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TDM #1
TEST DRIVE #1
So it's your first day at your new job! Welcome to the Jorgmund Family™! It's time to settle into your new workplace on the Piper 90 rig, the coziest place of employment this side of the Livable Zone. A leader in its industry, Jorgmund is excited to have you join them in enthusiastically envisioneering team-driven paradigms.
The Piper 90 rig's mission is not only an impressive undertaking in terms of impactful customer-oriented deliverables, it's providing a vital backbone to the Livable Zone by creating a safe region for citizens to live, work, and play. Jorgmund's "outside the box" thinking means they understand the importance of wisely investing in their human capital - you! You'll soon find that you'll take pride in this vital work - and the benefits can't be beat.
Rest assured, Jorgmund's multidisciplinary approach to our world's period of recovery means we know how to keep it real when facing this opportunity for restructuring and growth. Jorgmund: Even if most of the world has gone away, we can make a world of difference!
Synergy!
USEFUL LINKS
It is recommended you check out the following links first for info on the rig, rig conditions, game mechanics, and the intro and slideshow your characters would have to endure that takes place chronologically before the Test Drive Meme:
SCENARIO #1 - MOVE-IN DAY!
After the bewildering and unpleasant onboarding process, you've finally been unleashed on the rig. (Well. To places you're allowed to go on the rig.) It's time to get acquainted with your new surroundings, process some of All Of That™, and meet your fellow captives - err, coworkers!
a) A BIT OF A MESS
Perhaps you're hungry? The mess hall food isn't amazing, but it does the job. Characters that have higher metabolic needs than your average human might be left feeling a little hungry, though. The worst part is actually the electronic sliding door: a small sign helpfully informs you that if you want inside, you need to smile for the camera! In addition to being patronizing, this may be a problem for characters who refuse to play ball, or characters with sufficiently nonhuman faces the door sensor can't read them. Remember, if then company doesn't see people like you, it's not discriminatory -- it's just indifferent! And that isn't legally actionable!
b) GOING NOWHERE FAST
The rig's elevators are a little off-kilter today. Overhead announcements mention this, but downplay the severity and are easy to miss -- which means you and your threadmate are stuck in here, somewhere between the fifth and sixth floor. You can complain into the emergency intercomm, but it might take from a few minutes up to an hour before the elevator gets rolling again. How do you pass the time?
c) SHOULD'VE TAKEN THAT LEFT TURN
You're really just trying to get somewhere else on the rig, but you've gotten hopelessly lost. Oh well, at least you're not alone! Did you run into your threadmate here? Did you lead them astray? Are they at fault? Even worse, are you somewhere full of AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY signs, mysterious equipment, and a worrying number of security cameras?
d) NEED A HAND?
You've been assigned a room and some relatively spare possessions to put in it. Unfortunately, it seems that the staff assigned to help move in new hires are all busy at the moment. Unless you want to wait around, you're going to need to lug and assemble your new assigned foldable den furniture yourself. Do you team up with another newbie? Do you try it alone and find yourself needing help? Do you come to the rescue of someone else who did that?
e) SPECIAL DELIVERY
Somebody in processing decided to give you two a quick little errand: you're supposed to take a couple boxes of files up to the executive deck. Unfortunately, a skeptical security staffer is giving you a hard time on your way there, on account of your funny-looking face, insufficient ID or sketchy-looking package. How do you deal with this and accomplish your task?
f) BLOW OFF STEAM
You're likely still a bit sore from Jorgmund fitting you with the nanochain, but you were promised a gym and you are going to use that gym, dammit. It looks like you're not alone in deciding to try out the training area. Do you train together? Spar to let some frustration out? Or are you gonna argue about whose turn it is on which piece of equipment and resent your lost solitude? You'll also find you have to contend with the communal showers when you're done.
g) NO REST FOR THE WEARY
It's the middle of the night on the rig. You're displaced from home, it's not very warm, your door doesn't shut because privacy is a "privilege" nobody has earned yet, and occasional mysterious clanging noises ring through the rig. You can't sleep, not yet, and perhaps you're not the only insomniac wandering the crew deck?
