Winter Test Drive Meme

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WINTER 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:

Winter in Temba and Sh'Ka

Winter has arrived on Agra 10 and with it its cold temperatures, sharp winds and, you guessed it, snow. It starts slow and gentle in Temba, but even such gentle snowfall tends to build up and over the course of a few days of constant snowfall, the city has been covered with a white, roughly knee-deep blanket - Unless someone actually remembered to keep some of the paths clear.

And it still keeps snowing. The cold is also causing some of the Shadowpaws to be drawn to the inhabited buildings of Temba in search for shelter. The further away from the library one is, the more likely it gets that they may share one's living space and bless anyone else living there with nightmares. The area around the library remains free of the shadowpaws thanks to the mothcats residing there.

Over in Sh'Ka, a similar picture has been painted. But being situated within all these tall trees paints a somewhat different picture. A more icy one. All the by now leaf-free trees are covered in a thick layer of ice, as are Sh'Ka's stone-carved buildings. The wind here is harsher than it is in Temba, which has been comparably wind-free.

Please try not to slip and hurt yourself while marveling at either city.

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?

The two currently crewless ships are open for anyone to step inside and have a look around, maybe even use for a nap.

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

[catchable]

Once in the throes of a passion (blubbering tantrum), it was difficult to shut it off enough to give a convincing performance for the mortals. This one coming to crouch at his side, where Salem was stretched down onto his chest with his feet pushing into the heavy book and chin on the cold ground, where he would surely die, miserable and alone and with no one to witness his endless suffering, this mortal could be forgiven if he was sure the cat went, "Uh, meow." The very normal cat then cleared his throat, and tried again with a much more kittenish mewling, a trill already building in his throat as he tipped his head agreeably into the scritching. Maybe it was all worth it, for some pats.

[wearingthestars]

"Did you just-?" Billy wondered aloud, but his suspicions quickly felt foolish as that cat nuzzled in, and he smiled, reaching to scoop him up.

"Poor guy, you must be freezing, huh? What's this? This yours?" he asked with a teasing voice, pausing to look at the large book.

[catchable]

Scooping was a bit much, very intimate before they had been properly introduced. Salem went, "Ulp!" as he was lifted, going liquid and heavy, which mostly just made his feet dangle, and he wiggled his front paws anxiously toward the book with as much of a stretch all the way to his claws as he could to try to reach it. It was going to take a careful balance to try to both communicate that he did deserve to be carried around where it was warm against the mortal's chest, like a prince, and that he would commit a brutal murder if the book didn't also come with him.

He settled for a kind of garbled, "Bo-ok," which maybe could be a meow that sounded surprisingly like a person saying 'book'. How charming, what a charming cat he was.

[wearingthestars]

"..." There was a stretch of silence where Billy shifted the cat to look into his eyes, trying to decide if he was crazy or not. Despite all he'd seen- talking animals included- he'd never seen one try to bluff. So...maybe he was just hearing patterns and his brain was trying to make sense of them.

Regardless, he carefully held the cat so he could lift the book up and under an arm without disturbing him too much.

"Let's get you out of this cold, huh? Get us both fed and then figure out if you're our new guest or someone left you behind."

[catchable]

These eyes were incredibly innocent and vacant, and did not belong to a being that could say the word 'book', and Salem did his best commitment to the bit by going limp and dangling in the mortal's hold. It wasn't terribly comfortable, so being tucked in one arm was an improvement, especially to see the book coming along with them. He didn't know where they were going, but going was better than whatever he had been doing. Going towards food was even better yet. He chirped his approval, and wiggled in the hold the mortal had on him to climb up onto his shoulder for a better vantage point and get a good sense of this cold place. He hoped he hadn't been left behind.