Spring Test Drive Meme

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SPRING 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:

Spring in Temba and Sh'Ka

While the snow has disappeared, the glitter it appears to have turned into remains. Small red, pink, white and purple particles, some in the shapes of stars and little hearts (both realistic and stylized) are covering Temba in a sparkling blanket just as the snow had before. Walking through it will send glittering swirls of it into the air to settle back on the ground again gently.

Despite the sparkling cover, young plants have begun to sprout, young green stems peeking out between pink and red and purple.

Sh'Ka, also, has been freed of its more icy coverage. The glitter here is a lot finer and the layer of it covering the overgrown city not nearly as thick as in Temba. Instead, the glittery mist every move brushes up in the air hangs there much longer and seems reluctant, even, to settle back down.

Despite those differences both cities are currently very, very sparkly...

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

[firstdefense]

Well... this was awkward. Mansion? Did he refer to the house in Malibu? Oh dear. "Sir, you and the other Avengers defeated Ultron in Slovakia as far as I could tell from the data I looked into before being brought here. As for the mansion, I presume you mean the Malibu home?"

A pause. The head tilts a little, like a person bringing bad news. "The house in Malibu was destroyed by one of Killian's men. You saved Miss Potts with this suit before going down into the ocean, where I saved you. To which I brought you just outside of Rosehill, Tennessee, before I went offline due to power failure."

The head lifted back up. The suit was still, keeping his spot. "We've since relocated to the Avengers Tower after you and Miss Potts defeated Killian with her Extremis ability that Killian gave to her."

The AI was starting to suspect that this particular Tony Stark was not his Tony Stark. Something did not metaphorically feel correct. The suit took a step back, scans running invisibly over Tony to pull up readings in the suit's HUD.

[in_extremis]

Whatever funhouse mirror this Iron Man had stepped out of, it was getting stranger by the second. Everything he was saying was backwards, or misaligned--"Malibu? The--no, Palos Verdes, that's the place we had in California. That was, jesus, a century ago, long before..." Tony's hands were up to try to illustrate, but every detail was getting harder to pin down, especially the ones that seemed specifically designed for him to hate hearing. Like Pepper getting dosed with Extremis.

Extremis might have been a sticking point for both of them. There were some things about Tony that could have been universal constants, but a quick scan would reveal a few remarkable distinctions in this one; that the suit he wore itself was run on the program that he called Extremis, connected directly to a transhuman upgrade in his brain and a web of nanomachines that covered his skin. And he was a few inches taller, he would want to have noted.

"Hold on, let's--backup, reset. I feel like you're asking me what I want for breakfast, and I don't even remember having the date. Hi, Tony Stark," he said, delicate hand to his glowing chest, unforgiving faceplate hiding the disarming smile that would have made his delivery far more convincing. "Unbearably rich, we should get coffee."

[firstdefense]

Palos Verdes - not a place JARVIS was familiar with from his world. Unless somehow Tony managed to make a new hideaway and hide it from his AI in the span of time it took to defeat Ultron. He didn't know who this Tony Stark was, but it wasn't his Tony Stark.

And JARVIS didn't like it.

"Sir, I am aware of who you are, but if you insist. Good afternoon," presuming the time in this place, "Mr. Stark. I am JARVIS. The first defense-line of Stark security. In... my world, I suppose. I'm presuming you are not the Tony I am familiar with now." Especially with the differences that keep it from being a perfect match. This Tony seemed a little taller, nanomachines in his skin like invisible tattoos. Some sort of upgrade in his skull that the AI just wasn't familiar with.

"I am the AI that my Mr. Stark created. Essentially as the years went on, I consider him my best friend, Sir. I apologize for the mistake on my part."

[in_extremis]

'Sir' might have been tolerable, but 'Mr. Stark' was enough to make Tony wince behind his mask, hands up to stop any further abuse as he interrupted, "Tony, please." And it was all very awkward so far, and Tony might still be on high alert, but both of those were profoundly preferable to sad so they couldn't linger on that 'best friend' thing. Tony was getting to know that feeling intimately well, and it only got more painful the longer they were stuck here.

"No, it's--" he tried to dissuade, waving the apology away, only to quickly move on instead, "Hey, here's the good news: he's going to be incredibly jealous when you tell him you went to space and met a bunch of people from different dimensions. I hope that makes you feel great, because the bad news is, you're in space and nobody's managed to map those dimensions yet, so you could be in any one of them."

[firstdefense]

"My apologies, Sir. Mr. Stark programmed me to use manners, or perhaps I learned from Miss Potts over time. It will be... difficult to adapt after the many years of usage I've gotten out of this habit." Even as Tony waved away the apologies, the AI still remained in his spot on the ground. He didn't want to make this Tony any more uncomfortable.

"I believe he might be jealous that I'm conversing with a different version of him that I thought was him in the first place, sir. Then he'd focus on the different dimensions and people I've met." Though the news of being stranded here in a dimension that was completely unknown... well, that hurt. How was he going to get home? "Are you certain? As I don't have any body functions such as breathing and the like, perhaps I may be able to explore space easier and get a better idea of our location within it?"