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TEST DRIVE MEME 001
T E S T D R I V E M E M E![]() You wake up, alone in the dark. There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Through the fog you can see shadows of movement, the muted sound of alarms crying. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're suddenly dropped several feet onto the opposite wall. It takes you several minutes to catch your breath and gather strength in uncooperative limbs; more time still to climb up through the debris to the hole in the outer wall high above. You emerge in bright sunlight, surrounded by an immense jungle. As your vision clears, you realize you stand on the hull of a colossal spaceship, crashed on an alien planet. There's a shout behind you, and as you turn, figures climb over the curve of the ship towards you: your rescue party, weathered and scarred by the efforts necessary for survival. B A S E C A M P A ramshackle spread of tents and shelters built out of resources salvaged from the ship and gathered from the jungle. Not sleek, not clean, but alive: people coming and going from tent to tent, heading out into the jungle or returning with freshly foraged food. Some are working to build more shelters or improvize working tech out of parts salvaged from the ship; some are cooking; some are just taking shelter from the sun for a while. Whether you find somewhere to help or apply your skills, it's probably a good idea to get to know your neighbors. E X P L O R A T I O N The jungle is dense and green, teeming with life, high calls and cries of strange animals and birds, the low buzz and murmur of insects. There are no paths or notable markings; go too far into the trees and you may not be able to find your way back. Dangers hide in the shadows but there's also food, water - or perhaps you're looking for more, pushing further in a search for answers about this planet you're now living on. Or you can turn your attention to the crashed ship, the huge bulk of it balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff. It creaks and groans in its delicate position, audible from a distant but all the louder should you venture inside. Dark corridors made even more dangerous by the damage to the internal structure, debris and obstacles blocking progress, and any wrong step could cause it to collapse in on you, or send the ship over the cliff. But finding any tech, resources or supplies might just be worth the risk. C H O O S E Y O U R O W N . . . Hunt or flee from strange creatures in the jungle, take a try at rock-climbing down the cliff-face, or practise in-game gained abilities. Ataraxion is currently without a network until one is built, but test-driving on a prospective one is also totally fine! |
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"This environment is drastically different from anything I have been forced to exist in before. My appearance may change again, in time. But it will be gradual, and will probably take months for the first signs to begin emerging."
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"Alright, what are you trying to get out of me if I agree to this?"
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And the degree of a bond that they'd formed before their differentiation does not wholly account for it: "Anyways, you know how shitty things can get. When fuck-heads are in charge everything can go to hell and keep you crammed under its thumb no matter what you do. Nobody goes lone wolf on that and survives, not for the long run."
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Wait, she's asking the wrong person for that. She half-turns to him, flapping a hand. "I know, I know, I'll find out."
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"Let me know if they need any persuasion in coughing up information. Some people can be stubborn. They need... prodding."
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"Where do you want to meet up again?"
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"Meet up? That's a good question. That camp seems to be about the only remotely organized set-up that I've come across but I don't think it would be wise to conduct this sort of business so close to so many eyes and ears. Maybe somewhere in the ship itself, though... with its precarious position on the cliff and all that groaning coming from the inner structures, I'm not sure how stable it is."
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"Aliens first," she prompts, mostly because she wants to see how he and his wide-arcing spines are able to handle the dangling vines and overgrowth that seems to edge in on the water's banks.
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If she'd looked half-way reasonable when she first arrived, by day three or so she's a pit-stained, rat-nest tangle of hairball who looks about as miserable as Algidus has been during the worst of his tantrum... but it's a slow burn. AJ's going to develop a permanent scowl before she's twenty-five at this rate.
Eventually a boulder juts free from the jungle growth, projecting out into the water. A single twisted, miserable little tree is growing from its top, its roots winding down the boulder's surface, vines swaying from its unusually large and pithy leaves. AJ throws another branch at Algidus from behind, too hot and tired to talk and grumpy enough that she feels it is a worth-while method of getting his attention. "Here, fuck. Stop here."
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It's why, when AJ throws another branch at his back, the dark icy alien's hackles go up immediately. He whips around, his brows drawn together and his pupils contracting to slits so thin they're barely visible against the green glow of his eyes. "Stop... doing that," his words start out sharp and then tail off into a lower growl; despite his frustration over literally everything right now, he at least seems to have the sense to realize that exploding on someone who's just offered to help him is one of the most counterproductive things he could be doing right now.
He also realizes that the human trailing along behind him looks... almost as terrible as he feels. His pupils dilate again and he seems to actually looker her over... it makes him feel a pang of something that he detests, and he spends a good couple of moments trying to grapple with it, to push it back down. When that fail to work he caves in and decides to go with the next quickest way of dispelling the unwanted feeling. "Come here," he grumbles.
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With that he folded his arms and parked his ass in the stupid green grass. Tantrum engaged.
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...He doesn't know about that, does he?
AJ drops her arms and pinches her lips fiercely, feeling awful. "If I stay with you, we'll be getting nothing done." Though the niggling worry, 'I might like it' crept into her mind before she locked it down.
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"Do what you will, human. I have made my offer and you spurned it."
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She'd throw another stick if she had one.
"Listen," she spits. "I just don't want you thinking I'm coming over there because I'm fucking weak. I'm not! I'm only doing this because you and me know the shit that gets pulled when you go off on your fucking own in the places we've been through. I'm just doing this because we should stick together!" And she's been stepping closer, plunking her ass on the undergrowth nearby, scooting the rest of the way like an angry little dog.
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((Man I hope we can handwave or link to this thread for the game proper. XD))
((If not I am sure they will cross paths again~))
((Oh, quite possibly. You never know, these two don't quite seem like they'll stick~))
((I dunno, he's made of ice and it's super humid out. She might stick a little.))
((The moment she gives him a tongue-lashing, she'll be stuck for good!))
((In both senses of the word?? wink wonk))
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