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

[notgonnaraisethedead]

[Dipper took a step back - and then another step back - holding up his flashlight cautiously as ... a cute little rainbow rabbit hops out and starts bounding through the wilderness.

He's at least got his communicator up just in time to snap a picture of the little guy for Mabel, as the deep rumbling voice comes up behind him. Rubbing the back of his head, he turns around sheepishly.]

Oh I was just getting terrified by small ... [Dead.] ... woodland ... [Deeeeeeead.] .... creatures.... [OH THAT GUY IS SO DEAD. HE IS A WALKING CORPSE. HE IS UNDENIABLY DEAD.

Dipper stares up at this REALLY REALLY DEAD GUY, and manages to get out in a faintly squeaky voice.] Excuse me, but did I in any way raise you from the afterlife to haunt our current plane of existence?

[whatisright]

[As the corpse-like man looks down at Dipper, his brow draws together and his seemingly permanent glare just seems to get deeper.

Justice isn't stupid. He knows that he's scared the child. And apparently, the child has some very confused ideas about magic.] No, you did not. I was never in an afterlife to be raised from, despite my appearance.

Raising the dead is not something done accidentally. [So the boy has nothing to fear. Assuming, of course, he's not a tiny blood mage, but Justice doesn't sense any of its corruption on the child.] You need not fear me. I mean you no harm.

[notgonnaraisethedead]

[Hey Dipper is not a child he is officially a Teenager thank you Very Very Dead Man with the frightening glower.]

I ... okay. Good. Just. I have a habit of doing things without intending to do them sometimes and I thought this might be one of those times.... you are really, really dead. I don't understand how you're not wandering around going 'eeeer jello pudding snacks uuuuuurr.'

[Now that Dipper has confirmedd that the Very Dead Man is not here to kill him - questioning can begin.]

How is your corpse that decayed and you still speak so well? Do you actually know if there is an afterlife and if there is one - do we all have to look dead to get in?

[whatisright]

[Justice doesn't understand half of what this child is saying, but he does understand that the boy seems less frightened with his assurance. He crosses his arms, and while he has the unfortunate tendency to always look like he's glaring at whatever he's looking at, the furrow in his brow is one more of thought than of any ill will.]

I used to be in a corpse, but I am no longer. I choose to appear this way because this is how my companions recognize me. And it was not my corpse in the first place, besides.

[Yeah, Dipper, this is going to be a weird one.]

As for what happens after you die, your soul passes through the Fade. You have been there before--that is where you go when you dream. Your soul then goes on to wherever mortals souls go. I do not know where that is or what it is like.

[notgonnaraisethedead]

[Hey, a thoughtful glower. While completely unnerving, that probably means that Dipper is about to have his questions answered. Excellent! He takes out a pencil and his journal, writing down notes while the Dead Man speaks.]

Okay, so you used to be dead, but now ... you're the undead. So you're just ... a really smart zombie. Are your friends also zombies of varying intelligence?

[And now, his eyes widen a little.] The Fade? Is that another dimension? Is that actually a Death Dimension -- man I wonder if Bill is there .... creepy.

[whatisright]

I am not a... whatever that is. I was never dead, and I am not undead now. I am not and never was human. I am a spirit. I was forced into a human's corpse, but I am no longer in that corpse. I have chosen to appear this way.

[Justice still doesn't really understand what the child is talking about, but he chalks that up to different vocabulary from different worlds.] You have visited the Fade. All your dreams take place there.

[notgonnaraisethedead]

Oh! Well that - wait. Waaaait. What?!

[Now Dipper is going to stare at you with a disbelieving eyebrow, Justice. All the disbelief.] How can you be a spirit that never lived? All spirits are things that lived - unless you're like ... the physical representation of something. Like the spirit of Summerween.

[Another pause.]

Also ew. You're walking around in decaying flesh and you're okay with that?

[Blink. Blink. Bliiiiiiiiiiiink.] Hold on, all my dreams happen in some place called the Fade? [and he's scribbling again.] Can you get there when you're awake? Like a dimensional portal? Wait until I tell Grunkle Ford! This is so cool.