Test Drive Meme | April 2014

[ironwood]

TEST DRIVE MEME - TU SHANSHU EDITION!

Itching to try out writing a character? Then rev up your engines, grab your accounts, and slam your way into this meme! Here is a venue for you to try out whatever character there might be tickling your fancy, from fandom to OC, for as few as one and as many as MANY. Seriously, there's no limit.

How do you partake in this fantastic congregation of character testing? Why, by following these simple steps:

1. Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles.
2. Tag around with everyone!
3. Profit like you live on a the back of a turtle!
4. Maybe even reserve so you CAN live on the back of a turtle!

But wait, there's more! For the low, low price of $9,999.99, you can even use one of our handy prompts when you tag someone. You could even pick one with a Random Number Generator to help decide which prompt to go with!

1. A Chance Meeting at the Turtle's Head.
   Remember, being here causes a great sense of-- well, shall we say inner peace.
2. Haggling Over Something in the Marketplace!
   Maybe someone else saw the exact same shiny thing you did at the exact same moment! However shall this be resolved? Remember: blood is extremely hard to scrub off of turtle shell!
3. Have Met Before? Because I Could've Sworn I've Seen You In My Dreams.
   Have you wandered into the realm of Dreaming via an archway in Keeliai? Here, everything is shaped to your character's individual mind. Dreams can be shared between characters and will result in a meshing of minds. These dreams can be positive or negative, depending on your character.
4. Dramatic Chase Sequence!
   You're running away from something! It could be anything, from a rampaging kirin to a gaggle of overly enthusiastic children, or even one of the newest editions to Keeliai's menagerie, an incredibly affectionate turtle the size of a minivan! One way or another, you can't stop, and much like a katamari ball, you feel obligated to grab everyone in your path along the way to keep them out of danger! Or perhaps you're more the sort to try and knock them into it as a distraction...?
5. Darker Days
   Malicant's flexing his chaos muscle and causing havoc on the shell! You could run into some evil cultists in a dark alley, try to infiltrate the possessed palace, or work on hacking the console function back from the technopathic baddie.
6. WILDCARD!
   Go nuts. Suddenly your character is fighting dragons! Good God, they've found the Millennium Falcon drifting in the ocean! Do you really feel the need to polish every paving stone in the Earth Sector? Please note, Wildcard options are also what you can choose to do if you aren't yet comfortable in the Tu Shanshu setting and would prefer a more 'dear-mun' esque experience. Please specify in your post!

Comments

[ofthefuture]

I would never have allowed it to get that far. The fact that it went into the experimentation phase is ridiculous. Ambition is good, but if you don't have the skill to back it up then you have nothing.

[Okay that might be going it just a smidge too far. This kid already looks like a kicked dog after seeing that equation.]

I'll admit though, your father has... some talent with his other work. And you said you completed them?

[nerdylilspidey]

[Wrong or not, whether Peter knew him or not, his dad was still his dad and he felt like he should stick up for his work. But... Peter knows exactly what came out of that whole thing. He keeps wiping down the chalkboard until every trace of the Venom project is gone.] Everyone's allowed to make mistakes. He- He meant well.

[Only once he's done does he step back, slipping his hands into his pockets as he looks at the rest of the work on the board.] Some of them. Not all of them.

[ofthefuture]

How does that old saying go? The road to hell is paved with good intentions?

[Looks up at the remaining equations.] Like what?

[Reaches behind him to steady him as he leans back onto the table, and his hand brushes up against one of the webshooters. He looks behind him to see what it is, then picks it up out of curiosity.] Hmm? The shock's this? [Turns it over in his hands.]

[nerdylilspidey]

... Yeah. That's exactly how it goes.

[Peter's just about to point out the equation that ultimately turned into his webfluid when Miguel picks up his webshooter. His eyes widen slightly and suddenly Peter's feeling pretty awkward. It's not an easy thing to explain what they are to a total stranger.

Also- That's the oddest curse (?) he's ever heard in his life.]

That's- Uh. It's for dispensing a fast drying molecular adhesive.

[ofthefuture]

Oh I knew exactly how it goes. That was a hypothetical question.

[Come on, kid, keep up!]

For what kind of use? Medical? [Presses down on the trigger... and frowns when nothing happens.] It appears to be broken.

[nerdylilspidey]

[Peter gives the guy a little frown at that. He gives him points for being obviously smart, but he's losing more of them for being a jerk face.]

