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The Station: Test Drive

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Welcome to the Station's Test Drive

Here, you will have the chance to try your character's voice out before apping them into the game. Feel free to play out in whatever means you would like - through the Station's communicators which are video and voice or either one alone, through action tags or prose, or whatever else you wish.

Please note that testing a character here does not guarantee that you have a reservation on that character. You may reserve a character HERE. Also note that this may be used as one of your samples for your application, though the mods may ask for more if what is provided is not considered sufficient. Finally, any thing played out on the test drive will not be considered character canon until after your character has woken up on the Station, as each character is given a unique scenario for their character's waking upon acceptance to the game.

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This didn't look like Ponyville, and it certainly wasn't the Everfree Forest. It still felt off to Fluttershy though. There were no creatures--at least not ones she felt she could identify as friendly. Keeping her wings tucked close, trying to hold her head up even through her nerves as she walked.

It was too well organized to not be a garden though, of some kind. "Um..excuse me..." Quiet, voice small. Then taking a deep breath, and trying once more. "Hello??" Well--that would be normal speaking volume for anyone who wasn't her.

Jack got the new person alert, and, crap, it was coming from the Gardens. That was the location that would get Jack to drop everything and find the new person immediately, just in case they wandered in the wrong direction.

"Hello?" Jack calls out as he gets closer. He barely hears the timid voice. "Hang on, I'm coming to-" Jack stops dead as he rounds the last bend and the owner of the voice comes into view. "...you."

Jack stares for a few seconds. He stops, blinks, and then stares some more as his mind tries to catch up to this.

It's a pony.

It's a talking pony.

With wings.

They're real.

Oh good, the voice sounded like someone who knew what they were doing. Maybe they could point Fluttershy in the right direction...

That...was not a pony. It.........Fluttershy wasn't sure what this thing was, but it wasn't a pony. A blink, several blinks actually as she stares back. Kind of frozen in nerves and fear and oh what to do now, what to do now? There's a faint little squeak-type noise of distress, and Fluttershy finally backs up a step.

Okay. It seems that the pony is just as startled by Jack as he is of it. He holds his hands out, and actually takes a knee to get closer to Fluttershy's level. Well, he heard it talking earlier, and he's going to have to assume that it has the same level of intelligence that they all did when they were ponies.

"Um. Hi. Sorry I scared you. Please don't run off, this isn't the safest place if you go off the path." He looks a little worried at the idea of accidentally scaring Fluttershy into actual danger. "My name is Jack, who are you?"

Fluttershy actually did look ready to take another step back, and stops abruptly with the warning. Definitely a little nervous here. There's another blink, and another, and then she puts her head down slightly.

"...'m Fluttershy" It's kind of mumbled, but not as badly as she had been when Twilight first showed up. Progress--at least sort of.

Fluttershy. Could this situation get any more adorable? Okay. Either Crichton was right, or Jack has completely snapped and started hallucinating. At this point, he isn't sure which idea is more terrifying.

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Fluttershy. It might be a little hard to explain what's just happened. Where were you right before this?" Give him a little bit of a basis to work with, so he can figure out how simplistic he needs to make his explanation.

It...he? Some kind of not-pony Stallion? At least he seemed nice; Fluttershy took a guess with the voice and posture, especially now that he wasn't so tall.

"It's......nice to meet you too." Kind of hiding behind her hair there, but at least it wasn't mumbled. "I was just on my way to Mr Beaverton's dam to see how the construction was going."

He didn't look like anything she'd ever encountered before--except for Discord, who walked on two legs like he did. But this not!pony was definitely not a draconequis. Still sort of hiding behind her hair, but tilting her head to see more clearly. "I'm...forgive me if this is rude, but...what kind of creature are you?" Ok, so it was rude, and she ducked back--but she was definitely curious now.

Jack's eyebrows go up at that. Okay, no humans on her world. There go most of the shared points of reference that Jack could use to explain what's going on here. Goodie. He's going to have to make this up on the fly.

"I'm a human. Most of the other people here are human, too. I'm afraid we don't have any other, uh, ponies? Winged ponies? Sorry if this is rude, but what do you call yourself?"

Human? That's....new. No more backing away, and slowly bringing her head up. A new creature to make friends with? Oh but she's surrounded...but...new creatures!

