TEST DRIVE MEME

[behind_the_box]

Starting now, we'll put up a new one of these very month! Feel free to use the current setting of Pandora (Christmas in July) or make up your own! You can also use the following scenarios if you'd prefer:

1. Mushroom Kingdom

Have you ever wanted to be a fairy? Well now you are, even if the answer was no! The City is a big, big place, all of a sudden. Houses are roomy affairs inside giant mushrooms, there are colorful flowers everywhere you look, and the animals are always friendly! Unfortunately, the only food items being sold in the market this month are fruit, fruit, and.... more fruit.

2. School Town

You may be too old to attend the academy, but that doesn't seem to matter; your attendance is mandatory anyway. Or perhaps you're there to teach, because you're the only resident of Pandora that possesses a certain skill. It doesn't matter if it can't be learned; you have to come up with a lesson plan anyway. At least the uniforms aren't some god awful color, right?

3. Zombie Apocalypse.

There's no coming back from death in Pandora, so you'd better do all you can to survive. Three quarters of the city are already infected, and this is the last stand. Are you going to pool your resources and try to make it together, or is it time to stop trusting others and go it alone until the month is over?

Comments

Javik | Mass Effect 3 | canon point is post-game!

[vengefulancient]

Prompt: Zombie Apocalypse.

*War. War never changes. It always involves reanimated corpses, for instance, though there's a pleasing lack of giant squid-shaped death machines backing the corpses this time around. Indeed, compared to the level of war being Hell Javik is used to, this seems almost like a vacation.*

*So Javik is out in the streets, fighting his way towards a tall building. He's unarmed, but he's got mind powers, which he's using to slam zombies to the pavement at lethal speed and also to ignite them with strange green flames.*

*There's a lot about this situation that's baffling to him. He's not sure why or how he's here, for instance. But that doesn't really matter at this particular moment--survival is all that counts in a situation like this.*

*So, anyone else out there trying to escape the hordes? Wanna join up with the grimly determined four-eyed alien?*

[allthetime]

[Alien team ups are the best team ups. Aradia doesn't seem to mind the zombies as much as one really should; she flutters out of their way when they decide they want an Aradia-flavored snack, but other than that, she only seems to step in when it's for the benefit of someone else.]

Oh hey I've never seen you before!

[vengefulancient]

*Alien team-ups are totally the best team-ups. Also, this is a bit of a surprise: a species Javik doesn't recognize!*

. . . Nor I you. I did not think there were any undiscovered species left in the galaxy. At least, none actually capable of speech.

[allthetime]

I suppose it depends on the galaxy you're looking in.

[She gets this a lot from humans, so it's not surprising from other aliens either.]

[vengefulancient]

To my people, it was simply our empire, our home. Some species in the current cycle call it the "Milky Way."

*He says the name with a touch of contempt. What a stupid name. Primitives.*

[allthetime]

[Aradia's expression is thoughtful for a moment, and she hovers a little higher in the air to avoid an oncoming zombie.]

That's where Earth is right? I'm not from that galaxy.

[vengefulancient]

*Sets that zombie on fire 8|*

Correct.

. . . A species from another galaxy? You are the first such being I have ever met. Come down from there. I would touch you.

[allthetime]

[That's gotta be worth points on some sort of reward system.]

Wow you move fast huh? But I'm ok with that!

[It's entirely possible the joke will go over his head, but she's ok with that too. Aradia lands next to him, careful not to step on innards. They don't exactly look appealing in any way, shape, or form.]

[vengefulancient]

*Oh, he gets the joke--and makes a face.*

I assure you, I do not find you the least bit attractive. My species is able to learn a great deal about others through touch. This will teach me about your kind.

*Is basically gonna grab for her shoulder; assuming she lets him, he'll be able to read a bunch about troll history through that contact '-'v*

[allthetime]

I was kidding but that sounds like a neat trick.

[Aradia lets him, not looking the least bit uncomfortable with the gesture. Learn away, alienbro.]