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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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I guess. [She slumps forward, still not getting off the floor, and jams her finger down on what she's pretty sure is the Call button. And then a few more time, for good measure.]
So, what? We just wait now? Oooooor was I supposed to say something there, 'cause Iunno if I really got what "call" means.
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[ She takes a seat against the opposite wall, not looking too bothered just yet. If they're stuck more than a hour, then she'll start feeling annoyed. ]
I'm Angela. What's your name?
[ The cat seems young to her, but she can't really tell. Do they live cat lives or human lives when it comes to years? ]
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C'mon, Mae, get it together. You're better than this!]
Uh, Mae. Mae Borowski.
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[ Her tone is gentle and her accent sounds German, though she herself is Swiss. ]
Is this the first of the blackout you've experienced so far here?
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Yeah? I mean I haven't really been here that long. Does stuff like this just happen all the time?
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[ She's been gathering what information she can, not liking being brought into this place, despite the people at the Portal saying it's because she wanted to be here. ]
It does sound like they know the cause, and are looking into ways to fix it already. That's a good sign.
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[A big ol' shrug, head cocked to the side. She's trying real, real hard not to think about all the weird shit flying around right now and it's not working.]
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[ Because that's the sensible answer, Mae. ]
But with their estimated numbers, I can see how people would think of them as such.
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[She throws her hands up, less exasperated and more out of general energy. This is a very important subject they're discussing.]
That is literally what a monster is! The thing you just said!
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Is it? I thought it was something horrifying from stories that eats people. Have you heard of these creatures eating anyone?
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[Okay this is getting morbid but they're both smiling now, and it's fun. That's all that matters.]
Yknow like how in movies they get a bunch of supercool badasses to get fight a monster or an alien or whatever? And they all just get picked off one a time? That is pretty much exactly what's happening, I bet.
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[ She doesn't really think these "monsters" are that dangerous, or she would have heard the warnings by now. They have the potential to be dangerous, of course, but that's not the same. ]
You don't think the monsters would leave the tunnels and come here, do you?
[ She personally doesn't, but it sounds like Mae has an active imagination and likes spooky things. ]
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Probably not. I mean, I hope not. They're way too dumb to know how what doors are or like how to climb an elevator shaft, right? With their weird lizard brains.
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Mae come on some of your best friends are reptiles]no subject
[ And she's speaking as someone who comes from a world where they had a colony of hyper intelligent gorillas on the moon who turned on the scientists. She's familiar with that sort of thing being possible, albeit not from personal experience. Winston is an exception to the angry gorilla phenomenon. ]
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['Cause Angela is clearly the Ape Expert here.
God, what the hell are they even talking about? This conversation went off the effing rails somewhere.]
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[ Don't ask her. She's just in Distraction Mode right now. ]
But perhaps not. Perhaps there are only lizards.