.002 The Fleet's Test Drive Meme

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The Fleet: Test Drive Meme. ❖Instructions. 1. Pick a prompt 2. Comment with your thread start, with your character name and fandom in the subject line. 3. Tag into other's threads. 4. Have fun! 5. And what happens on the TDM defaults to staying on the TDM (it's not taken in game), unless all players involved agree AND you have mod approval to c&p the thread to the log comm. You must get mod approval. **If you have questions, ask the Mods ❖Meme Prompts. [Shuttle] You've arrived! You've been seen by a coolly efficient (what you hope is a) medical professional - after all they did give you a shot of something. Then you were handed a slew of things you're still trying to process - communication devices, a ring (which is also a key?), a piece of transparent film that's flashing information. And clothing, that was a thoughtful gesture. And then there was the explanation - You've been taken (isn't that a nice way of saying 'kidnapped') by that floating orb of light, you can't leave, but while you're here you get room and board. Is that really a fair trade? Oh, and to top everything off, you have a set of gem like stones set into your chest, that you can't remove. Before you know it, you've moved with the crowd towards the shuttle and now that you are sitting down, it's now suddenly sinking in. You are so very far from home. [NOTE: Please note that the actual arrival process is different from the above scenario - please see the New Arrivals Page for a detailed explanation of the arrival process.] ~ ☼ ~ [Cafeteria] You’re hungry, and though the smells coming from the cafeteria are strange, they are alluring. The grumble in your belly tells you it’s worth chancing. ~ ☼ ~ [Multipurpose Common Area] You’re bored but haven’t quite worked up the courage to venture out into the greater parts of the station. The common area of the residential community seems like it might provide some distractions. And the view out the large windows lining one wall is simply stunning. ~ ☼ ~ [The Center Station Central Gardens] In an environment where spatial expansion is finite, it seems extravagant to house a garden this big. What looks like giant trees at first glance, turn outo be the wire structures that rise up six stores before fanning out actually house various breeds of creeping vines. There are two levels of raised walkways that wind around the vine structures. The ground level also wraps lazily through various plots of vegetation. There is enough variety of plants here to keep anyone interested for hours. ~ ☼ ~ [Cemetery Ring] If you’re in more for a somber atmosphere, the Cemetery Ring is open to everyone. The first sign posted outside the door reads "We are the lights that shines brightest against the night." The sign below it simply says "All are welcome." This wide corridor, that traverses the whole very top of the Inner Rings, is dimly lit, but pinpoints of light twinkle all over the wall. The wall juts out in an effort to create more surface area for memorials to those Owmi who have passed on to the next life since the Owmi started their nomadic journey. The peacefulness of the room is inviting. ~ ☼ ~ [Strange Lights - previous plot] Something strange is happening. You've been here just a few days and before you can even get used to the fact you are an abductee of a glowing ball of light, you now have an aura of lights hanging around your head. The colors change, and if you watch them for a moment (from a mirror - they are hard to get a good look of out of the corner of your eye) you notice they match the colors of the gem like stones fixed to your chest. And if you're really observant, you might catch on that the colors and intensity of the lights change with your mood. ~ ☼ ~ [Pinkie Pie's Fun Day Celebration - previous plot] Confetti/Glitter Bombs! Sometimes there’s a pair of eyes watching various residents going in and out of their rooms. Or walking around the habitat station at various places. Wherever your character may be, Pinkie is waiting with a bucket full of confetti or glitter. She forgets which one she takes with her since she prepared so many for this day. How she’s getting around without being noticed is a mystery, but that works just fine for her! Common Area Mingling! At the common area, Pinkie has the entire place decked out with balloons, confetti, several piñatas hanging from the ceiling (how did they get up there?!), and an area set up for games. She couldn’t find the actual games like the ones back home, so she had to make them herself. There’s chess, Twister, but instead of boring circles, there’s images of pink icing-covered donuts, chocolate chip cookies, blue cupcakes, and pistachio ice cream cups taped to the floor in four rows of ten, a place to play card games with images of herself in various costumes along with the card suits. There are several cakes with names attached to them on any table she could find. There’s one large cake with no name for everyone and everypony to share! It’s oddly plain, isn’t it? Not suspicious at all! There’s also snacks like fruit, cheese, crackers, cookies, and drinks to enjoy! No alcohol, though! Sorry! This party is rated G! And of course the party has piñata. A blindfold and stick are ready for the first challenger! Choose any piñata there! One looks dangerous! They’re filled with candy! Or confetti! Or both! “Step right up, ladies and gentlecolts! Try your luck and break open a piñata!” [NOTE: Please note that Pinkie Pie is no longer in game, so she will not be responding to any threads using this option.] ~ ☼ ~ [Planet Exploration: Baj E'oku Prime - current plot] A new opportunity! No longer do you need to wander the giant space Habitat Station. You now get the opportunity to explore a section of the planet Baj E'oku Prime. It's small, tidal locked planet. The area you can explore is dusty and red with surprising wild life. There are canyons and highlands, rivers and caves to explore. (See link for greater details.) What adventures or trouble will you find? ~ ☼ ~

