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]

"Very forward and strange does sound a little like Mr. Stark if you're not accustomed to... interacting with him." He was very close in saying 'dealing' with him instead 'interacting'. But JARVIS knew better.

The Golden Age. The Traveler. The Risen. "I will be very honest, that all sounds quite a bit like something I would get from a piece of media. But I suppose I cannot speak too loudly, being an advanced AI that's currently 'living' from a metal suit." The suit stops, feet away from Felwinter to be polite. No need to crowd on the man's space. "I am sorry that your world has become like that. My world has the Avengers to help protect it."

[tyrants_son]

An advanced AI living in a metal suit. Isn't that pretty much what he would be? You're something different, Felspring had told him. But for what reason?

Felwinter slowly reaches up, removing his helmet to reveal the skull-like metal features of his robotic face. He shakes his head. "Perhaps that is what my world needs now. Protectors rather than warlords. What are these...Avengers?" He would be lying if he did not admit he liked the sound of the name, just a little.

[firstdefense]

As soon as the helmet is removed, the suit is already running scans to update the information already gathered. Nice and neat into files. Just how JARVIS likes it. Someone had to be the overly organized and efficient one in the workshop.

And he's only seen images after coming back online, but the suit seems to stop. That... that face looks hauntingly familiar to Ultron. The physical form he had given himself after decimating JARVIS inside of the system. After taking out Tony's first line of defense.

But this wasn't Ultron. This was Felwinter. And so far the man had proven trust by not harming him. The suit relaxes a little. "They are Earth's protectors, formed after the Battle of New York City where they defeated Loki and retrieved the Tesseract to return to Asgard."

[tyrants_son]

Ultron probably displays more emotions than Felwinter does, reserved as the Exo seems to be in his interactions. Those optics, now unshielded and unhidden from behind his helmet stare openly at the Iron Man suit before him, as though those burning optics are trying to peel apart the layers of metal of an otherwise empty shell. No, not empty. Someone inhabits it, and denying JARVIS to be a someone would be to deny himself the same.

There's just the faintest creak of leather as he eases his gloved fingers from where he had started to curl them into a fist, seeing JARVIS relax.

"Earth's protectors..." Brought together by a battle, a common goal for a common need. "Are there many of these...Avengers?" Protecting the Earth sounds like a big job, after all.

[firstdefense]

JARVIS may not think of himself as a person like Felwinter did, but he was. The attack from Ultron had proven it enough. Emulated emotions or not, he was a real person just without the physical form of one. But he had one right now with the suit, which was enough.

"Enough to keep the Earth safe from an invading army over New York City in 2012 at least. Six of them: Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Thor, and Hulk. And then there were smaller scale ordeals, such as the Mandarin that Mr. Stark and Miss Potts dealt with, but overall... they work as a team to try and keep it safe. Is there anyone like that from the Earth you are from, sir?"

[tyrants_son]

"Six does not seem a great number," Felwinter mused, although he doesn't sound like he doubts the skills of those JARVIS speaks of. "They faced an entire army? They must be very strong." And brave, but then bravery comes with necessity sometimes. Still, he will not doubt such heroes.

Is there anyone like that from the Earth you are from, sir? The warlord looks towards the ground in thought. "As things are now, warlords either act independently or gather together to take advantage of the weak and powerless." His fingers tap against the edge of his helmet. "...I have heard rumors of a few who have deviated from such ways and come together. Perhaps..."

[firstdefense]

"Indeed it does not. But sometimes it takes merely one to stand up to another to rally the courage in others. The army came through a dimensional portal where Mr. Stark flew through with a missile and fell back through to our earth. The missile took out the army, and the apparent mothership as they disabled immediately. Mr. Stark almost died in the process, nearly sacrificing himself for the world's safety."

JARVIS moves a little closer, more at a meandering walk instead of something imposing. Once close enough, the suit... sits. It looks like a metal person pondering some sort of philosophical idea as it sits there. "Warlords are unheard of in my time on earth. Though the ones you speak of that deviated... perhaps those are to form the Avengers of your world."

[tyrants_son]

Self-sacrifice. Felwinter lifts his head towards the skies as though he can see this portal, the events as JARVIS describes. It may not be the same Tony Stark that is here, but he does not think that such a decision to act would be far from this one either.

His burning gaze twitches back towards the suit of armor as it moves to sit, once again forcing himself to ease from his tension. "Yes. Perhaps. They could make a difference."