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.

Helpful Info for Ideas!:

April's Star System

Game Details

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

Comments

[codendron]

Marketplace

[ On a barren wasteland of a moon, inside one of the closed market buildings, a single tree stands. It's not a very big tree. It's not even really much of a tree, with only two branches that reach up to grow, tangled, around a beam and no real leaves.

It is silent and still, which is fairly typical of most plants, until it suddenly straightens and that face like thing up the top proves to be an actual face, with opening eyes and a yawning mouth. The vines untangle from the beam and it lowers its arms; it uproots itself from where it stood, tiny crawling tendrils slipping back under the bark plates.

Then it starts ambling off. Which is very decidedly unplant like. ]

[mymoment]

[Galavant stares the tree up and down and notices that it's got a very keen way of looking exactly like a living and talking tree might, were it actually doing the talking bit. He cringes.]

Oh god, this is going to be one of those environmental lessons, isn't it?

[codendron]

[ The tree stops and turns to look at him, then follows the movement by coming back over, closer. It's a small tree... but still towers over most people. ]

I am Groooooot.

[mymoment]

[And... well, of course it talks. Why shouldn't it. Galavant grimaces even as he looks up to meet the wooden face.]

So you're named after the one thing that keeps trees from being different than you. Fitting.

[codendron]

[ Groot frowns, because that makes no sense at all. ]

I am Groot.

[mymoment]

So you've said. [Right, right. He's being rude and he knows it. He lets out a sigh and straightens himself.] My name is Galavant.

[Implied you've probably heard of me.]

[codendron]

[ Groot nods along, but that wooden face shows no sign of recognition of any kind. ]

I am Groot.

[mymoment]

[Right, well, he supposes trees would be the sort to be out of the loop on things.]

... right, so I've heard. [Slow, this one.] So, where might a man go to find some fresh air that doesn't involve wearing an absurdly uncomfortable mask the entire time?

[codendron]

[ It's okay, it's normal for animals to not understand. It's just that much more difficult without Rocket here to translate, to talk and explain and be fast and quick like these other animals.

There's a sigh, a slow creaking noise and sways on the spot for a moment. ]

I am Groot.

[ The wooden head shakes slowly. ]