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

[website]

Oh yeah, it's really cool. Even better than the movies - real movies, not the ones on tv.

[peter looks around again, trying to take it all in with wide eyes. but he swallows a lot harder after the next bite that he takes.]

It's just...I can't be here for long, you know?

[outstandingbalance]

[That's a question that gets right to the point, isn't it?]

Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you in that case. The good news is, as near as we can figure they put us back where they found us.

[Either that, or they were copies and they never went back at all. It got complicated. She wasn't going to dive into that on him immediately.]

The bad news...

[She can't say anything encouraging about his stay being short.]

[website]

Yeah, that is good news. And how exactly did we figure that out again?

[seems like that would require a little communication between where they were and where they are now, and peter hasn't heard anything about that. his forehead wrinkles when she trails off, delicious space frees totally forgotten.]

And the bad news?

[deep breath. give it to him straight, doc. he can take it.]

[outstandingbalance]

[A little grimace in response. It's not Natasha's favorite thing to explain because she doesn't understand it herself, and she doesn't like things she doesn't understand.

But she'll give it a try.]

When they grab us to start with, it's not just from a place, it's from different times. I could show up a year before someone from home, but they get here and not only would they not know I was gone, they talked to me a week ago. Makes the logistics a little complicated.

[A shrug.]

Plus, sometimes people leave and come back.

[Which brings them to the bad news.]

We don't get a lot of say in that.

[website]

Okay...

[there's wheels turning in peter's head in spite of the simplistic answer, thoughts about physics and theories, which ones got something right and which ones are wrong if what she's telling him is true.]

Maybe it's not just time. You could be from a completely different world. Man, how much have those guys got figured out.

[it would almost be impressive if it wasn't also very wrong and illegal and everything else.]

[outstandingbalance]

That's also a possibility. There are people here from different worlds. Different universes, or different versions of the same one.

[No wonder Tony had dug up this kid. He didn't take the simple answer, did he?]

There's also the possibility we don't leave at all. We could be... copies, something like that, and the real versions sit and home and never know better. Evidence seems to suggest that's not the case, but honestly... hard to say how trustworthy that is.

[None of these possibilities doesn't have staggering ethical implications either.]