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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!
why won't you let me ruin things then
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.
I want to spoil your fun obviously
He catches up easily enough, falling into step with Tony when he's called.]
It doesn't matter if you're a different person than the man I know. You're entitled to your own reasons for being here, but that doesn't make you any more selfish than anyone else.
And you're helping.
[Which means he isn't selfish, clearly.]
then suffer your heartbreak!!!
He is going to fix this and then leave Steve so he can get very very drunk.
Once they arrive Tony gets to work collecting what tools are lying around before approaching the power box.]
Hey, can you access it at all?
[He's looking down and off to the side, addressing Anthony.]
drinks in the suffering
They get to the generator without harassment and Tony gets to work, but the deep basement is dark and feels abandoned. Steve stays near his unfortunate companion, keeping guard while Tony talks to--himself? It doesn't seem like himself, but Steve can't tell. He only interrupts when he hears something else: the scratching of nails against a hard surface. Larger than a dog. Heavy.]
Something's coming.
pours you another
It's okay. You did great.
[So what they have here is a physical issue and he's likely going to have to get his hands dirty. Tony is considering his options when Steve interrupts.]
I don't hear anything.
[However he trusts this Steve and he's already fashioning something from the wires and bits he's got. He's really got to get Iron Man down to something more portable if this place is going to be like this.]
keep em coming bartender
Steve is more focused on the scrabbling sounds moving toward them. Soft, but quick against the floor, and coming from... He frowns, stepping closer to Tony and the generator.]
I think it's in the wall.
who plays the alcoholic here
This is a horror movie in the making.
[He's nearly got a crude taser set up, but he's doesn't have a power source for it. The only thing he can think of is his nanomachines, but he'll have to draw blood for that to work. That is going to hurt.]
Tell me you've got the shield squirrelled away somewhere. Or a gun, I'll take that too.
I give up. Who?
He grunts when Tony calls it a horror movie. Yeah, that sounds about right.]
I've got a shield. It's not the same, but it's something.
[Steve deploys the energy shield from his wrist device, holding it in front of them. He doesn't think to mention that it could be used to fire a laser as well, defaulting to his usual methods.]
Don't worry. I've got it.
[Even though he hasn't even seen what "it" is yet.]
yours is in a different game he doesn't count
Better than the original.
[Somewhere in the gloom there's a crash as something hits the ground. Now that even Tony can hear.]
Is it just the one or are there more?
lies i always count ALWAYS
[Steve manages to make a real comment even during the danger. It's just something he's always done, and Tony hasn't been chatting like he's used to. He almost wants to give the man a reason to talk.
But the crash has him on alert again, listening to the noises, and, now that Tony mentions it, Steve realizes there are distinct patterns in the scratches.]
Three. They're keeping close together.
NEVER
Three against two seems like good odds.
[Then he takes a deep breath to steady himself and stabs the sharp edge of his taser into the palm of his hand. He hisses in pain, but the moment blood wells up there's a crackling of electricity as it powers up. It's a bigger gash than he'd have liked, but he doesn't have the luxury to be picky.]
DON'T YOU SASS ME
I won't let them get to you.
[He says that with conviction, because Tony looks grim. He might be feeling just a bit guilty for dragging him down to this ambush. But Steve doesn't have much time to reflect on that as one of the nearby walls shakes and cracks with a hard crash. The pounding is followed by another impact, this time breaking a hole in the wall. A lizard's head pokes through it, hissing as it locates them and tries to squeeze through the opening to reach them.
Of course Steve hits it. And that naturally just makes the creature cry out--bringing the others scrambling to the weakened wall.]
THAT'S NOT EVEN SASS
I'm not-- I'm not a hands on fighter, just so you know.
[No matter how many times he's gone into battle, the fear doesn't get any easier to bear. Steve had looked at him before like he should have the answers to everything, but he doesn't know if he can think them out of this mess.
The creature that got hit scrambles to its feet behind its brethren. They circle the two warily and seem to be able to recognise that Tony is the weakest link, eyeing him over Steve.]
It's always sass because it is you.
[Steve keeps his back to him, facing the lizards with the energy shield raised between him and them, blocking the path to Tony with his body. He stays close to him, making the other man a harder target, because even if they lunge from the sides, he's easily within range for a strike of his own. Apparently even giant lizard creatures understand the risks of chess.
One of them gets grave and dashes forward anyway, hissing and snapping at Tony as Steve turns to kick it back, and as he moves to defend his adopted friend, the two others lunge in. One leaps, aiming to pounce its prey and knock him over, while the other runs in low from behind. Steve pivots and smashes into the first lizard with his shield, hitting it midair.]
