August-September Testo Doraivu!

[indigo_league]

TEST DRIVE MEME

➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!


NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN YOUR TEST-DRIVE JOURNEY?
CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | and | KANTO

ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Last month's mini-events!

Effect: Friday, July 8: Flower Gift - All day, despite the season, flowers drift down from the sky. They’re harmless, beautiful, and smell lovely, but if trainers aren’t careful, they might end up trudging through rosedrifts up to their knees before long.
Swarm: Tuesday, July 12: Spinda
Effect: Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17: Worry Seed - Affected characters won’t be able to get any sleep. Does that make your character cranky? Does it damage their brain-to-mouth filter? The effects can last as little or as long as you’d like over this weekend.
Effect/Swarm Double Duty: Friday, July 22: Surf - Large waves appear in all bodies of water, including things like bathtubs and your Sawsbucks drinks (it’s just bean water, you know). Be careful on the ocean, but also, hang ten, dudes! The waves won’t destroy anything, but trainers are going to get wet on this ride. Also, oh god, small jellyfish Pokemon (Tentacool, Frillish, Inkay) happen to be swarming randomly in these bodies of water. GANBATTE, VICTORY ROAD.
Effect: Friday, July 29: Haze - The forecast is misty inside and out on this oddly cool July day. Affected trainers will find it difficult to remember things, whether those happened long ago or just five minutes past. The memories aren’t gone, of course, it’s just…foggy.
Swarm: Sunday, July 31: Illumise and Volbeat


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Comments

Janey Springs | Borderlands

[zoomied]

SPINDA SWARM

Aw, what a cute lil guy!

[ Janey looks absolutely delighted to see the little... bear? Thing? It seems kinda out of it, though. She's just gonna poke its tummy, and-- ]

Whoa, careful! [ She steadies him; he's pretty darn tiny, actually... Smaller than a Spinda normally should be?

Catch her meeting it or her walking around with the little Spinda following--stumbling--behind her. ]

HAZE

Erm... what was I just doing?

[ Janey had just been wandering around Violet City, but... she can't remember how she got here? Funny. She's usually not bad at forgetting things... It must've been something important, though, because there's a little itch at the back of her mind. Maybe she was going to meet someone here...?

... The little Cyndaquil at her feet looks worried, though. ]

Quil...

Aww, cheer up! I'm sure we'll be just fine, yeah?

NETWORK

Hiya, everyone!
Janey Springs here, your favorite junker and children's book author!
I've got a proposition for you all. How about if you find something that looks like junk, send it right my way, and I'll fix something real nice for you.
For only a teeny tiny fee, of course!>

WILD CARD

[ Choose your own adventure, my guys! ]

Network

[thedifferencebetween]

[Holy shit! Jack hasn't even thought about Springs in...huh. Oh, actually he'd just been thinking of her a couple of weeks ago. The weird kid's stories. Something had reminded him of that. After the whole Elpis thing, he hadn't exactly needed an on the side junk dealer, he had all of Hyperion's vast resources at his disposal. And he vaguely remembers something about her leaving Concordia anyway.]

[But hey, she'd always been an alright chick! Done a lot of business, before he was president. Looks like things are finally turning around for old Handsome Jack!]

Holy crap, Janey Springs! How the hell are you? Been a damn long time! You're still in the junk game, huh? Good to know. Might hit you up.

Oh, it's Jack by the way. Yeah. I live here now. For now. Long story, you get it! Watch yourself, though, there's some pretty unsavory types wandering around.

[zoomied]

Well, I'll be a kraggon's uncle! Aren't you a sight for sore eyes? ... Well as much as these devices can be a sight anyway!

You got it! Any interesting places to get some junk round here? Since you've been here a while!

Unsavory types eh? Wouldn't want to run into them! Let's hear details!

Video

[thedifferencebetween]

Actually, these little gadgets are way cooler than ECHO devices! Flip that little button next to your screen. Look at that, video function! Why has no one done updated ECHO tech back home? It...it wouldn't be that hard.

[Things to look into when he gets home: Video ECHOs.]

Ugh, don't say 'a while', I don't like being reminded that I'm stuck here. But yeah, there's caves and spooky woods and crap all over, you should be fine. Goldenrod's the hub, you'll want to set up here. Tech's weird on this planet, though. It's like...both really behind us and ahead of us. It's...you'll see.

[He lets out a bark of a laugh at Janey's request for more details.]

You probably won't avoid it, I swear, it's like there's a secret Fast Travel station between Pandora and here. We've got bandits, Vault Hunters...Janey, there's an honest to god Psycho running around. Psycho mask and screaming about meat babies and everything.

Video

[zoomied]

[ ... Okay she gets all of that, seriously, but--

She suddenly looks very, very interested. ]

Vault Hunters? Tell us who we've got, yeah?

Video

[thedifferencebetween]

....Ugh. That's right, you're an independent contractor. Probably work with Vault Hunters all the time.

[And if he remembers, she and Athena had been kind of...friendly, during the Elpis adventure. Of course.]

Look...the ones here and me? We're not exactly friendly. Through no fault of my own, I've been nothing but reasonable! Happy to stay out of each other's way. I've got a small business, I have people I look after, I don't give a crap about old grudges.

