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riverview: test drive meme

riverview test drive meme

Welcome to Riverview's 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 April 1st.
● Providing all parties are amenable, threads on the test drive meme can count as game canon, as the plot in the prompts presented is game canon.
● TDM threads do not count for Activity Check, but they do count for Activity Bonus Points, so long as all characters involved are accepted into the game.
● Since this particular TDM is plot-heavy, current players are welcome to do their own top-levels to interact with the plot. However, since it is still a TDM intended to help potential new players get involved, there will be a special additional +25 Activity Point bonus for any thread submitted by a current player that involves a potential new character rather than focusing on existing CR, for this TDM post.

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. Thanks to player-created plots, this month's Test Drive is set to effect the game setting for the next few months, so please enjoy!

information resources
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plot overview

After just over a week of increasingly serious blackouts and brownouts around the city, the team in charge of the structural integrity and defense of the wall has found the source of the problem, and posted a network entry explaining that the issue is caused by a large quantity of lizard-like monsters that have compromised the underground infrastructure of the city, and requesting volunteers to help do a full-scale manual extermination of monsters and assess the damage and do urgent repairs.

prompt i: a call to arms

The most urgent request presented is for people to help clear out the monsters in the underground tunnels - and there are a lot of them! With estimated monster numbers in the area of 500-1000, ranging from adult to juvenile, there's a lot of work to be done to clear out the underground infrastructure of the city. The Perimeter Guard will have a steady stream of transport trucks going to escort any fight-capable residents who want to volunteer out to the tunnels. They will also provide weapons of various varieties as well as short training sessions on how to use them safely in a confined space for anyone who doesn't have their own.

Whether you fight with a weapon, your fists, magic, or poison darts, your help is more than welcome down in the tunnels. The only real request is to keep seismic or explosive abilities or attacks on the mild side, and to be careful not to poison the city's water supply! Other than that, go wild.

prompt ii: into the depths

Clearing out monsters is all well and good, but they have definitely done some damage to the city's infrastructure. So it isn't just the brawn that needs to step up to help the city, it's the brains. There's a call for anyone with any kind of special ability that would help with emergency repairs. Whether it's engineers, chemists, anyone with first aid, runners to distribute supplies, or any other special ability that would help out in the underground tunnels and fix some of the damage that's been done, anyone is welcome to help. And if you think it's just scientists who are needed, think again - magic is a well-known if not-well-understood facet of life in Riverview Quarantine, and some of this stuff works on a more arcane level than a mundane one.

And, of course, all of these brainiacs are going to need a little backup, so any bruisers to act as escort and protection are also welcome.

prompt iii: trapped in a...

Not everyone has the skills or desire to head out into the jungle and fight for the city, and that's perfectly fine. Inside the Quarantine walls, life is carrying on as normally as it can. That is, aside from the ongoing blackouts.

Wherever you might be in the city, you run a pretty decent risk of getting trapped somewhere for a short period of time. Whether it's trapped in an elevator, a tram car, a store, the housing you share with someone you barely know, or anywhere else in the city, it could happen to you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship or a meet-cute to tell your grandkids about...at least, that is, if you get along with the person you're stuck with...

prompt iv: friendr/network

Whether your character is posting up a silly word game to distract people from the dangerous mission going on, trying to get hold of a friend, or putting out feelers for people to go out into the fray with, the network is going strong.

Alternately, an offer for a new, free app is popping up on people's devices - Friendr is a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

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<center><img src="ICON URL HERE" style="border-radius: 50%; width: 70px; height: 70px; box-shadow:-3px 3px 2px 0px rgba(82, 136, 135, .75);"></center>
<center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 14px;">Name of Character</div></center>
<center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><b><small>AGE:</small></b> ##
<b><small>INTERESTED IN:</small></b> Male/Female/Any
<b><small>SEEKING:</small></b> Type(s) of Relationship(s)
<b><small>ABOUT ME:</small></b> Blurb goes here, can be as long or short as you wish.</div></center><br>
</blockquote></center>

Many thanks to

mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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un: dodger

so you've got a degree in sticking your nose in other people's business. how's that going?

[Reasonably high-level, is he? Johnny raises an eyebrow and gives him a brief once over. He's never seen his picture anywhere, but he's probably just from a different world. He'll have to take his word on what "level" he is.]

If I focused only on personal comfort I'd be walking around in my house clothes all the time.

[No one else needs to see his various super-hero themed boxers.]

I get what you mean, though.

[ jesse signals to another one of the passage guards to take his shift at the bottleneck. he wishes the man godspeed with a brief hand salute; the man returns the gesture and steals down the hall. then jesse hops down from his own position and steps towards angela, holstering his gun. ]

I was hopin' next time I saw you I'd have less in the way of blood and guts on me.

