thisavrou_ooc | February Test Drive Meme

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February Test Drive Meme

Multiversal travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of transit forces your body into unconsciousness.

Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t.

You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. Welcome to Avagi Station, your new home.

New arrivals are, of course, welcome to explore the various locations around the station. Additionally everyone is provided with a communicator in case they want to pose any questions to the population already residing on Avagi.

Moon 900CA1

Like every city has a junkyard, this universe is littered with (mostly) uninhabited planets or moons that are being used for the same purpose. Welcome to one of the many universal "dump sites" of the galaxy. Moon 900CA1 is one of many, a celestial body belonging to the planet of Ploria, and as this area of the universe is technologically advanced in comparison to others, so is a majority of the junk left here. There is a haze encompassing this moon and breathing masks are needed for anyone who decides to visit the surface. Every inch of ground is covered in debris, various spacecrafts, and machines. Some of it is piled higher than one can see over if standing at the bottom.

spare parts:

What’s even better than having to trade precious goods or services for the equipment that the station so desperately needs? Getting them for free. Well, free with the added ingredient of elbow-grease. Stocking up spare parts is a must when traveling the universe. This planet is brimming with discarded ships, machines, vehicles, and all manners of "outdated" technology. You’ve been given a list of things to keep an eye out for while you’re out shopping but feel free to pick up something for yourself. After all, one species’ trash might be your coolest thing ever.

build-a-thing:

While it’s clear that most of the visitors here are scavenging or looting, there are a very small number of booths scattered throughout where vendors have set up shop. Is there something you need or want? New jet-propulsion space shoes? A small flying craft? A robot? These vendors will use scrap parts that you’ve found and brought to them, for a small fee of course, to build it for you. Be sure to bring the best parts that you can because you’ll only get the highest quality that you’ve provided.

trash junkies::

Such large stacks of trash are bound to shift and move over time, it’s simply a natural part of this moon’s gravity fluctuations, but why is it that the movements are perfectly in sync with every step you take? You move, the debris moves. You stop, the junk stills. If you choose to investigate, or get too close too quickly, you’ll discover that you aren’t alone in your scavenging. Creatures, varying anywhere between a foot to over ten feet tall, dive and sort through the debris. They are diligent in their searches and shy away from organic contact of any kind. If you have anything that they deem of value in your hands, they’ll wait until your back is turned and then try to take it from you. On the plus side, they don't seem too dangerous?

moon tomb:

Those who choose not to wear a breathing mask will notice a horrible and overwhelming scent wafting gently on the wind. It’s a scent that is familiar, but you can’t quite place it. At first. The ACE devices coordinate with your respiratory functions, and a small notice will flash across the screen: High concentration of decomposing organic material. Some will know what this means and head back to the portals immediately. Those who don’t, or are too curious, will follow their ACEs to areas with much higher concentration levels and stumble across an equally common occurrence on these kind of disposal planets: bodies, of varying species, discarded for one reason or another. There are thousands of them spread out among the refuse, and the further you explore, the longer your ACE warns of exposure to elements of disease. Now might be the time to turn back...

OUT OF CHARACTER INFO

Note: While TDM threads can generally be counted as game canon, upcoming plot and scenarios may limit the settings or circumstances under which the interactions take place. Players are, of course, welcome to fudge details in order to keep these interactions as part of their in game CR.

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[Raven's eyes settle on the young woman and her flash of white hair. But it's hard to focus, she feels like she might be about to puke. Eyes close tight and she works through it, the last thing she wants to do is vomit all over herself in the face of this stranger. She's already revealing far too much weakness than she cared for.

One breath. Deep. Then another.

She's no idea of her shared history with this girl, no idea what her expectations or concerns might be. She shakes her head at the offer, even though a glass of water probably would be helpful. Raven doesn't trust random strangers she's only just woken up to find waiting at her bedside. But then Raven didn't trust most people, simply on principle. It's safer to expect the worst of a person rather than give the benefit of the doubt.]

Where am I?

[Raven tone isn't angry or hostile, but there is a tinge of suspicion there.]

[Rogue shrugs.] Alright, suit yourself.

[She should have figured she'd be the one giving the welcome speech.] You're on a space station called Avagi. We're all here against our will, and so far no one's managed to find a way back. [She gives a small smile.]

I'm Rogue. One of the X-Men from what I think is your future.

[It's like she's speaking a foreign language. It sounds like these should be words that made sense, but they didn't quite make it there and translate in her brain. Then she says the word X-men and Raven's eyes dart up in a flash. All the other things she's said start a slow transition to clarity in her head around them.]

You're from the future. [She curses lightly under her breath. And they were on a space station.] Is Logan here too to tell me how this is somehow all my fault? [Perhaps she's not making the best first impression. But even savior!Raven can be kind of a B. Sorry, Rogue.]

I'm from 2005. [Honestly, Rogue's not expecting anything less than the bitchiest, but the comment about Logan has her pressing her lips together and frowning.]

Logan left a few months ago. [Logan left, and had gone home to, according to Laura, die.] This is none of our faults- there's no rhyme or reason to who gets picked up.

It's 1983 for me. [If she cares Raven offers the information back. 2005. She'd be in her sixties by then. Isn't that a thought. She wonders if she'll look any different. The past thirty years hadn't bared any aging fruit, so who knew what the next twenty might do.] Coincidence? Random, then? [Raven's not so sure about that.]

[Sitting up, she moves to stand on shaky feet. For a moment she eyes the hospital gown with a wrinkled nose. But she doesn't move to take it off yet.]

So you know me. [She had to of. How else would she know to talk of the X-men?]

