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

[deal_me_in]

The Exo chuckled at that. "Not my Colonel. She's the very definition of a fine-feathered friend. Also fearless in the face of danger."

The woman got points for going on normally with the conversation as though it were no big deal to be speaking with a mechanical man. It wasn't, at least to him, but he'd since learned to be flexible when dealing with people around here who were more or less strangers to his particular kind.

"A pleasure, Clarice. Name's Cayde," he said as he reached over to shake her hand with his gloved one. "You seem to be taking to the place pretty well."

[thesepreciousthings]

"Thanks, Cayde." She's glad for the compliment, though she no longer starves for them the way she used to.

"I figure there's no point in throwing a fit or panicking, not when I can't do anything about it. My former line of work trained me to accept stressful situations and gather as much information about my surroundings as possible, before jumping to any conclusions. And, well..."

She flashes a small, close-mouthed smile that's amused, but still grave. "There's a lot of information to be found."

[deal_me_in]

"Oh, you're absolutely right," the Exo agreed. "Panicking never solves anything. Sounds like some interesting work. You'll do fine here." He liked her already. No point in focusing on the things you couldn't do.

He cast a look around again, grinning at the glownie whom had slowly drawn closer to Clarice enough to try grabbing at the mint she held.

"Lots of information and at the same time, not enough. There's a lotta holes to fill in."

[thesepreciousthings]

She makes a soft sound of delight when she feels the tug at the sprigs in her hand, and turns to watch it eat, smiling.

"Hey you, thanks for comin' over." She really wants to sink her fingers into the thick, glowing fuzz at the top of its head, feel the dense curls and the slick lanolin on her fingertips, but she also doesn't want to spook the thing.

"That ... flash of information I got, when I touched that thing in the square. I got that impression from it, yeah. What else do I need to know?"

[deal_me_in]

At least it looked like the creature was content to stay where it was, munching placidly on the minty offering. Cayde chuckled. "All things considered, I think they tolerate us pretty well," he said, giving Clarice a knowing look. "Just don't, say...try riding one." He had to smile a little at the memory of one Tony Stark's attempts. It probably could have gone better anyway.

"Ah, the datathingy." One day he will get the name right. "Well, you already know not to take things at their word. I can tell you that at least the main points are true- we were pulled in by the Agrii to help them figure out what's going on with the storms on their homeworld and that they are lethal to 'em. Timeframe is kind of on the fuzzy side. And as of now we haven't made much progress as to the why's of why things just started happening."

He folded his arms. "The storms do a real number on us, even if they don't outright affect us like they do the Agrii. There's a lot of interference, and so far as we can figure, these storms aren't natural. They do bring wind and rain and lightning, but I feel like it's just a mask. I've only gone through one personally but from what I've heard, the constant has been that you tend to see things- people you knew."

[thesepreciousthings]

At Cayde's reassuring comment, Clarice gave in to temptation and scratched the little creature between the ears, where the thick wool met its bare skin. It seemed to welcome the attention, and she smiled widely, wider than she used to allow herself in the company of strangers.

"These storms," she mused, after digesting the rest of what he'd had to say as slowly and carefully as the glownie was savoring its treat, "do we have any idea what makes us more resilient to them than the Agri? It's got to be something biological, right?"

She wasn't as bothered by the concept of seeing people she knew as she would have been even a few short months ago. She had learned how to make her peace with her past, even the darker bits of it. If someone as horrible as Dr. Chilton, Mason Verger, or even Buffalo Bill showed up on the tailwinds, she'd have things to say.

[deal_me_in]

Cayde watched her in amusement as the woman let herself indulge in getting to know the glownie a little more. He shook his head at the question. "No real clue. Biology would make sense, but we don't know too much about the Agrii save that they're tall, pink, got fangs, three eyes and four arms...and they're moist."

That did seem like a good angle to pursue, if only because it gave them some kind of direction. They'd been severely lacking in things to focus on. Most of their attempts at figuring out the problem ended up with too many lacking details and not enough to nail down anything solid.

[thesepreciousthings]

"So no one has actually seen one outside of these ... weird visions, these induced hallucinations? Am I interpreting that right?"

If that were the case, she wondered how much of what they'd been shown was true at all, and how much was total horseshit. Hallucinations could be suggested to a degree, but ... for all of them to have seen the same thing meant something else entirely, and she wasn't fond of any of the possibilities that were coming to mind.

[deal_me_in]

"Huh? Who, the Agrii? Oh no, they're real," Cayde assured. "We hadda go on a space run and help 'em out some time ago, was our first time meeting them face to face."

He however wouldn't have found cause to disagree with her current train of thought. There was a lot that didn't match up, a lot that was left vague. Who knew for sure who had patched together that story that was loaded up onto the datapoint, which for the record he still refused to touch ever since getting around it only because of his luck in being pulled into this strange situation when everyone else was sent to an alien vacation planet.

[thesepreciousthings]

"Space run," she echoed, still disturbed enough by the thought to draw her hand away from the glownie and clasp her hands together, glancing up at the night sky.

"That's ... really something that happens, isn't it? Got dam. Where I'm from you have to undergo a lot of rigorous training to go into space. Is it like that here? What did y'all have to do?"

The glownie bumps her hip, hoping for either more affection or mint - or both - and she gives it a rueful little smile, the way some people look at dogs when they know they're trying to be comforting, before stooping down for another handful of mint.

[deal_me_in]

"Oh yeah. Well, not so often here despite the fact that we got ships an' all- the Agrii are very particular about our using them outside of anything they allow, I guess."

Cayde tilted his head back as he thought about what she'd said. Definitely pre-Golden Age methods there. "Training...eh. Not really? The ships are advanced enough that they're space-first-timer-friendly," he reassured. "We had to help out the Agrii after we received a distress call saying their ship was being invaded. Really the worst part of it was the trip out since it took a long time. Speed was not a priority for these ships unfortunately."

[thesepreciousthings]

Starling nodded thoughtfully as she listened. If the Agrii were so hard up on resources, it would stand to reason that they would want to conserve and protect the ships and their fuel as much as possible.

"And I take it with the technology so much more advanced than what I'm used to you, your idea of 'slow' sounds like light speed to me?"

[deal_me_in]

Blinking, the Exo laughed after a beat. "Oh no, we would've gotten somewhere at least. This trip took like...a week? Two? I lost track, it was really boring, except for the pit-stop." He paused.

"Even then we still had to go through some kind of space portal to get to the Agrii ship, so who knows how far away they actually were? Back home you can pop over from Mars to the edge of the Sol system in less than a day."