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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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Well it didn't sound like a lot of fun, but it was kinda nice to hear confirmation of it. But then he moved back slightly with a small "huh?" in surprise at the being pointed to. It was just a weird thing, and not something he was used to at all.

And no sooner had he half nodded at the vote of confidence and then the other was closer and thrusting out his hand. Well he'd shaken hands before though he hadn't done that gesture here as of yet. So he smiled and clasped the other's hand since it had been initiated.

"Terra."

Stick around Cayde and you'd have to get used to a lot of weird antics. The Exo just supposed that he startled the new kid, but he grinned easily at the recovery with the handshake.

"Terra, eh? Nice and earthy. Good to meet you. Got any questions or you think you wanna have more of a look around first?"

Terra pulled his hand back once the handshake was over and nodded at the name confirmation. "Good to meet you too." At the questions part he shook his head. "There's got to be more of this place than just the beach. So looking around would be a good start."

He was wondering if there were people to assist here because that's what he was used to. And if people needed help he would do just that.

"There's a whole city to look around," Cayde nodded. "Lotta progress has been made so things aren't as run down everywhere as they used to be. Of course, it's still a lot of city for a handful of people to be fixing up, but we got electricity and running water, food, a very nice bar if I do say so myself, and other people always up for offering a hand."

He pulled out his tablet from a belt pouch, holding it up. "You get one of these? It's got a map of things here."

Blue eyes blinked around. Well he had, much like on Destiny Islands, ended up at the edge of the water. It made sense that there was a lot more to see and do. "People are fixing up the city?" This was fascinating and made him wonder what happened to make it not be so nice. But that would come later.

"A bar?" he couldn't help but ask. That was an interesting thing in his own mind, but first he wanted to look around and see who needed help.

Anything else he wanted to say got pushed to the back of his mind as the tablet came out. It was a strange looking device and vaguely called to mind the Gummi phone Aqua showed him briefly and he shook his head. "A map? No..I didn't get one of those yet."

To him maps were normally in treasure chests.

Cayde would always drop mention of his bar, not that he really needed to considering that people tended to find it at some point or another. He was just glad it was getting its mileage. He worked hard on that thing!

"Yep. Can't do much if the place is a mess, right? And if we're stuck staying here, we can't be living in broken down places on scraps." He showed Terra the tablet and the funny icons before tapping at the map function, offering it to him to look at the screen. "Eh, one'll probably show up for you sooner or later. But here- this is a general map of the city."

"Right." Terra replied with a nod. He definitely believed in seeing what he could do to help. And of course, he would help as much as possible. But he peered onto the screen and took a look at it. The other's words about living in this place ran through his mind, but he couldn't let that bother him right now. Right now he had to focus on what he could and that was to look at the device in Cayde's hands.

He really couldn't make heads or tails out of the map at first, but the more he looked at it, the more it made sense even though it was still so new to him. He had to learn this though and tried to memorize the whole thing.

Blue eyes then went from the screen to Cayde. "Guess there is a lot to explore."

There was a whole lot of planet and they only were exposed to a tiny bit, but there was no shortage of things to be done. Cayde nodded.

"I'd recommend sticking to the city for exploring though. There's a lot of wood out there but no real guarantee that anything worthwhile's out there. I traveled for like, two days straight out into the woods once? But all I found was more woods. And you have to make your way back the same way you went. If we had sparrows and jumpships or something it might make things way easier, but otherwise we're stuck to doing things the old fashioned way."

Terra's brows furrowed a little when he heard of Cayde's exploits in the woods. "But the woods can't go on forever." Or so that was his reasoning at any rate. He wasn't sure what sparrows or jump ships had to do with anything, but it still sat in the back of his mind that woods had to end at some point.

However, he was just going to have to see for himself at some point.

For now, Terra decided to go back to an earlier topic. "By the map it looked like there were sections of the city. Does the whole thing need repairs or are there others worse off?"

"Given I haven't been able to get a good view of the planet from outside I haven't really been able to tell just how much forest or landmass there is. Clearly there's an ocean," Cayde said as he gestured out at the waters before them. "But if there's another continent across or if this is just a gulf or something is anyone's guess."

He consulted his map again, giving a nod. "There's like...five sectors...ish? Easier to work out where things are that way. It's pretty random as to how much has been restored. I'd say the city center's the most worked on since it has important places like the hotel and a library and hospital, but even then it's not like we've been able to restore all buildings to pristine levels. Just cleared up more rubble than other places, less overgrown plants and more spaces suited for people to make use of right away."

Idly Terra wondered if he would be able to use his keyblade as a glider to go scout around and see how much forest or whatnot was around. That might help update the map at least. And yes he'd tried already but so far he had no luck and had wondered if it somehow just needed a rest after all of these years. Creeping feelings of guilt and darkness still plagued him and sometimes he still woke up from nightmares of still being trapped there alone.

He never told Aqua or Ven or they'd worry and he'd worried them more than enough already to last the rest of their lives. There were the cold sweats he'd wake up in too but those too wouldn't ever get reported to his friends either. They were his problem, not theirs.

But now as he turned his attention back to Cayde and the map, his hand came up under his chin. "So if I just got here, more people might arrive after me, right? Not everyone can live in a hotel." He just wanted to throw himself into work and get his mind off of the nagging feeling of possibly being separated from his friends again for a long time because he really hated that idea. And he didn't want to be the cause of any more of their pain.

