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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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Gladio's guess is right on the money. Even if his chosen attire said anything but soldier, Link's level of physical fitness and general demeanour - and blade, of course - was definitely that of a trained warrior.

Link nods. And he will, indeed, stay right there until Gladio gets back.

Though he won't spend the entire time sitting still. Eventually he'll get up. Peer curiously into all of the cupboards. Inspect all the various kitchen appliances - a number of which he has never seen before - with fascination.

When Gladio gets back, he'll find Link trying to figure out how to turn the oven on.

"Careful with things," Gladio says as he enters, holding out some sweats and a pair of slippers. Best he could do on short notice. "I hear the guy that keeps this place running and feeds us can get very protective of his limited appliances."

"...I can help cook," Link says, before reaching out to grab the sweatpants and slippers. They're not like the clothes Link is familiar with. But then, he's also used to finding and wearing all sorts of strange things, so he doesn't hesitate to take them and immediately put them on.

He makes for a bit of an odd picture afterwards - with sweatpants, slippers, Gerudo veil and a big coat that is far too big for him. Not exactly a coherent look.

He's also left holding his sirwal and sandals - which leave Link momentarily stumped. Where does he put them? He doesn't have his korok-enchanted pack. Is he just going to have to...hold them? With his hands? All the time?

Help cook? Gladio looks pleased at that. Everyone could stand to get some more food. In the end, though, he chuckles at the look at the guy and holds his hand out into the air, grasping something that isn't there in the air. And suddenly there is a sweatshirt in his hand that he hands over as well. He could use his coat back. It's not perfect, but it helps.

"Put your stuff by the table. You can take them to wherever you choose to live later."

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Link blinks. Looks at the sweatshirt that just suddenly appeared. Does Gladio have a kook-enchanted pack? Link could have sworn he hadn't seen anything like that, but...where else would that come from? (Does he have an invisible pack?)

Leaving questions about mysteriously appearing clothing aside, the coat, veil, and midriff-baring top are all unceremoniously taken off right there and then. The sweatshirt is then quickly pulled on, with Link keen to spend as little time unclothed as possible.

Even with the quick change, however, if Gladio's paying close attention he'll notice additional evidence in support of his soldier theory. Link bears the kind of scars that one would expect from an warrior, the remnants of past battles. Some, however, look considerably nastier - looking more like a laser burn than anything you'd expect from a traditional weapon.

"I can buy a house?" Link asks then, as he sets all his discarded clothes on the table. He does like having a house, and if he doesn't have his pack he's going to need somewhere to put his things...

Well, he's learned the other has no shame, but it's the muscles and scars that are telling. That's someone who knows how to use the sword he carries.

"No buying needed. Unless someone's already living in it, you can settle right in. If it needs repairs, there's a guy called Reeve, he does a lot of that. Or you could use the ship you're assigned to, but that's less personal space. Or the hotel."

"I can...just take a house?" Any house? All of the houses?

(Link takes a moment to think about just how many weapons and shields he could display, if he had multiple houses...)

The houses people don't live in, yes.

"My boyfriend and I live in The Towers, down where the Deep End is. Some people like to live closer to the center of the city though."

Link nods, even though he doesn't really know where the Towers are, or what Deep End is.

Instead he just lapses into silence, content to just sit and think about everything that Gladio's told him.

When he's warmed up, he'll go out and start exploring properly. And maybe looking at houses.

Gladio took the silence as agreement that he didn't need watching anymore, so he nodded.

"You need something, you can contact me with the Comm. Name's Gladio."

"Link," he says, nodding.

Then, after another slight pause, he adds: "...What's the Comm?"

Interesting name, but given Gladio was named for a flower, it wasn't that bad. Still, with the question he paused and reached into his coat to pull his comm device out.

"This. Shoulda got it when you arrived. Like a cellphone. Though I don't know where it would have been stored in your clothes."

Did Link have one of those? He couldn't remember seeing one. But then, he also hadn't really been focused on anything except the cold.

Maybe it's still out where he woke up, near the fountain. Link inspects Gladio's, taking note of what it looks like.

"I'll look," he says. And he should probably go see what that 'data point' is about too, while he's at it.

Then he adds, "Bye," grabs the clothes he took off..and runs right out the door.

What? Gladio's eyes follow the young warrior as he runs off. And damn if he doesn't have to laugh.

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