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The Revival Project Mods ([personal profile] trpmods) wrote in [community profile] revivalprojectooc2019-07-10 09:02 pm
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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

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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[She can’t keep him here. But he lets it happen.]

Why are Maximoffs always so stubborn?

[The words are a whisper. And is that... a touch of self deprecation? Nah. Can’t be.]
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[personal profile] seeingscarlet 2019-08-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Dryly:] It is the only reason I'm still alive.

That and Vision.

[She's just going to assume he's mostly referring to past experiences with Pietro. Why would it mean anything else?]
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Trust me, I know what you mean.

[Not everyone survived super juvie. Stubbornness helped.]

I’m glad you have him. I think. Just tell me if he is ever annoying you. I’ll run him to the other side of the planet or something.

[Which will seriously drain his energy but he would. For her.]
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Either way, you don't have to decide right now," Natasha says, which is about the most comforting thing she can find to say. "Get settled in first. No one can blame you for that."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
She isn’t wrong. But if only it was easier. Still, he smiles. Because in a way, she really has been a comfort.

“Thanks. Anything else I can do to help?”
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Whale Comb Party

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Any good?" Natasha asks as she observes him eat the fruit. She recognizes him—well, that he's a version of someone he knows. And considering the arm, he's either one of the Barnes who didn't take the fall and lived through the war or he's from 1944. Can't rule out either one, she supposes, but she should have a better idea pretty quickly. "Fruit always seems suspicious to me."
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whale comb party

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a voice Natasha knows. Not an entirely unexpected one, either, but not one she's heard in years. It feels even longer.

So much has happened since then.

She nods before she finds her voice for words, wondering how much she'll have to explain. A beat later, she speaks.]


Be my guest.
Edited 2019-08-07 01:19 (UTC)
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Miles to Go;

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Natasha's already staked out a space in the hotel. Half because she sees safety in numbers, a resource in her fellow recent arrivals, and half because she feels a responsibility to keep an eye on and organize them, she decided to stay close. That doesn't keep her from scouting the area nearby, though.

If there are supplies left in the abandoned storefronts, that's worth knowing. She doesn't expect to be that lucky.

Alternatively, if anyone's thinking of settling further afield she'd like to know that too.

Her lips twitch when she finds him—another one. Well. Her footsteps are intentional, a crunched leaf here, the scrape of a heel there, letting him know she's there. She doesn't expect she would have startled him otherwise, but it seems polite; there's no mistaking her trying to sneak up on him. "Find anything?"
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( i. whale comb )

[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still doing the cost benefit analysis on that one.

[Column A: It's food, and they don't have many other options or tools.

Column B: There's no reason to believe any of it's safe.

Of course, there's also Column C: There's no reason to believe anything on the entire planet is safe at this point.]


I'll let you know when I finish the math.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"That's good for now. Thanks." He's already done more than she has. Super speed sure comes in handy. "Where are you staying? I'll keep an eye out."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Tommy shrugs. He hasn't decided yet.

"Probably the stores. Unless my twin finds somewhere else to be. Gotta watch out for him, yanno?"

Because, more or less, Tommy took his team seriously. And his brother more so. Really did echo that Maximoff bond, even though he had so little time with his sibling.
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[personal profile] frontierbashir 2019-08-07 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Julian breaks out into a grin.

"Much appreciated. Do you have any experience with electronics or engineering?" Could he be this lucky? Could he have literally stumbled upon someone with that kind of skillset? He thinks it unlikely but it's worth asking. After all, as a physician, he suspects no one would think he had any such skill himself.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Makes sense," she nods. Natasha has the grace to be grateful for his help, especially since he's not benefiting from it directly. "Keep an eye out. We don't know what's down there."
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I can handle myself. I am fast," he reminds her.

And then, in a gust of air, he's gone.
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[personal profile] wingmans 2019-08-07 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ sam shakes his head. ]

How long is that gonna take? 'Cuz I'm definitely feeling the hunger pangs.
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[personal profile] wingmans 2019-08-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ he squeezes back gently. ]

Hey, it's up to you. There's no right or wrong answer.

And me too.
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[personal profile] beenalongday 2019-08-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh, sounds about right," he replies, thinking of his own explosive arrowheads. That also sounds incredibly arrogant, but it is really cool, and he says as much. "Sounds pretty awesome, if you ask me."

It's still weird that Tommy knows of him, but he's gradually learning to take this all in stride. "You bet I can still fight." He can't help but snort a little at the thought of him not being able to do anything else. Sure, he's not the most powerful, but his blows still pack a significant punch. "Boomerang arrow? Man, I need to remember that for later."

Thanks, Tommy, you're giving him things to think about here.