"Oh, I'm a pegasus-pony." Another head-tilt down, and carefully unfurling her wings. Still nervous, but being put more at ease with the gentle conversation so far. "You...don't have any other ponies? No unicorn-ponies either, do you?"

Pegasus pony. Of course she is. Stop asking if this can get more adorable, Jack, because your mind can obviously keep going with this.

Jack shakes his head, and he remembers how some of the other people had gotten turned into other variations of ponies. Hadn't K-9 gotten a horn? That was pretty funny. "No unicorns, either."

"Um, can you tell me a little bit about your world, where you just came from? I don't know how much I'm going to have to explain." Jack floofs out his coat and takes a seat, because this might take a while.

No other ponies at all; oh my, that was a scary thought. Fluttershy is ducking her head slightly to hide behind her hair once more. "Um, oh, I..." Stuttering a bit, before quieting.

Moving to settle herself, since this clearly is more complicated and distressing than she'd thought. "What...do you want to know? I mean, I don't know where to start, especially if you don't have ponies..." Oh, why did she have to be the one in this situation?

"Well, okay, are ponies the only kinds of life forms on your world? Let's start there." The pony is definitely nervous, but if this turns into twenty questions, Jack is okay with that. Whatever it takes to keep from spooking her and get her to understand 'so you've been transported in space and time and we have no idea how to get you home.'

"Oh no, well..I mean, there are lots of creatures I haven't met yet, but we have more fantastic creatures like dragons, and gryphons, hydra, and timberwolves, and we have normal creatures like bears, and squirrels, and hedgehogs and cats and dogs and tortoises and owls and..."

There is a rustling in the bushes, before a small white shape bursts out. Bee-lining for Fluttershy, who looks surprised, then pleased. "ANGEL!" Easily the loudest she'd gotten, and still only at mildly above speaking volume.

The small white bunny is scooped up in a hug, which he rolls his eyes at, then leans in to. Fluttershy nuzzles him affectionately, before turning her attention back to Jack. "And bunnies. Angel, this is Jack. He's a human."

Jack looks over sharply at the sudden movement, and starts to make a move to intercept it, expecting one of the rats. But he stops when the shape is far smaller than any of the rats that he's seen before, and then, of all things, Fluttershy recognizes it?

Oh! Bunny! Jack laughs, and smiles as Fluttershy seems to relax a little. Okay. Having someone familiar here would be nice for her. "Nice to meet you, too, uh, Angel?" Jack looks at Fluttershy. "Does he talk, too?"

Angel is giving him a look that clearly is questioning his intelligence. Then sticking his tongue out. "Angel bunny, that's not very nice." Fluttershy scolds, gently, before meeting Jack's look again.

"I'm sorry, he's likely just reacting to us being somewhere unfamiliar." Settling back down again, the bunny squirming out of her hug before climbing up onto her back. Settling down, listening with an expectant look of 'well? get on with it'. "You mean like we do? No, most of the critters don't like we do. They have their own languages." Fluttershy was definitely more comfortable with someone familiar around, even if she's still nervous.

Hey, it's a legitimate ques...Jack, are you about to have an argument with a rabbit? Jack thinks better of responding, and pays attention to what Fluttershy is saying. But this only brings up more questions about her world. Hmm. What's the simple way of asking the 'tech or magic' question? Might take a little bit to get to that exact question.

"Well, what kind of place do you live in, on your world?"

You wouldn't be the first to try arguing with Angel, Jack--the bunny is a spoiled brat. Usually with a good heart, but still a brat.

"I live near the edge of the Everfree Forest, but still within the Ponyville limits." Fluttershy answered, hoping that her critters were ok. And her friends. "In a cottage. I have lots of space for my animal friends that way."

Cottage? Ponyville? "Ponyville? Is that a city? You guys live in towns and cities? I know this sounds incredibly basic and obvious," shut up, bunny, "but I can't really take anything for granted."

"Do you guys have machines and technology, then?"

"Of course." It was said with some surprise, though her tone was mild. "Ponyville is a city in Equestria. There's also Cloudsdale, where I lived when I was a filly, and Canterlot is nearby from the train." Fluttershy is sticking to the basics. Also wishing Twilight was here, because she'd make things so much simpler, in terms of explanations.

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