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

[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."

[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]

"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.

[simulatedmedic]

Spock?

That namedrop causes the Doctor to look up, because, really? Who in Starfleet hadn't heard of Ambassador Spock.

"An epiphany, I take it?"

[epicbeatdown]

"Yeah, you could say that," Kirk grumbles raking his fingers through his hair.

"Just not sure what it means. Just that Vulcans are a pain in my ass."

Except his Spock. His Spock is now his best friend next to McCoy.

[simulatedmedic]

"Yes, the race has a particular stubborn streak."

He's recalling the many times Tuvok couldn't be dissuaded from something logical. Because he was right.

[epicbeatdown]

"I respect them. One of them is.... one of the best people I know no matter how much he frustrates me," Kirk admits.

Wanting to shake Spock at least once a day is normal for Jim.

"They've gone through a lot in my ..... time line."