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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!

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Hot Summer Time!

Summer has arrived and you know what that means: It's time to head out and spend some time at the beach, lounging on its bluish, almost purple sand, going for a swim or gathering some of the fat, green lobsters just wandering around the beach. They may be tasty, but remember that their pinch is toxic. It won’t kill you but it will definitely have the pinched body part swelling up and itching like a bad wool sweater.

If hunting for food isn't what you came here for, then sunbathing is always an option. Even if the color seems odd, this sand, also, likes to go literally everywhere.

Simply hopping into the water is also rarely a bad idea. This close to the coast there are no harmful creatures in the water, so whether you brought a swim suit, hop in fully clothed or have no care in the world about who might stumble over you naked, Agra 10's ocean is yours to play in.

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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[Lauri-Ell was used to wandering the city on her patrols, in her constant attempts to keep the residents brought here by the Agrii safe. Which of course meant this would by no means be her first awkward encounter with a new arrival. How could it be, when she was who she was? Lauri-Ell was a full blood and genetically engineered Kree soldier, which meant that in her armor as she currently was, she was over six and a half feet tall, almost half as wide at the shoulder from her heavy muscles, and with the armor and massive hammer at her side, well, she was always a threatening figure.

But the gun pointed at her only had the woman raising an eyebrow. That was not something she felt threatened by, whether that was a good choice or not.]

As last I checked, you are not me. Or you would be in two places at once.

[He felt completely justified pulling a gun on this woman once he got an actual look at her, even if he had to raise his aim a little higher than expected. He wasn't actually sure bullets would do any good even if his gun was loaded, but he had a good poker face. Still, he couldn't help but glance over his shoulder at her comment, in case there was another one of her behind him.]

Could be if I wanted to, but who wants two of me in the world?

[No one, that was who. One of him was more than enough.

He tilted his head a little.]

So long as you're not planning on using that hammer, we might be cool.

So long as you do not intend to make use of your archaic projectile weapon in my direction, I will see no reason at all to bring the forces of the Universal Weapon to bear upon you.

[She really doesn't look impressed by the gun.]

You are very new.

[He laughed despite everything, shaking his head a little. Alright, Universal Weapon had a nice ring to it. Not as nice as dreamkiller in his opinion, but still, it wasn't bad.]

Archaic. This shit's one of a kind.

[Except he could make more of them if he wanted, identical weapons. And it could both be archaic and one of a kind, so he hadn't really made any kind of point.

After another moment, he lowered the gun and tucked it into the waistband of his pants.]

Yeah, what gave it away? I'm guessing locals don't usually pull weapons on each other?

[Were there locals? Was everyone here kidnapped?]

A thing can be unique, but archaic. They are not exclusive of each other.

[She had no clue she was paralleling his own thoughts. But she was glad to see the weapon done away with. She hadn't liked the idea of having to exert the energy for a force field at a split second.]

We do not often do so, that is correct. Only new arrivals seem so... jumpy is the best word I could offer.

Yeah, yeah.

[He waved a hand dismissively.]

Can you blame them? It's not every day you wake up on an alien planet or whatever this place is. I'd rather pull a gun on someone than get jumped by a monster.

[Not that he knew what kind of monsters he was expecting in this place, just that they might exist and he'd rather not get eaten or mauled by anything.]

[Lauri-Ell nods, clearly understanding his point. Still she supposed that it made sense that someone would be jumpy.]

Bipedal Humanoids are typically not a threat here.

[He cocked his head to the side, considering that. He wasn't going to magically start trusting people out of the blue here; everyone could be a threat. But he would keep that bit of advice in mind.]

What is a threat here, then?

[Out of the blue? Amusing. Especially given she is blue.]

Often, animals. Insects. Mostly things at night.

Normal insects or giant insects?

[Should he be expecting a swarm of normal-sized shit or a few really big things? He wasn't afraid of either animals or bugs as it stood, but he could be persuaded to be cautious about them.

