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

[fingerstripes]

[ It's occurring to him now that like Raven, like Superman, like so many others he's known and fought beside, there may not really be much he can do to prevent Loki: God of Mischief, conjurer of sandwiches, from knowing exactly who Dick Grayson is the moment he runs into him out of uniform.

He doesn't know how to feel about that. He doesn't know what he can do about that possibility here, with no allies and no resources, which is the real problem at the root of all the others. There's too much here he doesn't understand. Too many variables at play. Trust is risky and painful and dangerous, when it isn't just his own secret to give away. His own safety to think about.

But does he stand a chance at getting out of here at all with no one standing by his side? ]

Tempting.

But the air of enthralling mystery would probably lose something. And I really think we have something here.

[ Mr. Air of Enthralling Mystery sure did just drop some mayonnaise on the front of his uniform. He fishes a neatly folded napkin out of another compartment with something less than perfect finesse, and offers Loki a spare. ]

[ikols]

[ Worth a try, he thinks, doing little to hide a momentary pout. ]

I'll just have to settle for your scanty costume, I suppose. How tragic. If you change your mind, [ accepting the serviette to dab at his own mouth, ] I make a mean breakfast.

[ It wouldn't be overly difficult to root out a secret identity with everyone living in the same building, if not on the same apartment floor, but Loki won't violate a potential friend's trust like that; Verity would be furious if she arrived and found out he did it for fun, not to unmask a dangerous element. And besides, Loki can enjoy that Air of Enthralling Mystery for as long as Nightwing feels the need to sustain it. Humouring Doreen Green that she isn't Squirrel Girl, as well as various other new heroes, is starting to feel like a trend. ]

Fifth Floor of that grand hotel hub, by the way. That's where I'm staying. Ignore the Avengers stationed there and everything they say, they're biased.

[fingerstripes]

Duly noted. [ The address is probably a gesture, and he's a little touched in spite of himself. ]

Were they not fans of chicken on tomato?

[ikols]

[ Visit him, you hot spandex'd nerd. ]

They're not fans of much besides justice, I'm afraid. We have a convoluted history, it's messier than a bilgesnipe's backside braids.

[fingerstripes]

[ He tucks the word justice away for further investigation later. History he can relate to, and anyway it seems unlikely that anyone this powerful would be sticking around an apartment building filled with true enemies. ]

Ouch. [ And he offers a sympathetic shake of the head. ]

Well, I happen to be a good listener, if you're ever up for sharing.

[ikols]

Evidently. Well, if you've no further use of me, I'll be heading back to the city now. [ Sandwich picked apart and all. ] Unless you'd like a lift anywhere else first?

[fingerstripes]

[ He shakes his head, but there's a genuine smile to go along with it this time. ]

I think I'm gonna poke around a little bit more. But I appreciate the help.

[ikols]

Don't be a stranger, Wing of Night. It's been a while since I met a man in a mask that I didn't want to toss into a black hole.

[ coughVictorVonDoomcough Like a painting wiped off its easel, Loki teleports away with a wink and another flash of light. In his place, leftover where he stood, is a piece of parchment. On it in inked, loopy handwriting with a uniformly regal style (complete with smiley face!) is written, Blue is a good colour on you. ;-) ]