SPRING TEST DRIVE

[thespaceopera]

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!

Comments

onboard

[pb_n_jocular]

[So you know what comes with space? Aliens. Here's one now! Peebee's not too happy about the kidnapping or the augment either and it's got her in a foul mood as she explores this tiny excuse for a ship. She hasn't been here two weeks and she's already suffering cabin fever.]

[She wanders in, picks up a tube and looks it over, then tosses it back unceremoniously on the counter before leaning back against it and crossing her arms, looking at Seymour.] Mmmmmm, protein paste. Thought I'd seen the last of this shit.

I don't know if anyone's going to force it on you, but if that's all this bucket's got then you might want to just suck it up.

[dontfeedplants]

[In the very least, Seymour does have some experience in dealing with aliens (although he's unaware of it at this point), but don't mind him staring a little bit. At the very least he isn't too horribly shocked by this, luckily waking up in space does prepare you for a couple of things after all.

But more importantly, the food.]

You had to eat this stuff where you're from?

[Yeesh, he thought he had it bad.]

[pb_n_jocular]

Yeah, for a little bit. You spend six hundred years in cryo you don't just pop out eating solid foods. Plus, it holds and travels well so ... you find yourself needing something that won't spoil, that's usually what you'll have.

[The staring, well. It's not common but she's aware she hasn't seen a single other Asari since she's arrived. Or Turian or Salarian or even any Angarans.]

[But for now, she stares right back at him.] What's wrong with your eyes?

[dontfeedplants]

Six hundred years? Why would you need to be asleep for that long?

[If they need to do that here he is going to leave, he swears.

He seems very concerned by that question.]

What do you mean what's wrong with my eyes?

[pb_n_jocular]

'Cause no one's figured out how to universe-hop any quicker. At least, no one from my universe ... universes. Somehow I doubt these Atroma have it figured out either, but I don't get the impression they're too eager to show us otherwise.

[She lifts a finger to twirl by her own eyes - indicating his glasses.] They got all this fancy tech and crap they couldn't fix your eyes while they were at it? Or is it just for show?

[dontfeedplants]

I guess at least there's something better about my home planet...

[No offense, but he can't imagine a life eating stuff like this and being knocked out for centuries.

But that second part surprises him.]

Oh these?

[Points at his glasses. It takes him a moment to process that technology might be different on other planets.]

I wouldn't really call it fancy. Where I'm from, we don't actually have the technology to fix eyesight, so I just wear these so I can see. I'm pretty blind without them.

[pb_n_jocular]

Wow, that sucks.

So if you come from such a backwater planet, what do you think about all of this? About space? [She hops up to sit on the counter, looking at him with renewed interest.] I mean, to me; you're a member of an ancient, struggling civilization; thrust out into the unforgiving darkness, among peoples and societies you couldn't even have dreamed of.

What's it like?

[dontfeedplants]

It's amazing. I couldn't imagine stuff like this ever actually existing [Well, maybe except general space travel.], much less that I'd get to experience it.

[While he does seem happy, there is a slight twinge of uncertainty. He still can't help but think that this is a punishment by Twoey.]

I just wish I didn't have to be kidnapped to be able to experience it.

[pb_n_jocular]

[She leans back and lets out a purely aggravated sigh.]

Uuuuuugh, right? Like, way to ruin the experience. [She slumps over, elbows on knees and head cradled in her hand.] I mean I'm all for jumping ship and checking out the next galaxy over but it'd be really nice if you could jump back when you wanted, y'know?