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]

[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.

[burnyoudown]

Sounds close enough.

[Maybe it wasn't exactly the same, but money was money.]

Yeah, Ronald isn't exactly the friendliest-looking mascot. And they're burgers. They're pretty good if you're into cheap fast food.

[kree_soldieress]

I do not understand human currency very well to understand what is 'cheap' or not. I do know I did not try the sandwiches. I had pizza.

[burnyoudown]

It's more like the ingredients in the food itself are cheap. You know, could be a lot better, but they just grab whatever they can.

[Which probably bothered some people, but not him.]

Also pizza is an excellent choice.

[kree_soldieress]

Why not make it better if they could?

[She doesn't understand at all. There wasn't a lot of chance for her to experience this on Earth.]

It was Cheesy!

[burnyoudown]

Because money. Big corporations are greedy. They'll cut corners if they can and give people subpar shit so long as they keep raking in the money.

[Of course, knowing that didn't stop him from eating at places like McDonald's.]

[kree_soldieress]

Greedy, that is worrying. People with power should not be greedy. That leads to wars.

[Clearly McDonalds will one day get in a war for bad burgers.]

[burnyoudown]

Yeah, tell me about it. I'm pretty sure that's what's started a lot of wars. People who want shit that doesn't belong to them.

[Corporation wars were less bloody at least, but still.]

[kree_soldieress]

[Well... That definitely was what led to her people starting war against the universe so many many eons before.]

You are very wise, young human.

[burnyoudown]

[He grinned. He was pretty sure no one had ever called him smart before, except maybe a teacher.]

Thanks. I get that a lot.

[kree_soldieress]

[Ah, well then she is very glad to know she noticed that he was smart.]

That glass building we are approaching is the green house. Beyond that is the hotel. Some people also live on the ships. They are crowded at this time with many people.

[burnyoudown]

[He nodded, glancing at the greenhouse and doing his best to squash his first instinct--which was to find something to throw through the panes of glass.]

What're the ships like? How many people do they hold?

[kree_soldieress]

[Oh yes, that woudl cause quite a bit of distress, damaging the structure. Though given how many storms it had survived, who knew if a rock would even break it.]

They are somewhere between the size of a Kree Jump-Ship and a small troop transport. There are five beds. There are far more than five of us assigned to each, so that is crowded. Not everyone seems to live there when on the planet.