Fall Test Drive Meme

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FALL TEST DRIVE MEME
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Welcome to the Current Test Drive for The Revival Project!

This game is a spin-off from the closed The Drift Fleet game. For more information about the game, including more details on the setting, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

A thread on the TDM will be required for all applications. Please view the FAQ for information about how this works. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ as well.

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni bringing your character from the game, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level. 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! If you want to completely restart your character, they're not considered DFAU anymore and won't need the label.

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

Thread ideas:

Fall in Temba and Sh'Ka

A new city has been discovered and Sh'Ka turns out to be its name. And if one thing is sure to set these two cities apart, it's their respective amounts of trees. Which becomes even more obvious once summer begins to turn into fall and the first winds pick up, the still long days of Agra 10 become shorter and green leaves turn a light blue and purple before falling off their respective trees.

Now Temba has decidedly fewer trees than Sh'Ka. They are also much smaller and may not necessarily of the same species. The leaves in Temba fall gently. The leaves in Sh'Ka, however? They turn to stone while still attached to their branches and suddenly fall to the floor from high, high up above.

Thud.

They shatter once they hit the ground, which may explain why you haven't really seen any leaf-shaped rocks around. You still may want to try and avoid getting hit too much by this slowly increasing hail of stone leaves.

Explore the city Temba!

Here's a map of Temba and a bit more description of some of the buildings here.

Most of the buildings are run down and have clearly been abandoned for years; fortunately, the water treatment center appears to be working, but power is intermittent and unreliable. What used to be stores or places to live in lies in ruins, but there may still be something to scavenge among the rubble. Do you want to risk a swim in the flooded area that has turned into a deep lake that has yet to be fully explored; or does it draw you to some of the more prominent and partially restored buildings, such as the hotel, the hospital or the amphitheater.

If you are lucky, you might even stumble over The Deep End, the bar located on one of the mid-levels of the tower residences in one of the residence towers. Unfortunately no bright neon signs can lead you there, but it does exist.

Visit the spaceships!

That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar - Or what remains of them. It's painfully obvious that these ships have crash-landed not too long ago and were taken back to the hangar for repairs. You were assigned to one of them and its doors will open for you and let you enter if you wish. (For test drive purposes, the ship that will let you enter is up to you, so just pick whichever name appeals, and go for it!) The other ships won't open for you, but as neither of them look as if they will be leaving anytime soon that doesn't really matter either way.

Maybe look around anyway. Or try your hand at some repairs?

Try the network!

Upon arrival, your character will have on their person a small, handheld communications device. Maybe they know exactly how to use a computer, smartphone, or tablet, and immediately blast out a text or video trying to figure out what's going on. Or maybe they're not so tech-savvy after all, and everyone is about to get a lovely shot right up your character's left nostril.

There be storms...

These power-altering storms keep ravaging parts of the planet every once in a while. No one truly knows where they come from or what to do about them yet, but one of them appears to be approaching. You have the option to find shelter in one of the buildings to wait for it to pass. Unless, of course, you rather feel drawn to investigate.

Should you step inside the storm, or even get lost in it, it will show ghosts of people you know and those you don't. It drains you of any super-human abilities and tries its best to keep you from getting to its origin. Are you going to try anyways? Or are you going to chase the whispers of people from your past? Maybe you will simply find yourself calling for help or stumble across another lost soul in need of assistance.

More information can be found here.

Wildcard!

You're welcome to use any previous test drive scenarios or previous game events as a basis for a thread/situation, or simply make up your own! Keep in mind that you're currently stranded on a planet with only basic necessities, but there is enough food and fresh water. Creature comforts, however, seem to be distinctly lacking. Quite unlike a gathering of potentially dangerous creatures to encounter. The setting is yours to explore and have fun with!

 

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Comments

[john656]

With another bow like he couldn't quite read the screen clearly for her first message, Paul hummed his understanding and glanced around the room with some concern as she went back to typing. She must have meant the orb when she mentioned 'the general concerns', so Paul risked admitting, "Maybe that thing out there will tell us more, if we lean how to ask it..." while he waited, then was attentively back to reading.

"So--you haven't met anyone in charge? The people that we're meant to be helping, or some kind of...project leader..." he tried hopefully. He wasn't sure how they were meant to get anything done without some kind of direction like that. He knew how to batten down the hatches for a storm, but had always had enough humility to know he couldn't stop one. He didn't believe that was about to change.

[tsundullahan]

The suggestion of consulting the glowing orb for anything made the woman cringe. Her fingers moved emphatically against the tablet screen with her next message.

[I don't care to experiment with that thing again, but you're welcome to try.]

Her shoulders sagged as she shook her helmeted head in response to the next. No one had spoken with that sort of authority, so she could only assume that the few she'd spoken with were in much the same boat as herself. It was not at all reassuring.

[Unless those in charge are the aliens.]

She'd seemed hesitant to type the last word before holding the screen out.

[john656]

That was a curious reaction for someone who seemed so comfortable with her little device. Granted, it wasn't nearly as miraculous, Paul knew what a cellphone was--maybe that was the problem, he had never felt particularly in control of technology around him already. "Did you not have a good experience with it?" he tried. "It was, I must admit, quite, uh, wonderful to me--frightening, sure, I have never experienced something like that, but if I had to describe what it gave to me, I would call it a gift."

[tsundullahan]

The opaque visor fixed on him in such a way that one could imagine they were being stared at in disbelief. A gift? The cat-helmeted rider's shoulders shook a little in what was apparently silent laughter before she gave another shake of her head.

[I've never experienced anything like it either, but I find it unpleasant having something directly transmitted into your thoughts.]

She had problems with missing memories as it was. Getting new ones in such a manner was disturbing. All the more so when aliens were involved!