riverview: test drive meme

[riverviewmod]

riverview test drive meme

Welcome to Riverview's 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 April 1st.
● Providing all parties are amenable, threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon, as the plot in the prompts presented is game canon.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points, so long as all characters involved are accepted into the game.
● Since this particular TDM is plot-heavy, current players are welcome to do their own top-levels to interact with the plot. However, since it is still a TDM intended to help potential new players get involved, there will be a special additional +25 Activity Point bonus for any thread submitted by a current player that involves a potential new character rather than focusing on existing CR, for this TDM post.

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. Thanks to player-created plots, this month's Test Drive is set to effect the game setting for the next few months, so please enjoy!

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

plot overview

After just over a week of increasingly serious blackouts and brownouts around the city, the team in charge of the structural integrity and defense of the wall has found the source of the problem, and posted a network entry explaining that the issue is caused by a large quantity of lizard-like monsters that have compromised the underground infrastructure of the city, and requesting volunteers to help do a full-scale manual extermination of monsters and assess the damage and do urgent repairs.

prompt i: a call to arms

The most urgent request presented is for people to help clear out the monsters in the underground tunnels - and there are a lot of them! With estimated monster numbers in the area of 500-1000, ranging from adult to juvenile, there's a lot of work to be done to clear out the underground infrastructure of the city. The Perimeter Guard will have a steady stream of transport trucks going to escort any fight-capable residents who want to volunteer out to the tunnels. They will also provide weapons of various varieties as well as short training sessions on how to use them safely in a confined space for anyone who doesn't have their own.

Whether you fight with a weapon, your fists, magic, or poison darts, your help is more than welcome down in the tunnels. The only real request is to keep seismic or explosive abilities or attacks on the mild side, and to be careful not to poison the city's water supply! Other than that, go wild.

prompt ii: into the depths

Clearing out monsters is all well and good, but they have definitely done some damage to the city's infrastructure. So it isn't just the brawn that needs to step up to help the city, it's the brains. There's a call for anyone with any kind of special ability that would help with emergency repairs. Whether it's engineers, chemists, anyone with first aid, runners to distribute supplies, or any other special ability that would help out in the underground tunnels and fix some of the damage that's been done, anyone is welcome to help. And if you think it's just scientists who are needed, think again - magic is a well-known if not-well-understood facet of life in Riverview Quarantine, and some of this stuff works on a more arcane level than a mundane one.

And, of course, all of these brainiacs are going to need a little backup, so any bruisers to act as escort and protection are also welcome.

prompt iii: trapped in a...

Not everyone has the skills or desire to head out into the jungle and fight for the city, and that's perfectly fine. Inside the Quarantine walls, life is carrying on as normally as it can. That is, aside from the ongoing blackouts.

Wherever you might be in the city, you run a pretty decent risk of getting trapped somewhere for a short period of time. Whether it's trapped in an elevator, a tram car, a store, the housing you share with someone you barely know, or anywhere else in the city, it could happen to you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship or a meet-cute to tell your grandkids about...at least, that is, if you get along with the person you're stuck with...

prompt iv: friendr/network

Whether your character is posting up a silly word game to distract people from the dangerous mission going on, trying to get hold of a friend, or putting out feelers for people to go out into the fray with, the network is going strong.

Alternately, an offer for a new, free app is popping up on people's devices - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

<center><blockquote style="width: 220px; margin: 0; padding: 0px; background-image: url('http://i42.tinypic.com/2uf53s4.jpg'); font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana; border-radius: 20px; text-align: center;"><div style="padding: 10px 0 0 0; text-align: center;font-size: 25px; font-weight: 900; font-style: italic; color: #528887; text-shadow: -2px 2px 2px rgba(150, 150, 150, 1);">F<span style="font-size: 16px;">RIENDR</span></div> <center><img src="ICON URL HERE" style="border-radius: 50%; width: 70px; height: 70px; box-shadow:-3px 3px 2px 0px rgba(82, 136, 135, .75);"></center> <center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 14px;">Name of Character</div></center> <center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><b><small>AGE:</small></b> ## <b><small>INTERESTED IN:</small></b> Male/Female/Any <b><small>SEEKING:</small></b> Type(s) of Relationship(s) <b><small>ABOUT ME:</small></b> Blurb goes here, can be as long or short as you wish.</div></center><br> </blockquote></center>
Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

navigation

Comments

Marcel Gerard | The Originals

[bloodycrown]

ii - ~~HELPING~~

[ As tempting as it is to go on a monster-killing rampage, Marcel hasn't been in the city for long and it feels way too early to tip off his hand, so he decides to help out as a runner and heavy-lifter and whatever else is needed.

If anyone's paying attention to him, he can lift way more than any normal human would without breaking a sweat and he's been making trips between stations alarmingly fast.

If you're not paying attention to him but you're tired or hurt, he'll approach to check in on you :D he's very friendly! ]

___

iv - NETWORK

Quick poll: Vampires, werewolves, witches. Good/Bad/No opinion.

