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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!

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Well he most decidedly did not look anything like a human, beyond the bipedal and the whole two arms thing, so perhaps the assumption that took place next wasn't too far into the territory of unreasonable. Wrapping her arms around herself to ward off the cold as best she could, Tae started with careful steps toward the figure approaching.

"Hey, you? You my 'host' here? Not to be ungrateful, but you'd better send me back now. I have appointments tomorrow."

"I am not," the warlord replied after he had come closer. "I believe the Agrii would be more properly considered such under the circumstances."

He tilted his helmeted head a moment before he began to undo the fasteners of his coat so he could tug it off and offer it to her. She appeared to need it more than he did, although unfortunately there wouldn't be too much by way of residual heat from him.

"I have been brought here just as you have. As so, I have no power to send you back."

Not the person responsible. Well, at least he spoke Japanese, that was... convenient. And odd. Though given he was offering his coat she wasn't going to point out either of those things. While dealing with 'gentlemen' wasn't normally something she did, there was no way in this weather that she wasn't going to let chivalry lose.

After all, who tends to the doctor when they get sick?

So she took the offered coat and quickly wrapped it around her shoulders, her brow scrunching with confusion over the lack of warmth from his body.

"A fellow patient in their little experiment then. They really expect us to do something to stop the weather? Sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi movie."

He was just thinking in terms of practicality. Once the woman had taken the coat, he pointed across the square. "It's advisable we move indoors. There is the diner, which may be considerably warmer, but otherwise the hotel is there where you can find a place to stay," he explained as he turned to gesture in the opposite direction.

"But yes, that would be the general idea. It is not exactly the weather, but specific sorts of storms. The differences are quite notable once they do occur."

"Can hardly say I have the funds on me to pay for a hotel, but at least I should be able to get warmed up in the diner," she says, looking in the direction indicated. Well, no reason to wait for him to lead, he did point, and she was going to be the slow one, so she starts off.

"Different sort of storm? Differences? ...I don't suppose you've got more to go on than that? Hardly scientific."

"You will not need to worry about pay. It is simply the most prepared place to receive people. The city is still mostly abandoned and much of it yet in ruins, but you are otherwise welcome to choose where you would stay. The hotel rooms are merely the most convenient," Felwinter said.

He started after her once she decided to head to the diner. "Unfortunately there is not too much by way of science to make much sense of what occurs. Aside from unusual or severe weather, there may be sightings of figures from one's past, inaccessibility to powers, if that is something you might have. There are variations but those seem to be most frequent in repeated occurrences."

No money then. Seemed reasonable enough in a ruined society she supposed. Which also meant her life would be more difficult in opening a practice here, because how was she going to get fed? Barter? Oh dear.

"I suppose convenience will rely upon what this hotel is close to. And please take a step back and run that by me again. 'Sightings of figures from one's past'? Like ghosts? Are you saying this place is haunted? And 'powers' meaning what?"

"One could say that. They are about as tangible as ghosts," Felwinter nodded. "Not that this place is haunted. I am still uncertain as to the origins of these so-called ghosts, but they only appear during the storms and I have heard at times they may lead victims into dangerous situations."

Powers, well, how to explain that? A demonstration seemed the most practical, so he held out a hand, summoning up the violet-tinged negated light of the Void. "Powers. Supernatural abilities. If you do not possess such then you need not worry about that, at least."

Oh dear, this was going to be complicated.

"So you're saying that in addition to alien kidnappings, there is weather phenomena that induce audio-visual hallucinations? There must be some form of gas contamination then."

She would need samples. Who knew what damage it could be doing to their bodies, beyond the increased risk of failing to notice normal dangers.

Truthfully, she took 'supernatural abilities' more in stride. The Phantom Thieves changed hearts, so she had no trouble believing there is more in the world than she understands."

"Affirmative. Although I do not think it is due to a gas contamination." There would be no reason he or Cayde would be affected otherwise. "And I do not think that a gas-induced hallucination would cause multiple people to see the same, oftentimes person-specific thing."

Felwinter lets the Void flame vanish as quickly as it had come. It's always interesting, the range of what people find acceptable and not, here. It seems strange to him that the woman doesn't bat an eye to what his fellow Exo would happily call 'space magic' but considers more mundane explanations for the very specific hallucinations they've seen.

"Someone's studied the phenomenon then? Perhaps it's a fungal affliction affected by the increased air pressure of the storm..."

Yes, she's got theories.

"Group hysteria has been documented before. People retroactively describe the same event after hearing it described once. It's actually discussed in medical literature about how hearing a suggestion of a cause or symptoms can have people mis-ascribe their symptoms."

And really, she's doing her best here.

"Have your doctors not been studying the situation?"

"We do not have doctors," the warlord stated quite simply. "Group hysteria does not explain when the hallucinations actually physically do harm." He couldn't say that her theories sound interesting but he suspected there was more at work than what she was considering, and he was sure she wasn't the first to think along similar lines. He wished it were so simple as that.

No doctors at all? Of course that is what she'd wind up dealing with. It only made sense that no one had looked deeply into the situation.

"It does explain it if the harm is something that people are doing to themselves or each other. I will have to see what I can learn."

And then they are the door to the diner and she steps in. At least her footing is more stable here.

"Do you have any medical supplies here?"

"Hm," Felwinter replied, a noncommittal response if ever there was one. He stepped inside after her, giving a brief shake of his boots.

"I believe some have been gathered and prepared for general use at the hospital. Efforts have been made to make it more serviceable. Billy would be the one you'll likely wish to speak to as he's handled things there for some time now."

Now that they were inside she supposed she should surrender the coat. She shrugged it off, shook it out, and then held it toward the stranger.

"Billy, huh? I'll have to look him up. What else should I know?"

He appreciated that he didn't have to ask for it back, taking it with a nod.

"There are many things you should be aware of, undoubtedly, but it would be overwhelming or otherwise difficult to narrow down," Felwinter said as he slipped his coat back on. "Have you received a communicator?"

Communicator? She reaches into the pockets of the leather coat she's wearing, then into the pockets of the lab coat in her arms. At last she brings out something that... isn't her cell phone.

"Would that be this?"

"Yes," Felwinter replied with a nod. "You will be able to contact everyone who is here through that device. It also provides a map of the city and key locations, as well as other information. I would advise not losing it."

"Like a cellphone. Seems fair," she says, considering it, tapping through the applications. Ah, a note application, perfect for medical care.

"I've never lost my phone before."

"Then there should be no problems." Felwinter paused as he tried to consider what else humans needed. Well, warmer wear was the most obvious thing. The Agrii should know what seasons were, and had provided people with clothing for a mission, so it shouldn't have been a difficult thing to provide their new abductees with suitable attire.

"There may be warm things to eat and drink, in the kitchen. I'll see if I can find a coat you can wear so you won't have to stay here," he said, turning.

Oh, that's wonderful. She smiles at the stranger.

"Thank you. I'll definitely get some food in me. What's your name?"

The warlord stopped at the doorway, glancing back. "Felwinter," he replied, reminded then of how manners operated. "...and you are?"

"Tae Takemi," she says as she moves with sharp sounding steps toward the kitchen. "Thank you, for showing me here."

"There weren't many good alternatives," he said, but he watched as she headed towards the warm kitchen before turning to step back out into the cold.

Yes, she expects as much. The place looked ruined. But it didn't feel like there was more to say, so she went to investigate the food.

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