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Winter Test Drive Meme

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!

✧ Premise ✧ FAQ ✧ Rules ✧ Test Drive ✧ Taken ✧ Reserves ✧ Application ✧
✧ Map ✧ Devices & Network ✧ Data Points ✧ Ships ✧ Flora ✧ Fauna ✧ Supply Requests ✧ Calendar ✧
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Certainly Link looks pretty comfortable with the climb. In fact he's moving rather quickly.

"To get up here," Link says as he reaches the top, and starts pulling himself up.

Dustin realizes this and gets out of Link's way just in time, accompanied by a soft fuck of annoyance muttered under his breath.

"Obviously," he spits, becoming increasingly agitated with Link's pithy responses. "Why here, specifically? What do you want?"

Link looks at the young man, his expression blank and unchanging despite the open hostility.

"To look," Link says, pulling himself up the rest of the way and getting to his feet. And normally the first thing Link would look at is the surroundings - but he hadn't expected a person up his. So the first thing his eyes glance at is the roof itself, and the campfire that's been set here.

Dustin's hackles rise, partially because he's received yet another obvious answer that carries no useful information for him, but also out of anxiety at Link balancing on the lip of the rooftop. Evidence suggests that, if he's climbed up a whole-ass building on his own, this shouldn't be an issue for him, either, and yet Dustin can't help impulsively worrying anyway.

The rooftop is mostly barren, much like the rest of the city below. A thick blanket of white covers the flat, paved area, broken up only by a small, Dustin-sized trough carved through it from the stairwell entrance on the far side to the spot near the edge with the campfire. The campfire itself looks well-established, with char marks on the exposed rooftop paving underneath suggesting frequent use some time in the not-so-distant past. Similarly, Dustin looks like he's been sitting up here for a while. His many layers of sweaters, outer coat, shaggy hair and heavy eyebrows are all fringed with frost, and in spite of all the clothes, he still manages to look quite small and cold.

"What exactly were you expecting to find?" Dustin asks acerbically, folding his arms tight.

Link shrugs. There wasn't really anything he expected to find. Until he reached the top, he wouldn't really know what he would find. Which was the whole point, really.

The campfire on a roof is mildly interesting, but on the whole the rooftop doesn't hold Link's attention for long. Instead, it's the surroundings that Link is really here to see.

If Dustin pays attention, he might realise that Link isn't just looking out over the landscape like someone who's here to enjoy the view: he's looking from landmark to landmark, familiarising himself with the surroundings, taking note of interesting places. He's scouting.

A helpful answer, as expected. Dustin huffs and throws his hands up in frustration. "Fine," he snaps, turning away. "Do whatever, I guess. See if I care."

And then he flops back next to the campfire. For a minute or so after that, Dustin is far too flustered to pay attention to much of anything other than the back of Link's head, glaring all the mean thoughts into it like a pair of daggers. It isn't until he has the time to simmer that he actually accepts that Link isn't here to annoy him specifically. He's just, well. Looking. Just like Dustin is, except his gaze has been turned upward instead of at the horizon.

He finally breaks that long, awkward silence with a deep sigh. "...Have you seen the map?" Dustin asks.

Link nods. The odd little device he'd found was rather different from the Sheikah Slate, but after poking at it for long enough he had eventually managed to bring up the map.

But a map, Link knew, wasn't the whole picture. There was always more out there then could possibly be contained in one.

"Still good to see," Link says. "Maps don't show everything."

And there was something to be said for seeing something with your own eyes, as well.

Dustin hums in recognition. That's a good start - more than he was expecting, frankly, but his expectations had been quite low. He's actually kind of surprised at how insightful Link's answer is this time around, or perhaps he's more surprised at the fact that he agrees with him on it. Noticing that his observations of Funfrond movements didn't match existing maps of the mines under Temba had spurred him to investigate the tunnels in person, just a few months ago, and that had been incredibly enlightening.

"...They often don't," Dustin acknowledges, cautiously. It suddenly occurs to him that this probably isn't Link's first time making this sort of scouting journey, which means he likely has valuable insights that Dustin's untrained eyes wouldn't notice. Having perfect recall of a landscape and picking out points of interest on it are two very different skillsets, after all. "See anything interesting?"

Link nods. There were, indeed, lots of interesting things.

"The see through building with plants inside. The ones with tubes. The large hole. The lake. The ocean. The mountains."

Those last two were much, much further away than the rest - but it hadn't just been the city itself that Link had been looking at.

Dustin squints and his eyes flicker for a moment as he runs what Link said through his own memories of the surrounding landscape. The 'see-through building' is definitely the Agriculture Building, the 'tubes' would be the hospital, the hole is...well, the hole. Everything tracks with places he's already explored, except--

"Mountains?" Dustin tilts his head. He doesn't remember seeing any mountains. Unless...no, wait, he knows what Link's talking about now. Just today, once he scaled the stairs and briefly looked over the edges of the roof, he saw something smoky off to the north - something he had assumed was just atmospheric distortions at sunset. But now that Link mentions it, a mountain range makes more sense. They must be huge. Dustin's never seen anything bigger than the northern tip of the Appalachians, at least in person, and even those are more like rolling blue hills compared to the mass covering the horizon here.

