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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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I'm still young, he's got a lot more practice. I think he goes Mach five or six? I'm working on five.

[But really, Uncle Pete has an unfair advantage. At least his Uncle Pete. Her Pietro? Tommy could outrun him easily probably. Which would be fun. Super-speed tag to get their powers up to snuff? Worth it. But he doesn't tend to meet many speedsters. Especially playful ones.]

You are probably faster than my brother, but I think you have had more practice.

[Sounds like he's a mutant, right? And the white hair had been a side effect of Pietro's powers, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything...but then again she might also be staring at her other self's nephew.]

I'm Wanda, but not the Wanda from your version of our world. [She thinks he's probably guessed as much, but it still feels rude not to introduce herself.] The Atroma liked our worlds a little too much...it looks like maybe the people here do too.

[Years more practice, in truth. And... a special sort of training. Which he would prefer to never think about ever again. Something this Wanda might get better than his own soul-mother ever would have.]

I'm Thomas. Tommy really.

[He doesn't offer his last name because really, that will only complicate things. To an insane degree. Because yeah, this isn't his Wanda, and he doesn't want her to think she has any reason to connect to him other than the similarities to his uncle.]

You look a bit different from the Wanda Maximoff I've met. You're younger. Which isn't a bad thing. Uh, nice to meet you?

It's nice to meet you too. [The little fairy dragon on her shoulder trills softly, still a little sleepy.] And this is Thistle.

There were people from four versions of our world in the Fleet and I'm sure there are more. It can get confusing.

[Wow, Billy must get his love of the tooth-achingly adorable from their mom. Not-mom? Whatever. Complicated.]

Tons more. My twin brother mentioned something about traveling through a lot of multiverse places. Anyway, yeah, it’s confusing. But I don’t think I’ll get you confused.

[Oh, he's a twin too? Wanda smiles.]

No. I've never met anyone else with powers like my brother's, even on the Fleet. That's why I thought you were another Pietro.

[Yeah, what a coincidence. Totally. Ugh.]

Yeah, there... there are other mutants like me and Pietro, in different ways. Not many are just fast like us. Guess we’re just better since we don’t need electricity and don’t go fast only when flying and all of that.

Or when you have...whatever caused that earlier.

[She huffs and makes a face.]

The food the Atroma gave us was not good, but at least it wasn't drugged. And we will probably have several days of this until we learn what is safe to eat.

[Well that was a special case. Tommy sighs.]

Yeah, don’t eat the bowl of weeds. Or the blue drink. Already made a fool of myself to Vision thanks to that.

[Hadn’t meant to get pseudo-paternity test on the guy.]

[She looks away sheepishly.]

I did too. I think it was one of the fruits? And something Thistle ate put her to sleep.

Whatever it was, I'm glad I didn't have more. [At least the worst she did was drop a glass of water before she could levitate it to herself. This time.]

[Really, something about a fruit that was weird? Strange. He didn't know that was a thing. He hadn't felt anything weird.]

The blue drink had a truth serum or something. I couldn't lie. It was awkward.

You shouldn't worry. Vision doesn't judge people harshly for things like that. Especially if it wasn't your fault.

[No, he doesn't. Which is fucking weird to Tommy. He hadn't known what to expect from not-dad. But it hadn't been bad. Mostly.]

Yeah, well, it got complicated. Because yanno, life likes to do that. So just don't drink the blue.

I wonder...did they do it on purpose or is the food here just strange? I never thought I would miss the protein gel, but at least it didn't do anything to us.

The next few days will not be fun, I think. Not until we know what is actually safe.

Protein gel? Sounds repulsive. But I guess I'm a test subject.

[And that means he can eat more, you know? And they'll see negative effects on him faster.]

I've had worse. You could forget what it was if you cooked it carefully, but I never found a way to make the chocolate taste like chocolate.

Why would you be the 'test subject?' We all have to eat.

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[Oh come on, isn't is obvious? Well, it's like like he's a rat in NYC where the whole rat bullying and all that goes on. Okay, maybe he really liked the discovery channel and animal planet and knew some stupid shit.]

Faster metabolism but none of that superhuman resistances stuff. Except, yanno, to like colds and shit. If stuff is poisonous to humans or near-humans like mutants, it would affect me sooner because I have to eat more of it faster. But it gets into the blood sooner. If I keel over and die, something isn't safe to eat.

I know, [she says softly. It's not that she doesn't understand, it's that she does all too well. Strucker was...well he wouldn't risk killing them. But their discomfort, on the other hand...] And it would be less time to try to save you. It isn't fair to ask you to do that just so someone else can have one more new food to eat.

[But... but it's better than letting Wanda test new foods, so like hell he'd let her win this argument.]

Yeah, but my body also needs more fuel, so it's likely I'm going to do it anyway, so why not have others benefit from it. That's what being a hero's about, right? Doing risky things so you can help other people.

[Or she could just be grateful that she has food and eat the things they know aren't poisonous. Like a responsible person. She's had far worse than this.]

We don't know that we'll need to do that. Or that we don't have a better way to check food.

I don't know if anyone else here can heal, but I can't help you if you get poisoned.

[Yeah, she's got a point, but it's not a great one. Tommy sighs.]

Someone has to try food for the first time, right? Or potential food. This is a threat everyone faces. Why not have someone do it that the symptoms will show up faster on?

Sooner or later that's the sort of thing we've got to decide, right? It's a way I can help. Or is your concern that I'm young.

[because it's not that it's someone she has a connection to. Because she doesn't know that part.]

[She just tilts her head at him. He's not that much younger than she is. Definitely not younger than she was when the twins started their activist work.]

Because I remember enough. How can I ask you to do what was done to us? I'm not a monster.

We all face the same dangers and you are more than your powers.

[Does she need to ask him to experience it when he’s already been through something just as bad? Tommy sighs and shakes his head. Maybe he is. Maybe he isn’t. But he doesn’t want a pep talk from her right now.]

You don’t ask. I offered. Major difference. I’m done having people poke and prod me without consent.

[...of course.

Everything she's heard about her other self has made Wanda insanely jealous. It's always sounded like she has such a charmed life by comparison: Pietro still alive, more people like her? Jean's world just sounds so much better. The other Wanda must be living the dream.

But terrible people are the same everywhere.]

At least let us try? So this doesn't have to be worse than it is.

[Yeah, well, Tommy could list a few points where this Wanda has it better. Mostly in terms of things she hasn't had to lose. Things she hasn't ruined. Lives she hasn't seen broken.]

Maybe I just want to keep nice people like you safe, and it's a way I can.

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