riverview: test drive meme

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riverview test drive meme

Welcome to Riverview's first 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 March 1st.
● All threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon once the game is up and running.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points.

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: batten down the hatches

If the sky has seemed a little more yellow-green than usual for the past couple of days, there's a reason for that. Meteorologists have been warning of a particularly nasty storm blowing in from the direction of the Delta in the Southwestern part of the Abandoned City.

The Quarantine is about to be hit by a nasty typhoon, and there's a lot to be done. Whether you're helping sandbag the banks of the river, which is bound to be swollen by the storm and flooding, weatherproofing your building, or just huddling indoors for warmth and helping reassure your friends, family, or partner that everything will be okay, it's time to take action!

prompt ii: monster madness

There's been a lot of talk around the Quarantine about the various predators and monsters outside the fence, and how they've been getting steadily more active, crowding the fences, trying to leap over them, seemingly driven by some kind of mania. There have even been increasing instances of predators that normally mind their own business attacking the fences wholesale, slamming into it over and over as if they're trying to find a weakness.

The good news? The fences have been holding. So far.

The bad news? They won't be holding for much longer.

The Perimeter Guard is in a bad way, and it's all hands on deck. They've also sent out a few of the Perimeter Guard Cadets to post up flyers around the city asking for temporary help in fighting off the beasts. So pick up whatever weapon you're best with, hop onto a truck transport, and head on over to the fences to help drive off the monsters and keep the Quarantine safe.

prompt iii: hold your lover close

With a storm rolling in that's going to keep everyone indoors, that might cause power outages, and is just frankly pretty scary, a lot of the clubs, restaurants, and hotels are doing special events to keep everyone's brains occupied and flooded with endorphins.

There are flyers around the city advertising various couples activities: speed dating, dance classes, overnight pool parties, and all-expenses-paid lovers' nights in.

The catch? The great deals only count if you're a twosome. So if you don't have someone to love, hit up speed dating in the indoor courtyard of Riverview's largest mall, or grab the first person you see and take the opportunity.

prompt iv: solution

After a day or two of storm activity, things are definitely not getting better: the rain is torrential, the monsters are attacking with increased energy and decreased rest times, and the distractions are starting to wear thin. Power outages happen off and on, a very rare situation in Riverview Quarantine.

The government has put out an all-points-bulletin imploring anyone with an exploratory spirit to help.

From what government science techs can tell, the storm isn't natural - after all, even the meteorologists were saying that the pressure systems seemed extremely strange. They've managed to narrow the cause to an area in the delta where the storm seems to be originating from, and are broadcasting the general location so anyone with the guts can head out into the storm and try to find the source of it.

Any characters who decide to penetrate the jungle in search of the source will find a device in the shape of a pyramid, with glowing blue edges about a day's walk into the Abandoned City. The pyramid is a malfunctioning weather control device that is causing wild pressure fluctuations and causing the storm as well as making the animals in the jungle aggressive and erratic. Characters can destroy or deactivate the device to end the storm.

This mission can be threaded out however you would like, in groups however large you would like, and more than one team can accomplish the goal.

prompt v: wildcard/network

Whether you're looking for help with a mission or just want to get to know your fellow new arrivals, your character can make a post to the network.

Or you can choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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Comments

[batbullets]

Hey, I see that look. [He's nothing if not observant. Years of training. Years of learning to look behind is back.] I've worked through some of it. Not all of it. But, you know. Sometimes you have to start letting that darkness go and start looking towards...well, not the light. I'm not that bright and sunny. But towards something that's not as all-consuming.

[He gives Wanda that charming smile again.]

I promise to be as impressive as possible, if that helps any.

[divulsion]

I've no doubt you will be.

[Simply by virtue of fighting hard, or effortlessly, whatever his style turns out to be. She doubts anyone who couldn't hold their own would be on this transport.]

But yes, I understand what you mean. Reaching for the light is good but it isn't necessarily the path for everyone. Sometimes it's simply enough to reach for self-betterment, whatever that turns out to be.

[batbullets]

Sounds as though you have some experience in the area, Wanda. [He was fairly certain that a good number of people here did, to be honest. The multiverse tended to work in weird, mysterious ways, after all.]

How's your search for self-betterment going, if I can be presumptuous enough to ask?

[divulsion]

[Wanda shrugs, leaning back in her seat as the truck bounces them in their seats.]

As well as can be expected. [Which isn't an answer persay but it's something.] It's not without its bumps in the road.

[There, see? She's made a joke. Perhaps she's not as incapable of being charming as she might seem at first.]

[batbullets]

[Maybe it's not an answer as such, but it's one that Jason understands well enough. Sometimes saying just a little can convey much more than going into depth can. The less said, the more sometimes is revealed. Her little joke does elicit a warm chuckle from him, though.]

Haven't yet been on a road that isn't at least a little bumpy. Smooth sailing, by the way? Also kind of a lie.

[divulsion]

[That earns him a low chuckle, a brief nod of her head.]

Absolutely a lie. How is your attempt to reach toward something not as consuming going?

[He asked her, after all, so she'll do the same.]

[batbullets]

[At this question, the smile fades a little bit. He's not offended or anything - not in the least. But...dark thoughts.]

Some days are better than others. Some days, I've almost made peace with the past. I've moved on. Other days...other days I still want to let that darkness embrace me and lash out at the people who didn't avenge me when...when bad things happened to me.

[He shrugs a little bit at that. He and Bruce have sort of made their amends recently. Bruce has admitted to being fine with Jason's choice to be more of an outlaw than a hero. But at the same time... He sighs. He's known Bruce for so long, and there are still days where Jason feels as though he doesn't fully understand him.]

Mostly, I try to ignore that. Doesn't always work.

[divulsion]

Then it's good we're heading out to the wild to fight monsters. It sounds as if we both could use the distraction.

[She won't dig deeper, won't ask him what happened to him or who the people were who didn't avenge him. It sounds awful, too personal to pry into when they've only just met. Instead, she decides to back track to something less delicate.]

What are your weapons of choice in the field?