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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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No.]
A chance. I guess it's a chance. [He smiles, a little crookedly, to try and hide how awkward he feels. He shouldn't - he's a soldier, he's trained for leadership. He can talk to a pretty girl.
Then she mentions friendship, and his brain halts again, for a second. He shakes his head, still smiling.]
You know, it'd be nice to not be completely alone all the time, here. [Nice change of pace. He takes her hand, shakes it firmly, but careful not to grip too tight.]
Adam.
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She likes that he's easy to smile, at least, even if he doesn't seem entirely at ease sitting there talking to her.]
Nice to meet you, Adam. Where were you alone all the time, before you got here? [They're all from different realities so she wonders if his has a name the way this one does. If his people named their planets and galaxies as hers did.]
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Earth. No fancy numbers like this one - or at least if it does, I wasn't told. [Most people, back home, would have been taken aback by the idea of multiple universes and worlds to live in. But Adam had been trained from diapers not to be. He'd been waiting for aliens his whole life, so alternate universes weren't so surprising.]
What about you?
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Radine galaxy, planet Teru. I'm from a country called Askoupur but at the time I was brought here I was down south in Rhevidjan.
[Names which will all mean nothing to him, of course.] I can explain it all later sometime if you like. Why don't you tell me a little about yourself? We don't have much time per round, I think. Would hate to get caught up the details without getting to the heart of who you are and what your story is.
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She's an alien. Hopefully, not one that wants to destroy his planet.]
About me? Um. There isn't... Okay. Well, I'm a soldier. I was trained to become the Champion of Earth, save it from alien threats. But that really didn't pan out.
[He says it matter-of-factly, like it doesn't mean much, even though it meant everything to him. It was all he'd ever known.]
That's my story. What's yours?
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That's an outline of a story at best, but it'll suffice for now. [She shrugs.] I joined the military when I came of age. I was part of the sky guard for two years before I was tapped for special forces. I've been with them ever since.
Coming here actually got me out of a bit of a sticky situation but getting yanked through that portal wasn't the sort of extraction I'd been hoping for.
What exactly constitutes training to become a Champion of Earth?
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Your story sounds similar to mine. Did you try to get out of a sticky situation while working for them, or against them? [He's seen way too many spy movies in his life that it's the first thing he thinks about.]
The Champion of Earth thing, it's... okay. I was born to do it. It was my destiny, and I was raised by the military. I started training coordination when I was two, languages at three, martial arts at four. And so on, you get the idea.
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They began training you so young? Was such a thing even effective? I don't mean to question your skills as a Champion but that seems awfully young to expect any kind of results.
[She's aware that there's still a small contingent of Kouhyarans at the outer reaches of the desert who train their children young, but usually they wait until they're a bit older before starting hand to hand combat and weapons training.]
Did you ever even have any time just to be a kid? To have fun getting into trouble as a teenager?
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Still, it's not that easy.]
It was a gradual training. I was not expected to come to my full potential before I was an adult, but they wanted to make sure I got the very best exposure to everything I would need to know, at all times.
[When he thinks about it, it makes him frown, stomach tightening.] I guess... They wanted to protect me, but they also needed to control me.
[Sighing, he looks up at her.] And I've never had any friends my age, so no. I didn't get into trouble as a teen. Or ever, really, until very recently.
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It sounds like you have a lot of catching up to do, and since we're not on your Earth you're off-duty enough that you ought to feel free to do so.
[Resting her forearms on the table in front of them, she flashes him a quick smile.]
Have you thought about going to any of the other events they have here in town?
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[And it's goddamn hard. He doesn't even know just how much he's missed, he just knows it's a lot, but there's so much he's got to work around and learn. It's terribly difficult when he has no idea how to navigate other people. He's never had to. At least, back home... It was easy.]
Thought about it, but I've got no one to go with. You?
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Thought about a few, actually. Figured if nothing else I could see about gathering a group of people together since so many of these places seem to require people to be in pairs or more. Are there any that interested you?
[She could grab him and a couple others she's met, perhaps. Make a thing of it so it's easier on the poor guy.]
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[He's never had a massage that was meant for relaxation. To be honest, he's never had anything that was meant for relaxation. That was just not in rotation.]
Anyway. Also, the bean bag cinema thing. Sounds comfy.
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All of those sound like a good start. I'd say for easing in, you could do the cinema. Sounds comfortable. If you want to jump in head first the pool party probably wouldn't be a bad idea?
It depends on how much socializing you want to do, or if the idea of sitting in a dark room not talking to anyone sounds more your speed.
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[The kind of stuff Zach and Woody would have been all over, probably, but Adam is well over his teen years.]
I'd rather see a movie I've never seen than try to fit in with a bunch of teenagers. But honestly? I have no idea, maybe it'll be fun. It's not like - I'm not shy. I'm just not sure what I'm doing here. [He chuckles, self-deprecating.]
same character, different account for the game
Still, he doesn't sound like he'd be comfortable with it either way.]
Then it sounds like the cinema is the place to go. May as well ease in, get a feel for how they run these kinds of events anyway, right?
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[He nods, carefully.]
Think will people complain if I run commentary though? Because that's just habit.
[It's what he's used to do - he's never watching anything with company, so he's always been able to just comment on everything he wanted to.]
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Probably. It's one thing if you're in the privacy of your own place but in public you're supposed to keep your mouth shut. Not everyone likes a discussion when they're watching a movie. And you don't know who's hard of hearing that might miss something because you're talking.
[Basically, it's generally considered rude in any universe, probably.]
But we could probably find someone who'll talk all about the movie with you after. I would. I'm sure others would too. Assuming it's good enough to be worth talking about later, anyway.
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[Listen, he's already having a hard enough time with this whole speed dating malarkey, he really doesn't want to try and find more people that are interested in talking to him. It's genuinely difficult and he's feeling a bit raw already.]
I mean, what's got your attention in all these activities? [Because it can't be all about him. He's pretty sure that's a thing.]
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I liked the sound of the pool party. Not opposed to dancing either but the kind they had in mind isn't necessarily my style. Movies are always good. A safe bet.
[She grins.]
I will poke you hard in the arm if you talk through the movie though. You've been warned.
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Yeah, you can try anyway. [He's smiling - teasing. Sassing without the underlying harshness is a new thing for him.]
But you know, if you want to go do something else, that's fine. I don't want to impede on your fun.
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That's nice of you to say but if I don't have any fun then it's my own fault.
Besides, like I said, we'll get a group of people. Lots of pairs. You can meet a bunch of people and everyone can talk with everyone else, no pressure.