Test Drive Meme

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Did you want to test your characters? Do you want something that you can use for an RP sample without digging up an old thread? Well, here you have it. Pick one or multiple prompts below or, if you want, make a prompt of your own. Just be sure to tag around so that everyone gets plenty of exposure.

1: Explosions in space! Space Bandits attacked the space colony everyone was visiting! Dozens of fighters and mobile armors fly through space, locked in deadly combat. Are you among those battling to save lives? Or are you watching from the windows, praying everything will be safe?

2: Explosions underground! You were part of a trading party, exchanging supplies with an underground penal colony when alien animals burrowed through the walls and started assaulting convict and Confederation member alike! What are you going to do?

3: Explosions over the city! The Colosseum is shooting off fireworks as part of a concert or a sporting event! Are you watching in the crowd, a main attraction, or watching the bright colors from the city?

4: Explosions on an asteroid! You're either observing, guarding, or mining an asteroid! It's rather dull, save for the explosions that rock the ground under your feet. It looks like it'll continue to be just as slow, but... was that something moving in the shadows there?

5: Explosions on a space station! As you approached a research station, you receive a distress signal! Fire's broken out and their systems aren't up to spec! Can you do anything? Are you a part of a scouting crew or out for a joyride in your new yacht? And is this an accident, or something more sinister?

6: Explosions at the gym! Explosive competition! Swimming, weightlifting, running, boxing, someone has just challenged you! Whether they know it or not, you're going to do your best to show them up.

7: Explosions in the past! A star has died! The Fleet is flying through the nebula it left behind, with swirls of beauty as far as the eye can see. If you're the type, you can watch it all you like.

8: Explosions on the road! Most of the traffic on the Teuberg is computer controlled, but some young showoff took his off the grid and promptly caused a wreck! Traffic has been backed up for almost half an hour now, with no way out for you and the people in your vehicle. Are you close enough to see if anyone needs help? Or are you just stuck with people who are as late for their appointments as you are?

9: Explosions in the marketplace! Explosive bargains! You're in a trading hub, surrounded by stalls of all kinds selling every type of merchandise you can imagine! Luckily, you've got enough money to handle a few purchases here. Will you buy one of those daggers on display? An incense burner? Some alien fruit? Or maybe you're on the run from the corrupt guards? Or perhaps you're the one doing the chasing, did someone just steal your wallet?

10: Explosions in your mind! The explosive inspiration that drives this world! Make up your own prompt!

Comments

[maddeninghatter]

[ That was a more enthusiastic reply than he had anticipated, is his first thought. "Be careful what you wish for" is his second. His doll exclaims: ]

HAHAHA! A COUNTRY GIRL WHO WANTS TO SEE THE WORLD!

[ Meanwhile he spins on one foot, away from her, his arms extended: a pierrot's pirouette. When he spins back to facing her once more, his hat is off his head and in his hands. ]

Goodness, me! It feels odd to have a conversation without knowing the other party's name, doesn't it? I am Xerxes Break, how do you do?

[meteorshots]

[ Instead of answering again (let alone when she keeps talking - that's fine by him), Cloud just shakes his head. Anti-nausea? No. He's taken a Tranquilizer once or twice, but there's no materia for not throwing up (or if there is, nobody'd give it to a guy like him, anyhow). For the most part, he's always been on his own.

Which may or may not explain him still answering in the negative, when she offers him something that might actually help, ] N-No thanks. I can just... Wait it out.

[ Or maybe he's just a little apprehensive about taking medical advice from. Well. Someone who still looks like a little kid, to him. ]

[tryannsauros]

What!

[ Akihiko might need to repeat that, because Grunt is kind of distracted. He's rolling himself against the rock like he's using it as some kind of backscratcher, but the lizard-thing just moves forward and latches itself to Grunt's head.

Fortunately, its tail swings in front of Grunt's face, and he manages to catch it. ]

Got you!

[ Akihiko was right. The tail-pulling just makes the creature hold on tighter. At least until the tail breaks off, and hopefully Akihiko isn't standing close enough to get whipped in the face. ]

[tryannsauros]

Yeah. I've eaten lots of things. But you don't wanna eat the fruit on Tuchanka. Might eat you, first.

