SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME

[spaceshipit]

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

[dorkvader]

See, this is why I went to the dark side.

Do you ever stop and listen to yourself? Prophesy this and chosen one that... but you get to make your own destiny.

[Jerk}

[beardstrokes]

Is that your excuse for joining him?

[ He feels a brief current of anger, but he submerges it immediately. ]

Why did you do it?

[dorkvader]

I don't need an excuse. [He has a list though... just sayin.]

[Yes good. Don't think for a minute he didn't feel that.]

You don't know the power of the dark side. I embraced my destiny.

[beardstrokes]

Anakin would never turn to the Dark for that.

[ He points his saber at him. ]

Why?

[dorkvader]

Newsflash, Anakin Skywalker is dead.

[Getting ready for some 'aggressive negotiating'? Good.]

Why not?

[Seriously Obi-Wan, what part of 'you don't understand the power of the dark side' do you not get?]

[beardstrokes]

[ Anakin Skywalker is dead. Whoever this is, felt nothing like Anakin. The Anakin he knew, the boy he raised was not heading down this path. Not anymore.

That makes it easier for Obi-Wan. ]

If that is your answer, then I can see you've taken leave of your senses and training.

[dorkvader]

It was your training that sent me down my path. Your betrayal that sealed it.

[Dude, you encouraged him to hang around with Palpatine. And you dismembered him and set him on fire.]

You were a shitty teacher.

[beardstrokes]

[ Suddenly, it's very very apparent that this is not quite the Vader Luke and Leia spoke about. Every word spoken was off, not like Anakin or the Vader he had heard about. ]

You're not the Vader from our time . . . are you? You're something different.

ding ding ding... give the Jedi a prize!

[dorkvader]

[was it the mug?]

Um... maybe?

[That wasn't exactly what he was expecting. But he considers the possibility that Obi-Wan might be right about something for once. Parallel universes, he saw that in a Star Trek episode once.

But shouldn't that mean Obi-Wan would be the dark sider and he'd be the Jedi? Mind blown.]

shh it wasn't easy

[beardstrokes]

[ What happens now? This was certainly not Vader. Though he was still one of the Sith.

What was he supposed to do? ]

What do you intend to do?

[dorkvader]

[Decisions decisions. If he kills Obi-Wan now (and he really wants to) does that mean that his alternate self won't get to? Would that fuck up the fabric of the muliverse?

He's not some hot-headed brash kid with something to prove anymore. He's a Sith Lord plotting to usurp his master and seize control of the galaxy.

He's also thirsty.]

I intend to get a latte.

Then, I'll decide if I'm going to kill you or not.

[beardstrokes]

[ . . . He has no idea how to process that. ]

How . . . magnanimous of you.

[dorkvader]

It really is... you have no idea.

[This being a responsible adult shit is hard, man.]


And you're still an asshole.

[beardstrokes]

Mind your language, please. There's no need to be so uncivilized.

[dorkvader]

Would 'a giant pile of steaming Bantha dung' be more appropriate?

You drew your saber first by the way. Not very civilized of you was it?

[beardstrokes]

I didn't attack.

[ And even then, it's a near thing. He's not sure he's changed his mind. ]

[dorkvader]

You would have... eventually.

Jedi are hypocrites.

[beardstrokes]

[ He's not even going to attempt to defend the Jedi in front of a Sith. He is a Jedi. Getting angry or facing the Sith on their terms would defeat his purpose. Casually, he says. ]

Perhaps. What's your point?

[dorkvader]

You wanted to know why my destiny was unavoidable.

Jedi ignore the darkness inside themselves, hoping no one else will notice it.

Well, I did.

[He might have had a little help there but even Ahsoka saw enough of it to leave the order. If his padawan saw it, how could he not?]

[beardstrokes]

[ No. Something about that reason seems . . . wrong. Anakin never craved power, not like this. Not unless something dire was at stake. ]

That's not why you did it.

[dorkvader]

Maybe.

[He could really use that latte right now. ]

Maybe, the force is more complicated than you realize.

[beardstrokes]

[ The instinctive need to argue with the Sith was large but Obi-Wan tamps down on it. He's learned a lot coming to Driftfleet. And he still trusts in the Force. ]

There's no denying that.

OMG this whole thing has been so awesome.

[dorkvader]

[He's actually quiet for a while after that. (well, except for that pfffhisshhh thing.) It may be unwise but he'll actually put his lightsaber away for now. He senses the only battle for today is verbal.]

Now, show me where they keep the espresso machine.

[Obi-Wan did offer to help him and afterward he can consult the force about killing him. It's just too bad the force doesn't take bribes.]

<3

[beardstrokes]

( you made me google whether we have espresso machines in Star Wars. I hope you're happy. )

And what exactly is that?

[dorkvader]

(more than you could possibly know! XD )

It's a fancy coffee machine. You do have coffee in your universe... right?

[The idea of a universe without coffee is... horrifying. And he isn't scared of much these days.]