TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

[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 in aurora for awhile -- long enough to have recovered a memory/power or two, if you lost any. And it's lucky for you: today, the area around the train has been surrounded in a strange mist that makes you feel dizzy and overly warm. Left alone, your condition will slowly degrade, with increasing lethargy and shortness of breath until you lose consciousness. The cure is easy enough, though -- touch another person and they'll see one of your memories, experiencing it as if it's their own. The effect is mutual -- you now have a piece of eachother, and you're safe from the illness... at least until you take another big breath. Good thing there's no mist inside the train!

☆ Four
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Comments

[saddleclub]

Please, as if I'd kiss you with that face. Bonds and all that. Or just. Assisting each other. You may count yourself lucky you may lean on me.

[crimeboy]

This is the only face I have! Someone stole mine, so this is the one I've got to kiss with.

[He seems more put out by that than he is, but he'll... take the offer to lean on the guy.

And a memory is shared- It's the same guy, except he doesn't have horns or a tail, and his eyes are grey instead of red, and he's walking along a darkened street when he hears a sort of kerfuffle going on, so he goes toward the sound. A man and a woman are arguing, and he just stands there and stares, right in the open, easily visible to the couple.

And he just stares.]

[saddleclub]

Oh not this bullshit again....

[There's a memory of playing chess with a green-haired man in glasses who is ranting about the class system and how nobles are blah blah blah bad and honestly Jusis is just kind of mildly provoking him to get more worked up so he can out-maneuver him in the chess game but eventually the guy realizes, calms down, and beats Jusis. Riveting stuff.]

Do you often watch people argue?

[crimeboy]

[He can't believe he just watched a guy play chess.

...Can't be any more interesting than his own memory though, huh?]

Huh...? Uh.

Well... You know? Actually yeah, it seems like it. Not my fault people argue near me often.