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WINTER TEST DRIVE MEME
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Welcome to the Current Test Drive for The Revival Project!

This game is a spin-off from the closed The Drift Fleet game. For more information about the game, including more details on the setting, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

A thread on the TDM will be required for all applications. Please view the FAQ for information about how this works. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ as well.

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni bringing your character from the game, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level. Also, keep in mind you have complete flexibility on how your character comes here. They could be taken before endgame, after endgame, two years after, one year before, etc. It's up to you! If you want to completely restart your character, they're not considered DFAU anymore and won't need the label.

So go! Explore Agra 10! And, as always, HAVE FUN!

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Winter in Temba and Sh'Ka

What says winter more than snow?

Lots of snow.

MORE snow.

Indeed. It's snowing. A lot. From one day to the next both Temba and Sh'Ka are covered in snow and especially in Temba these masses of snow may even collapse some of the more damaged buildings, so be careful where you seek shelter.

But the Agrii are trying to help and we all know nothing ever gets weird or wrong when the Agrii decide to help their He-Rows. Two small, vividly colored snowblower drones are doing their best to clear paths along the most used streets of Temba. It looks like one of the Agrii has used their years of observing frustrated He-Rows shovel and magically melt snow wisely. Unfortunately these little drones, despite being equipped with large googly eyes, don't really see what they are doing and while clearing out one street may end up blocking five others as well as the doors to buildings.

And if it isn't the snow itself or the little snow drones blocking you in, there are still the prevailing dangers left by the earthquake that are now well hidden under snow. Huge cracks in the ground are now perfectly camouflaged, so be mindful where you step. You may end up in an icy underground cavern without ever having meant to end up there.

In other areas the cold has a value for a time. The much diminished flood plain soon freezes over enough for skating, until it too ends up in a layer of snow. But that's more easily brushed aside so maybe you can do something with that? Or perhaps it's just better to stay inside, where there is heat and perhaps other people avoiding the heavy blanket that covers Temba.

Sh'Ka is also covered in snow as mentioned before, but it lacks the little snow-blowing helpers sent by the Agrii. So here the paths between places will have to be those you forge yourselves. At least Sh'Ka doesn't have the same issue with ice caverns just under the surface, or with buildings collapsing until the weight of winter's most predictable weather system.

Explore ~~the city~~ Temba!

Here's a map of Temba and a bit more description of some of the buildings here.

Despite having been protected from being destroyed by the volcano itself and unlike Sh'Ka not having been buried in vast amopunts of ash, Temba still suffered notable damage from the earthquakes that came with the volcano's eruption. Previously restored buildings were damaged and others entirely caved in on themselves leaving them beyond any hope for restoration. The streets and paths are even worse to traverse than they used to be but for what it's worth water and electricity are still working. Most of the time.

Needless to say, exploring is more risky these days as buildings may still cave in without warning and seemingly solid roads may crack open to drop anunsuspecting wanderer into underground caves left behind by the quakes.

And yet the city can still be explored. If you are lucky, you might even stumble over The Deep End, the bar located on one of the mid-levels of the tower residences in one of the residence towers. Unfortunately no bright neon signs can lead you there, but it does exist.

RETURN OF THE SHIPS!!

Yes, they are back. Though you may not be aware of it, the ships stored in the hangar have been gone for quite some time, but they have been returned very recently. In a way, at least. What used to be a group of nine smaller ships has become a very shipable pair of brand new, notably larger space vessels and you just may feel compelled to enter one of these two ships to take a look around. The glitter dispensers await you!

Try the network!

The network is back up! Upon arrival, your character will have on their person a small, handheld communications device. Maybe they know exactly how to use a computer, smartphone, or tablet, and immediately blast out a text or video trying to figure out what's going on. Or maybe they're not so tech-savvy after all, and everyone is about to get a lovely shot right up your character's left nostril.

There be storms...

These power-altering storms keep ravaging parts of the planet every once in a while. No one truly knows where they come from or what to do about them yet, but one of them appears to be approaching. You have the option to find shelter in one of the buildings to wait for it to pass. Unless, of course, you rather feel drawn to investigate.

