Summer 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!

Thread ideas:

- Explore the city! There's a map here and a bit more description of some of the buildings here. Most of the buildings are run down and have clearly been abandoned for years; fortunately, the water treatment center appears to be working, but power is intermittent and unreliable. The hotel seems to be the most crowded, but you might want into what appears to be an abandoned storefront and find someone else scavenging or even sleeping.

- There are spaceships! That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar. They appear to have power, but only one ship will let you enter. (For test drive purposes, the ship that will let you enter is up to you, so just pick whichever name appeals, and go for it!) The other ships won't open for you, but it might be worth poking around the one that will...

- Do you hear a storm? A giant, power-altering storm has been ravaging part of the planet for a month. It shows 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? More information can be found here.

- Can you hear me now? 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.

- 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...



code bases by tricklet

Comments

[on_repeat]

Cayde could probably expect what the next question was. "How?"

Followed by a more detailed response: "By figuring out the cause, then? And resolving it through whatever means necessary?"

Echo's helmet tilted back. "I'll take that as a warning," he considered, not exactly looking forward to any moist hugs any time soon.

[deal_me_in]

The Hunter gave the ARC Trooper a double snap-point. "Just about. Maybe not whatever means necessary so much as however you can manage. Personally I've never even experienced one of these storms myself so all I got to go off of are what people who have, have said."

A shrug then. "Eh, it's not all that bad. Their grasp of our language? Now that's bad. They do try though. Oh, boy do they try."

[on_repeat]

"Can't say I've ever had to handle anything of this scale, either." Which meant he would have to also take Cayde's word for it. "I guess this means I'm in the same boat until it actually happens."

That at least earned the Exo a faint chuckle. "I think I know what you mean by that. There's plenty of alien species back at home that don't use Basic as their first language."

[deal_me_in]

Cayde grinned again, if briefly. "Yep! I have heard they are not a thing to look forward to. Not your normal storms. Rain and thunder and lightning and winds, sure, but there's...something else to 'em." He gesticulated vaguely, wiggling fingers the way one always did when trying to explain the supernatural.

"Basic, that's what you call it? Hell, we just call it English. Unless we're all hearing something different. Actually there's a good question. How does a bunch of random people from different places understand each other so well and yet the ones who brought us in can hardly do so without some kind of confusion? You from Earth?"

[on_repeat]

Echo leaned back slightly as Cayde acted out the supernatural. He might be having a hard time wrapping his head around that something extra, but he'd have to see it firsthand. "Take into account the weird. Got it.

"English, though– that's a new one," he then added, lightly tapping a gloved index finger in the space in front of him. It then led to an open palm. "I know it's been some time since I left Kamino again, but I've never heard of Earth. Is it a part of a different star system, or...something else entirely?"

[deal_me_in]

So long as the message got across. Cayde flashed Echo a thumbs-up.

"Well I definitely haven't ever heard of any place called Kamino. Probably different systems at the very least. Part of the Milky Way galaxy. Can't even guarantee we'd be from the same Earth anyway if you did say you heard of or were from it." The Exo shook his head. "It just gets a whole lot more confusing and complicated from here on out, lettin' you know now."