SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME

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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!

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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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Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the hedgehog IDW comics flavored

[spinsandneedles]

[ Arrival ]

Whether it's his own impulsivity or some unseen force urging him on, he can't say, but Sonic sure did just reach out and touch the shiny glowing thing pretty much as soon as he woke up by the fountain. Shiny things are usually really important, right? Who wouldn't grab it?

But then it downloads like an entire encyclopedia's worth of weird alien information right into his brain, and suddenly he's regretting getting out of bed this morning. Just a little bit, though. Weird situations like this are unfortunately not too out of the ordinary for the hedgehog, which is why his reaction is less shock and disbelief, and more staring into the middle distance and wondering just why his life keeps taking all these wild twists and turns on him.

"...Cool. That just happened," he says, heaving an exaggerated sigh and crossing his arms, "sure would be great if weird things would stop happening to my brain."

At least this wasn't quite as invasive and creepy as the last time someone had decided that getting all up in his brain was a good idea. That whole Mecha Sonic situation hadn't been too complicated in the end though, being on some post apocalyptic alien world - by himself - was sure to be a whole different story.

Anyway. He gets over his annoyance at his current predicament pretty quickly, accepts this new bizarre twist in his already unpredictable life with a shrug, and starts stretching his legs as if this is the most normal scenario to just go for a jog in.

"Welp, this place isn't gonna explore itself. Better get to it-- am I already talking to myself? Ugh, that's not a good sign."

[ Exploring Temba ]

"Explore" for Sonic mostly means "tear ass around the city fast as shit until you memorize all the roads". A process that, for Sonic, takes roughly ten minutes. Temba isn't exactly the biggest city he's ever been to, which is a bit of a bummer, but it just means he'll have to actually take his time and really explore the buildings if he wants to keep himself entertained.

Cuz, y'know, entertainment. That's what's important here.

Naturally he does of course run up and down the tallest buildings he can find to get a better view of the city, maybe chill on the roof for a while because that's a totally normal thing to do. Eventually he does ease back on being a weird little speed gremlin and actually walk into places to check out whatever's inside. Or whoever's inside. He's not picky.

(And neither am I, feel free to have him roll up into whatever location you like. Little dude's all over the place.)

Exploring Temba

[crystalmaster]

At first Radley thinks it's Tommy running around. But when the blue blur stops, he stares in shock. Is he seeing right?

"... Hi," he greets. "New here?"

He's standing in the doorway of the diner.

((OOC: Radley made a Sonic reference once in the past, but that can be ignored or retconned if you don't want any kind of fourthwalling! I normally don't care for fourthwalling myself.))

[spinsandneedles]

He'd only intended to stop for a moment to take in his surroundings a bit, but as this is the first other living person he's come across so far, Sonic figures that stopping for a chat would be more productive than zipping aimlessly through the city.

Plus there's a diner, and Sonic can't remember the last time he'd stopped to eat.

"That obvious, huh? I must be giving off some major tourist vibes."

((Ooc: I don't mind a little fourthwalling, knock yourself out!))

[crystalmaster]

((OOC: Okay!))

"Yeah, something like that."

Radley wonders if he's going crazy. He's certainly familiar with Sonic media back home, but he had no idea the character was actually real.

... Well, who knows. Is it any stranger than other things he's encountered?

"So. Are you hungry?"

[spinsandneedles]

Just wait until Mario shows up, then we'll have a real party.

"Starving, I've been runnin' on empty for a while, now. Judging by the rest of this place, I wasn't sure what to expect the food situation to look like."

As long as he doesn't have to go out and forage for berries or... I dunno, hunt his own chili dog ingredients or something, he can deal with it.

"Do you like, work here? Or can anyone pop in and raid the fridge? I'm not really sure what to expect around here as far as stuff like that goes, y'know?"

[crystalmaster]

Radley would really think he was hallucinating then.

"The food's pretty good, thankfully! I make a lot of it. We don't really encourage fridge-raiding, but there shouldn't be any need for that."