Should you step inside the storm, or even get lost in it, it will show ghosts of people you know and those you don't. It drains you of any super-human abilities and tries its best to keep you from getting to its origin. Are you going to try anyways? Or are you going to chase the whispers of people from your past? Maybe you will simply find yourself calling for help or stumble across another lost soul in need of assistance.

More information can be found here.

Wildcard!

You're welcome to use any previous test drive scenarios or previous game events as a basis for a thread/situation, or simply make up your own! Keep in mind that you're currently stranded on a planet with only basic necessities, but there is enough food and fresh water. Creature comforts, however, seem to be distinctly lacking. Quite unlike a gathering of potentially dangerous creatures to encounter. The setting is yours to explore and have fun with!

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"Uh, freezing to death, for one. If you wanna get out of the cold, follow me."

He's gonna start walking towards a building, assuming that fang does in fact want to get out of the cold and will catch up.

"As for other dangers... let's see... In the time I've been here we've had a volcano explode on us, and then there's the storms, I don't remember if that datapoint covers 'em. Whenever one of those comes along crazy stuff starts to happen. I've heard people see ghosts and stuff? Last time these portals opened up all over town and monsters popped out that tried to eat us. Oh, and anyone who has powers or weird abilities doesn't have 'em until the storm's over, which is... fun. But they don't seem to happen too often? So that's a plus, I guess."

Fang is fine with getting out of the cold and he swiftly follows, frowning more and more as he listens to the list of the possible horrors he will be encountering.

"... And just how long have you been here?!" he exclaims.

Fabulous, Sonic's gonna start leading the way to the welcome center.

"How long? Huh... Y'know, I've lost track. At least a few months. It's gotta be closing in on half a year at this point."

"And this kinda stuff is normal for here?!"

Great. Just great.

"I'm still tryin' to get used to what qualifies as normal around here, to be honest. There can be months where nothing happens, months where everything happens, months where we're just trapped in a place... If nothing else, it keeps us on our toes?"

Gotta find some sort of positive, right?

"And all without pay," Fang says derisively. "There's nothin' valuable around here, is there?" Even if there was, it'd be useless in this place, no doubt.

"There's no money, if that's what you're on about. We're just in survival mode down here."

I guess Fang could hoard cans of food or something? That's likely to be valuable some day.

"Yeah, that figures. So ... besides volcanoes and freaky storms, what are you surviving from? Are there dangerous critters outside the city?" He might be able to help with that.

"Probably? I haven't really gone out to check. Why invite extra trouble, y'know?"

Says Sonic 'looks for trouble for fun' the Hedgehog. That probably hints at how shitty this place is?

Fang snorts. "Really? You? How bad is this place if it's even watered-down your hankering for adventure?"

"I almost lost a leg to a monster a couple months back because my speed stopped working and I couldn't outrun it or fight back, so... Yeah, I'd say it's pretty bad."

The good news is that they've reached the welcome center, Sonic's going to be a bro and hold the door for Fang.

"... Yeah, that's pretty bad, alright." While Fang doesn't rely on his tail as much as Sonic does his speed, he would hate to lose the ability to spring with it.

He steps inside the welcome center and looks around.

"Yo, it's the worst. My speed's working now, but now I have these gnarly scars all up my leg? Fur's mostly grown over it but it's still all patchy in places."

More annoying than anything else, but it still sucks. Sonic follows Fang inside and kicks the snow off his shoes.

"There's gotta be a better system for solving this planet's problems so we can get out of here unharmed," Fang says in disgust. He will definitely have to stay alert for these monsters and whatever else. He wants as little trouble as possible.

"Yeah, we're still trying to figure that out. It's hard to get everyone on the same page when there's some kind of weird disaster happening every five minutes."

He's exaggerating a little, there's at least some down time between emergencies. Like right now! Unless snow counts as an emergency to some people. Anyway, as long as they're here, he might as well make use of the Replicator. He starts fiddling with it for a bit while they're chatting.

Fang grunts. "Well, one way or another, it needs to happen.... Hey, what's that thing do?" He watches Sonic curiously.

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