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?

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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.

[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."

[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]

"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.

[hisonlygirl]

"There's a quite a list of things I'd rather do than this but as I understand it, this is supposed to be punishment. Or maybe simply something to keep us occupied so we can't cause more trouble." She shakes her head. Despite looking a great deal like a Nysgod, the Enterprise is far from being one of them.

While she did enjoy having something to do she would much rather have a choice about it.

"You're welcome, Captain," the Enterprise grins back at him.

[epicbeatdown]

"As if I don't find trouble anyways." Jim can't help looking up and smirking at the woman. To him she does not quite look like the Nysgods. There are differences in how she looks that stand out to him.

Her response has him raise his eyebrows slightly.

"I know you." He is so sure of this. He knows he hasn't seen her here before but he knows her. He just knows it.

[hisonlygirl]

"We expect nothing less," a light teasing. They were used to looking for subtle differences, to not comparing one person to another - one species could be similar yet not in comparison to another.

That grin only grows wider at his words.

"You do, though I look completely different from the last time we saw each other." She stops putting together the lamp and turns completely towards him. "I'm not a crew member but am a member of Starfleet and serve you directly, our first encounter was in Riverside."

[epicbeatdown]

That gets a bright smile from him. She knows him so well. He knows her and this is comforting.

They never had sex. He knows that.

"Riverside?" His eyebrows furrow in thought. That night had been intense. Then he had gone to the ship yard. He remembers a lot from that trip.

Oh. He looks up as he tightens a screw.

"You're the Enterprise somehow. Nysgod technology?"

[hisonlygirl]

She knows him as well as she knows every inch of herself - from bow to stern and every tiny corner in between. Yet somehow Kirk can manage to still surprise her. It's a beautiful thing in her opinion.

No, they never had sex. Sex was a curious passing thought to her, one she would like to try eventually. Though he may (most definitely) find her in his bed in the future.

The Enterprise is quiet as he puzzles out the answer, the realization evident to her before he even says a word.

"I am. However, we have yet to discover how it's possible."

[epicbeatdown]

He knew her as well as a Captain could. Captains are always married to their ships. It is just a fact like that Earth's sky is blue.

The fact he knows what she is right away just puzzles him. He guesses this is because he almost died to save her and the crew she carried. He would have died if his command crew wasn't filled out with brilliant people.

He owes Nyota one. If she wants an awesome shore leave with Spock someday he'll help make it happen.

"Well anything is possible eventually."

[hisonlygirl]

While she couldn't feel anything as a ship, as a machine the Enterprise could have feelings now. There had been so many at the beginning. She almost thought she would have drowned in them. They subsided to something more manageable but as time went by the ship had felt the absence of her Captain. Sure Jane was around but as much as the ship could claim her they both knew that there was another ship out there, one that had known her Captain as a female instead of male. There would always be the smallest of differences between her timeline and that of any other Kirk.

So it was not unreasonable or illogical to say that she had missed her Captain's presence here. He had been such a big part of her life ever since the day they went to Vulcan. That meant it was perfectly sane to be glad to have him here, even if it meant he too was trapped.

"Eventually. The Nysgods seem to have technology beyond ours yet here we are, making more lava lamps than any species could possibly need."

I mean because ... lol

[embracing_technicality]

A few rows in front of him, and in Kirk's direct line of sight, Spock sits down at her station. Her worker's uniform is pristine and she lifts up her messenger bag and sets it down on the ground, leaning it exactly 75 degrees against her stool.

The haircut, the ears, the complete lack of expression. Everything screams Vulcan.

That's when she makes eye contact, and the faintest twitch in her eyebrow follows a type of recognition. But Spock dismisses it. She's never seen the man in her life, why would he seem familiar?