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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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[ she's flirting with the very same idea. ]
No chances of lizard-like creatures so I suppose weaponry isn't a necessary concept. Maybe those funny to-go coffee cups?
[ Coffee! in cups you can carry. Odder and odder. ]
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[And he'll probably bring his shield because the new one is easy to carry. It's Steve.]
Travel cups. Maybe napkins if we're going to get food along the way.
[At this rate, he might as well suggest a picnic.]
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Travel cups, that would be it. Two of them. Tea in mine, coffee in yours, I trust? Do you go for those awful lattes everyone seem to favour?
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Actually, some of them aren't so bad. Maybe I'm just getting used to the taste.
Not crazy about the sweet ones, though.
[He wonders if he's too used to modern things. And maybe that means he is more exposed to this life than she is. Is he more exposed than the other Steve? Is he suddenly the more modern one?]
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[ but then, she never thought there would be a day when they'll talk again. not her steve, not - any other, as odd as this is. ]
Now I've seen it all.
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[Apparently he's also gotten comfortable with teasing humor.]
I'm sure there are still some ways we can surprise each other, Agent Carter. I bet you've got some good stories.
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[ as innocently as she can, ]
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, I work at the phone company.
[ it's an evident lie, she doesn't even bother to hide it. ]
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[Yeah, Steve smiles at that answer with a quirk of humor.]
I'd like to hear about your work with the phone company, then. Job stories are all I've got.
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[ surely not all. ]
What sort of work have they offered you here, I wonder?
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I'm working with the Perimeter Guard right now. Search and Rescue.
[Which he's sure Peggy won't find surprising at all.]
It's different, but I like it. It... makes me feel a little more at home.
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Sounds like a good cause. Is there much need for it in the city? search and rescue? any big crisis I should know about?
[ and stick her nose into. ]
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I try to help out where I can.
[As for bigger, more serious threats, Steve considers the question a bit longer.]
It seems like a lot of us are brought in from different worlds and that sometimes pieces of those worlds are coming through with us. I don't know how much everyone would be willing to talk about it, but there might be some dangerous animals in their worlds too. I haven't really been able to ask around.
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[ animals are storms are one thing. hidden soviet agents are an entirely different matter and more difficult, at that. ]
Sounds like a good job, however. Perhaps our professional paths shall cross.
[ how long before peggy carter joins the guard? now there's a question. ]
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[Because Steve is confident enough in his ability to do just that. If anything hostile should make its way through the portal, he can fight it back and defend them. That is the theory, anyway.]
I kind of get the feeling we'll run into each other at some point.
[He would be willing to bet on Peggy joining the Guard before a month is past. She's already getting involved in helping out the city. She's already proven she has a hero's heart.]
Maybe sooner rather than later?
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Sooner rather than later, then.
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Take care, Agent Carter. I look forward to having another talk soon.