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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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( Ah, the elevator. Such a place of wonder and familiarity. Apparently, they are the same from dimension to dimension. You walk in with a group of people, attempt to avoid eye contact at all costs, and get out when you get to your floor. With the Normandy crew, some very "interesting' conversations had been had whilst riding up and down various elevators throughout the galaxy. It's a shame he can't have that at this exact moment.
Before he can reflect too much, the lights flicker. His gaze shifts up, immediately thinking oh that's not good right before the elevator stop with a sudden jerk. One of his hands fly to the wall to brace himself, even as the emergency lights power up. Another power failure, it seems, with no way of knowing how long it will be before it is restored.
Garrus responds the only way that he can: by attempting to alleviate the situation with some dry humor. )
So instead of awkwardly making conversation while riding the elevator, it's going to be awkwardly making conversation while stuck in the elevator.
( There's a moment where Garrus stops to look whoever is stuck in here with him up and down, sizing them up. He shifts his weight from one foot to the other, a little fidgety. )
Unless you have a shotgun. Then I'll gladly take awkward silence.
( Whether or not Garrus' company actually has a weapon or not doesn't matter. It's more of an inside joke, really, and one that has him grinning - not that anyone can actually tell. Garrus does take a step closer to the wall, just in case someone doesn't like his particular brand of sarcasm. )
i: call to arms
( All things aside, Garrus is glad to have a momentary distraction from the questions rattling around in his brain. It's much easier to point and shoot. As it happens, just like on Omega, there is no shortage of targets here either. While Vakarian isn't exactly thrilled to be underground, the familiarity of aiming through his scope and the feel of his finger on the trigger does much to quell any discomfort.
Unfortunately, his visor doesn't give him any biological data at the moment. He hadn't really expected it to nor does he need it as another bullet lodges itself into the skull of another monster - right between the eyes. What he does see is some poor fool who doesn't seem to be watching their six. Garrus lines up the shot and -
BANG! )
iv: network | un: vakarian
Anyone keep track of how many of those things they took out in the tunnels? I can't be the only one.
Let's compare numbers just for fun.
v: wildcard
( Hit me up with anything if none of the above work. I will match format! )
i
She only has enough time to turn her head towards the assailant, and then: bang.
The monster falls.]
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Keep going. I've got your back.
( Garrus will, too. It's much easier to line up a shot when you have someone up front creating all sorts of chaos. )
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[No need for longer exchanges - more enemies approach! Several lizard creatures this time, 2B engages them swiftly, seemingly not slowed down by the weight of her blade at all.
But, didn't one of the recently killed monsters twitch a little just now?]
iv.
You game?
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Ish. I mean I'm ready now anyway.