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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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Summer in Temba and Sh'Ka

Summer is a growing season, which seems to be going into overdrive this year. Instead of the gradual growth of plants that one might expect over the seasons, plants are starting to grow with an intense energy, and once clear paths in both cities grow choked over with vines, undergrowth, and even new saplings by the day. It might be wise to find some way to clear those paths as you go.

For those that are in a more summer and sun kind of fun, there's always the beach to the south of Temba, where the sand and surf welcome all comers. However here too there is a lot of growth going on, with new reeds and shore grasses rising up, serving as a great place for fat green lobsters to hide and pinch at the unwary.

Or maybe it's better to explore the buildings these days, with how the plants have taken over everything. However one might well find that less commonly used buildings and ruins have their own plant problems. Some are overgrown with fruitbearing vines, and others filled with wide swaths of various forms of mint. Good news there is that the glownies seem to have gotten free, or others have arrived, to feast upon the mintsplosion.

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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Reno | Azur Lane

[renoreactor]

Arrival

Reno woke up.

That was the odd thing. What she last remembered was sailing into the fog, Baltimore and Enterprise were missing and...

And...?

And where was she?

The silver haired girl struggled to pick herself from the ground, being as top heavy as she was. Purple eyes darted across the overgrown battered cityscape, along with them the gun turrets and anti-aircraft cannons of her rigging. She remembered stories of the soldiers she ferried home from Europe, of the devastated cities they had found. Something told her this was worse. Far worse. "Where am I, what kind of Siren trick is this-"

It was then that she found the glowing data node. It didn't even need to summon her, the cruiser raced straight over with wide-eyed determination. "Aha! Alien technology! Now what password do you need? Klaatu barrada nikto? WARMACHINEROX? 1-2-3-4-5?"

She touched it.

And then she knew everything.

It was a long moment at first, processing everything. A long moment, and she took a deep breath and went to work on her datapad.

Network
Hello, Reno of the Eagle Union reporting in!

Enterprise? Baltimore? Are you here too? How did I even get here? Is there a way back to NY City? We're gonna need a lot of Seabees to get this city rebuilt!

Arrival

[red_song]

At least she wasn't arriving alone, right? Because shortly after her arrival, another individual just sort of... appears in the fountain. One that is clearly not pleased to be present, mostly because an android that was already rusting and damaged ending up in the water was annoying. Then he was moving toward the glowing orb because he can't help it.

Once it's done he makes an annoyed noise and lifted himself out of the water. Only then does he notice Reno.

"What's going on here?" he asked, because he definitely didn't believe the data upload.

Re: Arrival

[renoreactor]

Reno was busy fussing with her datapad, scrolling through random screens, and muttering something about "downloading DC Legends", that she didn't notice she wasn't alone until she heard the annoyed noise. "Huh?"

"I'm not sure? Where did you come from?" A beat and she gestures towards the fountain. "There too?" Another beat and the cruiser peers closer, "And why do you look familiar?"

[red_song]

If only there was something valuable to download. As it was, Proto sighed and started shaking his arms in hopes of drying them off.

"Earth, where else? And yes, the fountain was my point of entry."

Looks familiar? Proto sneered at that.

"You're probably mistaking me for my brother."

[renoreactor]

A brow lofts behind her bangs rather awkwardly, "But I'm also from Earth, and there's nobody like you there! And I know you from somewhere! That scarf's way too cool for me not to have seen it before!"

"... Does your brother have a scarf too?"

[red_song]

"And yet, I'm from Earth," he says, Proto's voice a touch testy. People telling him his experiences were incorrect didn't tend to go over well.

The reminder of the scarf has him pulling it from around his neck and trying to squeeze the water out of that as well. He didn't need more damage from excessive water from this. He wasn't nearly so well sealed as Mega was.

"No, but we share a face," Proto said. Though given he wasn't taking his helmet off to reveal said face... Well, that's not going to help too much.

[renoreactor]

Already, however, both of Reno's two braincells were firing. "If you're from Earth and I don't recognize you, and you don't recognize me, then.... could it be..."

She erupts. Well, not literally erupts, but only because she's missing her firework launchers. "We must be from different Earths!"

Aaaaaand she's off and running. "Reno: Madness of the Multiverse! Is this really happening? Wait, can I do the cool magic stuff too?" Hands wave around in rhythms Benedict Cumberbatch would be proud of. But nothing happens. "... Aw."

[red_song]

She talks and Proto watches her, silent, lips twisted in a minor sneer. Really? That is her conclusion?

"You're really going with that? Your very supposition is based on not knowing me. So are you saying you know and recognize everyone who ever has or ever will be on Earth?"

[renoreactor]

The girl's head hangs further, this guy is no fun at all.

"I mean, uh..." Straightening herself, she jams a thumb behind her towards her rigging and even pats a turret. "You don't recognize this? I'm with the Eagle Union! Azur Lane! Heroes and sidekicks protecting the planet from the Siren menace! I bet you don't have that on your Earth!"

[red_song]

No, he's not. Though he doesn't look impressed by her rigging. It's over the top and frankly foolish.

"Or you're from a future of my Earth. Or America. They do weird things over there."

[renoreactor]

"America, that's what they used to call the Eagle Union..." The girl shakes her head, revealing a ponytail hidden behind all her rigging bits. "But there's not just us, there's navies full of girls like me across the world."

"But maybe I am from your future! Time travel, I hadn't thought of that!"

[red_song]

Strange person, very strange. Still, it told him that were she really of his Earth (and yes he could believe in multiple Earths), then her form was likely in some way derived from the advances of Robot Masters. Which would in a way make her a descendant of his.

Not that he cared.

"Seems weird, to have navies still. Airforces are quite powerful and a lot more mobile."

