SEPTEMBER TEST DRIVE

[thespaceopera]

THE FALL TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Spring 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!:

September's Star System

Game Details

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

Comments

[bryces_pup]

Oh aren't you a charmer.

[Said drolly, though she's not put off by it. She supposes it helps with the job and all, so she can't begrudge him that.]

Loveliness does not keep trouble at bay. Quite the opposite, I'd almost argue. And I have a natural born tendency to attract it.

[pigeonplayboy]

It's been said of me.

[His smirk just brightens with her tone, amused far more than offended.]

No, I suppose not. How about you start with the most recent thing that plagues you while I make you something more palatable?

[He turns to get down a tall, curvy, glass he could concoct something in and turns back around with a wink.]

On the house.

[On him but that hardly mattered. This job was more about doing something than any kind of money he might earn.]

[bryces_pup]

[Riona watches as he pulls out the glass, curious to see what he's going to concoct.]

I won't say no to a free drink. Thank you.

[She takes another sip of her current one, mulling over the answer to his question while she does.]

Too many losses in too short a period of time. Didn't have time to process one friend gone before another one left.

[pigeonplayboy]

Of course!

[HE started pulling out the things he needed, various colors and sizes of bottles. Some of them were clearly more for flavor than alcohol content, but some of them held fancy labels and were made of heavy glass, the stronger stuff to give what Riona needed.

His hand's movement slowed with her words, nearly coming to a stop as she unknowingly put into words exactly why Johnny needed to keep focused on something more than thoughts and memories.

But then he was back into the swing of it as he started to whip up her next drink.]

Ah...then you're from the Fleet as well. I understand, it can be very difficult. Unfortunately, it tends to follow along the norm of places like this...places that take people.

[Show them something nicer, kinder, give them a chance to find a family better and brighter than you could have ever hoped for, only for all of it to be gone in one second of opening your eyes to something unfamiliar.]

It won't get easier, not if you lived through it centuries more. [He finished her drink, a red thing with flecks of gold shimmering through it and a crazy swirly straw he dug out of some package forgotten in the bar. Something to maybe bring a little light into her world.]

The best thing to do is hang on to the memories, not try to drown them.

[bryces_pup]

[It's rather fun watching him put the drink together. Riona's a "drink out of the bottle" type most of the time, with her occasionally pouring things into glasses if she had company over or something. The joys of living in Thedas (mixed drinks? what are thooooooose). Given that, it's something of a marvel to watch someone pour and mix alcohol like it's paint, something to be created and crafted into art and not just something to be consumed.]

I am. And I've been here long enough to have had people taken in the past. But not so many so soon. All but two of my ship's crew left in the span of two months. We had ten people. I treasured them all dearly.

[Just too much too quickly, and she's left with nothing but memories and a gaping hole in her heart.]

Ah, thank you. It looks- [Wait, hold up.] ...hold on, did you say centuries?