riverview: test drive meme

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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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Comments

[diagenesis]

[He makes a rough, low sound in his throat, some sort of laugh that has no real cause to escape him. Of all the people here he might have expected to be suspicious, this one is perhaps the least surprising to him. Max, after all, does the same thing running her tavern and brothel in Nassau. A pretty face is never to be underestimated.]

I think voyeurism is the least of all their sins, frankly.

[spellslots]

What's your pick for the worst, then? Kidnapping people or the utterly terrible decor?

[That's not a serious question because the answer is so obvious, and yeah, he also doesn't buy that bullshit "it was the portal" excuse.

He's got some experience with different planes, they don't work that easily.]

[diagenesis]

Oh, the décor. Certainly.

[Nor is that a serious answer. It's said with obvious sarcasm and the faintest trace of wry amusement as Flint nods to the drapes. Obviously, they are the greatest offender of his sensibilities.]

[spellslots]

They should've gone with a dark blue.

[Taako takes the liberty of waving a hand to change the color of the drapes to a deeper navy blue. It's only an illusion, but that doesn't matter.]

There! Much better, don't you think?

[diagenesis]

[Flint goes very, very still.

He is no stranger to the impossible. Nor is he given over to any... especial hysterias concerning the vast and unknowable world. He is practical, a man of reason. He trusts himself absolutely. His senses, his perceptions, his instincts, all of it.

He has heard, certainly, that there are things here that can twist a man's perspicacity. Give him cause to see what isn't there. Ghosts, phantasms, sleights of hand and mind. The curtains were one colour and now they are another, and Flint mislikes what he cannot immediately comprehend.

They burn witches, in his time. He has never been inclined to believe them to be real until this very moment.]

Quite the trick you have there.

[His tone is mild. He has not reached for a knife. There's a very slight tic to his face, something in the curve of the mouth, but it doesn't last long.]

[spellslots]

[There are things that paranoia teaches, and recognizing tension is one of them, although Taako mostly got used to spotting when people recognized him, but he's started realizing that magic isn't as common as it is, for him.]

I'm a wizard, my man, I got a lotta tricks.

[He's going to have to start wearing his hat everywhere.]

[diagenesis]

[All these fucking words he has no notion of, or that mean things entirely different than to what he's accustomed. Wizard means a wise man, a philosopher. He would expect to see someone more at home in a Roman Senate than how this man presents himself.

This place is going to drive him to alcohol with a frequency that alarms even a pirate.]

And is this... common, where you're from? Being a 'wizard'.

[spellslots]

As common as any other profession, just a hell of a lot more exciting.

[Well, a lot of wizards don't actually do the whole adventuring thing, and a bunch of them are just old dudes with books, but doing magic is cool, so. You know.]

There are even schools for it, but I'm self-taught.