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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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A news story impeached a president of the United States. That's just in America.

[ He's not one for embellishment. Flint is hopeful despite what he's seen and been through. Clark is mindful of that. ]

[He understands the Latin base, thank God and the Hamiltons for his love of classical Latin. Another word whose meaning he has to infer.]

You mean to tell me that the Americas didn't end up with a king of their own?

No.

[ Film stars or sports figures, but that's besides the point. ]

In fact, there're very few monarchies left in the world.

[He had nothing against Queen Anne personally, or King George, save in that abstract sort of way where he wants to burn the aristocracy to the fucking ground. But that gets him to raise an eyebrow.]

Elected governments, then?

[ Nodding. ]

That's right. Or constitutional monarchies, where their power is more symbolic than absolute.

[He expects to feel a voracious sort of justification. Something sharp and brutal and right. One can be glad at the collapse of an empire, and still mourn its ages.]

What of England?

[Clark is the first person he's asked this question, which is made very personal by dint of his history with her. But then, he's already all but told the man he's London born, he sees no harm in this admittance.]

[ It's a pointed question, and personal, seeing as Flint's inquired about the state of the world and for other people, not a specific country.

At the same time, he doesn't know what Flint wants. ]

What would you like to know?

Is she still a monarchy? [A bit more dryly,] Colonizing everything she can get her hands on with no regard for the lives she upsets?

[ It's cruel and intimate. Only someone who loves deeply would feel that kind of betrayal.

What was left of Krypton came to destroy Earth. ]

Britain is called the United Kingdom now. There aren't many colonies left in the world, and I think almost all of the British Empire has dissolved.

[ His mouth twitches. ]

You might find an Irishman who feels differently, but there you go.

[He hmms faintly and then as if spurned onward by that admission he stands. He's still wet to the bone, though the warmth of this small place has dried his shirt in patches, but he decides abruptly to be done with it, and so he peels his shirt off in one corner of the room, hangs it and selects another he's obviously brought for this purpose. He's not shy and this is absolutely common practice among men of his era so it doesn't even stop to register that it might be somewhat inappropriate. He's brusque about it besides.]

I notice you didn't say what became of her royalty.

[ Clark raises both eyebrows, and he turns so his side faces Flint. He might not feel shame, but that's not an invitation to look at his body openly. ]

They're still around. Queen Elizabeth II is very popular. Probably because the royal family don't have much of a say in state affairs anymore.

[He adjusts his shirtcuffs as he comes back to the little cookstove, shifting beneath the unfamiliar shirt fabric until it settles in a way he's familiar with. Fucking polyester.]

I'm sorry, I feel as if I'm on the verge of talking your ear off. You're more than welcome to ask questions of me as well.

Edited 2017-03-03 02:51 (UTC)

I don't mind.

[ This is probably one of the longest conversations he's had in a while. ]

If I think of something, I'll ask you.

Of course.

[He begins the process of putting away everything he'd used for dinner, washing the bowls in a small bucket of dully warm water he'll throw out in the rain later.]

If you're amenable, I feel it would be prudent if we slept in shifts to keep an eye on the situation outside. If one of those dams breaks, it'll be a danger to the housing complexes beyond.

[ Nodding. ]

I'll take the first shift.

[ He'll have to figure out how to fake sleep for a bit. ]

[He nods in acknowledgement and shifts himself out of the way. He has a bedroll he unravels with a flick of his wrist and he stretches across it without preamble with one well-worn hand draped over his eyes. He'll never sleep so soundly on land as he does in the berth of a gently swaying ship - nor does he really expect to sleep, as it were - but he has no particular paranoias about doing so in this man's presence. No more than usual, anyway.

The storm rages on. He counts time in his head. Tomorrow is another day.]

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