too many who can manage it.

[ but they're edging into dangerous territory he isn't really keen on visiting, so a shame that she's intrigued, but he's quick to shift the spotlight over to her. ]

What about you? What corner of the universe do you call home?

[child_of_bhaal]

[Well, because he's clearly one who traverses planes, she is rather excited to explain.]

I'm from the Prime Material Plane. The one that Toril ended up in after the sundering, not Abeiran Material Plane. I know those two are so easily confused, since they're basically twins.

[She actually just assumes he has any idea what she's talking about.]

[heavenonearth]

[ ... nnnnope.

to be fair, he's familiar with the idea of alternate realities and the multiverse, and while god had written his angels to be specifically concerned with earth, cas knows full well that the cosmos is infinite, that there are layers to existence and time that he will never know or understand or see.

well, until now, apparently. funny, how unexpectedly his life has been turned, these past few, brief years. cas doesn't interrupt her, but his brows shoot up nearly to his hairline. ]

Can't say I've ever been there.

[child_of_bhaal]

[Oops. Well that's embarrassing. She blushes a little, but laughs it off awkwardly.]

Sorry, I got carried away. I mean, I know only one person from the Prime Material has ever traversed to Earth. That's primarily why we even know of its existence. I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions like that.

[heavenonearth]

[ she's embarrassed, and that's cute, it contrasts with the elegant, regal air about her in a way he finds both fascinating and entertaining both. ]

Don't worry about it. Easy mistake. [ a cocked brow. ] I'd still like to hear about it.

[child_of_bhaal]

Are you sure? I could end up talking for weeks.

[She's kidding but not.]

Maybe if you narrow down the spectrum it'd be more manageable for us both.

[heavenonearth]

[ okay, fair enough, it's a pretty broad request. cas rolls his eyes thoughtfully up toward the sky as they step out of the temple. ]

Alright then, start with the people. You're clearly not human, so tell me what you are, tell me what sort of people live in this.. [ vague, languid gesture. ] .. Prime Material Plane.

[child_of_bhaal]

Well...We have lots of races on Toril.

[She lifts her hands and actually ticks off fingers as she goes through a list.]

Human is one of them. There's elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, dragons, dryads, giants, githyanki, yuan-ti...

Actually there's so many many more I could list. And it wouldn't even cover the different ethnicities within those races. So um, basically, we have a lot of different sort of people.

[Another short laugh at herself.]

I'm a half-elf. There, that's a short answer.

[heavenonearth]

[ some of those things cas has heard of, some of them are entirely new and unfamiliar, and he listens raptly, watching her from the corners of his eyes. ]

Half-elf, huh?

[ he's got a taste of what that's like, now, being not quite one thing, but not quite another, either, some in-between creature. granted, it's unlikely they became this way by quite the same means, but still. she's sort of like a kindred spirit. ]

That sounds fascinating. All of it. Seems like a colorful place to live.

[child_of_bhaal]

[Cas you have no idea.]

It's certainly not boring.

[Which is said with an interesting inflection, like she could stand for a little boring.]

I'd invite you to visit, but we don't exactly get to pick which way Atroma flies.

[heavenonearth]

[ oh, he's sure. colorful and not boring are nice ways of saying is't probably a big damned mess - or maybe he's simply too cynical for his own good. angels, humans and demons can't even get along well, he can't imagine what a world full of sentient species might be like. ]

Well, maybe someday. [ he says, with a shrug. ] Who knows. I'll keep that invite anyway, just in case.