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Fall 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!~~ the ships! And, as always, HAVE FUN!

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Arrival in ~~Temba and Sh'Ka~~ SPACE!

One might suggest that you are one of the lucky ones, new He Row. Instead of waking up after being unceremoniously dumped by an unseen force into a fountain in the middle of a city of ruins, you get to wake up on a nice stone bench by a fountain. In reach of your hand is a glowing orb you feel compelled to touch. When you do you learn of a place called Agra-10 which was once home to the Agrii and how they need your help. No doubt you'll soon learn the truth of how wrong the old message is, but for now it's what you have to work with. Well, that and a new place to explore.

The Green Under The Dome

Not far from the fountain one wanders into a strange sight: a massive open space with an even more massive clear dome far overhead. Beyond the limits of the dome the sky is dark (impressive given you have a perfect afternoon's worth of light to see by in here) and filled with streaks of light moving by at various speeds. Are those stars racing by? What does that mean for you? Is this something worth pondering or would your eyes rather be drawn to the natural space you've wandered into? There are trees and grasses stretching on, not to mention shrubs and other small plants. But there are also buildings of stone and some of glass and other things. What a weird place you've come to.

Follow along under the trees and you will find some paths worn between them. The view is almost picturesque enough to make one forget of the stars racing by above. Continue further and further into the, for lack of a better word, forest and at last it will start to give away to scrub grasses and irregular clumps of vegetation. Oh, and the purple sand that slopes down like a gentle beach into a lot of crystal clear water. That's a beach, right? But why is there a glass wall on the far side of the water? Why can you see the end of the water? And who set up the bonfire area nearby, complete with wood ready to burn?

Explore the Ships!

If the trees aren't tempting, there are more than a few buildings lining the Main Area of the ship. From public places like the greenhouse, livestock fields with glownies, a library, and even a diner like eating area on one end to The Deep End bar on the far side of the glass barrier at the end of the 'beach'. There are plenty of places to run into your new fellows. There are even two story buildings with unlocked first floors that open into customizable work spaces. Some serve as labs or medical facilities, others as forges or craft places depending upon who as claimed them, but the empty ones are free for the taking.

Then there are the harder to access areas. For instance one has to knock on doors on the second floors of buildings and hope for an answer rather than finding them just opening at a whim. This makes sense the first time someone does answer, because clearly visible past them will be a private room. A living space more specifically. Hopefully your fellow He Row wasn't too bothered by your arrival, otherwise you might have started off on an awkward foot.

Perhaps it's just better to double back through the main area and find other places to explore, like the training center or the hangar. Alas, you're too new to have access to Security or the Cockpit without somoen with access buzzing you in. Though maybe...

Try the network!

The network is another way to reach out ot people! 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. Do note, though, that all messages are attached to the character's actual name, so maybe someone will address them by it.

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 on a space ship so your options are slightly contained. But in that space the setting is yours to explore and have fun with!

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[Sam straightened up, ready to follow even as he adjusted his hat a bit. Medical center was an important one to know, just in case. He didn't immediately expect to get into any sort of trouble with the people here, but he was sure there were still environmental dangers, accidents, that sort of thing.]

Workshops?

[That snagged his interest, though so did the mention of a bar.]

A bar, huh. What kind of alcohol do y'all have out here?

[He was definitely into that, yeah.]

[Sephiroth points in the direction of the medical center as they leave the diner, then gestures at the workshops near the diner.]

I’m not positive. I believe there’s a type of wine, for one. I assume there are harder drinks as well.

[Sam made a mental note of the medical center before his attention flickered over to the workshops, making another note to himself.

Though, in terms of alcohol, he might not have exactly been a wine sort of guy, but that was a start.]

I'll check it out sometime. I'm sure there's a variety; people need ways to unwind some.

[He wasn't going to pelt this man with further questions about the kinds of alcohol when he was more than capable of heading over to the bar at some point and finding out himself. And he could taste the drinks as he went if he did that.]

Especially in between any chaos.

[A nod.]

We find ways to do that which suit us best.

[For himself, that was usually flying. Or taking solitude and thinking on the past and the people he missed.]

Of course.

