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

On-Ship (the Twin Roses in this case)

[passingthrough]

Only all the time. [Kitty is sitting on the arm of the pilot's chair instead of the part where the sitting is supposed to happen. The ship isn't flying at the moment since they're underwater and all. What's a pilot and co-captain to do? Actually, she'll just watch the newbie doing some of the same stuff she did when she arrived.

Computers had always come easily to her. She didn't want to brag, but she has some brag-worthy skills in that area. The genius word has been thrown around. This is also not her first rodeo when it comes to utilizing completely alien technology. In the past she's always picked it up relatively quickly. Here...? She spent months trying to learn the ship inside and outside and she could get to a certain point and no further. Even when she consulted with people who had the appropriate augments and did get it, she just couldn't. It was unbelievably frustrating. At this point, whether it's true or just the thing that helps her sleep at night she's fairly convinced that the augments don't just expand knowledge in some areas, they limit it in others. It's really the only thing that explains to her why someone with medical training and experience would be worse at treating someone than some random person that's never applied a bandaid but who happens to have a lab augment.]

Good rule of thumb not trusting the thing that controls your mind that was implanted by mysterious kidnapping overlords. Just a little tip from me to you.

[morphitudinous]

[Billy can't help but smile a little. It's completely absurd, yet here they are. He leans back against the wall, fiddling with his glasses.]

Of course. What kind of malfunctions are we talking about?

[passingthrough]

I woke up in a guy's body one morning and stayed that way for a few days. [Just one example, but definitely a memorable one. But there are a variety of mental and physical changes it can make happen. Of course...they might be less a bug and more a feature.

[morphitudinous]

[It's not appropriate, but Billy can't help but find himself smiling at that.]

I've been in that situation with a friend before...but in our case, it was mostly my fault. At least I almost know what to expect.

Does active danger tend to happen often?

[passingthrough]

[Tilting her head.] You can change people's sexes? [That's new. Not that she knows much about him at this point.]

Uh, and no. There was one raid since I've been here. Two before that.

[morphitudinous]

Not precisely. It was more of a personality displacement...meaning my mind occupied her body and she occupied mine. We made a mess of each other's lives that day.

[It's hard not to smile, now that he has some distance from that event.]

I'm not sure how reassuring that is. But we're equipped to handle raids, right?

[passingthrough]

Oh, I've done that too, but it was back in prison. [Not that kind of prison.]

So much of it is dependent on who's on the crew with what augments. We have trouble keeping security to give the ship weapons and engineering to give us shields. We're a capable group hand-to-hand though.

[morphitudinous]

[He takes a note of that, with a slight raised eyebrow at the prison mention.]

When I've earned enough credit, I'll look at strategically switching. I'm sure I could manage any of the tasks. And I've had some...recreational martial arts training too.

[Well. It was a little more than that, but he'd keep his mouth shut.]

[passingthrough]

[She sees that eyebrow raise. She gets it a lot or a full on, "You were in prison?"]

It was another place like this. It just had a more honest theme. [After all, the fleet is a sort of prison too.]

What kind of recreational martial arts? Something with classes and belts and demonstrations? [Trying to ask without mocking!]

[morphitudinous]

Yes, actually. And a side of gymnastics.

[He has the grace to look embarrassed.]

I know it sounds pretty useless, but I've scuffled with a few bullies. And I'll work on my aim.

[passingthrough]

Oh, I don't know. I was in ballet before I was in battle. I've heard stranger. It does sound like you'd be good in my dance classes though. I'll go ahead and sign you up.

[morphitudinous]

[He tries to picture what Zack would say about that. Undoubtedly, he'd laugh and encourage Billy to remember all he'd learned of hip hop.]

Are they strictly ballet classes, or do you teach other disciplines?

[passingthrough]

As much as I'd like to get everyone on the ballet wagon, I'm opening it up to other styles I don't know as well too. Like ballroom.

[morphitudinous]

...I might be a little better at that. There's a certain rhythm that I'm finally starting to learn.

I'll look forward to it!

[passingthrough]

Good to hear. Have you had dance classes before?

[morphitudinous]

My friends were instructors. I learned some pop, some breakdancing---but neither well enough to really teach it.

Do you expect we'll attend a ball at some point?

[passingthrough]

We have once already since I've been here. It was on the poison moon. The only highlight from that moon.

[morphitudinous]

I can't imagine a poison moon would have many highlights...not that my Earth's did, either. It was a festering hive of evil.

But I'm glad I'll be prepared.