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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.


Many thanks to [personal profile] 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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howlongiwonder: (conversation)

[personal profile] howlongiwonder 2017-04-04 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds likely.

[She nods again. For a moment it seems like 2B has relaxed her cool and distant act just a little. But once again, it could just be the darkness playing tricks.]

Yuuri it is, then. YoRHa unit 2 type B. "2B" is fine.
bespredel: (Aɴᴅ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪᴅs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ'ᴍ ᴏᴋᴀʏ)

[personal profile] bespredel 2017-04-04 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been learning. [ It was a simple answer, but it also likely served to raise more questions. Frowning, Yuri eyed the other critically at the request, his lips pursed. ]

If I agree will you get the hell out of here? [ It wasn't like he was concerned, or anything- it was just... ] If you can'take defend yourself then you're just being a nuisance. Getting in the way.

[ He scowled, dirty fingers shifting to subconsciously touch the edge of his still healing wounds, his other hand tightening around the spear. ]
livingsymbol: ([S] Everything the light touches...)

Tony breaks my heart.

[personal profile] livingsymbol 2017-04-04 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Steve pulls Tony along like he's a kid leading his parent to a favorite store until Tony's talking gets to unmarried women. Then he stops suddenly, turning back to give the man a surprised, critical look.]

After this, I'm going to take you home so you can get some rest.

[A bar is the last place he wants to see Tony go. He looks like a mess. Steve was hoping that maybe once they started moving Tony would gain some stride, but he seems like he's ready to slump back down if Steve lets him.]

Let's just get the lights on.

[He almost starts pulling again, but hesitates. His free hand goes to Tony's shoulder.]

You're not selfish.
realimperfect: (oh my tongue is a weapon)

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)

I wouldn't want to make this situation even more strange from the position of an outsider - it's bad enough we're in a new place, but coming here from somewhere else in some other universe?

It gives me a head ache to think about..
realimperfect: (you know we're gonna be legends)

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)

No, not very long. Either way that's not really going to be my choice for finding friends at any rate.
yokunaru: (102)

[personal profile] yokunaru 2017-04-04 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
But if a lot of people here have been pulled through the portal as well, doesn't that mean it wouldn't sound as farfetched?
yokunaru: (120)

[personal profile] yokunaru 2017-04-04 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Immediately, Yuuri brightens up.] Yes. I'll stay out of the tunnels if you'll let me fix you up.

[There's something a little wry about his smile this time, even as he doesn't deny anything Yuri says.] I wasn't thinking. I heard they needed extra hands for first aid and... [Yuuri shrugs, self consciousness bleeding into his actions this time.]

Let's go. [He says finally, turning on his heels so they can join the rest of the soldiers heading out.] How long have you been training with weapons?
realimperfect: (he says oh baby girl)

gdit Carolina...

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)

Almost. Still unsettling to see coming at you around a corner, though... [ She'd deny it if asked, but the tone almost seems at ease, possibly fond when it comes to spying Carolina. After all, they'd gone through a few twists and turns already on the Eluvio - much worse than this lizard mission and all of that lot, too, so there's not much to worry over.

Even with that pretend aloof interest she's too nosey not to ask - ]


How long have you been here? [ A short pause, and then she seems to have another thought - ] I wonder how the ship is fairing with all of us here, then..
realimperfect: (we'll be flying through the streets)

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)

"I'm assuming it's the area around us that's air tight - in the city sense - not this area in particular." She's always far too literal Victor, sorry about that. Either way she's already spotted the vent and is thankful for the fact they've got air circulating if they end up trapped in here for a little while. Which was seeming more and more likely as she considers the thin end of her jewelry of choice.

After a moment's thought she passes Victor his dog tags back, wanting nothing more than to just get away from those lest it suck her back to that place. Highly unlikely, but having any identification on her was also not something she was about at the moment, considering she didn't know how they ended up here. This could be a fancily dressed penal colony for all they knew just yet.

"It's not, and I doubt Vincent would be pleased to get this back mangled." With that decided she puts it back in her shirt, hidden away again as she debates her next move.

Even so - "I threw those dog tags away the second I had a chance to."
realimperfect: (you should fuck me tonight)

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)

How much does 'a lot' constitute? From Eluvio and not just their own respective lives, I mean.

