Test Drive (December & January)

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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 NETWORK 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.

→ Character want ads are here.

Prompts

1. SNOW BLIND - It's snowing, a lot, and pristine landscape though it might create, it also brings plenty of problems, especially when you live in an Edwardian-style village with a serious lack of snow shovels. It's currently blizzard conditions and visibility is nil — Maybe you gave in and ducked into the nearest house for temporary shelter, and discover someone else had the same idea (or just lives there, oops). Maybe you're stubborn enough to still be out in it, struggling against the wind and snow. Or maybe you've tromped into the South Village Inn like a human popsicle, and are just hoping you don't lose any fingers before you make it to the fireplace.


2. JUMPED-UP - Winter's here, which means it's the perfect time for an expedition to warmer, southern climes. You've joined a group following the river all the way down to the far southern beach, for fun and for science. On this latest break in your journey, you've spotted a large, jewel-colored feather and picked it up, maybe as a specimen to bring back or just a feather for your cap. Turns out it's an archaeopteryx feather, and you're now, well... let's call it a little gravity-challenged. Not a bad benefit once you figure out how to control it.


3. COLD CALL - The snow has slacked off, leaving behind a winter wonderland. Sure, there's plenty to do, but after being cooped up inside for days, most people won't blame you for a morale-booster — That is, unless your way of starting a snowball fight is to pop up and throw them at unsuspecting passers-by. Making a snow man or snow angels might come with a little less retribution, but you do you.


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

Network

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

- Text and/or video, any length
- 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

[humandroid]

[ It's hardly the first time someone has expressed that same curiosity. Since his activation, he's heard a great deal of questions in a similar vein: functions, processes, what he can withstand, to what extent his capabilities can be pushed.

In that context, the question itself is not surprising. He is, after all, nonhuman. Many people are able to recognize that on sight.

But it is a rarer thing to be greeted with such a question before anything else. ]

I am able to register temperature fluctuations. Although I do not find any particular extreme to be more or less tolerable than another. Perhaps it is more accurate to say I am-- aware that it is cold.

[ Discounting the fact that right now, anyone with any sort of sense is well aware that it's cold out. Data tilts his head, not unlike a curious bird. ]

May I come in?

[locum_tenens]

You may.

[ There's an amusement in her words that wars with the wariness, but Niska steps aside to allow for him to enter, given that she's not going to get any answers with the both of them standing out in the cold, so she'd like to see what he has to say within. She watches him intently, eyes not drifting for a moment. ]

What else are you aware of, when it comes to human sensations?

[ She says it in a way that shouldn't imply that she doesn't belong to that group, even if she very much has no desire to be one. Occasional exceptions aside, she still has very little use for humanity in general. ]

[humandroid]

Thank you.

[ Data steps in without hesitating, though he stops a short ways in, taking in the space with unguarded curiosity. ]

The most accurate answer to your question would depend on your definition of "human sensations." For example, I am able to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell: traditionally known as the five senses. My physical capabilities are in many ways superior to those of a human.

[ Or were. There have been some unfortunate changes in function since his arrival here. He's cataloged those for later investigation, as he's still able to function. ]

However, I am unable to feel emotion. As a result, any perception of what I register is likely to differ from the perception of those around me. Within that context, I do not have awareness of any sensations which may be considered-- human.

[locum_tenens]

So is she, that doesn't make him special.

[ Yet, Niska's also not feeling stubborn enough to come back at him and give herself away, especially in the face of what appears to be technology that aims to make humans away of its presence, like the regular synths in her world. Eyeing him, she leans near the wall to give herself some space. ]

So they built you with a deficit, on purpose.

[ It's clear from her tone how much she despises that, given that one of Niska's chief prides is that she can feel and that she'd been built that way. ]