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Opening Test Drive Meme

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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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Billy tries to shrug the coat back off. "It's for you-" he argues.

"Loki taught me. When we were trying to find you, and stop Mother," he confirms. That's where the lessons had come from at least, but he's had some time to practice. "You do your own things, I don't just ditch you.." he adds, head tilting as though to ask if that's what Tommy really thinks. "You're my brother. Whether we're on the same team or not."

Ditch. Fuck, Tommy is trying to ditch, isn’t he? He sighs and shakes his head. Damn him.

“Fine. I’ll stay. But none of that sentimentality stuff. And you have to use the coat. You’ll need it more.”

Brothers watch out for each other. And he watches out for Billy.

Billy's most just worried that Tommy thinks Billy abandons him as soon as he's back after New Years. But it doesn't stop the grateful look when Tommy agrees to stay, a bit of tension leaving his shoulders.

"I can make another coat," he argues. Maybe not just yet though. "...Is this place messing with your powers at all?" he asks finally, exposing a little of his worry.

“Still fast. Haven’t tried to explode things. Seems a bit of an issue here. And phasing takes a lot of energy. Can’t afford to try that yet.”

He’s conserving what little energy he can manage here. But he moves quickly and rushes to bundle Billy into the coat. Even buttons it.

“Don’t make me worry about you.”

He puts on a fond sort of pout as Tommy buttons him up, begrudgingly allowing it, because...moments like this are less common than he'd like.

"You don't have to worry," Billy assures, flashing a small smile.

“Your Space-Prince future husband might get upset if someone isn’t watching out for you.”

This was the way it was goin to be, Billy. Tommy is going to fuss. He is strangely good at it. But he smirks. Billy looks silly in the coat and Tommy appreciates that. Then he winks at his brother and is gone quickly. And back almost as fast with a chunk of particle board.

“Here. It isn’t much but I did find it.”

"Oh, is that the reason?" Billy laughs softly, a bitter sweet feeling in his chest at the thought of Teddy. He misses him all ready, but he wouldn't want him to be snatched up to join them. He hopes this isn't like when Tommy was missing, that Teddy's not home, trying to find them.

He passes his fingers over the buttons of the coat in Tommy's brief absence, blinking as he abruptly returns. "What do we...do with it?" Yeah, okay, Billy really does need someone watching out for him right now.

“Yeah. That’s the reason.”

And the brother thing. He smirks and then he goes about arranging the particle board far from the window.

“You lose heat through the ground. Small thing like this is better. You’ll sleep on it.”

Right. Billy nods. It's not the coziest thing he's ever seen, but it's something, and he gives an appreciative nod. "We'll sleep on it," he corrects, brow creasing again. Maybe. It's not huge, but- Billy wants to take care of Tommy too.

That thing isn't big enough for two unless they're cuddled together. Which makes his brother look very uncomfortable.

"I... it's really okay. I can handle it."

Okay, fair enough, maybe they aren't cuddly siblings. Not that Billy would mind, but he nods uncertainly.

"...We can look for more. And I can fix things up. We'll be fine."

Tommy might mind, but... Billy isn't wrong that it would be useful. But Tommy's not used to the sorts of affection that implies.

"You got it. We'll figure it out... Did you run into anyone interesting at the party?"

Because Tommy sure did.

"Uh, well...Vision," Billy confirms. Unlike with Wanda he doesn't refer to him as Dad. That one still feels kind of...weird. "And Viv. I heard Mom's here too, but I didn't run into her."

"I talked to Mom and Viv," Tommy agrees, shuffling nervously. Doesn't know how to talk about his interaction with Wanda. But Vision? Tommy sighs at that.

"Dad isn't as bad. Not as the one back home. I said he wanted to... to consider me his son. To try. So, uh, that's going to be awkward."

And Billy definitely is going to get that interaction too, when Vision puts together the math on it. If he bothers to.

