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

[stitch_witch]

One would think that because cats and dogs were not always friendly to each other. Not that Little Bear wasn't friendly, but that didn't mean all cats would be comfortable with all dogs.

For now, though, the comfort of their newest He Row matters, so Lark stays rather still. Nor does she seem too off balance from the added weight. She had been an acrobat as a girl, after all, and her balance was rather impeccable most of the time.

"I am. I have been here a while now. We're currently rather like a small village, where we are often quite obligated to support each other by need. Though there are some elements that are quite humorous or very prone to risk taking. You will find, though, that some of the more public spaces have recently been fitted with doors such as will be very accessible to you, not requiring you to work within the architectural limits of this place."

[quintet]

"I have noticed it's all at uh... a scale," Quintet agrees, only a little hastily. It wasn't as if she'd put much thought to it, after all, "That's pretty weird, now that I think about it. It's like it wasn't built with more than one race in mind."

And, as soon as she says it, the thought feels true. It was like a pre-society rabbit warren, or a small family dwelling writ large. Why would it need to be large enough for a lion or small enough for a dormouse when the only things that you could conceive of using the space was all one kind of person?

"Weird... I mean— Sorry, I shouldn't judge. If you've all managed to get along well enough under the circumstances, it's not really my business. It wasn't like I came here for a vacation, either."

[stitch_witch]

"I believe only the Agrii lived here, so yes, it would have been made with only one race in mind. It is not even fully suited to humans, the stairs are quite tall for me."

So she wasn't going to argue it was not friendly to many species. Though there were mostly humans here now, with a few Exos and other non-humans around. But most of them were bipedal humanoids anyway.

"I cannot fathom that people would wish to vacation here," she said as she looked around. "Where might I take you?"

[quintet]

"Honestly, I have no idea," Quintet replies, honestly, "Food? I could eat a whole millipede, by myself."

It's an exaggeration, of course. But not much of one, the way her stomach feels.

"This whole place is crazy, I'm apparently signed up for the long term. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I submitted my graduate thesis; I don't know how much good a College graduate with a specialization in Law will be, but I'm here. Might as well do some good."

[stitch_witch]

"I do not believe that millipedes are served, but perhaps there will be steamed fish at the Diner," she suggests before she starts moving.

"A study of the law is not unuseful. Perhaps we do not need codified sets thereof, but when one studies something at that level, they learn to see the world in a different way, and consider it seriously. That is very useful."

[quintet]

"Where would society be without even implicit laws, huh?" She can get on board with that idea. After all, it was the acknowledgement of all that what was and was not acceptable within Society was unknowable until you encountered it. Meander had proven that, "...I think I have to agree with that."

It would be hypocritical to do otherwise, of course. But more than that; it's true. You don't go out for the Rationale just because you want a good government job, after all, though that had been no small part of Quintet's founding desire for the position. It was work for those with a strong sense of justice, and judgement to match.

Law wasn't a job for those with weak characters.

"Hey, fish sounds great! I did my term at Green Tidepools West, and we had fish everyday that season; it's been a long time since, but oof... the buffet."

[stitch_witch]

"The Diner is often set up as a semi-buffet," she said as she moved toward the diner. "I think one of our residents, Noctis I think, he fishes. I think that's how we get some."