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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!
Johnny "Ricochet" Gallo | Marvel 616
[This isn't the sort of entrance he'd wanted to make! Though to be fair, he hadn't expected to be making any entrance at all. He'd planned on going home and crashing early, but apparently that isn't to be.
He's not going to be stuck in this costume for a while, is he? Because the smell of sweat and dirty socks starts to cling to it when it isn't washed after being worn for several hours. Whoever brought him here could have at least given him a spare set of clothes.
The most important matter on the agenda right now, however, is dealing with whatever these monsters are. He'd been dropped into the middle of this ordeal in full costume so he might as well do the hero thing. Even though he's supposed to try not to do the hero thing. Weren't there enough of those around that he shouldn't be finding himself in these situations?]
Bola discs coming in low!
[A pair of gold discs with what seems to be a rope of some sort between them go flying out toward one of the reptiles, binding its front legs.]
This is one step away from alligators in the sewers. You know that, right?
iv.
[This is goofy and too close to a dating site for his liking, but Johnny can't help but fill it out. Might as well connect with the others that have been brought in, right? Who knows? Some of his friends might have found there way here and he just doesn't know it yet.]
v.
How do you even know what's in style in a place like this? Does it matter? I figure I should just go with what I'm comfortable with. Hey, how do you think I look in flannel?
[Johnny is basically talking to himself as he goes through the racks in this clothing store, holding shirts up to his chest and them returning them to their place before moving to the next one. With his last question, he turns to the nearest individual.
You've just been asked for fashion advice, whether you want to give it or not.]
v
I... think it would be safe to say that style among newcomers here varies dramatically and without apparent guidance, so you could probably wear whatever you like...
no subject
[It may be giving away the whole mutant/former super hero thing to say that, but stuff like that doesn't seem to be a very big deal here. Most of the populace comes from a weird world or has a special power of some kind, or at least that's how it feels.]
I just need a few comfy shirts and some jeans.
no subject
Hey, I'm reasonably high-level and even I consider it an unwelcome surprise. You're not alone in that. You want my recommendation, get whatever works for you and you like. Don't worry about fashion or anything -- focus on personal comfort first.
no subject
If I focused only on personal comfort I'd be walking around in my house clothes all the time.
[No one else needs to see his various super-hero themed boxers.]
I get what you mean, though.
no subject
But I can at least say I've encountered no problems with my fashion choices, and considering they involved being armed and armored, I'd think people would definitely say something if they had a problem.
no subject
[Fun as it might be.]
Jeans, slacks, and shirts for me.
no subject
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Oh, I think we passed alligators a few exits back. [ There's a batarang ready to seal the deal. He tosses a broad grin over his shoulder. ]
Good arm, by the way.
no subject
[If this world even has tabloids. He hasn't even gotten the chance to see if it has newspapers.
He grins at the compliment, but it's beneath his mask so it's hard to tell.]
Thanks! Right back at you.
[His own agility comes from his mutant powers, so he's always appreciative of someone who's that talented without them.]
Are you with a team?
[Of super heroes, of circus performers... who knows.]
no subject
The Titans ring any bells?
no subject
[If they're really talking about super hero groups. He never actually specified.]
Have you been around a while?
no subject
Something like that.
Alright, now I've gotta ask, whose roster are you on?
no subject
[His support group can't exactly be called a team, seeing as they're not officially in the whole super hero business anymore.
Even though they still find themselves doing super hero things. All the time.]
no subject
Never hurts to check. We're probably not from the same world, but- [ And he tosses a quick grin over his shoulder. ]
Nightwing, by the way.
no subject
[He's in costume, so he might as well give the alias. It would feel a bit weird to say his real name in this situation.
He hasn't heard of this hero at all, and he doubts Nightwing has heard of him. Most people haven't.]
no subject
You play any catch, Ricochet?
[ It's polite to ask first. ]