[ He gives Jake a once-over. ]

Especially not you. Human stomachs are weak.

[ungrounded]

[It didn't particularly end too well for the group of humans who created Lafiel's ancestors either. Mostly because they decided that their creations weren't human... that never ends well...]

A group of colonists who had left Earth to settle in space to preserve their culture and remove foreign influence. Faster-than-light travel was not known to them due to their isolation from the rest of humanity, but they knew other nations were colonizing the stars. They wished to locate habitable planets to settle on, but could not tolerate long-duration spaceflight.

[Lafiel sounds relatively dispassionate as she says this, but she is contemplating space as she does so, instead of looking at Janeway.]

They created the first Abh to crew their exploration ships, to find planets for them. I could supply the details, but I'm not medically trained; it would only be a surface summary. And some of the changes are subtle enough that I only really realized them when I had 'landers' to compare to.

[This actually has a small smile. Lafiel remembers her first shuttle trip with Jinto Lynn, neither realizing that what Lafiel thought of as comfortable acceleration was more than what Jinto thought was.]

[anti_c]

I hope you mean it's poisonous. Not some sentient fruit with a grudge and a taste for blood.

[Although the later wouldn't surprise him. Not a lot does anymore.]

What we lack in stomachs, we make up in will power. [Cue a dismissive shrug. He's not about to argue anything with a giant-reptilian-space-man in an open market, especially when's unarmed par his fist.]

awww don't be it was adorable

[ja307020]

How can you be doctor of everything and have trouble with currency?

[Tron has an excuse to be bad at this ok and he manages.]

[tryannsauros]

Heh heh. [ That laugh should be answer enough. ]

Never said anything about willpower. Species doesn't tell me how strong you are. Just how soft. [ He's speaking in physical terms, of course. Humans don't have hard skin. ]

I like Earth things. Sharks. [ Sharks are cool. ]

[ja307020]

[Something something lawn.]

I've seen fireworks before... They can't be that special.

[Sigh. Context, Tron. Though forgetting context in favor of eyeing Anakin in turn is fine too.]

See anything interesting?

/rolls in

[ja307020]

Experimenting with strange fruit had been going well, so after a rather un-enlightening conversation with the Doctor, Tron was poking around again. That and he was starting to get a vague notion that Sam should probably actually consume something besides cup ramen, so he should bring back something. He wasn't watching the crowd too closely except for the usual occasional scan to look for threats, so the words of the person next to him took a moment to register.

Then he blinked confusedly at both the fruit and the speaker. Dearest? Really? It sounded like Zuse's speech pattern.

"Maybe you should lick it."

No, that wasn't helpful at all, but the perfume wafting closer promptly made Tron sneeze and that was not fun in the slightest.

whoops hello starscream have a female clone from another universe

[chickscream]

[Slipstream had been peacefully browsing the informational directories of the ship, but the energy signal of another Transformer coming back online caught her attention.]

... What in the name of the Allspark is that thing on your head?

[She doesn't know who you are, Starscream, but she knows you look like a complete idiot, even from the other end of the bay.]

[tinywife]

You know... there's no sense in being miserable if you can change it. There's no sense in "waiting it out" if you can do something to feel better.

[Pinoko was frowning. This man should try to take better care of himself. But... you couldn't make someone accept treatment. And Pinoko sighed softly.]

Oh well. It's not like Pinoko can force the medicine down your throat or dose you like a kitty. Keep the medicine. It might help if you decide to take it.

awwww yissss

[tropenamer]

( Well this is unexpected. She's not anyone he recognizes, and her Decepticon badge is clear on her wings. One of his hands goes to where his was before he tossed that away. New leaf as leader of a united Cybertron and all, ah well. Time to try presenting himself as unaffiliated.

Also, rude. )

Haven't you seen a crown before?

( He might look like an idiot, but he plotted and betrayed his way to it so he's going to wear it until someone knocks it off of his head. )

2! Hit things time yay!