Perhaps you're hungry? The mess hall food isn't amazing, but it does the job. Characters that have higher metabolic needs than your average human might be left feeling a little hungry, though. The worst part is actually the electronic sliding door: a small sign helpfully informs you that if you want inside, you need to smile for the camera! In addition to being patronizing, this may be a problem for characters who refuse to play ball, or characters with sufficiently nonhuman faces the door sensor can't read them. Remember, if then company doesn't see people like you, it's not discriminatory -- it's just indifferent! And that isn't legally actionable!
b) GOING NOWHERE FAST
The rig's elevators are a little off-kilter today. Overhead announcements mention this, but downplay the severity and are easy to miss -- which means you and your threadmate are stuck in here, somewhere between the fifth and sixth floor. You can complain into the emergency intercomm, but it might take from a few minutes up to an hour before the elevator gets rolling again. How do you pass the time?
c) SHOULD'VE TAKEN THAT LEFT TURN
You're really just trying to get somewhere else on the rig, but you've gotten hopelessly lost. Oh well, at least you're not alone! Did you run into your threadmate here? Did you lead them astray? Are they at fault? Even worse, are you somewhere full of AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY signs, mysterious equipment, and a worrying number of security cameras?
d) NEED A HAND?
You've been assigned a room and some relatively spare possessions to put in it. Unfortunately, it seems that the staff assigned to help move in new hires are all busy at the moment. Unless you want to wait around, you're going to need to lug and assemble your new assigned foldable den furniture yourself. Do you team up with another newbie? Do you try it alone and find yourself needing help? Do you come to the rescue of someone else who did that?
e) SPECIAL DELIVERY
Somebody in processing decided to give you two a quick little errand: you're supposed to take a couple boxes of files up to the executive deck. Unfortunately, a skeptical security staffer is giving you a hard time on your way there, on account of your funny-looking face, insufficient ID or sketchy-looking package. How do you deal with this and accomplish your task?
f) BLOW OFF STEAM
You're likely still a bit sore from Jorgmund fitting you with the nanochain, but you were promised a gym and you are going to use that gym, dammit. It looks like you're not alone in deciding to try out the training area. Do you train together? Spar to let some frustration out? Or are you gonna argue about whose turn it is on which piece of equipment and resent your lost solitude? You'll also find you have to contend with the communal showers when you're done.
g) NO REST FOR THE WEARY
It's the middle of the night on the rig. You're displaced from home, it's not very warm, your door doesn't shut because privacy is a "privilege" nobody has earned yet, and occasional mysterious clanging noises ring through the rig. You can't sleep, not yet, and perhaps you're not the only insomniac wandering the crew deck?
SCENARIO #2 - YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO PANIC
Around dawn on the morning of Day Two, something goes wrong. (Wrong-er?) You awake to the sound of alarms, and a voice over the speakers telling you NOT TO PANIC! A Stuff storm has caused a brief and contained leak onto Piper 90. You may encounter strange sights or sounds. Any anomalies should be reported immediately to rig security. Thank you for your cooperation!
The nature of the problem isn't immediately clear, but over the next handful of hours you find yourself embroiled in a bizarre fracas: a Stuff leak has caused numerous inanimate objects on the rig to come to life. Furniture and appliances small and large are roaming the decks. Some of them are docile, but others are aggressive (or just troublesome due to their size). Some examples:
- A rogue photocopier spewing paper and ink
- A mahogany conference table with old clawed feet and a brand new gaping jaw
- A water cooler that scuttles the halls, squirting people with jets in varying temperatures
- Small office supplies like pencils and paperclips that swarm in large numbers
- Dressers and drawers that spit their contents at high velocity
- A room's worth of folding chairs that hunt as a pack
- An emergency fire hose that attempts to ensnare crew members in its coils
- The angriest coffee pot you have ever seen
h) GOOD MORNING, PIPER 90
Rise and shine! There are alarms going off, announcements blaring, and people are scrambling around trying to figure out what's going on. You're one of them. Freak out? Spring into action? Team up with someone to shake down a staffer for more details? Run into someone new, perhaps literally?
i) INTERIOR WRECKORATING
You've been ambushed by an animate object that seems to have it in for you, or you've heard the shouts of someone who has and come running to help. What's ruining your morning now, and what are you going to do about it?
j) ON THE RUN
The folding chairs from Presentation Room B operate as a unit, harrying their prey through the halls with much scrambling of legs and flapping of seats. They're after you, at the moment. Can you escape, or perhaps lead them into a trap? Or do you stand your ground?
k) HERE'S THE PLAN
You and your threadmate have found somewhere secure (for now) and are deciding how to deal with a larger enemy. Are you hunting it, or is it hunting you? Are you planning to take it out of commission, or just how to get away from it? Or are you just gonna hide here and lay low until this is over?
l) PROP HUNT
Things are getting back under control, thankfully. Large disturbances have been disposed of, but that leaves the little things like elusive chains of paperclips, a small but vicious stapler, pens and markers that write rude words on walls, and utensils from the mess hall. These anomalies are stealthier, but must still be dealt with, and it's up to you to flush them out.
m) CLEAN UP IN AISLE EVERYTHING
The chaos has passed, and now you've been instructed to clean up a mess. Ink or loose paper from the copier, coffee from the rampaging pot, mopping up after a water cooler, scrubbing marker off a wall, etc. You might get roped into contending with the Yuck Puddle, which is a permanent fixture and not a new development, but someone's always contending with the Yuck Puddle.
