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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewooc2017-05-19 11:04 pm

riverview: may test drive meme

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 June 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.
● Threading on the TDM is intended for prospective new characters, so top-levels should only be posted by players of these characters. Since the events in the TDM are considered game canon, characters currently in the game are free to use the TDM prompts for logs and posts on the regular communities.

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

premisearrivalsettingask a questioncalendarnavigation


prompt i: search & rescue

Following rumors about a magical healing spring deep in the jungle, a group of intrepid explorers ventured out to verify whether it existed or not. After finding the spring inside an ancient temple overrun with tree roots and flora, they brought samples back and discovered that the spring did, in fact, have healing properties. Just like the rumors said.

Until the authorities decided what to do with this information, no actions were to be taken, nor information revealed to the public at large. Unfortunately, the news leaked and spread to the alternative science communities as well as the top minds at Gramarye Magic Research. With interest piqued, several more unauthorized expeditions set out beyond the fence in search of the spring. And once the information leaked beyond these scientists and scholars? Everyday citizens also launched their own excursions into the jungle, many bringing ailing family members or friends along for the ride.

This month the mission is to deploy teams of skilled citizens into the jungle to rescue some of the less fortunate, unsuccessful parties. Some of these people will be trapped or set upon by monsters, unable to move forward to the spring or back to the safety of the city. Others have simply run out of supplies and need the teams to restock them so they can continue their trek. And some groups have managed to reach the spring and collect their own samples of the spring water, only to find themselves struggling to return to the city before the samples lose efficacy. Feel free to create your own party to rescue, and get a team together to do so!


prompt ii: death from above

Normally, living inside the Inhabited City is a pretty safe bet. You can go day to day without running into a monster or risking any kind of danger requiring a fight. Generally, the tall, laser-fenced walls keep out anything particularly dangerous.

The problem with walls? They only go so high.

While usually assault from airborne monsters isn't a problem that's on the map, there's a few weeks during late spring where a swarm of flying monsters not unlike feathery pterodactyls are migrating back to another part of the moon. They're only in the area for a couple of weeks, but during that time, residents can expect occasional attacks by swooping monsters if they should see easy prey. Usually, a good sturdy dark-colored umbrella is enough to keep them from seeing a potential victim or meal, but sometimes the attacks still happen. So the Perimeter Guard sends extra details, calling in all the reserves, to patrol the city and keep an eye out for citizens in distress. There's also a general call for anyone who's experienced at fighting to help protect their fellow citizens. Whether your character is being attacked or protecting someone else, be prepared - these monsters are quick and have very sharp teeth.



prompt iii: homesick bazaar

Over the past couple of weeks, the portal has seemed really fixated on food. Almost every time the portal changes location, new bundles of food are near the entrance, ripe for the Perimeter Guard Orientation Team to pick up and drag through. As a result, the Orientation Team has set up a free bazaar outside City Hall. The Bazaar lasts from the 20th until the 31st of May, and is completely free, featuring tables and booths laden with food taken from the other side of the portal. Many of these foods will be familiar to characters in the City, whether it's that special brand they're totally addicted to or a plate of grandma's family recipe.

Everything at the Bazaar is totally free, and anyone joining in on the feast is encouraged to share (read: gently not allowed to leave until they do) and to tell stories about the origin of the foods from their own home. It's a multidimensional foodie's paradise!


prompt iv: prijata pregaming

Prijata is a holiday in Riverview celebrating platonic love - essentially, it's a celebration of friendship, geared at showing appreciation for existing friends and finding new ones. While I won't spoil the rest of the prompts for the introductory mingle, one of the main staples of Prijata is gift giving, and the Government of Riverview gets into the spirit of it by giving small gifts to everyone who's arrived since the last Prijata.

This prompt can be used to give a quick idea of what your character is into so other characters or players can suggest gifts to be given them (or to give them) if they are accepted! More information can be found in the Prijata Pregaming modpost.


prompt v: 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 free app is popping up on new arrivals' 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.


Many thanks to [personal profile] mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!


prompt vi: wildcard

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


navigation

[river market image is by Tyler Edlin]
dothelokimotion: (Fear is a reasonable response to life)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-05-24 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
There are many stories. The word may be Turkish, but I doubt that was its point of origin.

