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SPRING TEST DRIVE

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!

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March's Star System

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Test drives are posted SEASONALLY, so the next one will be in June!

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[What what what was this? New and improved travel?

Strange shiny surfaces? Thing he could try to take apart and put back together completely wrong? Strangers from strange places?

A bright grin spread across his face.

Excellent.]

Planetside:

[Discovering and drawing new creatures? That is totally John's jam. Unfortunately, he can't really draw too easily underwater, but -- for lack of anything better to do he's out exploring the wildlife and plants that can be found under the sea. He's gotten himself one of those rainbow fish, too, and it's following him around quite happily. Maybe if he stares long enough at this jellyfish-thing he'll commit it to memory and draw it when he gets back shipside.]

Shipside:

[So yeah. The thing about dying in 1782? Is that you have a lot of stuff to catch up on once you get to the future. Sure, the augment helps up to a point, and he's managed to get over most of his culture shock. (Sometimes he still looks a little shocked at electricity, though. What? It's awesome.) As it stands, though, he's always had a passing interest in the medical field, so his lab augment came in particularly helpful. He can still be found brushing up on everything he's missed in the past -- however many years he's been dead; most often in the common room. That's where he is today, surrounded by a bunch of tablets and making notes on his comm.]

It wasn't the first time Jack had been to an ocean planet before, but it was certainly the first time he'd been to one where there was no need for any kind of assistance when it came to breathing beneath the planet's surface. So he'd been a bit surprised by the initial drop into the water of course, without being offered any kind of filtration or breathing system, but as soon as he'd realized he could breath just fine? Well, he'd taken to the planet beautifully, and had begun to explore.

It hadn't taken him long at all to find a place that served the local version of 'drink'; kelp infused with alcohol. He'd had stranger things, and after trying it, he'd certainly had worse tasting things. It wasn't bad at all, really. He could be found partaking of the drunken kelp more than a few times; visitors might find him in moods that were somewhere between happily cheerful, flirty, and drunk, and- if he gave himself too much time to think- beginning to drift into silence and a familiar emptiness.

Edited 2017-03-10 23:12 (UTC)

Kitty hasn't been in the best mood this month. Exploring the planet should be an adventure—something new and different and most importantly not confined to a space ship for days on end. Instead, it barely passes as a distraction. She's not looking that eager to interact as she drifts through the water. Still, she is aware of her surroundings. A lifetime—even a short one of just a couple decades—of battle has baked the instincts into her. So she stops, eyes widening when she recognizes the man nearby. Before she can stop herself with all the reasons this is a bad idea she's moving toward him.

"Jack!" She flings her arms around him for a hug. She really, really needed to see a friend right now and back in MarinaNova Jack had been one of her closest. They'd worked on the defense force together. They had been married for a day. Not so much because they meant to. The prison was a strange place and sometimes their minds weren't their own. Still, there was an intimacy and occasionally more than a little unsatisfied attraction in their relationship. Also some of the satisfied variety. But the moment she makes contact those reasons why this was not the best move come back.

"...You have no idea who I am, do you?" She's never seen anyone here who had also been in the prison and remembered it. Why would today be any different.

(OOC: So, obviously CRAU memories. If this doesn't work for you, just let me know!)

[ it's great christophe finds this excellent. caelum is trying to decide if she should keep calm now or let herself indulgence by giving into the panic she feels.

holding onto her moon orb like it was a liferaft, the woman takes in their surroundings and struggles to find the words to describe her feelings on this. ]

... interesting. [ yes. that's all she can think of right now. ]

(A: Video Post)

[You know what doesn't mix? Nightmares, giant claws and waterbeds. There's a currently a video transmission of a very grumpy, very wet woman with a very wrecked waterbed in the background]

Are these really the only beds they have here?

(B: In Person, shopping)

[Even traveling with pirates doesn't prepare you for living under water. Clearly the best way to adjust is to focus on what you're already comfortable with. Velvet is heading out to do some shopping. You might find her checking out the available local foods. But more likely you'll see her browsing whatever weapons she can find. Though she's a bit underwhelmed by the number of harpoons and such.]

Not really my style.

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planetside

[It should've been Billy's dream come true. He could set aside the forced kidnapping. He could disregard the alterations to his brain. There was a lot Billy was willing to accept in order to have the chance to explore the wider universe.

But being dropped right into the middle of an underwater civilization was a bit much for someone who'd shied away from the ocean for most of his life.

Fortunately, fish no longer terrified him. Unfortunately, the years of fearing the water didn't leave him with extensive experience swimming, so he spent much of the first day floating in a ball, looking at a 'how to swim' explanation, and working on improving his technique. After a quick frog-stretch, he shook his head and laughed.]

I've never been so relieved to be unable to drown.

