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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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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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Bucky Barnes | MCU
[The storm has finally broken and all that's left to do is huddle inside and wait for it to pass before fixing the damage, not something that Bucky enjoys doing. He's been spending most of his time moving around to various empty buildings, or even sleeping outside, to avoid the vast majority of the population. So being trapped in a shelter with more than a few people is digging under his skin.
He waits until the last minute to slip in the door, dripping wet and causing puddles wherever he chooses to stand. He drops a bag to the floor, voice low.]
I brought food.
[Who knows how long they'll be trapped?]
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[Even before the SSR, her time at Bletchley Park had made Peggy a fan of organization and preparation. She'd appointed herself in charge of this shelter, and thus far, at least, no one had contested it. ]
If you could put it over there, that would be lovely.
Also, we'll need water. [There has to be a way to purify water here. She just needs to figure it out. ]
yesssss Peggy!
Peggy. Peggy Carter. At least he thinks that's what her name was.
He wonders if she recognises him, he looks very different from the Sergeant Barnes who used to be in the Howling Commandos. It makes him wary enough that he almost doesn't answer her, too caught up in thought.]
Water. Right.
[He turns again, heading back towards the door. It's better this way, get on with a task.]
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And right now, getting on was what needed doing.
Perhaps not quite that fast, though. ]
Do you have a way to keep yourself safe? [Who knew what was out there? She couldn't send anyone back out into that unarmed. ] I have a pistol, if you need one. [A small one, the kind a lady could easily hide, but it was lethal enough when one needed it.]
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Keep your gun, I can handle myself.
[He doesn't see the need to mention the veritable arsenal that he usually carries around.]
Water. Anything else while I'm out there?
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i.
This is easier, even in the presence of strangers. Or in this case, a virtual stranger. She knows Bucky more from Steve's memories of him than through any conversation, which is to say that she still isn't entirely sure what to make of him. As he speaks, Wanda glances up at him first and the rain dripping off him, and then to the food he's brought with him.]
I should have thought to do that. [She'd been trying to help everyone else storm-proof their shops and buildings that she hadn't thought ahead to her own needs. Food. Water. Shelter.] Was it easy to come by? Is there more we can get later if we need?
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Of all the shelters that he could have chosen, he had to pick one that has an Avenger inside? It's not that he's frightened of her, per se, it's that she's an Avenger at all. That means she has a connection to Steve, to the people looking for him, and that's not good.
Maybe she doesn't know him? He moves stiffly further into the room.]
You can have that, I can get more.
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He looks uncomfortable by her presence, which makes her all the more unwilling to take all of it.]
You found it. It's yours. I can get my own if necessary. [If he insists, however, she'll take a little, but no, not all. She knows what it's like to be hungry and can handle it again; he has the metabolism of a supersoldier, and needs it far more than she does.] I didn't know you were here.
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You know who I am.
[It's only half a question, food forgotten.]
Steve told you.
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They already had been stockpiling food, water, blankets and general supplies during the day, but more food is never a bad thing. Adam nods, grateful, before crossing his arms over his chest.]
Need a towel?
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No.
[A beat.]
It wouldn't help, I don't have anything dry to change into, so a towel would be pointless.
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Your call, but I'm sure we can find something for you to change into. This place is already going to be a breeding ground for sickness, you might want to give yourself the best chance not to get ill.
[He shrugs again, then motions at the bag with his chin.]
What kind of food you found?
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He just opens up the bag and holds it out.]
Bread, apples, some cold sausage. Help yourself.
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[He's glad that Bucky made it inside, but he was out for a long time and Steve feels like at least part of that was unnecessary. Even if he was collecting supplies, that isn't worth the risk of being stuck out in the storm. He doesn't try to give Bucky a stern talking to, but he does mention it. Look, he noticed. Just so the man knows he can't sneak that by him.]
Hopefully it'll pass without too much need for that. Good job.
[And he can still acknowledge his help. He appreciates it. He just doesn't want Bucky running off on his own too much in such a dangerous place.]
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He freezes when Steve speaks, half goes to pick the bag up again, before leaving it where it is on the floor.]
I didn't know you were in this building.
[The implied 'and I wouldn't have come in if I had known' is pretty loud.]
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[He catches the implication and looks back at Bucky without hesitation. The man might not want to be around him, but he's stuck now.]
Well, since you're here now, have a seat. You should dry off and rest. We don't know when we might need to move again.
[Hopefully the storm will break in a few hours, but there's no guarantee. Still, Steve tries to calm the other man and get him to sit. He's too tense.]
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When someone else slips through the door and drops a bag, dripping puddles on the floor, Bucky quirks a brow where he's standing by the window, having been watching the water levels slowly rise outside. He tosses a towel at him without a word about his soggy state.]
Maybe I'll go check on the river again. [He can only imagine how awkward this might get, with the two of them stuck here.]
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The tension level inside him ratchets up by about a thousand percent and his stance shifts ever so slightly as if he might run off again at once, though his only actual movement is to snatch that towel out of the air and beginning rubbing his hair down.]
I did it.
[That's where he's been most recently.]
Flood defences are holding.
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It's a shame they can't just keep awkwardly dancing around each other.]
Right. That's... good. [James is used to the idea of alternate universes and divergent timelines simply from being an Avenger, but that doesn't mean he's ever dealt with something like this before.]
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[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.]
yesssssssss Sam
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.]
he's still not moving his seat up :')
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.
so gd rude
the rudest tbh
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Thank you.
[ He steps away to fetch a towel. There's a mechanical sound coming from under the man's clothes, with a human voice and a human heart. ]
Here, dry off.
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There enough room for me in here?
[He hadn't exactly been turned away from other shelters, but he had noticed some that were far too full for the amount of supplies they'd managed to gather.]
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Plenty.
[ There's only him in this one so far. ]
Would you like something to eat?
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