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WINTER TEST DRIVE MEME

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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[Leo appreciates that, even though he doesn’t say anything to acknowledge it. He’s not alone, and it’s all going to be okay… though every time he thinks like that, he thinks about how Donnie has been alone for a whole year and feels terrible again.

One thing at a time.

Once his feet aren’t stinging so bad anymore, he starts talking again.]

Well… we used to be like that. Only knowing about the outside from TV, I mean. [It’s gotten better since they met April, that’s for sure.] Still, you’d think they’d get their act together.

Okay, true. But we were still willing to get out there and see things for ourselves, you know? The Agrii don't even seem inclined to go to other planets to experience other places.

So yeah... I have questions about whoever's been making the decisions there.

What about with everyone down here? Who makes the decisions?

[He’s not even sure how many people have been kidnapped into this whole deal.]

[Donnie sips at his coffee again now that Leo seems a little better settled with his feet.]

It's pretty freeform. Which probably isn't great on paper but it hasn't been outright catastrophic either. People somehow or another manage to pool together when situations call for it.

Huh. Guess that's fine, as long as everyone takes care of themselves.

[It occurs to him that he isn't the leader in this situation; Donnie doesn't even remember Splinter's absolutely insane proclamation, and it doesn't sound like anyone here even really expects anyone to fill that role. So...

He got out of it. Not in the way he expected, that's for sure, but he did! It's an unexpected weight off his shoulders.]

So how's the whole... engineering on an alien planet been going?

Yeah, it...weirdly works out. People even look out for each other, crazy, right?

[It's...been nice that way. Alone as he may have been for the absence of his family, he's had people watch out for him, and it's not like he'd ever expected it.

That's dangerously sentimental territory, so Donnie's all too eager to veer off onto a different line of subject.]

You'd think it'd be amazing but I've seen better salvage at Earth junkyards. They really have left the barebones around here, it's kind of ridiculous. Not impossible though, but someone really doesn't want us to have an easy time of anything.

You know, when they dropped me here I only had my tech-bō? I had to make a new battle shell from scratch, but I actually had help in that- not that I needed it but I mean, no one's ever done that before... He made me rocket boots, Leo.

[Leo is just as keen on avoiding any sentimental pitfalls, so he doesn't say it, but he's relieved people look out for each other here, and Donnie hasn't just been... alone, all this time. He even found a roommate somehow. It's pretty impressive.

But the following explanation is... a lot, oof. Leo has so many questions.]

You got to keep your tech-bo!? [That's where he starts, because his swords have been totally gone since he got here. What the heck?

But also.] And who made you rocket boots!? You have rocket boots!?

[A roommate who reminded him of his brothers all in one, it's uncanny, really, but there can't be any replacement for them and a blue hedgehog is a force unto his own.]

Yeah? You saw it, right?

[Or maybe not since they were kind of half-freezing to death, he'll let it slide if that's the case.]

Yes I do! I'll- well if they worked in these stupid storms I would have been using them but otherwise they're so awesome ohmygosh. There's this guy, his name's Tony and he's amazing, look I totally get when you start labeling people as alternative father figures now.

Yeah, but I just assumed you made a new one since-

[It broke is what almost comes out of his mouth, and then he remembers that Donnie doesn't remember that, and how badly Donnie freaked out before, and he stops himself short just in time, swapping to:]

-they took my swords, why wouldn't they take your bo!?

[That was smooth, totally - just ignore that weird little hitch in the middle.

Besides, he has other things to deal with. Like... this Tony guy.

And sure, Leo definitely has a penchant for labeling people "father figures" and maybe it hasn't always worked out, but still. Still! He feels like he has pretty good judgment about these things and Donnie... well, Donnie thought Big Mama was genuinely interested in him when she just wanted his tech for herself. So he's maybe a little sus of this Tony.

Not that he'll show it yet.]

Oh yeah? Sounds like he's a nerd like you.