:<
It's a bad move as Tony pushes his nanites to shove as much electricity as he can down its throat. There's no avoiding the smell of charred meat and its dying screams, but then he finds himself having a little difficulty prying his taser out of its frozen mouth. He ends up dropping it in favour of a nearby pipe, but it's slippery in his hands due to the blood from his wound.
By then the remaining two have gotten back onto their feet and have taken advantage of Tony needing to back away by getting between Steve and Tony.]
One down, two to go.
[He still believes they'll walk away without a scratch that wasn't self-inflicted.
And perhaps they will, Anthony's rushed off to pick up the pieces of the Iron Man armour Tony's left in a pile in his room.]
<3
Not a fighter, huh?
[He moves closer, raising his shield when the two lizards snarl and hiss threateningly. They have no intention of letting him get to Tony, but Steve doesn't intend on leaving him there.]
Hey, boys. If you're that hungry, I've got something you can chew on.
[He lunges at the lizards, forcing them to leave Tony alone just to defend themselves as he starts swinging the energy shield. It gets both of them snapping and dodging away, circling low as Steve tries to hit them. And then they leap at him in return, two biting at him at once, and Steve himself is cornered as he and the lizards each struggle to get an advantage.]
aww you do love me
[And then Steve has to make him look bad by taking on two at once while he looks on like a damsel in distress. That won't do at all. He takes advantage of their distraction to get in close and get a few whacks in. All he has to do is hold out for 30 seconds and then they'll have real firepower.
However one of the lizards gets irritated enough by to make a distracted swipe at Tony which is enough for him to lose his weapon.]
Oh shit.
[Steve please help him because he is standing far too close now.]
with the love of a toothy lizard
[Really large lizards, which Steve apparently forgets or conveniently ignores for the moment. He's taunting them with his aggressive attacks, trying to fight his way toward Tony as he speaks.
One of the two lizards manages to disarm Tony, and as it rears back for a bite at him, Steve is hit by sudden, acute anger. He forces past the second creature and launches himself at the lizard trying to bite his friend, tackling it so that he ends up grappling it on the ground.]
Get back!
[Steve tries to protect Tony by keeping him away from the danger directly. Although the second lizard is still free to attack, he's making such a scene with the first it at least makes it harder for the beast to get a clear shot to jump on him.]
that is a lot by your standards :>
I'm here, Tony!
[Tony has no voice modulators on his suit and Anthony also interfaces directly through the speakers so his childish voice rings out clearly.]
Attaboy.
[The remaining lizard screeches at this newcomer and takes a blast that sends it crashing through the wall. The one Steve is wrestling is harder to lock onto due to the risk of hitting Steve as well.]
Steve, would you mind disengaging or do you have this handled?
no subject
Nn. Don't mind, just- hang on.
[His voice is steady, but Steve has to struggle to get control of the beast. He finally gets his leg under its belly and his free hand behind the joint of its jawbone so he can kick it away from him, staggering back to his feet with one bloody arm.]
no subject
I know you're probably rabies resistant, but I'm sure you're not covered by alien diseases. I'm going to lend you my nanites to hopefully to prevent you from catching anything until we get an actual doctor.
[It's not something up for discussion by Tony's standards as he tries to cajole Steve into giving Tony access to his injured arm. At least they're both still bleeding which will make this easier.]
no subject
I'll be all right. It's just a bite.
[He's surprised when Tony, who has been mostly miserable and seemingly reluctantly to act up until their attack, tells him firmly that he's going to put nanites in the wound. He knows generally what machines like that can do from his own talks with the science crowd, but the idea of foreign machines getting into his body still makes him uneasy. He hesitates, holding his arm back, but it is Tony, and he just helped him. Steve offers his arm. There's another question, one he has no answer for.]
What was that? I heard a voice.
no subject
That's my brain tumour. Kiddo, come over here and say hi to AU Cap.
[Iron Man stomps over and waves its hand.]
Sorry I couldn't say hi before. I'm Anthony.
no subject
What do you mean your brain tumor? Is that a joke?
[But it can't be. Because that voice isn't Tony's.]
Who are you really?
no subject
It's okay, I've had a long time to come to terms with it. He's my most recent one and certainly the best of them and not just because he talks back.
I-I'm not going to hurt Tony.
(no subject)
but i don't want to figure out how old the ults universe is
it's a baby universe
team's at least a decade old but at the same time peter was spidey for a year and he was first...
time doesn't exist in Ultimates.
STOP ASKING ME FOR HARD DATES
NEVERRRR