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riverviewooc2017-02-19 07:56 pm
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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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!
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.
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.
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.
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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Wanda reaches out for the tart when offered, but she lets out a small snort at his response.]
Of course it is. Fitting. [She shakes her head, giving him a wry smile and a murmured thank you.] Perhaps I should round things out and adopt the pomegranate as my favorite fruit. Food of the underworld as it is.
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[The plate now empty, he takes care to set it with a growing stack of others. It hasn't occurred to him that they're disposable. The notion of using a plate only once is abhorrent to someone to whom every earthly item is something hard-won, he assumes they're just a flimsy modern thing that there will be some miraculous way to clean.]
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I'm sure there are. How would you interpret it, however?
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I don't believe Hades was the villain classical mythology paints him as. A man consigned to rule the realm of the dead would go mad, and what is a god but the divinity of man given immortality? He merely wanted companionship. Demeter was the one set to cast the world in an endless winter for the safe return of a daughter treated not unkindly. I think Persephone acknowledged she could love and be loved by two people equally, and that it was her choice to split her time as she did.
[He rubs his fingers against his beard, strokes the bristles in a little downward motion. He's not thought about that tale in years, and it held no especial meaning to him, but as he's aged he finds it resonates more keenly.]
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She wonders if he realizes that his stance on Hades, setting him up to be a man with understandable feelings and needs rather than an outright villain, isn't all that unlike the way he spoke of pirates. Desperate men driven to do terrible things.]
It's rare that people remember that Persephone was a goddess in her own right. For all that the gods had a hierarchy I think I could subscribe to the idea that it was her choice to split her time between two people she loved.
[She lifts an eyebrow.] I suppose this makes my pomegranate just as unfairly villainized?
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Oh, hardly that. They're an evil fruit. Have you ever tried to eat one in a timely fashion? You'll make a casualty of your clothing, that's for certain.
[Though the taste is sweet enough, when one is willing to take those risks. He prefers a less troublesome prize, where all matters save those ascribed to piracy are concerned.]
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[Which may as well be a symbol for their budding friendship. Difficult to get a handle on, potentially messy and best taken at a measured pace than trying to rush it.]
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Well, perhaps I'll find the time here to give them a chance at changing my mind.
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[She'll find him one and surprise him, perhaps. Plus a bag of oranges in case he grows too impatient to make it through the whole thing. Though if Wanda had to guess, he'd strike her as a man possessing too much self-control to let impatience get to him quickly if he put his mind to it.]
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He dreams of a place an oar will be mistaken for a shovel. But he has long given up the idea of seeing it for himself. Peace is not in him. It has no place in the desecrated, twisted black heart of him. Even here, he has not been able to stop moving. If he is not reading, he is planning, if he is not planning he is talking. Learning the lay of the land. He manages to project an effortless calm, but there is no end to the depth of what sacrifices he has made to embody it.
So he simply gives her a crooked smile.]
And here I thought I was to build you a ship.
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Actually, you said you said you were going to start with a far less ambitious raft.
[Not that she actually expects to see a raft at any point. She wouldn't know the first thing about how to get around on it and doubts very much that she'd want to chance it with unfamiliar currents. But if discussing one means that he'll smile, then she'll continue to banter with him about it. She very much doubts that he's relaxed but it certainly gives the illusion that it's possible.]
Do you name rafts the way you would a ship?
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That does not preclude the manufaction of a ship at a later date.
[Or that he's already built a raft. Which, you know, it's entirely possible he's started one. It doesn't take a man well-armed with knowledge and experience to accomplish anything he puts his mind to.]
There are superstitions that say anything you intend to weather water upon should bear a name lest you be sunk by bad luck. Personally, I'm not one to believe in luck, so I say the decision falls on you.
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I think if given a choice I'd rather put my faith in tradition and superstition over beginner's luck. Besides, it might be entertaining to come up with something clever for a name.
[Tilting her chin up, she gives him a half smirk.]
And it wouldn't hurt to do what I can to ensure I find myself, if not seaworthy then riverworthy, if you do happen to produce a ship later on.
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Sailing - traversing oceans or rivers, I should say - is not as difficult as you might think. Primarily, it takes courage and and irreverence towards sanity, often in equal measure.
[He's more than obviously poking fun at himself, rather than delivering any especial caveats.]
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Is that why we seem to get along so well then?
[She'd never make that sort of joke around her teammates, never around anyone who knows what she can do. There are too many people on Earth who would wonder just how much truth there was in it, especially any who might have seen her using her powers at the beginning, lost in learning what amounted to an entirely new sense.
It's a tricky thing also, having delved into what amounted for a mind for Ultron, having seen what lay there and what true insanity might look like. An orderly, terrifying sort of chaos and complete disregard for the price of destruction to achieve one's goals.
With Flint, at least, she can trust it to be taken in the vein she means. Which is to say, in the same way that he meant it.]
Assuming I have those two things covered, can I assume when it comes time to set sail you'll be there to teach me the basics?
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For a price, certainly. I don't always deal in flowers.
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I've already told you I don't have any riches to make payment with. You'd have to be satisfied with something else.
[The currency they have here in Riverview Quarantine is an option of course, as are meals and dances. Or he'll simply have to name his price.]
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I'll dwell on the matter. I believe an arrangement could be reached.
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[Because she's not against bargaining and haggling depending on what he may ask for, especially in light of his talk of gold and gems and such.]
In the meantime, should I expect to find you here throughout the feast, watching the perimeter?
[She needs to go mingle with her guests more, in the spirit of the event, and it's her own way of asking if he plans to mingle as well or if he'll continue to observe instead. No doubt she'll come back at least once more to speak with him again before the end.]
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I'll not stray far. Feel free to call on me if any of your guests become-- disagreeable.
[He hasn't much been exposed to this superhero devilry yet, so for the time being he has absolute confidence in his ability to navigate - and win - a fight.]
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I'll be sure to let you know if I need a second pair of hands.
[Because she can handle her guests, and has no doubt he won't wait to be called upon if it seems necessary.]
In the meantime, enjoy the feast, James.
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Ma'am.