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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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That is quite far in the future... it explains the flowy fabrics, I suppose. And what about you? I imagine in that time they wouldn't have need for sailors.
[Partly because she hasn't really spoken to that many of them, and assumes they all live natively on the moon.]
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[Things always need to be built. He needs to not sit idle. It is an agreeable marriage of instances while he learns the future's mores.]
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[Simple, but pleasant. Most of them are peasants from the lower end of Thornwell.]
I'm a housewife back in my world, but I suppose I'll have to fall back on some other skill. [She thinks for a moment before looking back at him.] Do you think anyone here would have a use for communing with the dead?
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James catches himself before any look of untoward alarm gives away his surprise. It is relegated only to a slight flex of his fingers and a look of absolutely unwavering interest upon her.]
I'm not certain 'simple housewife' and 'communing with the dead' are two things I've before heard in such close conjunction with one another.
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[Normally she'd be preening the crow-skull hairpin she's always wearing, but it's been quiet since she ended up in this reality. Apparently, the crow's spirit is stuck back in her old world.]
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And what does it entail, exactly?
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[She can tell he's uncomfortable, but there's no point in backing out now. She's not ashamed at all of her trade - in fact, she's never felt any need for anything but pride in it. She is among the best in her family, and it's clear how much more comfortable she becomes when death is the topic.]
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He strokes his beard, rubs his knuckles against the bristles of it.]
Can you raise them?
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[It's too bad she doesn't have anything to give an example with - but she gets the sense he might be too spooked by such a sight to keep speaking to her.]
My husband was quite good at it as well... I plan to raise my child as one as well, should nothing get in the way.
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He's the son of a carpenter, who was the son of a fisherman. He knows something of being raised to a trade.]
Seems a grim line of work. But I imagine you can bring-- closure to a lot of people.
[It's a skill he could most certainly use to his advantage back home in Nassau, if such a thing were true to the fabric of the world there.]
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Some of the best people I know were dead long before I was born. I might not have met them if I weren't raised the way I was.
[Of course, a lot of the people whose company she values don't exactly value hers. After all, when servants die in Thornwell it doesn't end their service.]