Summer Test Drive Meme

[thespaceopera]

THE SUMMER TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Winter 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 September!

Comments

[abracafcku]

[He...sort of knows? Taako raises an eyebrow, but let's it go. If Kravitz want a man of his word, then Taako & Co. would be screwed considering how many times they'd just died. ]

Speaking of - we still got that deal with me and the occasional death thing going, right? I know we're not exactly on our Plane, but from what I've heard, death is a little wonky here, too.

[deathcouture]

[ ... Okay, that's... Kravitz looks a little puzzled. ]

I've heard about death here too, can't say I'm fond of the scheme they have going-- but... Taako, do we even need that deal? I mean, after all that's happened, circumstances are pretty different now.

[ But between this, and the other, smaller inconsistencies, something really isn't adding up. And it's starting to worry him. ]

[abracafcku]

[All that's happened? What's happened? The ol' Chug and Squeeze was a lot of fun, sure, but he didn't think he'd get out of a deal just made oh.... Less than a week ago?

Taako blinks and stares for a moment. This can't be a trick, right? Kravitz didn't strike him as the sort to resort to petty tricks. On Merle? Sure. On Taako? Nah.]

I mean if your Queen wants to forgo it all, cool. I can do with a free pass. I'm sure there's a lot more potential for unexpected dying in my future considering this line of work.

[deathcouture]

[ Well, yeah, she's forgoing all of it because they kind of saved the world. A bunch of worlds. All kinds of planes. Everything. But Kravitz can't even really find the presence to say that much, he's just... confused. ]

Right. ... Taako, what's the last thing you remember happening, back on our plane?

[abracafcku]

[That's a weird question. His eyebrow arches a little more and Taako inspects his fingernails as he thinks back.]

Major event? You and me. Non-major?

I totally pwned that Deals Warlock into trading a badass sword for a piece of crap knick-knacks.

...why?

[deathcouture]

[ Even if "you and me" might be kinda open to interpretation... yeah, no, he heard about that thing with the Deals Warlock and that... uh...

He hesitates before he answers. ]

Because, well, that was... a while ago.

[ Is this... some kind of amnesia thing? Or a time thing? Weirder things have happened, to be sure, but still. ]

[abracafcku]

[Kravitz's hesitance and his tone are weird. It's like he's bewildered at how Taako thinks time has passed. Sure, time might be different for an immortal grim reaper, but he didn't think it would be this different.]

Well yeah, I've been here since then, but it hasn't been that long. Oh, and I was totally going to call you, by the way, don't think I wasn't. But this whole thing happened and it's hard to get reception in a different universe.

[deathcouture]

No, I know-- it's... I mean, you-- uh, I guess did. You did call. Because it's been months.

[ Wow, that came out a mess. ]

What I'm trying to say is that the last thing I remember happened months after all of that.

[abracafcku]

What?

[No seriously, what?

Taako had seen the Chalice get destroyed, and besides that wasn't how it worked. It rewrote history, not stopped people from living it. Sure, June or Jane or whatever had trapped Refuge in a bubble, but that didn't... He'd escaped. He'd seen the relic destroyed.

There was no way he was trapped in a bubble because he was here, too.]

Wait, so you're telling me you're from my future like some Fantasy!Marty McFly?

[deathcouture]

With a better jacket. [ Among other things. But more importantly-- ] Maybe? I'm not sure how that's possible though... Unless it has something to do with getting dragged out of our universe? [ He sighs, frustrated but trying to think it all through. ] I've never heard of anything like this.

[abracafcku]

[Holy shit, what a nerd. He actually got that reference? That actually impresses Taako a little.

Not enough to make this weird situation any less weird though...]

No idea, my dude. If anyone would have a better idea about weird shit, it'd be you, not me.

[Although now Taako feels a little awkward.]

But, so I, uh, called you, huh? How'd that go?