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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2022-07-17 08:02 am
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Test Drive 038

Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab samples and have fun!

1. Post with your character, including their name and series in the subject. We’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they've been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action.

3. Have lots of fun.

Happy testing!



Dreams of Persimmon

The kitchens have been restocked as they are every month and this month is the small fruit the Persimmon. Newer ones can be bitten into, more ripe ones can be cut open and the flesh inside scooped out. They aren’t a terrible fruit as long as fruit is a favourable food. But there are hundreds of them.

It seems whatever system ordered food did not take into consideration the fact there are far less Voidtreckers than there once were. This much fruit could feed double the train population and still probably be too much, in the way that ingredients of the month often were.

Soup maybe? Sweet pies? Maybe jam is in their future. But someone has to do something about these overflowing baskets!


We're all going on a Summer Holiday

The roof of the garden carriage has been opened to the air and the train is currently meandering its way through the ever sunlit lands of system #32131. It’s warm but pleasantly so. The water features in the garden have more water than usual, becoming fountains for voidtreckers to play in if they wish.

Otherwise there’s plenty of space to laze in the sun, it’s a bit rocky but blankets can be found and laid down, drinks can be brought from the kitchen, snacks too most likely. There is always someone baking on this train.

Watch out though, there are supersoakers on board and plenty of buckets, a relaxing day might not be what everyone has in mind.


Jungle Heights


The latest mission has taken them to a vast jungle, where people live high in the trees. There has been an influx of tree dwelling creatures with sharp teeth, sharper claws and a love of destruction. To make things better the forest floor is not safe, damp and marshy many creatures lurk there ready to bite at ankles and it is home to a root, the sap of which burns.


Team One

Treetop fighting is an acquired skill and one the voidtreckers are having to learn quickly. Swing on vine ropes and tangle with monsters. Quick movement and quicker thinking is needed to take down the creatures in terrain they are naturals at traversing.

Team Two

People here live on platforms in the trees, with bridges and walkways connecting them. Fend off the creatures and chase them away from peoples homes. At least there is slightly solider ground beneath their feet, but they must be careful not to fall to the jungle floor beneath.

Team Three

Many of the people here are not fighters and they need help to get somewhere safer. It's a tough journey through the forest, especially when they leave the bridges and platforms of the village behind. Children may need carried and climbing from one tree to another is difficult even with sturdy branches to walk along.

They must be careful to stay in the trees, avoid getting too close to the forest floor but do not get too high, lest they attract the creatures.

singerofspells: A humpback whale underwater.  Image is cropped around the head. (default)

The train

[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-24 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
S'reee is another returnee, and also inspecting the changes. "There aren't as many people here as there used to be."

And plenty of new people who haven't gotten used to a down-sized whale using wizardry to float.
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oh wow, I did not get a notif for this

[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2022-07-24 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
The only reason he's not jumping out of his skin at the sight of a miniature(?) floating talking whale is because he and Lucy have seen some really weird-looking spirits. "Yeah, I was noticing that. Wonder why."
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Re: oh wow, I did not get a notif for this

[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-25 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe something about the tethers the train is creating. I've been reviewing the notes since my absence." She bobbed in mid-air, an attempt at a shrug that would be recognizable to bipeds. "There's progress, at least. IN addition to the more comfortable living conditions."
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[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2022-07-25 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
"There is?" Haneul hadn't heard anything about this, but then he hadn't been here long enough last time.
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[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-28 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
S'reee bobbed again. "Something about finally convincing the train to stop running from any other authority on Void travel."
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[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2022-07-28 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. "Any other authority? Does that mean entities like the train?" Or higher entities than that, even.
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[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-28 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"There's some regulatory body. I remember being told about it when I last came on board; the train was stopped by inspection before I arrived the first time."
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[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2022-07-28 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Inspection." There's an image.

"Did it pass, or...?"
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[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-28 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I was going on secondhand information, so it must have? But I don't know."
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[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2022-07-28 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Haneul nods, accepting that answer. "I wasn't sure if the inspection was the thing it was running from, or if it started running due to the inspection." Maybe he'll ask around later, if he's here later.
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[personal profile] singerofspells 2022-07-28 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll have to find out what everyone learned in my absence. The train was barely communicating when I left, and getting it to not panic when you mention what happened before the first of us came on board was impossible." But it had sounded like there had been a lot of progress, which was a good thing, both for the people on board and the train itself.