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riverviewooc2017-03-20 10:20 am
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Many thanks to
mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!
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But I don't blame you for tossing them, either. Have you found anyone else from the ship yet?
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You can keep them if you want, but I'm not giving them the opportunity to know where I am past my disposal point. Once I found out they weren't necessary for buying things here I decided I was going to dispose of them. If they're trackable it's better if there's a chance to.. get away, so to speak, if the need arises. [ There's more than a big chance that Re-L has only managed to become more paranoid about people watching her and tracking her movements since her stint on the Eluvio. Granted, whatever this place was didn't seem quite the same, but like hell was she going to fall in to the pit of Oros again in such short order.
There's a skittering noise from one of the surrounding tunnels and Re-L turns to sweep the area, looking for anything glinting off of scales or eyes -
Doesn't stop her from continuing to talk to Carolina like it was totally normal, though. ]
Yes, actually. Yuuri is here, along with.. I think it's Victor?
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once they're out of these tunnels, that is, where carolina's turned to look away from re-l, both of them casually keeping an eye out for more lizards. just when she makes a sound like she's about to say something else, one of the creatures shows up on her night vision. it shuts her up long enough to get her pistol up and a shot off, the lizard dropping before she looks back to re-l. ]
I don't suppose you've run into any of our friends from the Oros mission.
[ her nerves would be eased by wash and maine, but really any reliable backup is good to have. ]
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Oh, are they a packaged deal to that degree? [ She says it in such a dismissive tone that it's almost like she doesn't have people she's traveled alongside back in her own world. Re-L herself isn't the most independent figure of their little group, and tends not to go out on her own in new areas without some kind of company. Mainly for the safety of being in twos, considering Pino didn't have any weaponized options to her.
Re-L sweeps the darkness with her weapon and flashlight again - wanting to be sure there was no scissor maneuvers or anything going on. The lizard here didn't seem all that intelligent, but one could never be too sure. She hadn't given the Trilk or Fek too much credit, either, and had been wrong on that front as well. Let it never be said that she doesn't learn. ]
I haven't, no. You're the only other one I've seen, which, had my theory regarding some sort of penal colony been right - I would've at least expected to have seen Sombra by now. Publicizing the content of that chip, and everything.
Though, who knows, there just may be deeper levels we haven't delved in to, then.
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You know, I half expected her to show up just because you'd said that.
[ it's silly, but another familiar fighter would be nice right about now and re-l's watched first hand how much carolina prefers to fight alongside the familiar. sure, her and sombra are no freelancers, but they've more than earned carolina's attention as teammates. re-l can get on her case about sentimentality if she wants, carolina doesn't really care. ]
Your theory wouldn't account for the figure skaters either, would it? They weren't openly questioning the crew like some people were.
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That would seem like her. Waits until I manage to say something that may seem like a slight to come out of the dark and pin me for it. [ Not that it's ever stopped her really, it was just an annoying habit of their comrade in arms. Either way, she isn't there right now and they don't necessarily have the time to sit and wax poetic about their missing member of their triad now. She had a feeling that was going to have to be a long-gone memory, honestly, but she wasn't going to say that out loud just yet - there's enough gloom down here in the tunnels without her making it worse.
... For now. Let's not put a damper on her fun forever. ]
Yuuri has. Not so publicly as to make a big network hub-bub about it, but he has. we've discussed it multiple times along with how he ought to take some caution in who he expresses these things to and under what circumstances.. [ She shrugs, slightly, though, and then qualifies - ] .. Granted, it wasn't nearly to our level of talking about things, but - still.
It also wouldn't explain about Victor. But I'd never spoken to him before so I can't say he was not talking at all...