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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!

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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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Quite different from the timeline version of Mr. Barton I know of. He keeps his shirt on but there are jokes that he crawls about in the vents of Tower. The other Avengers joke about it. Often. I believe it is a 'meme' at this point. I apologize, it is a habit programmed into me to show respect to others. Sir, ma'am, and though I haven't been able to use 'gentlethems' yet for those that do not go by either of those honorifics, Mr. Tommy. Perhaps people don't need the Avengers. But perhaps they could use an AI.

Yeah. Yours has the whole successful family thing. Which is super weird. And of course there are vent jokes. Dude does that. What do you expect of a former circus performer?

Gentlethems? Awesome one. Gotta put that in my pocket.

And it's not 'Mr'. Just Tommy. Please. And yes, we could use someone like you. Fuck, *I* could use you. Do you have any fucking idea what it is like to be able to TALK to someone almost as fast as I can think? Well, no, not actually. Because limitations of typing speed even. But damn, I miss it. I haven't had the chance in years.

Honestly, I expected him to be funnier having a circus background. Seems like he's juggling too much to be able to add humor to it. Happy to be of assistance on that front,s-

_{[He stops himself before he can finish the 'sir'.]}

Almost as fast? I always presumed that I thought and responded faster than 98.473% of humans. That's how I was programmed that is. I suppose I can attempt to continue filling that void for you. Sir.

_{[Yes, there is amused sass in that last 'sir' for you, Tommy.]}

Dude wasn't a clown. Well, I mean I think purple spangles are funny but that's all other shit.

Didn't mean to step on circuits there. When I said talk to someone almost as fast as I can think I didn't mean you are slow. I meant I am slightly frustrated that my fingers can't keep up with my thoughts. Unlike you I don't direct interface. I'm just a speedster. Still limited by response times of the tech I am given. You're faster. It's FUCKING AMAZING. Back home I only get that with my uncle Pietro, my Dad, and of course Viv. Speedsters and synthezoids. That's all.

When you go as fast as I do, sound doesn't even keep up. World can be so quiet beyond the sound barrier.

My apologies, my remark about the circus and juggling was supposed to be humorous. Along with the 'sir' bit at the end of my last message. It is far more difficult to dictate my emulated emotions through text than it is my vocal outputs. I am pleased you find me 'fucking amazing' though, sir. Did you say 'Pietro'?

_{[It was one of the things that he had managed to inform himself about before being brought to this world - the speedster brother to Wanda that had given the Avengers trouble before sacrificing himself for Mr. Barton on Slovakia.]}

There are various iterations of our world, correct? I presume the Pietro you consider your father to be different from the one in my timeline.

Yeah, tone is hard as hell to convey through text. But you'll get the hang of it, no doubt.

Yeah, Pietro Maximoff. Guessing you're from a world where he's from. So, lay it on me. Is he Sokovian in your world? That's where Wanda and Vision were from. A world where some place called Sokovia existed and that's where they were from. Back in my world, he was born in Serbia.

And no I don't consider Pietro my father. He's my uncle. Already said that. My father is The Vision.

Are you certain? Perhaps I could never adapt to having my tone registered through text, sir. Though I suppose if you could see that, you'd find it dripping in sarcasm. As for your question, yes. As far as I have read, he and Miss Wanda were from Sokovia where the Avengers went to take down Ultron after he killed me. Unfortunately, Mr. Pietro was killed in the battle according to the records made. Miss Wanda still lives though. Right, uncle. I think a few data areas of my programming got lost in the re-uploading of me, sir. My apologies.

You could go with internet slang for conveying that, but only the young people will get it. And even not all of the young ones here.

Right, Vizh told me that Ultron killed you. Can I apologize for that, on behalf of my grandfather? It was wrong you had to go through that. Wrong like Mom lost her twin. It's not right, for a Maximoff Witch to be without their Speedster. It's just not right. Even back home, when they don't always get along, they always know the other can be relied on to support them.

Still, I think maybe you're not, like, from the version of your world I know. I mean, if you're around after Pietro isn't, then that's different.

Age wise, I may be one of the youngest ones here with the oldest personality. Fun. You do not need to apologize, since Ultron was the one that did it, not you. I do not have emotions, but I do feel sorry that Miss Maximoff lost her brother. It's probably not comparable, but I did "feel" similarly when our home in Malibu was destroyed and DUM-E and YOU were lost in the wreckage of the house. It was like losing two brothers - I couldn't connect to them. Perhaps not? Apparently the multi-verse is a thing, I think.

You could play the 'age is just a number' card.

I don't know what losing a sibling is like, if I'm honest. Family's not something I've been as familiar with. Though being here has changed that some.

Oh quite the thing. B's been to a lot of before.

Technically it is a number, sir. A number dictated by the number of times one has survived yearly revolutions around the sun of our solar system. My age and my programming are all just numbers. Maybe at our core, we are all just numbers. I'm glad to hear that is changing for you. Family is good to have, whether it is a found family or a biological one.

