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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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[Bryn nods. His world is probably close enough to the level of tech here to not seem noticeably different. It seems that way to her, based on his answer anyway.]

The technology is close to ours. More advanced than ours in some areas, less advanced in others. The architecture is different a bit. Less magic, however. No deities wandering around either, but that's more unique to my country and a couple others than our entire world.

[She shrugs. It's commonplace for her.]

[That earns more than a small furrow in his brow, interest and wariness rising to the surface in equal measures.]

You have deities in your country? Which ones?

[Could it be Thor and the other Asgardians?]

[Bryn begins rattling off a list, the first ones coming quickly and the ones after a bit slower as she tries to make sure she isn't repeating herself.]

Oh, well, there's Sheiva, Jhirem, Pel, Lahun, and Nimaht...and Ishar, Anath, Moirae and Briella--as well as, ah, Freiderin, Karpha, and Nimaht. They're the original twelve, but there are dozens of lesser deities that reside in Askoupur as well.

[She doesn't know if he'll have heard of them--in fact she very much doubts that he has--but there's still the hope that one of them may ring a bell for him.]

[He's shaking his head slightly before she gets halfway through the list, but he lets her finish completely rather than interrupting.]

I've never heard of them. They're real Gods? Not just a different species from another planet or realm?

Honest to goodness deities.

[She shrugs.]

No one here has heard of them but that's what they are. They've been caretakers for our country for hundreds of years now. They weren't native to our country of course, not initially, but they're still from our world.

Who are your deities?

[That's so strange.

He's always been taught that faith is the essence of God. It's what they told him at Sunday school when he was a kid - at least, he thinks it was - that to ask for proof was blasphemy.]

I don't have one.

[He lost his faith in God a long time ago.]

[Bryn doesn't get to boast of having any particular special relationship with her deities. She pays homage to them all in her own way, even having her favorites and having attended the parties of both Sheiva and Jhirem. Still, to have none at all is almost inconceivable. Knowing how enriched her life is even peripherally by their presence in her life, she can't help but feel that having them gone would make her feel the hole in her life all too well.

And thinking about it now only reminds her that they're not here. She's more on her own than she ever thought before, and it's unlikely any of them would come searching for her.]

I would offer you ours but it's very hard to have a connection with someone who isn't here.

That's how all the Gods work where I'm from.

[Well, maybe not all of them. There are cults out there who worship charismatic leaders and believe them to be divine, but they're always just human beings trying to get power over one another.]

Faith in the unknown, that's how belief in God works. Apparently.

[Bryn wrinkles her nose, she can't help it.]

There are a few countries on Teru that are like that, faith in a god or goddess or several who aren't even present but I admit I don't get it. I mean, how can you have faith in a being that won't make themselves known? That holds themselves above you like that, when you know that there are other countries whose gods are there, or at least make contact.

[And a whole world where there is no contact at all...is it faith in absent deities or are they without divine presence and care completely?]

None of the Gods of my world make contact, there's no proof there are any Gods at all anyway.

[He used to be a good Christian boy, not so much any more. It's hard to keep faith through all the things that have happened.]

Are there Gods here?

[It's difficult not to judge. She understands that not everywhere can be so blessed, but if there are deities there she thinks less of them for holding themselves away from their people.

Assuming they aren't somehow blocked...assuming that the world isn't completely bereft of a divine presence.]

If there are, I haven't spoken to them yet. In this regard this place may be more like your own home than mine.

Would you want to meet them if they were here?

[That's an uncomfortable question, but he shakes his head pretty much immediately.]

No. I don't believe in my own God any more, I don't need to meet anyone else's.

[He sort of remembers believing, perhaps a little, but that sort of belief is long gone now.]

[She doesn't take offense to the immediate response, even understands why he might say no.]

Right. Well, is there anyone here you're interested in getting to know or are you just killing time until they can get you home again?

[She's happy to slide the conversation away from religion since it's definitely not his thing.]

[This is already much longer than he anticipated the conversation going, and every question just puts him more on edge. He hesitates before answering.]

I was just killing time, but I should go now.

[Ah, and there it is. The limit. She'd felt herself approaching it and now that she has, he's making a move to leave. Curious but respectful of the effort it took him to stay and talk as long as he did, Bryn does nothing to stop him. Instead, she nods, accepting that easily.]

Then you should go. It was nice meeting you though. Hopefully we'll sit and chat again sometime.

[At least she isn't fighting it, and that makes a pleasant surprise. He hums a quiet sort-of agreement, making nothing concrete, before he's just sliding out of his seat and rapidly walking away without a goodbye.

Manners are not his strong suit.]

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