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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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[ He might stop now before he digs himself a deeper grave. Particle accelerator, exotic matter. People with abilities. ]
Central City? I don't remember an accident like that. It might not have happened yet.
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It happened in 2014. I'm pretty sure if it happened, you would have heard about it. There was nothing else on the news for weeks, and I live on the other side of the country.
You might be from a different universe than me. When I got here they said people were from all different realities. I sort of assumed that was probably a lie like the rest of it, but maybe some parts were true.
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I'm from Metropolis. Does it exist where you're from? What about New York?
i just looked it up and it's actually supposed to be 2013 OH WELL
Except I think a lot of people died there that night so actually don't.
I've never heard of Metropolis. I mean I've heard the word metropolis but it's not an actual place. New York definitely is though.
#comicbookmedia
It's across the bay from Gotham City.
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I'm Curtis, by the way. Sounds like we might not be from the same Earth.
[ Way to go assuming Clark's from Earth again. ]
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Is there a Keystone City in your world?
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Does your world have a Star City? Or maybe Starling City - that's what it was called until a couple years back.
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Are you absolutely sure there's no place on the East Coast called Metropolis or Gotham?
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This friend of mine - well actually more like a friend of a friend of a friend [ Curtis knows Felicity, who knows Barry, who knows Supergirl ] comes from a world with a place called National City and we definitely haven't got one of those.
Sounds like whatever this place is, they weren't lying about everybody coming from parallel realities.
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Do you mind if I ask one more question about your reality?
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Go ahead. You can ask ten more questions if you want. I think we're both just trying to figure out this crazy situation.
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No, but it's kind of funny you bring that up, because the one from National City? The friend of a friend of a friend? She goes by Supergirl. She came all the way to our world to help out when that whole Dominator situation was going on. She's awesome.
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gj you broke him ]
We have a Superman, and nowhere called National City.
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[ Has Curtis gone a little bit fanboy? Sorry, hard not to. ]
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Is she also strong and invulnerable?
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[ A moment too late, it occurs to Curtis that maybe he shouldn't blab about the vulnerabilities of his allies to a total stranger. ]
I'm not really an expert or anything. I only met her for a day or two and like I said we were kind of mid alien invasion of Earth so we didn't get a lot of time to chat.
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Our worlds are different enough. Thank you.
Does this feel like anything the Dominators might have done?
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Possibly? I'm gonna be honest, their plan last time didn't make much sense to me. But I wouldn't put it past them.