Test Drive Meme

[shadowmods]

Throne of Shadows
TEST DRIVE MEME!!!

New to Throne of Shadows? Long time player thinking of apping a new character? Welcome to our test drive meme! Experiment with active and potential muses! Here is a place where you can test out characters for the setting and accrue samples for your applications! Roll on the scenarios provided below, or come up with your own!

Scenario Builder

You are...

1. Working in the lava lamp factory
2. Watching "The History of Twine" in the cinema
3. Admiring the fish in the barracks tunnel
4. Lost in a topiary maze
5. Riding the shuttle between buildings
6. Trying to sneak into the administrative offices

You’re feeling...

1. Inexplicably happy
2. Like you could fall asleep at any moment
3. Angry enough to punch someone
4. Nostalgic or sentimental
5. Like someone stabbed you—oh, hey, they did, fancy that
6. As if life really ought to be more like a Broadway musical

Somewhat unusually...

1. You can only speak in rhyme
2. The room is full of old-fashioned toys
3. A box covered in runes drops down from the sky and lands at your feet
4. You hear the voice of your worst enemy in the walls
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

[hisonlygirl]

The choice in words makes her smile fondly - isn't that what her Commander always says about something he finds interesting.

"It is. Shame that others don't feel the same."

[her_heart]

"Gipsy Danger."

She's quiet, letting him pull back and away from her, though it breaks her heart that he does so.

"Strange, to be so small, so...confined. But--" She hesitates and looks at him, taking him in as her eyes prick a little with the unfamiliar sensation of tears. "But true."

barbara meier, a german model

[dizzying]

I think I have to see this to believe it.

[There definitely has to be some trickery involved to get her craving grilled cheese like this. May as well take a look. But if the whole set up looks like a clever ruse to kidnap people and turn them into sandwiches, someone's getting their ass kicked.]

Well they're all adorable. I'm a pretty big cat person myself.

[She can't help smirking because, yeah, one of her animal forms is a black jaguar.]

Do they eat grilled cheese?

[thebetterto]

"Yeah," Ruby laughs in response. "The title has grated on nerves before, if I recall. I'm Ruby." And it was strange to be back again, though the scenery was different this time around. The situation was still the same, but their numbers had increased quite a bit. Still she'd settled back in easily enough.

"Are you doing all right so far? Or is there anything I can help you with?"

[solus_unus]

It's a deal. Should we shake on it? Kind of makes us obligated to make it happen.

[Caius looks at her, stretching out his hand.

Nonchalantly.]

I lost a game of darts.

[neverhadgoodtiming]

Funny. He's right behind you in the tunnel that connects the Barracks staring like he's seeing a ghost. Staring because words aren't coming.

Staring because in the few snatches of sleep he'd managed since she'd vanished, he'd dreamed of this. And every time she turned to face him with a look of such fierce hatred and disappointment he forgot how to breathe and woke up shaking.

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

The Vulcan stopped immediately at the sight of McCoy. It was so unexpected, he barely noticed or cared to ask about the cat following him.

"Doctor McCoy."

There was still a few meters in between them in the narrow sea tunnel connecting two buildings. But Spock stood, arms behind his back, head slightly tilted and brow arched, just like the last time Bones saw him. Except he was wearing what looked like a worker's uniform.

[artistwithasickness]

[She blinks at the answer, then laughs. That wasn't the answer she expected. Her mirth settles into a small smile as she regards his hand, followed by the hedge and a glance out over the rest of the maze. Hopping sides would mean she's cheated her original goal, but being obligated to listen to him play was arguably more profitable for her enjoyment.

But she's still on the hedge and out of arms reach. It didn't take her but a second to discard her maze winning fun for nothing more then a handshake. With a little push off the hedge, Devi straightens and rises to 'step' onto the surface. Her steps had no weight to them and she walked to the edge before stepping off and effortlessly lowering herself onto his side.

With a smirk, she takes his hand and pumps it a few times.]

Deal.

[neverhadgoodtiming]

Raleigh felt his soul make a noise like a dying whale when she began to cry. He wasn't even sure he believed her, but he wasn't a big enough asshole to just stand there and watch someone cry.

He took a step toward her and touched her shoulder. "How?"

Well, I can't resist this.

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

"Uhura?"

Spock had just a glimpse of the women before she turned the corner, and he followed. The red hair didn't fit, but her face. Her face was so similar to Uhura's that Spock was willing to believe that he'd imagined it.

But maybe. Maybe the Grasp had taken her here.

[her_heart]

She tries to pull herself together and truthfully, she's not even completely certain what it is that is happening. She's never cried before, and she lifts a hand to touch her cheek, surprised at the wetness. She's leaking.

