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TEST DRIVE MEME #1

No gimmicky dinosaur setup this time round, since the game is actually rolling now! If you've got a character you want to try out in this setting, make a thread with them on here, and if you don't, see if you can tag other people with your characters.

Test drive threads can be anything you like, in-person or online, just make it clear which one your thread is when you start it. Make sure to put the name of the character and what canon they're from in the subject, so people know who they are and where they come from.

Can I use test drive threads as samples for my app?
Indeed you may, fair stranger

Can I decide a test drive thread is game canon?
Heck yeah you can, provided the person you threaded it with is cool with that too!

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A huge robot dinosaur wrecking shit and breathing fire all over her territory?? Yeah, Lina doesn't think so, buddy. Setting fire to things and destroying local property is her job. ...To prevent. Yeah!!!

Nobody had said anything about a robot dinosaur, but pfff, Lina's handled plenty of tougher things before. As soon as the notorious Lina Inverse descends on the scene, cape aflutter, the panicked campers start running even faster -- because now there are two wantonly destructive things who are about to be spitting fire everywhere. Good move, civilians.

"Hey, ugly! That's right, I'm talking to you!" Lina crows as she swoops down from the air toward Grimlock, although she's not really aiming to get too close. She cups her hands around a glimmering ball of light that begins to glimmer between them, growing hotter by the second. "You're gonna regret making a mess in my backyard! Ready, aim...fireball!"

She hurls the spell like it's a fastball pitch, and it rockets straight for Grimlock -- a pretty easy target, seeing as he's so big.

Lina's been on "sabbatical" from Alpha Force for the last few years, but after a whole bunch of travel, adventures, and a few arcane quests, she's finally made it back to L.A., her sort-of-home base! Man, Alpha Force has probably TOTALLY missed her. What are they supposed to do without their resident sorcery genius, of course? Well...sorcery genius besides the Scarlet Witch, whatever. Is she still hanging around? Probably. (mouth fart noise)

a.
Rather than telling anyone she's back ahead of time like a sensible person would do, Lina pretty much just shows up at the Alpha Force tower and starts raiding the fridge in the common area. Alpha Force members who have worked with her before will probably found it difficult to have forgotten her so soon; new members might know her from CONDOR records as well as the news, neither of which remembers her very favorably despite having done her fair share of heroic deeds. But Lina knows where she's needed most! And right now, that's right on the couch in Alpha Force tower with the TV remote in one hand and a very old magical tome in her lap, and literal mountains of snacks stacked around her.

b.
What's the first thing a newly-returned superhero does upon arrival back in her (sort of) home turf? Well, a proper soar above the city, of course. But after that...well, all that flying gives a girl an appetite, so her favorite lunch place is next on the list. Unfortunately on her way there, she encounters an attempted bank robbery by a bunch of D-list mooks. Can't let them get away with that, can she? Lina sets right about clearing them out, mostly with gratuitous explosions -- it's not immediately clear whether she's beating up the would-be bank robbers or trying to level the bank itself. Ah, you make an omelet, you've gotta break a few eggs...

Rex had finally gotten ~~a chance to sneak out~~ some free time from Providence and had been wandering around LA for a while, just chilling out and trying to do something normal for a change. Hearing the sound of explosions around the corner though, he went running over to check it out. Normal was great and all, but he wasn't about to pass up some action.

Pushing his way through the rush of people to the site of the conflict. It was pretty clear who was causing the explosions. Rex didn't recognize Lina, but he could tell she was probably a superhero. Whomever she was fighting was less clear, but with all that fire power it had to be something big. He slipped on his goggles, building out a pair of oversized gauntlets as he ran over.

"Hey. Need a hand?"

As it so happens, Ravirn just so happens to be coming back from that lunch place- with leftover bag in hand. Also as it happens, his route is taking him towards an area where...there are lots of noises. And running people.

Huh.

Ravirn promptly threads his way closer, eyes wide behind his sunglasses as he catches sight of what is definitely some high-level magic. He's still not used to sorcerers acting out in the open here, and that is some serious power the - woman? - is wielding. All that damage, chaos, and seriously. Wow.

So, of course, his first impulse is to wait until she starts casting again- and then to start whistling, throwing his own magic behind it as he tries to tweak the spell. More for the sake of seeing if he can, as opposed to any real attempt to temper the damage, but, hey.

If anyone asks that's clearly what he was trying to do.

Edited 2014-09-11 18:12 (UTC)

The bank robbers are scattering easily under Lina's explosions, a fair number of them trying to get away, but Lina's not so easily discouraged. "Ohh, no you don't!" she crows as a few of them run underfoot, and she swoops down, hurling a fiery projectile at one of them. "Flare arrow -- wh -- hey! Watch it, kid!"

