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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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Lucretia supposes that it was this that caused the portal to open in the first place. Seeing Magnus, Merle and Taako for the first time since... since–
Well. They have their first assignment; she has Lup's Phoenix Fire Gauntlet. Two of seven relics reclaimed. After they had departed for Rockport, she had sunk down behind her desk and cried, momentarily overwhelmed by grief and doubt and longing for the Starblaster; her friends; their journey through the hundred cycles.
And now she's here. Part of her appreciates the intervention, and part of her is twitchy, waiting for the Hunger to descend. She distracts herself by exploring, taking long, contemplative walks, and wishing she had a journal with her for old time's sake.)
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Right now, though, he feels a lot more like Lup, with his umbrella outstretched, hand shaking, magic missile at the ready.
But he can't do it, just like he couldn't shoot at an unarmed Lucas, he can't fire at someone he spent a century loving, no matter what she's done to betray him, betray them in the decade since then. Hurting Lucretia won't bring Lup back.
The magic missiles still fire, but they sail over her head, striking harmlessly against the side of the building to catch her attention, and there's Taako, still shaking as he drops the disguise self spell that he's worn constantly since Wonderland, because he wants her to see. He wants her to know what she did, sending them into that hellhole so fucking unprepared.]
Remember me?
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and feels as if the breath has been knocked out of her.)
Taako?
(Her voice is hoarse, hands suddenly clenched hard upon her staff, her heart in her throat. He's missing some of his usual glamour and poise: he looks tired, like his exhaustion goes bone-deep. Lucretia herself knows that feeling all too intimately. He has the Umbra staff pointed casually in her direction. She does not let go of her staff.
And he knows. Lucretia is intensely, horrifyingly aware of it. He is from a point in the future where he has drunk of the second Voidfish, and her plan has failed. Where in time is he from? Is he the only one left?)
Of course I do, (she says, struggling to stay diplomatic, neutral, even though a deep, preoccupying panic is starting to set in.) Why wouldn't I?
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[It's meant to cut, because sure, maybe he won't physically hurt Lucretia, but that doesn't mean he has to play nice, or that he can't do damage with his words.
She brought a relic here, to this place that's supposed to be safe from the Hunger, and if his guess is right about what she's been doing with the ones they've collected, reassembling the light, she might have just doomed this world.]
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(Cut it does. Lucretia can feel her hands starting to shake, but she draws herself up straight-backed, facing Taako down. He's only trying to hurt me because he doesn't know what else to do, she thinks, and, reason over emotion. Reason over emotion. She swallows her anguish as best she can.)
I know that you're angry, (she says, and closes her eyes for a moment, world-weary. Coming from where she has just been, this is a colossal shift in the narrative. She was banking on at least a year passing before she'd have to have this discussion with any of them.)
But I need to know, before we get into this. Who else is alive?
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Well, since you asked so fucking nicely, Magnus is stuck in a mannequin cause those liches you handed us to on a platter destroyed his body. And speaking of liches, Barry's one, so that's cool. Merle's super great, but uh, Davenport's been fucking lobotomized. [a pause, for the dramatics, and:] Oh, my bad, you already knew that one.
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Her mind is reeling trying to put it all together, trying to understand what has happened, where along the timeline of her plan Taako is from. If he has been to Wonderland then she must have the Bell, and if she has that then... she has them all. She glances momentarily at her staff, and her fingers (stiff, aging) where they are curled tight around it.
Perhaps she should be happy. There is a tiny, horrible part inside of her that insists upon being happy, or at least confident in her plan. But the rest of her hears that Magnus has lost his body to Wonderland; that Barry is dead, clinging to a cursed half-life; that Davenport is mute and missing so much of himself. That Lup is gone, gone, gone, has been all this time, and isn't coming back.
Her facial expression crumples.)
Yes. I did know.
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Taako lowers the umbra staff.]
You took her from me.
[He wants to be angry, wants to cling to it like a lifeline so he doesn't drown under all this, but he just sounds plaintive, almost like he's asking for something.
He wants to hear her apologise. He wants to know that she understands what she did to him.]
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She wants to put her arms around him and hold him close. She doesn't move.)
I'm so sorry Taako. I know that doesn't mean anything in light of all that's happen but– please know that I am. So, so much.
