Test Drive 20 (August & September)

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Prompts

Happy anniversary, villagers! Buckle up!

1. HEAT WAVE - Poor you. All you were trying to do was get yourself a little something to eat from the kitchen at the inn. Maybe you cooked it up yourself (The inn does, after all, have an electric stove — FANCY!), or maybe you just grabbed some leftovers. By accident or on purpose, you ended up with way more RED SALT in there than you maybe should have, and this is no ordinary seasoning. Whether you like things eye-wateringly spicy or not, it's August, you're sweating buckets, and it's only getting worse.


2. SKUNK DRUNK - Isn't that just the way? You're out and about, minding your own business, and you get sprayed by a BROWN SKUNK. The good news? It doesn't stink like a normal skunk. The also possibly good news, depending on who you ask? You're now in for about 5 hours of being very, very friendly. (Just remember to keep the test drive PG!)


3. BRAIN CANDY - Whether you made it to the anniversary party or not, you've gotten your hands on a piece of leftover candy from the big bash. Careful, though, these treats are more than meets the eye: Whatever COLOR it was, you've now taken on the associated personality traits. (Not the power, just the traits.) At least it only lasts 10 minutes.


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.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
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Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[nonstopnarcissist]

Toaster is doable, ipod goes on the list of 'unreasonable' I'd have to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools.

[freightcars]

Unless you plan on picking up a wood-chopping hobby, you might just have the time for that.

[ And he better not; Barnes has sort of claimed it for himself. It's actually... a little sad, the sheer amount of chopping he's done since he's gotten here.

On the bright side, their firewood pile is comically, astronomically large.
...You might say he's lacking in other marketable skills. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

Establishing a your fundamental blocks of tech and working to more advanced shit is best done in batches.

[ He's going to be building a lot of tools. Better to get them done before trying to narrow his focus on one thing, get side tracked, and realize he doesn't have x y or zed cuz he hadn't built the thing that lets him MAKE the thing. ]

[freightcars]

Ironically, hitting wood blocks with shit? Also best done in batches.

[ Because he has absolutely 0 frame of reference for tech or the slow industrialization of south village.
But the man can whack things with other things like nobody's business, so that's nice. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

Uh-huh. How much replanting do you do for what you're cutting down?

[ They might not be here long enough for it to be a problem but- better to nip that shit in the bud when and where they can. ]

[freightcars]

I tuck a tiny little pine tree into bed every night when I'm finished.

[ Nope. The actual answer is 0, but considering the sheer size of this island? He thinks it'd take him a lifetime to put a dent in it - and he doesn't see Steve out here sweating it up with him, so. Ecosystem's probably safe. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

You are worse than useless. Seriously.

[ Maybe not but- still. Think the long term, buddy. Unfuck the planet. ]

[freightcars]

Tell that to yourself the next time you're starting a fire in your forge, pal.

[ Or when he eats cooked meals. Or when the winter comes.

Chop chop. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

Toaster oven has now gone to the bottom of the project list.

[ You want to get petty? He has not yet BEGUN to get petty, Mr. ]

[freightcars]

Damn, however will I find a heat source to cook bread now?

[ Ah yes, their relationship living up to it's maximum potential.
Utterly petty irredeemable bullshit. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

Stick it on your arm after a long day of fucking with the forest, maybe that'll do it.

[freightcars]

Doesn't overheat. Actually, turns out Wakanda's got some of the best tech on the planet. No real competition, I guess.

[nonstopnarcissist]

[ Damn. A mutual point of agreement, here, and he can't NOT say something. ]

Shuri knows her shit, that's not surprising.

[freightcars]

She's a genius. Too smart for her own good, probably. Talked about you sometimes.

[ Because he'll concede that point, and he recognizes a nonantagonistic moment when he sees one. He won't push things farther than Stark does, might... feel a little bad about even going there in the first place.

Dry, bitter, dark humor is a hard thing to reign in sometimes. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

She reminds me of myself at that age- but with a solid support network and a loving family.

[ Not sharks in the water, decades old resentment and bitterness, and an impossible ideal hanging over his neck like a guillotine. ]

Had a lot of opinions about the armor.

[freightcars]

If the grass was greener, you probably would've solved world hunger and we'd all be living in red and yellow domes right now with food pellets and iron dogs.

[ Or maybe Tony's creative genius developed so spectacularly because of that rather than despite it.

He will say the things Tony put into the world were more impressive than Howard, but he's biased through a bad expo experience and a lot of extremely questionable wartime tech. ]

Who knows, maybe when she's done designing cat suits and prosthetics she'll work on that.

[nonstopnarcissist]

It's a distribution issue. The food exists, people just aren't moving it to where it's needed. We're working on it.

[ Because of course he is. There aren't many problems he hasn't sat back and thought about, and he's got enough pull to get some of it done- but Shuri? Can fix...damn near everything. ]

We collaborated on the Bleeding Edge. Probably would've taken me another four, five years if I'm generous-

To crack the nanite tech.

[freightcars]

Yeah, if I'm supposed to know what that is
you've lost me.

[ Because Shuri never talked about that with him, and - nanites are kind of out of his wheelhouse.

Seriously, he's just the wood guy. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

It's how her brother goes from a tux to a catsuit. You never saw that party trick?

[ Here he's got the know how but he's a solid century away from developing that kind of tech. So- it's not something he's hung up on recreating.

Work within your means, all that. ]

[freightcars]

Generally when he was in the thing near me it was just to rip my throat out, so
No

[ And then he slept for a couple years, woke up, herded some goats, and died. Not a lot of crime fighting side by side with the king of Wakanda.

Plenty of goats though. So many. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

Not my pick for the team, seriously, can you say conflict of interests?

[ Of course his pick wasn't all that much better, something he's still kicking himself for. Bringing a kid into that mess? God. ]

[freightcars]

Turns out he felt bad enough for it to put me up and have his sister pull a bunch of murder out of my brain, so. Guess you could say it was worth it.

[ And about that kid - he still hasn't been able to swallow down the fact that he got bossed by a god damn teenager. Seriously.

His mind may be healed but his pride will never recover. Stark's got a small permanent victory there. ]

[nonstopnarcissist]

You know I was going to ask, but it didn't seem polite. Good for you. I mean, shitty cost but, good.

[ That is one less thing for him to worry about, here. ]

I can now sing nonsensical russian songs in good conscious.

[freightcars]

If my tendency to turn into a robotic killing machine was the only thing keeping you from doing that in the first place, let's pretend I'm still compromised and save the town morale.

[nonstopnarcissist]

My Russian is excellent, as is my singing voice. I'm offended, Terminator. You can sharpen your own axe.