Test Drive Meme

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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!

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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

[hypospraying]

All right. What d'you wanna talk about then?

[She's eyeing that swig, but it doesn't break her rule so it's fine.]

[asouthron]

Jesus Christ on a cracker...

[ He takes the thermos numbly from the woman, but he can't drink quite yet. McCoy's mouth is too agape to hold any liquid at this point anyway. ]

Wha--Why are...? How?

[ There are just too many questions and they are all fighting for dominance in the doctor's mouth. ]

[punch_it]

[Breathe, Bones. Air isn't optional. He's going to need to breathe if he wants any kind of answer. Jane can't remember the last time she managed to reduce Bones to true incoherence but he was gibbering now.]

Am I a girl? From what I understand that's my father's fault, but I'm not the doctor here.

[Jane innocently shrugs.]

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

[ Hilariously enough (for others, not Spock), a complete lack of visible emotion has a similar, though arguably delayed effect. The Vulcan found that any array of logical comments in responses to illogical small talk would cause his fellow passenger to relocate to another part of the shuttle.

Today however, the shuttlecraft carried with it a very special passenger. It surprised Spock, though not visibly, to see the Doctor still so visibly disgruntled despite having traveled between universes. Was the good Doctor not fascinated by his new surroundings?

Perhaps Spock was even marginally heartened by Bones's appearance. Other than Christine, the remaining members of the Enterprise crew were not from his universe. McCoy was the preverbal familiar face from home. But such feelings implied having feelings in the first place, which Spock would immediately declare that he did not.

The tall, lanky Vulcan, dressed still in his Science Blue, passed McCoy on the way to his own seat. Spock had selected the one directly across from the Doctor. ]

I have trouble believing that the Grasp would have selected you as a viable candidate Doctor McCoy. You have so many undesirable human qualities.

[ He missed you Bones. In that love hate kind of way. ]

[asouthron]

[ That voice. He never thought he would actually be happy to hear it poke fun at him. Not that he's going to let the green-blooded bastard know that! ]

And yet here I am, Mr. Spock. That's a helluva faulty logic loop you've there. Might wanna fix it before you fry yer circuits.

Clearly they needed Starfleet's steadiest hands for their embroidery needs.

[ That, Commander, is called heavy sarcasm and it's all that's keeping him together anymore. ]

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

[ They have such a healthy relationship don't they? ]

Even I, Doctor, admit that embroidery is a complete waste of your skills.

[ Just when you think Spock is saying something to nice to him, the Vulcan adds: ]

Clothing stitching would be much more suitable. You could mend clothes as you once mended humans.

[ After this however, and whatever comeback Bones might have, Spock is ready to talk business. ]

James T. Kirk | Star Trek Reboot

[epicbeatdown]

Kirk thinks he has the weirdest job assignment ever. Who the hell even uses lava amps anymore? He rubs his jaw looking at the parts in front of him. They look pretty basic. He starts to line things up. Then slowly screws things together trying not to grit his teeth together the whole time.

This is so boring. He hates this job so much. He should be back on the Enterprise. They were just getting ready for their five year mission. It was going to be great. He had been looking forward to getting out there.

Now instead of that he is here doing a stupid job he has no interest in. Watching paint dry comes to mind. That might be more interesting than some stupid busy work. He also can admit he is a little bit hungry on top of that. He had slept in and thinks he might offer to punch himself in the face if it gets him out of work and to a kitchen.

A grilled cheese sandwich might be nice. Or something else entirely Kirk can't decide he just knows he hates every agonizingly slow minute at this job.

[simulatedmedic]

And there's someone sitting not too far from Kirk, on the same assembly line. He's wearing something that may be familiar, and humming happily to himself.

That is until the man drops something on the ground. "Whoops, silly me!" He says, overly happy, ducking under the table...

...And there may be a quiet beeping noise.

[epicbeatdown]

"Who the hell can you be happy," Kirk complains. He is s unhappy about this situation.

He can't stop thinking about where he wants to be. Where he thinks he should be.

Then his stomach gurgles. God. He should have at least had an apple earlier. He regrets that now. This will make work miserable on top of boring.

[simulatedmedic]

"Why shouldn't I be happy? Being miserable only makes the day go longer!"