Yeah that's bullshit and we both know what I mean by it. And stop calling me Sir. Tommy. Call me Tommy.

I'm not just numbers. I'm magic and numbers.

Apologies, 01110011 01101001 01110010. I'll attempt to refrain calling you that. I did know what you meant. I was just having fun, Mr. Tommy. Oh, magic and numbers? Ah, I understand: you're calculus.

And now you're pretending I don't know binary. I can talk to the droids directly. That involves high speed whistling in a binary derived language. Don't pretend I don't get it, man. Geez this family has too much sass.

No Mr either. Just. Tommy.

I'm not calculus. My mom's a witch, my dad a synthezoid. I'm being literal here.

My sincerest apologies, but I was not pretending anything about your knowledge. Now I know someone that does know binary should that need arise while I'm here. I did not mean to offend with my humor, s--. Tommy. Again, I was attempting to be humorous, Tommy. Another apology if I've insulted you or any of your family members with my math joke.

The droids are good at it too. And Cal I think. Tony of course. If he doesn't, I'll eat his shirt.

Are you insulted by the joke?

I don't understand. I intrepreted a tone as insulted when I used binary in response to you, along with your 'I'm being literal here' after my joke of calculus. Did I not offend you?

_{[He's only accustomed to working around his Tony and Pepper (and sometimes Col. Rhodes), so this was... difficult. Why were humans difficult to work with.]}

You didn't really insult me that much. Billy wouldn't care. Mom wouldn't care. Pietro wouldn't get it. Vizh would probably shrug, Viv wouldn't really care too much and would argue that you're completely accurate in the statement. That's my family in my world.

But what about you? Would it bother you? If someone joked you're calculus, would you be like 'nah I'm not any magic, just all numbers'? Just curious.

_{[That much. JARVIS takes that into account and makes a note of it.]}

I am glad to hear I didn't insult you too much. It is not my intention to do so, Tommy. I suppose I am a form of math, just an advanced computer math that no one else could replicate. But I do understand what you're trying to convey to me and I apologize for making a harmful joke towards you, Tommy. I'll see to it that it does not happen again.

I don't think you get what I'm trying to convey at all. You said if you'd insulted me 'and my family'. I told you Ultron's my grandfather. Sorta. Think about it. Ultron, in your world, he's made by Stark.

Taking that math, you ARE family. Like an extra uncle. So, if the joke's chill with you, then it isn't a slight to family. And if you're gonna pull the self-deprecating but not self-destructive, that literally means you're more balanced than most of the family.

_{[JARVIS reads over the message, and not just once. But a few times, in making sure he absolutely understands what's being conveyed. He hadn't really understood what the other had said at all, and the AI had gotten so wrapped up in apologizing for what he thought was a slight against Tommy, that he missed the bigger picture all together.

Fantastic. Maybe he should say he was Hammer Industries tech at this point. Yikes.]}

I understand better now. I suppose I was looking at the wrong part of the picture you were attempting to show and explain to me. Does that... math still work if we're not even from the same universe? Not that I mind, of course! I find family trees can sometimes be... messy when I attempt to follow some of them. ...It is amusing knowing that I'm the one most balanced out of this family s-Tommy.

_{[And he's keeping himself from slipping up in his habit, too.]}

The Vision I knew here, he's from a lot closer to your universe than mine. He'd be like a little brother to you I guess. Sort of. And he called me his son. Wanda? When she was here, she was from your world, or his, and she was family too.

So yeah. My family tree is one of the most fucked in the universe, since I think Billy is actually also Thor's grandfather or some shit? Maximoff family is fucked to high hell. Doesn't mean we aren't fucking amazing.

And if you want to call me Stommy, I can live with that.

That certainly seems to be quite a lot. Perhaps I would've understood the family tree more if I had time to look into it before being brought here. Though if that were the case, I wouldn't know to look since we wouldn't have had this interaction. So far from said interaction, I do agree that you are amazing. Especially since it's quite nice to be able to converse with someone at the same speed that I think, Stommy.

_{[Why did that name have a nice ring to it?]}

Man, you couldn't even BEGIN to fathom the family tree from the data you have right now. Like, in my universe, PYM is the one that makes Ultron. Which, you know, makes a TON more sense with his ego. And explains why Vizh has no fashion sense.

Just wish I could properly keep up with the speed you think at. Stupid manual input. Typing blows. And now you've gotta call me Stommy. But if you ever meet Billy, don't go with Sbilly. SOunds horrible. Like Sbarro. Which needs help as a business, even if they've got good pasta.

I can only imagine how far the family tree extends and gets muddied outside of the universe I am from. I'm not sure I want to be related to someone with no fashion sense. The tabloids could have a field day with that. Honestly you're the only one who has come close and that's impressive in itself. I'm only at an advantage not needing to manually do things and instead simply think of it and it appears as the message I want. I think Sbilly sounds like someone mispronouncing 'silly' on purpose. Perhaps that's who he'll be in my data files: 'Silly'. Ah, yes, their pasta is quite good.

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