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]

Perhaps if we found them a snack...Or played a game.

[ Fuwari puts a finger to her lips. What does she have with her?

Oh, yes. ] I wonder if they'd like some cheese....

[uwannagobro]

[ Encouraging small children to make potentially bad decisions? This is right up Rokurou's alley. ]

Worth a shot. Only thing we've got to lose is the cheese.

[priforpalps]

Right!

[ She proceeds to produce an entire cheese wheel from apparently nowhere and breaks off a piece. Then, thinking about this, she breaks off a second piece and offers it to her companion. ]

Do you want some, too?

[uwannagobro]

[ Good thing Rokurou comes from a Tales video game, and so inventories are a very familiar concept. Still, he does give the cheese wheel a second glance when it appears. ]

Sure, I wouldn't mind a taste.

[priforpalps]

[ This piece is for you, then! Offered with a sunny smile. ]

Here!

[ ....It's really good cheese. Homemade, but again, not coming from a land of mass-production, perhaps that's less surprising. ]

[uwannagobro]

[ Rokurou's lucky enough not to have lost his sense of taste with becoming a daemon, so he can well appreciate some nice cheese. Even if they're not normally within his nonexistent diet. ]

Hey... not bad! You make this stuff yourself?

[priforpalps]

I did. Goat-san was very happy to donate the milk. [ Stashing the rest of the cheese wheel away wherever it came from, Fuwari breaks the piece for the local wildlife into easier-to-eat pieces and begins setting them out.

Except this terrain is not, ah, friendly. ] Ouch!

[uwannagobro]

Alright, you got a bite!

[ Maybe not the first reaction someone should be having to a person getting bit by rocks, but it is the genuine Rokurou reaction. He is, at least, quick to move and hook an arm around Fuwari's waist to pull her back. ]

Nice going!

[priforpalps]

[ Fuwari is easily hooked - she's short, so not very difficult to move, and is distracted looking at her finger in surprise anyway. ]

Rock-san has very bad aim....

[ Look, they bit her by accident when that cheese was right there! ]

Should I have used bigger pieces?

[uwannagobro]

[ What fiends. ]

Nah, don't worry about it. I'll give him plenty to chew on.

[ Rokurou's already geared up as he sets Fuwari down behind himself; it's true that hand-to-hand combat isn't his forte, but hey, by any means necessary if it gets him a fight. ]

[priforpalps]

Did you bring something to feed him, too?

[ Fuwari won't move from the position where she's been placed - she trusts that's where he'd like her - but something about this seems a bit off. And that's concerning. ]

[uwannagobro]

Yeah, but it might not go down very easily.

[ Fuwari might want to look away, because this sure is Rokurou punching a rock monster. ]

[ Sure is. Good thing daemons are sturdy enough not to break any bones after doing something this dumb. ]

[priforpalps]

Ah!

[ Fuwari's hand goes to her mouth. ]

You mustn't! That might hurt him!

[uwannagobro]

That'd be the point!

[ He dodges out of the way of a swipe at his side, calling back over his shoulder to her. Man this is gonna be a lot tougher than he'd anticipated. ]

[priforpalps]

But he hasn't done anything--

[ Ohhhhh, this is going to be trouble. Fuwari bunches up her skirts and hurries towards the fight. ]

[uwannagobro]

[ 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!

[priforpalps]

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....

[uwannagobro]

He just bit you. And he looks tough enough to survive a little duel.

[ With the obvious signs of distress on Fuwari's face, maybe Rokurou's not going to get his to-the-death fight that he'd been hoping for... ]

[priforpalps]

Anyone would be scared if guests dropped by unexpectedly.

[ Fuwari isn't just going to make a face. Fuwari is going to try to insert herself between Rokurou and his quarry. ] I'll explain to him that it was rude, so, please.....?

[uwannagobro]

[ Annnd Rokurou's going to hook an arm around her waist when the rock monster makes another swipe for them both, dodging back once more and this time keeping his arm around her waist. ]

How about we compromise and leave him alone?

[priforpalps]

I'm sure he'll understand...

[ But he's already so very distressed. Fuwari thinks this over. ] All right.

Mister Rock, we won't bother you any more, so no more hurting strangers, okay?

[ This smile could make flowers sprout, even here. ]

[uwannagobro]

[ If this actually works, Rokurou's ready to give up alcohol. ]

[ ... For like two days. ]

[ Maybe. ]

You sure about this, kid?

[priforpalps]

Yes.

[ That smile just got even brighter. ] All animals are friends, you see.

[uwannagobro]

[ I'm not sure I should be allowed near this level of purity. ]

Never saw that before, myself.

[priforpalps]

Don't worry.

[ Fuwari waves to the pile of rocks. ] Everyone means well. Truly, truthfully.

[ It is hard to tell what a pile of rocks intends....

...but at least it isn't attacking any more. ]