Rise and shine! There are alarms going off, announcements blaring, and people are scrambling around trying to figure out what's going on. You're one of them. Freak out? Spring into action? Team up with someone to shake down a staffer for more details? Run into someone new, perhaps literally?
i) INTERIOR WRECKORATING
You've been ambushed by an animate object that seems to have it in for you, or you've heard the shouts of someone who has and come running to help. What's ruining your morning now, and what are you going to do about it?
j) ON THE RUN
The folding chairs from Presentation Room B operate as a unit, harrying their prey through the halls with much scrambling of legs and flapping of seats. They're after you, at the moment. Can you escape, or perhaps lead them into a trap? Or do you stand your ground?
k) HERE'S THE PLAN
You and your threadmate have found somewhere secure (for now) and are deciding how to deal with a larger enemy. Are you hunting it, or is it hunting you? Are you planning to take it out of commission, or just how to get away from it? Or are you just gonna hide here and lay low until this is over?
l) PROP HUNT
Things are getting back under control, thankfully. Large disturbances have been disposed of, but that leaves the little things like elusive chains of paperclips, a small but vicious stapler, pens and markers that write rude words on walls, and utensils from the mess hall. These anomalies are stealthier, but must still be dealt with, and it's up to you to flush them out.
m) CLEAN UP IN AISLE EVERYTHING
The chaos has passed, and now you've been instructed to clean up a mess. Ink or loose paper from the copier, coffee from the rampaging pot, mopping up after a water cooler, scrubbing marker off a wall, etc. You might get roped into contending with the Yuck Puddle, which is a permanent fixture and not a new development, but someone's always contending with the Yuck Puddle.
➤ Feel free to play around with powers. If your character has powers from canon you want to play around with, go for it. If you'd like to test out possibilities for game powers, also go for it. Feel free to change it up from thread to thread if you need to. This can be handwaved as exposure to Stuff making characters' powers shift a few times before settling.
➤ Potential players may use test drive threads as their log samples. However, at least one post in their thread must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. If you do plan on using a thread as a sample, please make sure the writing throughout your threads is a good example of your writing skills and has some solid examples of the character's voice.
➤ Players can eventually count TDMs towards AC. They can only count towards comment-based AC proofs.
➤ Potential players can opt to keep these threads as game canon when they app in, or start over fresh, based on preference. The Stuff bringing them to the game universe can fog their memories, if players don't want their character to remember TDM threads when introing into the game.
➤ The game is invite-only. Players without invites are allowed to tdm since some of them may know someone in game to ask for one, and since some people enjoy TDMs just for fun in games they don't plan to app into. But an invite is required during the apping process.
➤ The game is at a starting cap at 30 players. Right now the current number of invitees is likely to not exceed the game's 30 slots, but if we go a few over they will still be allowed to app during this first round. Future apps will be rolling apps and will have a wait queue if the cap has been exceeded.
➤ The first game round will be apps only, no reserves. Apps open: Sat 4/11/20. Game start: Fri 4/17/20.
so sorry about the delay!!
Yep.
He thinks he's gonna be friends with this guy. Because to his knowledge, a little known fact about friendship is that 99% of it can come from him being pretty sure he wants to create one. Historically. He's fine taking his chances on the elevator company.
Steven pulls a face at the question. ]
I've had stuff like it happen enough that it's basically normal for me? But I don't think it's normal normal. Not that I can say what's normal for everyone. I'm just pretty sure most people don't have space problems on Earth these days.
[ They're thinking about their tours and their colleges and their businesses and their futures that they've been planning. Which, well. He can't relate much. Or he can relate in thinking about it sometimes, but not in ever coming up with anything. ]
It... gets kind of weird meeting so many people on the Rig who do normally have to deal with that stuff, though, right?
it's okay! it happens
Of course, he'd gotten into his magical mess willingly, and stubbornly stayed despite repeatedly being told to just quit. From the way Steven talked about it, it sort of sounded like that might not be the case for him. Then again, there can’t be many people who would enjoy being shot out into space.]
