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TEST DRIVE MEME



Welcome to Ryslig's test drive meme! If you're considering apping here, this is where you can try your characters out in the game's setting. A few things to note: The State of the Game Discussion produced a lot of great suggestions and we now have a post for Plot Suggestions and Monster Questions. The NETWORK VOTE results are in and PRIVATE MESSAGING will be added some time in November. Lots of people have asked good questions on the FAQ, so do take a look. You can only app ONE character per round so choose wisely. Reserve and application dates have been announced. Test drive meme threads can be used for your roleplay sample! Sample scenarios: SCENARIO ONE: You've just been released from the hospital in Vandare and no one really seems to know what to do with you. The locals offer polite advice but don't seem to want to spend a lot of time with you. You and the other new arrivals stick out like sore thumbs, so perhaps one will spot you wandering about town. SCENARIO TWO: You've become hopelessly lost in Lager Woods. Paths don't seem to lead where you remember them leading, and you feel as if you're going around in circles. Childlike giggling can be heard from no direction in particular. Suddenly, you stumble upon another character, who seems to be just as lost as you! Perhaps you can find a way out together. SCENARIO THREE: The time has come and you've found yourself becoming a monster. Is the change instant, or gradual? Are you familiar enough with monsters to know what's happening, or is it a complete shock? NOTE: Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.

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Astrid. Definitely an alien name, although not so alien he can't figure out it's got something to do with stars.

"Medics give you any info?" he asks. She's a little smaller than he is, maybe the organics are too stupid to recognize that size class does not equal threat level.

Or maybe she thinks faster than he does (or didn't flip out at the sight of suddenly-human hands) and didn't shove anybody and start yelling.

"I made a scene," he admits. Hey, if you're gonna make a tactical error, might as well own it.

She takes a second to glance back in the direction of the hospital, nose wrinkling a bit. "Not much," she grumbles, returning to position. "Just that I was pulled out of the water, and all the scratches are minor."

Which is good. If she was going to have anything that scarred, she wanted a cool story to go with it.

"They kicked me out pretty fast, but it's hard to say if that was because they really had no room or because I asked where I could get a knife."

Thrust nods at the crowd, pointing out a couple of people who are getting the same Vandare respects your personal bubble! treatment they were getting (even now, with them just sitting there minding their own business, there's sort of a curve where people just aren't getting that close to them. "Little of both?" he offers, because he does understand the need for a weapon. He feels incomplete without one. (It's on his list of things to research, but somewhat after 'what planet is this?')

"I mean, you shove one medic..." He trails off, shrugging and almost, almost smirking.

'What planet is this?' would be a very good question to find an answer for, to be fair.

That even gets a short chuckle out of Astrid, so it's pretty safe to say that she doesn't disapprove of this scene he's caused. "Big babies. They do all that poking and prodding, but can't take anything back."

But they all seemed a bit soft, to her. Even when she'd managed to get one of the locals to speak to her, it was in a tight voice and way too politely for any respectable Viking.

"On the bright side," she continues, sounding a little more cheerful, "they should know not to underestimate us, now."

Start big, work down. What planet would at least tell him where he is in relation to Cybertron (provided this isn't some weird Maximal mind game, which he has not yet ruled out).

"Cuts both ways," Thrust says. "Been disarmed, dunno where I am, dunno how I got here..." Isn't exactly sure what species he is. "'Underestimated' might keep me outta fights I can't win 'til I figure this slag out."

Where do you even find weapons that aren't built-in?

"There's got to be something around here, so I doubt you'll be disarmed for long." After all, what kind of place didn't have weapons? Not to mention that just about anything could be used as one, if you had the right idea. "And so far, I think everyone else who isn't from around here is in the same boat. People seem confused, if they're not the ones doing the avoiding."

Which was just as well. Astrid was pretty confident in her abilities, but allies were never something to turn down.

Well, it won't be what he's used to, but at least his current hands are pretty well-planned for tool use. (He's still not sure why anybody needs more than three fingers, but he knows he won't get anywhere critiquing the design of something that evolved.)

"Speakin' of boats," he says, "I wasn't on one, last thing I remember. Or anywhere near the water."

Not that there's much liquid water on Cybertron.

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