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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.

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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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Brought half the water in the city with you, too, looks like.

[Sam glances up from the book he's reading, giving Bucky an unimpressed look.]

You look like a drowned rat, man. [He's already getting up from his seat, fetching both a towel and a blanket. He might sound mildly antagonistic, but it's nothing more than light trolling. Sam tosses the towel at Bucky, holding onto the blanket till he gets himself dry. Or drier, at any rate.]

[Apparently his luck is not in tonight. When he finally chose a shelter to slip inside, he did not expect it to house one of the Avengers, especially not one of the ones who he had fought directly. He can practically still feel that wing breaking under his power.

He halts in the doorway, only moving enough to lift his arm and catch the towel before it hits him full in the face.]

I'm not staying.

[It's ever so slightly incredulous, why would he stay now that he knows one of the Avengers is here? Especially this one.]

[Sam just rolls his eyes at Bucky's statement - apparently he assumes this is the Bucky he's used to, the one he's at least fought with, if nothing else, so he figures he's just being a stubborn idiot, much like Steve.]

Well, you aren't going back out there. You'll drown or end up with pneumonia or something. Sit the hell down and dry off. You're making me feel cold just looking at you.

[He can't get pneumonia, the serum takes care of pesky things like having to maintain his body like most people, so he assumes that Sam is being facetious. He knows his name is Sam now, didn't know that when they fought before, but he's researched since then.]

You going to stop me?

[It probably comes out as more of a threat than he intends it to. He is genuinely asking if Sam intends to try and detain him, but 'deadpan threatening' seems to be his default tone of voice.]

[He's largely being facetious, but there's genuine concern there, too. Maybe he doesn't know Bucky that well, but he wants to take care of him for Steve's sake, if nothing else. Or because he's just a nice guy who doesn't see the need for Bucky to go back out in the downpour when he could be warm and dry in here.]

Oh, come on, you goddamn know I can't. Seriously, just shut up and stay here.

[His eyes narrow and he sincerely contemplates just walking out anyway, but he has a feeling that Sam might try to stop him even if he knows he can't, and that wouldn't end well. He's trying to keep a low profile, that means no fighting if he can avoid it.]

Why?

[Is Sam trying to keep him there until Steve arrives? Is this some kind of trap?]

I wouldn't have come in at all if I knew you were here.

Why? Because it's raining cats and dogs out there, dumbass.

[He is So Done with this, Bucky.]

You wanna have some weird grudge against me because I didn't move my seat up or whatever, that's fine, go for it. But don't be stupid about it.

What seat?

[Is this some weird new slang that he's just not familiar with?]

I don't have a grudge against you, I fought you because you were in my way.

[Sam's confused. With all the talk of multiverses, it simply hasn't occurred to him that Bucky isn't even from the same time he is.]

Back in DC, you mean?

Yeah.

[There's the tiniest furrow of confusion at his brow, where else could he mean?]

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yesssssssss Sam

he's still not moving his seat up :')

so gd rude

the rudest tbh

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