Yeah, he is too happy. Is it an act? Maybe.

Either way, the Doctor sits back up and continues working, humming something that sounds classical.

[epicbeatdown]

What is wrong with you, sir? Kirk is almost tempted to rearrange that guy's whole face.

He knows that urge is a little unnatural. He had gotten over his punch everything phase a few years ago. He was working very hard to be a better man. What is wrong with him?

"Yeah but being that happy is just unnatural. No one does that."

[simulatedmedic]

"A smile a day keeps the doctor away. I should know."

He hums a few more bars, finishing his one lava lamp.

"Studies show that being happy reduces the likelihood of stress-related illnesses."

[epicbeatdown]

He is tempted to be crude. He glances at the parts and starting putting the lamp together. He might as well work for his pay even if the job sucks.

"Sex works for stress relief just fine."

What is he? Twenty-one again? He has no idea why he is being such a shit right now. He still doesn't like this guy.

[simulatedmedic]

"Yes, that works, too. But since sex is not an option, I'd rather go for the easier to obtain option."

Yes, he's a hologram. No, he's not revealing that just yet. The Mobile Emitter on his arm can be explained away.

He drops another peice and ducks back under the table again...

[epicbeatdown]

"What?"

Now he is curious. The guy isn't a Vulcan. He still feels like being a shit but less like he has stepped back in time five years.

"Have trouble getting it up?.... Can't find your type?"

He shouldn't wonder what anyone's type is when he barely knows them. He just feels like being a pain while he puts the lamp together.

[simulatedmedic]

"No."

He pokes his head up and fixes Kirk with a pointed look.

"We're at work."

Duh.

[epicbeatdown]

"So?"

He smirks as he finishing screwing a part in place. The lamp is almost ready. Needs a few final touches.

"We're just talking. It would be different if it wasn't just that.... No offense but you're not my type."

He prefers ladies. Men don't do anything for him.

[simulatedmedic]

"Glad to hear it."

He sits back up, starting work again.

"For me, personality is also a key."

There may be some heavy implications in his tone right there.

[epicbeatdown]

"Well if you want to have a relationship, I guess," Kirk agrees.

"I'm not really able to commit. I'm upfront about that."

He learned his lesson. He knows he isn't emotionally mature enough. "Trying to avoid hurt feelings is important."

He tests the lamp. Good it works. He moves it over to the rows of lamps finished today and grabs fresh parts.

"Hey pal, you need any fresh parts?"

[simulatedmedic]

"No, I'm fine, thank you."

And another part gets dropped. Under the table again.

He's saying nothing about feelings, he's not one to preach, after all.

[hisonlygirl]

Someone plops down next to him without invitation. She looks over the pieces Jim was currently working and reaches out to help assemble them.

"One would think that the Nysgods had better things to build than lava lamps and jewelry." The tasks were mind-numbing. "They could at least build something interesting. Or work on the tasks we wanted to instead."

The Enterprise tilts her head as she finds an odd-shaped part before throwing it over her shoulder. It would be more effective without that particular piece anyway.

[epicbeatdown]

Kirk lets his eyebrows go up. His expression reads like he wonders if the Doctor is sure.

He shrugs then moves to set up the parts so they are at least in order as he works.

"Sorry if I'm being an ass. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, I guess. Plus..."

Why is he talking? "I ran into some people I know. Only they're different. Like their genders got swapped."

Mostly. "Except for my XO. It's weird."

[simulatedmedic]

"Multiple dimensions are nothing to be worried about."

Back out from under the table. He works on his second lamp.

"It's not like you'll cancel out if you touch the same version of yourself."

[epicbeatdown]

"I'd rather wait on tables than do this," Kirk grumbles. He had done that very , very briefly once. The job had sucked and he had quit after a day.

That would be better than this. He feels cut off from things.

"Thanks," he quirks a smile up a the lovely woman. She feels so damn familiar to him. Someone forgot to tell him about his ship who is a lady.

[epicbeatdown]

"Yeah but I thought..."

Oh. Oh man he should have paid more attention during theoretical physics that day. He feels stupid.

"Old Spock tricked me!" That likely sounds weird coming out of the young-looking man's mouth. He looks slightly out raged.