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

[amazonfresh]

[From there on out, Diana doesn't hold back. She might not be fighting her hardest, not to win because there are more important things than winning and Thor is not an enemy, but she does fight to test herself. She hasn't had the chance to fight quite like this before, always holding back unconsciously with the other Amazons, then in the war the fighting had been real.

This? This is a friendly challenge.

She finds she likes it, smiling broadly as she pushes.]

[shockput]

[ They can probably do this all day. ]

[ But they don't, once there's a move to slow down it becomes a few friendly jabs, and eventually Thor is standing there grinning at her, boyishly. ]

You are a worthy opponent, Diana of Themyscira.

[amazonfresh]

As are you, Thor Odinson.

[She makes his grin with a wide smile and offers her arm to clasp in respect.]

I must thank you for that. Never before have I had such an opportunity.

[shockput]

None of your people fight as you do?

[amazonfresh]

No one else has been born as I was. The other Amazons retired to Themyscira, but I was made there when my mother shaped me from clay, and the god Zeus breathed life into her creation.

[This is normal to Diana. Not common, but still normal.]

I am different from them.

[shockput]

Truly? That sorcery is rare and powerful.

I am Aesir, but humans say we are gods. Our magic is miracles to them.

[amazonfresh]

If you can do things like that, then I dare say they would be miracles to anyone.

[shockput]

Some illusions, a little thunder and lightning, children's magic.

They are not yet ready to understand that, but one day, they might.

[amazonfresh]

You sound as though you have a great deal of faith in them.

[shockput]

You sound as if you do not doubt that faith.

[amazonfresh]

The answer to that is complicated. But I believe in their potential.

[shockput]

[ It seems they've got more in common than just being stronger and longer lived than humans. Thor grins. ]

Then, allow me to buy you a drink.

[amazonfresh]

It would be my honor to drink with a warrior such as yourself.

[She returns his smile openly, comforted to find a potential ally and friend in the fleet.]