Oh, it's-- [That's not how it works, but he can roll with this.] It's still in progress. Some bugs to work out.

[ofthefuture]

Like I haven't heard that excuse before.

[Turns to look at Peter again, but gets distracted by the view.] That's... That's Manhattan. [Walks over to the glass to see if it's actually glass or just a very realistic vid of it.]

[nerdylilspidey]

[He uses that bit of distraction to take back his web shooters and puts them back down on the table. He doesn't have to turn to look out the window the way Miguel has; this is his mind and he knows exactly what's over there.]

Yeah. I used to live there.

[ofthefuture]

I forgot what it looked like. [The buildings, which are decrepit and crumbling in Downtown are still pristine here, and the cars with their internal combustion engines polluting the air congesting the streets below. He almost wishes the view's real... because swinging through that was totally a trip.]

[nerdylilspidey]

[He lets a small, easy smile cross his features as he moves back to his book and beanbag, sitting down in such a way that he can also see out the window.]

Been a while since you've gone there, huh? I know the feeling.

[ofthefuture]

You could... say that.

Say, what year was it when you left, kid?

[nerdylilspidey]

[Peter blinks... Then lets out a small sigh. Another someone from another time. One would think he'd be used to this by now.]

2009. [I think.] So... Are you from the past or the future?

[ofthefuture]

[At least this time he's not waking up with someone else's wife this time...]

I'm from 2099. New York... hasn't looked like this in a long time.

[nerdylilspidey]

[Whoops.]

I guess 90 years will do that.

...Are the cars flying yet?

[ofthefuture]

Not like the early 21st century thought they would, but we don't use internal combustion engines anymore either. We use Maglev now.

[nerdylilspidey]

In normal cars? And they don't need to run on rails?

[ofthefuture]

It uses electromagnetic suspension, not electrodynamic suspension.

[nerdylilspidey]

Well- Still, wouldn't having a system like that in place on a massive scale be kinda, y'know, disruptive? Erasing computer hard drives all over the place?

[ofthefuture]

[Motions to the Manhattan outside.] That's part of the reason they built over this; it just wasn't cost effective to redo everything.

[As he says it, flickers of his New York ("Nueva York" if you want to be fancy--even though next to no one calls it that) project itself over Peter's, blinking in and out like a film reel stuck in the projector. It disappears before ever fully coming into view.

Shoots him a look.] Why the shock would we be carrying hard drives all over the place?

[nerdylilspidey]

[Now that has Peter's attention. He's jumping up to his feet and moving to where he can get a better view of the window, but by the time he can really process what he's seeing, the image is gone.]

They built... over New York? Like- Like buried New York and built on top of it?

[That question throws him for a second and he has to quickly wave it off.] Look, that was just- It was the first example that came to mind. Plus there could be, I dunno, computers sitting too close to a window while a maglev car flies by.

[ofthefuture]

They didn't bury it. Just built over it. The old Manhattan is called Downtown now.

We have specific Maglev levels. You can't just drive a car off the street.

[nerdylilspidey]

[You're blowing his mind a little here, Migs. But he really shouldn't be surprised that so much could change in 90 years.]

Okay, so no flying cars, but everything's maglev now, my New York is no longer the New York-- Please tell me we've had alien contact by now.

[ofthefuture]

[It's Miggy. But only to his friends, and he doesn't quite remember including you on that list.]

If we did, it's been buried. Research into E.T. makes the corporations skittish, so there's next to no research into E.T.s. A friend of mine researches E.T.s on the side, and she's convinced Earth was, how'd she put it... "once crawling with them."

And if you believe those nutter Thorites, Thor was a God. Then again, they're also convinced Spider-Man's a harbringer of Thor, so they're clearly off their rails.

[nerdylilspidey]

Wait... Thor's not a god? [Let them believe what they want about Spider-Man - Peter's used to it - but he's kind of been under the impression that Thor really actually is a god.]

...I also feel like I'm pretty sure I'd know whether or not I met an alien.

[ofthefuture]

How should I know?! He hasn't been seen since the Heroic Age, unless you count the loon that took over the floating city of Valhalla, and I certainly don't. [He doesn't like being thrown out windows.]

Sometime before your time and mine, there was a catastrophe and a lot of the information we had before then, especially the Heroic Age, got lost. Xina's working with what we saved, and whatever twencen junk she can find.