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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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[His entire posture changes to become much more aggressive without seeming to alter much at all, practically radiating suppressed violence.]

Just someone hungry. Now step aside, you don't want to get in my way.

I think it is you who shouldn't have gotten in my way,

mudila yobanny!

[ The Russian rolls easily from his tongue as he reaches and grasps the nearest object as a weapon. It's a table lamp, but it's better than nothing as the other's own posture becomes more threatening. ]

How fucked are you that they aren't even giving you some kind of allowance? Get your own food! I paid for that, it's mine! [ He snarled, not backing down an inch, despite knowing it was probably in his best interests to do so. ]

Edited 2017-03-05 22:09 (UTC)

[His eyes narrow slightly, more at the language than the weapon, and he too shifts into Russian. It has the accent of a native, definitely near Siberia, but it's not a strong accent.]

Then if you're getting an allowance, you can afford to buy more. Put down the lamp and move aside.

[ For a brief moment he can't help but wonder at all of the fluent Russian speakers he seems to keep running into- but the fact of the matter comes back to him again, that he is being stolen from.

He keeps to the Russian, then. Fast, and angry, since the other speaks it well enough to understand. ]

Ever heard of a budget, moron?! That's my shit for the week, I buy more, I forego something else. So put. It. BACK! [ He roars the last word, squaring his stance and snarling, not putting down the lamp. Doing the exact opposite, in fact- squaring himself for a fight he knows he can't win. ]

[He does feel a little bit guilty about it, a good man wouldn't be taking from a kid, but he doesn't feel bad enough to put it back. Instead he takes a half step to the side, trying to calculate if he could get to the door without going through Yuri if he vaulted the counter.]

I'm taking some bread, some ham, and some chips. You have plenty left, this isn't worth fighting me over.

The hell it isn't!! Put it the hell back, make your own damned money and get the fuck out of my house!

[ Yuri's wound up tightly, waiting for the inevitable, waiting for the other to make a move- so that he can make his. ]

[He considers putting it back, but the hunger gnawing in his stomach is insistent and he doesn't think that he can. So he chooses instead to go for his first plan.

Without uttering another word, he vaults the counter and goes for the door. He's fast, serum enhancing his speed, and he hopes to make it before he has to engage this kid at all.]

[ Yuri is no super soldier, but his reflexes are well and above the average. As soon as Bucky moves, Yuri roars in anger and lets the lamp fly. He doesn't throw it at the other, he throws it where bucky is sliding to get away.

It's probably not worth fighting over, he knows. The reasonable side of him says this guy is starving- he should just let him go-

Instead Yuri runs, intending to jump on the other's back while he's still distracted from the lamp. ]

[That's not good.

Bucky feels the weight of someone else latch onto him and instinct takes over as if a switch has been flipped. Fighting is what he knows how to do, and he's ruthless with it. He grabs over his back to try and take hold of Yuri with his metal arm, attempting to sweep him off and literally throw him into the opposite wall in one smooth movement.]

[ It isn't in Yuri's nature to make anything easy for anyone. Bucky gets a hand on his sweater, and Yuri fights. His elbow lashes out, bashing into the other's metal arm- which only causes him to shout in pain. He's pulled further forward, momentum carrying him over the other's shoulder-

Well, he has legs.

He kicks, flails, tries to hit the other in the head as hard as he can. ]

[One of the kicks connects with the side of his head pretty solidly, but Bucky is used to ignoring pain, he's trained extremely well in that regard. He just ignores the flailing and tries to launch Yuri across the room.

If he gets him out of the way, Bucky isn't going to stick around to make sure he isn't hurt, he's just going to run for it.]

[ Yuri crashes into the opposite wall, crying out in pain as a shoddily made bookshelf breaks his fall- in every sense of the word. It breaks under the force of Yuri hitting it, plywood splitting underneath even Yuri's slight weight, before he hits the floor. To add insult to injury, the empty bookshelf lists forward- landing with a crash over Yuri.

Underneath it, he closes his eyes. Decides not to move. ]

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