[renoreactor]

"That's why we have aircraft carriers!" Reno chimes with a grin at that, "And then you have me to take care of the incoming aircraft!" On cue, all her guns aim high and start to swivel in anticipation of an air raid.

"But enough about me. Let's take a look around and see if there's any trouble we can stop. You can tell me about your world too!"

[small_compromise]

She couldn't quite tell what she was looking at, at least until she came around the fountain to see just what all those strange, weaponlike protrusions were attached to. Or rather who.

The girl blinked, peering curiously at the young woman there. If she was a new arrival, she was oddly calm about it, or at least she appeared to be. Clearing her throat, Omega spoke up.

"Hello?"

[renoreactor]

A voice! The strangely cheerful Reno spins towards the greeting, waving and winking to the new arrival. There's something glowing in the palms of her gloves. "Hello! Are you from this planet? I'm Reno, from the Eagle Union! Have you seen my friends? One's all business with really pretty long white hair and a fancy white cap, the other looks like me but she's got darker hair and bigger guns and usually a frowny face too."

[small_compromise]

Well, she seems friendly enough! Although a little taken aback by how at ease the stranger is, Omega finds herself smiling back easily enough. She notes the glow with a tilt of her head.

"Hello, Reno. My name's Omega. I'm not really from here either. Actually I don't think anyone you meet here is since we're all brought in, same as you." She shakes her head. "Can't say I've seen anyone matching those descriptions though. Did you just get here?"

[renoreactor]

'Brought in'. That does get the shipgirl to pause for a moment, more so when Omega mentions not having seen either Enterprise or Baltimore. The data dump gnaws at the back of her mind. "I- I did, yeah," she answers with her smile fading, "So, there's others brought here as well? How long have you been here?"

[small_compromise]

That look does make Omega a little sorry for being the bearer of such news. She glances down at her boots before lifting her head again at the question.

"Me? It's...been a good while now," she concludes, not exactly sure herself just how long. Months at the very least, but she remembers how she'd felt when someone had told her that they'd been there for longer. Reno already looks sad about not having her friends around, and that's something Omega can relate to. "There are good people here, yes. We haven't figured out how to get home, but we try to look out for each other. I've made lots of new friends here."

[renoreactor]

"There's- There's no way to get home?" For all of Omega's attempt to try to get her to cheer up, everything just turns into background noise after that. She slumps to her knees, choking up as she does. The world starts to become blurry and she dabs at an eye, "I... I can't be stuck here. San Diego's going to play with all my collectibles and the Commander's not going to have his sidekick when he needs her and- and who's going to read bedtime comics to Juneau?" That last thought has her finally breaking down, "No, nonono..."

[small_compromise]

Oh no...

Omega's got little experience in trying to soothe someone like this. Her brothers aren't exactly the type to cry and seemed just as clueless about how to go about it when she'd been in tears herself. But then perhaps that's enough to start. The girl steps closer, moving to sit beside Reno, careful of all her armaments.

"...I felt like that too," she says, nodding in understanding. "I'd never been apart from my brothers before, and I wasn't sure what to do without them. I was worried about them, and how they'd react if they knew I was gone..." She reaches out for Reno's other hand. "But I was told that people do go back sometimes, and when they do, it's like nothing's changed, because you'd go right back to where you wherever and whenever you were." It had been small enough a reassurance, and Omega had clung to it.

"And sometimes the people we know do show up here too. One of my brothers is here. ...you mentioned a commander? Are you with the military? My brother's a soldier."

[renoreactor]

Both of Reno's hands have the same gloves with the glowing palm, though neither feels hot to the touch. The rigging takes a little more agility to get around, but Omega's small enough to work her way in.

Reddening eyes turn to the little girl with a sniffle, and its then that the shipgirl notices the pointy eartips. For once, she's quiet as someone else is speaking, a little spark behind those purple eyes at the mention that some can go back. That gets her at least speaking again. "I'm- I'm with the Eagle Union, and Azur Lane," she starts to explain, then pauses. "A soldier too. Kinda. Its ... complicated."

[small_compromise]

She's never seen gloves like Reno's. One of her other brothers has something similar on the back of a glove for beaming holoprojections, so Omega wonders if this is the same thing. That doesn't really explain all the other things, although Reno doesn't seem uncomfortable with it all. Maybe she's just used to all that gear, like Omega's squad is with their armor.

"My brothers' squad is Clone Force Ninety-Nine, formerly of the Grand Army of the Republic," she says, perhaps sounding just a little proud as she can't help but speak highly of them. "They call themselves the Bad Batch. But things are...a little complicated now, too." Omega gives Reno's hand a pat. "It's okay though. You don't have to try explaining if you don't want to."

[renoreactor]

There had been a brief moment where Reno thought about explaining just how she went from the Pacific theater to here. Thinking about that always gave her headaches, however. Fortunately, magic words were said that suddenly pricked at the nerdy recesses of her mind. "Clone Force? Republic? ... Bad Batch?" There's a shake of her head, "York was telling me all about a Star Wars show named that the last time she was in port-"

A blink. "Wait. You're from there?"

[small_compromise]

It's Omega's turn to blink then, looking owlishly at Reno. It certainly sounds like she's familiar with the names somehow, but Omega can't make much sense of what Reno says then.

"'There'?" she echoes, brow arching as she tilts her head.

[renoreactor]

"A galaxy far far away! Jedi! Starfighters!" She's more animated now, her hands flying through the air making 'pew pew' sounds. "Luke Skywalker- no, wait, Clone Wars was earlier. Anakin Skywalker!" Reno nods firmly now, "And there's others like you? From different worlds too?" Now those two braincells are firing again. Oh dear.