Test Drive Meme (11)

[trainmasters]

test drive meme

Your character wakes up in a neat bedroom in their team carriage, in nondescript underwear. They might be missing their memories, or their special abilities, or they may just feel a little queasy. Next to them is what seems to be a smartphone, which they know how to use even if they never had before, even if they don't know if they have before. On the screen is a simple message:

Welcome aboard the Aurora!

You have been selected by the Star Prince as a potential hero, tasked with saving the universe from Malice. As a passenger I, your Construct and Conductor, will attempt to provide you with quality lodgings and safety. In return, we ask that you join your fellows in making bonds and doing your utmost to bring joy back to the Stars.

Due to the process of restoring your body, you may find some things are missing. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to return them to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

★ One
Upon investigation, you'll find some basic clothes matching your team's theme in the storage provided in your room. Or, perhaps, you're wandering out of the room still undressed. Either way, downstairs you'll find someone has left a tray of cups of hot tea on the living room table. Drinking it may be simply pleasant, or it may cause you to feel a sudden need to warm up to the others in your carriage -- emotionally or physically. Welcome to the team, newbie!

☆ Two
Shortly after your arrival, you find yourself wrapped up in some monster NPC's Game. You're inside what appears to be a stone temple, with a massive golden scale on one wall. Suddenly, on one side, a heavy metal weight is dropped. As the scales tip out of balance, the floor begins to slowly disappear, brick by brick, ready to drop you -- and whoever is with you -- into an abyss. Your only hope comes in the form of an inscription on the altar:

How much do your secrets weigh?

Every secret you tell causes a weight to fall onto the other side of the scale. The bigger the secret, the bigger the weight. If you can collectively tip the scales, the floor will quit dropping bricks and a door will appear to allow you back to the train. If you can't, you'll fall, seemingly forever, til you pass out. When you wake up you'll find yourself unable to lie.

★ Three
You've been on the Aurora for a while, maybe you've even started to grow used to it. Used to the train, used to used to the slow but steady revival of the world around you into something less hostile, used to the trials, maybe even used to the people. The singing tree, however, is new. You're pretty sure that tree wasn't there yesterday. You know the singing wasn't. But it's here now. And it's LOUD. Almost unbearably so, enough to come seeping through if you cover your ears. Somehow it even seems to come through if you somehow have the ability (whether mechanical or magical) to seal off your hearing...? If you compliment the tree, however, it stops singing for five minutes. It may even stop altogether if you hug it. But are you willing to risk looking that silly?.

☆ Four
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Comments

[featherbeaned]

No, no. No.

[ Circles quickly around him once, twice, three times ]

You smell like me! You do! And your ring, it's magic, you know, magic like me.

[ Who is this human - ]

[beeknighted]

[What. Glances down at his ring, then back at her.]

It's just a ring, it doesn't do anything magical.

[featherbeaned]

[ Noses at it, her ears pricked straight up. The baseball cap is in serious danger of falling off. ]

It's magic!

[beeknighted]

[Reaching to adjust her cap back into place]

If it was magic wouldn't it have done something magical by now? And why would I have your magic ring, you don't even have fingers.

[featherbeaned]

[ s'cuse you, but also, thank u for saving her cap ]

I have fingers! [ Kinda. Maybe. Sorta. ]

[ Tilts her head!! ]

I'm a magic dragon and that ring feels like my magic. But it smells like you? Who smells of me. A little. I don't get it. [ Tilts her head the other way!! ] You can't feel it? Anything?

[beeknighted]

[Looking at her paws. Looking at his fingers. Comparing ring sizes.]

I really don't think it's yours, miss... dragon.

[Huh a dragon.]

I feel like I always do.

[featherbeaned]

[ Sits back on her haunches, though she's kind of vaguely shifting, almost quivering her tail swishing. ]

I'm Meridian! On Clover.

[ hhhrrrrrmMMMM ]

I don't get it. Do you remember things? I don't. Maybe we know each other? ... Knew?

[beeknighted]

[I have not decided on an amnesia name plz wait for introductions while I figure out my pirate alias in the other thread]

I don't remember either. Did I really know a dragon? Meridian the dragon? That would be cool.

...If you gave me a ring does that mean we're engaged???

[featherbeaned]

What's engaged?

[ Stretches out her snout, sniffing at him again like she can't help herself. ]

[beeknighted]

Uhmmm... Or maybe not? It could be something... Giving your ring to someone else has a significant meaning for humans.

[featherbeaned]

Maybe you needed magic for something?

[ She wants! To know! Who he is and what he is to her! ]

So I let you have some of mine?

[beeknighted]

. . .

How is your magic at arms?

[featherbeaned]

I!

... Don't know!

[beeknighted]

Oh, right, amnesia.

[featherbeaned]

Amnesia.

[ Sigh! ]

Well! Well. We'll remember. Just need Sparks.

[beeknighted]

Yeah, you're right. We get those from trials, don't we?

[featherbeaned]

Bonds, too! Comfort, giving presents, hugs, defending people, showing gratefulness.

[beeknighted]

Those are much easier than the trials I was picturing.

[featherbeaned]

Trials are all sorts, like ... [ thoughtful trill-y cheep ] Like spaceship battles! And bingo parties!

[ this makes complete sense ]

[beeknighted]

.......

Oh. Are they fun?

[featherbeaned]

Dusk and me designed a giant human-dragon robot spaceship with a fire sword and laser breath.

And playing with people is always fun.

[ Which is to say, HECK YES. ]

[beeknighted]

[That actually sounds pretty cool]

You don't hold back, do you?

[featherbeaned]

[ Her tail gives a bit of a wag as she preens, clearly pleased by what she is taking as a compliment. ]

Give everything your all! Do your best! [ PLUS ULTRA ]

[beeknighted]

Yeah. If there's something you have to do, then you should do it well. You must have a lot of sparks with an attitude like that.

[featherbeaned]

Getting there.

Did you know that we can run trials?