"Yeah?" There's a hopeful look on Billy's face, but he tries not push. He's sure he'll run into her in his own time.

He smiles softly at Tommy's description of Vision, though he looks surprised. "Did you tell him?" he asks. Billy had tried very hard not to spoil too much about any potential future stuff, but if he's figured out Tommy then it shouldn't be too hard to connect his identical twin.

"He does seem...more emotional," he agrees, thinking that might be more like the Vision their Wanda first married, the one they never really got to know.

Yeah. He told Vision. And it makes him sigh, shaking his head.

"I drank this thing and it forced me to tell the truth. So it got out there. He's not our dad. At all. So, yeah."

That means they have a lot to work through, right?

"But he wants to be?" Which is more than they can say for their Vision. Or even their Wanda sometimes. But all of this is about as complicated as their family life always seems to be.

"He said Mom got her powers through experiments. That there's no mutants there."

Yeah, he wants to be. Which is weird. Tommy had a terrible family life. So that makes this even weirder for him. He never should have approached the synthezoid, really. Annoyed with himself he flops down on the particle board he'd brought in.

"I just want to get you back home. I mean, me helping out here, I'm cool for that. But I'd like you somewhere safe."

Wait... experiments? Tommy cringes. Billy knows how he feels about experiments about powers.

"I'm not going without you." Not that he's sure he has any say in that, but if he does there's no way Billy's leaving Tommy here to go back. "If we go, we both go."

He winces a little. Right, sore subject, obviously. "Yeah...something with HYDRA and an Infinity Stone. He was wondering if that was how I got my powers."

Does Tommy look just a little green at the idea? Because he's more than a little sick over the thought of their mother being tested on like that. Especially by Hydra. She's a romani jew, that's...

"Fuck," he says, shuddering. "Maybe we should take them with us."

Billy frowns and moves to sit near him, offer a comforting presence, hopefully without scaring him off. "I think...I don't know, but I get the impression that she's okay now. Whatever happened before, she's found Vision, and she's an Avenger now. They seem happy."

He gets the urge to want to take them away, but they might not need rescuing.

"They're married. And he didn't think we were his. I had to explain it," Tommy sighs, hands coming up to rub at his eyes. This wasn't a conversation he's ever had with their actual dad. He's never met their actual dad. Maybe Billy has. "But he smiles so stupid over her. And... and he said he'll make sure there's room for me if I want it. So I think you'd have an invitation too."

A family. What even is someone supposed to do with that.

He has. Just the once. It wasn't like the touching reunion they'd had with Wanda. And Billy's pointedly never mentioned it to Tommy. He doesn't need more disappointment like that.

"He really loves her," Billy agrees, smiling softly. You can't fake that sort of goofy in love. He tries, at least briefly, to lay a hand over Tommy's.

"Which I guess is another difference between here and there."

Seems like whatever version of Earth they're from is just better. Perhaps because they don't have kids? The Shepherds always mentioned like would have been better without Tommy.

He sees the touch coming and doesn't... doesn't bother to pull away from it. It would make Billy pout. Clearly that's the only reason why. Truth is, he needs a bit of reassurance. Why wouldn't he? This place isn't a lot worse than he's letting other people see. A lot harder for him because the food he needs to get by is harder. Because the squalor they have to live with right now is stressfully familiar. And because someone he wants to protect is here too.

Two people, actually, before their alternate-parents. Viv doesn't need him as much, though.

"...He loved her then too-" Billy tries to reassure. He's sure of it. He gives Tommy's hand a small squeeze. The twins...all of it...it's the sort of stress most normal couples couldn't make it through, let alone all the other stuff they had to deal with. If Billy ever had children and they were taken from him, he's not sure he could go on. Or how he would react if they suddenly appeared again, nearly grown.

But given Tommy's background he knows it's an extra sore topic. Seeing their parents together and happy...it's new. It's nice.

"...Maybe if they have kids it'll be different there."

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