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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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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.

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?"

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."

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?"

"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.

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."

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?"

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!"

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."

"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!"

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."

"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!"

She says it like it at all compensates.

"Strikes me that armoring must be better if they make androids that serve navies. Which would mean that your weapons are either overkill that destroys your brother and sister machines for the will of humans, or they are insufficient for your duty. Either way, I don't see a win there."

Trouble they can stop? He isn't here to stop trouble. He's here to investigate, and survive as long as his unstable power core will allow.

The girl pauses at that, what had been near immutable cheer dimming. "We are the navies now, pretty much," Reno answers quietly at first. "And we do fight our sister kansen, but they made that decision to fight us themselves. They joined the Sirens against us, we're trying to protect the world from the both of them the best we can."

Her smile returns, though more confident than cheery now. "And that's what heroes do. We fight against the odds for what's right!"

That's what heroes do. He huffs at her comment.

"I imagine that is often said to those who fight in wars, whether they are right or not," Proto pointed out. "Do you at least have the choice? The choice to protect humans? Do you choose your own path, or are you bound by code?"

"Heroes don't really have a choice," Reno explains as if writing her own comic. "With great power comes great responsibility, after all! Don't tell me you don't have a Spider-Man in your world!"

A sigh, "But if you really want to talk about all that philosophy stuff, I'm making my own path. I want to do this!"

"Neither my creator nor his rival have made anything based on spiders yet," Proto said. That wouldn't help or hurt anyone actually.

"Then if it's your own path, be true to it."

"You... really don't have a Spider-Man where you're from?" The mere thought of that sends a shiver down Reno's spine. It took a moment after for something else, something far more important to come to mind, and her lips part first before the words form.

"And you have a creator? You're not human either, are you?"

"Of course I have a creator."

Why else would he talk the way he did, with concern for the machines? Isn't he clearly an android? Well, perhaps not. Dr. Light had designed him to look more like a human. And those that came after, more or less, followed the same design.

"Machines cannot create themselves."

"You're a robot?" The girl stops to peer at Proto again, purple eyes giving him a once over as if double-checking, before flashing her almost ever-present smile. "You look even more human than Vision!"

Vision? What the fuck is Vision?

"I was created to look human," Proto noted. "The first machine to truly think and feel and make choices, to serve as a bridge between man and machine."

One could almost see the twinkles grow in Reno's eyes.

"That's. So. Cool!" She won't mention that's a fantastic origin story, he doesn't seem to like that.

It's not an origin story, it's his life, so it's for the best that she doesn't mention it.

He doesn't even seem pleased by how excited she is.

"It's not 'cool'. It just is."

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