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Opening Test Drive Meme


TEST DRIVE
Application FAQ | Taken Characters | Reserves | Application


Welcome to the first Test Drive for The Revival Project!

For those who do not know, this game is a spin-off from The Drift Fleet game, which is shortly closing. For more information about what this game is about, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

The TDM for the first round of applications is NOT required but is highly recommended. Really this is to see the interest level in the game as well as to have everyone interact on the new planet and with the new experiences offered here. There will be a post in the TDM where questions can be asked regarding the prompts/settings. We're keeping this loose though so go ahead and have fun with it. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ. 

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level so we know. 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! The only option not allowed is to completely restart your character (because then it's not DFAU, is it?) 

So go! Explore Agra 10! And, as always, HAVE FUN! 

*ATTENTION! RESERVES ARE NOW OPEN!*
*ATTENTION! APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!*
*GAME OPENS AUGUST 19th!*


WHALE COMB PARTY


In the square near your arrival point, one building seems to be in fairly good repair. It’s large and stark white on every wall. Unlike the other buildings, all the lights are on and the windows looking out are intact. That alone would make it remarkable but it’s hardly the most noticeable thing once you step inside the open doorway.

Hanging against one wall is a piece of fabric that has ‘WHALE COMB!’ painted on it in drippy, fluorescent pink letters. A smiley is painted underneath it right on the wall with three eyes and long fangs. The fangs drip down all the way to the floor and the eyes are just a blob of paint, but whoever left it seems to have been trying, here. ‘US THANK THEY!’ is written beside it, barely legible. On every other wall is ‘EAT’ in various sizes and colors. They thankfully don’t drip as much as the smiley since, beneath them, are tables upon tables of food.

There are meats, fruits, root vegetables, and even what might be a sweet dessert of some sort as well. Bowls are full of them, apparently a welcome dinner for the Agrii’s new heroes. At the very least it will give everyone a quick crash course on what is edible around here. But some of it might have … adverse effects:

- People chomping down on the striped meat all seem to get very drowsy a few minutes later.
- The red fruit that looks like a giant cherry is the equivalent of a few shots - the more consumed, the more drunken this party is getting.
- There is a bowl of weeds that have small, daisy-like flowers all along the stalks. This tastes like chicken and gives the eater a sudden burst of energy that will have them running around the room like they’re being chased.
-There are a collection of drinks, some made from the red fruit, some that are clearly water, some that taste like a less-sweet lemonade with no effects, and then there's a blue one that tastes like an especially dark beer. People drinking this will find themselves incapable of lying for a half hour.

Of course, no way to know any of this before you chow down. So dig in and enjoy the show!

 

LOST AND ALONE


They said don’t go into the forest. If the noises there weren’t deterrent enough then the thick trees and lack of paths should have been. Yes, you’ll need food. Yes, both meat and many fruits are in the forest. But maybe you should have gotten some more information before heading in.

Congratulations: you went into the forest and are now lost. You can’t hear the murmurings from town, nor can you see any of the lights that might be flickering on and off in the city. How are you going to get back into town? How do you make sure that the creatures here don’t attack you? You probably don’t have any weapons, so you’d better figure something out quick.

Or, maybe you’ll get lucky and run into another foolish person wandering around out here. Try not to attack them - unless they attack first.

 

MILES TO GO


The first thing every survivor needs to find is shelter. Not long after your arrival at the fountain, it’s getting darker now and, even if the night is short (you’re about to find out it’s not!), you don’t want to spend your first one out on an unfamiliar street. Distantly you can hear a sound like a wolf howling through an elephant’s trunk. It’s loud and alien. Maybe you want to find somewhere to sleep a little more quickly.

Right away there are two pretty solid options that will do nicely for the night: an abandoned hotel-like structure and some empty stores.

The hotel structure seems to be the most popular option for others. Its large, overgrown lobby leads you to the staircase and over a dozen floors of rooms in varying conditions. Despite it looking as though no one has set foot in here for decades, the stairs and floors all are secure. The rooms that have doors on them open up to dusty rooms that all have a bathroom (of sorts) attached and long, narrow bed frames. Figuring out a mattress will be a challenge but at least this is a safe place to sleep. As long as no animals laid claim to this room before you got in...

