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

[planet]

[privatizes]

I wanted to see how it worked, so I took it apart.

[ simply enough, as if talking about the weather. and tony peers at him. ]

Not really interested in stepping out into toxic wasteland hell, anyway -- how long were you out there?

[nedstarksbastard]

It has a filter and it keeps you from being poisoned by the air. That's how it works.

[Buddy you didn't even know this until you first had one. Don't get short with someone just because you're annoyed they ambushed you. Absently, he rubs at his shoulder, where he got slammed into by someone during a war game. It doesn't hurt very badly, it's barely even a twinge especially to what else he's received over the years, but that doesn't mean the ache, however slight, goes unnoticed.]

A few hours. [He nods to their surroundings outside.] I was caught in one of their war games, else I would've come back quicker. They're--very enthusiastic about them.

[privatizes]

Yeah, I'm not really about anything that combines the words 'war' and 'games', thanks.

[ sounds like a spectacularly bad time, especially when he doesn't have his suit. ]

Filters aren't exactly that simple, but you've got the basic idea -- bad stuff goes in, good stuff goes out. Do you have stuff like this in your world? Gas masks and spaceships and dishwashers and whatever.

[ curiosity killed the cat, but tony has found that asking a lot of questions usually produces results with these people. ]

[nedstarksbastard]

[Then you're a smarter man than he gave you credit for.]

No, we didn't. Before I came here I didn't even know sailing through space was possible. [That's--really blunt. But okay, now he's curious about what, exactly, makes filters a lot less simple than he thought.] All right, so what else is there about them? What did you learn from taking yours apart?

[privatizes]

[ great. perfect. wonderful. not only is tony stuck in a fleet to nowhere, he's stuck on a fleet to nowhere with a bunch of people who didn't even know putting a ship in space was possible. ]

There's millions of particles floating through good air that you breathe in and out every day. Depending on where you live on Earth, the purity of the air could be reasonable okay -- like, middle of nowhere Montana -- or god awful -- like Beijing, on a hot day. Anybody can cover their mouth with a basic mask and filter out the big stuff, but the nasty stuff requires a lot more finesse and delicacy.

[ he holds out his dismantled mask ]

Whatever's out in that air isn't something I've seen before, but I haven't exactly stuck it under a microscope. Not my area of expertise, according to the people who put a chip in my brain, so I've got to play nice and ask someone to let me use theirs. But this one is specifically designed to purify -- the level of technology that folks used in World War II to block out mustard gas, but a lot more pretty.