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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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[Please he is just a squishy wizard with a low AC and only 49 hit points, do not shoot him with a bullet he will probably die.
Not that he sounds particularly worried about all that.]
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She's so confused by that weird word (is he trying to say 'bubble'?) and by the fact that he has, apparently, never seen a bullet in his life that she just sort of blinks in the world's most emphatic bemusement.
-- Does he have pointy ears. Fucking HARD SQUINT.]
Whoa, wait a minute. What are you?
[Ellie: possessing of neither manners nor chill.]
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Taako gives the umbrella twirl, before sticking the point in the ground and leaning on the handle lazily, as he shoots a grin in Ellie's direction.]
I am but a simple elf wizard. What are you?
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[Is this dude okay or is he insane??? She has no way of knowing for sure. So she'll just. Stay up her tree, if that's okay.]
What the fuck's a elfwizard?
[Ellie reads jokebooks for fun, not Tolkien. And she doesn't exactly talk to other people, so her pop culture is. Well, it's lacking.]
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[That could come across as condescending, but he's just joking around. He's met enough people who think elves are made up or that magic isn't real to assume this girl is one of the same.]
I can always give a demonstration. Of the wizard part, I can't prove that I'm an elf unless you want to wait until it's dark.
[The only cool elf shit he's got is nightvision (and a high acrobatics modifier).
And the ears. Also those.]
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Wait, is that... like... can you do magic? Is that what you mean?
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[Assuming that she's watching closely from her perch, Taako holds up a hand, palm flat, and casts prestidigitation.
Sparks dance up from his fingers, bright colors swirling through the air before fizzling out. It's just a cantrip, something simple, but he thinks it'll get the message across.]
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She stares, obviously completely enraptured by this. All caution is just thrown out the window, fuck this, she's an excited fifteen year old. And she finally comes down from her perch.]
No way. What is that? Do it again!
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[Taako looks delighted, mostly because this now means he has an audience, which he loves, and he isn't about to get bulleted, which he is sure he would not love.]
And now, see, I could do that again, but prestidigitation is only a cantrip, babies could do it. [And he's a level 12 wizard so like!] Tell me your favorite animal.
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Also: she knows what some of these words mean. Individually. Maybe.]
Uhmmm-- can you do a giraffe?
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[He looks insulted, or like he's trying to be insulted but he's too busy grinning.]
You're only talking to one of the greatest wizards in Faerûn.
[No he's full of shit on that front, but he does cast a glance upwards to check that he's not going to smack his head into a tree once he gets taller, and then snaps his fingers.
The umbrella drops to the ground, since he no longer has hands to hold it, because in place of Taako Taaco, flip wizard, there's a normal looking giraffe.]
'Sup.
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There was a time when everything seemed so bleak and hopeless she had a hard time reminding herself to breathe, and seeing these animals up close, so beautiful, completely untouched by the Infection, by everything, it was just-- it was how she kept going.
She raises a hand reflexively, like she wants to pet him, and then thinks better of it. Her fingers curl downwards against her palm instead.]
That's... this is really cool.
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[A talking giraffe is probably not what Ellie expected from her afternoon, and Taako didn't really expect it for his, either, since he doesn't use polymorph all that often. But it's a free spell, so at least he's not burning slots on amusing a kid.]
'Fraid I can only do one a day, so I hope you're happy with your choice.
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[Her immediate thought is something like bullets, or resources or something, because she always frames things in her mind in terms of scarcities like that, but she's still curious enough to ask.]
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That's just how it works, short stack. Whatever animal I want, but only once a day. Wizards aren't all powerful, just pretty damn rad.
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[That is her go-to word at the best of times, she says it on a breathy exhalation that doesn't even begin to quantify her excitement. This is so cool. this is!! so cool!!]
Is it like a 24 hour thing? What about something like... I don't know, daylight savings? [That used to be a thing. She read about it once somewhere.] What happens if you're somewhere where the day is shorter or longer than it is where you're from?
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24 hours, at midnight.
[Actually you know what he's kind of bored of being not-himself, so with a little shake the giraffe disappears, replaced by Taako.
There's a second where he looks... different, not drastically, but his hair falls in front of his face and he almost seems plain, before he waves a hand and he's pretty again and looking back up at Ellie.]
And I gotta rest during that time, at least four hours for me. It's longer for a human wizard.
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Humans can do it too?
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He scoops up the umbra staff, hooking it back over his arm.]
Anyone can be a wizard! Well, not any old idiot, but if you're dedicated!
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[For something this cool? Seriously, she would walk through an entire room of Clickers for it. But--]
Can you fight? [That's important. No sense learning something just because it's fun, or for show. Which-- actually, reminds her. Her eyes widen a little and then in a hushed voice,] Can you fly?
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[He isn't going to give a demonstration of that because most of his spells for battle are pretty damaging, and he doesn't want to break too much shit.]
Whether I can fly depends on how technical you wanna get. I can levitate, or turn into a bird, and there's featherfall in my umbra staff.
[He gives the umbrella a little twirl, to indicate that's what he's talking about. He figures "featherfall" is pretty self-explanatory, this girl seems smart.]
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And-- an elf, right? That's what's up with the ears?
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[It explains the silvery hair, too, since that isn't exactly a natural colour on most people.]
Your turn. [For the questions; Taako gestures to the rifle.] Is that a bullet?
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The rifle is bolt-action, she pops the bolt to drop the shell into her hand and then leaves the chamber opened, which is the next best thing to putting the safety on.]
This [She holds the .223 cartridge aloft for him to inspect.] is a bullet. Big thing's a gun. Gun fires the bullet.
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So he bends down a little to inspect the rifle.]
Like a canon, then? But it's tiny! How effective can that be?
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