But let’s say the room in the hotel doesn’t work for you. Maybe the room is too small for you. Maybe you don’t like the stairs. Maybe you want someplace private to separate yourself from the rest of these strangers and to think quietly about what to do next. Either way, the other option is any number of abandoned stores lining the block where you arrived. The glass doors and windows of many are broken but there are just as many intact as well. The rooms are all large and empty, as whatever wares inside were either taken or dissolved over the years. There may be a counter or two that will get you off the ground, though. With all this space, you’re bound to find something to sleep on.

Unless someone else got there, first...


code bases by tricklet

unbearablynaive: (id' consider it)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[He bites back an admonition that Tommy is awfully young to have a twin with a fiance already, because really, who is he to talk? Someone who's been married for a year at the age of, like, 8.

But with the second bit, he clues in that something odd is happening. That's really not a normal thing to say.]


Er, I suppose that's good. You're having some kind of difficulty, aren't you? Do you think it was the food?
doubled_speed: (The Fashionable Twin)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dude, Vision is not dad enough to judge Billy's space-king fiance. At all. But Tommy's busy glowering at the drink. He puts it down and frowns.]

Food or maybe the drink. Pretty sure I can't lie. I was going to call you my favorite.

[Funny how that time it comes out properly, because it was honest, that was what he'd wanted to say.]

Whatever fruit that's made out of? Evil. Drunk people have a hard enough time without compelled honesty.
unbearablynaive: (my responsibility)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[She is acting a little strangely, but--there could be a number of reasons for it. Disappointment at being sucked into another odd situation, discomfort at being away from the comforting song of Naviadna, anger at their peaceful life being disturbed. Her glassy eyes are a bit concerning, though, so he keeps a close eye on her.]

Or they're using an inexact voice-recognition process. There was advanced technology here before all the destruction. Perhaps whatever remained was also damaged.

[He pulls Wanda close, nothing out of the bounds of propriety but enough to showcase his concern.]

How are you feeling, my love?
alaspooryork: (unarmored: oh come on)

[personal profile] alaspooryork 2019-07-12 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's only been here a few hours himself, but it's been long enough to get a head-start on setting up a place to live. He'd encountered some others so far, but he hadn't expected anyone else from Proles to show up. So far, they'd all either been from their own worlds, or some other strange timeline of flying in ships through space.

Which is to say that when he hears that voice, he drops the broken circuit board he'd been looking at and rushes over.]


Jack!

[Jack looks like he'd been out all night partying and then awakened at an abandoned warehouse in District Four - which, all things considered, isn't that far off, except that he probably hadn't enjoyed the party. Delta grasps Jack's shoulders and gives him a quick embrace, avoiding the makeshift club.]

I am glad you are here, Jack. This must all be very strange to you, but I cannot help but be reminded of my arrival in your city. It has happened again. There is another force taking individuals from their homes for their own purposes, and we appear to be caught up in it.
seeingscarlet: (witch; 009)

[personal profile] seeingscarlet 2019-07-12 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
But can you imagine a whale with a comb?

[They're very much in public, but Wanda nuzzles him anyway when Vision pulls her closer. Those are all emotions she's feeling, although that's not quite all there is. She'd been seething before coming to dinner, far beyond anything humor could reach.]

Too light, [she murmurs.] Smaller? It's too quiet. I don't like it.

[Wanda nuzzles him again and sighs softly. He's so warm...] Are you still feeling all right?
unbearablynaive: (pursed lips)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[That and he's never met the guy. Besides, there's a difference between fiance and husband.

he does look pleased that Tommy would say that, though, even knowing it's not actually truthful. It's a nice gesture.]


Ah, well I shall decline to ask you anything about sensitive topics, in that case. I understand the need for privacy; we found it was often in short supply during our last, hm, encounter with kidnappers. Here, at least, there is some space to spread out and have time to yourself.

And I'll keep an eye on the blue fruits. If it compels honesty in a juice, it may have some other kind of useful medical property.
unbearablynaive: (side by side)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Not with any matter of practicality, no.

[Well, at least she's relaxed somewhat, but the fuzziness of her answers has him frowning and looking down at her. Is she--]

Darling, did you consume any alcoholic beverages? You seem a bit different.
doubled_speed: (Default)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he was doing it as a test. As a deliberate lie. He had already been testing things. But Tommy rolls his eyes at the idea of keeping attention for the blue stuff for medical properties. Really? How foolish is that?]

