Test Drive 20 (August & September)

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→ Holds and applications are always open. Holds are required for all applications.

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

→ Write LOGS or TEXT prompts, or both.

→ THERE ARE ONLY THREE RULES FOR THE TDM:

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.

→ TDM threads cannot be used to meet AC, but if the character is accepted into the game and both players agree, you may keep the CR.

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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
- Display names may be changed by characters on the fly, but anyone can tap to see someone's real full name

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

Comments

[houmaprotector]

You'd be surprised at the flora that you can find in it though. There are plants that human beings haven't discovered yet which if properly harvested could alter the way that human beings think about the planet.

[It's hard not to feel hungry for the tools, the peace of a lab. I should do more science. If I can get back. Maybe ask Zatanna to let me use her greenhouse. I can make it work. If I really want to, I can make it work.]

You don't look particularly waspish.

[Hm. He stares down at the creatures he'd collected.]

[scales_and_silence]

My mother was adopted. [Neither Grandma or Grandpa baker was of a species cross-fertile with humans, nevermind each other.]

Are those foxes going to melt? Do you think I should look at those first? Wait- let me find a jar for those crystals-

[It's like watching an undergrad before finals. Except finals are Live Or Death Survival In a Hostile Environment, and it is at least a student who has studied extensively for just that. Was possibly raised from a young age for it, or bitten by a radioactive academic.]

[houmaprotector]

They're solid. I carried them through the swamp a few miles out, I think they'll be fine.

[One big green hand touches the creature and leaves a smear of green things on the creature's fur.]

You said the deer drink blood? They're vampires?

[His features darken considerably as he stares at the creature's body. It's hard for him to turn off those instincts - destroy the black, destroy the rot. One hand hovers toward it and he lowers it.]

...I haven't observed them in the wild eating any of the plant life. Though some of the local flowers seem to have evolved defenses mechanisms that are...very impressive.

[Like the one that gave him an electric shock. I've been far too focused on my own problems. I need to remember how to do real science.

He stares at his hands in frustration and clenches his teeth.]

Let me get a jar for you. Where do you keep them?

[scales_and_silence]

[Alex points at one of the higher shelves] I'm not sure if vampire entirely accurate, more like mosquitoes than the undead.

At least as far as I can tell. I mean, that's the first one I've had a chance to look at, and I'm not the first scavenger to find it. I only have about half of its digestive system, if that. [He sounds more annoyed at the unanswered questions than he is about digging around in a miniature deer's gut.]

[houmaprotector]

I'll bring you another one.

[He wants to be disturbed by how killing the red has become instinct. He wants to be, but it's the only degree of control that he has.]

You've built yourself a great lab here. If I get you some ingredients you could distill them for chemical compounds.

[scales_and_silence]

[That offer earns Alec a rather wide-eyed look]

That would honestly be even better than getting me a deer. If I could cook up a half-decent tranquilizer, my job would be so much easier.

[houmaprotector]

...Easily.

[This is an intriguing proposition.]

You may as well ask me your questions. If we're going to be working together you deserve to ask.

[scales_and_silence]

My parents raised me knowing it's rude to ask a person what they are. It's only my business if you want to tell me.

[He takes the empty jar, and begins to tap at the crystals with something solid enough to break some of the more delicate ones off, and collect whatever other detritus comes away with them in the jar's open mouth]

But I'll listen to whatever you are willing to tell me.

[houmaprotector]

Your parents...knew beings like me?

[He tilts his head to stare at him, watching his hands work. Surprise? That's an understatement. His hand reaches for the creature and leaves a smear on the creature.]

I'm a plant elemental.

[scales_and_silence]

Well, not exactly like you- I'm pretty sure I'd remember that from the family field guides- but I'm familiar enough with the idea of ambulatory plants. You're a lot bigger and more articulate and sentient than a screaming yam, admittedly.

[He screws the lid back onto the jar and shakes it a little, watching to see if the crystals melt or not.]

[houmaprotector]

Your world has contact with ambulatory plants but not the green?

[Interesting. Very interesting.] I can provide you with tubers if needed. Well, I would if this place hadn't limited my abilities.

And all plants are sentient, they just don't often chose to talk back.