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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!

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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[personal profile] small_compromise 2023-02-15 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've heard people call them that," Omega replies. "They're supposed to be of people that aren't alive anymore though, aren't they?" She's had no prior experience to ghosts herself. "The people I've seen here during the storms are people I know from home, who are very much alive."
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[personal profile] newmemorywhodis 2023-02-16 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"...Yes. Ghosts are dead." Even if he wished that all those ghosts he knew weren't.

A ghost of someone who was still alive seemed...strange.
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[personal profile] small_compromise 2023-02-16 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"The ones who show up here... I guess you don't realize they're not really here, not right away." She tries to think of how to explain it better. "But whatever's making them appear seems to know they're important to us. Enough that we'd go after them." The girl frowns.

"And then it turns out to be a trap."
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[personal profile] newmemorywhodis 2023-02-16 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Link's...not sure how to feel about that. Are there people who, if he saw them here, he would go after? Of course there are. But...how could he not?

There would always be the chance that it was the real thing. And that wasn't something Link could ignore.

"A trap?" he asks. Will she be able to tell him more about what these traps are like?
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[personal profile] small_compromise 2023-02-16 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's how they're caught, really. It's a terrible trick, and Omega's fallen for it before. She'd been lucky Tony had been there when he had.

She nods a little. "Yeah. Something or someone knows we'll go after these people because we care about them. And then we end up being led into places that don't have ways out, or places we could get hurt. Be careful when there's a storm, okay? Try not to go anywhere alone, it's probably better."
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[personal profile] newmemorywhodis 2023-02-17 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Link makes a noise of acknowledgment…although whether he follows the advice remains to be seen.

Link’s used to doing dangerous things alone. The odds of him stopping to grab someone else are not exactly high.

“The storms and ghosts are controlled?” He asks.

Was there a primal force, like Calamity Ganon, behind all of this?
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[personal profile] small_compromise 2023-02-17 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Supposedly," Omega says carefully. "That's part of what we're trying to figure out. How and where it's coming from." She sighs. "So far we haven't had much luck in either."
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[personal profile] newmemorywhodis 2023-02-17 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay," Link says, nodding. Gladio had given a similar impression. But there were still the scientists to find, and see if they could use Link's help. Or perhaps some other secret to find, that no one had stumbled across just yet.

Either way, Link didn't have any more questions he particularly wanted to ask. This conversation had - at least from Link's perspective - already gone on a while. And he wanted to go look at some of the things he'd seen while climbing the building.

So he looks at her. Says, "Bye." And then starts to wander off, nevermind that utterly abrupt ending to the conversation.
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[personal profile] small_compromise 2023-02-18 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
That was it then? Omega blinks as the man suddenly decides he's done there, baffled as to how to respond. Was he really all right with that?

"...bye..." she says belatedly as she watches him go, still looking quite confused.