riverview: test drive meme

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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!

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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.

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Many thanks to mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

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

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Comments

Illya Kuryakin | TMFU (2015)

[nikolaievich]

i.

[Illya should probably be more worried about how easily he’s slipped into the role of this area’s defender. ‘Should’ being the keyword here, because Illya has never been one for analyzing his own feelings deeply and if shooting monsters (!) makes him feel better after being basically kidnapped to another reality (!!) well, who can blame him? There’s been a lot going on in Illya’s life since he ended up in this place and he’s going to take any opportunity to take a deep breath and relax.

And nothing says ‘relaxing’ like getting to take his Makarov pistol for a ride.]

Move. [Is all the warning he gives before shooting right over someone’s shoulder to hit a nearby monster. He’s a good shooter, the bullet hits the target perfectly but it’s still probably kind of unnerving to have someone shoot to close to you.]

iii.

[Whoever shares the housing with Illya will wake up to a very angry looking Russian spy holding what looks to be a drink even if it's early in the morning. He glares at whoever comes up, as if whatever is currently happening was completely their fault. Even if they just woke up.]

We are not allowed to leave the house.

vi.

FRIENDR

Illya Kuryakin

AGE: 30
INTERESTED IN: What
SEEKING: Allies
ABOUT ME: What is the purpose of this exactly? If it’s losing your time it is a success.

iii.

[hedone]

[ solo did just wake up. fortunately for him, being glared at by a very angry russian spy is not all that unusual, and being blamed for things that are in no way, shape or form his fault is not that unusual, either. so he merely lifts an eyebrow and asks, mildly: ]

Whyever not?

[nikolaievich]

It is not safe, for a few hours.

[He says 'safe' the same way and with the same amount of venom he would say a ridiculous insult, hoping that the Cowboy gets how ridiculous the entire concept of him needing someplace to be safe is. If anything he should be out there, helping out, but apparently they wanted to keep everyone in the housing district safe.]

There are guards outside. I could have knocked them out. Did not think that would be smart. [And yet, he's full of.. nervous energy, tapping the edge of the table with his fingers and just waiting for someone to give him an excuse to get the hell out.]

[hedone]

Ah. [ that does seem like a rather odd notion, but perhaps they simply don't know who it is they have captured here, what illya is capable of. solo, too, but he's more content than illya to remain indoors.

the nervous energy doesn't go unnoticed. ] Why don't you help me prepare breakfast?

[ does he really want illya near a knife right now? apparently so. ]

[nikolaievich]

[Illya squints, his jaw clenching for a second because he's pretty confident that he can recognize pity when he sees it. He tap-tap-taps on the table for a second, two, considering his options before he just stands up and heads to the kitchen to let that be his answer.]

What are we making for breakfast?

[hedone]

[ is it pity or is it self-preservation? honestly, it may well be both, but solo's tone is all measured lightness. ] I'm feeling like a full English, aren't you? Bacon, eggs, hash browns. I do wonder if we've the ingredients for it.

[ lies: solo knows the content of the fridge inside and out. and what a modern and spacious fridge it is, too. ]

[nikolaievich]

I'm feeling like a full Russian.

[His voice is completely deadpan, but he’s using the tone he always uses when he’s joking and he seems to be reaching for the fridge to check if the ingredients are there. He may be an ass, but he happens to be kind of hungry and kind of bored and helping Solo with breakfast would take care of both.]

I do not enjoy being here against my will, but we have been well provided. I do not think we will be missing any ingredients.

i; hi its me ur favourite australian

[spellslots]

[As soon as the big guy says move Taako deftly steps to the side, feeling the rush of the bullet as it goes past him, and only look a tiny bit put out when he glances back at Illya.]

You wanna give a guy more than two seconds warning next time? Bullet holes don't go with anything I own.

[Clearly this is the primary concern.]

aw yus

[nikolaievich]

Bullets hardly go with anything.

[Don't worry Taako, Illya takes the concern seriously. Because if anyone would, it's him.]