You know, you could just avoid them like a sane person. I know you're really good at avoiding things, so just stick to your strengths there. For all our sakes.
unbearablynaive: (does that make sense)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He blinks, taken somewhat aback.]

I have not partaken of any of the consumables, in fact, as I do not require them; it is still important data to gather, however. If we are to be "hosted" here for an indefinite amount of time, we will need a great deal of such data.

[He crosses his arms.] While I am tempted to ask why you would say such a thing, I will remind you that I have necessarily had very different life experiences than any other version of myself you might be acquainted with.
doubled_speed: (Giving Me A Headache)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, Tommy gets that. He sighs and his fingers card through his hair.]

Clearly I have some things to say to him. Ignore it, okay? New rule, honesty sucks.

[Clearly the truth. Tommy shakes his head and looks at the food again, clearly not trusting it anymore. What he'd give for Chinese takeout.]

You actually seen any other Avengers around here? Or just assuming? Just wanna know who I might have to deal with. Knowing is half the battle, right?
seeingscarlet: (concern; 007)

[personal profile] seeingscarlet 2019-07-12 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't think so.

[Nothing had been bad, exactly, and nothing had had the unfamiliar burn of alcohol. Even on Naviadna, or especially on Naviadna, Wanda had tended to avoid intoxicants. She has come to trust herself with her powers, but who knows about drunk-Wanda?]

Do you think there is something in the water?
250mhzwabl: (Default)

[personal profile] 250mhzwabl 2019-07-12 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[However brief Delta wants to keep the embrace, Jack roundly ignores it, wrapping his arms around him tightly and burying his face in his neck. He rattles off the most relevant facts, of course, and Jack's known him long enough now that he cracks a smile to hear it, even as he spins out a narrative as unbelievable as it is harrowing.

That's Delta's caring - that rush to bring him up to speed, rapidfire as the scroll of data feeds at the periphery of a communicator, stubbornly bulling against the inefficiencies of speech. Just as his own care is this - holding tight, eyes lifted enough to keep the door in his peripheral vision and the rest of him focused in the warm comfort of Delta here and real.]


Don't suppose it's been easier for you the second time round?
unbearablynaive: (and then)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods in sympathy. Not that he particularly likes lying to people, but trying to keep his relationship with Wanda a secret for several years had done a number on his original attitudes toward honesty in general. If Tommy wants to bring up what happened with his own Vision, he should do so on his own terms and not because he drank some blue fruit juice.

Besides, it clearly hadn't been so terrible that he wasn't willing to talk at all, or they wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.]


My sympathies, and I hope the effect will fade soon.

[He nods.] Steve Rogers is about, and I was fortunate enough to have arrived with Wanda Maximoff.

[Oh, and if Tommy happens to catch a glimpse of the Vision's left hand? Yeah, there's sure a gold wedding band on it.]
unbearablynaive: (come now)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not particularly dangerous-seeming, at least. ANd if it's making her more affectionate, oh no, how will he ever deal? (By finding some privacy if she gets too touchy, that's how.)]

Hmm. I would say it is unlikely, but I cannot be certain.

[He pokes at the little dragonling, who yawns and wraps its tail around the Vision's finger, trapping it temporarily. He allows it.]

But perhaps some of the food has unintended effects on those who consume it. I would expect the little one to be more curious in a crowd like this.
doubled_speed: (Hands Free Interface)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Your version of her, not mine I’m guessing. Still... good to see you two working out in your version of the multiverse. Or whatever. Imagine she’s happier that way.

[Some universes are better he guesses. Because of course his parents are together and happy and don’t have kids. Figures, right? Kids are just problematic.]

Next thing you know, you’ll be saying Pietro is here too.
alaspooryork: (unarmored: messenger)

[personal profile] alaspooryork 2019-07-12 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's expressed it before and will do so again with little prompting: Jack is the very best kind of human. So if he wants a hug to calm down, a hug he gets.]

In a way it has. [He feels a little guilty to admit it, but it's the truth.] I am already accustomed to being in a human body; the rest is merely a change of scenery. For you, it is a change of everything you know.

