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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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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!

✧ Premise ✧ FAQ ✧ Rules ✧ Test Drive ✧ Taken ✧ Reserves ✧ Application ✧
✧ Map ✧ Devices & Network ✧ Data Points ✧ Ships ✧ Flora ✧ Fauna ✧ Supply Requests ✧
✧ Player Plot Suggestion ✧ Player Contacts ✧ Player Permission Code ✧ Hiatus ✧ Drop ✧

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[ Let's hope he doesn't take that as a challenge.

Though that aside, Jon frowns an unseen frown at the response, but at the same time also nods to himself. At least the guy doesn't seem unwilling to help. That's fine. ]

I'm from Earth, correct. London, to be precise. A London one one version of Earth, that is. There are different versions of it represented here and- I am rather certain mine doesn't have any actual superheroes or mutants ready to safe it.

[ Unfortunately. ]

And I suppose that depends on where your skills lie, Kyle. There is always need for people to help with food resources, for example. Tending to the livestock and the greenhouse, which at this point I am almost certain Tommy runs by himself aside from running the diner to keep people fed.

...at least those of use that consume actual food.

[Multiple earths. Okay. That's fine, he can grasp the concept. He thinks vaguely that he's maybe seen evidence of a parallel dimension before.]

Superheroes. Huh. Okay, nope, don't really have those where I'm from. Not real ones, anyway. Guess we're from the boring earth dimension.

Skills. Oh, man. [Wonderful, it's a job interview from hell.] Look, I'll level with you, dude: I'm a university student. My skills right now include being able to stay awake for 24 hours straight and avoiding scurvy. Although I do know a little bit about cows? If there's cows. Or something like cows.

Some people don't eat? Oh. Well. That's handy, more resources for other people.

Boring Earth dimension... I think I would actually welcome that, but my Earth, while devoid of heroes, unfortunately isn't quite as boring as some believe.

Anyway. Let's replace skills with interests, then. The data points around the city let you know certain things. The agriculture data point may be the one concerning the greenhouse and to a degree livestock. I am... Not sure at the moment if the glownie herd has recovered by now, however. There... Has been an attack. Of huge spiders...

[ And yes, not everyone eats. Robots don't eat. And Jon has his tapes to sustain him. Which he prefers to wasting resources. ]

Okay, well, what's the weirdest thing you ever saw back home, then?

Dude, I'm pre-law, my interests are probably equally useless unless we plan on suing the aliens if we get out of here.

Glownies? If those are glowing ponies... wait, giant spiders?!

[ Jon lets out a short, dry laugh in response to that question. ]

That's- Not an easy choice. Back there I work for the Magnus Institute. In London. Which you may not necessarily be familiar with even if we were from the same version of Earth. Over in America we have a sister organization called the Usher Foundation, which is in Washington, which- I assume if it has the same reputation as our Institute, then it would be known to be dealing with the weird.

Though maybe I should rather ask just how... Unsettling this weird thing is allowed to be...

As for the glownies... Mix a sheep with a pony and make it glow in the dark. They are mostly harmless. The spiders were not. And there may still be some lurking beneath the city, which is not a thought I enjoy.

Edited 2021-02-13 14:00 (UTC)

[How unsettling? When someone has to ask, you know it's going to be bad.]

My threshold for unsettling is pretty high, so. Go nuts, dude.

Okay, really not into the thought of huge spiders lurking in the sewer. Glownies sound kinda cute, though.

Doesn't make the decision any easier, I'm afraid. Sure the Unknowing is a strong contender, but I feel that was more madness, skin and the world attempting to tear itself apart at its seams than weird.

I will disregard any living beings that might be valid answers, but give you a small selection rather than making an inventory list of all of which we have in Artefact Storage: A star made of darkness, a door that is neither a door nor truly there and a coffin that leads towards a place far below existence itself, a place where there is no up and the weight of reality pushes down on you.

[The biggest problem with weird shit, Kyle thinks, is that people tend to act like you know what they mean. The Unknowning? That sounds downright sinister, alright, but what the hell is it, exactly?]

...okay, that's all pretty weird, yeah. How the hell do you put a whole star in storage? Creepy Schrödinger's door or whatever, okay, and a coffin alright, but a whole star?

[ It's fine. Jon doesn't expect anyone to understand half of this. He hardly understands what's even going on on his Earth. ]

The coffin is the only item we could put in storage. The door is... She isn't something that can be trapped. And the dark star I... Unfortunately I had to destroy it. Was actually rather pretty for something meant to plunge the world into eternal darkness. But you can trust me that your version of Earth is better of if none of these exist in it.

The door is a girl?

I don't think they do, but you never know. We have, uhm, like evil turkeys and sentient towels. Oh, and like, Cthulhu. [Like that's no big deal at all.]

The Distortion itself may be neutral. While it was Michael, it posed in a male form. But since Helen Richardson took over... W-well. It's not really important. It's a monster. It feeds on people.

[ Jon would chalk the turkeys up as another embodiment of the Flesh. Possibly in a similar manner to the monster pig he has read about. ]

Oh. That's interesting. I haven't heard of an actual manifestation of the Cthulhu myths so far. It is bad?

Okay, so. I don't know who those people are. I'm sorry, were they friends?

Yeah, it was really big and it trashed a lot of shit. I don't think it was very smart, it was pretty easily manipulated.

[ Just a short, dry chuckle. ]

No. Of course you wouldn't know them. They were- People. Now they are dead.

[ Consumed by a monster of spirals and fractals. ]

Manipulated? What did you manipulate it to do?

[ Now this? Is just a tad worrisome. ]

Jeez. That really sucks, I'm sorry.

Whoa, whoa, I didn't manipulate it to do anything, because I'm not a whiny little bitch-ass with no regard for human life. It was a friend of mine. And they trashed a bunch of cities and stuff. San Francisco got it pretty bad.

Edited 2021-02-14 16:53 (UTC)

Jesus Christ, that's dreadful! Why would he-- w-wait. No. Don't answer that. I... I can guess.

[ He has met desolation avatars, thank you. ]

...they didn't hurt you, though, did they.

Oh, because of his stupid fucking superhero franchise, he was pissed off we kicked him out of the group for being a fucking asshole.

No, they sent us to some stupid oblivion dimension. It sucked. I don't really remember it all super clearly, but, you know. I was ten.

...Christ...

[ Ten, huh? Well, maybe they are from the same or at least a similar Earth after all. ]

You know, I... I think I might be interested in the whole story at some point. Should you be willing to maybe... Record it. I might be able to make you remember.

I mean, sure, if you want. It's a really stupid story. Most of my stories are really stupid, to be honest. I try not to think about it too much because I don't think a lot of people understand, you know? Like people just wanna go to class and party and get laid, nobody needs to hear about, I dunno, the ghost of Abe Lincoln.

It may seem stupid to you, but it's a real story. Which makes it important and worth being recorded.

Is that part of your job back home? Documenting weird shit? I guess that would make sense if you work for an organization that has to deal with doors to nowhere and such.

Man, once you get home I guess you'll have a whole bunch of stories about this place to record.

Well, y-yeah, that's... My job.

Though... I am not certain if I even want to go back.

[Hesitation. Interesting.]

Why not?

Because I'm happier here. If I am to go, I want to have a say in it. I want to chose where I'm going. And with whom.

Dude, did you fall in love or something? [Sure, Kyle, just blurt out sensitive questions.]

Which Is nothing to be ashamed of.

WINTER TEST DRIVE MEME

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