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Ezra Bridger | Star Wars Rebels| Cafeteria

[helmetcollector]

This day was turning out to be one of the weirder ones. It wasn't that he hadn't had his fair share of weird days in his life, but finding the weird gemstone in his chest was new.

Despite the lingering weakness, the smell of food was certainly something not to be ignored. If there was free food, he wasn't about to overlook that. He could explore wherever this place was later, and the weird feeling that he was missing something entirely. Now his only probably was actually identifying what the food was.

"Is this even food?"

Ezra, meet Tiny Proto-Vader

[ignite_the_stars]

The twelve year old human behind Ezra in line was short for his age, but considering he'd only had consistent, steady meals and proper health care for the past two years of his life, the height issue was forgivable. His Padawan braid was just now long enough to toss over his shoulder - which was the only thing about him that hinted about his former life.

"If you aren't going to take any, can you let others through to get some?" He asked. And if his words weren't enough to hint at the reason for his impatience, his stomach growled audibly. He hated the feeling of being hungry.

I think there might be trouble afoot

[helmetcollector]

Ezra isn't tall for his age either, and being sixteen, but looking sideways at this other kid, before turning to face him.

"Hey I'm hungry too, I just... I have no idea what any of this is. Certainly aren't meiloroons here, that's for sure."

Hey, less talk. More eating. He could compromise with talking while eating

[ignite_the_stars]

Anakin shrugged. He wasn't picky about what he filled his stomach with - as long as his food didn't start out sentient. Which he was pretty sure this stuff hadn't.

"Food," he pointed at the serving tray in front of them. Then pointed at various other options. "Food, food. Food. That's food, too. Also food. If you have restrictions, you can tell the head guy and they'll make you something if there isn't anything out here you can eat." He was trying to be helpful, but also to move things along - there's food to be had.

then eating it is!

[helmetcollector]

Grabbing a tray, Ezra rolled his eyes and just grabbed a few items that looked like they'd be decent to try at least.

"You're really not picky are you." Ezra commented, "How do you know none of this stuff might kill you if you don't know what it is?"

To eating!

[ignite_the_stars]

Finally- Anakin started eagerly filling his plate with various options and didn't stop until the plate was full.

He shrugged again. "I've been here a few months," he said between scoops of food. "Nothings killed me yet. And besides, even though the Owmi've kidnapped us, they don't seem to want to kill us. If you don't try to go where you're not allowed, and you're not hurting anyone, then they pretty much leave you alone."

Plate full, he started moving towards the nearest empty table.

:D

[helmetcollector]

"That's reassuring," better than him accidentally eating something that might kill him. He'll pick out a few more thing and add them to his tray before following this kid toward the same empty table.

"Hey, I'm Ezra, by the way. Thanks for making sure I don't die from the first thing I eat here."

[ignite_the_stars]

"Ya. Sure. I'm Anakin," he answered while setting his tray down. He pointed to the drink station. "You can get drinks there."

