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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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[ at jesse, mostly, known for being a nuisance in those days. even now he can't leave well enough alone. ]
But I can tell. Yer eyes ain't the same.
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Said eyes widen just a touch but he isn't surprised; Jesse had always been very perceptive. It seems nothing had changed in that regard. Genji gives a soft little smile. ] I have accepted what I am and who I was. It was freeing.
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of course, it took half the time for genji to muster up the good sense and call the box out for what it was: a box. ]
If I wanted good manners I should've shown some. [ his tone sweet and relenting. boys will be boys and all, except he was damn near thirty at the time. ] And besides, you came round eventually.
[ is that too forward? it hasn't been that long, really. but genji's eyes aren't giddy with self-delusion like jesse might expect from other men whose egos let them claim enlightenment--they really do seem deep, even, at peace. he's probably a tough man to embarrass now, so jesse lets the implication play out and then pass them by. ]
Maybe I will buy you that drink. I'd like to hear where the road took ya.
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And Jesse. Jesse treated him like anybody else, like he wasn't some mangled man with metal and tubes poking out of him. That his eyes weren't unnaturally red from the nano-lenses they'd put in because his retina had been fried by the light of the dragons. (His eyes were still sensitive to this day, color changed, but thankfully no longer angry looking.)
It pissed him off. He kept waiting for him to realize he wasn't worth the time but no matter how many times he was downright rude he always came back. Eventually... well, eventually he became the only real comfort he had, in more ways than one. Until he couldn't stand it there any longer.
Genji huffs. ] I suppose that is true enough. We had plenty of good times.
[ His smile gets a little playful and he gives Jesse a little nudge. ] Only if you let me get you one in return. I am sure you have lots to tell me as well. I've seen the wanted posters.
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Yeah? What'd you think of those photos?
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He isn't surprised his friend has such a massive bounty; most people formerly associated with Overwatch became criminals by legal technicality once it was banned. ] And what really happened with that train?
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Heard about that, did ya. [ a pause. ] Trains through the desert got problems with hitchhikers. Including me, but not limited to me, if you catch my drift.
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[ HE CAN'T ]
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[ More like literally impossible. He doesn't really like to talk about it. ]
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[ a beat as they meander down the streetside, past storefronts, buildings. ]
Where'd you end up?
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Nepal. The Shambali monastery, to be precise.
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The omnics been lookin' after you, then.
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[ he's teasing, but not mocking. he's heard the stories, has had the dubious pleasure of being in the same town as tekhartha mondatta when strangers in the shadows had rough designs on him. (he hadn't been around when they finally succeeded.) ]
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[ it raises more questions than it answers, actually, to hear him talk like that. in those days it seemed like genji was mad about everything under the sun. maybe he means he's forgiven his brother, sure, but there's plenty to forgive when it comes to what overwatch did to him, what he'd been forced to do to his own blood with the last of his flesh.
that face, though. jesse stares at him sidelong, caught in it for a moment, the way his eyes go soft at the corners, the lax set of his mouth. ]
Sounds nice. [ he pauses. ] Sounds like what you needed.
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[ Genji sighs. No need to explain to someone who already knows. ] It is easier now. You know how I was. [ He nudges him gently again. ] But enough about me. What else have you done, besides being blamed for train robbing?
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Oh, you know. Bein' blamed for other stuff. Property damage, assault and such. The sun comin' up in the morning. [ he shrugs, adjusts his hat with his hand. ] Can't say it's been uneventful.