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

[automobile_enthusiast]

[One monster was more manageable for Knock Out than innumerable monsters, but this one was proving as canny a fighter as one of the Autobot rebels-- er, one of his Autobot companions, that was. Unlike the other ravening beasts that he'd been assiduously dismembering, this one seemed to be thinking about its attacks, and how best to thwart his. He wasn't going to be able to keep this up forever, and had a sinking suspicious that he was going to wear about before the creature did.

He pressed his current assault regardless, slashing with one saw and thrusting up and towards the monster's chest with the other. The beast bent itself in an unbelievable curve, snapping at his wrist while dodging away from both attacks. He swore in his native Cybertronian, an electronic burst of sound, and danced back and away himself as his assailant flailed out with clawed paws. His battle subcomputer analyzed the movement, looking for another opening--

And then something of significant size plummeted from above and landed on the monster.

Oh, the monster was bigger, but the impact still distracted it, and Knock Out seized on the opportunity presented. Lunging forward, he transformed one saw back into a hand and grabbed the creature, bearing it down to the ground and following it there, pinning it heavily. He drove his remaining buzzsaw into the monster, snarling somewhat monstrously himself as he messily separated the head from the body. Even after the creature was dead he remained crouched over it, his vents panting in the rain.

Finally, finally he moved to stand, transforming the other saw away and passing one hand over his face. Only then did he look around, checking both for other monsters incoming and for whatever it was that had, essentially, saved him--

Oh. A human.

He knelt and leaned over the sprawled figure, optics narrowed.] Hello? Still alive, skinjob?

[speed_suit]

[Though the impact was not with the ground, it was still a significant enough drop that Dr. Venture felt his ribs crack as he bounced off one of the creatures. The world went white for a moment and then he was laying on the ground- alive, but in a significant amount of pain. Typical. The sound of a buzz-saw cutting through bone shrieked in his ears followed by the patter of warm liquid raining down on his limp body. Covered in gore and not inclined to move, he squints petulantly up at the remaining monster as it looms over him.]

What's it look like? And don't bother with a triumphant monologue - I don't care. It wasn't my idea to come here in the first place.