You'll find you're in good company here, then. [Both Erik and Kurt were from 1983. It was incredibly frustrating, along with the twenty year time difference and, hopefully, different universes.] Nightcrawler and Magneto are here.

[Codenames are easier, she figures. There could have been a lot of Kurts and Eriks in the 80s.]

I do. [Her voice is neutral. She's not here to be best friends.]

[She does her best to steal her expression. Erik. And Kurt. They're both here. Ultimately Raven takes a moment to look away to collect herself. It hasn't been that long since she last say Erik, a month at most. And Kurt she's only just seen at the Mansion.]

[Then she's focused back on Rogue, nothing showing on her face that this news had in any way effected her.] And your name is Rogue. [Her codename, she's assuming. A mutant too. She does wonder what it is she can do. But she can save those questions. She's trying to get a read on her. Sense anything from her. It's times like this she can understand why Charles can't help himself looking into some people's minds.] My actual future self. Or a different one... I suppose you won't know that. [The one where she killed Trask. Some other possible future where she made some other pivotal choice?]

Right. [It's the only name she used anymore, the only one anyone got to know.]

Too right I don't. There's been some discussion about me being from a different timeline- the one you don't fix. [The one she continued to mess up royally by letting Magneto hurt her, by helping him every step of the way.] We haven't had the time to thoroughly investigate. [Nor had she wanted to sit down and see where histories branched off.]

['You don't fix'. Mystique's eyes are on Rogue, seeming to sense some of the latent hostility even if she's not openly voicing it. Well, then. It's lucky that Raven isn't one to lose much sleep over being liked, or she might have taken offense.]

You don't have time. You're stuck here on a space station together. [What else was there, but time?] A lot of excitement here, is there? Should I be worried?

I see the irony. But you'd be surprised.

[She also really didn't want to sit down and chat about it with Erik, either.]

There's a good amount of excitement, I ain't gonna lie to you. But there are also tiny dinosaurs.

[Raven gives her a look, nose wrinkled and skepticism clear.] Tiny. Dinosaurs.

[She can only find in herself one question, but she's sensing there's not going to be real good answer for it. Nothing really made logical sense so far, after all.] Why?

Yeah. I know. [Rogue shrugs.] No one's sure why. But they're here. Some of 'em live in the greenery, others have taken 'em in as pets. They pretty harmless, it turns out.

How're you feeling?

Harmless. Sure. [She has her doubts. Could they get bigger? How harmless would they be then? A problem for another time. She shrugs at her question.] Less like I'm going to vomit. So that's an improvement.

Can you show me around or would you rather not? [She moves to pull off her white gown, shifting simultaneously so that she was wearing something identical to her black white and blue X-men uniform once the gown is finally tossed aside.]

Glad to hear it. [She wasn't really, but there were people on this place that cared about her, much to her chagrin.

Despite having seen Mystique's physical form a few times, Rogue averts her eyes. She's still a modest girl. Skin makes her uncomfortable by default.]

I'm sure you'd rather have Kurt or someone you know already show you around. [No, she really didn't want to take Raven around and introduce her. However, something occurs to her. She could use the time to essentially interrogate the other woman. Learn what made her tick as best she could.

Keep your enemies closer.]

But I can, if you want to go right now.

Maybe I would. But you're here now. They're not. So, yes, I would like to explore now. Anything to get out of this room. [And just as much as Rogue is wanting to learn more of Raven, the reciprocal is also true. She does want learn more of the girl too.]

[Rogue swallows thickly and steels herself] Alright. Guided your it is. This is the infirmary.

[She gestures] have they assigned you a room yet?

[Raven shakes her head.] If I have, they haven't told me. What kind of rooms are they? Will I have to live with other people? [Please god, no.]

Not if you don't want to. I have my own room. It's pretty nice but some aren't quite so great. Most of the other mutants [Raven was not an X-Man] live in the same area.

So I think you can pick and choose at will.

[Maybe she isn't an X-man in her timeline. How might Rogue feel to learn her current status before coming here? Helping train the X-men and as one of them.] Alright. I guess I'll have to wait and see where I'll end up.

I guess so.

You'd be right at home in the X-Wing, I'm sure. [So it would begin. With Raven here and Rogue's dislike for her, she could only see the rest of the mutants turning against her]

Alright, so this place is huge. no one has explored it as far as we know.

[They called where they all stayed the X-wing? Like its some space ship out of that Star Wars movie? She barely contains her snort. She wonders who came up with that? She doesn't ask, in case it's Rogue. No reason to make her dislike of her that much more.]

No one has? Why not? Is there something stopping someone from exploring the entire station?

[Yes, exactly. But X as in X-Gene, of course. Honestly, Raven. You can blame your brother.]

This place is huge. And I'm gonna be honest here- it's creepy as hell. There's been a lot of weird shit that's gone down, it's not really safe t'go out exploring on your own.

[She glances at Mystique, knowing full-well how dangerous she could be.] No matter who you are.

[Raven looks at Rogue, certainly catching her meaning. She's an excellent fighter and able to get out of a lot of dangerous situations. But that's no reason to invite the danger. If Rogue said it was dangerous, she'll have to take her at her word. She'd little other option but to.] Consider it noted.

Where is it safe to go?

The general area's pretty well-lit. The lights flicker, but there's power. I'm sure we can find you a map. So far everyone's been real friendly.

[Okay, so Pietro was a bit of a dick, but she really didn't mind him. Her biggest problem was Erik. And now Mystique.]

We've got a library, this really amazing green space- there's a bar too but nothing there's any good.

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