SPRING TEST DRIVE

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THE SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Fall 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!:

March's Star System

February's Star System

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

Comments

[willynilly]

[Right, right, Bakugou hates handouts. Hmm, how to approach this, then...]

Yeah, of course! We already did plenty of that when we first arrived here. Anyway, it's not a handout! We're all on the same team here, after all.

[allfight]

[ A grunt. He turns back around, hands jammed into his pockets. Maybe if he just ignores her she'll go away... Ugh, no, that never worked with Deku. Why would that work with his friends???????? All of this sucks so hard, the villain in charge of this is going to pay when he gets his hands around his neck. And why the hell would he want to support this system by buying things?!!

He scuffs his fingers through his hair instead, growling to himself. Getting all wrapped up in his own anger isn't going to help anything. As much as he hates to admit it, he doesn't know anything about any of this. ]

Uraraka, how long you been here.

[willynilly]

[....Oh. Oh gosh. Cutting straight to the heart of it, huh. She shouldn't be surprised- he's always been smarter than his wild anger implied.

She glances down, hands clasped together in front of her. Don't fidget, don't push. He'll just leave if you make it weird.]

It's been... almost two years now.

[allfight]

[ Two years. Two god damn years. He'd already gathered that it wasn't like she stumbled up here when he wasn't paying attention, but that was beyond what he was expecting. How did all this work? Did time flow differently in space, or was this some kind of consciousness stealing quirk. A pocket dimension?

He scratches the back of his neck. ]

I don't want your money, keep it. I'll earn my own fucking way if we're gonna be stuck here. But the second I get a chance I'm going to the bastard behind this. And then I'm going to rip his god damn face off and feed it to him!

[willynilly]

[There's a pause as she stares at him, eyes wide, genuinely shocked. But then it clicks- two years is a long time, meaning an awful lot can be forgotten or mentally set until it becomes relevant again. Two years away from UA, from her classmates, from her home, from her family. It's been that long since she saw and spoke with her loved ones.

It's also been that long since she witnessed what is obviously a very classic Bakugou reaction to the situation he's in.

When the moment passes she smiles, and her hesitation shifts into a giggle muffled behind her hand.]

Of course you'd say that! You don't even know who they are and you already want to wreck their day...

[Ahhh, she kind of missed his crazy.]

[allfight]

Haa?

[ He's had ENOUGH of being kidnapped, thanks... and if there's no more All Might to rescue them, he's going to have to claw his own way out of here. ]

Of course I'm going to wreck them! Who the hell do they think they are!? [ Oh, here are the explosions. He's getting fired up just thinking about it -- and it's not like he can do this in the ship for obvious reasons. Good thing there's nobody around to stare or cower... not that it'd stop him. ] I've had just about enough of this shit and I've only been here a few days! Where's that fighting spirit, huh!?

[willynilly]

Don't sell me too short! I've got plenty of that.

[Fighting spirit, that is! Planet explosions, cannibal monsters, giant beasts- she's faced it all! okay maybe not so much the cannibal stuff And she might still look the same age but she's got two extra years of training now, too.]

I'm gonna go on recon with you, then. Or would you rather go find a place to punch it out?

[Notice how she's not really asking.]

[allfight]

[ He notices. And, surprisingly, is not throwing a fit about how he can do it himself. ]

Just don't slow me down, got it?

[willynilly]

No problem! If I start to fall behind I'll just get a tether and you can drag me along. You won't even feel the weight!

[Honestly it would probably be better for everyone if Bakugou was on a leash anyway.]

[allfight]

[ Where's the lie. ]

Whatever, just keep up.

[ And that's like all the warning you're getting. He's decided he's had enough of this particular area of the ghost town and is rocketing off like a loon. ]

[willynilly]

[Oh shit, it's easy to forget how fast he is. She blinks as she gazes up at the retreating blast of fire, then shakes it off and taps her shoulders, charging off down the street after him. He's fast, yeah, but she has her own way of getting around now! It takes her a minute or so, but she manages to get herself up on the nearest building and is immediately launching from roof to roof after his path.

She can do this! She can keep up with him just fine!!]

[allfight]

[ Truthfully? There was only the slightest doubt in his mind that she could. Out of everyone, Uraraka was the easiest to acknowledge. He gives the briefest of glances back and smiles in an almost feral way - which probably passes for entertained for him - and throws in an extra kick of speed for the hell of it.

Challenge offered. ]

[willynilly]

[Wow

challenge fucking accepted, yo

Although this would have been a GREAT time to use those rocket boots if any engineer in the fleet had been ballsy enough to actually make them for her. Maybe she ought to ask around the planet-

ANYWAY, she can't zero her gravity to less than zero, so all she can really do is pick up her own pace, glancing ahead to try and formulate a better path over the roofs to cut her time down. He could easily screw her up by changing directions, but at least moving from roof to roof is easy when she can float.

Thank god for those new pressure point accessories she's been wearing, though.]

[allfight]

[ GIT GUD URARAKA he's impressed she's able to keep up at all. Somebody hasn't been slacking while she's been here, good. He'd hate for his classmate to be a fuck up, then he'd have to drag her ass back to competency.

Where he wants to go is straight ahead anyway. Once he finds the spot he was looking for he changes directions sharply, rocketing himself down to the ground and trotting over to the mall entrance. It's all deserted, so --

this has got to be shaping up to be some horror movie shit, right? ]

[willynilly]

[Considering what she's seen since she arrived here? Yyyyyyes and no. She's still following behind him, though, and not as far behind as she might have been a few years ago back home. what she lacks in propellant she makes up for in tenacity.

She's still winded, though, because goddamn running and jumping around is harder than flying through the air.]

Hah... haaaah... what did you... ah... see...?

[allfight]

[ Well, get better scrub. He's not moving immediately but he'll start walking before she catches on that he might've been waiting for her to catch her breath. ]

I want to see how long it's been since somebody's been here. Map said there was a grocery store in here.

[willynilly]

[She's working on it!!! Still working on the nausea, too, but at least that's much better than it used to be. As evidence by her making it all this way without puking.

She straightens up at last and jogs after him, glancing around. Yeah, definitely eerie.]

There's probably still food here... just like everywhere else.

[allfight]

Duh. Point is trying to see if any of the food has a best before date.

[ SO FAR... no such luck. But if he can find it, then that'll help figure out a timeline, right? And if there's none then he really doesn't trust any of this for shit. ]

[willynilly]

I haven't noticed any. Most of the food is actually really fresh, though.

[Like walking into a bakery or something- newly made and nice-smelling. It's eerie without the people in the shop to greet you.]

[allfight]

[ It's not getting any less creepy from here. He strides in, hands at the ready. ]

If there are no people then whose putting it there. [ Ngh. ] Probably isn't fucking safe to eat, either.

[willynilly]

So you haven't eaten anything, then?

[Not surprising- Bakugou's naturally a suspicious person from what she's observed.]

[allfight]

What kind of idiot eats food that's just laying out in the open!?

[willynilly]

.....Umm... about half the fleet, I guess!

[She's tried a few things already. Sorry not sorry.]

[allfight]

THAT'S SOMETHING CHILDREN KNOW NOT TO DO! THOSE STUPID FUCKS!

[ WHY ]

[willynilly]

Uhhhh-huh.

[She plugs the ear closest to him and picks up the pace, peering into the window.]

Ah, look at it all! Fresh bread and pastries right at the front door!