[He had the impression that visiting the bar wasn't one of the other man's methods for unwinding, so.]

How about you? You don't seem keen on alcohol, so what's your preferred way to relax?

I enjoy flying. Which is unfortunately difficult in here.

[Deadpanning.]

[Sam's eyes went to the man's wings, then flicked up to the dome above them. He hadn't actually considered those two things together until this moment.]

Mm. I can see how that would be difficult, yeah. Flying sounds like it'd be nice, though. Peaceful.

[A bit like why he enjoyed taking drives down quiet country roads some nights.]

It is. When we’re on Agra-10, I fly every day.

[He patrols that way, but it’s also just very relaxing. Like a quiet drive, yes.]

I'd probably do the same, if I had wings.

[Being up in the sky, away from all the people and all the shit there was to deal with every day...it sounded nice, alright.]

I live in the middle of nowhere, back home, so there's lots of empty roads to drive when I need to clear my head. Not the same, but it sure is nice just being under the stars.

[No other light than his headlights, no one else around, nothing else to deal with.]

[An understanding nod.]

My home has blue plateaus and canyons. I go there a lot to think. Sometimes I fly there. It’s a mysterious place, but quiet. Peaceful.

Mysterious can be nice.

[He never thought of 'mysterious' as anything bad right away, especially when it came to locations.]

And canyons, too. Thought about visiting one of the famous ones back home, but.

[He shrugged. Trips were expensive, and he had a lot to do almost all the time.]

Sounds like we both tend to have a lot on our minds.

[And he had a feeling that wasn't going to change here.]

[Sephiroth nods in agreement.]

Canyons seem to be popular attractions. Perhaps when my world has finished being rebuilt, there will be tourists coming to see the blue canyons there.

[He looks thoughtful right then too.]

I definitely do.

That they do. Tourists don't help places be quiet, though.

[He didn't think he could handle dealing with tourists a bunch, himself, and he was glad he didn't have to. Locals were frustrating enough at times.]

Don't think we'll have any less going on here, so I hope there's at least a few quiet places.

[Seeing as how he couldn't fly, and driving seemed to be out of the question, too.]

Heh. Not at all.

[Sephiroth wouldn't like them intruding on his favorite thinking spots, for sure.]

Things here are often quite quiet during downtime such as this. Enjoy it while you can.

Believe me, I've learned not to take quiet moments for granted.

[Too many quiet moments got boring, sometimes, but quiet was better than chaos. Well, the bad kind of chaos, at least.]

[A nod.]

I'm sure when we reach our destination, the quiet will cease.

I'm sure it will.

[A pause, a moment while he considered things.]

What's our destination?

A planet where we may learn more about the Agrii. I’m afraid we don’t know much more than this yet.

Well, I hope this trip turns out to be helpful.

[Trip didn't quite feel like the right word for it, but it didn't feel wrong, either. He was curious about what the planet would be like and what sort of information they might be looking for, but processing things one step at a time seemed like a good idea right now.]

Do y'all usually get limited information when things are going on?

We haven’t been on many missions yet, but unfortunately yes, that seems to be the pattern. Hopefully we’ll be told more when we arrive.

Somehow, I'm not surprised. Our hosts don't seem the most organized.

[And so far, with how limited his knowledge was, he couldn't say it was malicious. It reminded him of when people tried to juggle too much, and inevitably, something got dropped. Maybe they were just trying their best. Or maybe they weren't. He couldn't say.]

More information benefits all of us, though.

[So he agreed with that hopefully.]

Heh. They aren’t so much.

[He didn’t think it was malicious either. Just well-meaning beings who weren’t quite sure how to go about things properly.

A nod.]

I’m used to knowing more before I agree to anything.

Yeah, me too.

[Though it wasn't unheard of for him to lend a hand without having a lot of information first.]

Sounds like we don't have too much of a choice, here.

[About how much information they got, that was.]

We don't.

[A dark smirk.]

So we might as well just relax and enjoy the ride for now.

Not sure how much relaxing I'll manage, but I appreciate the sentiment.

[Not that he planned on stressing, but there was a lot to see and a lot of information to try and grapple with. He figured it'd be a good idea to be prepared for things, to the best of his ability, when they happened.]

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