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

[thefirstass]

The smaller version of himself is trying to find something in his pocket. Is he okay? Steve's heart squeezes; he absolutely hated people looking at him like he had any weaknesses, people being worried about him, but he can also see the general ill health in his younger self's eyes.

"Yeah," he says eventually. Then, ruefully, aware of how dumb it sounds - "We got big."

[usedtobesmoller]

He manages to get the inhaler out and takes a puff on it the way Billy showed him how. It opens his windpipe but doesn't make it easier for him to breathe. Not an asthma attack, then. No. Just plain old shock and awe.

"I'll say," he comments back just as lamely. Steve moves closer and stares at this man who apparently is him. Him in all the ways he's dreamed of being.

"I can't believe it worked." Excitement and jealousy both rise inside him. "Is it permanent?"

[thefirstass]

This version of himself has so much ahead of him. But Steve's not stupid enough to think that means he's naive, or, well, stupid.

"Completely permanent," he says immediately. "Wasn't fun going through it, but I don't have to tell you that. I know you don't care. You have any questions about the whole process?"

[usedtobesmoller]

He has a million questions but Steve still shakes his head, 'No'.

"I was supposed to get it tomorrow. Or, I guess tomorrow in my time. I dunno if I'll get back there and remember anything here but... I don't wanna risk the whole thing if I hear something I end up not liking."

He's still barely blinking but slowly he smiles.

"We're happy though, right? We can help people and stand up for people who can't? So whatever the bad stuff, it's worth it, yeah?"

[thefirstass]

"I can understand that," Steve says, and he thinks to himself that he's never said anything more true in his life. If he couldn't understand the way his younger self thought, it'd be pretty bad.

He grins at that. Wider and wider. "Yeah. We don't always win, and that can be just a little challenging. But we can help a lot more than before."

[usedtobesmoller]

Steve smiles himself, glad at the answer. That was all he ever wanted. All he'd ever really dreamed of for himself. And it was going to happen. Not now, of course, but in his future. Some day. And that would be enough for right now.

Slowly, he remembers the ghost that brought him out here. Peggy. He glances out but can't see anything anymore. An illusion.

"Apparently the serum doesn't stop us from seeing things, huh?" He frowns a little, then. "I heard from other people that the images are dangerous. Leadin' people off cliffs and the like. We should probably head back"