Test Drive

[travelagency]

Test Drive This is a test drive for The Last Resort. You can use one of the handy prompts or make up your own. Prompts Prompt #1 After Harry Mudd's recent visit during the market, he sold some non-native plants. So far, most people have been responsible pet/plant owners. However one man has not; the butcher's plant has turned into a monster, and is prone to lunging at people. But because it is still technically contained, it's decided that it shouldn't be destroyed. Maybe your character is with security and has to come in and evaluate the plant's safe living area. Or your character is asked by the butcher to toss it some snacks while he's out running errands (with the warning not to get your hand too close). In any case, enjoy a little green pain in the butt. Prompt #2 Blackstaff Resort is grateful for all the help that's been offered from the imports and whether or not your character is living there, Jeffers has decided that they recieve a piece of very nice alien furniture. The only problem is it's disassembled. And alien. And the instructions appear to be translated into gibberish, with explanations like, "Right left to the hole peg". Sometimes it's the thought that counts. But it feels very soft, and it could possibly be comfortable if it was put together correctly. Prompt #3 The lake is usually a great place to fish, and a wonderful place for fowl to gather. Only recently, the birds have become few and far between. Eye-witnesses claim to have seen something lurking under the water. There are squids in oceans and lakes, but whatever this tendrilled monster is, it's nothing like those. Blackstaff Security is offering a hefty bounty for the hostile and invasive creature's removal. The Black Sun will pay more for it. The townspeople just want it gone. Whatever your character chooses to do, this is a good chance to do someone a favor. Prompt #4 Choose your own adventure (first network or log posts can later be used as game canon once related apps are approved). Please help tag out if you're currently in the game and help introduce people to the game. If you have definitive preferences in play style (action or prose), please mention it in your posts. Navigation

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[domesheriff]

Carnivorous!? [it isn't an unbelieving exclamation--just a shocked one. she shakes her head; she's never gotten used to the dangerous sorts of messes people manage to get themselves into, not even the normal messes that she used to see when the world was sane and she lived in one place and time. and this is on an entirely different level, so she's at least as exasperated at the thought of people selling man-eating plants as Kay is--maybe even moreso because it's just that far out of her realm of expectations] Well, now I see why they want us to look at the environment!

It's not...mobile, is it? [she feels a little foolish even asking the question, but if being in this place has taught her anything, it's to expect the unexpected--and he did just compare it to a dog and an alligator, after all]

[most_feared]

Well, you gotta consider. The beasts and hounds here, they're carnivorous, too. The plant's intelligent enough to respond to its owners and passerbys. So the owner has an obligation to be responsible for it.

Part of the orders of takin' care of it are to not feed it red meat, and I'm bettin' that's one of the things he's been doing. [Just a hunch, and not a far fetched one. It is a butcher's shop, after all.] It's a little mobile. It can't get out of its pot.

[domesheriff]

I...guess you have a point. [it's weird for her to try to think of it like that--mainly because it's a struggle to conceive of a plant as a sentient being. but she's doing her best to use the dog analogy to help her]

So we're, what, making sure the owner doesn't have it anywhere that it's likely to eat his customers?