riverview: test drive meme

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riverview test drive meme

Welcome to Riverview's first test drive meme! Feel free to dip your toes in on the test drive meme to try out your character in the setting, play out a mission, and get samples for your application at the same time!

● Reserves are currently OPEN.
● Applications open on March 1st.
● All threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon once the game is up and running.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points.

Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own scenario. The setting is built to be flexible, so feel free to make things up as you go.

information resources
premise ● arrival ● setting ● ask a question ● navigation

prompt i: batten down the hatches

If the sky has seemed a little more yellow-green than usual for the past couple of days, there's a reason for that. Meteorologists have been warning of a particularly nasty storm blowing in from the direction of the Delta in the Southwestern part of the Abandoned City.

The Quarantine is about to be hit by a nasty typhoon, and there's a lot to be done. Whether you're helping sandbag the banks of the river, which is bound to be swollen by the storm and flooding, weatherproofing your building, or just huddling indoors for warmth and helping reassure your friends, family, or partner that everything will be okay, it's time to take action!

prompt ii: monster madness

There's been a lot of talk around the Quarantine about the various predators and monsters outside the fence, and how they've been getting steadily more active, crowding the fences, trying to leap over them, seemingly driven by some kind of mania. There have even been increasing instances of predators that normally mind their own business attacking the fences wholesale, slamming into it over and over as if they're trying to find a weakness.

The good news? The fences have been holding. So far.

The bad news? They won't be holding for much longer.

The Perimeter Guard is in a bad way, and it's all hands on deck. They've also sent out a few of the Perimeter Guard Cadets to post up flyers around the city asking for temporary help in fighting off the beasts. So pick up whatever weapon you're best with, hop onto a truck transport, and head on over to the fences to help drive off the monsters and keep the Quarantine safe.

prompt iii: hold your lover close

With a storm rolling in that's going to keep everyone indoors, that might cause power outages, and is just frankly pretty scary, a lot of the clubs, restaurants, and hotels are doing special events to keep everyone's brains occupied and flooded with endorphins.

There are flyers around the city advertising various couples activities: speed dating, dance classes, overnight pool parties, and all-expenses-paid lovers' nights in.

The catch? The great deals only count if you're a twosome. So if you don't have someone to love, hit up speed dating in the indoor courtyard of Riverview's largest mall, or grab the first person you see and take the opportunity.

prompt iv: solution

After a day or two of storm activity, things are definitely not getting better: the rain is torrential, the monsters are attacking with increased energy and decreased rest times, and the distractions are starting to wear thin. Power outages happen off and on, a very rare situation in Riverview Quarantine.

The government has put out an all-points-bulletin imploring anyone with an exploratory spirit to help.

From what government science techs can tell, the storm isn't natural - after all, even the meteorologists were saying that the pressure systems seemed extremely strange. They've managed to narrow the cause to an area in the delta where the storm seems to be originating from, and are broadcasting the general location so anyone with the guts can head out into the storm and try to find the source of it.

Any characters who decide to penetrate the jungle in search of the source will find a device in the shape of a pyramid, with glowing blue edges about a day's walk into the Abandoned City. The pyramid is a malfunctioning weather control device that is causing wild pressure fluctuations and causing the storm as well as making the animals in the jungle aggressive and erratic. Characters can destroy or deactivate the device to end the storm.

This mission can be threaded out however you would like, in groups however large you would like, and more than one team can accomplish the goal.

prompt v: wildcard/network

Whether you're looking for help with a mission or just want to get to know your fellow new arrivals, your character can make a post to the network.

Or you can choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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Comments

network prompt;

[zethir]

→ network: horse racing is animated roulette.

un: b.zethir

Did anyone else realize they have a racetrack here? With actual horses even, no mechs! Anyone feel like joining me to check it out today?

Wouldn't say no to a gym, sparring ring, or shooting range also if anyone's happened upon one...

[causational]

un: eddietective

Are the horses weird alien horses, or just normal horses? Important question.

[zethir]

...very important question. I think they're normal?? They look normal enough, at least by the standards of my world. Four legs with hooves, two ears, a mane and tail.

They could still be mechs inside, I suppose. Or they could be alien just because we're from another reality so that makes everything alien to us, right?

[causational]

That sounds pretty normal. They aren't blue or anything, right?

And wow.

Mind. Blown.

[zethir]

Well some are, of course. Your horses aren't blue back home?

[She's absolutely fucking with him.]

ooooOOOOOoooooooeeeeeooooo you're an alieeeen invader

[causational]

No? I've never seen a blue horse. There are blue horses where YOU come from??

[Okay so maybe he is slightly gullible over text.]

You seriously did not just say that to me.

[zethir]

Blue and purple! Some of them have a dusty rose color too in some parts of the country.

[So, so much bullshit. She can't help herself now.]

I seriously did. Congratulations, you are officially 200% more ambitious than you were before you arrived.

[causational]

Oh my god. That's amazing. I can kind of picture it.

Huh. I can't tell if I was really ambitious or really unambitious before I came here.

[inlaid]

I have a very important horse-related question for you.

Also re: ambition, unless you were already invading other countries, planets, or galaxies or something, I'm going to say unambitious in this particular line. Just think about how this will look on your resume when you get home, though, isn't that exciting?

[causational]

Oh?

I was definitely not invading anything. I wasn't even in space.

Hmm, do police detectives with crossdimensional invasion experience get higher salaries, though?

[inlaid]

The question is this: Have you always been so adorably gullible or am I really that convincing?

As for bucking for a higher salary, I'd say you ought to and if they're not willing I bet you could make a strong argument in favor of it. I mean, people get paid for their experience as much as for what they do so obviously they're paying for your experience as a contingency.

[causational]

Oh man. Were you faking? I think it's somewhere in between the two. I'm sad there are no blue horses, though.

That's definitely true. I think I should at least get a few thousand per year on my salary for the experience of being a real live alien invader.

[inlaid]

What if I find you a horse and color it for you, will that make you feel better?

That's the spirit. You've got valuable, specialized skills and you deserve to rake in the big plat for it.

[causational]

Maybe, just a little bit. :)

Plat?

[inlaid]

I'll see what I can do.

Plat = Platinum. Not that we use the actual coins anymore but the shorthand name has stuck since everything went digital. Platinum, gold, silver, copper.

[causational]

Makes sense to me. About the money, I mean.

As for the horse, I'm looking forward to it. We should definitely meet up sometime.