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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewooc2017-05-19 11:04 pm

riverview: may test drive meme

riverview test drive meme

Welcome 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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prompt i: search & rescue

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!


prompt ii: death from above

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.



prompt iii: homesick bazaar

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!


prompt iv: prijata pregaming

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.


prompt v: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.


Many thanks to [personal profile] mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!


prompt vi: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!


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[river market image is by Tyler Edlin]
scholiast: <user name=rabdoidal site=tumblr.com> (★ i took everything from him)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
(When he doesn't brush her aside, she does put her hand onto his shoulder, giving it a short squeeze.)

I miss you too. I miss all of you, so much. (She's not one to wish endlessly without trying to help herself first, but she does wish that she could go back to the Starblaster, even if just for one cycle. Lucretia knew making them forget would be difficult, but she never anticipated the crushingly loneliness of it all.)
spellslots: DNT (living life like I'm in a dream)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He lifts his hand almost like he's going to rest it on top of hers, and then rethinks the whole thing, because all of this is bullshit and he hates it, but she's still Lucretia.

Taako pulls her into a hug, and he hopes that maybe she won't notice that he's shaking. Or that she'll at least be kind enough not to comment on it.]
scholiast: <user name=rabdoidal site=tumblr.com> (★ i took everything from him)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
(She does notice, but doesn't say, because she's too busy being surprised that he's hugging her at all. She closes her eyes tight, staff lowered down by her side as she returns the embrace with one arm. How long has it been since she's been held by– by anybody, let alone one of her oldest, and dearest friends?

He must be able to tell that she's crying again, but she doesn't care this time. It's less to do with being sad and more to do with being so tired of it all, like all her exhaustion has nowhere else to go except to leak out of her like this.

If she ever returns to Faerun, she's going back to stoically keeping her distance, to pretending she doesn't know any of them. She wishes, again, that she didn't have to.)
spellslots: DNT (around my finger babe)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[If she isn't going to call him out on shaking, he won't call her out on crying; Lucretia was never quite as avoidant as him, when it came to emotions, but she was always quiet in her own way, unlike Lup and Magnus who would make it clear when they were hurting or happy or angry or anything in between. He wonders how the rest of them will deal with this, when the truth comes out, but right now it's just him and Lucretia and he doesn't think he can forgive her, for what she's done. It's just that he also doesn't think he can stop loving her, either.

He's not sure how long he stays there, clutching her, but eventually he pulls back a little, enough to tap a finger against her cheek, smiling.]


How hard was it not to laugh when those shitty liches asked for twenty years?

[She's had so much longer than most humans get, after all. He almost wonders if it would've been a relief, to show a little more of her age after being trapped in her twenties for a century.]
scholiast: <user name=altarofistus site=tumblr.com> (★ the lonely journal keeper)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Incredibly hard, (she says hoarsely as she pulls back too, slowly wiping underneath her eyes with her fingertips,) you have no idea.

(It's very difficult, being over one hundred years old but looking barely half of that. Lucretia is starting to keenly feel every single one of those years- she wonders if Taako ever feels the same sort of dissonance with his body as she does with hers.

Anyway, as lucky as the twenty years break was, Wonderland is just another item in the laundry list of things that have stuck around to permanently haunt her, so hopefully Taako will forgive her for wanting to know:)


Are they dead?

(She wants very much to ask what they all had to give up, but feels that might be pushing the strange, unhappy compromise they seem to have found.)
spellslots: DNT (every day is a chore chore chore)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not quite a truce, but he only has so much energy to be angry, and he's lonely, here, even if he has friends.]

Super fucking dead, bubbale.

[It's easy information to give, both because it's a relief to say and because he knows that after everything, Lucretia deserves to know how dead those assholes are.]

Lup's staff tried to eat, uh, Edward? The dude. Spat him out though, guess he tasted real gross.

