riverview: may 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 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.

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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.

<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 vi: wildcard

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

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[river market image is by Tyler Edlin]

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[doandordie]

[!!!

As Cassian repeats the same question. It's a very important question. But this makes three, and that's more than he had expected already.

The username though- it gives him a moment of pause. Dameron is a name he knows. The p could be anything, but the surname- He tucks it away temporarily.]

What system were you in when the portal took you? I was in the Rishi system.

[followhim]

Jakku system, en route to Jakku. Maybe actually on Jakku ... the specifics are a little blurry.

[doandordie]

Were you in a ship when the portal took you?Pilot or passenger?

[followhim]

Yeah, I was piloting. The ship was going down, though. Things were definitely looking bad. I woke up in the hospital here.

[doandordie]

[He'd been just barely conscious himself when he had fallen through the portal, and ended in the same place. He considers carefully before responding.]

Shot down during combat?

[It's a guess, but a reasonable one, in his mind.]

[followhim]

Yeah. I don't actually remember crashing, but I remember that sudden shift in trajectory. Thinking "this is it", all that.

[doandordie]

I know the thought process.

[He doesn't want to ask or reveal too much, but the name is there, taunting him with a thread of familiarity, daring him to make a mistake.

He racks his mental files for a piece of information, a thread he can pull on. But it's the pilot he's hung up on. It doesn't fit in Kes' profile, though that doesn't make it impossible in the least.

Nothing risked, nothing gained, and ultimately all the stranger has to go on is a system and the planet he took his username from. The assessment proves worth it, in the end.]

Seems like you made it, to somewhere at least. Jakku is a ways from the Gordian Reach, and I doubt this moon is the one you wanted to return to.

[Vague, but it's as close as he can bring himself to straight up saying Yavin IV. If he's Resistance, he'll know. Or so Cassian hopes.]

[followhim]

[the gears are turning in his head ... he gets that cassian is trying to imply something, ask a question without actually asking it, but he can't quite put his finger on what.]

No, I was trying to get to Jakku. Had something to pick up there. Gordian Reach, though ... do I know you? I grew up around there, but I haven't been back in awhile.

i lied. feelings now.

[doandordie]

[It's not overly promising. If he hasn't been back in a while- but then a while is subjective, and he doesn't know Kes' missions. Only his own and what he's required to know for them. It's been a bit since he's seen the man in passing.]

I have an acquaintance there. Someone you might know.

[He's assuming Poe IS Kes, but Cassian's indirect line of conversation doesn't make that clear at all.]

Goes by the name of Kes.

SCREECHES

[followhim]

Oh! That's my dad. I'm Kes Dameron and Shara Bey's son. Do you know them from the war?

[he figures that's a dumb question since all his parents' friends are/were war buddies but he's trying to make conversation ok.]

[doandordie]

[Having died two years before Poe's birth, the revelation that Kes has a son comes as no small surprise. Let alone one old enough to be conversing with him. There's a sharp tug of suspicion, but it's overruled by a need to know what and who he is dealing with on this moon.]

Is Kes here? How old are you?

[followhim]

32. And no, he's not. He was fine the last time I talked to him, though, if that's any reassurance.

[doandordie]

[32. This just became a mess. Someone had mentioned, in the haze of questions and videos and pain, that people were pulled from all manner of time and place. He had accepted the place, but let the time piece of that statement slip away into the nebula of things that made little sense.

But that was a good long time.]

As far as I know, Kes has yet to have a son.

[War was no place or time to be having children and yet, that was exactly what the war had needed. More people to fight for the future so that there would be one worth living to see. At least, that was Draven's spiel.

Good to know Kes would survive to have a family and see a much older age than any of their expected life spans in the rebellion.]

I'd like to meet you.

[Both to see for himself, and to take the conversation off a medium that could be used and stored.]

[followhim]

[poe also hadn't given it much thought because, even though he had met people from the same world in riverview, they both seemed to be from the same timeframe. weirdness aside, meeting someone who knew his dad when he was around his age seemed really exciting? even if he ... still thought he was that age. it's fine.]

Of course! I'd like to meet you, too. Whenever you want. Even if that's right now.

[doandordie]

Now would be best. I don't count on this place being predictable. Have you been here long? Perhaps you know of a good place to meet. Travel distance is- limited- for me at this time.

