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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!
the most... person???
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?
wow there was gonna be an "awesome" in there i sure fucked that up
Taako, it's a pleasure.
[Mostly because she's helping him, let's be real, but she seems nice.]
What kinda magic you got?
[With a nod towards the chair.]
you are the most person to me tho
[A cheeky little grin, as she handily burns the bloodied little disinfectant wipes with her un-gloved hand rather than simply toss them aside, and then she pulls on a fresh one to finish up the job, gently covering the wound with a clean dressing and bandaging it around the arm.]
Ah, it's not magic exactly, not in the strictest sense. I'm an electrokinetic.
[Which encompasses a rather wide and very ridiculous bunch of abilities she frankly only ever uses half of, but. You know. Her favourite thing to do has always been the solid-energy constructs, but then again she can also stop a man's heart a mile away, so.]
Thats the nicest thing you've ever said to me
[Look.
The first time he met Kravitz there was both vore and tentacles involved so he really can't throw stones when it comes to other people's kinks.
As for "electrokinesis", it sounds kinda like an elemental magic to him, but he'll take her word for it ]
Sounds pretty fucking cool, looks pretty fucking cool, too. You can make weapons with it?
why does everyone i know feel the need to say that to me at least once in our friendship
Also, congrats Taako you get to play: spot the green lantern power set.]
I can make all sorts of things if I've put my mind to it. Not limited to weapons in the least.
obv bc you're so mean to us and rarely say nice things
Not that he didn't have faith, but... eh.]
Thanks for this, pumpkin.
[If only he knew what a green lantern was.]
Shame it's not magic, I bet it'd be real useful.
[Well, it's a shame it's not magic that comes with spells and stuff he could learn, but he's going to lament this lack of a cool new power anyway, regardless of whether it would've been plausible or not.]
i am terribly mean. i am The Worst. the most tsundere. i am king tsundere.
You're welcome, sweetheart.
[She dusts her hands, stands. Everything she used - gloves, bloodied bandages, etc - get burnt on principle. Electricity gets real hot when you can use it as precisely as she can.]
It's entirely useful. Is it close to some sort of magic in your world?
[She's visited like nineteen different ones by now, she's Well Used to the concept, and all the different things that interplanetary travel entails.]
the champion of being tsundere, you fought all of the other competitors and WON
Maybe he's a little jealous.]
I guess it's kinda like elemental magic? I got a couple spells I can do that involve electricity, but not with that much control.
weeee are the champions my friends...
[She's an outlier. Also: insanely OP. That's basically her entire modus operandi. She also, honestly, doesn't even have a very good grasp of what she does, or how. She's just instinctively good with what she has.]
But magic - such as you've spoke of - doesn't exist to my reckoning. That's an interesting variance. Is it genetic?
clenches fist WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TIL THE END
[In the interest of being a tiny bit of a show off, Taako waves a hand over himself and instantly cleans up his clothes, all the blood and grime disappearing instantly. It's a cantrip, luckily, so he's not wasting energy on his ego.]
Wizards are just like, nerds. We study magic until we get good enough to kill shit with it.
[Yeah he called himself a nerd, whatever.]
i actually don't even know the next line
Isn't that all anyone can hope for?
[It's not like she hides the fact that she's a soldier, or that soldiers kill people.]
The application is fascinating, though. [She's definitely giving his clothing a curious once-over, as if expecting the blood and dirt to rematerialize. Hm. In any case--]
Do you need help back to safety, or would you rather keep on fighting?
i dont think anyone does tbh
[It's not that he's super into killing things, but fighting a battle can be fun, especially when it's against something that he doesn't need to feeling guilty about, like dumb creatures or evil wizards or whatever.
And he likes being powerful enough to protect himself.]
Safety schmafety, let's go fuck up some lizards.
[He's just assuming she'll come along.]
i can sing bohemian rhapsody at least
Sure. Just holler at me if you need a shield.
the best karaoke choice t b q h
That's better.]
Sure as shit won't say no to one if it doesn't cost ya anything.
[He only has a limited number of spells per day, but she seems pretty casual about using her power, and she said it isn't quite magic, so...]
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'Cost me anything'?
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[The phrasing probably wasn't the best, but he's still getting used to people's powers or magic working differently.]
So you don't gotta bother with shit for me if it's limited, you know?
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It's not. At least not to that extent.
[She can function at optimal levels for a few days without needing more than a high caloric intake to counteract the effects. Of course, at that point she'd probably drop into a 24 hour coma (that's always been the result of her over-extending in the past, at least) but she's not terribly concerned about that. Shai tends to abuse her powers past all reasonable points.]
I'll cover you, don't you worry.
[A smile and a wink. She's a protective mama hen, okay.]
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Honestly I don't know what I'd do without competent women saving my ass.
[This is a running theme in his adventures and he's cool with it.]
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All right then. Stay behind me.
[She sounds a little less playful about it. Shai is very Business when it comes to murder and the like, so off she goes down one of the adjacent tunnels. Her skin is alight with a faint blue crackle, energy arcing across her skin. It's a shield, if anything tries to comeatherbro.avi it'll give her breathing room to neatly destroy them.
Fun times.]
You want something a little more-- weapon-y?
[She doesn't want to insult whatever it is he does with his little umbrella, but it seems an awfully flimsy weapon to her.]
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Yes ma'am.
[Taako isn't really capable of Business, but he can follow instructions, sticking a couple feet behind Shai and slightly to her left, Umbra Staff resting on his shoulder.
At perfect height for him to cast a glance at when she so rudely insults it.]
This is all I need, my dude! It hits hard and eats dead guys, can't ask for anything better!
[#d&d]
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It eats people.
[This is said in an incredulous deadpan, no hint of inflection that might otherwise make it a question. She actually turns around in the tunnel with her back to the impending monster hoard to ask it, too. Because of everything she's ever encountered in her life, this, apparently, is weird.]
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[Jenkins wasn't exactly there to eat, but it made a good attempt at choking down Edward.]
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Does it make you more powerful? Doing that?
[Meanwhile, a monster is determinedly trying to sneak up on her, which lasts until she electrocutes it without even turning around or doing much more than flicking her fingers vaguely in its direction. She doesn't even need to do that much, it's not controlled by any sort of esoteric hand flapping, she just likes the showmanship.]
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Ehhhhh.
[The most non-committal answer, partly because he doesn't know, partly because he's not sure just how much he wants to share with a complete stranger, even if she has been helpful.]
It can learn spells and do it's own thing, I dunno if it really gives a shit about me.
[About making him more powerful or whatever. Though it has saved his life multiple times.]
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Fair enough.
[One of her most endearing features is perhaps the fact that she feels no especial need to pry. Certainly, she doesn't like secrets but she understands that people are entitled to them. Here, they mean nothing to her. Back home, when their existence could be a threat or detriment to her dwindling species it would be another matter.
Here? She gets the deflection, and isn't fussed about it.
Another monster has the misfortune to cross their paths. She spears it through with a jagged shard of hardlight energy and leaves it pinned to a wall.]
Any idea what we're looking for down here, exactly?
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