revivalprojectooc | Spring 2025 TDM

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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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Spring in Temba and Sh'Ka

Spring is a wonderful time where the world wakes up and plants come back to life and animals return from hibernation or migration. Which means the cities are coming back to life. All over both there are young shoots slowly reaching to the sky, enjoying the light and promising to be lush and lovely in the future. Those with sharp eyes will see small creatures that look like dancing mushrooms or spear armed berries. They are shy around new people, though, and likely will seek somewhere to hide away from those who look for them.

There are also frequent rain showers out of sunny skies. The rain is warm and refreshing in a way that brings to mind glacial rivers and fresh mountain springs. It's pure, perhaps purer than anything you've ever experienced back home. They bring life and growth, but also hope. The buildings around the city almost seem cleaner after showers pass, and the sky a little bluer.

In Temba great flocks of sheep like creatures with glowing wool rove over freshly paved streets, pausing here and there to graze. Bright and colorful birds fill the trees as well, moving through the area like they belong. Once or twice you might even see a small mushroom or berry seeming to... ride them? What in the world is going on there? Perhaps someone can answer that question for you, if you wish to ask. Meanwhile in Sh'Ka there is a very different sort of outburst of life. In the area known best for its stone trees there are now flowering vines slowly working their ways up the monstrous growths. They smell faintly of honeysuckle and cucumber, and the local Deleons seem to very much appreciate their presence. The quarry too seems to, slowly, be filling up with clean, fresh water. Maybe, in time, a new lake will form. For now enjoy the chance to splash around if you wish.

Explore ~~the city~~ Temba!

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

The city streets of Temba are in large part relatively newly paved and sturdy. Some areas that seem less traveled may show signs of a large machine currently working on doing new work, which is a good sign of progress. Unfortunately the buildings around these roads are not always in as good of condition. Some look like they could topple at any moment. Better to be careful and perhaps avoid walking into places that don't look very stable. But the intact buildings have running water and electricity, so you'll probably be okay if you stick to those.

And yet, in spite of old damages, 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. Or perhaps you won't wander so far from the fountain and you'll find yourself in the Diner, or checking out the mostly intact and increasingly decorated space of the Hotel where many He Rows live. Or, if you wander a bit farther northeast you might run into...

Explore the Ships!

He Rows new and old can make use of the massive hangars in the northern part of Temba to access the shuttles that will carry you up to the currently orbiting Glitter Food and Peanut Party. When He Rows are off the planet, these serve as their homes, their bases of operations, and their vessels all in one. Each He Row has a room assigned to them on their ship, one only they can access. There are also spaces for workshops and labs, for cooking and growing things, and even, shockingly enough, a large green space with trees, grasses, ground covers, and even a large lake with sand leading on toward it. It shares a wall with the fake aquarium that makes up a wall of a bar like the Deep End. So it's a great place to go swimming provided you remember to wear something. All in all there is a massive ship to explore, and maybe you'll even meet your crew mates there. Plus the view of the stars from the dome in the middle of the green space is breathtakingly beautiful. Perhaps even the best view of stars some people have ever had the chance to see.

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...

One of the first things a new He Row learns about upon arriving on Agra-10 (by means of touching a tempting glowing orb) is about the energy storms that ravaged and damaged the planet. The brave work of past He Rows in the Fall of 2024 has led to the diminishing of these storms. But just because the machines that were creating and sustaining them have been shut down does not mean that the last gusts of their power cannot be felt from time to time.

The weakened remnants of these power-altering storms blow over parts of the planet every once in a while. And sadly one of these last gusts of misery seems to be approaching. You can tell from the darkened sky and the flickering of electronics. You have the option to find shelter in one of the buildings to wait for it to pass. Unless, of course, you are caught unaware.

Should you wind up 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 shuts down all technology and magic in its area. Are you going to seek the relative peace of the indoors? 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. One thing is for sure, this micro storm won't last long, no more than an hour at most, but it will be an experience like few others for the time that it is there.

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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Chidi was wandering with his beer, looking for an empty table, when she looks at him and speaks to him. He turns slightly, then realizes she truly is addressing him, and looks back at her.

"Me? I was just looking for a place to sit."

The woman turns fully to look at him. And when she looks, she looks. The whole slow pan up and down.

"Oh no, you should come sit over here. Keep a woman company."

Chidi suddenly feels afraid. Afraid to sit with her.

And afraid to say no.

Why does he have a stomachache again?

"Oh, um. Sure."

He slides into the seat across from her and sets his beer down.

"I don't tend to drink often, but this place is kind of a lot."

Yeah, ruined cities and empty bars that have barely any options were indeed a lot. She even glances over at the neon sign, some wonder in her eyes. But then she takes another cup from the table and pours a tall, stiff shot of the biting alcohol she had and pushes it to him.

"Raise your glass and drink to your health. We'll probably be dead tomorrow."

A classic pirate toast.

He doesn't say anything. He feels like it would be strange to explain that he's already dead, and she's kind of...pushy. He doesn't feel he can say no. So he accepts the glass and takes a rueful swallow.

It burns.

He coughs.

He looked good for a dead man then. And perhaps he needed to learn to be more assertive.

Mostly Marisa chuckles at his reaction.

"Not used to the hard stuff then?"

He finishes spluttering and wipes the back of his hand across his mouth.

"I don't... I don't drink."

Yes, he'd approached her holding a beer.

Seriously? See shakes her head.

"You're literally drinking. Everyone drinks. Don't be silly."

"I haven't made a habit of it in the past. That's what I mean."

He shakes his head a little and takes another sip, a bit smaller of one, but more steady in knowing what it'll be like.

"What's your name?"

"It's alright. It's never too late to learn good habits," she teases with a smile, tilting her head in a way she knows will make the jewels in her ears sparkle and the rings piercing her brow to shine.

"Marisa Hoarfrost, of the Grey Wardens. Steeling myself before a hunt. Always good to feel alive before facing death."

He raises his eyebrows briefly, considering that. This person is much different from him, but that's probably a good thing.

"I spent most of my life studying, myself. Maybe I should have done more of that kind of thing."

"Ah. A scholar. They usually don't have nearly enough fun."

Though she wonders. People who study too much don't tend to be good at what she does.

"Are you a hunter then? A slayer of monsters?"

"We don't tend to have monsters attack at the university I teach at," he says. "Is that what you do?"

"I hunt darkspawn. I am a Grey Warden."

She waits, clearly expecting the term to mean something to him.

Of course, it doesn't. But the term 'darkspawn' seems pretty self-explanatory.

"How...how big are they?" he asks.

"Depends on which ones you're talking about. Archfiends are massive, but dragons always are. They're super rare, thankfully. And there is a serious upper limit on how many can exist. I suppose other than broodmothers, which I've run into rarely, the largest is an ogre alpha."

She sips her drink again and smiles to herself, as if remembering something. Which she in fact is. With Ivor and Madigan's help she's taken down a few.

"Those are far larger than I."

"That's... Wow."

He's never met anyone who has fought monsters before. He's never even heard> of there being real monsters before.

"You really like it, I guess."

Like it? The woman bursts out laughing and shakes her head. There is an edge of bitterness to both actions.

"No. But in a way, I am condemned to it. It is a life that bought me more days. I do not regret it."

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