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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!
Charles Vane | Black Sails (hella spoilers for end of s3 in prompts)
[ Charles Vane comes into the world of Riverview somehow more peaceful that he had the world before, despite being strangled unconscious and suffering severe damage to the vertebrae in his neck, tip toeing along the edge of death. still, less screaming and crying, at least. The men and women in Nassau are likely now thinking 'how is it possible Charles Vane, of all captains, is dead', and were he awake to ponder on it, Vane might've laughed. Instead, when he does come to, it's staring up at the fluorescent lights of a hospital room, laid out on a cushy bed, and wondering why the fuck Hell is so goddamn shiny.
He spends most of the introduction - the doctors and nurses, the representatives, the orientation video - staring silently at each person who opens their mouth, head tilting now and again with eyes narrowing in assessment, but utters nothing in the way of commentary or question. Maybe some people think he might be mute. Most would probably think he's simply stupid, if he didn't look like he was considering putting the nearest object with heft through someone's face. All they get in way of personality from him, before he's let loose, is the username he's made to create, simply claiming "NASSAU". No one ever said Charles Vane was modest, okay? Given his clothes back, now laundered and clean, Charles still sports the deep purple and blue bruising around his neck, telling of the near death he'd been pulled from, the ever present iron necklace not yet reattached. The first thing he hears gossip of is the spring, and given the city walls are starting to make him nauseous more than the sea ever had, Vane sets out for it, half for recon, half for curiosity.
The captain doesn't make any stops to rescue woeful explorers, or expend any energy on searching for them, just stalks quietly through the brush, until he makes it to the temple, and within it, the spring. There, anyone else coming to seek out the legendary waters, will find a man half stripped down, lounging in the pool like it's a spa, a canteen set nearby already filled. He wants to get rid of those remaining bruises, okay? Plus all the rest that came along with capture and imprisonment and execution. Not that he'll stop anyone else from taking samples, he just doesn't plan on moving until he's satisfactorily soaked it all in. ]
ii. death from above;
[ Vane is neither patrol, reserve or concerned citizen. He's just hungry. In the chance that you happen to be in his way, a hand will drop on your shoulder and give an unkind shove before you hear a gravelly, accented voice - ]
Down.
[ You're in his shot, which is what rings out directly after, loud and deafening, as the oncoming bird dino monster comes swooping in, only to get a face full of whatever ammunition guns in this world use. Once it hits the ground, Charles walks around whoever he'd pushed down, tugging a skinning knife free from his boot as he crouches next to the carcass, starting to defeather and gut it. Yum. ]
iii. homesick bazaar;
[ Things that had always been missed when Charles had been too long from Nassau - the particular brand of throat burning whiskey and ale served at the whore house and taverns in the outlaw capitol. Spending most of his last visit in Nassau locked in a prison cell, and then at the end of a hangman's rope, sadly, Vane hadn't had the opportunity to partake. It seems the portal has seen to correct that tragedy, and in the bazaar, Vane can be found settled at a taken with several mugs and bottles set out in front of him. He isn't drinking all of them at the moment, some are likely to be taken away with him, but one mug is slid over to whoever else sits at his table, ale slooshing over the side messily. ]
It's on me.
[ Geddit. Because it's free. Hurr hurr hurr. Look, he's just making sure someone's isn't going to stop him when he tries to leave, okay? ]
v. friendr - @nassau;
iii
He accepts the drink with a laugh. Because haha yeah everything is totally on this dude today. His laugh is cut short as soon as he gets the mug close to his face, however. If he didn't know any better, he was pretty sure he just singed all the hair off his face.]
Oh my god! What is this?!