Eh, I wouldn't know. Haven’t met anyone else that talked about going to space.
[He's mostly just ribbing. It's pretty clear Steven’s not just talking about people who've been to space in particular. But it seems like the guy may be at least somewhat self-conscious about the whole space thing, and Jack's just the kind of jerk to rub that in a bit.]
But if I had to guess, I'm willing to bet it's not a coincidence. Grabbing a bunch of people who are used to dealing with magic, supernatural and otherworldly garbage was probably what they were aiming for. Considering what they say their mission statement is.
Repairing what’s left of the civilized world. [He says that in his best mocking rendition of Washburn’s induction spiel.]
Given that, I’d normally say they probably made a mistake with me, but honestly, I’m not sure I want to know what happens to the people the company decides they don’t want.
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... He really hopes he's not somehow the only person around who's done space stuff. He didn't think to be concerned about it before now. He can probably work with it either way, it's just a weird prospect. ]
Yeah. Might not be hard to guess and get it right. [ With the shock collars and everything? He gets the feeling they'd be right at home in early-phase Gem empire thinking. And that's no good.
But. He's supposed to be a positive thinker. That's what he does. Out here more than ever, he needs to start scraping that energy back together somehow. What's one more questionable person or organization turning it around on the old resume? ]
But I could be wrong about that. We both could. People can... do a lot of things when they don't think they'll get help otherwise. Really, really terrible things. It can still work out. [ 10/10 attempt. ] Who knows? Maybe we'll end up being just what they needed to finish up.
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[Can't rule the world if there isn't a world left to rule.]
And even if we do end up being this universes miracle cure, do you really think they plan to thank us for our time and send us home after everything is said and done?
[It's a nice thought, he'll give it that. On some level, he wishes he could believe it, it would make it slightly easier to sleep at night. But he had a hard time believing anyone's intentions were as good as they let on. Forget giving the benefit of the doubt to a corporation that looked to be setting itself up to have a monopoly on the earth's only means of survival.]
Because my worry here is that even if you end up being right about them only grabbing us because they felt they had no choice, people that cross certain lines can find it easier to keep crossing lines. And when those people are in charge of a major company with a public face built on saving the world, they might be the kind to want to make extra sure to get rid of any evidence that would tarnish that image.
If you catch my drift.
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[ He's raising valid points, after all. It doesn't do any good denying that they're valid points. As much as they are... not part and parcel with Steven's modus operandi.
He's always been the one who believes. Anyone can change, anyone can create change, the whole nine yards. There can be a point where it all stops, everyone moves on, and no one is left miserable by compromise. If he backtracks on that now after everything, he's not exactly doing his best Steven Universe.
Can he blame someone else who got pulled into this for not having the good luck he's had in the past? No. ]
It's a little glass-half-empty. And I'd say we could work on building a more positive outlook if you want, since I'm pretty used to keeping it glass-half-full-ful? [ That's a term, right. ] But you're probably not wrong to be careful. Any problem that opens with a shock collar is gonna be in the weeds for a while. Not, uh. Not really starting everyone off on the right foot, huh?
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Yeah, not a great first impression. Not the worst, but definitely up there. They could really stand to work more on their public relations and their recruitment slash interview process. Maybe you could give them some tips for working on their positivity.
[For his trouble Steven gets a playful elbow in the arm and a bitter little snicker, before Jack circles back to the offer to help him, shifting the box of files in his arms as he literally shrugs off the offer.]
Personally, I’m good with being glass-half-empty. The outlook of ‘expect the worst and hope for the best’ has served me well. I keep my expectations low and get to be pleasantly surprised when things don’t turn out as bad as they could have. It’s done a decent job of keeping me alive...I gotta ask though, what kind of situations have you had to deal with that you can look at this one and see a happy outcome?...I mean, aside from getting shot out into space?
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(But he thinks his personal life advice went over okay. He hasn't checked back in. Gotta give them time to tell one of those forty million Karens how they feel, because there's no moving on either way if they refuse to move at all.) ]
That's... kind of a lot of situations to cover. The short version is, my mom racked up a few thousand years of bad choices that she never dealt with, and I got left holding the bag. Heh, once those consequences started to roll in, it was like a new huge problem to figure out every week.
[ One of the handful of things he's ever openly a bit salty about: mom issues. It was a legitimate surprise that Jorgmund apparently didn't have anything to do with her or the Diamonds at all. ]
After a while, you have to start looking for happy outcomes. Even if you don't know exactly how everyone's gonna get there. Why keep trying otherwise?