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Guess they figured I'd need it? I don't know, but I'm not complaining. I think they're on the fence about letting us have weapons but maybe they've started to realize we need means of protecting ourselves.

...and quite possibly they did not realize just how much I have crammed into my precious baby.

[He snorts then, because of course Leo would say such things.]

Well, maybe he is, but he's super cool. We might've gotten off the wrong foot when I broke past his high-security door to the forge but that's all water under the bridge. He lets me use the place all the time now.

...Based on what you've told me, I can see that.

[It's true, to the uninitiated the bo does look like just that - a stick. A stick made of metal, sure, but still just a stick.

Lately Donnie doesn't even need the metal stick to be able to make whatever he wants... but Leo won't bring that up. A fun surprise for Donnie later, he guesses.

He can't help but laugh at the anecdote about the high-security door. Sounds like something Donnie would do.]

So he's actually cool? Helps you with stuff, doesn't butter you up so you'll build him a cool piece of tech that he plans to steal in an act of inevitable betrayal?

[He's just making sure!]

Why would he need me to build him anything when he can do it all himself!

[Donnie sounds exasperated at that, because true, there are times he feels a little challenged by the man but he doesn't really want a rivalry, he's just glad he has someone who he can actually communicate with.]

...those boots, he made them for me so I could get around the city. It was stupidly hot last summer and walking around with no shoes just wasn't happening.

[And then there was a volcano but Donnie decides not to get into that right now.]

[He made boots for Donnie so he wouldn't burn his feet on hot pavement. Huh.

Okay, so maybe this Tony guy isn't Big Mama. That's a relief. Leo still feels a little apprehensive, but probably just because he hasn't actually met him. Seen him for himself to know he's not just trying to take advantage of his brother.

Especially because he may be an even bigger nerd than Donnie? That's unexpected!]

...Huh. [He grins at that.] Cool. You finally found someone you could nerd vibe with.

[A "father figure," even!]

Laugh all you want, I've never had anyone who's actually been able to... you know, connect in that way. We've been able to build things together and he never expects anything back, which is super-frustrating when I just ask if he knows where I can find parts to do something or another and he starts dismantling his own tech to provide it. We both have the same feelings about magic...

[Science guys. But the matter of magic does make him frown, mildly conflicted. That's another mystery and he's not sure he wants to bring it up, at least not just yet.]

[Ugh, someone to encourage Donnie's distaste of magic. Great.

The rest of it sounds alright, though? Hm.]

I'm not laughing! I'm glad you have another egghead to talk to.

[He knows he sounds dismissive about it, he just doesn't really know what else to say. Of course Donnie couldn't connect with them in that way, they aren't super geniuses like he is. And Donnie's been here a whole year, so... Leo really is glad that Donnie could find someone like that. He thinks, anyway. It's still a little boggling to think about.]

But you guys are both in denial about how awesome magic is, for the record.

No, we're just in agreement about how unscientific it behaves. [Donnie huffs, hugging his legs.]

...

[Should he? Leo had just gotten here. But they're already kind of on the subject.]

There's... a cave out by the beaches here. It has a hot springs, but down another way, well, there's a bunch of crystals in the wall. They're used to be made into rechargeable energy rods that power things in the city. But in its raw form, I was told they make innate supernatural abilities unstable, or they juice them up.

...I had a weird reaction when I went in there.

Who cares? It works and that’s what matters.

[It has its own logic! Probably. Leo thinks it does, anyway!

But at Donnie’s explanation, Leo can’t help but turn… a little shifty, eyes suddenly trained on his feet. They’re tingling, but that’s not really why he’s doing it.]

O-oh yeah? What kind of reaction?

[Know something? Why would you think that hah hah hah please don’t look into it.]

An understanding as to how it works would be beneficial for in the event of which it might decide not to! You can't just take it for granted, it's... an energy, and it has to be supplied from somewhere, and as with any energy, it can be expended. That part makes sense from a scientific perspective, it's the details that make no sense.

[Donnie looks back at Leo, his frown pulling back into position. Is he avoiding eye contact? What's with that?]

