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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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I've been busy, duh. Someone's gotta get shit done around here.
[And then they're in his kitchen, because it's where he feels most comfortable.]
If it helps, this one was a recent addition to my list, they've got some spell books around this place that I could work from.
[If nothing else, putting on a show of being an overconfident dickhead is kind of his life fucking calling. At least he can do this.]
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This is your place? (Wow. On the Starblaster, they have fairly cramped quarters; Taako's kitchen is bigger than both of their rooms combined. She whistles, and leans back against a counter.)
Very nice.
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Turns out when gold isn't your main currency, it goes a hell of a lot further. [It's rarer here, and they use credits and paper cash, so the loose gold change he had with him has served him fairly well.] I am sharing it, if you see a grumpy teenage girl that's Ellie. She's a lot like Lup.
[The connection had been made later, for Taako, but now his fondness for Ellie makes a lot more sense.]
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(It's massive. But she's glad that he has a large kitchen, because she knows how much he enjoys cooking. Thinking of him sharing it with anybody, let alone a teenage girl is particularly ticklish, and she can't help snorting with laughter at the thought.)
Yeesh. How exactly did that pan out?
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When she laughs, something loosens in his chest.]
I'm rad as hell, that's how it panned out. [But no, he leans against the counter and smiles, a little fond.] She's from a pretty fucked up world, I think she appreciated someone who didn't treat her with kid gloves just cause she's young, you know?
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It's good that you've got people to live with. (Hopefully he hasn't been too lonely. Lucretia decides she doesn't like the idea of him keeping to himself, especially if none of the others have been here. How long has he been here, exactly?
She pulls her journal out, and waves it in his direction.)
Okay if I take notes?
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Go for it, bubbale. Just leave out the sordid details, yeah? [He winks, for full effect.] Cha boy's been keeping busy.
[if u catch his drift.]
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For a while the only sound that's present is the scratching of her pencil on paper. Eventually she pauses, glancing up at him.)
I'm- um, I'm glad that you're here, Taako. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with myself- I just assumed I would run into somebody familiar eventually.
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At some point in her writing, a cup of tea and a small plate of pastries appears in front of her, and Taako takes the time to send a couple of quick texts (a heads up to Ellie that he has a guest, and a warning to Clark about... all of this). He can't help sneaking glances at Lucretia, it's easy to forget his anger at her when she's just... here, as herself, not the Director.
He missed her.]
It's pretty weird, having like, actual privacy. [Being here, is the implication, even if the truth is that he spent almost a decade alone.] But it's just you and me for now, until everyone else gets their shit together.
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I don't know whether or not to hope that more of them will find their way.
(If they're both stuck here, perhaps it's for the best that they don't.)
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[It's a struggle to keep his tone light, to keep the ache out of it, but he thinks he does a relatively decent job of it. It's easy to pretend it's just been a couple of months since he's seen her, rather than a decade.]
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(She misses Lup too, very much. It's a great deal quieter without her around, and not in a good way. He probably doesn't want to talk about it, but she throws him a line anyway, just in case.)
Are you okay?
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[That's a little bit of a lie, and Lucretia's seen him on those few rare occasions he's let himself be not okay. Coming back covered in Lup's blood, after losing her one cycle, a quiet moment in one of the later cycles when he got overwhelmed by the world's they'd lost, the last time Merle came back after speaking to John, when they realized that parlay wasn't going to save them.]
I mean, you know, we're not joined at that hip. I just miss having someone actually cool around, but I guess you'll have to do.
[He grins, teasing.]
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Oh, geez, okay. In that case– (She snorts, finding her book and jotting down: 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻: 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝑜𝓁𝑒𝓇. She circles it three times, then holds it up for Taako to see.)
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That's gonna require a lot of work, you sure you're up to it?
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And please, we both know I can handle it.
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[It's him, he's the coolest person ever.]
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(She takes a pastry, popping it into her mouth. And honestly? Thank God for Taako being the other IPRE member to have found their way here, because his cooking, though.)
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If you wanna crash with cha boy, we've got spare rooms.
[It sounds like a casual offer, but even though it's been a decade since the Starblaster, he can't imagine not having Lucretia nearby.
He'll have to check with Ellie, of course, but... still.]
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(She can't even pretend to not want to intrude on his space; she is absolutely keen to stick with him. This is the most normal she's felt in days.)
I'd love to.
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[Not really, but he thinks Ellie will understand, and the whole "I might accidentally stab someone" isn't much of a worry with Lucretia. She might be from early in the cycles, but she can still handle herself.]
And we have like, two extra bedrooms, I might gotta a bit carried away after I saw the kitchen.
[Sue him.]
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(No suing here. Lucretia might be more comfortable with smaller spaces, but she's not going to turn her nose up at a spare bedroom, especially if it means she gets to stay with a friend. She's interested in Taako's roommate, too.)
Thank you.
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[Because he's so great that he should have a mansion, obviously. But really, he never cared that much about the small spaces; it might've been different if he hadn't gotten along with the rest of the crew, but aside from occasional clashes (bound to happen after a a century together) they all made it work.]
And don't even sweat it, living alone is boring as hell.
["Lonely as hell" would be more accurate, and even if he has Ellie, another person in the place won't go astray.]
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But staying here would be great, it seems like a real party house.
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Oh, for sure, me and my fifteen year old roommate throw fucking raves every night. It's a wild time.
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