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riverview: test drive meme

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.

prompt i: a call to arms

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.

prompt ii: into the depths

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.

prompt iii: trapped in a...

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...

prompt iv: friendr/network

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.

Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below, or you can just do a text version of the information in the app. An example of how it looks can be found here.

<center><blockquote style="width: 220px; margin: 0; padding: 0px; background-image: url('http://i42.tinypic.com/2uf53s4.jpg'); font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana; border-radius: 20px; text-align: center;"><div style="padding: 10px 0 0 0; text-align: center;font-size: 25px; font-weight: 900; font-style: italic; color: #528887; text-shadow: -2px 2px 2px rgba(150, 150, 150, 1);">F<span style="font-size: 16px;">RIENDR</span></div>
<center><img src="ICON URL HERE" style="border-radius: 50%; width: 70px; height: 70px; box-shadow:-3px 3px 2px 0px rgba(82, 136, 135, .75);"></center>
<center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 14px;">Name of Character</div></center>
<center><div style="width: 210px; background-color: #528887; color: #fff; padding: 5px; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><b><small>AGE:</small></b> ##
<b><small>INTERESTED IN:</small></b> Male/Female/Any
<b><small>SEEKING:</small></b> Type(s) of Relationship(s)
<b><small>ABOUT ME:</small></b> Blurb goes here, can be as long or short as you wish.</div></center><br>
</blockquote></center>

Many thanks to

mistojen for coding this especially for Riverview!

prompt v: wildcard

Choose your own adventure and do something else in the setting!

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I; otherwise known as everybody do the monster mash.

[Monster hunting ain't exactly the prettiest way to blow off aggression, but it does her a sight better than sulking, and Shai has a sharp, visceral dislike of inaction. She's killed a fair few and barely broken a sweat, which leads to her sitting on one husked corpse (rather than on the mess of ichor on the ground) to take a break and drink a bottle of water. Hydration is key.

As soon as the first person comes into her own little corner she'll give them a friendly nod. Her accent, when she speaks, is some strange mix of something that sounds Australian and South African, not of Earth if you squint,]

Howdy, stranger. You doin' all right?

[like do you need water or something she'll share she's chill like that. She even holds the bottle out in silent question.]

IV; the artist formerly known as network post;

golly, how kind of our kidnappers to give us such an efficient means of communication ;)

hello, all. name's shai. for brevity's sake, i'm just your average fun-loving electrokinetic. before you ask, i only use my powers for good and sex. [spot the very playfully told lie.] pleasure to meet you all, despite the circumstances. questions/comments/concerns/etc?

Edited 2017-03-20 20:03 (UTC)

[Having a really low AC, shitty dexterity, and a grand total of 49 hit points really fucking sucks. Taako is holding his own, mostly, but he's decided to back off a little for the moment, in the interest of doing something about the deep scratch on his arm.

He looks up when he hears Shai, casting a quick glance at the dead creature to make sure it is, actually, dead.]

Peachy keen over here. You wouldn't happen to be any good at first aid, would you?

[Oh, but at least he's pretty as sin. Shai gives him a bit of a Look and then caps her bottle, coming over to examine said injury.

When you're a military commander with nearly fifteen years of experience in the field, you learn not to flinch from lost limbs to full on evisceration. This, comparatively? Almost nothing. She shrugs.]

I'm a fair hand. No other troubles?

[Oh honey no don't waste your time.]

Yeah, I think I'm fine. I mean, I'm not vomiting blood, so I'm counting it as a win!

[He's partly joking but also it wouldn't be the first time he's had to hang out on Death's welcome mat during a battle, because he has the world's shittiest cleric.]

[wow she can still appreciate!!

Also that definitely gets an amused little noise. Shai isn't much for outright laughing, despite her perpetually humoured exterior, but it's close enough for her.]

I'd hate to see you on one of your bad days, friend.

[She nods him to a rock so he can sit, and then conjures up a hard light chair for herself so she can sit beside him and examine the injury.]

Looks like you might need a few stitches. You squeamish about that sort of thing?

[A washing machine fell on him once it was bad :(

But he flops down on the rock only a little dramatically, grinning at Shai in return for the not-quite-a-laugh, and holding his arm out for inspection.]

I give no shits. I can guarantee it can't be worse than the last crap I dealt with.

[He's kind of fascinated by the hard light chair - is she a conjurer? - but decides to save the questions for the moment.]

[Well, that's a fucking relief. She reaches behind her to the small first aid kit she's stashed on her belt, and begins the whole procedural shebang of cleaning the wound. She isn't going to stitch it here - Kveth knows she's no doctor, and she doesn't even run with a regenerist on her crew - but she can at least wrap it up and help him get out of this to-do.]

That's what I like to hear.

[Look at her sounding all encouraging. But really, the attitude helps. She'd probably just knock him the fuck out if he were hysterical about it and all. That sort of floundering helps no one and nothing.]

Name's Shai, sweetheart. What about you?