She nearly grazes Rex, not having seen him in her path until the last minute, but she turns sharply in midair, her cape swirling around her as she veers off course. "Look, if you want to help and not get in my way, make sure those guys don't get away, got it?"

Grimlock grunts and finally locates him, and looks none too impressed with what he finds. "Human in tree? You yell at me Grimlock? What tiny human want?!" He stomps impatiently and slaps his tail up and down, snorting.

Lina notices the whistling on the edge of hearing, under all the ruckus, but what she definitely pays attention to is the unfamiliar tug on her spell -- she can feel that, someone messing with her magic, and it alarms the hell out of her. She's so caught off guard that her fireball goes askew -- whatever influence someone else is trying to exert on it isn't helping, either, and the fireball lands dangerously close to an innocent bystander trying to get out of the way of the action. Whoops.

She whirls around in midair, eyes narrowed. One of the robbers? Nah, they're just a bunch of D-list losers. None of them have that kind of power. No, this has to be someone else...and hey, look who's not running away from the fray. Lina's not stupid, and she's zeroing in on you, kid.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing? Cut it out!"

Grimlock hears her taunts, but does not see her, nor does he see the fire ball really before its too late.

Unfortunately plain fire is something that Grimlock has little vulnerability to. His metal hide repels the spell with no effort, and he whips around in the direction it came from to squint angrily.

"Hmmm?!? Who challenge me Grimlock?! Dinobot?? Me Grimlock love fight, make big mess! You no tell me Grimlock what do!"

He roars defiantly at the sky, a horrible screeching metal sound mixed with that stock noise of the t rex from jurassic park, just to emphasize that he means business.

Rex's eyes widened in surprise as the fire bolt grazed one of his gauntlets and leapt back with a yelp, shaking his hand quickly to try and cool the metal. Sheesh, and Providence gave him a hard time about not paying attention. Figuring there was no point in arguing without getting hit by another wayward fire blast, Rex built out his jetpack, flying the perimeter of the fight where the guys in question had been scampering off.

Finally catching up to them he swooped, down, grabbing the back of one guy's shirt and rising again, scanning through the debris for the others.

"How many guys are there anyway?" He shouts back to Lina, still holding the struggling bank robber.

That fireball getting too close to that guy? That has an even quicker whistling set, Ravirn realizing his mistake far too close for comfort- he's only ever been so good at working with that, though, and can only manage a diverting gust to take most of the heat.

This does, of course, make it all but impossible to point at someone else when she stares right at him.

And despite Raven's urge for fun- Ravirn bristles at that, because that? Was not all his fault, and being blamed is never fun. So there's a bit of bite in his not-quite-teasing response;

"I take it we're not caring about damage control, huh?"

Grimlock bucks and roars wordlessly, furious that he cannot reach his target, when the nanites hit home. Its pure confusion, attacking and trying to control and calm the animal instincts of his brain, and he lets out a bellow that sounds more human than t rex.

He crashes to the forest floor, belly down, and whines miserably, suddenly exhausted. "What flying boy do to me Grimlock? Flying boy not fight fair!!"

Oh, boy. Big, ugly, and stupid. Lina makes a face as he roars, little hairs raising on the back of her neck at the screeching noise, but she's far from intimidated. She lets out a little laugh as she flies a little closer, her hair trailing behind her.

"Grimlock, huh?" She sounds kind of amused, and she kind of is. Grimlock hasn't really made her angry, yet. Right now she's kind of looking forward to kicking his butt. She hovers in midair in front of him, arms crossed in front of her chest, but she lifts a hand, waggling her fingers at him.

"All right, Grimlock, here's how this is going to go. We can do this one of two ways." Lina holds up two fingers, smirking at him, although she's also taking the chance to look him over and see if she can discern anything about where he came from just at a glance. Where did he come from? TRIDENT's not an unreasonable bet, but she needs to know more. "Either you can surrender now and tell me everything you know about where you came from...or," she adds, her voice growing savagely cheerful, "you can try to put up a fight and I give you the Lina Inverse special. Either way, I win! So what's it gonna be, big guy?"

How is Grimlock in Alpha force tower? I dunno, rule of funny? Lina has a tagalong from her trip home.

Grimlock is amazed by the sights and smells of the place and is breaking a lot of shit, his tiny attention span having a field day jumping from new thing to new thing. Right now he's mostly interested in Lina's food, though. He pokes his enormous snout in and takes a whiff.

"What this? Wizard lady share with me Grimlock?!"

"Me Grimlock always pick fight! Dinobots not talk!! Dinobots FIGHT!! Flying lady never win against me Grimlock!" He roars and takes another snap at her.

The sound shakes Rex to the core, and he immediately has a pang of regret. Fighting mindless monsters was one thing, but he hated causing people pain. Now he wasn't sure that even if this was a machine it couldn't think and feel. After Grimlock crashes to the floor, Rex recalls the nanites, getting the feedback of what exactly wound up happening. Temporary loss of power, nothing bad.