And Anakin promptly went to it and picked out the largest cup on offer and filled it with simply water. Until he left Tatooine, he'd never imagined something as amazing as seemingly endless glass-fulls of water. Water was so rationed on that desert hellscape, sometimes Watto 'forgot' to provide any to him and Shmi. The feeling of dehydration in his mouth was the second worst feeling next to a hungry stomach.

But here - like on Coruscant and Naboo - everyone had as much water as they wanted and he supposed a small part of him was grateful to the Owmi for never denying him water.

He made it back to the table quickly enough.

"One of the new arrivals, huh?" And he sat down to eat.

[helmetcollector]

"Yeah, I am. I'm still trying to process everything when I keep feeling like I'm missing something." he shrugged and wandered away for a moment to do the same as Anakin, and return with a tall glass of water. He's still glad that he doesn't have to be scavenging for food and clean sources of water anymore.

Instead of sitting across from Anakin he sat beside him, and started munching on a piece of fruit and looking at Anakin's braid for a moment before looking back at his tray.

[ignite_the_stars]

"Ya, the Owmi take everything from you." He pinched at his clothes as an example. "Some people get things back. Maybe you will too."

And then Anakin dove into his food with all the uncouth manners of someone who'd spent the first ten years of his life on a desolate Outer Rim planet - and without a master here to remind him, he fall back on old habits. He didn't think too much of Ezra picking a seat right next to - even if he wasn't used to people doing so - until he caught the older boy staring at him.

With the eating utensil frozen mid-way to his mouth, Anakin swallowed. His eyes shifted around, trying to find the reason for Ezra's focus. "What?"

[notjustanumber]

     "It's a lot better than ration bars, I can tell you that much."

     Frankly anything with flavor beat ration bars. ...well, mostly anything. Fives had yet to complain about the food so far, however. It was just too bad that cake wasn't a common item. That stuff was good, but he figured it probably wasn't too healthy either.

     The plate upon the clone's tray was loaded with various things. Given the opportunity, he was all for trying new things. He grinned a bit as he glanced at the kid.

     "New arrival, eh?"

     It wasn't too difficult to tell that the ARC Trooper wasn't one of the Owmi. He stuck out like a sore thumb given that he was wearing his armor. Sorry Ezra, he left the helmet in the quarters he shared with Ezra. It seemed to weird out the locals whenever he walked around with it.

[helmetcollector]

There was something familiar about this guy, maybe it was the eyes or how he spoke, he swore he had seen this guy somewhere before but between the weakness and the fact that his stomach was protesting loudly he put it on the sidelines for how. He'd figure it out soon enough since the force wasn't helping him with anything right now, it seemed.

"What gave it away, the weakness, or me considering if that green thing is edible or not?" Ezra asked, inspecting what he suspected was a vegetable or fruit of some form.

Still, it was bugging him that this guy was so familiar and he couldn't place him. He certainly was different and the armour reminded him of the stuff Rex liked to wear around.

"Have we met, before?"

[notjustanumber]

     The clone chuckled. "Th' latter, I'll admit. Pretty sure the Owmi wouldn't be gawkin' at their own food selection."

     He looked at the things before them before picking out one of the small plates with a square of something, holding out in Ezra's direction. "Here, it's kind'uv on the sweet side, but it'll help get some of your strength back. Clear your head, at least."

     A brow was arched at the question. "Don't think so. I don't know many kids..."

[helmetcollector]

"Oh, I thought so, you look kind of familiar, and I know a guy who wears a chestplate like that one but without the uh..." He'll gesture to Fives' shoulder as he takes the dish from him. "That piece. Sorry."

It's another moment of Ezra looking at it, and inspecting it, before putting it on his tray and grabbing a couple more things that might be good to eat.

[notjustanumber]

     "Oh yeah?" Fives smiled crookedly. "Well, could be any'uv my brothers then, considerin' there's millions of us out there." He waved off the apology- it wasn't like he could expect civvies to know what each part of clone armor was called.

     "Know his name? I'm guessin' at the very least we're from th' same galaxy. Seems like it's a popular place to pull people in from. There's several others here. The weird thing is we're all from different times."

[helmetcollector]

"Wait, there are millions of you?" And it finally clicked for Ezra why this man looked and sounded so familiar. He was a clone, and a young one at that. It had him stopping and staring for a moment before shaking his head.

