SPRING 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! Applications for new players open April 1st.

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From now on, Test Drives will be posted SEASONALLY (or every three months!). So the next one will be posted in the summer!

Comments

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[embellishing]

[For a split second, Eames wasn't sure exactly what he was seeing. Was that- surely it couldn't be- but he wasn't going to question a helpful bystander ( at least not right at the moment ), and he gave the woman a grateful salute, dodging through the crowd of onlookers to make his getaway with the mask and the foam bat. Never knew when either would come in handy.

Once he was sure he had cleared the area with the disgruntled shopkeeper, he slowed his pace, looking behind his shoulder. Surely if someone could blink in and out of sight like that, they would be hard to shake off, and for once, Eames wasn't interested in dodging this pursuer. It would be a show of bad manners to not at least thank the person who had saved him from a muddy and silly fate.]

/o/

[liegeman]

[ true to her word, kagero covers for eames as he makes his escape. foam bat or not, it's no different from the swords she uses, and the duel ends rather quickly with her knocking the shopkeeper down into the mud. she vanishes just as suddenly as she appeared, ending up some distance away from the pit only to spot eames. ]

I didn't think you'd hang around, [ she says while flicking mud off the foam bat like she would blood off a sword, tucking it into her obi at her back. ] Thieving doesn't seem to be taken lightly here.

[embellishing]

I had to give my thanks to my savior. I do have some manners.

[Eames gave a disarming grin, though the gesture with the bat wasn't lost on him. It called to mind the old black and white samurai movies, and given how quick and agile this woman was, it seemed foolish to take her lightly.

He took a few steps forward, not sure if he should extend his hand, but he gave a brief inclination of his head in greeting and gratitude.]

Does it not bother you? I'm surprised anyone would side with a thief.

[liegeman]

I wouldn't go so far as to say that, [ she's no savior. that title belongs to corrin. ] But you're welcome.

[ eames' grin isn't lost on her, but her face remains impassive. she returns his gesture with a nod of her own. ]

It's not something I'd condone, but we must do what we can to survive despite the circumstances.

[ even if it means resorting to stealing. kagero may have been privileged enough to be born into a respectable clan, but she's seen enough during her time serving the hoshidan royal family. perhaps more so in the recent months, corrin's travels have forced them all to face the more unsavory sides of both kingdoms. ]

Though, in truth, a thief saved my life once. Now my debt has been paid, so I suppose I should thank you as well.

[embellishing]

[How modest and pragmatic. Those are rare traits in people, different than low self-esteem or deflection. He can appreciate them, and it warms the look he gives her. Though he wasn't going to correct her about how he needed the mask for survival.

Now that she was here, he was going to start moving again, putting as much distance as he can between himself and the shopkeeper, though his steps are leisurely.]

I hardly did anything, though I'm glad your debt has been repaid.

[A small pause, because he wasn't sure whether he should be nosy or not, but she had brought it up-]

I have a hard time imaging a capable lady such as yourself needing help. What happened?

[liegeman]

[ when he starts walking again, she follows, keeping pace with him. it's not as if she has anywhere else to go, so she might as well join him.

there's a flicker-flash of something like embarrassment when he calls her capable, but she shakes her head. ]

We are at war in my world. I was charged with protecting Lord Ryoma during a skirmish, but had left my back open. An axe wielder would have struck me down were it not for that thief's arrow, which took his life before he could.

[embellishing]

[There was that modesty again. Eames decided to drop the compliments for now just in case their continuation would have made her uncomfortable, absorbing what she was saying. Well, if her world was at war, it would make sense as to why her skills for battle were so honed.]

Sounds like you were very lucky.

[On any battlefield, there was always a thin line between life or death, and in an era where it was axes and arrows, it was probably worse.

He glanced over at her, gauging her expression.]

What happened to the thief? And your lord?

[liegeman]

I was very lucky, yes.

[ there's not a day that goes by that she doesn't think about what could have happened, if niles hadn't shot the barbarian down from afar. before that battle, the impromptu union between the two kingdoms was shaky at best, but it only solidified it afterwards when the battle was through. ]

Both of them [ "are"? "were"? ] are safe. The thief is Lord Leo's retainer whom none of us trusted at first. But personality aside, he is a good man.

[embellishing]

[That assessment was enough to make Eames laugh softly despite himself, upturning his face to grin at her.]

That seems like a pretty accurate assessment of most thieves.

[Well, those who did it out of necessity anyway. The jury was probably still out on Eames, who did it half to survive and half because he had started, so might as well continue.]

Though you couldn't have just... vanished out of the way of the axe wielder? Like you did when attacking the shopkeeper?