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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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[ He says, with a hint of awe in his voice, because surely a kid like him wouldn't be capable of that, right? ]
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Sure. They're just moving targets. [ Anderson picks at her food. ] They're... weird, but they're not creative.
[ Not like killing people, she means. Ha ha ha. ]
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True. Still, that's impressive. [ He takes a moment to size her up again. ] But you don't look like a typical officer, anyway.
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[ It's a pithy comment. Truthfully Anderson isn't a typical officer in a lot of respects, but at least her uniform and general presentation isn't considered odd at home. It's her youth, her lack of helmet, her psionics. She doesn't feel impressive at all.
Anderson isn't the faceless force of the law that Judges are supposed to be. But no one here knows that she's off that way-- they just think Judges are atypical as a whole. ]
This is a standard Judge's uniform, [ she tells him. ] Nothing special.
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That kind; got it. It sounds like hard work... but it's still pretty noble.
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She leans back onto one hand and looks out at the crowd, all the people milling around, laughing, arguing, totally confident in their personal safety. ]
It's not. Noble. People should feel that someone is looking out for them.
[ It is hard work, though. ]
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What about you? Is it a job you're willing to take up?
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[ He already has, technically, but his methods are considerably more illegal than hers, he presumes. So he's not feeling inclined to talk about said methods so openly, even if they are in a completely different universe. Better safe than sorry, so he puts on a contemplative act instead. ]
I don't know. I'm just a high school student for now, so someone like me isn't able to do anything about that.
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You won't be a student forever. And maybe not at all while you're here, [ she muses. ]
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[ He takes a free hand, cupping it underneath his chin. ]
I don't know what I should do here, honestly. [ That much, for once, isn't a lie. ] I've heard some stuff about a perimeter guard, but it sounds pretty tough.
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Do you have combat experience? [ She sounds factual, not skeptical: after all, she'd been partway through the Judge's academy at his age, a 'mere student' herself. ]
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[ lol ]
Not beyond decking someone in the face in the schoolyard every blue moon or so—you know, typical guy stuff. But I don't think that counts.
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What she says is: ] If you're determined to join, learn to use a gun. If you can point, shoot, and follow orders, you can try to get in.
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A gun, huh... How scary. [ He comments, airily. Guns are nothing new to him—mostly, sort of. There's certainly a clear difference between a model gun that works by the weird logic of a dimension running on cognition and the real thing. The latter is downright impossible for him to obtain back home; what about here, though? ] But necessary, I guess. Even you have one.
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It's why she's going into the police instead. Maybe she'll actually help someone there-- and shoot a lot fewer people than she's used to. ]
Well... [ She hesitates briefly. ] It's different where I'm from. Hopefully I won't need to use it much against people while I'm here. But there's plenty of other threats. [ Enough for regular citizens to have reason to learn how to shoot. ]
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[ Example: the "reptile birds". He's faced tons of shadows, but it's still crazy to see anything remotely monstrous of the non-human variety in reality. ]
I'll take it into consideration. This city seems quiet otherwise– [ As far as danger goes. ] –but I could always be wrong about that.
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I guess what we'll do with ourselves is the question facing all of us.
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I like the vacation idea. All the sleeping I could start catching up on...
[ Okay, he isn't just going to be taking it easy. Prodding where he can and digging up whatever info possible is an option he'll be taking for sure, because getting thrown into a different universe entirely only to kick back and live a normal life seems... well, odd. A little suspicious, even if it's baseless. But it doesn't settle right with him to abandon his life back home like it's nothing, too.
That's a topic for another day, though. Maybe. Again, Yuuto is keeping a lot to himself. ]
Are you going to take a bit of time to relax, too?
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[ She doesn't laugh-- she rarely laughs-- but she has some self-conscious humor about it. ]
I wouldn't know how. Probably for the best I keep shooting things.
[ It sounds like it should be bitterness behind that, but it's really just black humor. Anderson knows she's good at violence in comparison to most others here, and she has no problem with it, depressing as it is. Might as well use her skills. ]
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Here's to hoping you have plenty to shoot, then. Otherwise you might not have any other choice.
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I was hoping to get on the police force. [ As odd as having someone else do the sentencing will be. ]
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