TEST DRIVE MEME

[mourningstarmods]

LOOK AT MY UGLY, GRAPHICS-FREE MEME.

While Reserves are Open, there's no one in the game yet, so feel free to test out your muses in the setting here! Should you choose to app, you may pick threads you've done here to count toward activity (if all characters involved are in the game).

Some prompts:

1. Fetching or Vetting. Your character is either introducing an Inmate to the ship or is going to pick them up. Or they have recently returned from this endeavor.

2. Yeah, that rumble earlier? Not a big deal. Just a flood. (You pick how it affects your character.) Let somebody know if you start feeling a little funny.

Comments

[bastardofipswich]

Chase crosses his arms, thinking over this for a moment. "So my options: work on this ship, be a 'better person,' and earn back my magic, get a second chance... or take a gamble and face death and see what happens." Well, this sounds like a no brainer. He's not about to go for oblivion. No, Chase is a survivor, even if survival isn't looking particularly pretty right now.

[gimmethemap]

"That's the short version, yes. You can ask whatever questions you wish." Because there were way too many twists and turns this voyage could take for her to lay them all down without waiting to hear what it was he needed to know, first.

[bastardofipswich]

"You mentioned someone being assigned to me," he brings up. "What's that, like a case worker?"

[habituallying]

Ohhhh. You mean like you are, Skeletor? All bark, and no more power because you couldn't manage to get one over on some boy-band reject Harry Potter wannabe and got your ass tossed through space and time all the way to my deck? Oh, poor little witch-baby.

[gimmethemap]

"We call them Wardens. When you go off-ship, they're meant to act as a guide, but it's also their job to keep you safe. Here, they advise you and are your first line of communication if someone does something wrong to you. They also have first and final word on how you are disciplined if you make trouble. If you have a problem that involves your Warden, you report it to the 1st Mate and Quartermaster. If you die again, they're the only one that can bring you back."

[bastardofipswich]

"What do you mean die again? How often do people die again?" That, at least, is concerning. Perhaps more concerning than the fact that he's going to have a warden assigned to him, in charge of his every action or whatever. Dying once was bad enough. Chase isn't up for trying it more than once.

[gimmethemap]

"A lot of people don't -- I've had a few nasty ones myself -- but being alive again comes with that risk, you know. The point is that it's not permanent so long as you're here." She might have exaggerated on how few people experienced death again, or even for the first time, on these ships.

[bastardofipswich]

"So I'm effectively immortal here?" Now he may be taking the wrong message from this.

Re: Sheldon Mopes | Death to Smoochy | OTA

[smoochy]

I bet you haven't tried it with a little bit of spirulina and almond butter. Really adds a whole new dimension of flavor.

[gimmethemap]

"Unless you're really good at making your Warden hate you, or a jury overrules them and condemns you? Almost. It doesn't make them less unpleasant, however, or a sacrifice less meaningful."

[bastardofipswich]

[Okay, wow. She's basically eviscerated him, and Chase isn't exactly the wittiest guy, himself. His idea of witty is "I'll make you my weeyotch."]

Skeletor?

Re: Sheldon Mopes | Death to Smoochy | OTA

[habituallying]

Mr Rogers, it's like every single word that you say is designed to make me want to throw up.

[bastardofipswich]

"Okay." He nods. "Say I take you up on your deal here. What's next?"

Re: Sheldon Mopes | Death to Smoochy | OTA

[smoochy]

It would be an honor to be compared to Mr. Rogers.

[habituallying]

[ Clearly by 'destroy' she means 'emotionally'. ]

After all this time, Greyskull will be yours! Not.

[gimmethemap]

She doubted he wouldn't. She'd never sent a soul back yet. "You'd start working on the main deck. A Warden is temporarily assigned to you to look after your interest until you get a permanent one. You work where you're placed to start, but if you find a job you think is more suited to your interests, you'll be given a chance to try it out. Do that quickly."

Re: Sheldon Mopes | Death to Smoochy | OTA

[habituallying]

He has a separate house for his creepy train to imagination-town. You know who else has secret houses for creepy things? Serial killers.

Marie Kreutz l The Bourne Series l OTA

[reluctantaccessory]

(Marie shakes her head. She wonders if she is explaining things poorly or if maybe she can't believe her own eyes on what just happened and that's showing. She was definitely inexperienced in this area, she could barely take care of herself in her own world.) Look, this is what they call a second chance, you know? Really think about it. No one gets those very often. No one. The fact, you died and well, you're here? Being told you can have a second chance? I don't know, it'd make me think about changing my ways...and trust me, I get it better than you think I would. I've done my fair share of stupid things. I've been screwed over my fair share of people...

(She finds herself internally sighing and it just reads on her face that she is dismayed by this, "Harmless, okay no one got physically hurt, but stupid. Trust me. The amount of bad karma I racked up definitely came back to get me in the end. And for other people? Well, maybe I walked into those situations myself."

The woman then shakes her head. She knows that she can't compare herself to this person in front of her now. She isn't expecting them to agree to anything, not just yet. If anything, her money was on the idea that they would tell her to bug off and they would go back to the fate that had they had a temporary reprieve from.)

(Then she crosses her arms, despite her palms being a bit sweaty and making it harder to keep them on the sleeves of her leather jacket, and bites her lip in thought. She supposes she will have to be blunt now and she was really hoping to avoid that. Of course, she wonders how many mistakes she made that would cost her the chance at having any sort of respect given to her.) Look, the choice is yours. I can't make it for you but really think about it. If thinking about it in the way I'm talking about this whole thing is too complicated for you...then let me make it easy. Would you rather be dead or would you rather be here? If you're dead...it's over. All over. Things you want to do? Can't do them. People you want to see? Can't see them.

Come on, let me help you out.

(She tries to give a gentle smile, though it seems more wary than gentle.)

Brock Rumlow | MCU | OTA

[noprisoners]

Look, I'm not an unreasonable man. We've all got requests for the galley. Things we miss from home. I get that. But I don't wanna hear any complaining about the food coming out of the kitchen, okay? We work damn hard to feed this ship, and if anyone wants to start acting like a diva, then I'll make sure the head cook changes the menu to something you've really got a reason to complain about. We on the same page?

[From HYDRA operative to 5th Mate on the Mourning Star. How the mighty have fallen.]

[bastardofipswich]

Control dreams. Summon familiars. Move things with my mind. Anything I wanted.

[bastardofipswich]

Totally rad 80s reference there.

[smoochy]

Hey, there was nothing creepy about the Neighborhood of Make-Believe! It taught kids about the importance of imagination!

[habituallying]

Oh yeah? Is it boss too?

[bastardofipswich]

No, it's not quite boss.

Re: Brock Rumlow | MCU | OTA

[habituallying]

Someone actually have complaints, Action Man, or are we nipping the 'where is my tofu dog' nonsense before it actually starts?