[ He shrugs carelessly. ]

History is written by those who have the clearest recollections. Not the most truthful ones.
forcevisions: (if you want it to be)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2017-05-24 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's impossible.

[ no shit sherlock. but she can't get her brain past it. somehow it just gets hung up, like an engine that's almost starting but fizzles out at the last minute, collapsing under its own effort. ]

But that was ... [ years ago. thirty years ago. she shakes her head. ] We didn't just come from different parts of the galaxy. We came from different times?

[ even as she says the now-obvious, it's a question because it feels so unbelievable. ]
forcevisions: (counting sheep)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2017-05-24 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Great. [ her tone of voice is clear: this is not great. he should not have said that. ] Maybe I'll start by practicing on you.

[ it's so matter-of-fact and she moves on from the subject so breezily, heading to the windows to peer out and weigh the worthiness of propping furniture against them as soon as she's sure the door won't fly open on them. it helps that there's a deadbolt. she's not super used to deadbolts. those are civilized devices. ]

Help me move this. [ she points to a shelving unit. ]
jackedtothefuture: all icons: <user name="jackedtothefuture">, use freely (pic#11401826)

[personal profile] jackedtothefuture 2017-05-24 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
That was going to be my next question.

[He is so sorry already.]

Are you familiar with making a gi?
doandordie: (7)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-05-24 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He can see the realization catching fast. It's a lot to handle, and it leaves him with more questions still, but she's clever enough he can see the pieces clicking together as she comes to the same conclusions. He offers a grim smile, small and warming up as he holds it. She doesn't need his own issues on top of hers.]

Much of this is. Best to let it come to you slowly. [Don't overwhelm yourself. One thing at a time. He holds onto the words, considers offering them to her as he gauges her reaction.]

We were both taken by the portal. How is the hard question. Start simpler. There is a common thread here. Try to focus on that and find it.

[It's how Cassian is pushing forward instead of letting it break him. Perhaps it will help her, as well.]
followhim: (who lives who dies who tells your story)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-05-24 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
She was okay. I think she told me as much as she could, up to when the First Order attacked Takodana. Anything she told me you probably already know, I'm betting. [he answers quickly, then moves on to:]

If we can get back. [he'd been trying not to think about it while he thought he died, because he wasn't sure if he could go back, but now ...] I've heard it's hard to go back through the portal once you're here. Even if we can, it might be awhile.
fingerstripes: ((nw) 06)

weeps brokenly

[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-24 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a flash of something in his face. He's had the same encounters here again and again. Missed connections. One-sided connections. That the first person he's run across in months who knows him by name is a kid he's never seen before, is...

Unfair is the word that comes to mind.

It's also not a discussion they can really have in the field. He hops down with a showy little flip, which is somehow easier right now than admitting that he really isn't sure how to navigate this. ]


I can see that. Your Robin-arangs are showing.

[ He looks younger up close than Dick had thought. So young it's startling. He's a child.

And he's suddenly, absurdly conscious of the danger around them. The danger to the boy. The unknown factor. He takes a breath. ]


You ready to set a trend? [ There's two more in that swarm. Dick tilts his head; a question. ]
forcevisions: (keep my pretty mouth shut)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2017-05-24 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ she nods, taking his advice in the form of a deep breath. her blink's just a little long, and she reaches out to touch—

something. a well within her. there's peace there, and something else. she swallows.
]

So you're ... part of the rebellion. [ her brow furrows somewhat like ok gotta check my facts and also one part act cool don't be weird don't make it weird. ]
sweetlies: ([080])

Ciel Phantomhive | Black Butler

[personal profile] sweetlies 2017-05-24 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[3]

[He's not... displeased by the appearance of Funtom candy and curry buns but he's not pleased either. Especially as he's expected to peddle the goods, at no cost, to the people here. He's never had to sell his own companies goods before.

The only time Ciel has involved himself is to plan, fund, and sometimes test their goods. At least it's only food rather than toys and any of the Bitter Rabbit line. He might get properly irritated if those had appeared.

