Test Drive 18

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→ Choose one of the scenarios below or make up your own. Feel free to try multiple scenarios.

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1. It has to take place in the 6I universe.
2. It cannot be the character's arrival into the game.
3. Please only test new characters who do not have a version in the game. Our cast list is here.

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Prompts

Summer is here, villagers! Sunny skies, warm weather and plenty of weirdness are on the horizon. Don't forget your sunscreen!

1. THE MILK FOR FREE - Somehow, someway, you have been wrangled into milking one of the GROFFLES recently rounded up by your fellow villagers. Maybe you felt guilty for not helping, or maybe you owe someone scary money. Point is, it's just you, a bucket, and your green milk-giving friend. Just a tip: Groffles are good-natured, but you probably shouldn't squeeze too hard.


2. LIGHTNING ROD - Earlier today, you made your way into the upper foothills — Were you hunting? Maybe just roaming? — and you came into contact with a BLUE LILY. Maybe you thought it was so pretty you've carried it back to the village with you. If your house didn't have electricity before, it definitely does now!


3. MEET CUTE - It's a classic: You've gone down into the 6I INN'S dirt-walled root cellar off the kitchen. Maybe you needed supplies or were dropping off some fresh produce. Whatever the case, someone's followed you down for a similar reason... and the door has jammed shut behind them. Seriously, it's not budging. Enjoy getting to know your new best friend in the cozy light of the furnace!


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Texts

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text messages to other villagers.

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Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[notsocommon]

"Considering what I've seen us do against doors in the past, I think we can manage. This is hardly a locked laboratory in my father's house," Helen said, huffing a little. They're both quite strong and since John has both considerable height and weight on her, the two of them together ought to be able to jimmy a door.

"This is the time when I would wish you could teleport, though. Something about this place dampens powers. I haven't determined what it is yet."

[borneinblood]

"Quite so."

Of course, if it is that the door is something worse than merely jammed they might well be out of luck. But that's certainly no reason they can't try all the same before resorting to any other methods that might happen to be at their disposal. (Although he has to admit there doesn't seem to many of the latter.

"I had noticed," he adds with a nod at the comment about powers being dampened, even as he takes up a position next to the door. How he feels about that is another question entirely, but as she hasn't asked, he doesn't feel any specific need to offer details.

"And I'm sure it's gone over well, historically speaking."

He doesn't mind, and he doubts Helen minds - aside from the little question of aging, and if she's now doing so at a normal rate - but even in a village this size he expects there will have been... complaints.

[notsocommon]

"We have people here who exhibit something I can only describe as zombification," Helen said, joining John up alongside the door so she can lend her strength to it. It won't be as much as his, no, but she can at least augment his considerable strength with her own.

"I have to isolate what it is they need from brains to function but once I have, I think I might be on the brink of a discovery. It has to be some neurotransmitter. It has me stumped, though."

[borneinblood]

"Not Tesla's little... attempted vampires, I hope."

Admittedly, he has yet to become aware of Tesla's presence if he is indeed in the village, but that doesn't mean he'd put it past the man to try again. Even if he has been less inclined to make attempts at world domination of late. Either way, he sets about leaning his weight into the door, slowly but insistently.

"And it's been some time since I was last particularly involved in anything to do with science, but I might be able to lend a hand?"

He hasn't entirely forgotten those halcyon days, before he'd gone and ended up with his little passenger, after all. True, he hasn't really been keeping up either, but he'd hopefully have at least some idea of what was going on.

[notsocommon]

"Ah, no, none of Nikola's vampires are here," Helen said. She was glad for that even if she could use Nikola's brain on the current zombie problem but that did, of course, come with some distinct disadvantages as well. Nikola had always been flighty and temperamental in his research; John, for all his vices, did have the virtue of patience. He was also a better chemist than Helen any day of the week.

"You know you have a hand with chemistry," Helen said, brow raising a little. "But if you were fishing for a compliment, you didn't have to work hard for it."

[borneinblood]

"I wasn't."

It's the honest truth, too. Helen's not wrong, either, but he's not had a whole lot of time to practice either. Or rather, not a particular inclination too, and he's well aware of the fact that science has been marching ever on. On the other hand, there had been that whole matter with the Lazarus virus, and though it had most been Tesla doing the hard lifting on that particular front, it hasn't yet been so long that he's forgotten the general gist of what the man had been up to when trying to figure that particular problem out.

But just at the moment the point is halfway moot - he's not going to be any use to anyone if they can't manage to get out of the cellar they're trapped in first, and he leans a little more of his weight into the door.

[notsocommon]

Helen pushed against the door too and she wasn't a weak woman. John was hardly a weak man. On the contrary, he was strong as an ox and tall and broad to boot - if the door wasn't going to budge with the two of them, it simply wasn't going to give. After a moment, she stopped and pulled away, glaring at the door.

"This is clearly another trick by those who have us captive here. It looks like we're going to have to just wait it out until they decide to let us go."

[borneinblood]

There's a faint huff of irritation from Druitt at the comment, but after one last (futile) attempt to get the door open, he leaves it be. It's clear enough that he's not really super pleased, largely on account of it not being anything they've had any say in, nor anything that they can actually do anything about. And with his teleportation inactive besides, it only brings their inability to leave into sharper focus, and he has, perhaps, grown entirely too used to having that option to fall back on. But he doesn't say as much. Instead, there's simply a moment of tense silence, and then - with visible effort - he shakes his head, pushing that irritation to the side as he steps away from the door.

"Just like old times, then?"

To be fair, this time there isn't a rampaging elemental that's trying to kill them involved. But it's certainly not the first time they've ended up in enforced close quarters, at least, for all that the reminder is probably not terribly comforting.