[His injuries wouldn't let him get far without risk of further damage.]

[followhim]

Not long. About a month. Where are you? I could go to you, it's no trouble.

[doandordie]

The garden outside the communal housing. I'm wearing a tan shirt, arm in a black sling. Short brown hair. Just under 1.8 meters. Shouldn't be hard to locate.

[He isn't comfortable enough to sit, so he puts his back to the open area, the drop down from the curved garden path between buildings. He stays alert, his blaster at his back, concealed beneath his untucked shirt.

If this was a trick or a trap he'd be as ready as he could be.]

[followhim]

[hilariously, he was home, so it's a very short trip to the garden outside communal housing. he's been carrying rey's stormtrooper blaster at his hip since he found it, but it's more out of a desire to be prepared for anything than out of an expectation for trouble. (although ... given that he knows hux is around and rey is missing ... should he be prepared for this to be some kind of trap??? maybe. whatever that's why the blaster's there so it's all good.) he's also wearing his jacket. and ... normal dude clothes otherwise. when he sees the only person matching cassian's description (and also possibly the only one there), he waves.]

Hey! I'm Poe Dameron. I ... don't believe I got your name, actually.

[doandordie]

[Cassian offers Poe a nod and forces himself to appear relaxed. It's nothing new for him to fall into the easy smile of someone not looking for anything more than a conversation.

But he looks Poe over as he approaches, eyes sharp and aware. Could he trust his own eyes to make comparisons to Kes while his mind is already seeking them? It would be easy to force them, but for now he focus' on Poe's features, the cut of him, the way he walks-

He had given the orientation attendant a false name without hesitation, and it would be easy to continue on with it, but if the man really was Kes' son, it would be easier to come to that conclusion without a lie.

They had been soldiers together, and the rebellion had been the only family Cassian really knew, so even if he and Kes had not been overly close, Cassian had known him, bumped into him between missions, conversed with him over caf. There was a familiarity that he had almost dared to hope he had found again, if only because allies could be a great help to him here.]

Cassian Andor. Thank you for meeting me, Poe. This conversation is one better had in person, I think.

[followhim]

Woah! [his eyebrows shoot up off his head. this is almost as awesome as when he met leia for the first time, only even more awesome because ... he knows how rogue one ended, ok. he just cares a lot about everything that happened in the galactic civil war ok. :'( and the rogue one team are fuckin heroes.]

You're Cassian Andor. The Cassian Andor. That's — wow. [he hastily offers his hand.] It's an honor to meet you.

[doandordie]

The only one I know of.

[Cassian gives him a firm handshake, though the emphasis on him and the idea of it being any form of honor to meet him don't line up too well. War could be glorified when it was in the past, but the things Cassian had done in the name of the cause, and the way he had operated in war-

He can't imagine his name earning that kind of reaction.]

Kes is your father. Your mother?

[followhim]

[he said it, but because it was probably a lot of information at one for cassian, he doesn't point it out nor does he mind repeating it.]

Lieutenant Shara Bey. Did you know her, too?

[doandordie]

[He'd been too focused on Kes at the time, but the pilot's name rings a bell, and he can place a face if he focuses on it.]

Knew of her. Both good fighters.

[And they had apparently survived long enough to have a son and talk to him about the war. Or some aspects of it.

He moves to a bench, taking a seat to get off his feet. There were questions he would have liked to ask, but he wasn't sure he wanted to know the answers to them.]

I didn't think my name would be worth mentioning.

[followhim]

[he beams for cassian's assessment of his parents because he's very proud of both of them, ok. as cassian takes a seat, he moves to sit next to him.]

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with stories from the war. Mostly ones about my parents, but they told me some other ones too. The rest I found out for myself when I got older. [that would be where he learned about rogue one because shara and kes weren't telling him that george rr martin shit as a bedtime story 👀 ] I think knowing our history is important.

[doandordie]

[Cassian can't blame the son of two soldiers for being passionate about war, even if his own opinions on it were low. Poe was at least an intelligent man, and he can't imagine Kes letting him believe war was something great. He hopes not, at least.]

It is. It's the only way we can learn from the mistakes of the people who come before us.

Stories, though. [There's the faintest hope in that. Maybe, just maybe, the war had ended. Even if it's obvious conflict had not.] You weren't raised during war-times?