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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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[ Any damage that Mia takes translates in black smoke/goo coming out of her for a little while and nothing else, but the added protection would be nice. ]
What's the umbrella for, anyway?
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This is an Umbra Staff, very powerful, very sneaky.
[Well, sneaky in that if anyone ever asks him to turn over his weapons, he will happily give away his short sword and any knives on him, but can keep the super deadly staff with no issue.]
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[ She's seen weirder. It's not a comforting thought, but at least she's willing to accept such a thing exists. ]
Can it also stop rain?
[ You never know. ]
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[He doesn't sound entirely sure, not because he doesn't think it could stop rain, but, well:]
I wouldn't let anyone else get under this thing, it has a habit of uh, eating people.
[By "people" he means "magic users that he's bested in combat" but he's not sure he'd trust the Umbra Staff to not just straight up go for someone.
It's kind of a jerk.]
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[ Also not very good at its actual job she thinks, but maybe saying it out loud isn't a good idea. ]
I guess wet is better than dead.
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Could be cursed, could just be unlucky, I haven't had a chance to find out! It likes me, that's all that matters.
[Except for that time it ruined a date, but he's willing to forgive one small oversight.]
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[ Note to self, don't touch the shady umbrella wand. ]
So everyone does magic in your world?
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Everyone can, if they're clever enough.
[He's dumb as shit and still manages it.]
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[ Unless they're dicks about it. Mia knows there's dicks in every profession anyway. ]
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[It's a different kind of ego, really. And maybe even worse than being something that they're born with, because they can feel smug about How Hard They Studied(tm) and How Cleverer Than Everyone They Are(tm).]
I'm just insufferable 'cause I really am super awesome.
[He's joking.
Probably.]
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[ She rarely goes on about how hard she's studied, but that has more to do with her usually low self-esteem, not so much an inherent humility. ]
Well, whenever we're not in peril of death by lizard I would like to see just how awesome you are.
[ Who doesn't love a good magic show? ]
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The creature comes skittering around the corner and Taako points his umbrella at it, blue-white light shooting from the tip to hit the creature, half freezing it. And more importantly, killing it.
He grins at Mia once it's dead, as if to say told you I had it handled.]
I gotta admit, in peril of death is usually where I shine.
[Since that's what he's used to, when it comes to picking out which spells to use.]
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Well, this is certainly not your first rodeo.
[ Adventurers, amirite? ]
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Definitely not, I'm in the ass-kicking business full time.
[There's a moment where he almost gestures to the bracer on his wrist, before deciding not to bother. No one knows what it means, anyway.]
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Those look a lot like Norse runes.
[ What, she watches TV. ]
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Not a clue what a Norse is, this is like, uh I guess it's my ID pass at work.
[It's a little more than that, but he's not sure how to explain the Bureau.]
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[ Mia might not be a lot of things, she's quite Genre Savvy. ]
All I got was an actual ID card and some code in a database.
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[Actually now that he's thinking about it this may present some #problems with what he last remembers, but now isn't the time to ponder it.]
They really could've gone more subtle.
[Like, it's nice. But it doesn't go with everything.]
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[ She can tell he can be a bit of a handful at times. ]
A tattoo, maybe? Is that a thing?
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[But also: Mia is not wrong, Taako and co. are absolutely a handful.]
You know what, I have no idea if this is magic or tech. [He could cast a spell to find out, but he doesn't want to waste the energy when it's not important right this second.] If it's tech that's not gonna fit into a tattoo.
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[ She's good at reading people. ]
Shouldn't you have asked? I mean, what if you break it and it explodes or something. [ That's not a caution step she's taking behind him, nope. ]
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[At least, he's fairly certain it is, considering all the shit he's been through while wearing it, and the bracer has come out unscathed.]
Everyone's gotta wear one at the Bureau, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't hand 'em out if they were hella dangerous.
[He doesn't quite trust Lucretia, but he trusts that she isn't actively trying to hurt them.]