[ jesse for his part is relatively unharmed, a few scrapes here and there, rips in the fabric of his pants that reveal new and old claw marks. but he's still grinning ear to ear. ]

Think I used to hope that every time you were on base, though.

@necromantica

About a month now. I don't recognize your- username? Is that the word?

Are you new?

[ Hanzo nods, absently, in acknowledgement. it helps somewhat, knowing how this has happened; it doesn't make Genji's visor any less unnervingly inhuman, but it does make him seem more... real. like something possible, that can be explained, rather than a nightmare. ]

It seems an expensive procedure. [ understatement. Hanzo had half of his legs replaced, so he knows very clearly how high the cost to repair the amount of damage he did to Genji would have been. warily: ] What motivation did they have to go to such lengths to save you?

[ their decade apart is only a blur of grief and guilt in Hanzo's memory of it; he knows that the family had suffered a significant blow, but he had been trying so desperately at the time to distance himself from it all. he doesn't know what caused their fall, nor is he thinking right now of the timing of it. but it's suspicious nonetheless that Overwatch would make such an investment in Genji, of all people. he knows he's missing something here. ]

[ He wants to take off his mask, to smile at him again but it would not be appropriate then; underground in this dingy tunnel, walls covered in lizard grime. After they're done, if the time is right...

Genji can't help the faint little snort that comes out of him at the question. ] Overwatch of old did many great things, but they were not entirely altruistic when it came to me. [ He crosses his arms. ] They wanted me to help them dismantle the clan. [ Or be left to rot in jail is the unspoken end of that sentence.

He never doubted that Dr. Ziegler saved him out of the goodness of her heart, but he was ultimately still a means to an end. He knows they would not have rescued him if they'd had another way to get at the Shimadas. Why would they waste all the time and money on a criminal, after all? ]

[Bryn glances over his shoulder with a broad grin, and nods. Turning around, he rests a shoulder against the glass and crosses his arms.]

Hell yeah it's neat. I mean, you've got a point about being trapped not exactly being pinnacle, but...

[He waves a hand toward the view, sort of vaguely.]

Where I come from, you don't get to be this high up very often, it's all low-slung, you know?

"Any of that blood yours?" she asks, the end of her caduceus staff opening and omitting a gold light before he even has the chance to confirm or deny. Look, she worries, okay?

"And oh, how rarely that was the case, hmm?" There's laughter to her voice as she closes the distance between them to give him a quick hug. The smell of his cigar is heavy on him, but that just brings back memories of their time together in Overwatch. Smells are a powerful trigger that way.

"You have been well, I hope?"

think its username, yah

they said that when I set this thing up

sure am just got here a couple days ago

names bryn

I might have an idea.

[And okay, he can't help but give a bit of a smile when he realizes the guy really does seem happy over it and all.]

What kind of place did you come from, anyway?

[ jesse is in the issued flat. he's standing up from where he was left alone in the communal housing, pacing slowly from one end of the room to the next. ]

Either that or the long years.

[ jesse. jesse he's not that much younger than you jESSE ]

[Bryn's been in a lot of places weirder and more dangerous than this, they just didn't involve a lot of tech, like this one does. So it's basically extra-cool, as far as he's concerned. One dark brow raises, and he pushes away from the window with his elbow.]

Kinda like this but without the tall buildings and lasers and tech stuff. Most of our artifacts are beat up and old-school, you know? Dug out of ruins or the underground by criminals and adventurers and that.

[A little shrug.]

What's the idea?

Normally I'd say we ought to wait it out, but help's probably gonna be slow to come.

[ it's taking emergency services awhile to get anywhere thanks to the infestation, and the last building blackout that jesse was privy to had lasted well over an hour.

he glances sideways, registers the man's outfit, the bow strapped to his back, the lax strength sitting in his shoulders. you don't see that every day, jesse thinks--but today it'll be handy. it's always nice to meet somebody ready to take action.

he passes a hand over his cybernetic arm. the blue lights gleam on, close to helpful but still not enough to make out hanzo's face in detail. he points up at the ceiling anyway. ]

Any sign of a hatch up there? [ that'd make it almost too easy, but it's always worth a shot. ]

[ Another little chuckle. ]

Do you have gray hair now? A tragedy. Where are you? I must come see for myself.

I didn't mean anything by it-- I've just done a lot of traveling, and not every place has comforts like this, I guess. I mean, not that this is totally comfortable or convenient when it's not moving.

[This isn't the first time Billy's done dimension hopping, but-- it is the first time he's done it without meaning to and been kind of... well, stuck.

And he's been places without much technology... or people, for that matter.]

But-- that sounds kind of rough. Criminals, really?

[ jesse makes a considering noise in his throat. ]

When there's a will, I reckon there's a way.

[ but with the light on the dog catches his attention in full. there's a very distinct ! moment, and then jesse is hunkering down slightly. even though he's not the exuberant or fawning type, it's clear his affect towards animals is warm. ]

But you're escapin' for two, ain't ya.

