Fall Test Drive!

[spaceshipit]

THE FALL TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Spring Test Drive for you Southern Hemisphere folks!)

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!

Helpful Info for Ideas!:

October's Star System

Game Details

Test drives are posted SEASONALLY, so the next one will be in late December!

Comments

[poked_heart]

You thought you heard something, so you went after it?

[Ballsy. He likes that. And probably stupid but whatever, he can't judge.]

Me? Just looking for something to fight. Locals talked this place up. Figured if they're even half telling the truth, then I'd find one in here.

[foxpas]

I am Aria, a member of this ship. You must be a new crewmate?

B | i'm sorry, if you were looking for a serious thread, this....this is not it.

[owlbymyself]

[The ferns by the trunk of the tree in front of him get brushed aside and Dante is faced with four feet three inches of green...humanoid... who is giving him such a look, all while holding a beach ball sized--bird?--under his arm.

Ok seriously, that thing looks like a cross between a fancy blue pigeon and some kind of duck, the neck and breast covered in long, thin black-blue-and-white feathers. The crowning glory of whatever this bird is would have to be the head, which sports a fan-shaped crest of bright orange feathers longer than a man's hand. How majestic.

The bird is regarding Dante nervously through one beady white eye. The person, on the other hand, couldn't be less impressed.]

Happy now?

[The bird chooses to punctuate the exchange by opening its glorious black beak and release a beautifully nasal [BNERP]. ]

[coffeefirst]

Well, at least I'm in good company. [You don't have to look quite so amused about it, though Beverly.] But it's 'planets' in the plural, is it?

Inui Morio | Houkago Edge

[dateme]

Waystation

[ This? Is cool. Incredibly cool. Sure he's been kidnapped and Inui was more than a little alarmed by that upon waking on a giant ship with no one around. But after coming here? Where there are very obviously aliens? Inui is learning to like this bizarre happenstance more and more by the minute.

Yeah it sucks that he's far from home in the middle of space--but hey?? Middle of space. How cool is that? Inui couldn't dream a scenario more interesting than this. There's so much to do and see, he wishes he had his phone with him to take pictures.

Although maybe that's not such a good idea, because even without it he's so distracted that he's going to bump into people when his head's turned around.

People like you. ]

--Oof.

Plantside

[ Alright so he knows all the guys on the space station kinda-sorta warned him off about going to the planet to take anything, but that's like tempting fate. There's no way Inui can resist when he's been told not to do something. Plus, this place? Is gorgeous. It's lush and verdant and everything the middle of a city isn't. He's used to shopping centers and malls and busy train stations, not huge stretches of forest and vegetation.

...Uuunfotunately some of that vegetation happens to be fungal and spore-filled. Which he's decided he is very much allergic to since he can't stop sneezing anytime he gets near them. ]

Aaachoo! Achoo! Ugh, ew.... [ He lifts the back of a hand to wipe at his nose, sniffing. ] Those things are killer.

2

[dancingmd]

[Beverly is investigating some medical tech, though her frown makes it clear she doesn't think much of the offerings. Making due with old technology is one thing, but this pile of tetanus-laden junk is quite another. At T'Pol's approach, however, she looks up with a small smile of greeting.]

I wouldn't say no to company.

[chaoticwhimsy]

Hey, I was sitting here when you showed up, not my fault you didn't notice.

[Is it a lie? Probably.]

Plus I've never seen a green person before.

[chaoticwhimsy]

Hmmmm. [She made a thoughtful noise, watching the woman through the leaves as if thinking it over.]

So you say.

[There's a pause, and a noticeable shimmering of light from behind the leaves...and then suddenly the voices is behind her. Where Lumina is perched on a branch, peering down at her now, her legs swinging. At least she's just a kid?]

But why should I believe you, huh?

[coffeefirst]

[She glances over and looks at the stranger. A little flamboyant, maybe, but definitely not the oddest individual that she's run into.]

Oh, and what's that?

[dancingmd]

Mmm. They produce some sort of energy that interferes with electronics and... stimulates fleet members with magical powers and senses. Though sometimes it can affect even those of us without such abilities, though so far that doesn't seem to be the case here.

ehhhhstation

[ontrial]

[ even though her attention had been somewhere else, barriss's passive attention to everything around her in the force has her catching sight of inui and his distracted path before a full collision can happen. instead he bumps awkwardly into her outstretched hands, contact only lasting long enough to stop or alter his path as she steps to the side. ]

Be careful.

