WINTER TEST DRIVE MEME

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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!

Thread ideas:

Explore the city!

Here's a map 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. What used to be stores or places to live in lies in ruins, but there may still be something to scavenge among the rubble. Do you want to risk a swim in the flooded area that has turned into a deep lake that has yet to be fully explored; or does it draw you to some of the more prominent and partially restored buildings, such as the hotel, the hospital or the amphitheater.

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.

Visit the spaceships!

That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar - Or what remains of them. It's painfully obvious that these ships have crash-landed not too long ago and were taken back to the hangar for repairs. You were assigned to one of them and its doors will open for you and let you enter if you wish. (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 as neither of them look as if they will be leaving anytime soon that doesn't really matter either way.

Maybe look around anyway. Or try your hand at some repairs?

Try the network!

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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Comments

[heypartner]

Special is one word for it. I'm still with mildly annoyed.

[ Everyone's got their secrets. She can keep hers if she wants. Cobb's not one to pry. ]

[monstermama]

Could be some of that. I always get the two mixed up.

[Someone had a dark sense of humor, Cobb.]

[heypartner]

Worthy is more a gassy feeling.

[ Probably the best sense of humor to have around here. ]

[monstermama]

Good to know that flatulence is worthiness.

[She'd been around space marines too long to have any kind of pretty talk ingrained in her.]

[heypartner]

[ If he wanted pretty talk he'd go find a politician. He's used to miners so this is fine. ]

Yup. That's the feeling.

[monstermama]

Not everyone who came here was a farmer. Or a space tech. What's your area of expertise?

[heypartner]

Mining and refining oil is probably the only real expertise I've got. Or if you want to know how to survive on a desert planet, know that one real well. Getting by with next to nothing, can teach you that.

[monstermama]

Look at that. Someone with actual survival skills that don't involve just pointing and shooting at things. Don't knock survival techniques.

[heypartner]

Oh, part of the survival skills is pointing and shooting at things. That's a necessary skill where I'm from.

[monstermama]

I've never been on a desert planet. I would think knowing how to make it there would come in handier than shooting things. You eventually run out of bullets.

[heypartner]

Well, you start making things and other people see you can and they think it's easier if they just take it from you. So you shoot them so you can keep your things and so they don't shoot you and take it.

[monstermama]

[Made sense.]

People are less inclined to fuck with you if you're scarier than them. Anyone can shoot. Not everyone can rip a head off and throw it at their friends. Word gets around. Your things are safe.

[heypartner]

That's a little extreme. Don't always need that much violence.

[monstermama]

Always? No. That's the point. Once is usually enough to scare them into thinking you're not worth the trouble.

[heypartner]

I'm a man who's sent a message before hoping that's the outcome but didn't rip any heads off.

[monstermama]

This is why females should do the job. We're more effective.

[heypartner]

My deputy back home would agree with you.

[monstermama]

I like your deputy already.

[heypartner]

She's a good, steady sort. She'll hold things down until I'm done here.

[monstermama]

[She didn't state the obvious. That he had no idea that he was leaving here. That he had no idea where here was. That he couldn't know what was going on back home.]

Too bad she's not here.

[heypartner]

[ Don't worry, he's thought about that himself. Quite a bit. ]

Ah, town can't afford to lose both of us. Probably better these folks took me and left her there.

[monstermama]

All depends on what these folks expect from you.

[heypartner]

Far as I can tell... nothing. Maybe be there when things are shit but that's it.

[monstermama]

[Oh, she didn't trust that as far as she could throw it. Altruistic reasons were fictitious, in her opinion.]

And if people opt out of that?

[heypartner]

Don't ask me. I missed the last crisis. And I ain't one to sit around when people need help.