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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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[This whole "human" thing is getting kinda uncomfortable kinda fast. Just gotta find a good enough segue and forget the whole thing ever happened and that'll be fantastic.]
So, ghosts! You seen a lot of them around lately? Like with your necromagics and all.
[nailed it]
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I don't believe they exist, personally. In my world, no one can leave the Netherworld once they're dead. But I like hearing stories about them.
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[She shuffles back a little, tucking her legs against her chest, trying really, really hard not to think about all the stuff leading up to that.]
So you can talk to them but they can't, like, go anywhere? That's really sad.
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[Trust Letha to make necromancy sound like a noble cause. Because it really is, at least the way she does it.]
If you ever find yourself outside of the perimeter, I'd really like to bring back any corpses found out there. I'm sure they must be very upset to be lost out there.
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[It's kinda hard to tell through the camera, but Mae is very tiny. This is a tall order you're giving here Letha.]
Been trying to stay inside the city most of the time. [Who knows how long that's gonna last, though.]
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[It's a good thing Letha didn't live long enough to see that cousin go insane from hearing feathers.]
I don't expect my request to be filled, but I figured I may as well ask around. The more people I ask, the more chance I have of getting a few.
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[That's not actually what she said but Mae's only picking up like half of this, too focused on other stuff to bother. Speaking of-]
So what do they talk about, usually? The dead people, I mean.
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What do living people talk about? Most just want to hear about how the world has changed, or talk about how things were when they were alive. Sometimes they like to speak about how things would be if their life had gone differently.
/gets back to this like a billion years later orz
[She's not even sure if Letha's dead people actually have anywhere to move on to. But there's gotta be more to it than that.]
no sweat :V
[Or they were servants who dreaded the day they'd lose their ability to refuse anything a necromancer wanted them to do, but while she makes a very big show of caring about them she. Doesn't. At all.]
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Wouldn't it drive you crazy, though? You sit around all day and every once in a while one person might visit you. Sounds like the worst retirement home ever.
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It does drive you crazy... I know firsthand how painful it can be to die without anyone to keep you company. That's why I don't want anyone to be lost out beyond the quarantine if I can help it.
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[Okay this conversation took A Turn somewhere and she is not comfortable with it at all. Better reorient before she says something really stupid. What were they even supposed to be talking about again?]
Soooooo ghost stories! That's what we're here for, right? I dunno if I can do any long ones off the top of my head, but I heard some pretty good shorties recently if you want me to share.
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I'd like to hear anything you have to offer - everything is so different in other worlds, and I do love thinking about it all.