[ja307020]

[Moments like this make Tron miss his identity disks fiercely. All he has are a pair of knives, not as handy, but at least he won't be tripping on himself in the close quarters. The short guy barking orders is new, but as it's sensible orders he simply starts shoving people in the direction of away while he goes to engage the bugs too.

Fleet people really need to spend more time studying melee for these kinds of situations.]

Think we can keep these things occupied?

[Giant gridbugs? Maybe it was more likely than he thought.]

[thegrimheaper]

[nooooo his art whyyyyy

ACTUALLY it's probably fine, since it's. y'know. a big ass pile of trash to begin with.]

[cherubim]

I WAS BLOWING. SHIT UP.

IS IT REALLY THAT HARD. FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND? AND HERE I WAS THINKING. ONLY HUMANS COULD BE THAT DELIBERATELY RETARDED. WHAT A FOOL I'VE BEEN TO COME TO THAT CONCLUSION.

:3

[chickscream]

[She turns this over in her processor, then states, flatly,]

No, I've never seen a hat that instantly made its wearer look incredibly stupid.

[Also.]

And since when did non-humans start wearing hats, anyway?

Best time!

[icy_heavens]

[Of course they're sensible orders. You don't hold significant military rank for over thirty years by being a reckless idiot. Or at least in most cases, you don't. There's the odd exception there, but Hitsugaya isn't one of them.

[And at least here, he feels useful. Combat in space is something he can't do, but terrestrial or even aerial combat? Those are his element.

[One moves behind him to give chase, but he spins abruptly, scraping his blade across the ground. A trail of ice forms in the sword's wake, trapping the legs of the creature before he reverses his stroke and severs the head.]

Shouldn't be an insurmountable problem.

[maddeninghatter]

[ Just then....... one tentacle, and then another slither their way out of the opening Break made, and then the whole console enclosure cracks open....

Revealing something with tentacles and wide, enormous eyes, tiny ears, and a cute little mouth. It's as if somebody crossed an octopus with a mameshiba. It raises two of its tentacles at Geordi and makes a "nnnn! nnnnn!" noise, looking for all the world like a toddler begging to be picked up. A toddler-octopus-mameshiba thing. ]

I think....

[ Break is very helpfully going to be making a giant step to the left, out of tentacling range. It's all you, bro. ]

I think it likes you.

[meatbag]

[HK-47 first ended up in the hanger after hearing that there were larger machines around -- that had piqued his programming so he went off to investigate.

When he gets there, he approaches Starscream and stars way up at him, as HK is only around the size of a human.]

Critique: Your coloration and headgear make you a highly visible target.

[constableodo]

Ha! and why did you do it? [Odo will not let himself be insulted, but this will be for later. Now, there was some investigation to do.]

[heroineintraining]

[ Wait, what. ]

They're soldiers, then? Is that what you call your army?

[heroineintraining]

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you ought to. [ And that is almost an exact quote of something her mother had told her once. Catherine feels really very grown up for a moment, even if she doesn't know what a tank is.

His offer, however, gives her pause. ]

Try shoving my carriage?

[ Surely he hadn't meant that. ]

[strangestways]

[ooc: so, so sorry for the delay. life unexpectedly got out of control. i completely understand if you need to drop this, but i'm really enjoying this thread so thank you for tagging me. /handwaves to the victim being airlifted :)

joan wipes her hands clean, releasing a breath as she takes a step away as the victim is airlifted away.]

Thank you. For finding me and for lending a hand... or well-- [a wing is likely the more appropriate term. joan winces apologetically before she turns to him, folding her arms over her chest.] Thank you for the assist. Not everyone would've stopped to help.

[strangestways]

[ooc: so, so sorry for the delay. life crept up on me so i completely understand if you have to drop this thread, but i'm really loving it. :)

joan nods in response to the question as she tightens her own hold on the man who is relying on them to lead him to safety.] Keep hold of him. I'll lead. [the ground shakes again, and she only hesitates a moment to gather her balance again before she's moving, down the corridor, until they reach the shelter for the man and for the both of them as well. they enter through the door of the shelter long before they would've made it in if they'd stayed in line at the other shelter.]