Winter Test Drive Meme

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WINTER TEST DRIVE MEME
Application FAQ | Taken Characters | Reserves | Application

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

Eli Vanto | Star Wars (CRAU)

[backwaterimperial]

Arrival
Eli thought he had enough trans-dimensional travel for one lifetime, but now he finds himself spirited away to yet another universe far from the Empire and Ascendancy. Eli wonders if he's just cursed or if that Force thing had a sense of humor. He wipes off the snow from his arms and legs, cursing the cold.

He makes his way into the city, hoping that it's not abandoned that that someone there might be able to help him.

Spaceships
Eli has to marvel at the ships, having served on quite a lot of them in his lifetime. They aren't as huge as a Star Destroyer or Chiss warship, but he still has to marvel. He wonders if he'd be allowed to serve on one, just for the familiarity.

Making sure that nobody's looking, he sneaks onto one of the non-crewed ones, to get a sense of what they're like on the inside. "Definitely no Star Destroyer." Not that that's a bad thing.

Wildcard
[OOC: Feel free to write a prompt yourself or ask for one on plurk arwingyoshi]

Arrival

[doubled_speed]

Not abandoned. Not at all. In fact, here was a dude wandering out through the snow, head down, wrapped up in a thick coat and a scarf. Advantages to a reality warping sibling, you got warm clothes.

He wasn’t shocked to see someone there, though, as he walked from the greenhouse toward the diner with a large, covered crate of something. But he was shocked to see who it was.

“Eli!”

[backwaterimperial]

Eli rubbed his arms to fight off the cold, wishing he had his thermal gear right about now. He tensed as he heard his name and turned towards the voice. Nobody he recognized.

"Um... do I know you?"

[doubled_speed]

Wow! It really was him. Tommy grinned and darted forward to the man's side.

"I kept the diner open!"

[backwaterimperial]

"Diner?" What diner? Why would a diner be important to Eli? A thought occurs to him. The Voidtreckers' train was supposed to erase memories of their time there when they went home. Did that apply to this place too.

"Have I been here before?"

[doubled_speed]

Oh. Oh. The smile falls off his face, flickering to a frown that lasts less than a nanosecond before he sighs.

"I guess I figured since Thrawn and Lorna remembered when they came back, you would. Or maybe you're like Bucky and not our one. Uh. Shit. That makes my behavior hella weird."

[backwaterimperial]

"Man, multiverse theory makes my head hurt," Numbers and spreadsheets he could handle, quantum physics and the space-time continuum was still beyond his understanding. That he was here, but it may have been a version of him from another universe, it was all a little much.

But a name in particular caught his attention. "Thrawn's here?"

[doubled_speed]

“Dude, trust me, I get it.”

Sure there was a lot of comfort in knowing was was absolutely true, but there was trouble in that as well. Which didn’t matter as much as how quickly Eli reacted to Thrawn’s name. To the point where Tommy smirked.

“Last Eli I knew had hots for his boss. You too?”

Ships for Space

[buildingitsir]

York's holed up in one of those ships, using the silence to try and see if there's anything he can repurpose into a new piece to replace the one accidentally fried... last month? The dates here were weird.

He tenses when he hears footsteps. They don't match anything recognizable in his database: not Reeve's careful cadence, not Richie's less rhythmic one. Nothing that he's familiar with and it puts him on edge. The led light, glowing from under his black shirt, rings gold with flickers of red as he goes to see who the fuck it is intruding on a ship that he's probably not supposed to be on either.

"The fuck is a Star Destroyer and who the fuck are you?"