TEST DRIVE MEME #1

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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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LINA INVERSE | SLAYERS

[dragonswag]

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...

[naniteoverload]

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?"

[dragonswag]

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?"

[naniteoverload]

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.

[dragonswag]

"I didn't exactly stop to get a headcount!" Lina shoots back, a little exasperated. Use your eyes, kid, will you? But she pauses to scan the ground below and assess the situation. She'll admit, his neat nanite gadgetry has caught her eye -- she wants to know how it works -- but not till they've cleared all the mooks out. "I see about twenty, but don't you let a single one escape, got it? See if you can corral them all back here!" Her grin goes a little savage, and she laughs. "And then I'll punish them all at once."

[naniteoverload]

He looks around the area that Lina's referring to, not really seeing a good spot to leave this guy so he wouldn't just go running off again. He only had two hands, he couldn't exactly hold all of them. But the longer he hung around doing nothing the better chance they had of escaping, he he went flying off toward where he saw the most guys.

Dropping the robber he'd been hold, he put his hands together to try and form some sort of scooping barrier, trying to push as many guys together as he could. Not exactly an easy task.

"Can't you make a magic cage or something to hold these guys?"

B-b-b-b-b

[ravirn]

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.

[dragonswag]

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!"

[ravirn]

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?"

[dragonswag]

"Well, I can't if you're messing with my spells!" Lina snaps, hovering close above Ravirn. She looks pretty annoyed, buddy, and her palm is glimmering with the beginnings of a fresh spell. "How did you do that, anyway? Spill the beans, kid, or you're toast!"

[ravirn]

Okay, woah, too close. Ravirn takes an involuntary step back, his grin more like a worried baring of teeth than anything else. He can just hear Melchior suggesting he maybe shut up, try to calm the nice lady down, maybe apologize-

"How about I demonstrate?"

-instead he whistles a quick series of notes again, suggesting Lina's spell of levitation should, ah, adjust its height value. By a lot.

Re: LINA INVERSE | SLAYERS

[menobozo]

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?!"

i lov this icon

[dragonswag]

"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.

[menobozo]

"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!"

[notrickshere]

"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."

[dragonswag]

Wow, hey, can you not? Quit raining on her parade, already. She is working here.

"Who invited you?" Lina doesn't look all that pleased, touching down next to the guy with her hands on her hips. "I'm trying to stop this bank robbery here, with no help thanks to -- what is that look for?!"

[notrickshere]

Well it's not exactly raining as it is...snowing. Precipitating? Precipitating.

"I invited myself when I saw the scope of what was going on," Haruto answers as he straightens up, brushing some dust off his arms. "This look is for the fact that you seem to be trying to stop the robbery by making it so there isn't a bank to rob anymore!"

He pauses, switching out the ring on his right hand, and then gives Lina another judging look. "It seems your reputation isn't too far off the mark, Miss Inverse."

B for Bank Robbery?

[softskinned]

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.

[dragonswag]

Whoa, okay, so these guys aren't as D-list as she thought they were. One of them can do spells, huh? It catches Lina off-guard, she'll admit -- she nearly flies smack into the rock wall, bringing herself up short. It doesn't stop her for long, though -- a palmful of explosive energy demolishes most of it and she zips forward, spotting the only guy who looks like he could have cast it.

"That's a nice trick, kid, but if you think you're a match for me, then I think you've got another thing coming." Lina grins, a little savagely, her palm lighting up with a fresh spell. "Fireball!"

FOR NEWT;

[dragonswag]

[ Lina's the new kid on Alpha Force -- and kid is right. She's only 18, and still pretty fresh-faced, although she's proven that she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. She's maybe a little too ready to hop into the fray, honestly, judging by the way she slings explosive spells around.

But mostly what she knows how to beat up are of Earthly origin. The planet's been facing some pressure from outside forces lately, and Lina's just not as intuitive about beating up aliens. So after studying up on some arcane techniques, she figures she'll pay the alien expert guy a visit. Geiszler, right? Some kind of fancy-pants guy with a whole stack of degrees. Anyway, she's heard he's supposed to be CONDOR's xeno expert, so Lina's off to his office to pick his brain a while.

The door to his office is open, which Lina hadn't really expected at this hour -- it's kind of late, she wasn't even really sure he'd be here. But sure enough, it's open, and there's some young dude puttering around in there. Geiszler's assistant, maybe? Whatever. Lina pokes her head in, tapping her fingers on the doorjamb. ]

Is Dr. Geiszler here? I'm looking to talk to him about some...aliens.

OOPS SORRY MY BAD

[kaijugrrroupie]

[Ever since the threat of Skrulls had reared it's head again--to be fair, the potential threat of Skrulls never really leaves--Newt's been pulling all his resources together to come up with some sort of information docket for new heroes who've never encountered them before as well as fielding a whole buttload of calls of just people asking for that information. He's been getting progressively more and more irritated with each person who makes that call, so when the girl turns up at his door, he doesn't even look around, mussing around with files that were completely out of order because his lack of filing system is sort of biting him in the ass.]

It's just Newt. And, dude get in line, everybody wants to talk about aliens.

NO WORRIES (8

[dragonswag]

[ Wait, seriously? This guy is the xenobiology expert? Lina stares skeptically for a moment, but hey, she's pretty accomplished for her age, too. Besides, the more pressing thing is that he's not even looking at her. Talk about a lack of manners. ]

Hey! Don't you know it's rude not to look at someone when they're talking to you? I'm not just anyone. I'm on Alpha Force -- hello, big important hero team, kind of on the front lines of this fight? I'm at the front of the line, buster, so let's talk aliens.

[ And she walks right into his office, taking stock of the place in a glance. It's a mess -- not exactly impressive. Then again, neither is Lina, standing at only 5' and a little on the...scrawny side, but she likes to think her sheer presence makes up for it. ]

[kaijugrrroupie]

[He makes a short, irritated noise at the back of his throat and turns around, arms full of odd bits of paperwork that he's not sure goes where and looking a little stressed. His perfectly gelled hair isn't so perfectly gelled, and his sleeves are haphazardly rolled up, tie almost completely undone. He doesn't look like he's had much sleep.]

--Dude, how old are you? Like twelve? [he says, raising an eyebrow, before shoving the papers down on his desk.]

[dragonswag]

[ oh no you DIDN'T ]

Excuse me? Do you have any idea who you're talking to?! I am Lina Inverse, sorceress of pretty much unparalleled skill, and I am not twelve!

[ R U D E ]

Besides, it's not like you look much like a doctor!

[kaijugrrroupie]

[HE DID. And he probably shouldn't because people have been giving him shit about this stuff for years. But his job involved a lot less fighting and a lot more reading. He didn't even know Alpha Force let people on so young, given the dangerous nature of the job.

He gives her a look, eyebrows raised in a sort of 'do you even know who I am' kind of way.]

That's because I'm a rock-star.