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

[tyrants_son]

"You are a cat," Felwinter said, although even he had to wonder at the truth of that. "I have not scavenged gear here, although I have heard that much of the clothing in this city has extra arms. ...which would not do you much good since it is still more sizable to a very tall human. Perhaps even a Fallen."

He paused, slowing to a stop as he looked back down at Salem. "I suppose if we cut off a sleeve you could make better use of that. I have never considered that animals might wish to be dressed, but then I have not come across any who have spoken, before."

[catchable]

"And I like to look good," Salem elaborated for him. That wasn't so weird for a cat. Maybe it was weird for a Fallen, though. "Fallen people are usually closer to the ground," he said.

"What--how rude have you been to other familiars?" he had to wonder, which did not seem very far fetched. This guy did pick him up before a proper introduction. No familiars that would talk to him, and no magic books, meant he must have known some very strange magic.

[tyrants_son]

Space magic was pretty weird, true.

"If I have come across others I would not know. You are probably the first creature I have had direct contact with in...a while." Or ever, really. Scavenging birds kept their distance, and his snow-topped peak was devoid of most anything living.

It occured to him that perhaps he should not be treating this cat as...well, a cat. Maybe. He wasn't exactly an animal person so he had no idea what was expected in any case.

[catchable]

That was either unsettling or pathetic, and was giving some needed context to some other things the tin can said. Salem chose to accept pathetic, and offered, "I get it, I'm something of a homebody myself. Nothing beats a good nap and staring into space. You've got to try the internet, though, it's great. It's kind of like talking to people, but you don't have to be yourself at all. I'm usually 'Jolene'."

[tyrants_son]

"The people here are few. Or do you mean back home? The Earth isn't as it once was. I suspect there are some yet active networks if the warsats are still functioning, but access is not something that many people have, and they are too busy trying to survive. Most knowledge of Golden Age technology is otherwise lost."

How reassuring!

Felwinter let that sink in a moment before he turned to resume walking.

[catchable]

Salem did not have a good joke lined up for this kind of news. End of the world, and not even impending but job already done, news. That wasn't part of the welcome package. Did that mean he hadn't been snatched out of his home, but saved from this apocalypse?

Did that mean everyone else was gone?

It was still sinking in while Felwinter left the cat there in the snow, and Salem thought that maybe he would stay there a little while longer, crouched over his frozen toes with his tail wrapped around them.