He nods slowly, lost in thought. Those must be what Felwinter is aiming for. Maybe-- Dustin's eyes snap into focus. "--How good are you at navigating?"

Yup, they're definitely mountains. Link's quite sure of that. He's never seen the Appalachians, but he's certainly no stranger to large, imposing mountaintops.

Link answers without any regard to modesty, but also without ego or smugness. "Good." It's just a simple, statement of fact: Link is good at navigating. He had to be.

Dustin assesses Link's answer with a critical, but level stare. Doesn't feel like he's bragging. He's got that same tone as Felwinter, too; the sort of voice that's blunt but earnest, which Dustin finds he appreciates very much. If only this guy would just...more reliably answer questions in a way that was useful for both of them, he'd be satisfied.

"Okay." Dustin nods once. "Methods?"

Link looks at Dustin, head tilted to the side. Is he wanting tips?

"Look for landmarks. Watch where the sun is. Watch the stars, when it's dark." It wasn't difficult, really. As long as you remembered where you've been, and where you're trying to go.

Dustin continues nodding along, staring at a point past Link's head as he thinks. The question had been more of an assessment rather than a way to compare notes; if this newcomer had said something along the lines of 'I know how to use a compass' or 'I've gone camping with a GPS before,' they might have a problem. Having people show up that aren't quite so reliant on technology is a surprising boon, Dustin has started to realize.

"And if the sun doesn't move the way you expect it to, or the stars aren't the same?" he follows up, arcing a heavy eyebrow. Both of these points are relevant here; the sun at least rises and sets in the correct cardinal directions, based on his comparisons with the map, but the day length being so much longer could throw off more precise calculations of distance traveled or time remaining before having to turn back. The night sky is also, obviously, quite different. Dustin should know - he's on this rooftop tonight to continue his stellar observations, almost a year in the making by now.

"...Learn new stars," Link says.

Which was something he was going to have to do. He hadn't been here long, but the difference in the night sky had been immediately noticeably upon nightfall. He'd looked up, and realised the sky was no longer a familiar place.

But he'd had to learn the sky once before, after waking up on the plateau without a memory to his name. It had taken a little while, to realise which patterns of stars could be connected to his place on the ground.

But he'd learned. He could do it again. Would do it again.

"Easier said than done," Dustin remarks with a sniff, folding his arms. He might sound skeptical - and he is, although that's kind of the default state of being for him - but he's made up his mind at this point. If anyone else in this horrible alien wasteland could figure out a way to navigate through the impenetrable forests surrounding Temba and Sh'Ka, this guy is definitely on Dustin's short list.

To that end, Dustin continues. "Have you ever worked with star charts before?" he asks. "I could jumpstart your observations with mine, but they're incomplete. Won't be fully fleshed out until summer."

"Star charts?" Link says, because no - he has not worked with them before. At least, not that he remembers. Would a star chart be something like the drawings of constellations he saw on the walls of some Sheikah Shrines?

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Dustin blinks once, then lets out a tired sigh.

"...Yes," he murmurs, his patience visibly waning. "Diagrams of the night sky that show landmarks and movement of celestial bodies for different times of year. They're not that complicated."

"Useful," Link says, nodding to himself.

He'd gotten by without a star chart back in Hyrule - eventually he'd had the Sheikah tower map, so it wasn't something strictly needed. But he can see how one would be handy to have, if you didn't have any other kind of map already.

Well, at least he seems to understand. "Yes," Dustin repeats with a curt nod in return.

There's a long, somewhat awkward pause.

"--Well?" he cuts back in, face flushing red with both irritation and self-consciousness. "Do you want them or not?"

"Yes?" Link says, tilting his head to one side in mild confusion. "You said they weren't finished."

Which had given Link the impression that Dustin didn't want to share them just yet. Had that impression been wrong?

"I'll send you what I have," Dustin says with a dismissive wave of his hand, plopping into a sit next to his campfire. He grabs a stick to agitate the coals a bit. "It's a good start until I complete my winter and spring observations. Check your inbox tomorrow afternoon."

It only takes Dustin a moment of consideration to realize that this might not be enough.

"...On your communications device, I mean," he sighs. "The one you showed up with? Do you know what I'm talking about?"

"Yes." The curious little device was no Sheikah Slate, but Link had managed to figure his way around it eventually.

Although he didn't really do much actual communicating on it.

He fishes the device out of his pocket. Holds it out towards Dustin. See? He has one. Although there's maybe one thing he still needs to clarify.

"Inbox?" The term wasn't one he was familiar with. Was that a kind of rune?

It's a start. "Here," Dustin says, reaching out to take the small tablet from Link's outstretched hand (which feels like as good an invitation as any). "I'll show you."

Link allows Dustin to take the tablet. He stays silent, as he watches Dustin work.

He might not be completely unfamiliar with devices like this - but he's by no means an expert.

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