Test Drive 21 (October & November)

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

→ Write LOGS or TEXT prompts, or both.

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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

1. STAYING POWER - Go down to the bunker, they said. You can get yourself amazing powers from the vending machine, they said. Well, you've done that, and you've made your choice, but one thing nobody told you was that unless it's a power you're familiar with, you might be on a teensy bit of a learning curve when it comes to keeping it under control. You have a week to figure it out without killing anyone; have fun!


2. FORGIVE AND... - You poor thing, you've gotten into some dust moths. Not that you can remember that, because depending on how big that swarm was and how quickly you got out of it, you might not remember much at all. Better hope somebody's got some Forget Me Nots on hand.


3. HIT & RUN - Life in the village can be pretty sleepy... until suddenly, it's not. Were you being a troublemaker? Were you disturbing the local wildlife? Because it's now disturbing you, chasing you down the street in front of everyone. Maybe it's a herd of chupapaca or a swarm of fireflies. Or maybe you went old school and it's just a really pissed off badger. Godspeed and good luck.


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

[notsoangry]

Tony and Bruce were notoriously the worst about that particular drive. The puzzles. The nagging desire to know answers about everything in the universe and poke at it until it made sense. It led to their best work and their absolute worst. He's been careful here. There are a few things even in this limited space that tug on his questioning mind, but at least there's better people now to rein them in. Seeing the apocalyptic loss of half the universe too would make anyone think before they act.

"Apparently he wasn't as bad as socializing as we thought," Bruce murmurs, watching Rhodey warp the metal. Impressed but not surprised that he's good at being careful and controlled. "When I was gone we were on another planet, and he made friends there of his own." There's perhaps an undercurrent of bitterness, but it's difficult to be that toward someone who is essentially dead now. And petty.

He smiles faintly though, at the Ross reference. He also has a gallows sense of humor, if very understated. He also has trouble hearing nice things from anyone, glancing to the floor, wringing his hands together. "That's, um, that's very kind of you to say." And a little flustering, but it doesn't take much to fluster the shy scientist. Bruce shakes his head. "You did what you thought was right. Sometimes that means working with something wrong." He is the last person to judge anyone else on their choices. "I gave Tony a hard time about it, when he first told me, I feel bad about that." Hearing his only friend worked with his greatest enemy was difficult.

[constructionzone]

"Did he? That's interesting." The time's long past when Rhodey could have been a scientist himself, but the seed of it was always there - otherwise, why go to MIT and not Penn State or UMass before joining the air force. He's still got that curious brain, he's just tuned it in other directions for a very long time.

The nature of his work has meant that curiosity has been aimed at two things in particular. Weaponry, that's for certain, and that's the one that made it easy for he and Tony to stay so close for so long. But people is the other thing. It makes sense, if you think about it. Rhodey's an officer, and an integral part of survival has been knowing his men and his women. It extends to his friends.

"Tony sometimes feels like when he does a wrong thing he has to do a 180 to do a right thing," he says after a moment. He carefully shapes metal into a ball. "Even if it's a 45, maybe 90 degrees from being on the right track. And I've...I'd been with the United States military for a very long time. It was hard to think that the right thing would be to turn my back on everything I'd spent my life on."

[notsoangry]

"Yes, so Thor told me. The Hulk became a champion gladiator on this planet for years. For him it was an ideal situation I'd guess." People liked him, he got to be in the driver's seat the entire time, and he fought every day. What wasn't to like for the Hulk? "This Asgardian Scrapper 142 was close with him. Thor said they had entire conversations. Short ones, but." It meant the Hulk could think and speak in full sentences and reason through things. Which was absolutely terrifying as a concept. "That's why I think he wasn't coming out when fighting Thanos. He can make his own choices now."

A beat. "Or he could." Since the Hulk isn't here. Bruce is alone in his head for the first time in thirteen years. It still hasn't fully sunk in.

Bruce nods, because he understands that about Tony. As much as the two scientists are alarmingly similar and tight, he knows that Rhodey has been with Tony so long, they're practically family. He might be able to translate Tony Stark, but it's a native language to Rhodey. "We did a very wrong thing, I can't say I'm surprised about that." People like to blame Tony for Ultron more than him, but he blames himself entirely for it. It's not that Bruce blames anyone for wanting accountability for the Avengers. The Hulk alone brings up red flags, he's aware. "I'm not rational when it comes to Ross, I can't think about him without going crazy. It would have gone so much worse." And it went badly! So worse was saying something.

"No one could win in that situation, from what I've heard. All of you had to make choices with only bad options in front of you. I'm sorry about what happened to you. I know you're a soldier so you put yourself on the line every day during your career, but it's still not right."

[constructionzone]

"He's a chicken shit, you mean." Rhodey's voice is dry, almost pleasant, really, but the truth is that anything about Thanos makes him seethe to be free of this place. It's maybe a little bit why he's plunked the points down for a power. Unlikely as it is to work, strange as it may seem to many, he's desperate to get back to war. This place isn't an escape when he has to keep up the hope that they can bring back what Thanos took away.

He keeps that all behind his teeth, but the resulting silence isn't exactly in character for him. Most of the time, Rhodey's got a quip or a comment at the ready. It's a second before he says anything, and it's about Ross. As much as Ross is a dangerous topic for Bruce, he's a safer one for Rhodey than the Hulk and thinking about Thanos.

"We needed checks and balances, some of the others didn't really want to admit that. I get why." His lips curve into a humorless smirk. "Ross isn't any kind of real check or balance, but like you said - there weren't any good choices." He wonders if Tony would have made a different one if Bruce had been there, but in the end, he doesn't think that's really what divided the Avengers. Tony had come out of it hating Steve Rogers as much as he'd ever loved him as a friend, and he hadn't talked about it to Rhodey. But it didn't take a genius to know that had been personal.