Autumn Test Drive

[thespaceopera]

THE AUTUMN 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!:

October's Star System

The Last Drift Period ← Great for trying out the character/augment glitch mechanic!

Game Details

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

Comments

Kadaj | Final Fantasy VII Compilation

[jenovite]

I. Marsiva - Arrival | Video Broadcast

[He awakes with a small grunt of annoyance. This wasn't right. Mother said they were going somewhere warm and happy, that he and his brothers would be together again, but looking around this place, it was cold and lonely...]

...Mother...?

[He rises, wandering about the room, his expression becoming more and more distraught.] ...Mother? Where did you go?

[And suddenly, that strange boy in the gratuitous amounts of leather...dissipates into a cloud of dark gray, and floats towards a vent only to...spread and then fall back to the ground, re-manifesting into that same, silver-haired, green cat-eyed boy...only this time, he looks, well, pissed.]

Who are you? What have you done with Mother? Where is this?


II. The Baruut System - A Settlement Somewhere!

[Kadaj is first struck by the fact that this place at the end of the universe it seemed was a lot like Edge, the place Big Brother and his friends lived, lives reassembled from so much trash. He still had a hard time understanding why humans would want to live like this, building houses out of the refuse of other lives.

Then again, he thought, as he wandered down a street, too-green cat's eyes moving curiously over the hodge-podge assemblies roughly resembling buildings, weren't he and his brothers just houses built from refuse? He shook his head quickly to clear that particular line of thought, silver hair masking his slightly distraught expression. Mother had gotten what she'd wanted with him, but it'd all been for nothing in the end...]

...a junkyard. Hmm. [He looked around thoughtfully, mind finally on a task again.] ...I wonder if they have weapons, here? One man's trash, right? [He laughs in a sing-song sort of way at his own joke.

...Loz would have laughed. He missed his brothers.]

[ ii ]

[moonshadowing]

[ . . . yeahhhh. that's not a good laugh, so rayla keeps her distance, her switchblades within reach. ]

You okay there?

[ ii ]

[jenovite]

[Kadaj turned at the voice, silver eyebrow raised, and he smiles playfully. If being so seemingly young and small of stature bothered him, he didn't show it.]

Of course. [And then he looks around at the gathered trash, the oddly assembled buildings, and makes a sweeping motion with one, black-gloved hand.]

Look around! The people here had nothing except what others didn't want, and they built a city. It's inspiring. Do you think the Atroma are trying to tell us something...?

[moonshadowing]

[ rayla scrunches up her nose. ]

That they have too much time on their hands?

[jenovite]

[he tilts his head slightly at the comment.]

Do you think the Atroma built all this?

[moonshadowing]

No? I mean, why would they? They don't really seem to care about buildin' stuff.

[jenovite]

Entertainment, obviously. [He smiles as he speaks, though it lacks kindness. He reaches down, picking up a crack coffee mug and holding it up for Rayla's consideration.] Hard to be on TV without a stage, isn't it?

[And after his point, whatever it was, is made with that mug, he tosses it casually over his shoulder before spreading his arms wide.]

Or maybe they've decided they're finished with us, and they threw us out with the trash.

[moonshadowing]

[ this is very much out of rayla's depth. ]

Orrr it doesn't really matter what they think?

[jenovite]

[He laughs, that same sing-song way, like a child who was just told a joke.]

There's an idea.

[And he turns his attention back to the gathered mounds of refuse that double as buildings around here.]

Do you think there's any treasure around here, or is it all just trash?

[moonshadowing]

[ treasure? ]

I mean, it depends on what you're looking for?

[jenovite]

[He makes a frustrated sound, looking around again. He keeps ruining his joke about trash and treasure.]

Nevermind. I don't know what I'm looking for anymore, anyway.

[How did people deal with this...this...lack of purpose?]

[moonshadowing]

[ rayla observes him quietly. ]

Then don't look. Maybe just . . . explore and something will come to you.

[jenovite]

[His brow knits slightly in confusion and he cuts too-green eyes in the other's direction.]

Is that what you were doing? Hoping something interested you?

i;

[findingheart]

[ He'd woken up in much the same state- alone and confused, though not surrounded by the darkness he expected at the World That Never Was. Riku wandered the spaces that he could, dismayed that there seemed to be no real way out of the area, and trying to summon his keyblade was met with nothing but a headache. This didn't speak of Xemnas's doing, and there weren't any heartless around so..

What the hell was going on?

Hearing the angry voice echoing down the hall, Riku follows it. ]

There's no one else here.

i;

[jenovite]

[Kadaj turned quickly at the voice, mako eyes flashing in anger. The shock of silver hair caught his attention first, but he felt no connection to this...other, as he typically did his brothers. Strange. He stood up tall, though still smaller and more lithe than Riku, chin held high. Defiant.]

Who are you? You're someone.

i;

[findingheart]

[ He doesn't take the defiance personally, he gets it. Riku's arms cross over his chest and he shrugs. ]

Not one of them.. whoever they are. [ After a bit of silence, he glances back at Kadaj. ]

Riku.

i;

[jenovite]

[He narrows his eyes momentarily. He didn't recall asking the other's name. Still, if there were others besides the two of them, names would probably make things easier.]

Kadaj. [Not knowing things bothered him. Nothing here made sense, and his abilities didn't fully obey him, it just caused a weird sort of thrum in his head when he tried.] How did you get here?

i;

[findingheart]

I'm not sure, I just woke up here- the same as you, I'm guessing? I've looked around, and I can't find a way out. Not one that I can see, anyway.

[ He didn't ask, but Riku doesn't really think much on the matter. Kadaj can take it or not. ]

i;

[jenovite]

They have force fields everywhere.

[Which is the only explanation he has for not being able to escape through the ventilation system.]

But what do they want with us? Why take hostages if you don't have any demands?

[He...knows a thing or two about hostages, after all. They're either soldiers, which they know, or lures. He's not a lure for Mother. She would just make another if he failed.]

i;

[findingheart]

I wouldn't be able to tell you. I tried breaking into another area and it didn't work. Seems like we're sealed in here.

[ Riku shakes his head. He can't say for sure what the situation is, or why them. ]

i;

[jenovite]

[He offers Riku a grunt of frustration before reaching out his left hand to the side, trying to once again will his sword into existence, but only grunts in pain and shakes his head.]

...why isn't it working?

i;

[findingheart]

It didn't work for me, either. I guess they don't want us to be armed, we're more likely to revolt that way.

i;

[jenovite]

You have to know who to fight to revolt.

[Which just meant they needed to be patience, right? He smiled, though. They may have taken his sword, but that was only one of the abilities Mother had given him.]

If they didn't want us to, they should have tried harder.

i;

[findingheart]

There's got to be a reason they didn't.

[ Riku crossed his arms as he leaned against the wall. ]

It's not poor planning if they brought us here without remembering how we got here in the first place.

i;

[jenovite]

[Mother's will could get into humans, make them do and want things for her. Maybe whatever they'd done to them had a similar effect...]

Maybe they have a way of assuring that doesn't happen. [His tone shifted somewhat, sounding slightly more adult as the topic shifted.] That happens, you know.