Edited 2017-03-23 04:36 (UTC)

Home sweet home. Community housing. Just like Blackwatch bunks.

[ there's a second where jesse considers not sounding kind of--animated. when jesse was younger he'd thrown exuberant energy at genji when he could, and he'd been rebuffed then, in kind ways and unkind ways alike.

but there's something in genji's voice that feels different now. and, well. curiosity. cats. ]

I can meet ya halfway.

Oh man, I hope someone got pictures. The tabloids love that stuff.

[If this world even has tabloids. He hasn't even gotten the chance to see if it has newspapers.

He grins at the compliment, but it's beneath his mask so it's hard to tell.]

Thanks! Right back at you.

[His own agility comes from his mutant powers, so he's always appreciative of someone who's that talented without them.]

Are you with a team?

[Of super heroes, of circus performers... who knows.]

[ She listens very intently, but the majority of it does indeed go right over her head. Breakers? Electricity? Grid? She watched the communication on the network about this undertaking. She's been in the city, so she's got something of the gist of the reason the infestation was an issue from the experience of the... outages, was it? And really, few things seemed too terribly manual or magickal in the sense that she's used to it. Smart as she is, she's from a time long before even the most basic electrical technology in her own world and she can't initially think of anything to compare it to to help her understanding. The idea of power surging hits her as something she can grasp after a moment for thought as to magickal effect, though, and she remains diligent, following him with the light where he might need it as she turns it over in her head. ]

So this 'electricity' is the power that keeps the constructs above ground moving? And it moves through these... wires to do that. Am I understanding that correctly?

[ She's trying. Much as she's been running through the tunnels, metal boxes with odd things coming out of them seems to be a commonality in some areas, at least. If only she could hear it, she might understand it better. She does sound a mite hopeful, though. ]

They really like to ramble while you try to follow, don't they?

My name is Letha, pleased to meet you. I assure you, the electricity normally works - the technology in this world is truly a miracle.

[To be fair, she's from the 1850's. Her home reality didn't even have lightbulbs yet.]

[ one of Hanzo's feet scrapes heavily across the ground, the sound of cement scratching metal, as he missteps — and he breathes in sharply through his nose like he desperately needs the air all of a sudden. he doesn't stop walking; he also isn't paying any attention at all to where he's going.

Genji betrayed the clan. sold them out to Overwatch, helped to destroy the family that had raised him. it was a deal made to save his own life, yes, a life that Hanzo took from him, and Hanzo had abandoned their home too — but to betray them? he feels sick at the very thought of it. (it's fear more than it is love or loyalty, nauseated by the impossibility of going against the clan.) aside from that, the ingratitude of it, Hanzo is the one to blame; to have done that and to leave him alive here makes no sense.

he wants to ask right now, why have you not killed me yet? and yet it seems weak to be the first one to give in. ]

How— [ he doesn't seem to know what to say. how could you? he thinks, and with the hand that holds the arrow, he combs his fingers harshly through his hair, frantic to clear his head. does he have any right to be angry? he should have been there to stop it; he shouldn't have been there, it was the right decision to leave. ] It was Overwatch, then. That brought down the family.

A sound plan. I will find you outside.

[ Then sounds of wind rushing as Genji hops and slides down the side of the building. He lands easily enough on the ground with barely a grunt and straightens up.

He was terrible company back then but McCree was a highlight of his time in Overwatch. Even when he was desperate to push people away, the cowboy always came back. Genji's first genuine friend, as it were. ] I trust you can find me.

[ he chuckles himself, low and throaty, as he pushes open the door to the housing unit and starts to make his way outside. ]

Likewise.

I am not really sure what to think about that. That magick should be used for such a thing seems wrong to me. It doesn't strike me as a comfortable way to live either. Does a person's character change after they become a vampire?

That seems a a very odd choice of curse to me, but then, killing isn't what I'd call a rare thing where I'm from. Glory in battle and all that and some go too far. You might find your hands bloodied to protect your own.

The Nemedians are my people. I'd wager we aren't exactly from the same place considering the differences we've found so far.

[ Genji thinks he might trip for a moment and he nearly stops short and grabs him, but refrains. He just keeps his eyes on his brother as they walk for a moment, watching him breathe.

He nods. ] It was. And truthfully I was not terribly upset about it.

[ He never wanted it, their empire. What he actually wanted then, he didn't know. He'd grown selfish with the ease of living, with knowing he could damn well near get away with anything but— did it make him happy? No.

He knows now though; he wanted a family. A real family. A real place to call his own, where he could be himself without expectations. Where they both could be free to do as they pleased. Genji had found his freedom and if he could help his brother...

Genji's quiet for a few moment before he continues, his voice noticeably softer than before. ] You left. That surprised me the most.

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