Summer Test Drive! (Calibrations edition!)

[thespaceopera]

THE SUMMER TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Winter 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!

SPECIAL NOTE!
Since June is a special month in which we'll be breaking from the usual plot to bring back the calibrations plot, the Test Drive prompts will come in two flavors!

OPTION A: Standard Test Drive
Go ahead and treat the test drive as you normally would, using past plots or fleet locations as your setting! Here's some helpful info for some ideas.

April/May's Star System

March's Star System

Game Details

SS Iskaulit

OPTION B: Build-a-Calibration
If you'd like, you can use the info given about the Calibrations plot to design your own calibration room for any characters you want! Got a character you want to explore their inner psyche but isn't in the game yet? Go ahead and try it out! It can be a fully fleshed out room, or simply just a small part of it you'd like to play with.

Alternatively for any characters that are in the game, you can use this as a chance to either iron out, brainstorm, or test run any components of your calibration before the actual plot starts! We don't recommend posting the entirety of your calibration in this meme (as you'll have nothing new to post come plot time), but this can be a good chance to test out any parts to make sure they work how you desire.

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

Comments

[sakabroto]

[UGH ADULTS. He takes a half step back, thinks better of it and stands firm by turning his head away, hands in pockets.]

Reminded me of a video game.

[Recovery....???? Who knows.]

But how would breathing fire not do you good? You could totally scare the shit out of people with that!

[valyrianstorm]

[Hey she isn't that much older than him. In the books, she isn't older at all. She might be younger there.]

Never heard of a...video...game? [His sanity is worrying her.] I do not need to breathe fire to do that.

[sakabroto]

[...True. WELL STILL. She acts older, like Makoto did. Also, dragon lady???]

Dude, you've never heard of a video game? Aw man, they're totally awesome! You can do all kinds of fun shit in a game!

[Aaaaand just going to leave the scary lady's assertion that she's a scary lady alone. The last thing he needs is for her to suddenly sprout dragons and burn him. He's not as fire resistant as Ann.]

[valyrianstorm]

I do not have any time for games. [She has Seven Kingdoms to conquer and then Seven Kingdoms to rule.] Tell me more about them. Video is a foreign word to me; what does it imply?

[sakabroto]

....

[Okay, what.]

Uh, it's a game you play on the TV.

How do you not know what videos are? Weren't they invented like...a long ass time ago?

[valyrianstorm]

Do you call Westeros your home? You do not strike me as residing in the East. [This is a test: do other worlds exist? Is that even possible?]

[sakabroto]

What the hell is Westeros?

[Is that some kind of new theme park? If so and it has dragon people, can he go??]

I'm from Japan. [He sighs.] So I'm guessin' you've never heard of it like I've never heard of Westeros, huh... Weird. All these different worlds getting mushed together is a head trip.

[valyrianstorm]

A continent on...my world. [It feels entirely wrong to use said identifier. Daenerys motions vaguely at the window and the stars beyond.] We are beyond our worlds, I think.

[So that leaves them relying on each other.]

This could be an elaborate dream; a vision we share. In the end, it doesn't matter. I want to get to the bottom of why we are here and who is responsible.

[sakabroto]

Yeah...we're in space, so it'd definitely beyond our worlds.

[Ryuji scratches his head. Could this be another version of something like Mementos? A shared cognition slash fever dream that everyone here is caught up in? If that were true though, his Metaverse Nav would totally still be working and it is most certainly not.]

But as for the why and who? Nooo idea. They said we were on some reality TV show so weirdos across the universe can watch us live our lives. It's totally stupid!

[valyrianstorm]

I do remember hearing that explanation. [It makes a little more sense now.] The more odd we are - the more foreign - the more entertaining we must be to those...watching.

[She smirks without humor, real anger in her eyes.]

I see no reason to go along with their stunts, do you? We can excel at being boring.

[sakabroto]

Wait, you really think that'd work?

[Be boring. Live the good high school student life, as Morgana would say, to avoid detection.]

Just be borin' and they'll let us go?

[valyrianstorm]

You fight when your enemy is weak, helpless; you stay still, patient when your enemy is acting like a rash fire. If they want entertainment, we should give them the opposite.

[Even foreign looks become tedious when there is no spirit behind them. Daenerys can feign soullessness again if it gets her home.]