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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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"Name's Morgan Knight," he said, and while normally he'd shake her hand, they'd just sat down again, so it would be goofy. He settled for flicking her a salute with two fingers, from his temple to a point at her, before letting his hand fall. "This is all a little closer to me, though more advanced in a lot of ways than I'm used to."
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Aloy gives a nod, noting that his name is, well, a lot like the names of the people from the old times, from what she's heard. That's interesting, even if she isn't sure what that means, either, if anything. "Should I guess that you've been here longer than me? Or are you just used to," what was the word, "trams, like this."
/tags while playing Horizon
i obviously approve
Just saying. "What sort of things have you seen?"
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Morgan snapped his fingers a couple of times, trying to decide what to tell her -- and then sat up as something entirely comprehensible came to mind. "A star. Indoors."
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"How?" she asks, almost at once. "Stars are... really far away, aren't they?" She read something about that, once, she's sure of it. "And why would you do something like that?"
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Okay, it's not the craziest thing she's heard. But it's up there. Aloy shakes her head, still not quite sure how to picture something like that. "Did you see it? How big was it? Is something like that dangerous?"
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Yes, Aloy has all the questions now.
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"Yes, but only because the fields around it filter out light so it isn't harmful to look at. Otherwise it would be worse than staring at the Sun itself."
Slapping his hands on the seat, Morgan pushed himself up. "Hold on. This isn't something I'm good at, but..."
He raised his hands, slid a foot back, and fell into a martial pose, as if ready to fight an invisible foe. Then, shutting his eyes, he began to move through a form, hands and feet and body shifting with a fluid grace that could be used both for attack and defense, but without the intent of battle behind them, elicited more of a feeling of... something else entirely, something hard to quantify. Enacted this way, the form was a guide, for his own ki, and from that ki to the light around them --
Then, just like that, the sight of the train's interior faded -- replaced by a sprawling tangle of green and blue, a lake surrounded by countless plants through which various animals like nothing on Earth paced or scurried or swam. And above it all, a brilliant white star, tiny as stars go but huge in the sky because of its nearness. And past that star, the ceiling of this immense chamber.
Make a wish around a Mage and it might just be granted, Aloy.
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She stands with a sharp intake of breath, reaching one hand up, towards the star. "It's like a small sun," Aloy says, her eyes narrowed thoughtfully but a faint smile on her face. "The garden grows under the roof, and this artificial star is like its sun." It's a visual aid for something she's read about, and that moment of insight is always powerful. "Is this a holographic projection? It isn't like the ones I've seen. It's... well, it's better."
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Which neatly glossed over centuries of philosophical and pragmatic distinctions that had led to literal war and bloodshed at times. Skip all that, it didn't matter here or to her.
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"How is it done, if it isn't technological?"
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"Now that's getting into a quagmire," he said, again glossing over a history of war and conflict that could literally be dooming mankind. "But the short version of it is... reality is only what we perceive it to be. So if you change what you perceive, you change reality."
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He reached out to brush away the illusion he'd created. "I believed I could create this image by manipulating my ki, and I did. That's Magick, in its simplest form. Oversimplified form, really."
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"Okay," she says. Aloy leans back in her seat a little. "We're obviously not going to agree on this."
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That was a terrible lie, from Morgan's perspective. The belief in magick, in possibility, was no less than a fight for humanity's very soul. Whether it was ground into the dirt by the elimination of possibility and all the hope and potential it held was ground out of it... But the side that wanted to achieve that was winning the war. The automatic disbelief on Aloy's part, never mind their circumstances, was just one more facet in that Technocratic thought policing.
But swordpoint conversions solved nothing, whether the sword was metaphorical or literal. One woman's disbelief was a drop in the ocean.
"You are a fighter, right? Aside from moving like one..." He motioned to her spear.
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She considers terminology for a moment. "And a hunter," she says. "But yes, 'fighter' works too." Sometimes it was fighting that needed to be done, but hunter was always what she trained for, growing up. "Though there aren't machines to hunt, here."
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"You're going to have to unpack that for me a bit." They were, after all, riding in a machine. Or... sitting and waiting for the machine to move, anyway.
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