On-ship
[Billy was by far more comfortable exploring the tiny ship he'd been assigned to. He occasionally prodded at the back of his neck, frowning at the implications of the augment, but he ignored the discomfort by throwing himself into learning everything he could.

Sure, he was a communications-augment now, but he'd dabbled in piloting, engineering, and lab work at home and he longed to do it all. His crewmates of those specialties would often find him in the next room, reading a related manual and willing himself to understand an auxiliary engine diagnosis. The difficulty of the other specialties was unexpected and frustrating.

Finally, he tucked the data pad away in defeat.]

I still don't trust the augmentations. Have they ever malfunctioned?

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[It's hard to ignore the broken waterbed. It's also hard not to smile just a little, incredulous, when she responds.]

They are if you want to sleep in a dry room.

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.

[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?

[ There's a little bit of whiplash when Zaveid sees something oddly familiar, and he takes his time to stalk her through the shops - definitely knowing she will be entirely aware of his company. It takes him a little time, but eventually he saunters up to her side, tilting his head and giving her a wide grin. ]

Look who we have here!

[Might want to pull the communicator pad back out Billy, because you're about to get someone trying to contact you on it via video link.]

Unfortunately, the question is less "have they" and more "how do they." Or perhaps "how often."

[why this though. She's still scowling, exasperated.]

Looks like I'll get wet either way.

[She kind of does a double take.]

You--

[She stops short of asking what he's doing here. Everyone's here for mor or less the same reasons, right. But she's obviously surprised.]

Didn't expect to see you here.

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.

That seems to be a thing around here. There's not a whole lot of dry to go around.

[Natasha smiles slightly, almost sympathetically, at Velvet's expression.]

You might do less damage the other way, though. Depending on what you float into.

((ooc: Shiro will be taken post ending of s2. I don't think it'll come up in this thread, but just in case, let me know if you don't want spoilers.))

A.Network: [Voice]

Aren't there star charts available for pilots? Or at least the communicator officers? The scans have been good enough not to fly blind, but I admit I'm surprised such an organized fleet doesn't keep track of its trajectory.

Would an engineer be able to program something for it? [Usually that would be out of the question, but if he understands correctly, limitations work a bit different here. Which is frustrating to say the least.]

B. Planetside: Air-diving

[Shiro isn't sure when it was the last time he flied for pleasure, but he knows he misses it. A lot. So as soon as he hears there's a popular tourist attraction that is all about flying, well, he's there faster than you can blink. He watches a couple of divers before he finally joins without hesitation, and boy does get into it. His first dive is moderate, but the more he tries it the higher he goes. It's obvious even for a stranger to notice how much he enjoys it - he looks the most relaxed he's been since he's arrived to this "show" and there's a delighted smile on his lips.

If you approach him during one of his in-between-dives breaks to ask him about his flying, pay a compliment or call him a lunatic, he'll keep the same smile as he answers with his own question.]

Would you like to join? There's a passenger seat in my craft and I wouldn't mind the company.

[ Well, that's someone he never thought he'd see again. It takes Eizen a moment to approach her, collect his thoughts, make a plan of attack so to speak. When he does he does so casually, picking up one of the harpoons and studying it. ]

I wouldn't recommend it anyway, the workmanship is lacking. [ Already the piece, which has utterly faded from view of all those around him, starts to crack under the strain of his curse. ] It wouldn't last a minute in the hands of even an experience fighter.

[ Sup. ]

[She's pretty confident in her damage causing abilities, so she sort of doubts that. She just sighs.]

I guess we'll find out.

[There are a surprising number of familiar faces around here. She didn't expect that. Not that she really expected any of this.]

Yeah. These seem to be more for hunting.

[she sets down the javelin she was looking at before turning to face him fully.]

So you're here too, huh?

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[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?

[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.

[ The harpoon cracks further, splintering up the pole towards the blade. Eizen sighs returning it to the table with the rest of the pieces, gloved hands slipping into the pockets of his pants. He won't lie, he's relieved to see a familiar face around - one that looks and acts just like his memories of them do. The fact that it is Velvet though, that amuses him to no end. ]

I'm not surprised, these people have no need for fighters. They aren't beset by monsters or daemons, so they only need to produce something that will work for hunting.

[ He's assuming, of course, but there is enough evidence to support it. ]

Guess I am. [ Sharp blue eyes flick down to her and the corners of his mouth quirk up slightly, almost in a smile. ] You don't have to sound so happy to see me.

[He hears the buzz and re-opens it, flashing an awkward smile at her.]

You're right, of course. That would yield more useful information. Is it too late to ask?

You could always try anchoring yourself to something, or tying off.

[Still with an air of amusement.]

Works for boats.

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SPRING TEST DRIVE

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John Laurens - Hamilton

Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood

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Velvet Crowe | Tales of Berseria

billy cranston - mighty morphin power rangers

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Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane | Voltron LD

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