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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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Spring in Temba and Sh'Ka

Unlike last year, spring doesn't leave the He-Rows dealing with piles of pink glitter. The vast amounts of snow are still present to some degree here and there where the snow has been piled up especially high after the recent blizzard. But life has been returning to both cities with grass and flowers growing more vigorously in Temba while in Sh'Ka the especially tall trees are sprouting their leaves.

The native animals of both cities become more active again as well and especially the birbs residing around Temba's beach produce a noise that can be picked up even in certain parts of the city. Would it be wise to disturb them?

And while the weather has clearly turned warmer and the sun shows notably more presence, spring remains comparably wet. Strong showers of sudden rain are very likely to surprise an exploring He Row when they least expect them.

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 and power has been restored to be reliable. 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 proven to be home to verious harmful creatures; 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?

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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The softshell nods sympathetically, though his expression wavers just slightly on those last words of hers. That 'if' really turns his stomach. He won't accept that. There's not going to be an 'if'. It has to be 'when' if nothing else.

Quietly packing away that sentiment, Donnie rolls his shoulders back in an effort to brush off some of the unexpected tension that one little thought had prompted.

"Anyway, yeah, exactly. Not so sure how well rebuilding is going but I guess things have been better than when people first got here. I mean, there's a hotel and electricity's been fixed and water runs... Diner's got food, um... Guess we've got actual doctors around now to set up actual hospital things. Did you get a tablet? It's got access to the basic things at least, maps, communication, a questionable information source but I'll let you see why for yourself."

She wraps her arms around herself, picking up on his tension and then the almost easy dismissal of it, even if she's really not sure what caused it.

"I mean...electricity and running water are definitely good things." She chews her lower lip. "I've got one, but -- we don't have stuff like this where I'm from." She's never seen anything like it, honestly, even if she's eager to try and figure it out. "Weird question --" And probably a dumb one, if she's being honest. "...can you play video games on it?"

"What, no? Lemmee guess, this is a more drastic instance of timeline differences..." Because it is difficult for him to imagine anyone not knowing about tablets unless they're from Ancient times. Donnie pulls his own tablet out.

He would never consider that a dumb question, ever.

"Normally one should! Frankly it is blasphemous that this doesn't even have one game application on here. If I at least had my phone I could have maybe transferred some over," he grumbles, going through the weird icons of the menu just to be sure he hadn't somehow overlooked a game option.

"Maybe I'll have to bite the bullet and grab another data point just so I could work on some kind of a code for one... Ugh, the things one must do for some simple entertainment."

Max arches her eyebrows, suddenly pretty certain that's the case. "I mean. It was 1986 for me back home. What year is it here?" she asks uncertainly. Because if she'd somehow time-traveled AND gotten kidnapped onto another planet, she was going to be pissed.

She watches as he works on his own tablet and she pulls hers out, too. "Wait. Wait. You can play games on your phone?" That definitely doesn't make any sense, because how would that even work? Phones don't even have screens. Right?

"You can do that?"

"...whoa," Donnie blinks, staring back at her like she's some kind of alien. "Okay, that explains so much. I have absolutely no idea what year it is in this place, let alone if there is even a calendar to go by as it seems Agrii culture is very much...nonexistent, at least record-wise. The library? Totally empty except for a handful of material that was definitely imported. As for when I come from, well, it is the year two-thousand-nineteen. Crazy, right?"

He slowly grins as Max starts looking at her tablet. "Play games, watch TV shows and movies, take photos, surf the internet- what can't one do with their phones?!" His expression flattens. "Of course these have been very limited to what they can do, but you can still contact people via audio, video, or text formats."

A dry chuckle. "'Can you do that'- if I couldn't I wouldn't have said so. ... Theoretically it shouldn't be difficult but I have yet to look at what constitutes alien encoding. Of course it's not going to be anything complicated or high definition, that only being due to not having the proper programs or materials to create anything to such a degree."

She's not sure if it makes her feel better or worse when he says he doesn't know what year it is here. Then again she supposes it doesn't really matter that much. She'll just have to keep track of how long she's here. Shouldn't be too hard. But it's disappointing there's nothing helpful in the library.

But then he says he's from 2019. She blinks several times. "Holy shit, that's insane. So...if you're from earth and I'm from earth, then -- either I'm from the past or you're from the future or -- wait, are we from different universes all together?" That would probably make the most sense. Man, her friends would be geeking out over that one.

She listens to him, even if part of what he says goes right over her head. "You remind me of one of my friends back home," she says without really thinking about it.

"Given that I've already spoken to someone and we've compared notes, it is...difficult to really say for sure that we're from the same iteration of Earth or yet another divergent reality without proper points of historical reference. But I think it's at least safe to say that yes, you are from the past as I would be from a future. ...as for everyone else here, well I guess it's kind of a grab bag. I haven't really interviewed everyone to figure where all they come from but it stands to reason that if we are brought to an alien planet in an unknown star system let alone timeframe, then people from other dimensions are completely possible."

Donnie arches a brow at her then. "Is that a good kind of reminder or a bad one?"

"I mean. I know at least one other dimension exists, than the one where I'm from. So I guess it makes sense," Max says with a slight nod, tucking her tablet away and wrapping her arms around herself.

"If it was bad, I'd have walked away already," she tells him, not unkindly, just in that matter-of-fact way. "No, he's -- smart. With science and everything." She waves her hand toward him. "You two would hit it off."

"Oh. Well then." Being told so frankly that other dimensions are at least fact back in Max's world throws him off a bit. He blinks before nodding. One less thing to try explaining.

A faint if lopsided smile tugs at his face at the clarification. "Yeah? I rarely get a chance to rub elbows with fellow science enthusiasts."

She smiles back a little, nodding. Frankly he'd probably get along with most of her friends, because they all liked science. Well, maybe not El. "No other science enthusiasts around this place yet?"

"Haven't met too many people to really say," Donnie admits. "At least a couple." He's not sure if all scientist and tech-enthusiasts are semi-paranoid and guarded about their own work since he hasn't met very many back home... Then again those guys had given him every reason to be semi-paranoid and guarded about their work since they'd stole it from him.

"Varying levels, then again it's not like I've put out a call asking to start like, a science club or something, pff." That's ridiculous.

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