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SPRING TEST DRIVE

THE SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Fall 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!:

March's Star System

Game Details

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

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[Yuuri looked up with interest, clucking his tongue sympathetically at the 'half a day' thing. He'd been that way with his own costume ...]

Like a wedding suit? [He gives the noodles another stir, then adds the pork bits, letting it all simmer as he gives Victor a little teasing grin.] Not going to wait until I win gold, eh?

[ Jayden's in her room, and the sound of someone walking back, and forth, and back, and forth again in the hallway right outside her door makes her curious... So she gets up to have a look.

She definitely wasn't expecting to see someone dragging a bunch of stuff down the hallway. ... Okay, she's not sure what she was expecting, but still - not that. She leans against her doorframe, arms crossed, head tilted to the side. ]

Moving?

[ Thankfully, for all parties involved, Rokurou's not so into the fight that his eye's started to glow. Which means he has just enough lack of interest in the fight to see Fuwari coming their way and not immediately lunge at her for interrupting his fight. Instead, he's calling out even as he tries to lead the rock monster his way. ]

Hey, keep back!

[You know what, it didn't take long for Peebee to collect a few pieces of scrap already, and she's got it piled up on a blanket as she drags it from quarters to the hangar bay.]

Oh, yeah. Relocating to a shuttle. Ya wanna help me with this stuff?

[She jerks her head at the blanket-ful of scrap.]

Elf ... is that like a rare subset or human or something?

[She finishes off her beer and looks at the empty bottle, then looks up at Fenris and waves it, wide-eyed and imploring.] I have found a sad thing and it is my empty bottle.

[Did she intentionally no answer his question or just drunkenly forget?]

That's too cruel.

[ Fuwari has her hands over her mouth as she watches. She understands that nature can be a rough place, but if somebody wasn't bothering you... ] This is his home....

[Lumiére patiently waits, arms behind his back, for Yuuri to finish his little freakout. His smile remains on all the same. This is par for the course for his life here, best just let them get their horror out and over with. ]

It is a thing here. I am a passenger just like you, taken from home.

[He gives a little bow. ]

A pleasure to meet you, I am Lumiére. You can put the spoon down, I promise I do not bite unless someone asks me to.

[Okay. It was okay. It was a talking candlestick and he wasn't attacking. Just making polite conversation and all right. Space candles. He was fine. He could release his death grip on the spoon.]

Oh! ... there is a world with talking furniture?

[Wow, the universe really was a wild and crazy place. He put the spoon down, and then offered his hand. He laughed, nervously.]

Uh. Hi. I'm Katsuki Yuuri - ah - Yuuri Katsuki. [European candlesticks probably wouldn't understand the Japanese ways of switching family name for personal name.] Nice to you, uhm, Lumiere.

[He looked at the pot, then back at the candlestick, offering him an unsure but game smile.] Are you hungry? I made plenty.

[He's spent so much time with Isabela and Varric that people evading his questions are par for the course. ]

No. We are not related to humans. Not unless one is a half-elf, which I am not.

[He doesn't really have any elven pride...like at all, but he'll stick to what he is all the same. He arches a brow, leaning on the bar a little. ]

That is tragic. Do you have the money to buy another?

[Why did people keep assuming a world of talking furniture was a thing? It was equally endearing and perplexing. ]

Ah- no. Or if there is, I do not come from there. I am from Earth, I was human. I am under a curse.

[He waves a candle gently. ]

No, thank you. It is kind of you to offer but I don't-

[Wait, waaaait. The flame on the candle that serves as his head flickers a little more brightly,
as does his smile.]

Yuuri! You don't happen to know a man named Victor, do you?

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[Well because most of them came from an earth where that was not a thing. Still, Yuuri's eyes automatically softened with sympathy.]

I'm so sorry, Lumiere. That sounds terrible. Is there any way to help you become human again?

[He makes himself a bowl of noodles, and goes to pour the rest in a larger bowl so someone can enjoy it for later. His hands tremble though, at Lumiere's question, splashing the broth on the counter as he put bowl down abruptly and turned to the candlestick, dark eyes alight with some desperate hope.]

Victor? Victor Nikiforov? Tall, willowy, with sharp blue eyes and silver blonde hair that falls across his forehead like a - a sheen of water?

[Victor smiles warmly.] Perhaps I believe in you enough to plan ahead.

[Yuuri looks over at him at that, and there it is again. That faith, that trust, that Yuuri can do it. Win a gold, over Chris, Yurio, even Victor himself.

So. He sets his chin, determination flashing behind his glasses as he leans in and kisses Victor on the lips. Firmly, warmly, but just for a moment because he's still learning it's okay to do stuff like that.]

...Thank you, Victor. [He smiles into the pot, before looking over at him.] How much did you want? I made plenty but - it's still experimental.

[Victor's heart flutters a bit at the gentle kissing.]

I'm sure it's tasty! But you dish out for yourself first. You said that you hadn't eaten in a while?

Yeah - I - uhm. [Ugh this was so embarrassing. He put his head down, as he put a fairly good portion of noodles, fried pork paste bits and powdered eggs into his bowl. Then he dished out some for Victor, and taking his hand, led him over to the table. He handed over the chopsticks - thank goodness they had those...

And played with his food a little, as he confessed.] I didn't act very, uhm, bravely when I got here. I sort of - had a panic attack. That lasted. A few days.

[ Planetside ]

[ A planet covered entirely in water is just the thing Rikku needs after being unceremoniously dumped into a weird space... Performance? Adventure? Who knows. At least the excursion to Mafik reminds her of underwater salvaging back home. Among other things. ]

Hey!

[ Just outside of some of the ruins, she spots what appears to be a white ball resting on the sand. ]

I can show you something from home! Watch this, you're gonna love it!

[ She scoops up the ball, then tosses it up. As it begins to drift back toward the floor, she does a flip before giving it a good hard kick. ]

It's Blitzball! Everyone in Spira lo-o-o-oves it?

[ The ball had been speeding away, but it suddenly stops and begins to unroll. Large smooth wings unfurl at each side, as does a tangle of buoyant tendrils. The creature that was posing as a harmless ball now looks like some kind of horrible mishmash of a stingray and a jellyfish. And it's coming back. ]

Oopsie?