He bit his tongue and didn't add that he was dangerous at night, too.]

Giant typically. Like the mean spiders. Or the silk spiders. Or the rage bugs.

[Swarms of really big things are a thing. Sorry.]

And then there are the things that hunt. Oh, and the waters are dangerous.

Rage bugs?

[He whistled. That sounded like a hell of a thing to deal with. Some kind of bug on steroids maybe, all pumped up and angry as fuck on top of that.]

I'm gonna need more details than that. What things hunt, what's in the water?

[If only they were just angry bugs and not ones that, of course, they took people over and made them angry as well.]

Predatory creatures, who find humans small and tasty? Not all of them have names. I might have pictures?

Pictures would help.

[He smiled, but not entirely pleasantly. Don't mind that; it was just the way his face was.]

I'm a visual learner.

[There was a joke there, but it was a private one.]

I'm guessing the people here have ways to avoid these things? Do we have to barricade ourselves in somewhere at night?

Ah!

{The woman puts her hammer down, confident none could pick it up without being shocked by the weapon itself, and then strode forward with a smile. She pulled out her communicator and started to pull up the Dictionary function to the animals page.]

The Ka-Rou are most fearful. The best way to be safe is not to wander to far from the city, especially at night, and to not go into the deep waters.

Dude, that's sick.

[The Ka-Rou looked like something he'd dream up and they were cool. That probably wasn't the normal reaction to seeing a picture of a beast that could kill him if he met one in person.]

So they don't rampage through the city? Good to know. And I've seen shark movies. I know better than to go in deep water in strange places.

I do not know that they are all ill. I would think the ones that are would be less likely to attack.

[Surely that's what he meant, right?]

What is a shark?

[He laughed.]

You're funny.

[No, he knew very well that she hadn't understood what he'd meant. And no, he wasn't going to clarify.]

Sharks are fucking like, massive ocean predators. Lots of teeth, lots of attitude. A lot of people think they're evil, but they just do what predators do.

[She's funny? Lauri-Ell frowns, quite deeply actually. She was not attempting humor this time.]

I was offering humor. I apologize for that.

Ah, big ocean predators are nice.

Yeah, I know.

Also, I guess they're pretty cool. So long as you're not on the dinner menu.

[He hadn't had to worry about sharks much in Jersey, and in Virginia, well...there wasn't an ocean there.]

I am not on the dinner menu. And I work to ensure that others are not.

[Well, if he's not in danger, she holds her hand for her communicator, expecting it back so she can go and gather her hammer as well.]

Cool. I'll sleep better at night knowing people like you are looking out for everyone.

[It sounded sarcastic but he meant it. He just had trouble expressing himself sometimes without being a shit about it.

Oh, right. He handed her communicator back to her.]

So where do people sleep around here?

[Ah, she is glad he will sleep better. In fact the large woman smiles broadly. Once the communicator was pocketed away she turned to gather her hammer.]

There are a number of places. Some people stay on the ships to which they are assigned. Some take space in the hotel. Cobb has been restoring some houses in the Southern areas for others. And still others choose other buildings that are mostly intact to make comfortable. I live in something called a Civics Center because it is close to the gym I manage.

Ships?

[This was the first time he was hearing about any ships. He was torn between imagining boats and space ships.]

What shape's the hotel in? [But more importantly-] Do they charge?

[Because, uh. There sure would be a problem with that. Called 'he didn't have any money'. He liked the idea that he could sleep pretty much wherever he wanted, though. Having choices made him feel like he was in control of something, at least.]

Yes. There are ships so we can get into space.

[She gestures for him to follow her and starts walking. Best to show him the way to the hotel.]

Parts of the hotel are habitable. Upper levels can be hard to access due to stairs being damaged. And I presume you mean currency. No. We do not have that here. We are... Attempting to save the aliens that brought us here, and so we must work together to a degree. There are approximately forty of us here.

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