[He huffs; he'd always wanted to get his boyfriends out, but he'd hoped it would be either to his own timeline or, preferably, Loki's. This has been unexpected, and Delta does not particularly care for the unexpected, despite what he's just said.]

I have been here perhaps a day; Euclid and I have claimed a room in the rundown hotel, for lack of a better option. Have you eaten anything yet?
unbearablynaive: (trying to help)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods in confirmation for the first part.] Despite some setbacks, we are happy together. We spent some time traveling the galaxy in the Drift Fleet and eventually settled on a planet. It is working for us so far.

[And then his expression softens to one of sadness.]

I have not seen him in several years; he was killed by Ultron the day after I was created, in my timeline. I understand it's different for others. Wanda would be overjoyed to have him here again, even a different version, I think.
passingthrough: (Worried - Unsure)

[personal profile] passingthrough 2019-07-12 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[The fact he was holding a kitten at all should have been another big "not Reid" clue, but ghosts can be surprising? Other things that can be surprising? This conversation.]

Wait, what do you mean you were provided a human body? Was it someone else's body first? [Someone like Reid?]
doubled_speed: (Momentary Emotions)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Pietro was...? Tommy doesn't know what to do with that. He frowns and looks down at the floor, his arms crossing over his feet briefly.]

Fucking hell, I just can't... It's hard to imagine him gone. Why is our family such a mess? Is there even any universes where we can just all be fucking happy and alive and haven't fucked up the world in the process?
seeingscarlet: (girl; I know that you are)

[personal profile] seeingscarlet 2019-07-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Trapped by a dragonling and a witch, however will he survive? One of her hands is wandering, but luckily for him Wanda's just tracing lightly up and down Vision's back.]

Maybe too much meat? But I didn't have as many kinds... [And she's not feeling that sleepy, anyway.] I don't know what it was.

[She huffs, sullen.] The food on the Twin Roses was better. At least the Atroma didn't drug us.
Edited 2019-07-12 20:34 (UTC)
unbearablynaive: (concern)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[He reaches out to squeeze Tommy's shoulder in comfort, if he'll allow it. He'd suspected the Young Avenger was related to Pietro (hard not to).]

I am sorry to have to tell you that. I wish I could say there is such a timeline, but--

[Well, he knows Wanda's dead in Kitty and Kurt's version of things, and obviously Tommy doesn't come from a land of sunshine and roses, either.]

All we can do is make the most of what we are given. Even if that does mean truth beverages.
doubled_speed: (Default)

[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-07-12 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Truth beverages. Tommy huffs at the damn thing. He doesn't want to see that shade of blue ever again.]

I can't imagine Wanda took it well, when Uncle Pete died. I know I'd probably blow a lot of things up if something like that happened to Billy.

[Hell, Uncle Pete probably would have gone a bit crazy if that happened too. Had helped caused Wanda to fuck the world up out of fear that people might go after her.]
Edited 2019-07-12 20:49 (UTC)
250mhzwabl: (or what you threw at me)

[personal profile] 250mhzwabl 2019-07-12 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I, ah.

[He laughs under his breath and half-smiles crookedly, as if he'd been caught having forgotten to make dinner, or update some only mildly important piece of code, rather than - well. What he was just up to before he heart Delta's voice.]

I mostly went a bit sky-mad and then scrambled in here-? Had a nice lie-down under the table, though.
alaspooryork: (unarmored: beard stroke)

[personal profile] alaspooryork 2019-07-12 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He frowns, because he's wondered that many times himself.]

Not that I am aware of. There was extensive biotechnology available in Proles, including cloning and extensive modification technologies. I was unable to find a match for my body's DNA in any of their databases, though that is not necessarily indicative of anything; the society was extremely secretive and schooled well in misdirection and falsification of data.

As for how they reversed the AI creation process, I have not determined that either. Several other AI from the same project were treated similarly, however, so whatever their process was, it was not a fluke that it succeeded with me.
unbearablynaive: (upward bound)

[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2019-07-12 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
No, she was quite devastated--

[Wait, wait, wait. Uncle Pete? He wasn't the famous mutant grandfather? And he sure didn't just say "Aunt Wanda", did he?

No. No, he did not.

Yeah, this is the sound of an android looking concerned and trying very hard not to ask any invasive questions, like he just promised not to.]