Bonus points for reasoning.

iv

[morganknight]

Vampires: Depends on the vampire. I've met good, I've met bad. Some of them are just people who are trying to do their best despite what they need to do. Some of them are monsters.

Werewolves: generally trying to save existence from stagnation and decay, so good. Exception for the ones that AREN'T.

Witches: Good, because all the ones I've met are decent and pretty cute honestly.

Re: iv

[bloodycrown]

I take it there's no werewolf curse where you're from.

Can't disagree on any of your points though.

[morganknight]

No curse at all. Any shapeshifting ability is determined 100% by genetics and 50% by spiritual.... intervention, for lack of a better word.

iv;

[greyjane]

depends. what are they?

[sorry, friend, she's from a scifi verse where even the concept of those things has never existed (or at least, never gone by those particular names.)]

[bloodycrown]

Vampires: Undead who due to magic return to life but need to drink blood to continue living.

Werewolves: Humans that due to reasons (usually accidental, but it depends) turn into wolves during the full moon. Level of control they have while turned depends on the person and training.

Witches: Humans who can do magic.

[greyjane]

[Well, that's not really any more strange than 'person who can manipulate lightning with their mind' so Shai's willing to let it pass.]

happy taking it on a case by case basis, then. assholes are assholes no matter the race, but it goes just the same for decent folks. live and let live, and all that.

you one of them?

[She's used to being completely open about her powers, as is everyone where she's from. There's little stigma attached to it, and so she just automatically assumes that's his way of vetting opinions on some personal issue.]

iv.

[dust_of_life]

[It's only the Masquerade and years of discipline that's stopping Fatima from responding "The worst."]

Beg pardon?

[bloodycrown]

Not familiar with the terms?

[dust_of_life]

Painfully familiar

Are you looking for people to read your Twilight fanfic?

iv

[exter]

No, no, no.

We have other things to worry about.

Re: iv

[bloodycrown]

Come on, we can all mutli-task.

[exter]

I meant to say, we in our world have other things to worry about.

Here too, apparently.

(ii)

[signifies]

[ He notices.

Clark paces himself more carefully out of habit, but even his trips can be fast.

Curiosity gets the better of him, and Clark sets down a crate near him, catching his breath, smiling at Marcel when he approaches. ]

I'll be all right, thank you. Just this one left.

[ He doesn't know Marcel might be able to smell he's not human. ]

[bloodycrown]

[ It's not the smell what gives him away, it's the heartbeat. Clark's only faking being tired, going by the heartbeat he's not even a little winded.

At least Marcel's not pretending to have trouble. ]

Want a hand?

[ Two can play this game. ]

[signifies]

[ Hey, that's cheating. ]

Are you sure? It's all the way up that hill.

iv

[naz]

I don't think it's fair to judge someone based on "what" they are. I imagine there are good and bad in vampires, werewolves, and witches just as much as there are good and bad in humans.

Although, with that said, I can't say I've ever met any of the species listed and, admittedly, had always just sort of assumed that was myth.

[bloodycrown]

We like it that way. It'd be pretty messy if our existence were public.

iv

[inthemoonlight]

[ He knows of werewolves??? This is the first she's heard of anyone knowing of her kind. Is he from her world? No, most likely not. There are barely any werewolves alive in her time as it is, and she assumes they'll all die out. ]

All I know comes from tales where they are painted as the villain. I suppose in that regard they are bad.

[ Play it cool, Cecelia... ]

Why do you ask?

[bloodycrown]

I was testing the waters before coming out, so to speak. Looks like there's at least a handful of each around.

ii

[whattingawhat]

[ Helping is good. Buffy likes people who help who are actually qualified to help so that they...you know, help and don't get in the way. Honestly, it's the first thing she notices about Marcel: he's actually helping. She's paying attention and after a little while she does notice some of those things, but she doesn't automatically know what he is, nor does she care. See helping. She's taking a break when he happens by the next time. ]

Hey, thanks for helping out.

[ She knows what it's like to never hear thanks so she makes a point to say it when she can.]

[bloodycrown]

[ This is the second person he meets who is not vampire nor werewolf but who's definitely more than human. She seems less invested in actively hiding it, though, and Marcel can't decide if that's good or bad. ]

Just trying to keep up with you.

[ He smiles, setting down a crate. ]

IV. UN: the.young

[leadintheyoung]

[ Curiosity piqued. It'll be a moment in between replies. She's not used to this sort of technology in the slightest. ]

What are those things and what is your reasoning for polling about them? If you don't mind my asking.

[bloodycrown]

The supernatural make people (understandably) nervous.

Vampires are undead who feed on blood.

Werewolves are humans who turn into wolves when it's a full moon.

Witches are humans who can do magic.

iv

[yorkist]

Myth, myth and no opinion whatsoever. In that order.

( The daughter of a 'witch', that one hits uncomfortably close to home. )

I do not believe in the superstition of commonfolk. Unless the gods of the Greeks, Norse and Celts were once living, and Mount Olympus more than simply a mountain peak, it is all the same: fodder for particularly good tales and poetry.

Unless you disagree?