Winter Test Drive Meme

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WINTER 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:

Winter in Temba and Sh'Ka

Winter has arrived on Agra 10 and with it its cold temperatures, sharp winds and, you guessed it, snow. It starts slow and gentle in Temba, but even such gentle snowfall tends to build up and over the course of a few days of constant snowfall, the city has been covered with a white, roughly knee-deep blanket - Unless someone actually remembered to keep some of the paths clear.

And it still keeps snowing.

Over in Sh'Ka, a similar picture has been painted. But being situated within all these tall trees paints a somewhat different picture. A more icy one. All the by now leaf-free trees are covered in a thick layer of ice, as are Sh'Ka's stone-carved buildings. The wind here is harsher than it is in Temba, which has been comparably wind-free.

Please try not to slip and hurt yourself while marveling at either city.

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 sitting in the hangar. Not all of them may be around when you check out the building, as one of the pilots may be using one of them to fly over to Sh'Ka. But there should still enough of them around for you to inspect and maybe wonder about. However, only one of them will open its doors for you. Do you dare to step inside? Check out the protein paste or maybe even meet one of your crew mates?

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

[mysteryfreak]

The lost little kid angle doesn't really work so much on another kid. It wasn't that they didn't usually care it was more the difference in emotional maturity and really, now the tables were flipped because Shinichi's pretty sure that while he sure doesn't look it, he's actually older than this girl. That makes him the concerned one.

"Hello. It's a little cold out, isn't it?" He's not great with small talk, he'd much rather use his time on other things and get right to the point. He rarely gets away with by passing small talk with talking to kids.

His eyes move over to briefly scan the cat and he decides that's a mystery he can worry about later. The girl at least doesn't appear to be in any danger so that's a relief.

[small_compromise]

Both the girl and the winged cat look up then, glancing over towards the boy. "Oh!" The former straightens up, dusting off the snow from her knees. The mothcat shakes out its fur, giving a curious prrt? before hopping about in the snow. The girl laughs a little as she looks over at the creature again before she turns her attention back to the newcomer.

"It is, but it's not too bad. Actually aren't you cold?" she asks. Given that she'd been without appropriate winter clothing at the start of the season, she knows not everyone would have come prepared for such. Is he wearing shorts?

[mysteryfreak]

"Ah.. well, it was summer where I was before." He offered quickly. Yes. Yes, he is wearing shorts but he's fine, don't worry about that. What a great start to his summer vacation.

Sharp little blue eyes scan over the scene as he takes in the girl's appearance and her odd companion. "But I'll be okay, I'm sure I can start a fire or something if it gets too bad. Actually, I only just arrived so I-" He pauses because the idea of admitting he doesn't know something leaves a bad taste in his mouth. "-have kind of limited information about this pace."

[small_compromise]

By her expression it seems the girl's not terribly convinced at that, but then she's only recently learned about people making fires from things they found so perhaps this boy's been in similar situations. Omega of all people isn't going to discount the possibility that this kid's got more experience than her, and in fact she's sure that would probably be a given for anyone who's lived whatever accounts for a normal sort of upbringing.

"Here," she says, starting to shrug out of her coat. She's got a sweater over her long-sleeved tunic and she's wearing pants and tall boots, so she feels she's still definitely better equipped to deal with cold than the boy is. "As for your just arriving- I figured as much. It's pretty easy to tell who's new around here." She smiles a little. "I'm Omega. If you want we can go somewhere warmer. I can try to fill you in on what I know, but there's a lot I'm still trying to understand."