Sunmmer Test Drive Meme

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SUMMER 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:

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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Comments

[tetrahedonist]

Gotta love millennials, nobody else will! [Bill at least doesn't have video feed enabled yet, just voice...]

Good to know ya, JS. I get along real well with bookish types usually! [Until he doesn't, but that's not something that has to come up now. Or ever, unless Ford arrives, and Bill's honestly hoping that doesn't happen for at least a while.] How'd you get that gig? Did the folks who gave us the run of this dimension give you more specific instructions later or did you just elect to take it on?

[beholding_archivist]

[ Jon winces a little at that nickname. ]

Christ, please just call me Jon if you must. And truth be told? I just started cleaning up the place and keep my own notes and observations here. Like most buildings in the city the one that used to serve as library was in a rather dreadful state and all the data points that used to be stored here were broken beyond repair.

[ The loss of all that knowledge remains painful to think about. ]

[tetrahedonist]

But what if I mustn't? What's in a name? If you hate JS, I probably have half a dozen more... give it time.

[It's actually not hard to pick up on that pain, and for a second, Bill feels a rare but genuine fellow-feeling. Maybe not for books, specifically, but for knowledge, which has its own value independent of other enjoyments.] That's the weird thing about these data points, they work differently from most forms of information transfer that I'm used to. It's like being branded right in the brainmeat.

[beholding_archivist]

[ He merely makes a small noise of faint disapproval regarding any further nicknames, but decides to drop the matter for now. ]

The data points that are still around are notably bigger than the ones they used to store at the library. We tried reconstructing them from shards found in and around the library, yet someone made sure any traces of them was thoroughly destroyed. And with the Agrii not having a written language at all, these were the only means in which they kept any records.

[tetrahedonist]

Waitasec, what do you mean by "someone made sure"? Was it definitely sabotage?

Okay, so the Agrii like a mystery, I'm pretty fond of them myself! Mind if I swing by and pay a visit to you sometime? What are your opening hours?

[beholding_archivist]

Well, let's just say I have been here for over two years now. And I did my best to keep as much information as possible during my stay. The observations and discoveries that have been made have gotten rather... Comprehensive. So, yes. I would suggest visiting the library at some point. Just send me a message beforehand so I can make sure to meet you there.

[ Since he literally lives there it's really more a matter of emerging from his private little den. ]