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But it does. It means she's acknowledging it, that she knows, because Magnus and Merle, they lost some memories, some meaning to their lives, but not having Lup changed Taako in a way that he's still grappling with. Taking Lup took a part of who is was, fundamentally, and it turned him into someone he's not even sure Lup would like.]
Barry saved us from the liches, but the Hunger's already there. The astral plane was overrun.
[He doesn't know why he's telling her this.
Maybe because it's easier than talking about Lup.]
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We have the Bell, (she guesses, opening her eyes, thinking out loud.) So all I need now... is to construct the Light.
(Hoping against hope, it seems... doable. She's more than willing to die trying at this point.)
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[He wonders if Barry has lost himself to the dark magic involved with becoming a lich, and the thought worries Taako more than he'd like to admit.]
Shit comes through the portal, stuff from our worlds, and I guess whatever power is in control there saw it fit to send me some ichor.
[So they don't know, back in Fearun. They're still in the dark.]
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(She winces, grimacing at her own words. It sounds almost villianish– but isn't it, in a way? She had used them all, just to secure one true shot in the dark at the Hunger, and knows she'll agonize over whether or not it was worth it until the day she dies.)
I confess– I hadn't expected to have to talk this over with you for a long time, now. I only just saw you all off to Rockport, after all.
(But it's good to confirm they've been successful with the rest of the missions, as she always knew they would be.)
these threads are giving me whiplash
Shit.
Now she knows ahead of time, when they'll find out the truth. He's given her months to plan, almost a year, and that's dangerous as hell when it comes to Lucretia.]
Well, hey, tell future me to say hi to Cam for ya. I'm sure he'll appreciate it.
[Low blow, but he panicked.]
oh my god, right
Duly noted, (she says eventually, expression settling back into her familiar and unfathomable neutrality. It's a very easy mask to put on.)
Are you done? Or would you like to get in a couple more shots while we're here?
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Sorry, was I just supposed to accept your apology and move on? Cause you picked the wrong twin to erase if that was what you wanted.
[Lup might've been angrier at first, but she would've softened more easily, too. Taako knows how to hold a grudge.]
t taako please
She sighs, and redoubles her grip on the staff, praying for patience.)
Of course not, (she says, quiet and bitter,) I don't expect anything of the sort from you, Taako- but you're better than low blows.
cant stop wont stop
[He's not better than low blows, that much is pretty obvious.
What he is, though, is so fucking tired. Maybe he is done, if only because he can't think of anything sharp and scathing to say. Taako's shoulders sink, and he waves a hand over his face to recast disguise self, as if that's the end of whatever this ugliness is.]
Are you putting the light back together?
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(Oh, so he's been casting disguise self- for how long, exactly? When he looks back at her, she can see Lup. Her heart aches.)
Eventually. Currently I only have two of the seven pieces but it sounds like I'm on track to complete the set. (A small comfort. Once she pieces together the Light, they still have to defeat the Hunger after all.)
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[It's not the scathing accusation it could be, he's just quiet. They've tried to many times and the Hunger can't be fought, hiding was working, it was worth the cost if it means stalling the Hunger.]
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No, I haven't. (But there's no conviction behind her words. She laughs. It's a hollow, hopeless sound.)
I'm- this is the only way to save it.
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Taako just shakes his head.]
You're the only one buying that, Lux.
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After everything that's happened, is he really still fine with having split the Light? Lucretia supposes that at the end of the day, Taako was content with what they had; she was the one obsessed with the bigger picture, for better or for worse.)
Well, in the end, I'm the only one who needs to buy it. It's my plan.
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[He was always the pragmatic one of the group, him and Davenport, although the latter was more focused on the mission rather than purely survival, but, still. Taako almost has to admire the sheer ruthless determination that all this shit required. Lucretia spent a year pretending to be their boss, their friend, while she was using them to gather the relics they'd spent so much effort to make and hide.]
I don't wanna fucking die again, I'm over it.
[And he feels like that's the only way this ends, her plan. Except maybe this time it'll be for good.]
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But you don't have to die again, Taako. I only need you to help me reclaim the relics- the final go against the Hunger is my fight. If anybody has to die for keeps, it will be me. (And she's fine with that, she realizes. She is more than fine with paying the price for what she's done. She owes this world- her friends- that much at least.
She wants to be alone so badly. Looking at Taako and having him see her like this is so painful, and she doesn't know how much longer she can keep it together.)
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