I did run in to Carolina in the tunnels not too long ago.
leaderboards: (𝖠; gestures uselessly)

u kno u love her

[personal profile] leaderboards 2017-04-04 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I doubt that the Eluvio's crew is missing us all that much.

[ considering they'd hardly used the newest arrivals. oros had been the exception and carolina's sure now that that was only because they knew something they'd never told the teams. she'd been the first one to give them the benefit of the doubt, to follow orders, but considering all that came after, she has no problem changing her tune. ]

But I've only been here a day. Long enough to get shown where I'm sleeping and hear that the locals needed help with some extermination.
realimperfect: (you know we're gonna be legends)

only sometimes

[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-04-04 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)

Well that's a no brainer... too nosey for our own good. Though if they didn't want people who knew what they were looking for so far as intelligence gathering then they should've considered that. [ The anomaly story was still something that she's suspicious about - after all, many of those who arrived had been the type to go out and fight battles, look in to what was going on around them - over all, not the type of mind-blanked fighters they'd apparently been hoping for. Sure, she and the Alpha and beta teams had gone to Oros on good faith, but after the results of that mission as a whole?

There was no way no one was going to start asking questions after a planet vaporized in front of their eyes in all too convenient timing.

Already a rebellious one by nature - there was no way that Re-L wouldn't be even more so after witnessing that hell of a mess. ]


I've been here about the same. So far it seems too... normal, though. I'd half expected it to be a camp for Eluvio dissenters, or something. So far so normal but I'm... not going to keep myself too far removed from suspicion.

I did throw away those god damn dog tags, though.
nikolaievich: (We're lonely)

[personal profile] nikolaievich 2017-04-04 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[A beat, and the fingers on his right hand twitch slightly. He knows Solo reading him is a good thing- good for the team, good for them working together, good for U.N.C.L.E. And he knows he should appreciate that someone managed to get close to him despite… despite everything. But it’s still a little unnerving. He doesn’t know how to react.]


...Yes. [He figures being the closest he gets to thankful is a safe bet.]

And I did not try to bust out of here. [Even though he really wanted to. Wants to. ...Even though he probably would bust out of here if he anyone gave him an excuse.]
backwatertrooper: (so see sir... - suggestions)

[personal profile] backwatertrooper 2017-04-04 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Probably should... or at least tell them there might be..." trailing off at the thud, followed several seconds later by a splash, Cloud frowns. Doesn't stop or slow down, but cocks his head and tries to listen while he keeps his breathing slow and even and try to filter out the other sounds around them.

But he's not a SOLDIER, his senses are perfectly normal, no matter what he might try or wish for. Frowning, it takes a brief moment of distraction before his gaze flickers back to Victor, pretty sure he is the one playing the escort here, but...

"Cloud Strife." Since they were apparently doing full names and all. "... If something catches up with us, you should put your back to the wall and keep moving. You could probably use the supply bag if something gets past me."

Because even if it'd be a nice thought that it was some person making noises behind them without calling out, Cloud would bet it wasn't. They'd been talking since they met, after all, and whatever it was hadn't seemingly reacted to that.
wulf: (wTbXynz)

[personal profile] wulf 2017-04-04 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching the sunrise. Jeez, they really know how to pick em.

When they said all the crap about needing a new home I was kind of hoping the fight would be over.


[ but maybe it's best to keep busy for the time being. ]
genice: (consider | if that's a wise decision)

[personal profile] genice 2017-04-05 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
( Not much longer than Victor. Surprising only in the sense where Victor hadn't expected to run into more of those new to the area than slightly better established. Anything else he might have asked along those lines is cut off at Crow's question, provoking a querying look from Victor. Moscovian could sound like an almost bastardized version of Moscow.

He shakes his head, adjusting his grip on his backpack straps.
)

Not if that's a country. Even if it were related to Moscow, I'm from further West, out of St. Petersburg. What year was it for you? In what calendar?

( One difference he's found in naming conventions links back to where and when someone was from, if they were from Earth at all. Or Neo Earth. Any Earth? He dismissed most names from his head when he'd heard them. They weren't relevant to his life for the most part. )

I'm what we call Russian, from the Russian Federation.
genice: (smile | i noticed you watching?)

