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spacehorses2014-01-13 07:45 pm
crux_mods) wrote in spacehorses2014-01-13 07:45 pm
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Test Drive Meme
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!
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!
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...Even if that still seems terribly unnecessary.
[Humans are so restless. Honestly, why abandon a perfectly good planet granted by the Creator Himself? Why move to the stars? The stars were not intended for them. Besides, they could have found equal or even more significant wonders at home or inside themselves. They could have found perfect joy the very moment they opened their eyes in Eden. Always, always so greedy. Like Solomon. Like young master. Like children, really. No matter how long he lives, Kevin will never fully comprehend his younger siblings.
Not that someone like Oz has any choice in the matter. The poor boy is not even human to start with. God knows what he really is. He cannot help but feel a certain sense of companionship. Some of us are just dragged along.
Or, in Oz's case, dragged away from Mister Gilbert.]
He will find you. That is what good servants do. One might bend reality itself, cast all meaning away, tear the solid walls of good sense, and yet he will still find you.
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Life would be pretty boring if all we worried about was necessity, don't you think?
( his voice is bright and his expression is wry; he means it sincerely, but necessity is something he's thought about quite a bit — because an unwanted child is, after all, not at all necessary to anyone, has no purpose to existing at all (and your sin is your existence, can't ever forget), and so if that were all that mattered, does matter, well — who can say.
but one could call ribbons unnecessary, music, festivals, and flowers, and a life that didn't care about these would be, it seems to him, sad indeed.
it's the certainty in kevin's voice that makes him swallow, still looking away, and makes his chest hurt; because he knows gil would if he could, would never let anything stand between them whether it be time or space or the united earth or baskervilles, but he also knows, just as gil had said, that matters like these are out of their hands. he's glad that he'd never considered, watching stars not unlike these in the claustrophobic compound belonging to the ue's scientists, the possibility that the transporter might've whisked gil away before any plans of rescue could've come to fruition. this city-ship is less suffocating by far, but it still feels hard to breathe sometimes. )
I know, ( he says, and thinks, it hurts. )
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...You misunderstand me. But that is expected.
[That is the only warning he offers before wrapping his arms around the boy who looks so much like his young master, the soul he has searched for three thousand years just to lose it again.]
Everything is going to be fine, I promise.
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3/3
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The reason most of us helpless fools keep our faith is actually rather uncomplicated. The opposite is not only unthinkable, but also unbearable. I have heard a very wise philosopher called us stubborn, liars and cowards. I have also heard he was sent to an asylum after embracing a horse.
[He ruffles his pretty blond curls.]
My young master...He would have scolded me for saying such things. He is, however, rather formidable. The sort of person who has never needed faith to move forward. I...I promise everything is going to be fine, because it seems like the better choice. It is not as impressive, but...
[Sighing, he brings Oz closer and rests his chin on his shoulder. He is speaking too much, and making a mess of it. Better let the boy do what he must.]
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Thank you. ( he pulls back gently, but firmly nevertheless, an indicator to end the embrace. ) You're a kind person, Kevin.
1/2
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That is not how punishment works, you know. Deciding by yourself what you deserve or do not deserve is cheating. [And then a little more lightly.] I say, right now you deserve cocoa. Not coffee. Not yet. But do not worry, the nebula will wait until then.
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deciding by yourself what you deserve or do not deserve is cheating. he considers ruefully how it's an echo of things he's heard before and is starting to understand, if by centimeters. )
With marshmallows?
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For the time being, that will suffice.]
How demanding. You will have to help me find them.
[Are there even marshmallows in space? ]
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( ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. )
Ah, it'd be terrible if we could get as far as space but not have marshmallows!
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...I hope they are not strangely-colored, or spicy.
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That sound fun! And you never know, something like that might taste even better than we'd expect.
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...I have heard some of those species have three stomachs.
[What sort of frightful things would a three stomach species digest?]
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( that is NUTS. and kind of amazing. )
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...Regardless, I do not believe I am ready to experience with new ingredients.
[Not after the yeti incident! If he can help it, he will stick to good old human cuisine until the end of time.]
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( THAT'S TOTALLY HOW IT WORKS )
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...Perhaps I should make you three times more sweets.
[As a compensation for not touching mystery food, you see.]
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You would do that?
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Indeed, I would. Unless you became sick. Then we would need to practice a little restraint, wouldn't we?
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That's a great idea! You know how to make strawberry shortcake, don't you?
( hook, line, and sinker. )
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Of course! [Not as well as Mister Gilbert, but he can do his best.] What would be life without strawberry shortcakes?
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( he finds himself wondering, idly, about the mutated whatsits he'd called rhubarb berries in exsilium. supposing they actually exist in space...? )
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