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The Exo tucked his tablet away, folding his arms across his chest. "You won't be the last to come, and who can say how long this'll go? Admittedly, we're not much closer to figuring out this problem the Agrii have." He shrugged, seeming to sober just a little. "But sometimes people do go away, just as suddenly as when they were brought in."

That part was a little frustrating to him, and he had mixed feelings about it all, even if they weren't completely sorted out. He shook his head, giving another shrug. "There's other places you can stay. Hotel's just the most obvious. Lotta space left unclaimed so if it's open, you're likely welcome to it. Vanth's fixing up housing for people too, if you need help on that end."

"So people can leave without even trying." Terra replied thoughtfully after watching the tablet disappear. That was a relief, but there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it, no special thing that needed to be done or performed, which left him wondering. No doubt the people that were left behind wanting to go home had much the same issues he figured.

"Vanth? Who's that?" he asked after listening to the explanation. He wasn't sure he wanted to stay in a hotel, but he would if he had to. It would be better to have a sort of base of operations, but he did want to keep exploring. Finding his own space was going to be an important thing for him while he was here though. So he folded his arms across his chest and looked at Cayde. "But if I'm understanding right, I can just find a space and stay there?" This was Terra making sure he had the 'rules' straight in his mind.

Just living anywhere would be pretty foreign.

"We~ll not by their own decision," Cayde clarified. They could only assume those who disappeared ended up getting sent back home somehow, which was better than considering any alternatives.

"Vanth- Cobb Vanth. He's got experience with running a town I guess you could say, so he was pretty eager to get right in there and start throwing together places that people could move into." He nodded. "You got it. Not a bad deal- you don't have to pay for the space but you might have to clean things up and all. Still, nothing too bad."

Terra shook his head. He couldn't say who would want to leave or who wouldn't but he had a feeling a lot of people would send themselves home. And who knew? Maybe Sora would show up here, but he somehow doubted he got that lost along the way. Hopefully Aqua and Ven would find him in the darkness and just bring him back to his friends who were all searching for him.

He did take note of the name though. "So all I have to do is find him and I can start to find a decent place to settle into." While he was here anyway. So he looked at Cayde. "Is that what you did too in order to find a place and set up your bar?"

"Yep. I'm sure he'll be glad to help. There might even be a place or two already set for moving in from the first batch he's finished."

Cayde chuckled. "What, fix things up? Oh yeah. Scoped out a nice place, cleared out what I didn't need, cleaned up what needed to be cleaned up. Took some time getting things together for it, fixing up the walls, throwing together furniture that'd fit normal people height instead of tall Agrii, but it was something to do."

"Where are all of these places? Are they centrally located or are they in all of the sectors?" It was weird to think of how much bigger this place was than the little bit of beach they were on right now.

The chuckle was unexpected but nice to hear. But of course it raised questions. "How..did you know what place to pick out?" It was still confusing for a guy who grew up in a castle and never really had to worry or think about things like this.

Turning so that the sea was at his back, Cayde pointed back towards where the city would be. "There's a bunch of residential buildings in the quadrant closest to the trail leading out here," he said. "You'll know you're in the right place when you see the big ol' lake in the middle. There's a clocktower across from it- that's where I stay most of the time."

He looked over his shoulder, back at Terra, a metal brow arching at the question. "Wait, you're serious? It's nothing complicated. Mostly? You just go with your gut. Me? I like high places and nice views, so the clocktower was practically a given. For the bar? That was more of just stumbling across a place that looked interesting enough to work with. You like exploring? Just do what you do and I guarantee you'll find somewhere that speaks to you."

Blue eyes followed the other as he pointed but then looked over at his companion. "You live in the clock tower?" Terra couldn't help but ask. That was weird, but then of course he wondered what it looked like on the inside and if Cayde had enough room to move around in and live. And if there was a lake, well that wouldn't be a bad spot to find a home either.

He sighed, knowing he didn't want to make a life here, but he'd do this for now and just keep trying to go home. So he just looked back at the other when he was asked if he was serious. Well he was serious most of the time but he nodded. Picking out a place to live had never been a thing he had to do but now he had to.

With the other's words about going with his gut, Terra smiled slightly. "I think I'll start with looking around the lake."

"A broken one, but it's not like we've figured out Agrii time anyway." It was a place to put his stuff and hang out. Good enough for him. There was even space for a pallet if he felt like napping. More often than not he'd just use the beds in the abandoned department store for that.

Cayde was beginning to figure that out about Terra. So serious for someone so young. He'd need to learn to lighten up some. At least the smile was a good start.

"You do that, then. At least you'll have lots of fun neighbors," he grinned.

"So it doesn't actually tell time." This was even more odd, trying to figure out what good was a clock if it didn't tell time, but maybe it was more about the tower part of it and if someone else enjoyed it, he wasn't going to try and ruin it at all. Who knew, maybe the clock tower had its own secrets and Cayde would be lucky enough to find them all out in time.

And while he wasn't sure at all about neighbours, Terra figured he'd taken up enough of this kind person's time so he nodded. "Thanks, I'll see what I can do, it was nice to meet you."

Actually he was pretty sure if it were repaired that it'd just get super annoying. The parts looked pretty worn and rusted so he doubted anyone was going to get to work on the thing any time soon anyway.

Cayde gave Terra a nod then. "Alrighty. See you around, then. Don't be a stranger."

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