Summer Test Drive Meme

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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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Comments

[kree_soldieress]

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.

[burnyoudown]

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?

[kree_soldieress]

[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?

[burnyoudown]

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?

[kree_soldieress]

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.

[burnyoudown]

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.

[kree_soldieress]

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?

[burnyoudown]

[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.

[kree_soldieress]

[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.

[burnyoudown]

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.]

[kree_soldieress]

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.]

[burnyoudown]

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?

[kree_soldieress]

[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.

[burnyoudown]

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.]

[kree_soldieress]

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.

[burnyoudown]

We get to go to space? [That was the first truly exciting thing he'd been told since he arrived here.] What for?

[He fell into step next to her, glancing around as they went.]

So everything's free?

[That was...a weird idea. Just as weird as aliens abducting people to make them rebuild for them.] Those aliens must be desperate.

[kree_soldieress]

Of course we do. We are here to heal a planet, after all. That cannot always be done upon the ground.

[Free? Yes, she would say so. But his reaction was a bit strange.]

Why would it not be?

[burnyoudown]

[He still couldn't imagine what they'd have to go into space to do, but the idea alone excited him.

As far as the other topic went though, he shrugged.]

Because nothing's free. People always want something. Money, a trade, favors.

[He didn't know how much he would trust something that was free.]

[kree_soldieress]

We wish to work together and get home. Why would we not work together?

[That doesn't make sense.]

[burnyoudown]

[Give him a moment to think about that. It all sounded a little too good to be true, the working together part and not expecting payment from people. There was nothing good about anything else that was going on here.]

I guess in my experience, people are usually assholes.

[Said the asshole.]

But if everyone's working together here and doing the whole 'sharing is caring' thing, that's nice.

[kree_soldieress]

[Well, he could demand payment if he could do something. No one would stop him. BUt no one might give him things as well.]

Such things are easier to be when survival is not so hard to do.

[burnyoudown]

Yeah, that's true.

[Or was it? Were people more likely to be assholes when put in dire survival situations?]

I'll get used to it, I guess. At least I won't have to worry about being broke here.

[kree_soldieress]

[She offers a pleased nod.]

Yes. And when we go places, the Agrii give us money. It is very useful

[And with her statement they come into a more constructed part of the city, an area where buildings even had light.]

There is a diner over there. There is food.

[burnyoudown]

Seriously? They pay us when we need it?

[Alright, maybe these aliens weren't so bad. They sounded like nice kidnappers so far, at least.

Nodding, he looked around.]

I guess I won't find a McDonald's here, huh?

[kree_soldieress]

I do not know if it is truly pay.

[But they do provide currency, and the heroes are theoretically doing work, but that's how life was.]

McDonalds? Ah! That place with the scary pale man who serves strange sandwiches.