[ what if you had actually touched her, gosh. ]

[owlbymyself]

[He smiles and sets his hand against his chin. Both of his hands are peppered with smallish, discolored, peach colored bandages.]

It's too clean.

[Ah yes, that old naval saw about seasoning the coffee pot by not washing it, ever. Ancient, salty folklore, maybe, but it's what he's used to. With a sweep of the hand that has just been next to his face, he continues.]

But maybe that's just how you keep the glass ones, I dunno. Figure the whole point of having a glass pot is to show off the brew. Well, that an' how much money you can drop on your setup.

[Looking intently at the carafe, he steps closer to get a better look. He scratches at his chin, thinking aloud as long nails rasp against his stubble.]

Especially real thin glass like that--that takes skills.

[owlbymyself]

[Suuuuuure, kid. Face tight, he lifts an eyebrow. Really, what do you say to something like that?]

Well. Now you have. [Rizzo, that is not how you make friends.]

[willworkfordps]

I can already feel my expanding celebrity ego taking control of my life. It won't be long before I can't feel happiness without crushing an inferior person's dreams.

[dateme]

[ Well they would be all the more familiar with each other for it Barriss, goshhhhh. He does stop pretty quick when he feels her hands stopping him, head snapping back around to look over with an apology ready on his lips...

Except what comes out instead is: ]

Whoa, you're yellow. [ So cool ]

Re: 2

[humanhabits]

[The answer T'Pol expected, and she gives a nod of acknowledgement. She looks over the pile of scrap that Crusher is eying, wondering what Trip would make of it.]

Has anything caught your eye?

[she can't imagine what would, but as the human saying goes, 'one man's trash...']

[humanhabits]

[T'Pol starts to look more closely at the shimmer, but spins on her heel and steps back with faster-than-human reflexes when the location of the voice changes.

She does appear quite young... by human standards. But is she human?]

I'm unarmed. I'm also a member of the Fleet. There is no logical reason for me to attack you.

[chickenalaking]

[ He pauses, leaning back slightly to survey her shoulders. There is definitely no parrot present. ]

No. No, I suppose not. What was I thinking?

[ Never mind that none of the pirates he's been traveling with have parrots, but they really should. It just makes sense. ]

Richard. King Richard. You probably can't tell right now because I don't have my crown, but believe you me--it was a beautiful crown.

[reachfortheskies]

If I weren't a vampire, how would I be supposed to know!?

[ She somehow manages give the capes in her arms a pointed jiggle, which mostly just means a bunch of them fall right into Nightingale's face. ]

Which! Is not to say that I'm not glad to see you as well, of course!

[experiencepoints]

[well fuck you all those vapes are in her inventory now]

Maybe by having better priorities than capes! Why is that the first thing you do here, that's so lame! At least say something on the network so I can find you!

[reachfortheskies]

[ Fuck you THAT IS SO RUDE ]

It is the furthest thing from 'lame'! [ She reaches for Nightingale's cheeks, and squishes. ]

[ Maybe that's enough to cover up the embarrassment that had flashed across her face at the mention of the network. She. May have tried and failed. Miserably. ]

[experiencepoints]

Hey-!

[time from dramatic reunion to face squishing fight: about twenty seconds. At least she did miss that embarrassment?]

It is absolutely lame!

[reachfortheskies]

Capes are a wonderfully useful piece of apparel, and you, my dearest lady, are incredibly rude!

[ Pinches Nightingale's cheeks between her fingers and stretches them out a bit. Try insulting her now, hah. ]

[experiencepoints]

Stop that-!

[well now she's shoving her free hand into Bluebird's face.

The other is remaining hugging her because fuck you.]

[ontrial]

[ brows furrowing a moment, barriss takes a step back, brushing off her skirt as if being so close to someone has made it dustier than it was already from wandering around here. that reaction tells her plenty about who she's dealing it and she reminds herself firmly to be patient. ]

Yes. [ tell her something she doesn't know. ] My people are always some shade of green. My pigmentation just happens to be lighter than average.