I make mistake. I thought that was enough time. We have to be fast in these kind of battles.

[spellslots]

[He's not wrong.]

Yeah, well, I'm still getting used to shit that goes that fast. Not exactly a lotta guns where I come from.

[He doesn't sound particularly bothered, really, he's just explaining.]

[nikolaievich]

[Illya squints. To be fair, some of the weapons he's seen this place are quite amazing to him even though people seem to regard them as commonplace. So he understands. He gives him a nod and he goes back to pointing at the nearest monster with his gun.]

How do you defend yourself then?

[spellslots]

Personally, I'm big fan of magic.

[He already has a feeling this is going to be one of those situations where he's going to get stared at for mentioning magic.]

[nikolaievich]

[And stared at he gets, and Illya frowns and tilts his head.]

...Define magic?

(ii)

[signifies]

[ Clark doesn't sleep here very often. He comes back in during the early hours of the morning sometimes to leave breakfast for the others if Lola hasn't done it already. He had nodded at Illya politely, assuming he was a new housemate, but Illya hasn't stopped staring at him.

It's making Clark very conscious of his movements. It's Ellie's influence: he starts wondering how many knives they have in the drawer or what weapons Illya might have on him. This is the most uncomfortable he's felt since coming here. ]

Is something wrong?

[nikolaievich]

What is your name?

[Which is, he's aware, not an answer and not an explanation. That will come later. But Illya doesn't care much about being polite in a normal situation, he's definitely not going to care when he has someone who looks so much like Solo and yet not quite like American man in front of him.]

[signifies]

Clark Kent.

[ He usually leaves out his surname: most people here are friendly.

Clark neither looks nor sounds defensive. ]

What's yours?

[nikolaievich]

[He runs the name though his mental database, but he doesn't think he's heard it before. It could be a coincidence, that he looks so much like Solo even though there's subtle difference. But if years of training have taught him anything is to never trust a coincidence.

Problem is, he's aware by now that his name is unusual enough that if he gives him either of his names. And he's not ready to rule out American intelligence isn't keeping an eye on him. Either way, it's out of the question. So...]

Alexei.

[And quickly, so he doesn't have time to ask for a last name:] You look like someone I know.

[signifies]

[ This man doesn't offer a last name and he moves on too quickly for Clark to ask. There's a trace of an accent in his voice too. Clark has very good ears. ]

Sorry about that.

[ It's probably not helping that he uses a mild tone similar to one Napoleon Solo. Clark is genuinely soft-spoken.

He's calm about this because of Dick. He thinks 'Alexei' might know a different Clark and Kal and isn't willing to divulge the secret. It's only a theory. ]

Did you arrive this morning?

( let me know if anything he notices is not ok with you )

[nikolaievich]

[Illya squints before he can help himself. If this was Solo he’d know he was being dishonest (aka being a little shit) just to get a rise out of the Russian. But Clark, if that’s really his name is a complete unknown. For all he knows, he’s being honest.]

… I did. [He admits after a second of considering if that’s giving too much information. But he figures people arrive all the time into this place, telling him where isn’t going to make much of a difference when he doesn’t even have his name.]

This place is new to me.

vi.

[divulsion]

un: scarlet

It looks as though you've answered your own question in the line above. The purpose is to find people, in your case, allies. The question is, allies toward what purpose?

un: Peril

[nikolaievich]

Good question. But the answer should be obvious.

Survival.

[divulsion]

It is obvious, yes. I thought in light of that you might be referring to something else.

Will any allies do or are you looking for a certain skill-set to complement your own?

[nikolaievich]

Any skill set can be useful. Gathering information should be priority. Have you been here for long?

[divulsion]

Over a month now, and they're surprisingly up front about information, though it's anyone's guess as to how accurate or honest it is.

[nikolaievich]

[He considers what angles he should play here, what options he has. He could pretend to know more than he does and let her reveal information assuming he does already know. But something tells me that wouldn't play well here.]

I just arrived. I do not know much yet. Would you mind meeting and tell me what you know? [Not ideal, but it will do in pinch.]