He gives a small sigh of relief, walking across Grimlock's back to slid onto the ground. He walked around to Grimlock's head, giving the robot a hesitant but friendly pat.
"It's ok, big guy, you'll be fine," he says reassuringly, trying to hide the twinge of uncertainty, and after a pause, "Besides it wasn't really a fair fight to begin with, you're, like, three times taller than me."

"Uh huh," Lina says, clearly unimpressed -- she darts out of range of his teeth easily, cupping her hands for another spell. "Well, this flying lady happens to be Lina Inverse, and I'm gonna turn you into scrap metal in no time!"

So fire hadn't worked all that well -- Lina's got plenty else in her bag of tricks. This should really be a piece of cake -- he's just a big robot, that's all.

"Freeze arrow!"

She sends a few icy projectiles flying his way, but aimed at his feet -- and once they make contact they'll start spreading, hopefully rooting him to the ground.

"I told you, my name is Lina. Li-na -- hey, get your face out of my food!"

Lina's leaping off the couch immediately to shove Grimlock's snout right out of her food with her bare hands. She's not very big, so she's pretty much throwing all her weight against him. She hadn't really minded the robot dinosaur thing following her home -- there are worse things, she supposes, and having her very own fire-breathing pet robot is pretty neat. But that doesn't mean he's allowed to get into her food. Nobody touches Lina's food.

“What I want is for you to stop stomping your giant feet everywhere. This rate, you’ll flatten half the trees before sundown.”

Bigby gives an irritated sigh, not sure if any of this is getting through or not. Just another average afternoon of him talking to a giant, fire-breathing idiot with the attention span of a toddler. They did not pay him enough to do this job.

“How about you just settle down for a second and tell me what this is all about?”

"VERY NICE! BLIZZARD! FABULOUS!"

The voice comes from a man in black and blue armor, who shows up from the side and summons an icy wind to curb the fires caused, and to attempt and stifle the spells in-flight.

Haruto cuts a look at Lina, though with the way his helmet is, there's no expression, but his tense body language suggests annoyance. "What do you think you're doing?!" He pauses, then leans in slightly as if he's figuring something out. "...oh, no."

Zelgadis is gritting his teeth in frustration, watching the rest of his team scatter from just a couple of explosions here and there. They have a job to do here! What was it going to take to keep them on task?

He's going to do his best to salvage this job, which means circling back out of range of panicking, flaming minions running about, and tracking down the source of their problems.

Oh. A sorceress. What was she doing, trying to blow up the bank? He knows he's outclassed on raw spellcasting power, but he's going to at least slow her down.

"Dug Haut!"

The street in front of her shatters as a narrow chunk of the earth rises, forming a barrier between Lina and the bank.

"Me Grimlock... confused, why flying boy pick fight with me Grimlock in first place if not think fair?" Grimlock snorts again and thrums his tail a bit, frowning deeply. He sounds curious, on top of being a little bit whiny still.

DIRECT HIT

Grimlock sounds off an agitated roar as he's rooted to the spot, craning his neck to try and see what's holding him down and then turning his attention back skywards. He belches off more fire in her direction, too dumb to realize that he could easily just free himself using the same method to melt the ice.

"What trick flying lady use!? Flying lady not fight fair!!"

"But me Grimlock want try!!" He keeps pushing back against her, sniffing furiously over the tasty scents he's picking up. "Me Grimlock need food!"

"Settle!?!?" Grimlock roars wordlessly in Bigby's general direction. "Me Grimlock sent to DESTROY! Flatten, crush, me Grimlock do best!" He whips his tail around and takes out a few more trees to demonstrate, and turns back to Bigby proudly.

Of course when Veloci heard there was a Tyrannosaurus rex on the loose he went to investigate, he needed to know what was up here, and if it was a real T-rex (which, so far as he knew, did not breathe fire, but it was worth checking out), he needed to find out where it came from ~~and probably capture it and study it~~.

It quickly becomes clear, however, that this is not a real dinosaur, which is sort of a disappointment if he's honest. It's also the sort of thing that kind of reeks of TRIDENT; he'll need to make sure to ask Black Ghost about this later. If they're going to be making robotic dinosaurs over there, Veloci wants to know about it.

Oh, well. He's here, and there is very definitely a giant robotic dinosaur breathing fire all over the place. Might as well do something about it.

Or he could just stand back and watch for a few minutes, keeping a good distance as he observes the havoc being wrought in front of him, alternating between genuine appreciation and mild disapproval, and, eventually, calling out, "Quite an impressive showing. Who, exactly, do I have to thank for that?"

He has no idea if this thing talks, or if it might take offense at that comment. Presumably, he's about to find out though.

...Maybe he should have brought some kind of backup with him, rather than going alone into the woods after claims of dinosaur presence.

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