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

[dr_riley]

Drake frowned in consternation. What was...?

"It's...uh.......it's the weight of the air." There. That was probably the simplest way to put it, which he found was the best way to talk to kids. (Except his own. His kids were the best and smartest, just like everyone else's.)

"Low or falling air pressure usually precedes rain. As for what else it can do, quite a lot. It can detect and track various energy signatures and radioactivity, it can send and receive radio transmissions, video, analyze the composition of the soil if you give it enough time."

When Alberto shifted his gaze, Drake turned to follow it, but didn't see anyth- oh. That's were Temba was. He must've already been. The scientist had to admit it wasn't exactly much to look at; in fact, it looked a lot more hazardous than the beach did. At the same time, though, how had he been planning on eating that lobster? Raw? Did he have shelter? Spare clothes? Medicine?

"Right, well you do that, then. But those lobsters are venomous. And there's plenty to eat in the city."

[silenziobruno]

It was a good answer, scientific, logical, and of course, totally confusing for a sea monster.

"But air doesn't weigh anything. It's air." Honestly, Drake should have expected that answer. Alberto even waved a hair in the air as if trying to make it clear that there was nothing to grab or that had weight. The rest of the explanation, however, did sound more useful even if Alberto had no idea what radioactivity was. He looked at the machine with more appreciation. He doesn't understand what it does, not exactly, but it's clear that Drake was worked hard on...whatever this thing is.

"Oh, that's...amazing." He cleared his throat before continuing." If it's like a radio, can it play music? Because that would be even better."

He's seen the city when he woke up and wasn't exactly impressed nor thrilled with what he saw. A beach was a more familiar sight, and so he headed there to see if anybody he knew was around. So far, no luck. And yes, he was planning to eat the lobster -or any fish he could fish- raw. Why not? He's done it for years, sea monsters have the stomach for it. As for shelter and clothes, that was a work in progress.

"Oh, that's a problem, then." he hadn't considered the venom." Now he wonders if the rest of the fish in the ocean is safe for eating. Lobsters were just tasty food in his world. "Do you have pasta in the city?"

[dr_riley]

"Everything weighs something," Drake said tersely, "Even light." Of course, he was leaving out a lot, like the fact that things only weigh something when in the presence of a gravitational field. But this kid wasn't his student and he wasn't a teacher.

As for music?

Well, it didn't exactly have a built-in CD player, but, "It...has a radio receiver. There aren't any stations here, though." In fact, Drake wasn't sure if there was any way to hear or play music anywhere in the city. He hadn't yet seen any instruments or music players or devices containing music. Which...was a damn shame, now he thought about it.

"'Fraid not. As far as I know, there aren't any wheat fields and the agricultural industry here is a single greenhouse and some glowing horses."

[silenziobruno]

Drake sounded so convinced about what he was saying that Alberto couldn't help but believe him this time. Why not? Luca said there were planets floating in space, Alberto hadn't believed him back then and now he was in one. Alas, him believing Drake only brought more questions.

"How much does light weight? Not much, right? It doesn't feel like it should weigh much." If Drake started to give so many details, he would be once again bombarded with questions. Curious kids, you know. In all fairness, it would be even worse if Luca were here, he would ask Drake to tell him EVERYTHING he knows.

"Pity about the radio stations. It's still very impressive that you made a radio this big." That was an attempt at a compliment, the kid did sound honest. Maybe with time, they would figure out how to record music. Alberto looked rather heartbroken at the confirmation that there was no past in this world, that was a real tragedy, but the last bit Drake mentioned had him perking up.

"I've never seen a glowing horse before, they must be hard to miss. Where can I find them? Have you ever ridden one?"

[dr_riley]

Drake's face sank slowly into a perturbed frown. How much...did light weigh. He gave it a few moments, because that question was one that could lead to particle physics, which could lead to quantum field theory, and he didn't have all day, after all.

"Well...photons - Light is - ... Okay." Start from the top. "Light is made of little packets of energy called photons. And photons don't actually have mass, which makes things a lot easier for a lot of equations, since if they did have mass, they couldn't travel at the speed they do, which is, unsurprisingly, the speed of light, so technically, no, light doesn't weigh anything. However, they do have energy, which Einstein posited can be the same thing and co-exist as relativistic mass, that is, mass when in motion, which comes in handy when explaining how light can behave as though it has mass, pushing planets and asteroids around and being distorted by gravitational fields."

Wait, pushing planets. Ha! He could make it simple after all.

"One square inch of light on Earth weighs about a billionth of a pound. It's called the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect, YORP for short, and can even push spacecraft off-course if it isn't accounted for."