Only one thing to do, and it doesn't last more than an hour before he grows bored of it, he puts on a smile and does his best to make his company looks good.]


Come try some of Funtom's best products. Only the best, from the owner of a Royal Warrant!

[5 (a - network/ un: faustian)]

My name is Ciel, Earl of Phantomhive, in service to Queen Victoria. Aside from returning to England, my only real interest is in if any of my staff are present. A maid by the name of Mey-Rin, a chef by the name of Baldroy, a gardener by the name of Finnian, and a butler by the name of Sebastian Michaelis.

[5(b - friendr)]

FRIENDR


Ciel Phantomhive

AGE: 13
INTERESTED IN: Returning to England
SEEKING: Nothing. I don't care for people.
ABOUT ME: I am the Earl of Phantomhive, the Queen's Watchdog, founder of the Funtom Corporation




[6]

[hit me with anything]

5 (b) » text, private, un: kara

[personal profile] clobbers 2017-05-24 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Star City, wow! How's everything there nowadays? Hopefully it didn't take too long to clean up after the invasion.

( Kara's excitement has led her to blab without much thought. )

But, anyway, being a reporter plays out decently here. You might be surprised.
spellslots: DNT (got you wrapped)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-24 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
If you meet a lich the correct course of action is to run 👏 the 👏 fuck 👏 away 👏

Mercenary?
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

Tim Drake-Wayne // Red Robin // DC Comics (Rebirth)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-05-24 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
{Spoilers for DC Rebirth are kind of critical to Tim's canon point and feature character specifically in this post, but I will avoid expanding on them in tags by request as much as possible. Thank you!}

Prompt iii: Homesick Bazaar

Tim had been looking for somewhere he could try to sit and process exactly what's happened to him over the past week? Weeks? Figuring out how long since the drone attack was a priority if he could, but based on how little information he had access to about Gotham it was increasingly unlikely. The communal housing was decent, fantastic even, for that sort of thing, but it was communal. He could deal with it, but it was also going to make him want to crawl out of his skin after the isolation of his previous displacement.

The hospital had patched up what he hadn't been able to solve with the first aid kit from his utility belt in his cell, the deeper cuts and gouges that hadn't healed much during his captivity, but his body was still aching, still stiff and abused. He wasn't going to be able to get any sleep jumping at strange roommates.

He finds himself in the bazaar. It's not quiet by any means, but it's more like city noise, easy to block out or filter through. The empty booth he slides into has a table filled with Batburger bags. He can't actually bring himself to open one and eat. Who knows what the grease will do to his stomach after what he's been eating recently? It's a bad idea all around.

He props his chin on one fist, elbow on the table, because Alfred isn't there to see, because he's not CEO Timothy Drake-Wayne, because no matter the transmutable qualities of fast food this isn't Gotham and no one is going to care. When he finally peeks in the top of a bag, he shouldn't be surprised it's the vegetarian option.

Prompt v: Network un: t.drake-wayne

{The network is unhackable and he's ashamed of himself a little for not being able to crack it. Heck, for not even being able to find in roads in the code with his suit's wrist computer or his phone to crack it. Finally he gives in with an audio post.}

Hi. I wanted to see if there's anyone here from Gotham? Maybe Metropolis? Central City or Star City? Or if you aren't from there, but you know someone who is, could you tell them to contact me?

Prompt v: friendr
FRIENDR


Tim Drake

AGE: 18
INTERESTED IN: Information
SEEKING: Friends
ABOUT ME: Student. CEO. Photographer. Ask me if you'd like to know something about me?




Prompt vi: wildcard Feel free to toss another circumstance from the tdm at Tim!

{ooc: I will follow prose or brackets as preferred/used by tagging players. Thank you!}
scholiast: <user name=whyskalker site=tumblr.com> (☆ think of your friends)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-24 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
No, I did. It was a bit startling actually.

(Is it too personal, to ask about his trip through the portal? She presses on, hesitantly.) How did you come to be here?
dancingmd: (coffee and croissants)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-05-24 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
[She raises her eyebrows, intrigued.]

