Spring 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:

- Explore the city! There's a map here 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. The hotel seems to be the most crowded, but you might want into what appears to be an abandoned storefront and find someone else scavenging or even sleeping.

- There are spaceships! That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar. They appear to have power, but only one ship will let you enter. (For test drive purposes, the ship that will let you enter is up to you, so just pick whichever name appeals, and go for it!) The other ships won't open for you, but it might be worth poking around the one that will...

- Do you hear a storm? A giant, power-altering storm has been ravaging part of the planet for a month. It shows 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? More information can be found  here.

- Can you hear me now? 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.

- 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...



code bases by tricklet

Comments

[arachnafriendly]

"Wait that's not--"

Martin walked right into that one.

"Okay. I don't have a torch so, hopefully the lights work?"

The lights working might make things a lot creepier. Are spaceships autonomous? Did they have an AI system that was going consider them hostile? Friend? He has so many questions and absolutely no experience involved with space.

Occult! He's familiar with the occult and that's about it.

Inhale. Exhale. "Okay let's go."

[obliviscis]

Jane has no experience with space, the Occult, or anything except sheer luck and crippling depression but she figures it's worth a shot. If there's lights, it'll be better if there isn't but they're looting, technically, so she can't really be a beggar.

The ship seems to work more or less but it does have an eerie emptiness to it. It seems abandoned but like someone had been in it not that long ago so maybe it's occupied? Maybe it isn't? Jane can't tell. She ducks into a room and comes out with what looks like an institutional jumpsuit. She knows what those look like.

"Look. Either this ship is a psych ward or there's a whole lot of janitors. What do you think?"

[arachnafriendly]

"That's... disconcerting isn't it?"

An entire ship that was a psych ward? It reminded him of-- no. He won't think about that now. He frowns a bit, glancing at the ceiling, almost wishing he could will the lights to power on.

"Let's keep looking around."

[obliviscis]

It's eerie, being inside something that flies. Jane had insisted on taking the train after the crash because there's no way she'll ever get into a plane again - at least not any time soon. Maybe there's not a lot of plane crashes but she's already been unlucky enough to be in one. She's not pushing her luck another time even if she used to want to off herself. She's gotten off that bullshit now, thank you.

"Let's see how it gets around. There's got to be a cockpit or something, right? You'd be able to see signs if it actually crashed or if they just abandoned it." It looks like it's been lived in, anyway, so there were people in this ship and it wasn't just sitting in drydock before takeoff.

"It'd be better than wondering whether or not everyone's dead or not. We could at least get confirmation if we found a body." Jane tilts her head a bit. "You're not weird about dead bodies, are you?"