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

[searingedgelord]

Yeah. You could say that.

[outstandingbalance]

I did say that.

[searingedgelord]

I noticed.

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha snorts, willing to go with the assumption this is deadpan sarcasm.]

So this is your first world? Could be worse.

[searingedgelord]

[She does do deadpan sarcasm a lot]

Yeah? How so?

[outstandingbalance]

Well, the atmosphere here isn't toxic.

[searingedgelord]

...Right. The breathable water is pretty considerate.

[outstandingbalance]

And novel. At least, it's the first time I've seen it happen. So there's that.

[searingedgelord]

Does that mean toxic atmospheres happen often?

[outstandingbalance]

Well, it's sort of happening here too. Just not to us—to the natives.

[searingedgelord]

Right. Got it.

[So that's a 'yes' then]

[outstandingbalance]

[Yes. It is a yes.]

At the same time, most places are comfortable enough for us.

[searingedgelord]

I don't think I'd call this comfortable. But it could be worse.

[outstandingbalance]

Maybe the next one will be more to your tastes.

[searingedgelord]

[she's not counting on it]

How often do we move around?

[outstandingbalance]

Every month or so. We stop in at a new planet or system, space station. Something like that... then we have a week or so of drifting between them.

[Drift weeks are the hard weeks.]

[searingedgelord]

Sounds like we don't stick around for long.

[outstandingbalance]

You're not wrong. I guess that would get boring for the audience at home.

[searingedgelord]

We couldn't have that.

[Said as though she doesn't really care that much about the audience at home.]

[outstandingbalance]

The Atroma can't have that. If we believe the stories, anyway.

[searingedgelord]

What stories are those?

[outstandingbalance]

That the Atroma brought us here for their entertainment, and are keeping us here for entertainment.

[searingedgelord]

That's not a story, that's basic information.

[When you use the word "story" she expects more detail.]

[outstandingbalance]

What it is is unverified. And probably unverifiable.

[searingedgelord]

Well, something sure brought us here.