"Hey, I think that's pretty cool too." Sure, like most things, it could very easily go south, especially if there's someone planting the wrong ideas in people's heads, but when viewed strictly at face value, the idea of people with extra, enhanced abilities could be useful. Never mind that such things don't exist in a vacuum, and they can be used for good as well as evil. "Is it breaking some kind of rule if you tell me what other kinds of individuals there are out there?"
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[personal profile] beenalongday 2019-08-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Clint gets it. He didn't expect to have this conversation with her, because how could he have predicted any of this? He's no god, he has no magic abilities. Communicating with the dead is not something he can do, no matter how much he's wished he could. But he also knows better than to look gift horses in the mouth. If he can have a second chance with Natasha, he's going to seize it and not ask too many questions. Neither is he going to waste it.

He looks around for somewhere he can sit as well, but despite the tiredness that's dogging him, he decides that for now, he's just going to just lean against the wall closest to her. "That's what I've been hearing." It doesn't particularly please him, but very few things in his life right now actually achieve that. "Okay, so you've been snatched before. Straightforward enough. What kinds of things have you seen?"

He's fully aware that the answer to that could be a long one, but he's just looking for the rundown here.
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[personal profile] beenalongday 2019-08-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, now he feels bad for being about to potentially disappoint him.

"Me? Not really, but if I have a general idea of what I'm supposed to be looking for, I can put two and two together." He's not a brilliant engineer like some people he knows back home, but he's smart enough and with the right information, he likes to think he could be useful.
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[personal profile] doubled_speed 2019-08-07 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, Tommy absolutely has to laugh at how cool Clint plays it at the whole 'sounds pretty awesome'. Actually laughs, shaking his head. As for the boomerang arrows, well, Tommy wants to see how that works.

"Nah, don't see why it would be breaking any kind of rules. I mean, we've got all sorts. Magic and mutants and people that use technology to change sizes. Alien princes and alien cockroach hybrids apparently. Super geniuses too. It's all pretty cool."
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take that into account.

[At the moment, it's starting to look like eating is the best option.]

You just get here?
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2019-08-07 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Long didn't even begin to cover it. She shouldn't tell him the whole thing. They didn't have the time. Even if they did—even then, she wasn't sure that was the best use of it. There had to be more than that. She wanted to ask the last thing he remembered.

Did he know they did it?

Natasha tells him what she can, though, to get started. "You wouldn't believe some of it if I told you. We were on this reality show." There's a slight catch in her voice as she says it, because she knows how ridiculous it sounds. "Travel the galaxy. Drama. Romance. See your friends how up and leave again, then come back without remembering any of it.

"Every so often I guess the ratings needed a boost because something catastrophic would happen. In one system we saw a planet destroyed by an asteroid. We barely had time to evacuate it."

She's still not convinced that the Atroma hadn't been behind that too, somehow.
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[personal profile] wingmans 2019-08-07 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods. ]

And it looks like I missed a lot.
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Re: Whale Comb Party

[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-08-07 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)

Buckyr ecognizes her, too - but as he's learned from Steve, what he's been through on this end and what people have been through on other ends is not the same.

That doesn't mean he doesn't look pleased to see her, though, or that he doesn't greet her casual tone with his own. He's finished one piece of the red fruit, which hasn't had a huge effect yet, but it does sway him toward answering with, "It's not bad," and grinning a little. "See, the meat's always what worried me more. At least, when I can't tell from the smell whether I'm supposed to want to eat it or not."

Still, "Maybe wait a coupla minutes first, make sure I don't buy the farm."

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hermione granger | harry potter | dfau

[personal profile] brainiest 2019-08-07 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
WHALE COMB
[ Waking up and exploring somewhere new is familiar to her now; she knows the feeling and the immediate sense of relief and confusion wraps around her like a warm blanket. Knowing where she's returned and knowing that there might be people waiting for her is more than enough and she begins to explore, peeking here and there until she feels as though she knows what she is doing and what she's trying to do.

She doesn't spend a great deal of time worrying about the food, but she gets a little bit, moving to sit by herself in the corner.

Honestly? She thinks she ought to go out and try and find someone she knows, if there is anyone, but she settles down to watch instead. She knows herself; Hermione recognises that she will wander and get curious - so she waits, just for a little bit, in case anyone else decides to come around and venture in. ]
SHELTER
[ The hotel is, at least, a place to start, and wand in hand Hermione moves in and begins to look around. They're all dusty and empty and tarnished, so she knows she has a lot of work to do - she remembers that not everyone is blessed enough to have the kind of magic that might work to clean up rooms. Even the magic she had learned in her other world hadn't been much in those terms, so she's more than happy to roll up her sleeves - literally and metaphorically - and get started.

What she does first is sit down in one of the hallways, beginning to write a note as she ponders. They'll need beds, blankets, something to store things in - trunks, maybe? - and other such things to make these rooms habitable. She can make all of those if she has the right materials, but does she even have credits any more? Is this how this place works?

Frowning, she leans back and breathes out hard, frustrated and already wanting to tie her hair up. ]
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