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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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A subject better discussed in person. Will you meet me?
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she leaps in headfirst, as if 'will' was never the question. ]
Where?
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There's a garden outside the main entrance to the communal housing. Meet me there. I'll wait by the doors.
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[ only when she's in the garden and waiting does it occur to her that 'scipio' might be a part of the first order, not in opposition of it. after all, it was the testing of a weapon, he said. why would the resistance have any experience with an experimental weapon?
but she's here now, so she just keeps her staff in hand instead of slung over her shoulder. better to be ready. ]
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His blaster is tucked away at his back, in reach but not visible, but he's not looking to start trouble.]
Rey?
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And you're the one who sent the message?
[ she shoulders the staff when it doesn't LOOK like he's a threat. we'll see. ]
'Scipio.' From my galaxy.
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You wanted to know about the weapon? It's a planetkiller. A superweapon developed in secret. If not for the portal, I would be dead from its blast.
[It's a lot to offer all at once, but it had initially been one of two possible reasons for this difficult to explain change in scenery.
Option 1: Somehow the blast had created some form of improbable anomaly that allowed the portal to transport him to the quarantine.
Option 2: The far more likely option. He was dead, and even death wasn't willing to let him rest.]
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She deflates visibly. There's sympathy writ across her face and voice as she opens her mouth to offer some, only to realize—
No. The Rishi System was nowhere near where it hit. ]
They fired it on the Rishi system? But how— [ how didn't anyone know about that? She'd felt it against the Republic planets from Takodana. ]
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Scarif. They were attempting to halt a transmission, or at least keep Empire data files from falling into Rebel hands.
[The one positive here is that her reaction means she is either under cover and playing him, or not an Empire supporter. But the sympathy looks real.]
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[ Empire. Rebel. Scarif.
They're a distant history lesson that she never received growing up with her lovely, doting parents Unkar Plutt and Inoperable AT-AT. But she knows enough fragments to piece together what's wrong. ]
You mean the First Order.
[ But he doesn't, and she knows he doesn't, but nothing else makes sense because somehow laser weapons are cool but time travel that's just a bridge too far. ]
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The Empire. The Imperials destroyed their own archives to try to keep their information out of Rebel hands.
Tell me about this First Order. A fringe group? [Not one he had heard of, and that alone is alarming. Cassian traveled the galaxy endlessly hunting down information. If there was some splinter cell he didn't know bout, the Rebellion very likely didn't either.]
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[ she says it dumbly, almost distracted, because she's still puzzling through it. ]
No. [ more firmly now. ] There's nothing fringe about them. They're what survived the fall of the Empire. [ they're worse, she thinks privately. ]
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He had watched the orientation video. He knew the claims. It was one thing to be told what the portal could do and another entirely to experience it. He can't analyze the implications right now, the data points are too few and too wildly out of his range.]
The Empire hasn't fallen yet for the point of the galaxy I arrived here from.
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[ 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. ]
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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.]
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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. ]