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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!

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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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When Dustin spots Eddie hunched over by Temba's central data point, it's entirely by chance. He's on one of his usual, forced treks through the snow out of the Diner, because the boy's gotta eat, and it just so happens that the crowds of people he scoots through the back kitchen door to avoid aren't present today. It gives him the chance to check on central areas he would normally skip - see new arrivals before they catch him by surprise, or their name and picture shows up in the 'Dictionary.' Getting ahead of that curve is never a bad idea.

He almost ignores him, even. The guy looks like he's wearing enough clothes to stave off hypothermia, and he's successfully found his way to the data point to receive the traditional Agrii brain-fucked welcome. He does look a little...disoriented, though, in a way that forces Dustin to look him over a second time.

It's around then that he notices the snow near Eddie's feet stained red. His eyes widen. "What the fuck," Dustin breathes; then, without any conscious thought, the slight teenager is running over as fast as his short legs and near debilitating number of sweater layers will take him through the knee-deep snowdrifts, already rummaging through the satchel slung over his shoulder and bouncing against his hip.

"What the fuck?!" he repeats, a little louder and with a significantly agitated edge to his voice, as he rounds in front of Eddie to get a better look at him. "Is that--shit!"

"Dustin?" Eddie squints at the figure, grimacing in pain and confusing the near past with the present. He drops his head back into the snow, pale and too weak to hold it up anymore, coughing up blood and straining to make sense of his mind's confusion.

Not Dustin. He groans and tries to sit up. "...shit-" Okay, nope. He's not getting any further than that. "You...nnn-- you seen a kid round here?" he pants through gritted teeth.

Yes, Dustin - though obviously the wrong one. Dustin, however, doesn't realize this, and having someone he doesn't recognize instantly drop a name that he's only used for a couple months in his world gives him a completely unexpected shock. Momentarily stunned out of action, he hovers over Eddie's prone form, mouth slightly open as his mind races through different possibilities.

Someone from my future? Someone from my past that knows who I really am? Someone from my world that's been following me? A spy hired by-- In an instant, reason catches up to Dustin's paranoid theory-spinning and cuts him off, accompanied by a flustered shake of his head. --Don't be stupid, all of those are incredibly unlikely. Probably a coincidence. You'll never figure out for sure if he dies.

Point made. Dustin hurriedly resumes digging through his satchel. "Stop moving so much," he hisses, ignoring Eddie's question for the time being in favor of making sure he doesn't bleed out. Seconds later and he's unstoppering a small, rounded glass flask, containing several mouthfuls of bright blue liquid.

"Here--health potion. Drink it." Dustin holds it out in front of Eddie's face. "Tastes like shit, but it should stop the bleeding."

"Wh-" Eddie might be bleeding out, but it doesn't stop him from twisting a face at that phrase being uttered in real life. A health potion. He wheezes and tears spring to his eyes, dropping all questions in favor of reaching for the flask and opening his mouth, ready to gulp it down. Things really couldn't get worse at this point.

"Ugh, God-" He really wasn't kidding about the taste.

"Like gargling fucking lidocaine, right?" Dustin answers with an arced brow, keeping one hand on the back of the flask to make sure Eddie doesn't drop it on reflex. "Don't throw it up - I only have three of these things left and I don't have the resources to make more of them."

Winter Test Drive Meme

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