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

[kree_soldieress]

"Older," Lauri-Ell corrects as she turns them down a street toward the diner. "She knew our mother. Was raised on Earth. She is half-human."

Pizza is the best. They don't have it here. She is sad about that.

[kyley_b]

"Is she blue, like you?"

Kyle's only been here like a day and he already misses pizza, too.

"Family can be really cool."

[kree_soldieress]

"Oh, no. She is half-human and takes more after her father," she explains, smiling.

Family is the best. She is glad to have it.

[kyley_b]

"Well, that's alright. It's not like you have to be the same to love each other."

He realises quite suddenly that there's a chance he won't set his own sibling ever again.

"She's not a soldier like you, then?"

[kree_soldieress]

"She is Captain Marvel. She is an Earth hero," Lauri-Ell answers, a smile of pride on her lips.

[kyley_b]

"But not forced into it, like you were?"

[kree_soldieress]

"I do not know," Lauri-Ell admits as she brings them closer to the buildings. It's not much she can do about it.

"I do not know her very well."

[kyley_b]

"Maybe when we get out of here, you guys can hang out. Get to know each other, you know?"

He looks at the buildings, still a bit unsettled by how empty everything is.

[kree_soldieress]

Lauri-Ell smiles sadly and shakes her head.

"I have duties to the throne. We do not see each other often."

[kyley_b]

"Oh come on, when you very off of some weird dystopian planet you have totally earned a vacation!" He's very insistent, because whatever her duties are, he can't imagine them being more important than family.

[kree_soldieress]

"I am a protector of my Emperor and his Prince-Consort. That is not something one vacations from. Especially when they are freshly married."

How silly, Kyle. Her job was far too important to let go of.

[kyley_b]

"Fuck em, they can give you like, a weekend. Tell them to stay in and watch Netflix and leave somebody else to babysit them."

He sees no reason why this couldn't work.

[kree_soldieress]

"I wish to protect them," Lauri-Ell counters. Why would she want the weekend if they could become harmed?

These are not things she understands. Duty she gets.

[kyley_b]

"Well, of course you do, but you should still be allowed to live a life of your own."

[kree_soldieress]

"But my duty is my life?" she said, tilting her head in confusion. "There are Kree and Skrull who are not soldiers, they make things. Some have attempted to start making 'art' which my people have not had beyond clothing and statues and some forms of adornments for a very long time. These things to not interest me."

She likes flowers. She likes the stars. Are those valid things to do on your own?

[kyley_b]

This is breaking his heart, and also enraging his sense of individualism.

"But you have interests, right? You said you like flowers. What if you wanted to take a day off to just go to a botanical garden? We have those on earth. You'd love em, I bet."

He thinks. "You said your emperor is here, right? Well. I'm gonna have a word with him."

[kree_soldieress]

Oh Kyle, it's not that bad, at all.

"I like flowers," she confirms. "I am learning interests. You must understand, the war has been over for less than a year, and was followed immediately by a fight for the survival of all non-plant based life in the universe."

There was never a chance to learn something else. But the second that Kyle suggests speaking to the Emperor and clearly intending to lecture him... Lauri-Ell stands up straighter and her expression grows dark and hard.

"You will not harass him. He is from the past for me. He has not yet taken his throne. Do not bother him on it!"

[kyley_b]

Well. That does sound like a pretty good reason not to have developed hobbies. He still thinks it's a little fucked up to engineer people to be a whole warrior class, though.

And whoever did the engineering did a great job, because Lauri-Ell is pretty terrifying. Kyle remembers suddenly that she could literally snap him in two.

He puts his hands up. "Okay, okay! I didn't know this was a Back to the Future situation!"

He lowers his hands and thinks. "Sorry. And I wasn't trying to rag on you. You just seem so nice, it's kind of unsettling to think you never got a chance to do stuff you like. But that's not YOUR fault."

[kree_soldieress]

Oh, there were plenty who were warriors without being engineered, of course. All young men were required to serve in the military at some point. That came from eon wars.

"Back to the future? What do you mean by that? And rag on me?"

Oh there are so many concepts she doesn't get right now, and he's definitely hitting on a number.

[kyley_b]

"Oh, uhm. Sorry. It's a movie." He figures she must know what a movie is if she knows television. "It's about this kid who goes back in time and he accidentally keeps his parents from meeting, so it changes the timeline and he starts to fade out of existence."

He really is going to have to get used to people not getting any pop culture references.

"Uh, to rag on means to give you a hard time. Like if you were making fun of me for being a redhead, you'd be ragging on me."

[kree_soldieress]

Well, that's an interesting premise.

"So a temporal paradox. Yes, that does logically follow as something that would happen. Time attempts to heal, though, so perhaps it would not be as bad as it seemed."

A hard time. Another interesting comment.

"Why would I have issue with the pigmentation of your hair?"

[kyley_b]

"Maybe. The movie is fiction, so I doubt the writers knew how time really behaves."

He has to grin at that. "Where I'm from, some people REALLY hate it, trust me."

[kree_soldieress]

Well, even the Kree aren't certain how time truly behaves.

"Why would they hate the color? It is vibrant?"

[kyley_b]

"Dunno. It's really stupid. Humans are just really good at finding dumb shit to pick on each other about. I fucking hate my hair, too, but what can you do, right?" He shrugs. "Anyway, I promise not to mess up the space time continuum or whatever."

[kree_soldieress]

Well that just seems silly and an inefficient way to live one's life. And Lauri-Ell does not approve.

"If you find excessive trouble with your appearance and desire assistance in quelling issues, call for me. I shall assist you."