Not the winners?
aeturnus: (pic#11384443)

[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-24 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it was mostly just a... now-you're-home, now-you're-not moment. Apparently the portal's triggered by people feeling out of place at home? Or it can only pull people feeling that way. I'm not completely positive on that.

If you mean more specifically, then—my brother and I are fighting right now.
dothelokimotion: (Truth takes us to dangerous places)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-05-24 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what they're called now?
de_evilise: (Marinette - ERK)

[personal profile] de_evilise 2017-05-24 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a moment of 'ACK' for a split second. Regroup, regroup! ]

A....gi?

[ Shiiiiiiit, she's actually never done clothing from other countries. Although, no time like the present, right? ]

Well, honestly, no... but I'm up to the task of doing the research and learning how to properly make one. I've done the same when I made some of the designs I've worn.

A-although I'd understand if you wouldn't want someone who's never made a gi before, remaking the entire outfit for you.
scholiast: <user name=anonbeadraws site=tumblr.com> ((young) non-stop)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-24 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
(That's different. She promptly notes this down, then stares hard at her page, tapping her pen against her lower lip contemplatively.)

Hmm. Okay. (She's a little lost in thought.) I'm sorry, about your brother.
jackedtothefuture: (pic#11401837)

[personal profile] jackedtothefuture 2017-05-24 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oops. Yeah, this is kind of why he's about ready to apologize for asking.]

I am willing to pay extra and show you the one I am using, if that will help you. While I still have it.

[Not even going to hold out hope that it'll stay intact.]

If you cannot then do not worry. I don't intend to waste your time.
de_evilise: (Marinette - It's a good day)

[personal profile] de_evilise 2017-05-24 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, I can do it! I mean - I'm sure I can. If I can see the design of your gi before hand I can take some notes on it; enough to be able to work on getting the material and recreating it if you do ever need to have a replacement outfit ready. I promise you it won't be a waste of time, it'll actually be a big help to me.

[ She'll have to learn outfits from other countries and everything too! ]
bestrobin: (050.)

hold me ;c;

[personal profile] bestrobin 2017-05-24 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
( This wasn't Richard Grayson. This wasn't the man he'd fought alongside as Batman and Robin before his father had come back. This wasn't the man whose arms he leaped into after he'd thought Grayson had died.

This was a man who didn't recognize him. It was obvious in the lack of familiarity, the amount of time it took for Grayson to come down from the rooftop. There's no smile or grin, no joke or teasing. There's only a sort of friendly professionalism he's only ever seen Richard use on someone that he doesn't know.

If the situation were different, he would have addressed it immediately. But he didn't miss the birds coming towards them. His head turned in their direction, shifting only briefly back to Richard to nod.
)

I'm always ready. ( Was all he said before he was moving, taking off swiftly. If Richard watched him, he might have noticed a few things - there was a grace to his movements, an ease in the way he jumped and flipped that was similar to Dick, a swift and intensity that was remnant of training under Bruce, and a ferocity he still hadn't outgrown in his time with Batman.

Making his way towards the first bird, he wasted no time using his own grappling gun to swing him up to a higher ledge, kicking off of it to flip onto another, higher spot. Another jump and careful flip, and he wasted no time sending his batarangs flying towards the creature - satisfied with the sound of distress it made as he jerked sideways, caught off guard by the sudden impact. Landing in a neat, silent crouch, he turned his attention up towards the other creature expectantly.

Your move, Grayson.
)
bestrobin: (008.)

[personal profile] bestrobin 2017-05-24 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't run away.

No.
bestrobin: (006.)

[personal profile] bestrobin 2017-05-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
The mansion isn't rich, Kent.

( He rolls his eyes at the way Jon pouts. )

Who else is here besides your father?
bestrobin: (015.)

[personal profile] bestrobin 2017-05-24 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Are there specific creatures?

( He's familiar with different folklore, but he won't make assumptions about what she is or does. After all, much of the lore about the League of Assassins is inaccurate. He imagine the same holds true for other such things that aren't "supposed" to exist. )
bestrobin: (006.)

v! text (un: d.wayne)

[personal profile] bestrobin 2017-05-24 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't you supposed to be a detective, Drake?

( Use your terrible investigative skills and discover a way to stop breathing his air. )