Uh. Well... I start...glowing. [His nose wrinkles as he describes it. Probably sounds absolutely insane.] Not like, everything just, the purples. -and metal but that's an entirely different reaction on its own. But like...

I can...make things? Out of some kind of energy? It's like...purple light but it somehow solidifies- and get this, I can make fully functioning machinery why are you not looking at me.

[Okay, Donnie says he got a "reaction," so Leo knew it must have interacted with his ninpo in some way, but when Donnie continues Leo's eyes go wide. Which... probably makes him look extra suspicious, since he's not looking.

He got as far as making constructs? Seriously!? And without them? Raph had to throw himself off a tree to awaken it before! So what, Donnie just walks into a cave and does what it took them hours to figure out?]

Uhhh, so... please don't freak out on me again. [He looks at Donnie with a smile that he hopes is reassuring.] Buuut I already knew you could do that.

[...not going to mention just how long he stayed in that cave experimenting, not that he had been keeping track...

Donnie looks a little concerned at that warning, expression souring. He's not at all sure what to make of that smile but color him highly suspicious.]

Wait, what..? You...knew?

...

Is this another future thing and do I want to know.

Yeah, it's another future thing.

[Leo might as well be honest about it. It's a little too obvious, anyway.]

Turns out there's a lot Dad didn't tell us. And turns out we never really needed those mystic weapons to actually use our powers.

[He makes an irritated motion with his hands.] Which I could show you if they hadn't taken my katana!

[Sure, he can try to make new ones the way he did at Todd's place, but who knows if that would even work? Man.]

...I figured it had to be something like that, if anything. I mean...I can't be totally surprised that there's a lot dad's left out, right?

[Annoying, that. Donnie's not quite sure how to feel about the confirmation that they apparently have inherent mystic powers. But Tony had been right, that power had come from him, not the cave.]

So...why do we have powers? And does that mean you can still make portals, and Raph can make some extended version of himself and Mikey can throw things and light them on fire even without special weapons?

[Leo hadn't said ōdachi after all. But why would he even part with it?] Where'd you get katana anyway? The last ones you had were broken the first time you tried using them in actual combat.

[Whew, that's a lot of questions all at once. Leo hesitates, trying to think of a way to answer without spoiling all the... sad parts.]

It's a Hamato thing. Called ninpo.

[Leo doesn't have his swords, but he can still call on the power itself - for just a few seconds, his stripes all light up, truly becoming Neon Leon. He doesn't keep at it for very long, though, because he's cold and tired and it's draining his energy.]

I can still make portals, and a few other things. It's really hard to do without my swords to direct it, though. [Maybe one day he can learn how to do it without them, but he's nowhere near that level right now.] And yeah, Raph and Mikey can do all their stuff, too.

[Also don't remind him he broke his first katana! That was so embarrassing...]

Our other weapons got broken, so we made new ones. Todd helped.

I guess father's back to only letting us know about things until it's absolutely relevant.

[Frustrating, but for the moment forgotten as Leo lights up like a Times Square billboard. It's familiar, and for a brief moment, Donnie can almost swear he feels something himself.]

So... your weapon's a focal point for it? Was that what the mystic weapons essentially were? I'm not sure I'm understanding the Hamato part of it.

[Of course he's going to ask questions, it's what he does. Although Donnie does look mildly horrified at that revelation.]

All our weapons...?

In his defense, I'm not sure how much of this stuff he knew, either. Apparently when our great-grandpa tried to teach him he kept ditching the guy.

[Wow, who does that remind them of? Definitely not Leo, that's for sure!

Leo shrugs at his next question.] I know you're gonna hate this answer, but I don't really get it, either. It's pretty much all instinct for me. [He waves his hands around.] I think about where I wanna go, and just kind of... push that through my swords. And then bam!

[Was that helpful?

His next question and accompanying horror isn't really a surprise either. Leo glances at Donnie's tech-bo, then back at his brother's face.]

...You're sure you wanna know the answer to that one?

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