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

ii; came in like a wreeecking balll etc etc

[diagenesis]

[Fighting monsters is not so different from fighting men. Monsters are, if anything, more predictable.

Where Nightwing is all surety and grace and mercy, though Flint's not yet taken note of that, Flint is a cold, hard, unstoppable force. He is not prepossessed of monstrous strength, but he is utterly, ruthlessly efficient.

Creatures lie dead around him. He too is not unblooded, but he wipes his brow and seems disinclined to cease the fight to tend to his myriad small injuries. He doesn't have the benefit of nomex and kevlar, but he's certainly borne worse.

He glances askance at his masked companion, raising an eyebrow at the utterance of orders. Yet, Flint doesn't waste words. It's a sound plan, though he's privately amused someone other than himself has announced it aloud. He simply nods, flicks blood from the edge of his sword with a sharp downward motion and stalks off in the direction indicated. They can stem this tide with little effort, but holding this spot while the creatures prowl beyond the wall will be harder.

One monster leaps at him, he turns aside and puts a boot against its neck, pinning it to the ground as he just pulls out a pistol and shoots the fucking thing. He turns away from it, ready to step back into line when he sees it: another creature leaping towards his companion while their back is turned.

Now: Flint doesn't honestly care if he lives or died. Battle is not enough for him to forge a camaraderie worth saving. But the man is an exquisite fighter, and that he appreciates. He aims.]

Down!

[His voice is a harsh, gravelly bark. One word, but in it is a clear sense of expecting to be obeyed. Regardless of whether or not he is, though, he's gonna shoot that fucking thing.]

[fingerstripes]

[ Knowing when to give an order and when it's time to follow one is part of staying alive. It's the first lesson he'd learned as Robin, and it's how he lasted a decade in the field with an R-shaped target on his chest. It's how he kept his team alive against odds that should have laid out all of them. In a flash he's all forward motion, dropping ahead of the gunshot while the claws miss him by inches. He hadn't demanded an answer. And as he watches the body fall, something in his chest tightens up.

They're animals. Aggressive, violent, dangerous animals, all posing a risk to innocent people. There's a lot... a lot here that he doesn't know about the situation, he knows that. Maybe there is no better option. Maybe they don't think or feel.

But he doesn't know that. He doesn't know, and there's a difference between watching the back of a man shooting them down and being the cause of death for a living thing. It's his fault it came to that. He'd been too slow, too distracted. It's what Batman would say.

It bothers the hell out of him, whether it's fair or not. It bothers the hell out of him that it's still Batman he's thinking about first. ]

Wasn't what I asked. [ A little sullen as he rolls back to his feet, brushing at the dirt on his shoulder. ]