[spinsandneedles]

"Good to know, I'll keep that in mind. Name's Sonic, by the way. Nice to meet you."

He should probably introduce himself before getting distracted by food, right? Something like that.

[crystalmaster]

"I'm Radley," he smiles. "So, I have a menu made up showing what we currently offer. We don't have all the foods of home, unfortunately, but we have some, and we've come up with some pretty good substitutes when we need to."

[spinsandneedles]

"Please tell me you make your friends call you 'Rad'."

Kind of a missed opportunity if you don't, y'know.

"So, just out of curiosity, have you guys found a good substitute for hotdogs?"

This is the most important question, clearly.

Explore

[tyrants_son]

The tower besides the security station offers a grand view of things, and that's from the inside. It's also largely inaccessible by normal means, given that the elevator has been left in a state of disrepair. That has worked just fine for the Exo. He doesn't mind the solitude, nor the quiet.

It is not at all often that someone runs up the tower's side. The warlord rises to his feet from his makeshift throne, stepping towards the windows even as he cranes his head towards the ceiling. "Felspring..."

His Ghost gives a twitch of a nod as she hovers by the window. "I'm picking someone up on radar though I'm still not sure how-"

"Come. We shall find out."

And so Sonic will find himself with company atop the tower roof in short order. The helmeted warlord appears in a blink, no great fanfare nor effects to herald his arrival. One moment he isn't there and in the next he is.

[spinsandneedles]

It takes Sonic a moment to realize that he even has company, seeing as he's decided that standing on the very edge of the tower to look out over the city was a good idea. It's not, but its fine because there's totally nobody with him up here that would judge him!

"Geez, this place is just depressing to look at. Wonder if there's anyo-OHHWHAT-"

And that would be Sonic finally turning to find that he is not, in fact, alone on this roof. That's also Sonic misstepping and nearly dropping himself right off the roof in his surprise, but thankfully (after a bit of undignified arm flailing), he manages to right himself. Today is not the day that he has to discover the hard way whether or not he takes fall damage.

Deep breath. Okay. He's fine now. That totally didn't just happen shut up.

"...Okay. Are we about to throw hands, or is that just how you guys say 'hi' around here?"

[tyrants_son]

He wouldn't have let Sonic fall. Probably.

The stranger stands statue-still even in the wake of Sonic's near-fall. The only thing that stirs is the edge of his greatcoat, tugged at by the breeze. Even more unnerving is that he seems inclined to say nothing, at least, not right away.

"I was curious as to who might have managed to come up here," he finally says. His tone is strangely tinny, with a slightly electronic edge. Perhaps it's just the helmet.

[spinsandneedles]

Aw, what a pal. Probably.

Oh thank god, this guy can talk. It was starting to get a little awkward, what with all the silent staring and the not moving going on. Sonic does his best to act casual, as one does right after they've almost fallen off a building. The weird tone of this guy's voice does ping Sonic's curiosity, but first and foremost, it's time to get awkward introductions out of the way.

"Guilty! The name's Sonic, nice to ah... meet you?" Sure, yeah, that works. As far as first meetings with people go, he's certainly experienced way worse. "I promise that I probably didn't leave any footprints on the side of your building."

[tyrants_son]

The helmeted head tilts just slightly. Ah yes, names. Introductions. Normal...conversation things. He nods.

"Felwinter," he supplies, but already he looks past Sonic before turning his attention back to the strangely blue hedgehog. "Footprints?" Unseen optics narrow behind the fine mesh of his helmet, recalling the movement he'd caught past the window. "So you did run." Pause. "Up the tower."

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic briefly glances over his shoulder when Felwinter looks past him, shrugging upon turning back around.

"Ah, yeah. It's kind of a thing I do. Not even gravity can hold you down if you're fast enough!"

Yeah okay maybe he's bragging a little bit. You'd brag too if you could run up the side of a building.

[tyrants_son]

"Interesting." And impractical but he supposes if it gets you where you need to go then Felwinter can hardly say so.

"And impressive. I assume that's how you get around in general, then. You've already explored the city?" It's clear enough that this one is new to Temba. There aren't many talking hedgehogs, after all.

