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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]

"Oh, it's a part of you! I think I get it." Bill accepted this biology gracefully, but did laugh, and not in a mocking way, at the 'stole the chair' line. Just the way it was delivered, and how completely believable it was. "I'd take a fundamentally altered biology, in exchange for taking over!" But he didn't know about being bound to the throne, or any of the other less-than-totally-savory elements of the Constant, either. Bill had no eyes on that place.

"Sure, I don't see why not." Bill didn't particularly appreciate the situation enough to promise anything explicitly, but did reason, "Here's the thing. The place is a wreck. And part of remaking it is gonna have to be, if these flesh puppets are in any way logical, understanding it. And if that's what you like doing, it should be a win/win for everyone. Why don't you get me up to speed on what kind of equipment you'd expect a good lab to have? Ordinarily I could reconfigure some atoms here and there and just make it on the spot, but," He gestured upward, "There's something about this place that's interfering with my own talents. Some of em anyway."

It might be a sore spot to ask Wilson if he was a bigger deal back home or some hint that he might have become less impressive here, so Bill didn't quite commit to that yet.

[nightmare_scientist]

The gesture upward along with Bill's words are followed with a raised brow and a drawn smirk before Wilson gives a small nod of understanding. "It does like to interfere, this place, doesn't it." He knows exactly what Bill is referring to, but at the same time doesn't mind too much. Summoning monsters or messing with the world at will is hardly a very scientific way to go about it. It's nonsense. He doesn't need nonsense, only his mind.

"You work with atoms?" He finds himself asking, interest piqued. Of course he has read about the more recent discoveries science had made prior to being dragged into a different worlds. There had been quite a decent amount of research and experimentation happening in that field. Of course none of which he had been part of. He does, however, take a moment to recall what he had read regarding these discoveries. Though if Bill is telling the truth, he might also be a great source of information on that regard.

So Wilson sets aside any pondering on atoms for now and instead settles with a more confident grin. "It all starts with finding a suitable place, though. Wouldn't you agree?"

[tetrahedonist]

"It sure does. I love a challenge, but sheesh." Bill was totally charmed by that smirk, adding a firm little pencil tick mark by the question of Wilson being a fun guy.

"Don't get me started," He added, about atoms, but added genially, "I'll talk shop with you plenty, when we've both had a chance to settle in. Pinkie promise." Wilson may note that Bill has only three fingers per hand.

"Yeah, there's a lot of buildings that don't look structurally sound around here." He noted, "We should talk to someone who's been here a few years to get the lay of the land. You want privacy, but you don't want to be too far from the rest of these goobers."

[nightmare_scientist]

Well, Wilson isn't one to judge a triangle by its amount of fingers. And surely one of these three digits can be considered a pinky.

"Excellent point again, my friend! Research is an important part of making good science happen. Even if said research consists of researching one's surroundings to not accidentally set up a lab inside a swamp." Which also isn't the greatest place for a base when one is attempting to survive in a hostile world. Strange lessons are being learned under strange circumstances.

"Consider it a deal."