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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code bases by tricklet

Comments

[buildingitsir]

"It was November 9th, 2038, when I was brought to this shithole. And I was currently living in Detroit so for this place to be worse is bad." Though it's not as bad, York's just still grumpy about being taken from the revolution.

"Yeah, I don't give a fuck about my programmer. It's bad enough his universal doppelgänger lives here too. My directive is architecture, but I deviated and I'm my own person now." At least this guy was smarter than most, figuring out that York wasn't as human as his form let on.

He crosses his arms. "Yeah, hopefully you didn't arrive in the fountain. Something something something, shock to your system. I showed up in the spring so it wasn't...as bad." At least he's not sounding as hostile now...

[thepurpleone]

"Yyyyeah, definitely some future Earth. Just shy of two decades from when I'm from anyway, at least temporally speaking. Never been to Detroit though."

Well, that's confirmation enough, but to Donnie it wasn't a difficult connection given all the dots York had left. The android hadn't really been trying to hide what he was. "Oh boy, so that basically means that alternate realities are a definite possibility. How weird is that, having someone around you know but don't?"

Stranger still, the guy seems to have eased off some. Well, not that Donnie will complain. The turtle teen lets some of his own tension loose from his shoulders, giving an emphatic nod. "That would've been painful considering the fountain's frozen solid. Becoming a near turtle-sical was bad enough."

spongebob narrator: three years later

[buildingitsir]

"Yeah if Detroit is anything like what I know, best steer clear of it. Fucking awful place because of humans and shit." All they wanted was to be treated like people with the same rights and what did the androids get for it? Their home blown up.

"I hate it. Just a reminder of who I have in my own realm." At least now there are potential options of finding someone else to fix him. It would just come with a lot of... trial and error. Something York's not looking forward to.

"Right. Temperature bullshit. Before I landed here, I was already in the icy November river back home." York steps further down the ship and closes the hatch so the new guy can't get in. "Good thing I don't go into shock like others do going from freezing to springtime water temperatures."

[thepurpleone]

"Humans are kinda hit and miss, but well...humans." They're not outright terrible in his experience, but he knows they can be pretty terrible when they're convinced you're not something they want around.

Donatello nods thoughtfully. "Understandable, especially if it isn't the greatest relationship there. ...are androids very common then, where you're from? Considering we have two decades to get from point A to...well, you, I'm trying to figure out how behind technology advancement is in my time."

He pouts a little as the ship closes up behind York. Guess there goes any hope of an invite. "Guh, yeah. Maybe I should be thankful I didn't come in from a sweltering summer, talk about a whiplash!"

[buildingitsir]

"Everyone's pretty far behind compared to my time. Androids are the norm and we're fighting for our rights. In fact the humans got so pissed off about that, that they sent in the military to try and either kill us or take us in to be reprogrammed or scrapped." York's not eager to talk about his home life back in his world, so he ignores that section of the conversation for now.

York also ignores the pout. He doesn't care. He's not letting the guy into the ship. Cayde's got way too many weapons in there to just be letting strangers waltz in. Though to be fair, York probably shouldn't be near those weapons either.

"You'd probably shrivel up and perish or some bullshit like that, unless you just hung out in the fountain or the lake the whole time. Sounds boring though." He eyes the turtle guy for a long moment. "York Stark."

[thepurpleone]

"You'd think that after all the movies they make about that sort of thing that they'd have figured out how to treat their amazing progress better." But he can't say he's at all surprised either. Humans were pretty predictable to some degree.

...York's reasoning in keeping the kid from the ship is pretty sound, not that Donnie would have much interest in the weapons when SPACESHIP. -not that he wouldn't circle back to any discoveries.

"Oh please, I'm a turtle, not a flower," he says dryly. "Unless summer here is more on the dry side, in which case I would have to look into some moisturizer. Hm, a private pool doesn't sound bad either. Wait, if this is mostly abandoned then the sewers must be free game!" Blinking, it takes a moment before he registers what York's offering then. Oh right. Name.

"Donatello Hamato. Not that anyone goes by the last name, aaand...hardly anyone uses the first one fully so I'll answer to Donnie." Or Purple , but that's more to be expected from his father.