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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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I didn't actually think to ask, and I kind of regret it now. I mean, what are we facing? Mummies, zombies? Something bigger like Godzilla? No clue. [He really, really ought to have asked first, but honestly, he was just happy for the chance to punch, hit, or shoot something.]
Do you have any fighting experience at all? I've...fought some monsters before. Also aliens, lunatics, and, you know. Regular humans. [He shrugs. His life has been a varied, interesting one, he knows.] I grabbed a couple of guns and a couple of knives, though. Hopefully, that's all that I'll actually need.
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Still, her smile stays in place as he talks about mummies and zombies, aliens and lunatics. Regular humans, which implies there are irregular humans in his world. Curious. He doesn't seem to include himself in that group, however, listing off the weapons he's brought with him. He'll note that Wanda has none.]
If we need more then they ought to have prepared us better. But yes, I have fighting experience. Robots. Regular humans. Powered humans. I missed the alien invasion. [And she doesn't sound sorry for it at all.] Monsters will be new.
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Granted, I feel like this is really all that they have to work with. For now, I mean. [Who knew if more people would arrive or not.]
I'm Jason, by the way.
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Wanda. And I signed up because I have the skills and training to be effective. I would be doing the same back home if the situation occurred there. What about you? Why did you sign up?
[She doesn't much want to talk about the Avengers, it opens up too many questions about people who aren't here, who may be private, and of course about her as well. And Wanda doesn't open up easily, especially to people she's only just met.]
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It's what I do.
[Simple enough reason, right?] Feels wrong not to do it when I know there's a chance for me to help. Plus, punching monsters? Great way to work out aggression.
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With a statement like that, and in light of her own experiences with the Avengers, she can't help but wonder if he has a similar role in his own world, especially considering the long list of foes he mentioned earlier. He must, to have come up against not just one or two of them but many more of them.]
And do you have a lot of aggression to work out?
[She lifts a brow, finally a faint smile tugging at the corner of her lips.]
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Where I come from, I'm pretty much known as the aggressive, angry one. [The wild card, even, though he's not too fond of that particular description, since wild cards are usually jokers, and Jason doesn't have pleasant history with a very specific Joker.]
So, you know. Maybe a normal amount. [A normal amount for someone raised from the dead, anyway.]
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She might believe it better if she could get into his mind, but such things are a violation, and uncalled for with allies.
Her mind flits from thought to thought, following a chain, and it's not long before she wonders how much of this conversation is an act. If he's just an incredible performer hiding all of that aggression deep down. Already, she finds it unsettling to catch errant thoughts and emotions off of people that don't match what they say or their expressions on her face. Could he be better at it than everyone she's met before?]
I'll be curious to see you out in the field then, against the monsters. Maybe I'll learn something about how to channel my aggression.
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[He gives Wanda that charming smile again.]
I promise to be as impressive as possible, if that helps any.
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[Simply by virtue of fighting hard, or effortlessly, whatever his style turns out to be. She doubts anyone who couldn't hold their own would be on this transport.]
But yes, I understand what you mean. Reaching for the light is good but it isn't necessarily the path for everyone. Sometimes it's simply enough to reach for self-betterment, whatever that turns out to be.
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How's your search for self-betterment going, if I can be presumptuous enough to ask?
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As well as can be expected. [Which isn't an answer persay but it's something.] It's not without its bumps in the road.
[There, see? She's made a joke. Perhaps she's not as incapable of being charming as she might seem at first.]
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Haven't yet been on a road that isn't at least a little bumpy. Smooth sailing, by the way? Also kind of a lie.
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Absolutely a lie. How is your attempt to reach toward something not as consuming going?
[He asked her, after all, so she'll do the same.]
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Some days are better than others. Some days, I've almost made peace with the past. I've moved on. Other days...other days I still want to let that darkness embrace me and lash out at the people who didn't avenge me when...when bad things happened to me.
[He shrugs a little bit at that. He and Bruce have sort of made their amends recently. Bruce has admitted to being fine with Jason's choice to be more of an outlaw than a hero. But at the same time... He sighs. He's known Bruce for so long, and there are still days where Jason feels as though he doesn't fully understand him.]
Mostly, I try to ignore that. Doesn't always work.
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[She won't dig deeper, won't ask him what happened to him or who the people were who didn't avenge him. It sounds awful, too personal to pry into when they've only just met. Instead, she decides to back track to something less delicate.]
What are your weapons of choice in the field?