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

[peacesymbol]

[ It's a none of your business thing!!!!!!! Let All Maiden Might have his secrets!!!!!!!!! Shhhhhh! And don't point out how old he might be if he's steaming!!! You know, just in case!!! ]

Nonsense! This is just excess dust from my arrival!

[ To be fair there is a little bit of that. But it's definitely coming off of him. ]

[bombedcolortheory]

[Well, his arrival had been... dramatic. Not sure what else to do, Shooter slides over to All Might's other side and tilts her head, trying to get a look from another angle.]

Your dust is obscuring my vision.

[Make it go away.]

[peacesymbol]

[ :D :D :D............................................... he's now sweating a little.

He only has a little bit of time left, okay. ]

Rest assured, I will not allow it to be a hindrance!

[ Against...

...whatever they're fighting now.

There's a giant five headed bug headed their way now actually, but it seems to stop at the steam.................. for now. ]

If that beast makes a move...

[bombedcolortheory]

[Shooter is not afraid of bugs. After having to fight a hoard of mechanical spiders that then ran away with her target, however, she is just very done with them in general. Her eye twitches as she turns from All Might to the approaching insect.

Well. Maybe All Might's assistance can help her after all.]

You will stop it? Then I will support you.

[She holds out her hand, and a cannon far too weighty for Shooter's deceptively petite frame materializes around it. If she ends up accidentally shooting him because of his lame "dust," that's his problem.]

[peacesymbol]

[ It's okay he can handle anything!!!!!!! ]

Let's go!

[ There he goes.

Like, at a speed way too fast, nearly uprooting the nearby trees; drawing back a large fist close to his side, then—

Unfortunately his cool shout of DETROIT SMASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is just... ]

Detwooagh Smawghghh!!!!

[ ...as the spider is giving him a mouthful of gross smelling web, right in his particularly angled face.

Still, that is no deterrent and his punch smashes right through any defence and blows away two (and a half) heads of the terrible beast, leaving two (and a half) left. ]

[bombedcolortheory]

[Lucky for All Might, Shooter isn't listening anyway. While he rushes forward, she aims. Thanks for being an excellent shield, good sir!

Once half the disgusting heads are punched into jelly, she lets loose a barrage of energy bullets, rapid fire. They soar past (and straight toward) All Might, ravaging the remaining insect heads (and body) with no regard for the man who just selflessly helped her out.

Sorry, All Might. Your new hero buddy is a team killing asshole.]