aurorastation | TEST DRIVE MEME (1)

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
Outside the train, a large, strangely spinning cube floats over a pedestal, hissing discordantly and shedding strange black light onto the surrounding area. Beyond lies only shadows and slithering noises, a landscape of tangley thorns and eyes that glow in the dark. Your phone says it's noon, but out here it's midnight under a starless sky. As you step into the dark, an alarm blares -- your phone is sending you an alert.

"Goal: clear the area of snakes," it says. "Remember to use the buddy system!"

Soon you realise that the ground just a few feet away is actually writhing in black snakes with crimson eyes. They'll bite if you approach alone, but as long as you're touching another passenger, they're totally docile. You could easily move them away from the clearing, or toss them into the spooky-looking pit at the edge of it.

★ Three
You've been here awhile -- at least, long enough to have made some friends. Currently the TV in the public lounge is playing a weird puppet show, where all the puppets look and act like exaggerated versions of you and other passengers. What kind of person do the puppets think you are? Dramatic? Over-affectionate? Surly?It's all in good fun but it's definitely painting you in a light that, if not unpleasant, is certainly embarrassing.

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

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one: jasmine or hazel

[Rhus gets the feeling that maybe this isn't the first time he's woken up in some strange place, but he cant be too sure about that. There is a large blank space in what could be called his memory, and that's why he cant be so sure about anything.

And the message on the slate just doesn't help his sense of unease in the slightest. He's no hero, Rhus thinks.

He's dressed in the oversized, somewhat flowing outfit left for him, but decides to forego the footwear, padding out silently into the hallways with bare, scarred and calloused feet (and not knowing why they're so marked). His ears swivel about and his tail is low as he looks about the place with wide eyes. So preoccupied is the Miqo'te over his strange surroundings that he doesn't even notice he's not alone until he bumps into someone-- who may or may not be holding tea.]

Bloody--! [Rhus bites the oath back with grit teeth, stumbles back and tries to steady himself with flailing arms... only for his tail to do that on its own, and he regains his balance quickly-- though not his composure.]

Hells-- Beggin' pardons, I wasn't watching myself. [He's so embarrassed.]

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[Well, this has persuaded him to put on some bloody shoes, because there's no way Rhus would be walking into a literal pit of snakes with bare feet.

One snake too close to Rhus for comfort hisses up at him and his companion, and the Miqo'te... well, he hisses back. And how! Placing himself between the serpent and whoever he's with, he leans over, hands balled into fists before him, arches his back and sticks his tail straight up in the air, all that dark brown fur standing on end much like a bottle brush. Cat person and snake-- that's something you've probably never seen before. Perhaps.

But it's clear that he's not afraid of the snakes in the least, not with the way he's acting.]

wildcard
[[ make your own prompt for your character and this cat! i'm easy. some info on him can be found on his journal, and feel free to pm me first if there's something you want to run by me o/ ]]

Edited 2018-11-02 14:15 (UTC)

[Cat person, meet wolf person. He's sure he's seen cat people before but he can't remember right now, so he's a little confused by the hissing.]

I doubt it wants to communicate.

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