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

[priforpalps]

Oh? [ Fuwari's lips draw together, confused. ] Isn't it a pet?

Perhaps it likes being touched instead.

[ She extends a smol but slender index finger to pet the rock - gently and carefully, in case this isn't to its liking. There, there! ]

[tempredmental]

Kind... of...?

[Keith was definitely confused. Did pets talk where this girl was from?]

It's a rock, so...

[She... was petting... the rock...]

Do pet rocks usually talk where you're from?

[priforpalps]

The sign out front said these were pets. [ Fuwari, undeterred, keeps petting the rock. New people are scary, huh? And it must be lonely to not be running free. Or. Sitting free in a cave. However wild rocks prefer to spend their time. ]

They don't look like any we had in the Palps, either.

[tempredmental]

[He finally just held it out to her, because this whole him holding it while she was petting it thing was getting kind of weird.]

You wanna hold it?

[At this point, he had a feeling he wasn't going to win this discussion.]

[priforpalps]

[ A small, breathy gasp. ] May I?

[ She hadn't wanted to impose if you were befriending it....

But here. Fuwari offers her hands, palms-up and ready to receive the rock. ] Thank you!

[ Beaming. Effervescently. She is gonna friend this rock so hard. ]

[tempredmental]

Uh, sure.

[He places it in her hands, not quite as carefully as she was trying to receive it. It wasn't alive or anything. Keith hadn't developed an attachment or anything to that particular rock. He'd just been curious.]

I mean, if you want that one, you can have it. But they've got a bunch over here.

[See? A whole shelf full.]

[priforpalps]

Are you sure? [ Fuwari seems worried. ] You were just getting to know it....

[ Doubtful, she looks down at the rock. Then brightens. ] Ah, I think he moved!

[ That or she shifted her hold on it. But she seems sure of herself. ]

[tempredmental]

Yeah, it's fin-

[Moved? He blinked.

Oddly enough, a moving rock wouldn't really be a first for Keith, either. He looked at it closely.]

I don't see a difference.

[priforpalps]

He must have been getting comfortable. [ Fuwari uses her thumb to stroke the rock. ] There, there. You're safe here.

[ Satisfied the rock is happy, she turns more of her attention on the, you know, person here. (other person. the rock is a person too.) ] Ah, I'm Midorikaze Fuwari. I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier.

[ It was terribly impolite of her. She has learned a lot about etiquette!

And is still not wearing shoes!! Despite being in a rocky asteroid!!! ]

[tempredmental]

Uh, right. I'm Keith.

[Yeah, he was way more informal about introductions, so ... wait ...

She wasn't wearing shoes?]

Do you have shoes?

[priforpalps]

Yes! [ Fuwari nods. ] I'm taking good care of them back on the ship!

[tempredmental]

But you're supposed to wear them. That's the point.

Don't your feet hurt?

[priforpalps]

They're used to this.

[ She's smiling, but her feet are a little bit bunged up. ]

[tempredmental]

[Keith looked a little concerned.]

Are you sure? I mean, this isn't exactly the greatest terrain for walking around without shoes.

Why aren't you wearing them?

[priforpalps]

[ Still holding her new rock friend carefully, Fuwari glances down at her bland, Fleet-issued clothes. She turns one leg back and forth to indicate them. ]

The nice people from the TV show gave us these lovely, easy-to-move-in things to wear. But if I wore the shoes here, they might get dirty....

[tempredmental]

You can clean them? Better than something happening to your foot because you stepped on a sharp rock, right?

[He was so confused. This girl was like... well, she had a point? But it still made no sense to him.]

[priforpalps]

It's all right.

[ Fuwari smiles. ]

I hear I'm thick-skinned!!

[ But then, she thinks of something, and frowns to herself, perplexed. ] ....or was that "-headed"....?

[tempredmental]

[Keith had his own opinion about that at the moment, but he managed to actually keep it to himself this time.]

You should be careful, though. And, really, why would they give you something if they didn't want you to use it?

[Different tactic?]

[priforpalps]

[ Fuwari considers this, too. ] That's difficult to say. I'm not sure someone like me could really hope to understand it. Running a television show involves a lot of thinking about a lot of very complicated things, all at once.

[ She sighs. ] It's so comfortable going barefoot, though....

[tempredmental]

Even on the rocks?

[Well... okay...]

I mean, it's really up to you, I guess. Just... most people don't find that comfortable. But, if you can handle it... [He shrugged.]

[priforpalps]

[ Fuwari just smiles. What a kind person, to be caring about her.

But she's still holding the rock, and Keith having mentioning "rocks" puts this first and foremost in her mind. She looks around. ] Have you seen whether they sell feed here? I wouldn't want to get into space and have nothing to feed him.

[tempredmental]

Oh, uh...

[She was really convinced this was a living creature, wasn't she?]

They don't eat.

[priforpalps]

They don't?

[ BIG SHOCK. ]

Maaaaaaaa!!

[tempredmental]

[What the-? Did she just-?]

What was that noise?

[priforpalps]

That's how we express surprise in the Palps.

[ Perhaps he didn't hear properly. She should bleat again, then. ] Maa, maaa!