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riverviewooc2017-05-19 11:04 pm
riverview: may test drive meme
riverview test drive memeWelcome 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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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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Many thanks to
mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!
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Is Kes here? How old are you?
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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.]
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Of course! I'd like to meet you, too. Whenever you want. Even if that's right now.
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[His injuries wouldn't let him get far without risk of further damage.]
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[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.]
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Hey! I'm Poe Dameron. I ... don't believe I got your name, actually.
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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.
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You're Cassian Andor. The Cassian Andor. That's — wow. [he hastily offers his hand.] It's an honor to meet you.
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[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?
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Lieutenant Shara Bey. Did you know her, too?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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No, I wasn't. I was born during the war — my grandpa raised me when I was a baby, but then my parents ended up retiring near the end of things. They got me back, settled on Yavin-4, and things were peaceful for a long time. It's only the last few years that conflicts have started arising again.
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He didn't know what the peaceful times had been like, he couldn't even imagine it for himself, he only knew it was something he had spent his life fighting to help make happen. Something Draven had frequently assured him he was helping to make possible.]
That's when you decided to fight, then? [He could understand why, especially with who his parents were. Of course Poe would follow in their footsteps. Unfortunate, but if there was a new war brewing, better someone fight in it who understood the costs, even if only in theory. He felt sorry for Kes, having to see his son grow up to become a fighter. If Cassian had ever believed he could have a child, that would have been the last thing he wanted. It was all a lot to take in, and though he knows the answer, he retreats to a question somewhere closer to the realm of his understanding.]
The battle on Scarif, the plans?
The planetkiller was destroyed?
[He dares, for a moment longer, to hope that only Scarif and Jedha had been destroyed by the Empire's super weapon.]
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[it only at that moment occurs to poe that … if cassian is here and alive … he must not know why he's a hero. he doesn't know what happened on scarif.]
The plans made it to the Rebellion. The Empire fired at the base on Scarif and missed — probably on purpose, to give their own people time. But everyone else … [like you and all y'all's friends…] I'm sorry.
The planet killer, or, um, Death Star, was destroyed because of the weaknesses in the plans you all got to the Rebellion. That's why you're heroes. I hope you find comfort in knowing that.
[thinks about fuckin starkiller base … and decides not to tell him right now. sighs.]
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His shoulders fall, not out of disappointment, but something more like an internal collapse. The plans had made it, after all. They had succeeded in their mission. The planetkiller was destroyed. He tosses out the notion of heroism as soon as it comes, mentally dismissing it.]
We did what had to be done. Nothing more. [It didn't make them heroes. It just helped toward making their debts, their pasts, just a bit less weighted to the wrong side of blood spilled and actions taken.]
We knew what we were going into when we decided to take that mission on. Every member of that crew had their reasons for agreeing to take it on. [And with the exception of Bodhi, Cassian didn't think a single one of their crew had gone to Scarif expecting to leave it alive. And even Bodhi had known the chances were slim to none.]
Thank you, Dameron. I didn't expect to ever know if the plans made it. It's- [He falters, his words stopping, everything slowly clicking into place as his body and mind focus for a moment on the enormity of it all. Meeting Poe has forced him to stop long enough for the battle and Poe's words to really sink in and consume him. He visibly sinks back into the bench further and lets out a slow, heavy exhale, repeating the words a second time:]
Thank you.
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If you need anything around here, have any questions, anything, you can come to me, okay? And you can call me Poe.
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All right, Poe. I'll do that. [He'd like to ask about the new war, the causes, who was responsible, how the peace times had gone and what they were like. He holds off. It's a conversation likely best left for another time. For now, though.]
You've been here about a month? [Clarification, just in case he had been wrong about that detail.]
What do you make of this place?
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[he doesn't want to launch into a full-blown catch-up yet because it's going to be a lot and he knows it, but if he doesn't say something now hux could worm his way in and it would be bad news bears for everyone.]
I have to tell you something. There's someone else from our world here. Someone from the First Order — the successor of the Empire in the war we're fighting now. He's a high ranking officer, and he's been quiet but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
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coincidentally that would not be very far because hux is like twice poe's size but shut up ok]