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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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If you think you'll have any luck, it's all yours.
[ by contrast, lois isn't a mechanic or electrical engineer. journalism has taught her a great many things and her father a great many others before their estrangement, but there's no obvious way to get this elevator running as far as lois can tell, and so she's happy enough to stand aside. admittedly, she'd rather have something to do with her hands, but that isn't reason enough to keep at it when she knows she won't get anywhere. ]
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[It's an idle agreement. Shai appreciates a sharp mind in myriad ways she won't let on about, but she's glad the woman picked up on it and her answering nod is pleasant enough as she steps up to the panel.
She pauses. Looks over her shoulder.]
I don't suppose metahumans make you uncomfortable?
[She honestly doesn't care, but it's only polite. There's really no point in wasting more time than they have to being trapped in here and if her companion is discomfited by the thought then she can simply turn around and cover her ears.]
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Not in the least.
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[She wrinkles her nose up mischievously and gives Lois a grin over one shoulder as she bends to inspect the panel. There's a little flare of sparks (for show) and Shai thumps a hand against it rather determinedly.
Power outages? Not a problem when you can generate the wattage of an entire city with barely a conscious thought. The lights overhead flicker, the machinery above them whirs and c'est voila, magic.]
Tadah.
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Electricity? [ she guesses. it's what that looked like, but she can think of other explanations as well. ]
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That's the easiest explanation, sure.
[The elevator dings, and Shai gestures for the lady to precede her. Military protocol, and all.]
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[ there are some journalists who like simple explanations, presenting information in a way that even the dumbest reader can understand without the nuance and complexities of reality. lois has never appreciated that; she'd rather figure out a topic inside and out and present it with complexities than treat her readers, than treat humanity like they're stupid.
she steps out of the elevator, body still angled toward shai as far as possible. ]