And I've got no problem with you. Why would I? We were buddies. So just do me a favor and don't get in the middle of anything? We don't have to make a whole big thing. That's just stupid.

Video

[zoomied]

That's right! They gave me a hand here and there back on Elpis. Managed to get a lot done, actually...

[ ... ]

Aww, is Athena being real mean to you? [ She says it sympathetically...ish.... ] I'll watch myself, don't you worry. Couldn't've survived on Elpis without doing that, yeah?

Video

[thedifferencebetween]

Yeah, sure, she's being 'mean' in the same way that a toxic gas leak is 'annoying'. I dunno what the hell her problem is. I'd probably have better luck trying to reason with the friggin gas leak.

Ha! Yeah, that place sucked.

Spinda nonsense

[kissmyaspis]

[And here's where their tastes couldn't be more different. While Janey seems completely charmed by the spinda stumbling about, Athena looks... well. As irritated as she looks in most situations. No matter how she steps away and around the creatures, they keep running into her. Ugh!]

Cute. Right. They're as cute as a bunch of claptraps.

[Ohhhhh, low blow.]

[zoomied]

Look at that face, Athena-- [ the spinda closest to her is still stumbling like a drunkard, but it's looking at her like it wants her to catch it ] --you can't say no to that face! It really likes you!

I think it wants you to take it home.

[kissmyaspis]

... It looks more like it's about to throw up. [It better not do it on her boots...!] Besides, my team is just fine the way it is now.

[... Athena you have three pokemon.]

[zoomied]

Maybe one of those berries'd help, if it's got problems.

[ ... Athena. ]

You don't want more variety, hon? I mean, you've got your sword thingy, but you need more than that!

[kissmyaspis]

I do have more variety! I've shown you the growlithe and axew, haven't I?

[Yeah, she.... can't really be bothered with nicknames. She only really renamed her honedge because it felt weird to have a sword without a name.]

These... things... just don't really fit into that group.

[zoomied]

They're very cute, but what about the water ones? And the leafy-- the grass ones?

[ ... Janey's named her Cyndaquil "Cinder," at least, so there's that. At least it's not anything kraggon-related. ]

We'll just have to find you some really tough-looking ones, then. As for these guys... [ Boop, she's capturing both of them because Athena you might change your mind or something. ] I'm taking them both!

Network [[Hello friend!]]

[brokencode]

[After a long day of walking, it was a relief for Angel to settle beneath a tree and rest. Though the eridium had long faded from her veins and her muscles healed (presumably through whatever magic had brought her to this realm in the first place), Angel still found herself exhausted by even relatively short trips. Still, she wasn't about to fall asleep in the middle of nowhere — who knew what kind of monsters lurked nearby.]

[In an effort to stave off the steadily creeping urge to sleep, Angel quickly withdrew her pokegear, flipping through the various channels and video feeds. One feed in particular — spoken by a voice she almost remembered — drew her attention.

Hello? Janey was it?
You said you like to fix things?
What do you make?

hello my child c:

[zoomied]

Yeah, that's me!
Depends on what you want and what I can find. Back home I can usually cobble together some pretty sweet stuff, but here there's a lot less to work with. It's a real bummer!

[[I'm so excited, send help]]

[brokencode]

What have you made previously? That is, what did you make when you were back home?

[Despite her efforts (she's desperate to avoid making a fool of herself), Angel can't stop the smile that spreads across her lips.]

I used to play with code. It's... not quite the same, but it was nice... "cobbling together" certain projects.

me toooo omg angel is so precious....

[zoomied]

Tons of stuff! Vehicles, stuff that helps you not get killed really fast, guns...

Code, eh? Sounds like we've got a real smartie on our hands!

[ She's not condescending; rather, she's being absolutely sincere. ]

Oh god she's praising angel, way to hit her weak spot.

[brokencode]

[Angel's skin flushes in the slightest. She hopes it doesn't pick on on the video feed — the last thing she wants to do is embarrass herself with a potential new contact.]

I- er... It's not really anything special. I was just... raised around it.

[Her lie is small enough, though it certain leaves a bad taste in her mouth. It seemed that the more she opened her mouth, the bigger fool she made of herself. Even if Janey didn't pick up on the lie — and she certainly had no reason to — Angel wasn't eager to start what might have been a budding friendship off on such a negative foot]

[Especially when it came to the memories that accompanied the lies.]

You make cars? I had a friend back home who did that!

[Good, shift the subject to something more pleasant.

[aintafraidofno]

What kind of things do you make?

[zoomied]

Anything you can think of as long as I've got the parts! Oz kits, moon zoomies, maybe some real sweet weapons for your skag-hunting needs...

[aintafraidofno]

I haven't heard of half of the words you just used, but color me completely intrigued.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

[zoomied]

It's pretty sweet, yeah. Probably the best stuff you'll see in your life, ever.

Ooh, bold, are we? You've got yourself a deal. What's your name?

[aintafraidofno]

I don't know, I might just give you a run for your money.

Holtzmann.

Jillian.

It's Jillian Holtzmann.

[nailed it]

[zoomied]

Well, my dear lady, it is a pleasure to meet you! You've got yourself a deal.

We should probably find a place to meet up, yeah?