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

It'll be okay. We aren't going to kick you out.

[heroofcocoon]

The change in her attitude is telling. And he's glad that he's able to get the vendor to stop giving her dirty looks now that he's paid for her new toy.

"Let's just say I wanted to help out a new friend." Because he's that kind of guy. Always has been. "Yeah, Carl's still there, if you're talking about the kid with the eyepatch. Taking you're not exactly brand new here then?"

Because Carl wasn't exactly the absolute most social sort of person. Not that Snow has room to talk.

[youdontneedapictureofme]

"Well.. thanks." She pockets the knife, waving with a tight lipped smile to the merchant who had been giving her dirty looks. The smile grows wider for Snow when he describes Carl and she nods.

"Yeah, that's him. Carl and I are from the same place and - to answer your question - no, I'm not new. I don't know how long I've been gone but I used to be the First Mate of the Goldstone before I left. Do you know if any of the rest of that crew returned either?" She was interested to know how everyone was and whether Takeshi was holding his own as he always tried to do. He tried so hard to prove himself capable despite his age. Not many could take a child seriously but he'd impressed her and made her want to protect him and support him.

[heroofcocoon]

Snow manages a grimace at her question, more out of the fact that he's been an antisocial asshole than anything else.

"'Fraid I don't know anyone on that ship. Just the Red Fish and Blue Fish. Still trying to get my bearings."

[youdontneedapictureofme]

Maggie shrugs, then tucks the knife into her belt. She understood completely. Even if she'd been somewhat a leader on the Goldstone, she hadn't known everyone on the ship and she hadn't really known anyone on Carl's ship either.

"It's fine. I was just curious. I'm sure someone else can tell me, or I find someone from the ship and they tell me." While they're on the subject of knowing people in the fleet, she can't help but stop and size him up a bit. "I can see why you're a security officer though - bulky an' all that. You look like you could handle yourself just fine."

And she'd found that somewhat rare in the fleet, but there were rare exceptions of people who had far too much experience fighting for their lives. One might find it peculiar that she would even think that way - that fighting for her life was a thought that even crossed her mind in the midst of their deep space adventures. She had far too much lif eexperience in such things that it came second nature to her by now.

[heroofcocoon]

"I've been here a few months."

He just hates people, evidently. Nah, that's the reason. He just hates himself. Yes, that's what it is.

"And I suppose the Atroma thought it would be better suited to make me security instead of cheer captain. I think I'd fail that spectacularly."

Sadly, that didn't used to be the case...