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!

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

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Paddra Nsu-Yeul | Final Fantasy XIII

[enduringflower]

I. Arrival Marsiva's Hospitality Deck & Surprising Communications

'You don't have to cry. We'll meet again.'

[Her voice whispers in the darkness of her past as a sad memory fills her thoughts. She doesn't want to say goodbye. Flashes of the past and future fluttered and flickered behind her eyes as she watches her final breath slip from her lips.

Yeul inhales a sharp breath. The cold air piercing her lungs as her eyes slowly open. Bright emerald green orbs focus on the gray ceiling above her.]

Noel... Caius... [The words fall in soft heavy tones.] Why? This is... a contradiction.

[She spoke to no one in particular and yet she knows that her voice will be heard. Somewhere, someone is listening. Yeul's eyes close as she pushes herself up from her bed. She knows where she is but the reason why slips like sand through her fingers. Why is she here now? She should not exist.

'Noel.'

His name rings like a reminder in her head.

'I want to see him.']

II. Lyukian - Superstitions

[The city is amazing. Unlike anything that Yuel has ever seen. Maybe in visions but never where she can reach out and touch it.

Thin fingers reach out and trail along brightly painted buildings and walls. A smile touches her lips as the wind tugs at her long hair and pulls at her skirts. It feels like a dream, even with the uneasiness of the planet that twittered like a song through Yeul's fingertips. She's never seen a place like this.

A small black kitten mews as if it's speaking. 'Alone.' It cries. 'I'm all alone.'

Yeul pauses and offers her hand to the small kitten. For a few moments the pair stare at each other. Both with large innocent emerald eyes. The kitten steps forward, it's nose wiggling as it sniffs the tip of Yeul's fingers. She is unable to leave the kitten there and picks it up to take it with her.

With the black kitten in her arms, people begin to step around Yeul. Staring at the young teen in an uncertain and suspicious way. Yeul is used too it but she doesn't understand why. No one knows her as the seeress here. She looks down at the little black kitten in her arms.]

You're like me. Aren't you?

[She asks, undeterred from the populaces reaction to the black creature. Yeul doesn't think that anyone should be alone.]

III. Lyukian - Stargazing

[Yeul knows that she should find a place to sleep for the night. She doesn't know this world but on Pulse the night was a dangerous time. Monsters ventured closer to their homes and the younger children were entertained with horror stories to keep them safely stowed inside.

This world is different. The streets are dotted with lights and people can wander along the streets. It's usual. As Yeul wanders she finds her gaze climbing towards the sky, unlit she's walking with her chin tilted up at the gleaming lights that dott the darkness.]

There are so many.

[Her voice is soft and filled with wonder.]

Does each light have planets around it?

IV. Wildcard

[ooc: Feel free to find Yeul wandering around the ship or the planet. She hasn't gotten to see much of the world first hand, that wasn't her dying planet, so she can find herself pretty much anywhere thanks to her curiosity. I am game for anything.]

II

[brothersboots]

[Edna is curious about the strange girl. She knows she's one of the people on the Fleet. One of the few that can see her almost immediately. So, she's human, but she's got some sort of spiritual power that makes her not quite normal.

Not that that's bad in the Seraph's opinion.

And she watches the girl with cat. It's a black cat, which is just a cat. But these superstitious morons think that anything different is either a good or bad omen. Edna is just glad that most can't see or hear her. She has no desire to deal with any of them without Sorey or Alisha around to be her buffer. She follows the girl for a few moments before she decides to speak up.]

I wouldn't worry about these stupid humans. Everything different here is "bad" to them.

II

[enduringflower]

[Yeul doesn't immediately notice the girl tailing behind her. Her focus is on the kitten in her arms, mewing softly as it attempts to speak to its new companion. A soft expression pulls over the Seeress's features as she whispers to the kitten.

Yeul has always had an affection for animals and has always wanted the chance to take care of one. Caius had forbid her from adopting a baby Behemoth she had found and had killed it. She can't fault him for the decision though it does make her a little sad. The creature would have eventually grown too large for Yeul to care for, that's what Caius had told her. She wonders how big kittens grow too and if she is allowed to bring it back to the ship with her.

She pauses when the voice speaks to her, turning her vibrant green eyes towards the Seraph.]

What makes it bad? [Her voice is soft, distant but filled with innocent curiosity.]

[brothersboots]

[Edna approves of caution, but the girl should be careful because to about 95% of these natives, it looks like she's talking to the air. No one here can see or hear Edna. Just the way the seraph likes it.]

Nothing. They just don't like the color. They say it's bad luck. [She scoffs derisively.] Of course, they think everything here is based on good and bad luck.

They're all idiots.

[enduringflower]

[Yeul looks down at the kitten in her arms thoughtfully. There is something sad in her eyes and yet there is a firm strength there too. Yeul's chin tilts up, meeting Edna's gaze without flinching or fear.]

Then I will be its friend. [They were both bad luck and they could keep each other company.]

You are not afraid?

[brothersboots]

[Edna approves, but her face doesn't change from the flat, neutral expression that is normal for her.]

Why should I be afraid? I'm not bad luck. In fact, I'm an Earth Seraph. If anything, I bring good luck.

[enduringflower]

[Yeul doesn't mind or doesn't notice Edna's lack of facial expression. She is focused on the kitten in her arms, who appears to be content where he is. Caius isn't here. Does that mean she can keep the kitten?]

Would luck cancel out or jump between good and bad? [Her voice is soft as the thought passes her lips.] I do not believe in luck. Luck does not change the future.

[She looks up at Edna with an unflinching gaze.]

Would they let me take the kitten on the ship?

[brothersboots]

[Usually, Edna's one facial expression freaks people out, but this girl seems to be pretty unfazed about everything. Even the fact that she's talking to someone whom the people of this planet can't see. Or hear.]

Do I look like a luck guru? Besides, it's all garbage in the long run anyway. Relying on luck is like relying on the weather. Stupid and fickle.

[And neither of those are things she approves of.]

Who cares? You live on the ships as much as the rest of us. Take it, but then it's your responsibility to feed it and clean up after it. No one's going to do it for you.

[Especially not Edna.]

III.

[soulsflight]

There could be. (Yeul has someone strong shadowing her steps this evening. Claire makes herself known with a soft reply before walking to stand at the girl's side.) They are, at the very least, beyond count. Are you excited about visiting them?

III.

[enduringflower]

[ Lightning. The guardian of Eros's temple. Yeul knows her though they have never met. Perhaps in another lifetime, another Yeul, but that hadn't been her.

Yeul doesn't have to see Lightning to know that she's there. It isn't her sight that gives her this sense but familiarity; Caius often stood silently behind her like a sentinel, waiting and watching. Her gaze never falters, transfixed by the stars that shine above them. She likes the night sky. It looks as if Chaos has covered the world and yet single points of light shine through. Lightning, Claire, is one of those lights.]

I am. [Her voice is soft and distant as if she's seeing more than the night sky that glimmered above them.] I've never thought I would.