"You're a clone, right? The only clones I've met are older, a lot older, but they're good friends. I guess you don't know anyone by the names of Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor do you?" It was a long shot if there were millions of them out there, and probably a few had the same name but maybe this guy knew them or at least of them.

[notjustanumber]

     The ARC Trooper nodded. His brows lifted in pleasant surprise that the boy was apparently personally familiar with them, although he wasn't quite sure what to expect of them being described as older. True enough that they were engineered to age twice as fast as normal humans, but he'd never seen any looking much older than his current range.

     "Oh! I know Rex. Used'ta be a part'uv the Five Hundred an' First with him, before I got promoted to ARC Trooper. But we'd still serve alongside'uv them when needed." He smiled. Any friend of Rex's was a friend of his. "I know Wolffe too, though not as well. Can't say I know a Gregor... Anyway, th' name's Fives."

[helmetcollector]

"Nice to meet you Fives, if you know Rex then you're probably just as good of a shot. He was teaching me a few things before I woke up here. Nice guy, takes some crazy risks too." Ezra grinned, glad to find that Rex's brothers all seemed to carry the same sense of pride and faint humour about them. Part of him wished he still had the Force to read Fives better, it felt weird but he was starting to adjust.

"So, what is an ARC trooper? I thought you were all just troopers."

This could be fun depending on when Ezra's from

[princess_weia]

Leia was happy to see another kid around. Sure, he was significantly older than she was, but still, it was nice not to be the only one among all these grown ups. She giggled a little at his confusion; the food here was certainly new, but it was hardly the strangest thing she'd ever eaten.

"Yeah, it's food," she assured him. "You should try some of that, by the way; it's really good. A little sweet and a little spicy, but not too much of either." She was indicating what looked like a dish of different colored cooked vegetables in a reddish sauce.

Oh from the end of S2 for maximum effect

[helmetcollector]

"Thanks," He'll smile and give her a nod. He's never been great with kids, but she seems bright and certainly with it enough that he doesn't have to dumb anything down for her.

"Anything else I should try, this all seems really.... different? Yeah I'm going to go with different. It's not waffles, that's for sure."

Excellent. XD

[princess_weia]

"Welcome," she said.

"Hmmm... that pink fruit is good if you add sweetener to it; otherwise it's really sour," she said. "I found that out the hard way. And those rolls are good too. They have bits of meat and vegetables inside, so they're specially good if you don't have a lot of time to eat."

"But yeah, I miss having waffles too," she said. "'Specially the kind with chocolate chips in them. Those are the best."

Just so Ezra can be very confused by Leia

[helmetcollector]

"I think I'm going to miss waffles if they don't have any here. But I can't say I've had the chocolate hip ones. Sounds like I'm missing out." He said, reaching and taking a few different items she suggested before moving along to go and try to find a place to sit.

"I'm Ezra, by the way."

Looking forward to all the confusion. :D

[princess_weia]

Leia nodded. "They're even better with muja sauce and whipped cream," she said. "That's my favorite thing to have for breakfast ever. And they're extra special when my daddy back home makes them himself; he likes to cook, but he's usually too busy, so when he gets to it's always nice."

Leia got her own food and followed after Ezra. "Nice to meet you," she said. "I'm Leia."

Soooo much :D

[helmetcollector]

"I don't think I've had muja sauce on anything since I was about your age. But it's nice to meet you, you're the seconds Leia I've met. I didn't think it was a popular name." He'll laugh and find them a table far enough away from the main cafeteria so they wouldn't be bothered by too much foot traffic.

"Have you ever tried meiloroons? I think they're one of my favourites."

Wait til he finds out she'd Force-Sensitive too. XD

[princess_weia]

"That's too bad," she said. "It's good on lots of things. Meiloroons are good too, though, but we don't have them very often. Usually only if we're going to cook something that needs them."

"I've never met any other Leias before, though," she said. "Or Ezras. But most of the people I get to meet back home are my Mommy and Daddy's friends, so I wouldn't call them by their first names anyway. What's the other Leia you met like?"