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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] aurorastation2019-02-01 10:33 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

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
Wildcard. Make up your own prompt! Check out the setting and team pages for info on the train. If you have any questions, ask on the q&a page. Otherwise, apps open on February 8! In the meantime you're free to join us on Discord.



wellhanged: (006)

[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-03 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Rather than hiding, what about things I don't know about you? We've only just met.
bombedcolortheory: (★ with nothing but my hate)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm. This is not her area of expertise. Might as well. She'd rather just shoot the thing and be done with it, but.]

Then... My name is Black★Rock Shooter.

[How do you pronounce a ★? The world may never know.]
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-03 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[well, he's trying? but is it ☆? ⚝? no... maybe ✭?--SO CLOSE!

gives up after muttering to himself a bit.]

Ah, in that case, I'm Levi. Short for Leviticus.
bombedcolortheory: (★ in a carousel of agony)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Leviticus.

[Why shorten a name like Leviticus? It's already only one word!]

I've never heard that name before.
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-03 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I get that a lot. I think I like it more for that reason.
bombedcolortheory: (★ with nothing but my hate)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Because it's only yours?

[Staaaaares as the floor disappears around them.]
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmyep.

[ah. that's... no good.

SIIIIGH.]

Also because it isn't my real name.

[have a big heavy block for that one.]
bombedcolortheory: (★ if i told you how i feel)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Her head whips toward the blocks. Oh, hey. Unexpected.]

Your name isn't your name? You... don't like your real name?
wellhanged: (056)

[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-03 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I have my reasons.
bombedcolortheory: (★ uncertainty enveloping my mind)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Then Leviticus.

[It's fine. There was nothing wrong with it in the first place!

But. Hmmm... What is she supposed to say next?]


I like my name. She called it, and it sounded nice.
bombedcolortheory: (★ i'm slipping through the cracks)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-03 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
My- [Real.] other self. My girl.
wellhanged: (033)

[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-02-04 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[... tilts head to the side a little.]

I don't think I understand--lovers?
bombedcolortheory: (★ of a dark eternity)

[personal profile] bombedcolortheory 2019-02-05 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, Shooter does love her, but she also beat her to a bloody pulp and broke her leg. Perhaps "lover" isn't the correct term.

She's never had to explain this before. Give her a second. You know, as the floor continues to disappear slowly but surely. That's not really important right now.

Maybe she can even kill two birds with one stone.]


I am her. I am made of her anguish. I bear her pain so that she doesn't have to be afraid.

I do love her.

[Aaaaand score! The weight that falls upon this admission is almost as big as his earlier contribution. Progress!]