[spinsandneedles]

Hey, it's perfectly practical. What if the elevator's out? What's he gonna do, take the stairs? Like a normal person? (Actually yes he totally would.)

"I've seen pretty much all there is to see from the ground, yeah. Haven't really been inside any of the buildings and stuff yet, though. Half of 'em look like a stiff breeze could knock 'em over."

Exploring Temba (because the local speedster can't just not greet the new one)

[doubled_speed]

See, it's not possible for a superhero speedster to catch a blur of motion out of the corner of his eyes without him wanting to go and investigate. So he has to set out at speed to catch up. Except... Except his casual speed isn't catching up. So different approach. Given he already knows the city it's easy enough to circle and try and cut the path of the other person off.

Except it's not a person Tommy realizes when he come out of one side street just in time to meet the path of the other runner.

"Fuck, you're blue," he says with a laugh. Wow, it's blue and small and FAST like he is. So cool. Cool enough that he can forgive it being blue instead of a cool color like green.

omg new race buddy???????

[spinsandneedles]

If there's one thing Sonic is not at all used to, it's being cut off. When some dude suddenly pops into his field of view in front of him, Sonic has about a split second to decide if he wants to like jump over the dude and keep going, or stop and meet whoever this is that had managed to catch him off guard.

His curiosity wins out in the end and he skids to a halt just short of slamming into this mystery dude, but then finds himself immediately confused by him. What a weird day Sonic's having.

"That's... yes? Not gonna lie, this is probably the weirdest reaction anyone's ever had to me before." With the fuckwords and the laughing like, what is going on my guy.

Also you can't make green without blue suck it.

Totally! And one who should be roughly Sonic's speed. Which is more fun!

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, not going to lie, people tell me that a lot," Tommy laughed. Because how could he not? He almost wants to bounce on the balls of his feet.

Sure he has no clue if the guy can interact at high speeds, not all speedsters had accelerated mental functions back home. But even just someone he could possibly race would be amazing.

"At least it's not powder blue like my Uncle uses. Granted you don't look a lot like Quicksilver, so that's not really important."

Excellent. the streets are doomed though lol

[spinsandneedles]

All right, well, weird first impression, but this guy seems okay.

"Oh no, that's like the worst shade of blue." Obviously Sonic's blue is way more badass. He crosses his arms and tilts his head a bit, studying the guy a bit, "so, where'd you come from all of a sudden? It's not every day someone gets the drop on me."

I mean the place is mostly ruins so they're already bad

[doubled_speed]

"I know, right?" Tommy asked with a bright laugh. "But at least it was a blue, rather than that lilac-sorta-purple he's used recently too. Or the yellow."

Oh god the yellow. Still, the green Tommy wears is clearly better than all of them.

"From the diner by the fountain. Not every day I need to use a round about method to get to someone. Normally I just come up on them before they can get away."

Double doomed, then

[spinsandneedles]

"Hm. Now I'm thinking we're looking at this from the wrong angle. Like sure, those are some pretty unflattering colors on the wrong person, but imagine being beat by the guy wearing the uncool colors. Then you just look like a chump, right? It's psychological warfare."

Or maybe he's thinking too hard about it. The guy probably just can't dress himself.

"Heh. Y'might have even had a harder time catching me if I actually knew my way around. Not to flex or anything."

[doubled_speed]

"See, that's why I don't mind losing to Northstar sometimes, even if flying is cheating. Guy knows how to look good. Rocks black and white for his costume, and it just works."

But flying was still cheating.

"I don't know. I mean, are you even sure you're all that fast. Maybe you are for your world, but back home I'm actually known as Speed."

[spinsandneedles]

"Is it cheating? Nobody I know that can fly has ever outpaced me."

Okay so maybe this conversation is starting to bring out his competitive streak just a bit. Are you sure you're all that fast EXCUSE YOU BUDDY.

"Seein' as I break the sound barrier on the reg for funsies, yeah, I'd say I'm sure I'm all that fast. The name's Sonic, by the way."