[personal profile] genice 2017-04-05 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Victor was more at peace at having come through this portal: unlike with the Eluvio, he remembered the moments following his stumbling out with Makkachin and Yuuri and Konpeito ironically in tow. His greater concern lay with figuring out a life here, when the means of going back one universe was some time off in the future, let alone multiple universes. Having run into Yuri Plisetsky and knowing he'd been here for a length of time that made no sense in comparison to when Victor had last seen the teenager on the Eluvio.

He accepts his tags, tucking them away in his coat pocket. "Sometimes it's worth keeping souvenirs," he says, offering nothing more than a shrug to accompany his observation. For example, he wouldn't have accidentally linked the two of them together in a way she would have recognised otherwise. It's not that he wants to be back on the Eluvio, but... it's one of the few things that came with him.

And it's a testimony that makes it all still real outside of their heads.

He offers up one hand, in case Re-L wants to climb back down. "Conversation or ghost stories are still viable options for passing the time. I don't think any of these blackouts last more than a few hours."
genice: (listen | to a language i don't speak)

[personal profile] genice 2017-04-05 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, Cloud, he's well aware you're the escort. His awkward phrasing just made it seem like he was saying the opposite. (Whoops!)

"Got it." He doesn't question the suggestion when it seems sound enough in his mind. Victor isn't the guy anyone would call on for a fight, and he's at peace with that knowledge. Especially as a skitter and rasping sounds closer to them, joined in discordant harmony with another soft skitter-thump-thud.

"How fast are these things over a short distance anyway?"
wulf: (pic#)

[personal profile] wulf 2017-04-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ nyx hears the soft sound of something clicking over the worn out rooftops and turns from his place perched up high on one of the somewhat sloping tiled eaves. the man that moves towards him looks well-used to the height, moving so precisely that there's no doubt in his mind the noise he creates is purposeful (there are people who want to be heard and people who don't care if they're heard).

he'd come up here because the cloying streets below had started to get to him. he doesn't mind cities, really, he lived in the slums of the crown city for long enough to know how to wind around others, but there's something in this place that makes him desperately home sick.

he hadn't needed a new home (but he had--he didn't belong to that one anymore now did he?)

he tips his head just a little bit, arms hanging down at his sides, his only knife sheathed at the small of his back, the other one very obviously empty and devoid of its partner. ]


Rooftops tend to be quiet places. It's why I like 'em so much.

[ he offers the other no smile, but no real frown either, eyes curious, examining as he takes a few paces to the side, but neither forwards nor backwards--exploratory. ]

Though I guess with so many people from all these different places, there's bound to be a little more foot traffic up here now.
leaderboards: ([a] serious)

[personal profile] leaderboards 2017-04-05 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'm holding onto mine in case we can learn something interesting from them. [ electronics-filled dog tags have yielded interesting results in her past, so if her ai ever shows up, she'd like him to take a look. carolina seriously doubts there's any harm in keeping it, at this point. how much more messed up could things possibly get? ]

But I don't blame you for tossing them, either. Have you found anyone else from the ship yet?
divulsion: (029)

*yet*

[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-05 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
You never struck me as one for politics in my world. Do you have such a strong interest in public service in yours?

[WHO WOULD EVEN BE THE KIND OF PRESIDENT THAT WOULD TAKE TONY ON AS A RUNNING MATE?

She's not certain she wants to know and yet...]
noassgardian: (Default)

[personal profile] noassgardian 2017-04-05 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? I mean, I think so. The last time I was home, everyone was. But-- there are people from ahead of me that say things do... well, waht they always do. They get bad, they change a little.

[He shrugs his shoulders.]

Thor may not be here, but Cap is-- if you want to talk to him.
triarchic: (Default)

[personal profile] triarchic 2017-04-05 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
i'm interested in how you get it all done more than the actual service.

or is talking about those things a no-go for you?
leaderboards: ([pfl] i can do anything better than you)

iv (un is still just 'carolina' what do you really expect)

[personal profile] leaderboards 2017-04-05 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ so this may or may not be the 'katsuki' she's used to, but even if it isn't, the guy sounds like he needs help. ]

Have you considered stun batons? Good at close range and very effective on these lizards so far.
inebriety: (tony › headaches)

why won't you let me ruin things then

[personal profile] inebriety 2017-04-05 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Tony goes unnaturally still as Steve's hand rests on his shoulder, afraid to do anything that might set something off. Seconds pass before he quietly speaks.]

You're basing your opinion on a different man's life.

[Finally he pulls away and walks ahead of Steve.]

Come on, I've got work to do.