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TEST DRIVE
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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...

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Steve can't argue with that. Sometimes, when he sees Wanda, he can still see the small, locked up woman that the government had labelled a weapon. The blank look in her eyes as she was put into another cramped room, hands bound.

Sometimes even he still blames Tony for all of that.

"At least it got fixed. From what I hear, it gets fixed in my world, too. Or, at least, we had bigger things to worry about so everyone just forgot."

"Sounds just like how heroes would fix things up," Tommy sighs, hands stuffed in his pockets as he continues to slink forward. He doesn't feel bad making Steve carry everything. Not in the slightest.

"But some things aren't that easy to fix. But life's like that, and you just make do."

Yeah, well. Steve can handle it. He could probably throw Tommy and a nearby rock over his shoulder and still be able to manage a pretty good jog.

"Yeah. Yeah, you're definitely right with that." He looks ahead and can almost see the grey of the buildings out in the distance. Getting closer. Good.

"How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?" He's seemed to have lived through a lot of rough things.

"That complicated," Tommy admits. "I was sorta kidnapped for a while, outside of time and space maybe. But I think my birthday went by in that time? Eighteen or so?"

But Tommy has to again give that wiggly hand thing, because it's hard to really keep it up.

"I've been a hero since I was sixteen though."

"Sixteen." Yeah. That's young. And the fact that he was kidnapped during that time is troubling on a lot of other levels as well. Steve frowns and looks at Tommy in a new light. Kids this young didn't need to be going through the things that heroes did. Steve barely likes the fact that Peter has been dragged into it.

"That's a long time. Was...it your choice to join up?"

Steve has no idea, at all, how the things heroes went through were a lot easier to deal with than Tommy's old life. So really, he's traded up in the world. And is doing something that matters.

"The Young Avengers came to recruit me when one of their members was kidnapped by the Super Skrull. I got a choice. That, or go villain. And there were serious arguments for the latter, family history aside."

And he got the better end of the bargain. A brother, a home, friends. Better than blowing stuff up.

"That means something, that they came to get you. Says a lot about your abilities. They put faith in you." Steve already thinks he knows Tommy well enough to know he won't see it that way. Still, it remains true as far as Steve sees it.

"Did you save their member? From...uh...Super Skrull?"

Villains have the stupidest names sometimes, thinks Captain America.

Means everything. Because that's everything in his heart. But then Steve has to blow it, with the 'about your abilities'. Because that was all anyone ever wanted him for. Angry he puts on a burst of speed, several feet away in an instant. But he doesn't fun. Not the rest of the way.

"They only wanted me because I was close and I could make things explode. But yeah, I helped save Billy's precious boyfriend."

And K'lrt wasn't evil. Not so far as Tommy could tell.

Steve watches Tommy run off and stops there, surprised by the outburst. When Tommy stops, Steve walks forward but slower, unsure of what had happened.

"Someone needing you for your abilities doesn't mean that's all you are to them. Or that you can't grow to mean something more..."

Yeah, maybe to Billy. But no one else. And he isn’t talking about this.

“Don’t. You don’t know me. I’m trouble. And annoying. And a pest. So don’t act like you know if I have value or anything.”

Yeah. Yeah, go back a couple decades and Steve would probably have a list of negative adjectives for himself, too. Part of Steve is wondering where Tommy's came from but the rest of him doesn't care.

"Everyone has value. That's not negotiable. And I'm sure, if you asked your brother, he'd tell you the same."

He has to bite his tongue from pointing out that Steve doesn't know him, or his brother. That he doesn't know what they're like so he can't know if Billy would say so. Instead he rolls his eyes.

"We're in sight of the city now. You need me still?"

Steve knows a dismissal when he hears one. He nods, once and tries to keep his face even.

"Yeah. Thanks, Tommy. I appreciate the help.

"I'll see you around."

Tommy spares a small wave before he's gone, racing off at serious speed. Sorry, serious conversations do not work well for him.

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