"I -- I don't know. Coming here, I suppose." However they'd done it, they had. Gipsy didn't know how they downloaded her information and put it into this...feeble body but they had and she desperately needs her pilot to not reject her.

spiffy! She might be good for an aunt of his

[reincarnshaman]

[People make lousy grilled cheese sandwiches. That's all Trever has to say on that matter.]

I'd be happy to show you.

[He gives her a bit of a bow gesturing, indicating she should proceed him.]

Thank you. [From Veena's sudden smugness it's clear she understood the compliment. She vanishes briefly... as in isn't there... and then appears on Trever's shoulder. This is not unusual according to Trever's expression.]

Only Mayhem, but he eats anything. Trouble tried one once and got sick. The others like peanut butter though.

Yancy Becket | Pacific Rim

[listentome]

Yancy Becket is tired. No one can blame him, really. He had been woken up at two in the morning by a combination of alarms and his brother incessantly beating on his mattress and shaking him. There had been a rapid-fire conversation (mostly one-sided) and a fist bump (again mostly one sided) and he had retreated to the wash room to splash some water on his face. He had never made it to the drive suit room. No, instead he had ended up in some underwater city, struggling to listen to the explanations being babbled at him while his head spun.

Logically he should probably try to locate his assigned room in the barracks to sleep off the remaining dizziness and weariness.

Instead he is sitting with his back against the wall in the tunnel between the barracks, staring blankly at the fish with the expression of someone who has tried to assimilate a lot of information at once and failed to do so. He is not entirely alone, however; sitting on his shoulder is a small kitten who has a great deal more interest in the fish than its perch does. Yancy, for his part, doesn't even seem to know the kitten is there.

[makomori]

It was almost a sixth sense, prompting Mako to turn around, and stop dead in her tracks. Raleigh was here? And he looked even worse than when they first met.

She was slow, her feet a little rooted to the ground before she moves even faster, arms wide to hug him. She wasn't this demonstrative, but Raleigh was here, and he needed her, and she needed him, and they can figure out this entire situation, together.

[dammitkirk]

"A nexus. But why?"

He really wanted to know why they were pulled here, and under the sea of all places? Let alone something obviously built for people to live in.

All the fun!

[thelastmonster]

Her infernal hair had slipped free of her head scarf again, as it was wont to do as if it had a mind of its own. A wild, uncaring for the vessel that grew and transported it mind. She stopped and quickly, hoping not to draw more attention to herself, undid the scarf, tucked the offending locks of burgundy and russet and deep red back into submission and retied the scarf.

At that moment she became aware that she had, in fact, caught someone's attention. She braced herself, reaching out to assess the caliber of person drawing closer.

And was surprised to find not uncontrollable rage, and not uncontrollable lust, but a strong mind with feelings soundly walled off from her reading. It reminded her much of Brigan, the man she loved back home, but there was something so profoundly different. She got the sense there so much more but it was all so well concealed from her.

It impressed her to encounter someone so disciplined and well organized.

She turned to address the person following her, and stopped at the sight of him. He appeared mostly human, but for the peculiar way his ears were unmistakably pointy.

She blinked, realizing her shock must have registered on her face. "Forgive me. You wanted something from me? How can I help you?"

[dammitkirk]

"Tiberius Kirk?" He was rapidly coming to grips with this whole situation, even though he really thought there wasn't enough room in the any universe for one Kirk, let alone two of them.

"I should be so lucky as to have met two Kirks in my lifetime."

[dammitkirk]

"Natural state of being." He looked back over his shoulder.

"That cat is still following me? I think it knows I'm not fond of them. Contrary creatures."

[dammitkirk]

Oh, finally. Someone familiar. But why was he not in his science blues? But, that would mean he has been here a while.

"Spock." An eyebrow, arms crossed over his chest.

[notsharkbait]

"Yes," Erin laughs softly scooping it up. The kitten bats at her hair.

"Not a toy," she chastises the small creature. "I'm not one of the natives. They call it Gebo."

[makomori]

In her meanderings, she's not quite paying close attention to her feet, head lost in thought, and with the broken Drift. But what was this? Someone she knew from the Drift, one she had seen, overlaid with grief and loss and pain.

Mako stopped, feet inches from Yancy's leg, and looked him over, eyes sweeping from his feet to the cat hanging out on his shoulder.

"Yancy Becket?"

[punch_it]

"I refuse to believe Jim is prettier than me."

Jane leaned against the glass wall and grinned.

[hisonlygirl]

"They're looking for someone. A potential mate for the prince. Seems like they don't think they'll find that sort of person in just one universe."

There were a lot of answers that his simple question could cover. "As for this particular city - it's a punishment for the candidates hacking the communication network."

[dammitkirk]

She did not just. No. He is not getting into that discussion, it will only end in tears. His tears.

"I plead the Fifth."

Two could play that game. He was not going to start comparing the two Kirks, not for a second.

[dammitkirk]

"Gebo. I was told it was a punishment." He snorted, trying to not show amusement at the cat's actions.