Congratulations, Alberto; the boy now knows something about astrophysics that Luca almost certainly doesn't.

Everything else the kid asked? Well...damned if he wasn't starting to remind the scientist of his own kids, which was both charming and dispiriting.

"I - uh - have not. Ridden one. I'm fairly certain I may have eaten one, though."

[silenziobruno]

Alberto was really making an attempt to follow, yet the further Drake went with technicalities, the more confused and stressed out the kid was looking. He didn't interrupt, and there were a few words he actually understood, but photons and relativistic mass were too advanced a subject for a kid who until a week ago didn't know how to use a fork.

Luca might have had a blast with Drake and probably understood a little more of that very long list of words and hard concepts that were being hurled at Alberto. By the time Drake got to Yarkovsky Whatshisname, Alberto had just given up on trying to make sense of anything, and he was just staring with a bit of a vacant look in his eyes. But he had asked and Drake had given it an answer, that he appreciated.

"That's, uhm...very interesting. Something that can push planets around sounds a bit scary, though." ANYWAY, time to move on. "People in this city eat horses instead of playing with them?"

'What sort of fucked up priorities were those?' He didn't say, because that level of swearing was still beyond him, but if he were capable, then that was exactly how he would have worded it.

"If you are that hungry I can get you fishes. Or maybe find another of those weird lobsters."

[dr_riley]

[[ HAAA poor Alberto ]]

Drake was now standing with his arms crossed, having noted the vacant expression and looking nonplussed. But when Alberto suggested that something pushing planets sounded a bit scary, he raised his eyebrows momentarily, surprised that the boy had been listening.

Then he gave a noncommittal shrug.

"It's predictable."

Blink.

"Ah huh. Yeh, mm...the fauna here is still being......discovered. They're probably just the closest thing to cows anyone's found. D'you fish?"

He took a cursory glance around, but didn't see any fishing gear.

[silenziobruno]

[ooc: He honest to god Bluescreened for a slid minute X3]

He was listening! He might have only understood about 3% of what was being said, but he was paying attention...more or less.

"Something predictable can still be scary. Like gravity." Alberto likes to jump down cliffs and into the sea, but just because he knows how gravity works, it doesn't mean it's not terrifying on occasion.

"I've heard about cows! The glowing horses can also make milk? I know gelato is made with milk, we could maybe make some." Hmm, wouldn't that be great? He could use some ice cream now. Alberto is sure it would taste better than the green lobster. At Drake's question, he seems to realize what the other man is thinking. Oops.

"Ah, I ...uh. Have my own technique! You just need to know where the fish are and...a sharp stick. Or a large rock."

[dr_riley]

It was annoying, but it was a fair point, Drake had to concede. No amount of knowing something terrible was about to happen would make it less frightening.

When the boy moved on to ask about the glownies, the scientist held his hands up. "I'm not a biologist. Even if I were, those animals aren't found on Earth, so I'm just making educated guesses. They look and behave like mammals, so," he shrugged, "probably. Try milking one and find out."

And as for the boy's explanation, it was a believable one. What made Drake raise an eyebrow was the stammering.

"Ah huh. A rock. Mind showing me how you fish with a rock?"

[silenziobruno]

Sadly no. Sometimes there was a degree of honest truth to the nonsense Alberto said out loud. A stopped clock was right twice a day.

"Maybe I'll then." He really had no idea what milking entailed, just that it was something you did to a cow to get the milk. He will have to ask around other people and see if they know more about glownies than Drake does.

"No, I wouldn't mind at all."He made no attempt to move and go find a rock, however, because that wasn't what Drake asked of him. And yeah, it was a loophole abuse, but that's are kids for you, Drake. After a beat of silence and giving the man a flat look, Alberto pointed to the other end of the beach.

"Maybe I should...get going. And let you to play with your audio thingie."

[dr_riley]

Oh, this child was good. Annoyingly good. Drake's expression flattened into an irritated scowl, but that wasn't too unusual of him.

"Right." He said a bit snippily. "You do that. I've wasted enough time as it is."

With that, he turned back to the machine and adjusted a few of its manual controls, causing the satellite dish to sway and tilt as if looking around curiously.

"And I'm not playing," he grumbled mostly to himself.

[silenziobruno]

When Drake doesn't get outright mad about getting a mathematician's answer, Alberto gives him one genuine, if still a bit cheeky, smile. He can handle some snippiness and Drake might be serious, but he's not scary the way the angry sailors were back in his world.

"Uh huh." Alberto spends a couple of seconds looking at what Drake is doing with the machine before waving his goodbye and wishing him an honest; "Best luck!" before going away, running down the beach.

Time to see if he can a lobster this time.