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

[tennohno]

[This was the same song and dance that they've done since the Tenno had woken up from the first dream. Him going after the Tenno's throat and with lessening rates of success each time. Now it was merely almost like a sparring match.

He catches him once more but this time rolling with the force in order to pin the man to the ground. An arm barring across his chest to prevent any chances of escape. He would surely have bruises after this.

Maybe lie to Ordis about them having been from training. Surely it'd be better if he didn't tell the truth over this.]

[c0nsequences]

[The Stalker thrashes, trying to get free. Heaving upward with his lower body, he tries to knock the Tenno off him.

He is going to die here, cornered by his own prey in this strange place. He's...oddly at peace with that idea.]

[tennohno]

[The Tenno wrinkles his nose at the effort and merely waits until the struggling has weakened some before relenting and kicking the opposing party away from him. He was not going to kill on his ship.

He would not be like the Stalker.]

If you know what's best, I'd go with staying away from me. Ordis as well. [Rolling back onto his feet, he glares down at him.] If you harm him, I will rip out your throat and watch you choke on your own blood.

[c0nsequences]

[This isn't finished. The Stalker surges to his feet and attacks once again. Never mind these idle threats, the warnings against this "Ordis." The Stalker does as he pleases.]

[tennohno]

[He's done playing around and blocks the attacks as they come before finally relenting to clock the other in the face. Warmth gushes onto his hand and he shakes it clean, uncaring of the red that is splattered across his knuckles. Besides he could show more concern over the cut on his lip, running his tongue over it briefly.]

Are you done?

[c0nsequences]

[It's been a long time since his nose was last broken. The pain is unfamiliar and blinding. Again he regrets the absence of his helmet.

Should he run? Save this fight for another time?

He'll never be done. He'll just...have to catch the Tenno by surprise some other time.]

[tennohno]

[This fight was not going to be pursued anymore than it should be. He proved his point by breaking something so he turns away in order to head for the open corridor. Better things could be done with his time.]

[c0nsequences]

[The Stalker struggles to his feet. One hand rises to tentatively stem the flow of blood, but that hurts even worse.]

Why won't you kill me?

[tennohno]

Because there's no honor in killing an opponent that can't defend himself well nor am I like you. I do not kill others like me. I am not a sentient or Orokin.

[c0nsequences]

We are Tenno. What are we made for, if not to kill?

[tennohno]

Protecting. Following the ways that we were taught. We should be above the sentients and not thirsting for each other's blood. [However he would gladly spill the other's if he heard of any ill being shown to the cephalon.]

[c0nsequences]

Protection. Killing. We were taught to do both in one stroke. By the Sentients, did you forget?

[tennohno]

No, we taught each other that. The schools were founded by Tenno, not by anyone else or have you forgotten so much? [To be honest he only recently learned about all of this prior to being transported here but still.] The Sentients wanted to destroy us and everyone.

Destruction is not always the correct path.

[c0nsequences]

In their schools, yes. But school is only one teacher.

Or did you sleep so long that you forgot that?

[tennohno]

There was more than one school. Zenurik. Naramon. Madurai. Unairu. Vazarin. More than one teacher. There were also the masters. Multiple venues to learn.

[However he glares at him.] I was forced to forget. There's a difference. Myself nor my cephalon know things because of decisions others made without our input.

[c0nsequences]

Be grateful you don't remember. Some of us didn't find peace in sleep.

[tennohno]

I found nothing in that sleep. All that occurred was nightmares before being woken to a torn apart Earth and system.

[c0nsequences]

You dreamt. I live it. You have no right to judge me when I did what was necessary to survive.

[tennohno]

Then you have no right to judge something that wasn't my decision to make. The matter is that we are what remains of that old conflict other than deceiving Sentients and relics. Hate me all you want but I've found some peace in making sure it had ended once and for all.

[c0nsequences]

Peace. There is no such thing as peace, not in a universe where greed exists. You delude yourself.

[tennohno]

Then I will keep the small delusion for my own sake since it's my concern rather than your pessimistic opinion is. We may have been born in war, bloodshed and death but it is not everything.

[c0nsequences]

It shouldn't have to be, no. But when it's up to us to impart justice to a corrupt world? When we have to survive?

It becomes everything.