[And then Lydia couldn't survive without him. Taako wishes they'd been able to act quicker, to do something to protect Magnus's body, but it's too late for those regrets now.]
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[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
(She smiles humourlessly, eyes narrowing.) Good.

(At least somebody was able to finish what she was barely able to start. Wonderland had pushed her in ways she hadn't dreamed possible until she was in over her head.

She doesn't mean to discount the rest of his story, but one detail sticks out sharp, like a sore thumb.)


What... what do you mean, Lup's staff?
spellslots: DNT (why it's such a big deal though)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[It's still hooked loosely over his arm, and he takes another step back to hold up the umbra staff.]

It eats dead magic dudes, it's-- it was Lup's?

[I found it on her skeleton isn't a sentence he can get out, not right now, not with Lucretia.]
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[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
... Huh.

(She didn't know that. It makes her smile, soft, to know that he has it.)

I'm glad.
spellslots: DNT (all I ever wanted was the world)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
[It's all he has left of her, and it's not something he ever plans to let go. Especially not when he has some... concerns, about the things it's done, but he isn't ready to share that.

He lets out a shaky breath, feeling like he's piecing himself back together in the wake of their confrontation.]


Where have they got ya staying?
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[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Community apartment block, something standard issue. (Her reply is vague; she's preoccupied with straightening her robes out. That overwhelming need to be alone hasn't dissipated, but she doesn't want to say good-bye to Taako just yet.

A small part of her is fearful he won't agree to see her again.)


Yourself?
spellslots: DNT (why it's such a big deal though)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-22 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope you're not stuck with seven other chucklefucks like I was.

[He finds that he means it; they might've gotten used to close quarters on the Starblaster, but it's been a decade since then, and he can't picture the Lucretia in front of him rooming with a whole lot of strangers.]

I've got my own place, I'll put the address into the device they gave you, if you want.

[Despite... everything, he can't just cut her out of his life, especially when it's just them.]
scholiast: <user name=shinee-pelipper site=tumblr.com> (★ why did i do this)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-22 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There are a couple of others but I haven't been spending a lot of time there, so.

(Lucretia shrugs. She only returns to sleep, and she sleeps very little nowadays– around about four, or five hours every night. It's not enough, but most of the time it's all she can manage. The rest of her time has been spent slowly exploring, relishing the feeling of being somewhere new, and exciting. Just like old times.)

Oh– you mean this? (She takes the phone out of the pocket of her robe, turning it over slowly in her palm before holding it out to him.)
spellslots: srsly DNT (anything for the crown)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-29 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He takes the phone and quickly saves himself as a contact, with both his private number (rather than the network contact) and the address for the place he shares with Ellie. Then he offers it back.

This is one of the most uncomfortable situations he's ever been in, because he's still angry and hurt, but he's also so eager to hold onto something familiar that he can't just walk away.]


People here are pretty decent, but if you ever need anything, you can gimme a call.

scholiast: <user name=altarofistus site=tumblr.com> (★ the lonely journal keeper)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-05-29 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
(She takes her phone back delicately and nods, even though she's already thinking she would have to be in a seriously dire situation before she'd dare to ask for his help.)

Alright.

(She should let him go.)

I– (she gestures uselessly, past being able to come up with a decent enough excuse. It's obvious that neither of them want to be here right now, so what point is there in pretending?)

I'm going to go, Taako.
spellslots: srsly DNT (anything for the crown)

[personal profile] spellslots 2017-05-29 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Kinda figured that one.

[Neither of them are comfortable in this situation; it would have been better if Lucretia never came here, not like this, but it's done now and they'll both have to live with it, one way or another.

That doesn't help him find the words to finish this... whatever this is. Goodbye feels to final, but see you around isn't something he wants to commit to. In the end, he sighs.]


Good luck, Director.

[It's cold, maybe, calling her that again, now that he remembers so much more about her, but it's a wall he needs to put up if he's going to get through this.]