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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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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!
alex fierro | magnus chase & the gods of asgard
[ there were some thinks that Hotel Valhalla had prepared her for, and this was one of them. the monsters stew outside of the fence, and instead of running and finding something else to occupy herself with, she seeks them out. getting there isn't easy, she has to coax a few rides out of people with an easy smile and smooth words (something her mother would be proud of, and something she willfully ignores). she's left within walking distance of the fence, and the rest of the terrain she breeches alone. she's not unused to it, and she trails a few dozen feet from the fence to keep her distance, disguised partially in the brush.
solutionshe wants to know what would classify as monsters: jotunn, sons of Fenris, something far worse than that?
there's a hm of quiet laughter to herself as she tightens her fingers on her garrote, readying to see what horrors are beyond that fence. ]
This better be good. Godzilla, Mothra, or something worse? [ she says wistfully to herself. (dragons, perhaps.) ] Try me. I'll be disappointed, otherwise.
[ while Alex decides that she doesn't want to help, she ends up helping anyway. there's no Sam nor Magnus, no one to steer her in any particular direction here or there. she's both frustrated and thankful, finding her own way from the Abandoned City and into the jungle.
wildcardshe's used to doing things on her own, and when the announcement comes to anyone willing enough to head into the jungle, she readily takes it. there's a hunting knife tucked into her belt, and her garrote at her disposal. she stalks through the woods like a snake with its fangs out, ready to strike.
there are patches of sweat beneath her arms and on her brow, but she's damp enough with rain that it doesn't matter. her vest sticks to her, and she pulls open the collar in efforts to cool off. the pyramid is easy to spot in the distance, and she breathes a dramatic sigh of relief. ]
Finally.
[ it comes from her lips as she pushes on, readying her garrote. ]
[ hit me with your best shot. ]
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[ This guy in tacky gold horns was definitely not (visibly) behind her a moment ago. Hands stuffed in his coat-pockets, he glances away from the scene beyond the fence to the mumbling stranger. ]
And now I'm rather hoping Mothra gets to bunk up at the apartments. You wouldn't be able to open the fridge at night if he was around, imagine the fuss of midnight snacks.
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it can't
she cuts herself off. ]
I wasn't talking to you.
[ it's quick, blunt. a test that's based on a nagging little feeling for her own peace of mind. she half turns, giving him the sliver of an amber eye. ]
no subject
[ Maybe he startled her, that could explain her standoffish reaction. Ah, well. He's done worse on Floor Five and survived Stark's wrath as of late. He holds eye-contact with a green stare as clear as amber. ]
What're you planning to do, strangle your way through the fence?
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there's no one with her this time. no Hearthstone and Blitzen. no Sam. no Magnus. instead, there was a looming apocalpyse. she was used to it. while she couldn't currently count on them to have her back, nor could she count on the immortality granted to her as an einherji, she could count on herself, as she always had.
in an instant she moves, one foot in front of another, sprinting full force toward the laser obstruction in front of her. with a leap she's a falcon, soaring the upward length of the fence. there's a twirl in the air (as if there's a defiant laughter accompanying) and within a few flaps she's over height and dropping back down into the brush on her feet.
she dusts her hands. job well done. ]
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Flashy.
[ He's not a bird, can't fly. Earthbound, unlike Thor, and isn't sentiment just the damnedest thing? He can't lie his way around his own truths.
It looks like he crouches down until the green coat envelopes his limbs and shrinks, scaly and sleek so that a silent, slender snake can slither between the lowest point in the chainlinks. On the other side, it raises its head and the verdant gaze of the serpent remains exactly the same even as Loki rises out of its form.
He brushes off his knees, just for show. ]
A sparrow would have been less noticeable but that didn't seem to be what you were aiming for. Now that hurdle's over with, [ hahAH get it, ] what's next?
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What do you want, anyway? Here to critique my shapeshifting? [ not just flashy or aloof, but also somewhat prickly. despite the tension that she radiates, she holds herself with an easy edge, resting her weight on her hip as she stretched the garrote between her hands. it shone in the shadows, a brilliant gold color. ] Get lost. I can take care of this myself.
[ in theory, she probably could. she was (painfully) aware that they were not at Hotel Valhalla, and any demise that she walked into would be permanent.
SHE DOESN'T WANT U OR UR BAD JOKES ]
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[ Dismissive in return, he shrugs with hands spread and turns to trot into the jungle down a semi-worn, unofficial path. The road can belong to her, if she's stubborn enough to take it. ]
I won't be the one getting lost, though!
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No one's getting lost. Stop being dramatic.
[ says the one who's good at being dramatic.
she follows at a safe distance, stalking after him like it's her duty to make sure that he doesn't do something undesirable. ]
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Did your housemates not offer to see you through the wild?